These are some of my favourite videos to make. They take such as long time to research, film and edit but it's so worth it! I would love to hear some more unique video ideas? You guys are the best, hope you have a fab evening xxx
Grackle you should go online and see if there’s a site or way to generate a random country to create meals from ! I think itd be interesting especially if you got a country who’s culture is not often spoken about 😋
you should do a week of meals where you go up a decade each day doing a traditional dinner from that decade, so do Monday: 50s Tuesday: 60s Wednesday:70s Thursday: 80s Friday:90s
Back in the day my grandad was a huge fan of Chinese food but you couldn't really get takeaways or afford to go out to eat, so he used to attend classes to learn how to make it himself! He also learnt how to make Indian food and for Christmas presents, he would measure out exactly each spice and ingredient needed and put them in a little hamper. I think that's such a cool idea. It's so funny how people had to have lessons if they wanted to learn about other cuisines.
since it'd probably be too expensive to do a week's worth of my suggestion, i'd say do it just for 24 hours, where you eat like a monarch. like 24 hours of eating like henry viii
Nowadays that's not too expensive they ate alot of fresh fruits and vegetables the monarchs did. Plus lots of poultry which isn't too expensive. Maybe the beef will be
"I feel like there's such a different attitude in this generation. Feel like people are scared of things like carbs." *me thinking about all the carbs I've had today* - "I'm basically a bread" 🍞🍞🍞
The worst thing I have done is to take up bread baking! I haunt UA-cam Day and night for bread recipes. I have put away the rotisserie and in its place is my big kitchenaide mixer with the dough hook! Why couldn’t I take up a hobby like exercising?
I get so depressed so often, but I've been consuming Grackle videos like nobody's business and I can honestly say...NOTHING brings me MORE JOY!!!! I feel so much more lighthearted during the day. I typically feel awful after binging UA-cam vids, but after watching Grace I feel more positive, I feel motivated, I feel actually HAPPY. And that's not to mention the giggles I get during the videos. Thanks Grace, you have really helped me through some dark days.
Love your video Grace! I was born in 1962. My mum said that in the 1960s, breakfast during the week was almost always toast and jam with tea, lunch was, in fact, the largest meal and then they had tea between 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm and it consisted of maybe 1/4 to 1/2 of a sandwich and one biscuit or A small cake. Dinner was between 8:00 pm and 10:00 pm and was a light meal. Tea was served with all meals. You did a great job with your research but for some reason, people have forgotten about tea, the meal, AND the drink.
I was born in 1956 and we never ate after 6.30pm in the evening. Tea was more substantial - always sandwich based finger food and a slice of cake, or occasionally you'd have a high tea, which was hot and you needed a knife and fork to eat, such as baked beans on toast. That was it until the next morning.
We always had 'real' butter (being irish it was easier and cheaper) but my mum always reminisced about staying at her aunt's farm in the summer (literally 6 miles outside the country town she/we grew up in) and sitting on the kitchen step, churning the fresh milk (just milked minutes before) with a hand churn and having the butter later that day on fresh baked bread, homemade jam, while her little arms ached from the churning 😊
Food was a lot more appreciated back then. Hearing your grandad's tale of sharing a treat between the 4 of them really makes me realise how lucky I am. This is probably still the reality of a lot of low-income families. Then there's me with the ease of eating a whole chocolate block in 10 minutes. Makes me wonder how much I am actually overeating...
I’m late, but my grandmother used to make this throughout my childhood. All of these meals. Since she turned 93, though... and her dementia caused her to slow down, she can no longer cook... but she used to make all of these meals so well, and even as a genZ (I think) teen, I hold most of these meals dear to my heart
In Finland there is an ice cream brand called Pingviini that still makes blocks of ice cream that you can cut slices out of it and it is very popular in here :)
I grew up in the 60s in New Zealand and I remember eating a lot of fruit, which we bought by the case as every household bottled their own fruit (peaches, pears , plums etc). Our Friday treat was fish and chips which we got after doing the shopping (late night Friday opening - no weekend opening). We had stew on pancakes in winter and salads with cold meats in summer. Dessert was pavlova or Eskimo pie ( slice of ice cream covered in chocolate and eaten out of the bag, just like eating a hot pie). I could get 20 cents worth of mixed sweets and that would keep me going all week. We put really butter on everything, loads of salt on everything, and bread at every meal. Can't imagine doing that now! Really enjoyed this video. Thanks for the trip down memory lane 😍😍😍💕💕💕
Tacos, spaghetti, lots of cold cereal, block ice cream in checkerboard design mixing orange sherbet and vanilla ice cream. Lunches taken to school had a sandwich, a handful of potato chips (crisps) a piece of fruit, and two store-bought cookies.
