Also the peels contain lots of fibre so you are wasting the most nutritious part of the potato by peeling.

@@Jemini4228 100% that. Unless you're making mashed (in which case I question your sanity) the skin stays on, roasted, fried or sauteed.

tbf, I remember people from this era did tend to eat potatoes that were clearly waaay past what we would class as best before though, like they had properly sprouted and were going green, you needed to give them a heavy peel to get to the remaining edible part. That is ww2 conditioning again I guess.

​@richmcgee434 though I agree with you for the most part as far as skins on mashed potatoes, my favorite mashed potatoes are made with those little red skinned potatoes where leaving the skins on actually improves the flavor. Of course I then ruin any health benefits by adding lots of butter and cream cheese while mashing them! 😅

@@kahkah1986 Yes, new potatoes get brushed and rinsed. Older potatoes get the peeler.

There are some varieties of potatoes that you can eat raw, like apples. But most are just too starchy and ghastly. Got to watch not to eat ones near the surface where the sun has got to them, turned green. They are poisonous, gives you awful stomach ache cramps. Better to well cook them.

I remember Bonfire Night baked potatoes in the 60s!

@@huwzebediahthomas9193 ... that... doesn't have anything to do with peeled or unpeeled potatoes?

In the UK, they are often called Jacketed Potatoes (cause the skin is a jacket 😊) a quick google search found me a reference to them from 1915, so I would say they pre-date the 1950s 🤣🤣

Skin on chips are just disappointing though 😁 (not a boomer)

Boomers in the 50s were children

@gavinreid2741 No wonder they didn't know decently common things existed if they were like two at the time.

I don't think that's the point they try to make, I think it's more on the line of "we improved things a lot so you should not complain of underemployment, housing crisis, lack of welfare"

@@rainpooper7088 That is exactly why this meme exists.

I'm American so my 50s and the British 50s were probably different anyway, but I was lucky enough to spend a winter in a town on Route 66 which apart from a Thai restaurant that merged with one of the three diners in town and a Chinese super buffet off the main road was still pretty much exactly as it had been for 80 years, so I've gotten to experience a slightly modernized version of the 50s. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't something I'd give up modern computing, for example, for either. Also I drank at the bar and tried all the diners and restaurants of course, but most days lunch was the Thai place. Some of those modernizations had become the soul of the town, at least for me.

Same with my father. He loved his prawn curry (which I, by the way, detested).

Oh I wish I saw these thing in childhood. I lived from birth to 14 in rural Texas. My parents were silent generation and I'm GenX, just barely. Anyway we only had spaghetti when Dad worked late. I got my first taste of pizza at about 8. Never heard the word curry until I was in my mid 20s. Ate asian food for the first time in Asia. You get the idea. Though flvored potato chips were a thing.

Especially if it is about USA… it is not correct. Europe might still be kinda on edge, but surely USA had loads of stuff in the 50s, only thing maybe it was more exotic and less people ate it

My understanding is that the quality of produce was actually higher back then.

I'd argue that they probably didn't have so many conservants in their food, but I wouldn't know if that made them more delicious.

Omg the pasta tree ad!! Thank you for reminding me about that delight!

Reminds me of a sketch (from who, I don't remember) from the 80s that took the piss out of Brits not knowing how their newly fashionable coffee was made. A customer orders an espresso and the "barista" (in reality a greasy spoon chef) disappears behind the coffee maker. He obviously has no idea how to make an espresso so he just bangs the coffee maker with a spoon and makes various other noises while he makes an instant coffee out of view 😂

Not The 9 O'Clock News, with Rowan Atkinson as the coffee maker, I believe. He also added a squirt of washing up liquid to froth it up a bit. @@jmckendry84

Imagine dragging a rotary phone to the table in the 50's...

You spelled "were" incorrectly. So your argument has automatically become invalid. (This comment contains irony)

It's like when people talk about how people 'used to talk to each other!' when any image from the 40s-60s of a bus or train will show almost every person with an entire full sized newspaper open, reading it instead

Yes. Kid during the 90s, not 50s, but I had a book with me all the time before cell phones.

Also, TV dinners were invented in the 50s, so television was also something "at the table"

That was an absolute sucker punch, but so true and such a destroyer of the "you have to physically abuse kids so they respect their elders" arguments. like "If you had respect for your elders why were you getting hit so much? Sounds like you only want people to respect elders now that you are one. Either they weren't hitting you for a reason and you're lying that it's justified punishment for bad behavior, or you didn't listen to them anyway and you're lying about that approach working on you."

"If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?"

