50s & 60s breakfast cereals and free gifts

[Beefsteak 304]

I had Duck and Plum spring rolls today !!

[Compo 10,185]

Typical breakfast in Sri Lanka was:

Fresh forest fruits

Freshly squeezed fruit juice

Eggs with toast and chicken sausages

Toast and jam/marmalade

Tea or coffee

In some places cereals are on offer but not commonly.

[mgread1200 140]

Remember way back when we were told to go to work on an egg and drink a pinta milk a day, now they tell us it will give us heart disease. Its all a load of old uwey, eat what you like so long as you do enough to burn off the excess.

[jackson 301]

Well said.

[Thomas 11]

Times have changed,,,,,, for every toy you buy now, you get a free cornflake.

[Compo 10,185]

I was looking for a trainspotting magazine in the local Co-op yesterday but most of the magazines seemed top be wrapped in plastic bags full of horrible little toys and stuff.

[radfordred 6,278]

2 hours ago, Oztalgian said:

What was your favourite breakfast cereal

 

A small bowl of Kellogg’s Fruit & Fibre with a handful of extra raisins soon as I get up, works wonders, 10 minutes later I’m running upstairs gripping, clears me out for the day & stops me defecating on the streets. 

[philmayfield 5,504]

Not a breakfast cereal but my ideal breakfast, not every day though, is bacon, sausage, tomato, black pudding, saute potatoes, beans, fried bread and lots of Worcestershire sauce. Followed by toast with Cooper's Original marmalade and coffee. Perhaps a couple of kidneys as well. I don't eat eggs!

[plantfit 7,205]

I think eggs would spoil it Phil

 

Rog

[IAN FINN 605]

I am full now.

[David sheridan 158]

Shredded wheat and lots of milk  yum !!

[Oztalgian 2,922]

23 hours ago, philmayfield said:

Not a breakfast cereal but my ideal breakfast, not every day though, is bacon, sausage, tomato, black pudding, saute potatoes, beans, fried bread and lots of Worcestershire sauce. Followed by toast with Cooper's Original marmalade and coffee. Perhaps a couple of kidneys as well. I don't eat eggs!

I read this and when I got to the bit about Coopers I thought it was an Adelaide full English. Coopers is a local brewery that makes an excellent Pale Ale. Just the thing to wash breakfast down.

As far as I am concerned Bacon is one of the essential food groups.

[philmayfield 5,504]

Cooper's Original marmalade is the finest marmalade known to man. Lots of big chunky pieces of peel.

[Jill Sparrow 9,670]

In recent years, I've become a fan of lime marmalade. Very scrummy.

[benjamin1945 15,560]

Roses Lime Jill......about 2/11 when Golden shred'' was only 2/-......back in the 60s....

Bet its over £2 today?

Nice glass though...

[philmayfield 5,504]

I’ve never tasted lime marmalade but I do prefer a slice of lime in my G and T rather than lemon.

[Cliff Ton 10,007]

I hadn't heard of lime marmalade before, but there's a lot of it about so I might investigate.

 

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[philmayfield 5,504]

I fondly remember the British Rail breakfasts on the London train back in my working days. That was always a full English with kidneys served from a silver tray. Always Cooper’s Original with the toast. On the evening trains they used to start with soup which I though was inappropriate on a moving train.

[Jill Sparrow 9,670]

1 hour ago, Cliff Ton said:

I hadn't heard of lime marmalade before, but there's a lot of it about so I might investigate.

I find ordinary marmalade a bit acidic but lime doesn't have that effect on me. Spread on some good granary toast, it's excellent. I can highly recommend it, CT. Don't think Wealthall's stocked it!

[Oztalgian 2,922]

I switch between Rose's Lime Marmalade, Buderim Ginger Marmalade and Orange Marmalade, but I can't find a decent Seville Orange Marmalade that is slightly bitter with decent chunks of peel in it. Sounds like the Cooper's might be the go but sadly not available here. Most of the Orange Marmalades here are far too sweet.

[MRS B 324]

I make my own marmalade with a can of orange pulp from Lakeland which you can choose whether you want fine, medium or chunky cut. Then just add the sugar (an obscene amount or as you like it) Makes about 10 small jars. So much easier than all that Seville orange prep work. I do love lime marmalade too but I like Keylime pie too.

[MRS B 324]

10 hours ago, philmayfield said:

I’ve never tasted lime marmalade but I do prefer a slice of lime in my G and T rather than lemon.

Phil, my mums favourite drink was gin and Schweppes bitter lemon

[Oztalgian 2,922]

2 hours ago, MRS B said:

gin and Schweppes bitter lemon

A friend of ours always had a Gin and it, Italian Vermouth. It always had to be Cinzano, any one tasted this concoction?

[David sheridan 158]

On 2/3/2012 at 7:26 AM, Compo said:

Toms on toast - luvverly! One of my favourite comfort foods.

Toms on fried bread I love better !

[katyjay 4,997]

When we first came to Arizona, the Phoenix area used the bitter orange trees for landscaping freeways and main roads. Of course, nobody wanted to eat these oranges so the fruit would drop off and eventually the landscapers would remove the dropped fruit. I would see this wasted fruit and think of my dad. He made his own marmalade from Seville oranges and would have loved the wasted fruit. You don't see these trees anymore, replaced by regular trees now, dropped fruit brings rats.  we don't see orange groves, corn fields and cotton fields either, just about all built on now. When we came almost 37 yrs ago, tge population was around 3 million, it's over 7 million now. That's progress!