In California: Yes, we also had Pineapple upsideown cake, fish sticks with tartar sauce, pie, lots of casseroles, popsickles and Neopolitan ice cream that we sliced into squares. Also, Tang!!!! (it's what the astronauts drank), anything Hawaiian (BBQ, drinks, etc), frozen dinners, meatloaf, coconut cake, instant coffee and tacos!!!! Thanks for the post!
E N C wow thanks for reminding me of the ice-cream- I can taste it all over again! The chocolate and the strawberry melting together. Yes, the popsicles. Yes the fish sticks with tartar sauce. The TV dinners. What about the Pillsbury cinnamon rolls with icing that came out of a sort of cardboard tube, like the frozen orange juice?
@@vsee3154 That's amazing because we were eating the same identical things in a small town on the east coast of Canada. You would tend to think it would be different at such far apart places. Go figure.
I was born in the 1950’s and much prefer life today. Much more variety of food, mobile phones and computers to find information and entertainment are great.
Alot of people try to cook vegan food at home only to save money and eat non vegan stuff when going out I think it will be a good idea for you to eat more regular meals..I did not expect to find an army here idky
First of all, back in the 1960s and I was alive then so I remember this, the portion size were nowhere near the size portions are today. We did not eat half of a chicken at one time. We ate the breast a cup of peas half a cup of mashed potatoes with gravy and a roll. Is that a lot of calories probably and a lot of carbs? Or probably. However we did not sit around and eat chips and cookies and drink Cokes all day there was no such thing as all the snacking we have today. You ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Children would usually have one or two cookies and a small glass of milk as an afternoon snack the hold them over until dinner. We were not overweight because the portions were smaller, and there was no such thing as all the snacking. Women stayed home and took care of the house did the laundry. Women were a lot busier physically and more active than they are today. Most men came home and played ball with the boys mow the lawn played with the dog took a walk with their daughters before dinner. Dinner was eating as a family at the table usually at 6 p.m. everybody stayed at the dinner table when dinner was over the children asked if they could be excused and they went and did their homework or quietly listen to music maybe if you were lucky you got to watch some TV. Mom would clean up the kitchen, and dad would read the paper. play you might think that's not much of a life but let me tell you, compared to what we have today with no real family nobody knows each other parents and children spaces are glued to a screen nobody talks to each other people don't know their neighbors it's really sad and I missed the times of the fifties and sixties I really do
I'm 80's and me and my brother were busy with chores. Mom cooked and cleaned. Dad worked and worked outside. She tried teaching me and my brother to cook and clean, but my brother ended up doing better with the cooking part and ended up doing better with the cleaning part. I eventually took over my brother's cleaning as well then also took on working outside and became a workhorse. So since I was doing my job, my brother's job and helping our Dad. My Mom just kicked me out the house completely so my brother could have some work to do and I was outside sweating with my Dad. It took getting married for me to learn how to cook.
@@Mimihigh Nintendo was the video game of choice when my son, born in 1981 was a teen. He didn't have one. He had a horse and that's what kept him busy. He wasn't allowed to sit inside with electronics. He also had chores. I think divorce is a big factor although my son's dad wasn't around by his choice. So my son had 2 parents rolled into one. I was a strict mom, but had a soft side. If I was raising children/teens today, they would have a simple emergency use flip phone with no internet. No x box or anything like that. They would be kept busy with outdoor hobbies or doing volunteer work for the church.they would live a life focusing on having a purpose.
I was born in 1960 and remember that we didn't eat much jam in the morning for breakfast, maybe butter on bread, cheese and milk or tea. The lunch was the main course and we had more veggies during the weekday and meat with veggies at the weekends. For dinner we had something light, very similar to the breakfast and the portions were definitely smaller. We didn't have snacks, more fruit, the bananas were very popular and oranges too. We were very active, doing things all the time and in the evening we used to watch one film or a series and went to bed at about 11p.m. All of us were thin.