The amount of hate and resentment some people had towards their parents that would hit them (hands, belts, sticks etc) turned out to be a lot more than a screaming match that “you don’t hit MY children” Like you don’t expect your mother to start yelling at and threatening to not only throw out your grandmother but also report her to the police if she does it again. She ended up limiting contact even more later on but not for a lack of trying to get along after she became an adult. On dad’s side it was slightly different since his father had realised that this was indeed something that he should never have done and it should be illegal. I always had tons more respect for that side of the family, they’re the generation that were young during WW2 and had to go to war. You can get people to respect you and listen to you without needing to hit them, and they won’t grow up to either secretly or openly resent you. It’s very difficult to heal that rift between you if you did do it unfortunately, you noticed it sometimes, that it was difficult for dad to trust that his father really had changed for the better. Still, much respect to someone that can accept that they were in the wrong and change, even more so now as an adult than a child that didn’t want to disappoint someone they looked up to so listened to him and grandma I’ve heard similar stories of adults that go no contact and even keep their own children away from their parents, but here it was made illegal sometime in the 80’s to physically abuse children and it didn’t make everyone grow up to be a disrespectful rebel that hates authority figures. Spoiling kids and never teaching accountability, that actions have consequences, those parents are the worst offenders, entitled parents that raise entitled children and then they get into trouble with the law since they were never taught that your parents can’t protect you forever, and the parents whine about it because they’re still convinced their children are perfect little angels that can do no wrong. Sucks for the kids too, they don’t know any better and need to learn before it gets worse for them

Tldr; my grandmother never learned not to throw stones in glass houses. My grandmother went on a rant about how promiscuous kids are these days. For some perspective, she got knocked up and then cheated on my grandfather with multiple other people. I am 27, and still single. Now, I didn’t say that to her (I just thought it very loudly) and asked her if any of _her_ friends waited for marriage. There was a pause before she said “I don’t know, we didn’t talk about it”. I told her _that’s_ the difference. Your generation didn’t talk about it. Except of course that was bs. Her friends didn’t wait and she knew it. They just had couples in separate twin beds on TV. Meanwhile, if you look at the records of a medieval doctor, every third person had syphilis 🙄

truly kicking myself for not thinking of this one sooner

I have a buddy who is a single dad and pretty hands-off with his daughter, lets her play by herself in the park about a block from where he lives. One day, the police found his daughter unaccompanied, dragged her back to her dad, and chewed him out for letting his daughter play by herself in the park. We're literally not even ALLOWED to let our kids play outside anymore.

Theyre the ones that call the police whenever anyone younger than 40 is outside.

Most old people don't go outside much either. Throw that back at them.

The near-elimination of non-commercial public third spaces, outsourcing of manufacturing, continuous suppression of wages against inflation, the structuring of our transit system around personal cars, - the subsequent communal dislocation and widespread deprivation and social isolation, the subsequent climate crisis and its impacts on optimism and mental health, eschewing shorter work weeks, the ever-increasing monopolisation of children's lives by a results-crazed school system... I'd happily give up oily takeaway curries if they could give us back a halfway viable society, but it's a bit late now.

Poor you

the food we think of as "bland British food" is what British food would be like without empire. bubble and squeak is why they conquered India. Chicken Tikka is their national dish.

​@JosephSimoneAverageJoey2000 only if you are an ignorant American. Traditional British regional food is tasty and much of it goes back to the Middle Ages

@@averagejoey2000 probably a bad example because bubble and squeak is fucking delicious - it's just fried colcannon, which is an Irish dish anyway...

@@ruthmeb the presence of curry is when the ages stopped being so Mid.

@@averagejoey2000 Sorry did you mean Chicken Tikka is Britain's national dish? I dare you to go to India and ask for one they wont know what you're talking about. It was invented in Glasgow in the 60's to satisfy a Scots pallet that considered a curry without sauce to be uneatable.

Sounds like my mother.

It's really distressing how the propaganda from cable TV and online pundits slowly supplants their actual memories. It forces us to face just how unreliable and easily manipulated our own memories are...

I will admit to a slight truth in the idea that jungle gyms were considered “too dangerous”, as I remember as a kid being severely disappointed when all my old favorite wooden playgrounds were systematically replaced with smaller, less exciting (to my child mind), annoyingly heat-trapping plastic jungle gyms. Not sure when exactly this was happening - 90s probably? But there certainly still ARE jungle gyms, and they ARE probably safer, and just because none of my splinters ever got infected or poisoned me with wood preservative or whatever doesn’t mean it wasn’t a real issue. 🤷🏼‍♀️ My mom probably appreciated not having to pack the tweezers as essential playground gear.

My dad does the same thing with us and my nieces and nephews. It’s so concerning that they believe this propaganda over the lives they lived for real. it’s frustrating, sad, and not a little bit scary.

I'm just slightly older than you. We had jungle gyms when I was quite young, but I remember them all getting roped off and pulled out when I was still in elementary school. Along with the see-saws! It was quite a disappointment.

they sold phone tables, the line was usually in the hallway in UK and these 'tables' had a seat part, part the phone sat on and usually somewhere like a shelf for the phone book and your own contacts book.

I think that phones were typically kept in hallways back then.

Many restaurants were set up to allow phones to be brought to your table and plugged in before WiFi and mobile phones. Some were set up to facilitate dating. You would go to the restaurant and look about the room. Each table was easily identified so you could call it on the phone at your table if you wanted to talk to someone you were interested in at the other table.

This is correct, I hadn’t seen it when I posted below. Also my grandfather was “Greatest” generation and he took calls at the table and during meals.

The first proper pizza restaurant in the UK made with a pizza oven was Pizza Express in the early 60s. There are some good videos of it on KZfaq.

How stark would be a world without pizza!

Ha! My take on this was that this is what a young person today thinks of old people.

I hope 2023 is treating you better sir

@@acakecat7581 Thanks!! That's lovely of you. I hope you are doing well, too!!

I had the pleasure of living in Manchester in the mid-90s and the choice of restaurants available was paltry outside of Chinatown and Rusholme curry mile. I can't imagine that things were any better in the 50s.