@dobie gal: What you describe is pretty much what my parents had and did. One glaring issue today that wasnt much of an issue then is the cost of living today v. pay. Back then $20 dollars paid for much much more than today. Therefore, a family of lets say 4 could easily get by on one source of income. Dont get me wrong, I would love to go back to what you describe.
@@Pendragon88 I can understand that. My one that works (backwards) is a very old one I can't replace because they don't make them any more. If it breaks I'm out of the game....
I grew up in the 60's...In America. However, I fell in love with things British. British fashion, British fashion sparked the drive for me to learn to sew. British music which I still play today. Yardbirds, Kinks, Zombies, and of course Beatles and Stones. Food was amazing. Mom was a great cook. My friend and I could take a walk after dark. It was a time a kid could stay out all Saturday and show up for dinner and no one called in a missing kid. I do think it was a better time to grow up for sure. There was a freedom for a kid to learn independence and resilience. I learned how to stand up to bullies and was able to pass that on to my children. There will always be bullies. It makes me sad that my grandchildren do not have these privileges. I honestly can't think of anything that's better today. Today is more quantity and less quality. I really enjoy your channel. Thank you.
Think this is the first time I’ve ever commented on UA-cam but just had to tell you how much I am enjoying your content! Love the research that goes into your videos as most of all I love how wholesome they are! This really is a lovely positive corner of the internet! Thank you Grace! x
Thank you for your video. I enjoyed it especially since I remember many of these things! One thing in the 60s that is different from today (and shifted in the 70s) is the cooking medium: Women cooked with lard or butter. In the 70s that shifted to vegetable oil (or salad oil as we called it) and margarine. I think that might be the main contributing factor to the ability to go for so long without snacking - animal fat gives you a sense of fullness for longer and vegetable oil doesn't. My mom frequently made soft boiled eggs for us kids for breakfast! She also cut the bread in strips and always buttered it. Except we never heard of whole-grain or even whole wheat bread until the 80s! We ate white bread. Rye bread with caraway was an "old-time" bread my parents would swoon over, German pumpernickel with whole grains inside was an expensive treat that we would have very occasionally as it was expensive. We didn't really eat cereal until the 70s - on cold days my Mom made Cream of Wheat. Also salads became popular in the 60s particularly "tossed salad" with iceberg lettuce. I haven't had iceberg lettuce in years, actually decades! Maybe it was different in the UK than it was in Canada. Also you pretty much ate peas and carrots all week. We didn't really eat a lot of frozen veggies then. Mostly we ate what was seasonal or canned: spinach, green beans, corn, peas (they were rarely so green as in your upload as they came from the can!). And in those days no one ever left the peel on the potato, in fact no one ever left the peel on anything! Everything was peeled! It was later that scientists told people that the peel was healthy and should be eaten (now they're switching their opinion again - saying the peel has anti-nutrients and shouldn't be eaten, sigh). Also, it was considered unhealthy not to eat meat, and so we ate meat every day. Again maybe in the UK it was different. In the late 70s that shifted - people not only cut back on meat they started removing the skin from poultry - no one in the 60s removed skin from poultry unless they were cooking some specialty food such as Chinese.
omg I LOVED THIS!! this was soo interesting and insightful! I love learning about other eras and particularly their diets! its fascinating! they really were so much more resourceful back then! makes me sad and angry about how much we take for granted nowadays and how much we WASTE!! we are so spoilt and do not appreciate how much we have! :( particularly loved the interlude with all the info on the screen that was so interesting and I learnt so much that I didn't know! Love learning when certain foods were released etc! but defo DEFO DO THIS AGAIN! love it!!