Exactly! The people that learned about survivorship bias all died young so we don't hear much from them.

To be fair, bicycle helmets are less useful than helmets for kitchen step stool climbers. Meaning that the risk of getting into an accident in which the helmet would save your life is higher for a person climbing a kitchen step stool than for a person riding a bicycle. Yet I see no calls to always use a helmet when climbing a kitchen step stool, or condescending posters about helmetless kitchen stool climbers probably not having anything to protect anyway.

My Mum was told she'd eat a tonne of dirt before she died.

@@jannepeltonen2036 There's plenty of people who survive without a helmet on and go on to live horrible lives with severe brain damage. Riding a bike is very rarely fatal, the helmet protects you from crippling brain trauma by lessening the G forces on the head as it slaps into the ground. Having been a kid who fell a lot, it's pretty clear that falling on the ice while walking is WAY more harmful to the head than falling on a bike when wearing a helmet. Remember falling as a child and then seeing white for a short moment? Yeah, that's not great... You have to fall EXTREMELY hard with a helmet on to see white.

My grandfather worked in the fields as a farmer as a child. They sprayed pesticides on the fields as he and his brothers worked. He died earlier than he should have from lung related illness after having a cough my whole life. If you didn't wash your produce before, please start now boomers.

A woman after my own heart

She is truly a great woman, importing the idea of eating yogurt in a small village, that's a great point to add in your family history dude

Yup! You can find quotes like this from every generation complaining about the younger. I remember reading a quote from a man in the 20s or 30s complaining about young women having short hair and wearing pants 🤣

@@advisorywarning and some of them arrested for it for wearing pants. I think it was till in the law in France in 2015: women can't wear pants, but somehow people forgot about it, after they recognize it they withdraw it. If you are french and reading this please correct me if i am wrong.

And samphire has been eaten a long time

What blows my mind is the idea that an island country surrounded by the sea wouldn't have seaweed related recipes. Like what? People ate what was edible in their natural environments? Crazy. 😅

Or far less intelligent.

Is it very popular outside of Wales?

Yeah this person has clearly never been to a coastal town

They said exactly the same thing in the 50s. 😂

Reminds me of my dad. Super strict disciplinarian, constantly talks about how he is self made, "kids just aren't the same these days," etc. Came to find out: he was a literal car thief during his teenage years, but was essentially never punished because he promised to take a career his future mother in law handed to him. His father then bought him a house. Absolutely absurd.

​@@NucularRobitit's amazing, isn't it? Just completely wrong headed hypocrisy

bit daft to use the law as our moral or ethical framework though innit? Just cos a bunch of old people in a building wrote something down on a piece of paper it's bad now? Sounds a bit like Church to me, to be quite honest. Just do good things, don't do bad things, and teach your kids the difference.

children today are all medicated and have no energy to steal.

🤣

This comment gave me a second heart attack. From laughing 🤣

lard is healthy, there's new research sugar is the issue

@@seabreeze4559there’s even newer research just in, sugar is great for you, a single tablespoon of lard could kill 20 elephants.

research insulin resistance, kid. I was trying to help you all. @@Prince_Luci

It says a lot about someone that they think things like that truly make them superior. It's very strange behavior

"a lot of us didn't" LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK. This about so many things, in every decade.

Most of those points just prove the absolute ignorance of the poster. The OP might have not heard of have any of those things due to his insular upbringing, but that surely doesn’t reflect the real world.

I've been in few life threatening situations as a kid (and later), some were closer than others. At some wedding I run into place where there were guard dogs (I didn't know that) and owner of venue scolded me and said these dogs might have ripped me apart. I was almost in car accident when I was biking as teenager, I was almost in car accident again later in life when I was crossing the road. Not gonna lie I do prefer the safety over those scenarios

yes, children today are too soft because they are no longer getting unneccessarily poisoned on a daily basis while we needlesly beat the shit out of them. 0o

We do this in America, ignoring the fact that in 1914 a quarter of Americans spoke first language that wasn't English, which only became taboo because of the First World War.

Yes! Wales has a traditional stewed mush made of seaweed. I Saw it on antiques roadtrip.bbc❤

@@SamAronowYup. My granddad grew up speaking German even though he was the 3rd or 4th generation born in America. English was his 3rd language. In the town he grew up in, half the families spoke German and half spoke Spanish. His own grandfather ran the general store, and my granddad spent his time in the shop from the time he was a toddler. So he picked up Spanish from his grandfather and the store customers. When he started school, apparently they would whip the children on the back of the legs for speaking any language other than English. It sounded brutal. Apparently the US government didn’t want these little pockets where German (or even Spanish) was still spoken to continue to exist. So they brought teachers in from other areas to teach them English by any methods they saw fit. It sucks because now that particular dialect of German is dying out.

​@@Annie_Annie__ just another example of American cultural genocide

Very true, but It's ok, you also have to forget about Norfolk and the rest of the East Anglian coast line where Samphire has been eaten for centuries!

Barely knew my maternal grandfather...he died when I was 7 and we were only around him briefly after I was born and again for a few months when I was 4. But I grew up hearing my uncles talk about him incessantly, especially his beliefs on food. Chipped beef on toast, colloquially in the military called S.O.S, was referred to as "one-horse cavalry". He would only eat white corn meal, never yellow, which he held to be fit only for slopping the hogs.