As one born in 1940 I find your "typical" meals to be anything but typical of the times. That is probably because the food eaten varied according to the region and income of the families. In low income families the meat eaten in the week revolved around offals - liver and onions, tripe and onions, with slow cooked cheaper meats in hotpots with dumplings. Fish and chips from the chip shop was also a staple for some families if they could afford it but more likely cooked at home. Larger meat joints were a weekend treat with the "dripping" used on toast for breakfast during the week with the bread as often or not home made home meal (the Graham loaf) and not sliced white loaves. Deserts or puddings were usually a part of the weekend menu and often involved custard as in apple crumble, apple pie or upside down apple cake but also in trifles. Baked Alaska was a restaurant dish with bread and butter pudding more common. There was a very large variety of food during this time that one cannot cover here but you can get a good idea from the Wartime recipe guide that were calculated to provide the necessary essential nutrients - that is why my generation do not generally suffer obesity or the ill health of later generations following the 1977 Food Pyramid guides that are the source of most current health problems by promoting sugar (especially fructose syrup), simple starch and vegetable oils at the expense of healthy the animal fats that I was brought up on and have continued to consume as my main energy source to the present day. : recipespastandpresent.org.uk/wartime3.php
Hi Grace, Thanks for your thought provoking vid! Honestly I’m not that old but it is extremely interesting to see your reaction to food things I just take, took for granted. My childhood was mostly the 80s and a Weetabix and a round of yeast extract spread on toast or marmalade etc was very very normal for breakfast. And the thing is personally I was still starving hungry, as in feeling a bit faint by first break at school which about 10.15! (School started at 8.30). Unlike the 60s by the 80s we were pretty snacked up, so everyone at school would be gobbling down a packet of crisps or hoolahoops or Skips at first break and maybe even a little choc bar like a Club or a Wagonwheel too! I wouldn’t have lasted 2 minutes without any breakfast!! And actually still don’t do well without it! Therefore by lunch half your sandwich box contents were gone, which just left you with a cheese and pickle sandwich, or the like, an apple and a little juice box or some watery orange squash in your flask. It does make me worry and wonder if school aged children just aren’t eating enough good food to start their busy day. School life is chaotic and really demanding as is working life, no wonder everyone seems unable to concentrate!
I can't wait to show my Nana this and see what she thinks! She went to see The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Small Faces, The Kinks and she is my absolute idol ❤️
The best part of this...you having those awesome conversations with your grandparents!! Believe me...you will cherish those conversations once they are gone...and you can share that information with your kids some day.
This was SOOO interesting. I'm 51 (so born in 1968) but lots of these meal types are very familiar. In the seventies my mum would cut spam into cubes and serve it with bisto gravy. Actually, we loved it. We had Fray Bentos pie with chips - everybody had a chip pan which was kept on the stove and yes, they often caught fire. Treats were few and far between. I remember having fizzy drinks on holiday and probably had a bag of crisps once a month. Sweeties were for a Friday night when my parents went shopping at the local Co-op. There was a lady there who weighed the fruit and veg out for you. She wore rubber gloves and lots of make-up. I can see her face now!! Christmas was the best. Boiled ham, dry turkey and lots of sherry. This was the only time that chocolate was really available to eat when you wanted.My Dad always had dates and dried figs, and we had a huge bowl of different nuts with a pair of nutcrackers.
This was absolutely informative. I love watching thses types of videos. Makes me appreciate the things we have now and also helps me have better perspective in my daily life. Thanks Grace!
Awesome video. I was born in 1967, and when I was 10, my mother and I moved in with her parents. We ate a lot of things like you did (except, I'm in Canada, and I have no idea what some of the brands you mentioned were...hahahaha). We always had a small dessert bowl of pudding (we call the treat after dinner "dessert", and pudding is just, well, pudding...the creamy confection...mmm) for dessert, cooked. Usually butterscotch, chocolate, or vanilla. When I say a "small dessert bowl", I'm not kidding. It held maybe half a cup! Before bed, a treat was a Maple Leaf cookie (I think this is a Canadian dessert - look it up, if you'd like...it's a maple-flavoured sandwich cookie, in the shape of a maple leaf, and with maple-flavoured cream in the middle. Sweet, and yummy). Portions were miniscule, but we did just fine. Mum's parents were in their 70s then. These portion sizes were normal for them, and neither one of my grandparents was overweight. Looking at old photos of my mother's family (five kids), no one was overweight. My dad's family was the same (10 kids!). Folks back then likely took it for granted that snacking wasn't a "thing", and this is what they got! Post-war, post-rationing...made sense! In the present day, we REALLY need to scale back our portions. They're not "servings" anymore, they're "portions". We need to go back to what a suggested "serving" is, and really learn how to feed our bodies the quantity (and quality!) of food we need, and really scale back the fast food. Maybe then the obesity epidemic would decline. Neat experiment. I have to go find your 1950s video. These are fun, and your accent is, too. :) Thanks!
Now I really want to know what food was like in the 1960s here in Germany so I guess I’m gonna go research that for the next two hours ... Edit: I’m back this is gonna be harder than I thought ... food in German is Essen which is also a city ....
You weren't, and still haven't been subjected to the awful packaged imitation bread made by the Chorleywood process, in Germany you only have that packaged as ''Toastbrot'' as it is inedible untoasted. Most people in the UK still eat the crap packaged fake bread, there are hardly any bakers like you have in Germany except for the new ''artisan'' bakers which are a bit pretentious (i.e. hipster) and very expensive , however many supermarkets bake loaves and baguettes on site, some are okay. Luckily we have Lidl here so I can still eat fresh ''Schnitt'' Broetchen every day yum. I think you will find that German shops in the 1960s didn't have so much Fertigfutter (ready meals and products) as we did - and do - in the UK. I am sure I watched a German documentary about food habits in different eras. The main innovation there in the 1960s was Maggi and Knorr packet mixes. Instant coffee didn't take off there like it did in the UK either, and you in West Germany could get your hands on normal bean coffee from about the mid-1950s with the Wirtschaftswunder giving you enough hard currency to import, while in the East unfortunately that wasn't the case. There is a 3-part series dedicated to food in the GDR called ''Mahlzeit DDR'' with an entire episode dedicated to the continuous shortage of coffee in the East. I grew up in the UK in the 1970s/80s and the first time I tasted proper coffee and bread was on a school trip to West Germany in 1986, since then I haven't lost the taste for both.
@Bilbo Baggins I've been to Poland (Katowice) and had a delicious meal for a very reasonable price. Furthermore here in London there are many Polish shops plus there is such a big market for Polish products (due to many Poles working here) that even Arab owned shops stock Polish pork products like kielbasa, kabanosi and ham, and even the major supermarket chains all have Polish food. I like Polish cheeses, hams, sausages etc. and some other Polish stuff, for example last night after a late night working, I had Polish stuffed cabbage leaves in tomato sauce, which I also like. But I have very worldly tastes in food. I guess if I lived in Poland I would miss the wide availability of more exotic ingredients which we get in North-Western Europe i.e. Indian, Indonesian, Japanese, Chinese, Jamaican, African etc. and also I found it weird in Katowice that everyone was white but as far as European food goes Polish food isn't bad at all.
@Bilbo Baggins I can understand that, I had Indian food once (back in the 90s) in Berlin and it was very bland, adapted for German tastes, as they aren't used to hot & spicy food.
@Bilbo BagginsLike I said I had just one meal during an afternoon in Katowice last year, I popped over for a few hous from Ostrava in Czechia where I was staying for a week. So I can't claim to have had a lot of experience with Polish food, I think I had duck or some other game and it was pretty nice if I remember rightly, but as I can't remember clearly and it was only last year, that means it wasn't memorable. Actually thinking about the home-cooked Polish food I had in the Netherlands, actually it was nothing special, very similar to old-school meat and 2 veg but very dry as they don't seem to know about gravy lol.
I absolutely love these videos!!! Thank you for making them! I’m looking forward to seeing the 70’s and 80’s... even 90’s! I’m a Texan but definitely an Anglophile! I love your kitchen as well! It reminds me of one some dear friends have in the north of England! Keep up the good work! X
Fascinating! I remember both 60s and 50s food. We were really poor and ate much less meat than this and way more potatoes and veg. Rarely did we have pudding. We had a lot of pork dripping on bread or toast with a sprinkle of salt, delicious. It was often bought from the pork butcher, it was cheap. PS fish and chips was a rare treat but chips, peas and 'bits', bits of batter, were what we did have if we ever had anything from the chip shop, and lots of gravy!
My mum was born in 1951. Her dad was a farmer and supplied potatoes for golden wonder. She said when they first launched the flavoured crisps he was given some to try first and they were all amazed. Also they were shook when pizza came over.
Really REALLY enjoyed this! I was born at the end of the 70s and some of the things you showed from 60s were still the norm then, like ice cream van coming round on weekends, lots of jam on toast and treats only occasionally. Looking forward to you doing the 80s!