@@Fred_Lougee I'm kinda with him on the white cornmeal tbh. But I won't refuse yellow cornbread if given it.

Similarly, muesli is mostly oats(hence the comparison to cattle feed) and oats were popular in Scottish cuisine.

I think there's an Irish song about seaweed too?

@@justforplaylists Dúlamán! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/irJ6oNyG0LDVpYk.htmlsi=2Z1XWEHd_ZX8mFYs

Aye in Ireland we have dulse.

@@GraemeMarkNI Yes, it's also Irish but I can see why an English kid (of the 1950s or today) would consider Ireland more foreign than Wales.

This is largely where the myth of the "Conservative 1950s" comes from. If it's literally the starting point of your life, you'd assume it was conservative.

I am, according to the definition, a boomer as I was born in 1957. My childhood was mainly spent in the 60s, so it is not only those born in the 'late 40s/early fifties. I am, however, glad to be left out of this discussion as I hate these American labels that are foisted by one group of people onto others. The life experiences of people born at one end of a 'generation' will be very different to those of people born at the end. They don't really make very much sense. My theory is that now that the US has run out of countries they are willing to go to war against (for now) the corporate-owned media has decided that having an inter-generational war is just what is needed to distract the populous from their social problems.

Makes more sense if it was written by someone too young to be a boomer or they might have remembered spaghetti being popular in the 60s. We got spaghetti out of tins at school.

@@jeankennedy5445This has gone on every generation. It’s not some government-foisted conspiracy to keep our mind off the corporate elite🤦‍♂️ On top of that, this was an English list of anti GenX/millennial traits, not American. And I believe it sounded more ‘anti foreigner’ than anything else.

Food in the 1980s was mostly pasta and sweets (source, me as a kid)

Is your family full of narcissists? 😬

I’m sorry, the oldest family member shared this xenophobic and blatantly untrue list of ‘facts’ and people call YOU the trouble maker for pointing out how incorrect it all is? You deserve better

​@Shakes-Off-Fear I appreciate the kind words. My mother still has to deal with this person and the extended family and I think even she's at the end of her tether with them.

Whenever I see this one on Facebook I scream about laverbread!

In Ireland, they have "dulse" which is red seaweed... I think this author is also implying that Welsh and Irish food are too foreign as well

And they build the current Car centric envrioment and complain that current children are dependent on their parents and rarely leave the House.

The one that pisses me off is the “We were doing recycling when we were kids, you didn’t invent it” as if they weren’t the ones who abandoned it in favour of fast and disposable.

@@FranziskaNagel445 Nope. You're several generations off. The car-centric culture was built in the 1950s, when Boomers were children. You can thank the so-called "Greatest Generation," and the half-generation after it that was born in the 1930s,

@@kirkmt Everybody's talking in too-broad generalizations of age groups. It's ridiculous. Boomers started the recycling movement and worked to get it instituted in towns and cities. But not all Boomers did it, just like there are lots of Boomers still doing it. Same as every other generation (please don't imagine that in subsequent generations, every person recycles).

@@Historian212 fair enough. I stand corrected.

Yup! And that was served to a stable lad; i.e. curry wasn't just for rich people. (Though presumably people not employed in large establishments may not be so familiar with it.)

Coronation Chicken.... from 1953... a curry chicken for the coronation of a Royal... something most of the populace would absolutely have heard of and copied to try it.

They also eat curry and talk about the "curry houses" in London in Vanity Fair, the runaway bestseller by Thackeray that just hit the shelves

Which is one reason why the brown bread was supposed to be healthier for you (my parents didn’t want us eating that nasty white stuff)

It is written by someone who does not remember the 50s and 60s. Probably a young conservative

@@julianshepherd2038 I mean it's possible, but as a Millennial, I grew up hearing people that generation waxing poetic about the 1950s - which they're too young to actually remember - like it was really the way it looks on TV shows of the era. Grew up bemoaning the idiocy and inaccuracy of it with my silent gen dad, actually. One of the few things I do miss about the old curmudgeon.

It seems to have little to do with Boomers only what little Millenials and later Gens know about social norms that pre-date Them. Boomer is just used as a dog whistle for "old timey" stuff from before the current youth existed.

@@oceandrew’boomer’ has become shorthand for intellectually lazy, reactionary people, for reasons that should be fairly self-explanatory. in the 70s they were called the “me generation”, and “yuppies” in the 80s. so long, and thanks for the housing crises.

@@oceandrew The irony of your response being exactly what we mean when we use boomer as an insult is palpable. Telling young people we're wrong and the REAL problem all the time is childish and we're sick of it. Grow up.

Yes, we have this same thing going on in the USA. I am in my 50's as well and I can tell you, very few push back. People are exhausted. I have seen tons of articles about how younger folks don't go to bars anymore or fast casual restaurants. They don't have the money to. The Baby Boomers here say nobody wants to work even though most workers have several jobs. Truth is, employers don't want to pay a living wage. If anything, I think that this nonsense will stop within the next 10 years. I can already see the threads coming apart. I doubt many 30 year olds want to live like people from 80 years ago.

​@@jerrimenard3092Thanks for having your own thoughts. It is so bizarre that folks act like younger people are just lazy idiots :(

@@jerrimenard3092 Just recently an older gentleman I know pulled "nobody wants to work" to me in the presence of a sweet young man. (I'm further from Spring Chicken than Old Cluck) I replied, "No, no one wants to work themselves to death for practically nothing." immediately followed by a quiet "Yup" from the sweet kid, & a short, equally quiet grumbling from my old dude This same guy was lamenting some improvements in recent years (abouuuuuut? Don't recall, sorry) & how bad it was in his day, like it's not fair...pout, pout. I gently asked, "Don't you Want things to get better? Isn't it Good when things improve?" Changed the subject lol

​@@echognomecal6742 my exact response every time I hear this BS "complaint". Nobody wants to work for poverty wages to enrich the already disgustingly wealthy? Good. Labor has supply & demand too. How do folks call themselves capitalists & then expect welfare from labor & the government to subside their already wealthy lives??

​@@jerrimenard3092 & OP you guys are actually Gen X & I don't see as many of you all being jerks to us younger folks🤗. But keep challenging the BS bc older folks still don't listen to us millennials even though many of us are over 40 now 🤦🏼‍♀️

That does offer a bit of insight into where the anti-brown bread snobbery may have come from

gods yeah no elbows on the table was a big thing when i was a young kid in the UK in the late 80s, at least at family gatherings. But very soon my parents realised how silly and pointless it was and dropped the idea completely

​@@J.U... K is an abbreviation of kindergarten.

@@J.U... K is Kindergarten, age 5. Pre-K is typically the year before that, about age 4 (I said we were 5 in the comment, but that was an error). Some schools call ot nursery school. When I was in school, and my kids too, pre-k is the year before Kindergarten, which is the uear before 1st grade and everything before that os nursery school. But some schools in the US use different naming conventions.

@@J.U...”K-12” is how Americans refer to the complete range of levels in primary education. Kindergarten through 12th grade.

It’s quite funny how your teacher thought she could win in a roomful of kiddos by just being an adult and expecting everyone to immediately take her flawed example as law. “No elbows on the table” has got to be the most pointless practice of micromanagement in existence anyhow, really just doesn’t serve a point beyond the extra yelling

Ooh this is interesting! Also, strictly speaking nobody would ever feed muesli to cattle anyway, because of all the other ingredients (it's not just a bowl of oats!).

I was looking for this comment:) i google it and Müesli was devel8ped in switzerland around 1900. Actually by a vegitarian Doctor very much focused on developing a health diet^^

Bumping this in hopes it's seen b the channel

i felt psychic damage from this

did they at least wash the rice first

I'm 77. I grew up with my grandparents, who were lovely people, but had a xenophobic attitude towards foreign foods. Fortunately, I grew out of that and love all kinds of foreign foods (I draw the line at sheep's eyes, though).

And apparently pasta?!?!

@@michaeljohnangel6359I don’t think any of us fault you for being a no on the eyes 😂

@@Ella35222 H.P. Lovecraft, a man so racist he had a year-long nervous breakdown after discovering he was a 16th Welsh, and had to write an entire novel to work through the trauma, famously ate spaghetti for the first time in his 30s, and loved it, despite his belief that Italians were subhuman. If you're so xenophobic you hate pasta, then you're officially out-racisming that guy.

@@Hositrugun I knew he was infamous for being racist, but holy shit. Having a nervous breakdown because a great grandparent was slightly west of the rest of your grandparents…

I am grateful they spread to America also. Kebab is fantastic.

Depends if they knew a damn about gardening or cooking. Most poor/resourceful people did know a lot about both as they were a way to keep kids healthy and make money go a lot further. And in many places there were backyards for gardening.

Skins are the best bit🥔🥔

My boomer parents were hippies, so all the health food stuff the meme writer is sneering at is exactly what I grew up on! (Though to be fair, their cooking style was an explicit reaction to the white bread and canned veg they were raised with.)

Agreed! In addition, it was from my granny, that I learned that potatoes are supposed to be scrubbed, not peeled and it was at the ripe old age of 6.

It's almost inevitable a country based on imperialism and racism that still laments any of its subject peoples just demanding a referendum on their future. Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, and to a lesser degree Belgium and Portugal all have far right problems now. More so than most countries do, and more so than a lot of the countries they colonised eg. Ireland. We're still moving forward (which is fairly easy given how backward we were in the 20th century) while they're looking backward.

The problem with nationalism is a lack of it.

​@@TheAnthraxBiologyWhen you're "progressing" in the wrong direction, you're supposed to go back, commie.

@@NotSure109not enough Internationalism I say. WORLD GOVERNMENT FOREVERRRRRR

@@joshuaspaulding2978 You sound Jewish.

Based.

Typical boomer sh*t, in other words... I wish more boomers called out the bad boomers... It just never really happens, because the bad boomers bullied the hell out of the good ones, so they're just silent... The loudest voices amongst boomers are the most hateful and stupid. I'm sure there are good boomers, but much like good cops, they're never keen to speak up against the bad ones. Also, the generation who told everyone to not talk about politics at the dinner table are now talking about politics non stop 24/7... And they also told everyone to eat their vegetables, and now they're at war with salads and root vegetables and brown bread... What a generation.

And a dash of ableism as well! 😂👍

A disgusting modern adaptation of an old recipe, that most people wouldn't want to swallow today.