Happy grew up in the 60's and 70's in the U.S. we had Rice Krispies for breakfast no toast and on Saturday sometimes pancakes or French Toast. Which is what I think you called egg bread? We did have syrup and if that was low we boiled sugar and water and used that for syrup. We lived out in the country so a store was pretty far away. Good video. My family is from England and my grandma used to make Lemon Curd all the time.
IDEA: you should do a 2050 (or 3019, you get the idea- some year far ahead) 5 days of eating, predicting what food will be like in the future! My guess would be like the impossible burger, more genetically engineered/packaged/convenience stuff, or maybe astronaut-style freeze dried stuff. It would be fun to see your creativity at work!
I love every video that you put out. You could literally sit in front of the camera and meditate for an hour and I would still watch it and find you completely entertaining.
The amount of gravy on a meal is different depending upon the region you live in. In Wales, we had the meal swimming in gravy.....and mopped up the excess with bread. I now live in the South and I have to ask for more gravy all the time!
I love that you’re making your own jam! My grandma makes her own from going strawberry picking in season and absolutely never buys it!! Love this video x
At our house when we had dessert, it was often Banana Pudding (custard). We still have it. Ambrosia was around. My favorite dessert was lemon pie. Made with sweetened condensed milk, can’t think of what it’s called, lemons, sugar, in a graham cracker crust. I’m impressed by your Jam! The 60s were hard in a lot of ways but Looking back it gives me a warm feeling. Even though we (US) were in war, the Cold War as well, assignations too many!! But there were good things as well. I grad in 69. You are a breath of fresh for this old lady’s eyes. 😊
These are my favourite videos to watch! Defiantly keep going with different ones. Maybe even try medieval/Viking ones? They would be fascinating to watch
CAN YOU PLEASE DO LIKE AN HOUR LONG VLOG. Don’t care what it is, but I have severe anxiety and your videos are the most relaxing thing I’ve ever watched. I’d literally use long vlogs (even if the mixed up ones you haven’t really used properly on your other channel) to calm me down and help me wind down to sleep. Literally you chill me out so much it’s unreal X
Every time I think your videos can't get any better you come out with something like this!! So informative, interesting and fun to watch! Thank you for taking the time to do your research and film this type of videos. You also take these "challenges" very seriously, I felt very bad when you couldn't have the Chinese food :(
How nice to see someone using an egg cup!! When I visited Florida and went out for Breakfast they didn’t know what an egg cup was. Funny that I assumed that everyone ate boiled eggs. When my Nan cut my toast like that she called them soldiers.🤗
Also very different from the states. I remember staying at my gran's house and every morning she would send me to get fresh bread and rashers. Then back out to get the dinner meat after lunch. No refrigerator, no heat in the house. I was from America and couldn't believe there was no grocery store or heat in the house and it was December 😂. We were not in the country, 6 blocks to City. Then as an adult, I missed my garbage disposal, dishwasher and dryer (only washing machine). Although I always used a dryer at home, my mom still hung our clothes to dry. They had grocery stores and heat.
I know it's not the exact same as block ice cream but Viennetta could be a good substitute! My mum and dad still have that in the freezer often and they cut chunks from it when they want sth sweet after dinner. P.S. Hehe I love me some Strictly drama in the morning lol
Very enjoyable again. Your Yorkshire puddings looked great. I don’t know where you got the lack of gravy from. We used to have it swimming around everything! Would never give a man his roast without heaps of gravy. Again I’m talking about New Zealand, a dairy producing country and there was heaps of food. No shortage of eggs or butter and we had Watties tomato sauce which wasn’t a luxury. I can remember children’s parties with buttered bread and hundreds and thousands sprinkled on. Cherries (small savoloys) with tomato sauce, crisps (these we were not allowed every day because they were bad for you and you wouldn’t eat your dinner) I bet you never wanted to go back to store bought jam. I still make mine when stone fruit is in season. One thing I never saw here until the late 60s was yoghurt. I saw ladies eating it in magazines advertising. When it finally turned up here it was a disappointment because I thought it would taste sweeter.😂
This was so much fun to watch. I've never seen one of your videos before, and as an American who has married into an English family, it made me smile ear to ear!