If this you on the picture, you're really ugly.

Celery-flavored crisps sound good; the perfect companion to your Bloody Mary at Sunday Brunch!

​@@SamAronowI've never had a Bloody Mary, or, come to that, alcohol, but like, does anyone actually _like_ them? Cold, alcoholic tomato -sauce- juice sounds... unappetising.

I mean I use Celery Salt in cooking and it's pretty good

@@blakksheep736 It's very difficult to get right, so I just make them myself. And it's not tomato _sauce,_ it's tomato _juice,_ plus vodka, hot sauce, garum, and celery. When done well it's very refreshing and spicy.

Now I want to try them! Celery salt is good. However, not sure they’d help with “rheumatics” (even though celery seed is a traditional anti-inflammatory)

Hope your grandfather had/has a full life regardless and a loving family and grandkids to live the rest of his life. Condolences if he's passed on already, wishing him the best if not

@@jonahandthewolf Oh, thank G-d he's alive and kicking with more grandkids than I can count! He worked his way up from an entry level internship to being an expert in his field, and still gets to tinker with it even after official (legally required) retirement. He rides a moterbike and travels to spend almost half his time in the country where all my cousins live. He's busy telling this generation how good we have it, and quietly working behind the scenes to make sure we continue to have it better and safer and with more opportunities than he did. Thank you for your kind words.

@@missl1775Thank G-d he is here and enjoying his life ❤ I truly wish I could meet him! Wishing you all the best

We all misremember our childhood, does that make you a bigot?

@@seabreeze4559 I think there's a difference between misremembering things and being self-righteous about how you survived without any of the modern fast foods that are actually British classic foods and have been since 100 years before the person was born. Bigot may not have been the right word, but it kind of feels like if I told my younger sister chewing gum didn't exist just because I didn't have any during school

Ironically curry is so central to British cooking that many Asian countries like Japan learned of curry though boxed British curry spice brands, and by copying British-style curry recipes, before ww2 cut off the easy transportation of spices. Japanese curry and rice is literally a dish copied from the British Navy in the 1920's to solve malnutrition in the Japanese Navy at the time.

Your (Agatha Christie) reply is more literate than my footnote, but, watching this, I recalled a discussion of curry in the 1946 movie Terror by Night

I would assume that the colonizing of India is what made curry popular in England, Queen Victoria herself was a big fan@@falstaffswims

Mrs Beaton gives several recipes for curry in her cookbook in the 1880s (as well as kedgeree, using both curry powder and rice, which i'm sure would baffle our meme creator!) Plus, dishes very similar to modern british curries are listed in *medieval* cookbooks. If you had a time machine, you could serve a restaurant style korma or tikka masalla to richard II and he wouldn't think there was anything particularly unusual about it apart from the inclusion of tomatoes, which weren't imported from the americas until the 1500s!

Let's not forget that coronation chicken was a dish inspired by curry as well. And Japanese curry rice, currently popular in Britain, was created by British expats in 19th century Japan who couldn't get a good curry anywhere.

Wales, too.

So many young boomers born in like 55-59 think they remember it with the clarity of a memory savant. It makes no sense. I don’t pretend to remember the 80s, I was born in 86, how the hell could I? 😂 God I hope this never happens to me. Your dad sounds awesome though!

You Sir are a gem, thank you for the good laugh 😁

This is a hoot, especially that last one with the hardcore gamers ❤

These are some really good memes, I'd be delighted to see them in the wild !

This is so wholesome and lovely!

I love these!

Yes, that was my understanding. Brown bread was white bread dyed brown, basically. Wholemeal was pretty rare until much later. I’m in the UK. I’ve not researched this, it’s just my experience. The taste difference between white and brown was minimal, if any. It took me years to get my mum to buy wholemeal not brown (and she’d worked in a bread shop!).

Wow, sounds like you had some delicious food at home! Was your mother Italian or just a big Elizabeth David fan? Also love the sound of your authentic Italian pizza!

Kedgeree was exactly what came to mind when they claimed that people didn't eat rice. It was a relatively popular dish long before the 1950s and even includes curry powder as an ingredient!

my mum did O Level cookery in the 70s too (I guess the modern equivalent would be GCSE Home Economics?) and the stuff she made was so much more adventurous than what I remember from secondary school in the early to mid 2010s. Russian fish pie, all sorts of stir fry dishes... I legitimately just remember making basic cakes and chicken nuggets once. 😂

@@newcamomile For those young people (just teazing!!) who don't know who Elizabeth David was, she brought the idea of foreign cooking to Britain in the '50s.

Did you let them have a taste of the pizza? I reckon that would have changed their tunes.

"Macaroni" was used instead of "pasta" in Britain for a long time. It's a much more generic word in Italian than modern English, and is often used there for any long noodle with a hole in the middle.

Macaroni is simply what they called pasta for hundreds of years. This is true until quite recently.

It’s only the _word_ “allergy” that’s fairly new (coined in 1906), not allergies themselves, or even the concept that someone would have what we now call an allergic reaction to food, animal dander or insect stings.

Wait people think allergies are new? What the heck, I'm learning so much random stuff in this comment section, it's great!

I remember when boomer humor was "young people these days are too conservative; they don't even have sex or smoke weed!"