@what the flying fuck ... How has this anything to do with my comment? When you look at people that eat more whole grains and/or legumes, then you see that less of them are overweight [1]. Or you can try it yourself, eat only whole grains, legumes with only a little bit of fruit, vegetables and nuts and no oil and no added sugar. Try to gain fat this way: It is very very hard. Why does everyone in the internet believe whole grains and legumes make people fat? It is just the total opposite of reality. It must be an American thing, it would explain why there are so many people that are overweight. Anyway. Everyone that doesn't have an allergy should eat nuts, since it is one of the healthiest food [2] but only for a limited amount, after that there are not many more benefits. I think you have a too reductionistic approach. There are no healthy nutrients, only healthy foods, something like healthy fats and healthy proteins does not exist. Legumes are healthy and have lots of protein, flaxseeds have lots of fat and are healthy but protein powder nor oil, even cold pressed flax oil, are not healthy. Same with carbohydrates, fruits are healthy but refined sugar is not. And why do you mention vegetarians? Vegetarians are closer to the ideal weight compared to omnivores [3], and they normally eat more starches. [1] Food Groups and Risk of Overweight, Obesity, and Weight Gain: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Prospective Studies. - Schlesinger S, Neuenschwander M, Schwedhelm C, Hoffmann G, Bechthold A, Boeing H, Schwingshackl L - Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.). 2019 - PMID:30801613 [2] Food groups and risk of all-cause mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies. - Schwingshackl L, Schwedhelm C, Hoffmann G, Lampousi AM, Knüppel S, Iqbal K, Bechthold A, Schlesinger S, Boeing H - The American journal of clinical nutrition. 2017 - PMID:28446499 [3] Vegetarian diets and incidence of diabetes in the Adventist Health Study-2. - Tonstad S, Stewart K, Oda K, Batech M, Herring RP, Fraser GE - Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD. 2013 - PMID:21983060 Since i fear that UA-cam does shadow censor some comments with more than one link, i encoded the links as Base64, i hope you know how to encode it when you want to read the sources. You could also search for the titles i gave above. Sorry for making it so complicated. WzFdIGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm5jYmkubmxtLm5paC5nb3YvcHVibWVkLzMwODAxNjEzClsyXSBodHRwczovL3d3dy5uY2JpLm5sbS5uaWguZ292L3B1Ym1lZC8yODQ0NjQ5OQpbM10gaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmNiaS5ubG0ubmloLmdvdi9wdWJtZWQvMjE5ODMwNjAK
@@whattheflyingfuck... How dare you insinuate she is bulimic? Many people have metabolisms that allow them to not have to eat like a bird. Her portion sizes are very controlled, so she is hardly binging. And given that she lives with her family, I’m sure they would notice if she had an eating disorder. Such an unnecessarily negative comment...
I grew up in California, and apparently the UK was still recovering from the war. Breakfast during the week often was 2 poached eggs on toast, coffee and juice. Sometimes oatmeal or cold cereal. Lunch was packed in a brown bag. A sandwich, some fresh fruit, perhaps some potato chips (what you call crisps.) or cookies. Some kind of snack after school, then a good dinner meat, salad starch and vegetable. Maybe Ice cream or jello. On the weekends for breakfast my mom would mix things up, sometimes pancakes or waffles, or perhaps bacon and eggs.
I was around in the 1960s. It was fun seeing the meals you chose. We had our today on Sundays after church. Our baking day was Saturday after shopping. We still had shops that had the shopkeeper pick things off the shelf behind the counter that we wanted. I remember going to Sainsburys and watching the man cut butter, then use wooden paddles to pat it into a rectangle shape and wrap in grease proof paper.
@@missbehaving4710 Remembering our dinners were at about midday, my mum would make a lot of vegetable and meat stews. We had one small income for the 6 if it's, so the bed stew was made with cheap it's of meats with lots of potatoes and dumplings to fill us up. As Grace says there were a lot of carbs, and I know in my family that was to fill us up. My favourite dessert was spotted dick with custard, another filling carb heavy dish. Mum was from South Africa so we tended to have slightly different meals.
Fun fact - in Poland we still have the main meal of the day for lunch and small dinner eg toasts, it always feels so different to eat a big meal for dinner when i'm abroad
Growing up in the 70's, we did not enjoy sugary cereals for breakfast - yes, they were more expensive.. We ate poached eggs on toast; avocado on toast; oatmeal; cream of wheat; and yes butter and jam on toast.