Do you know any boomers?

​@@SamAronow wait what?

​@@SamAronowit was like that at some point?!

@@blakksheep736 Yeah, the stereotypes were reversed back in the 80s. Lots of counterculture resentment toward the hardcore conservatism of Generation X that helped elevate Reagan to the Presidency. Bill Bryson had a whole bit where he visited a professor at Iowa State who said "these kids don't even smoke weed or have sex! They have long-term relationships and wear Laura Ashley dresses and go see Donny and Marie in concert!" To be fair, at this time AIDS was an untreatable automatic death-sentence that hardly anyone understood. I have a lot of friends in their 50s who complained that their older siblings got to have lots of sex in college but when they got there everyone was too afraid. And in the same book Bill Bryson explains that it'd become much harder to buy marijuana in the US because the Reagan Administration had raised the minimum sentences for dealing weed to be equal to that of dealing cocaine and heroin, which was more profitable and thus incentivized dealers to sell way harder drugs. But mainstream culture was also definitely _into_ bashing boomers for being pathetic leftists who had too much freedom, and that's the backlash to that generation that I grew up with in the 90s.

spaghetti and macaroni *are*" pasta. They are literally types of pasta. You ansolutely did eat pasta as kids because you ate spaghetti and macaroni which are....kinds of pasta. *insert facepalm meme here*

The Nazis attacked Cultural Bolshevism which meant everything from actual Marxist Leninism to modernist art and buildings, "Jewish science" and jazz.

​​​@@julianshepherd2038 So basically the people who are waging the culture wars today. Are just rehashing the same BS the Nazi's originally spewed out back then. & adding one or two bits here & there to try to make it 'relevant' to today.

My grandfather fought in WWII and called baked potatoes lazy potatoes. He wanted to have mashed potatoes with every evening meal because he liked them so much. He also hated the Japanese because he served in the S. Pacific and saw what they had done to POWs and the indigenous people.

Come on show some self awareness, you've literally just seen a boomer meme throwing generational beef at potato Peel. 😂

No one is going to take away my curry with unpeeled potato bits in it frankly, over my dead body

Right? Like Britain full-on colonized India. You can't colonize somewhere without, y'know, colonialism. Plenty of people would have spent time in India and taken with them back to Britain a predilection for curry, basically the signature dish of India in the same way pasta is for Italy.

Indeed, the oldest known recipe for kedgeree goes back to 1790 in Dumfriesshire...

Yeah, italian immigrants over here on my part of the east coast too. Not so many Japanese as we're much farther away from Japan than California, but my uncles grandparents were Japanese immigrants. They came over in the 50s. (His father is still alive even.)

Even if the 50s was that xenophobic then, I don't get the point of someone today acting like a world without pasta was the golden age

But what about after the war? I could image anti Japanese sentiment to be even stronger. (even though both Italy and Japan were part of the axis)

It took Japanese food so long to make it to the South. I'm from South Carolina and we didn't get a Japanese restaurant in my small town until the 90s! We all went nuts for it like it was the most unique thing ever and it quickly took off as a staple.

Here in Iowa we didn't have that many foreign foods, though. My dad never had a pizza until after he married my mom in 1962 and she made him one. Before that he had only eaten German style food that his mother made. My mom opened him to Asian, Italian and Greek cuisine that she learned out of magazines.

I'm also German (born in the 80s though) and my grandma would always cook unpeeled potatoes that you had to peel yourself when eating. Apparently this was very common in former times.

​@@deniseb.4656 German here, born in the 90ies Same! Haha But i hated peeling the hot potatos so much i started eating them with the skin.

Czech here. "Brambory na loupačku" - potatoes cooked with skin on, especially new potatoes - are _still_ something of a... homemade delicacy? Comfort food? Something in that general area. 😅

@@deniseb.4656 well currywurst in Germany was invented in 1949, so you apparently we're aware of what curry powder was at the time already. But apparently currywurst was invented by British soldiers who were stationed in Berlin after the war. So it's similar to how the UK introduced curry to Japan in the Meiji era, brits introduced curry to Germany too, in the 1940s.

If memory serves, the elbows on table thing is an old classist practice. Basically sailors used to use their elbows to stop their plates from moving around on ships as they ate. So it became associated with enlisted sailors and thus a lower-class thing.

I'm 65 and entirely opposed to hitting. On the other hand, the people in my neighborhood who hit their kids have kids to hit because they're young enough to have young kids. They're certain that hitting is the most effective way to teach respectfulness. They also think that Jesus died for your sins, but I think like Ricky Gervais. If you don't sin, Jesus died for nothing.

It's okay to discipline children.

​@@NotSure109 Hitting a child is not disciplining them, especially if they don't understand what they've done wrong. All it's teaching them is to fear the person hitting them and to try to avoid being hit (perhaps by lying or concealing things).

@@hannahk1306 I didn't claim it was.

@@NotSure109 So you just made an unrelated comment?

I learned from another channel (Tasting History with Max Miller) that "no elbows on the table" goes back to the middle ages. Back then, tables were often trestle tables, meaning just a board balanced across a couple of supports, which would be dismantled between meals so the room could be used for other purposes. Since the tabletop wasn't nailed down, putting your body weight on it could flip the whole thing over and send all the food flying. So there was originally a really good reason not to put your elbows on the table, but nobody remembers it anymore. They just continue passing down the rule like it's the 11th commandment or something, without realizing it's no longer relevant.

@@mirandarensberger6919 that makes so much sense! Like that experiment with chimps! Scientists put like 6 or so chimps in a room with a ladder and if one climbed it, sprinklers came on. So they learned "dont climb the ladder". They then slowly switched out the chimps so eventually none of the original animals that got wet were in the room and they all still avoided the ladder but didn't know why. Just the "we've always done it this way" mentality.

And a meat dinner wouldn’t be nearly as good without good vegetables.

i'm so glad he's your ex!

Corporate interests gotta interest corporately...or something more elegant than that.

I mean if you count nutrition as calories per gram then yeah 🤷🏻‍♂️

​@@GraemeMarkNIwhich is exactly how that word was used for the longest time. Only recently have we gone to apply it to stuff with particularly healthy micronutrients

In the early 60s, my mum would try to get me to eat lettuce by putting sugar on it.

@@cecilyrose8433 That’s a good idea. I might try that.

I was raised in the 2000's and got the same telling off lol. It's definitely rarer now, but I'm sure some parents do still tell kids off for it.

I thought that one was so weird. But I guess it could be considered a sort of posture type of formal manners or something. I had someone pull that on me when they were mad at me about something else. I thought that was kind of funny because of how transparent it was.

​@@Albinojackrusselsame for me lol, but I still do it

​@@zzzcocopepeFrom what I remember it's an extension of a custom that arose for purely practical reasons. Large feasts during the medieval and later periods used temporary tables that could be setup and taken down quickly but would lean if you put your elbows on them because of how the weight distribution worked. So resting your elbow on the table risked spilling somebody's food or possibly even collapsing the table. It's not that sturdy tables haven't existed for a long time, it's just that you didn't need a feast's worth on a regular basis. So, the feast etiquette spread to everybody as a general rule and is still kicking around even if its purpose is forgotten by most. There's still temporary tables or poorly built ones that make the original reason for no elbows on the table too.

This one I feel is unfair. Glass bottles have become a luxury rather than a containment mechanism and in my opinion this is due to ( supply-side ) market forces that 90% of us don't have have a say in whatsoever. This is a valid complaint imo and one I've had as a guy presently in his 20s. There's been a few times I've bought drinks in glass bottles, but they're not commonly available for purchase and often more expensive, sometimes considerably so if the glass bottle is part of the brand prestige. ( e.g. Perrier )

I remember that one too. There was a lengthy post that started out as a rant against the younger generation saying it's a good idea for customers to bring their own bags to the store instead of using the plastic ones. There was a long list of "In my day...." followed by the paper bags being used as book covers, refillable fountain pens, laundry dried on the clothesline, and yes, glass bottles instead of plastic. One thing that the author seemed to overlook was the fact that her generation did so many things that are environmentally friendly, but they're also the ones that dropped them the first chance they got and made those options much less accessible to the next generation. Then they scoff at their children and grandchildren's age bracket for being so silly as to put money and effort into seeking out reusable, recyclable, sustainable materials when disposable plastic is so cheap and readily available now. The ones that make those comments can understand living without modern conveniences, but they don't get why anybody would do it when they don't have to.

@@Soitisisit But if glass bottles we're properly reused they would be functionally free, you pay a deposit when buying the product, when you return the bottle you get your deposit back.

@@tvsonicserbia5140 I know. Glass is much easier to recycle than plastic and has less environmental harm too. I hate that they're not more common. Edit: Also the infrastructure for glass buyback is just not there in my area. It's hard enough to recycle cans and the amount you get is hardly worth the effort unless recycling other people's cans is your only source of income. Even that is usually not viable because you have to compete with prison labour.

@@snowangelnc Thanks. Good to know I wasn’t going crazy and misremembering it 🙂

I got my boomer father to try a bunch of different foods I enjoy during lockdown and he loved most of them. The deal was he had to take at least three bites of each item and if he didn't like it he didn't have to eat it. He always ended up eating the food. I hope your boomer gets a little more adventurous someday.

@@AvrysatosI use the same tactic with my 4-year-old!

@@Niclaas1999 my mother and her family... I'd mention going out for Indian food and she'd fall to pieces.

Here we see the modern version of the meme.😑

​@@Niclaas1999To be fair aubergine is disgusting. 😅

Was "carrageenin" used in the 50s? If so, it's possible that people back then were eating seaweed (or at least something dervied from it) without *even knowing it*.

@@benjaminrobinson3842 We have been eating seaweed for tens of thousands of years, probably from the moment we came onto land. its unlikely they didn't know what they were eating for many coastal communities it was a staple foodstuff.

I can't stand people wearing shoes inside for the exact reasons you mentioned (I don't see how the flooring is relevant - it still gets dirty!). Honestly, I can't understand why you'd want to wear shoes around the house anyway - slippers maybe, but not outdoor shoes.

@@hannahk1306 The type of floor covering is very relevant. tiles and wood as well as stone and slate can be disinfected everyday whilst carpets cannot be and even they could be they deteriorate rapidly when washed. But having that rule makes me take off my shoes even when I am not asked to.

@@mikeorgan1993 Just because it's easy to clean, doesn't mean people should be making it dirtier because they can't be bothered to take their outside shoes off!