Its a catch phrase fromTommy Cooper. If you don't know he was a comic magician from the 60's who died on stage of a heart attack during a live tv show in the 80's.
I so enjoyed this video; wonderful job of researching and sharing. I grew up in America and things were quite different from Britain, obviously, plus as you state each family was individual and unique. My mother grew up in both the Southern USA and California. This meant quite a melange of influences including richness of Southern ingredients and the more culturally diverse Cali cuisine. Nevertheless, this video brought back lots of memories because there are many similarities between Britain and America during those years. Thanks so much for all the attention, effort and good intentions you invest in all your videos. They're always a blessing!!
I love these videos. Have you thought about maybe going around to the elderly homes and asking them questions about those times? I just love hearing their stories😀
@Bilbo Baggins lol that's good! I just meant asking about childhood and stuff cause i used to listen to my grandma's stories about her childhood and she'd tell me about her mom.
I love these videos! I’ll echo what others have said, please do the next few decades gradually so we can see how food developed over time. I feel like there’s a real movement these days to cut down on the processed foods and get back to more natural varieties, so it’s fascinating to see where the processed foods started. I went blackberrying when I was a kid, and that was in the early 90s! 🙊
A request for these kinds of videos. Could you include the beginning text (where you explain the background of your challenge) in the description box? I read it fine if i'm on my laptop, but it gets kinda hard to read on my phone. I really love these videos, but that'd make it a bit easier on me ^^
You're doing such a good job, I love all the thought and research on this. I'm 71, and in the US. When I saw the spaghetti-o's and fish sticks--OMG! Every kids "favorite lunch". I agree we would not have had dessert, I mean pudding! every night. It was a treat. Same with crisps in a bag. As for cereal, cereal started going down hill, with more sugar and sweetened cereals. Another treat we had very occasionally was Cokes in little 6 ounce (177 mL) bottles. Another thing very different was the variety of produce-- MUCH less variety.
These are some of my favourite videos to make. They take such as long time to research, film and edit but it's so worth it! I would love to hear some more unique video ideas? You guys are the best, hope you have a fab evening xxx
Grackle you should go online and see if there’s a site or way to generate a random country to create meals from ! I think itd be interesting especially if you got a country who’s culture is not often spoken about 😋
can you do eating only pink foods
24 hours doing a typical meditterean diet
I love these types of videos!
Ask you subscribers from different countries to keep a food diary and then follow them for a week
you should do a week of meals where you go up a decade each day doing a traditional dinner from that decade, so do Monday: 50s Tuesday: 60s Wednesday:70s Thursday: 80s Friday:90s
Jasmine Knight Love this!!
Great idea 😄
Would love to see this video :D
Grace! Do this!!^^^
This would be awesome
I think you should live off Titanics menus. But each classes menu is a different video
Ooh yes!
Such a good idea!!
Yes ! Super good idea !
omg i love this video idea!
Please please please
Back in the day my grandad was a huge fan of Chinese food but you couldn't really get takeaways or afford to go out to eat, so he used to attend classes to learn how to make it himself! He also learnt how to make Indian food and for Christmas presents, he would measure out exactly each spice and ingredient needed and put them in a little hamper. I think that's such a cool idea. It's so funny how people had to have lessons if they wanted to learn about other cuisines.
That is such a sweet story
Your grandad sounds like he was a real cool dude, man
bo derrick he still is!
@@swilson6170 Fantastic!
What's really funny is that Chinese restaurants and take out aren't really Chinese food at all. Your grandfather's was probably more authentic.
since it'd probably be too expensive to do a week's worth of my suggestion, i'd say do it just for 24 hours, where you eat like a monarch. like 24 hours of eating like henry viii
Nah like Louis XVI who ate a whole chicken and a bucket of champagne for breakfast (amongst other things too)
Aw man there are so many rules and preparation requirements 😲 she would need to get a help with the preparation 😂. Would be an epic video though
Nowadays that's not too expensive they ate alot of fresh fruits and vegetables the monarchs did. Plus lots of poultry which isn't too expensive. Maybe the beef will be
Dude 😂😂💀💀
@@ishthefish9006 and spices! Swans too
"I feel like there's such a different attitude in this generation. Feel like people are scared of things like carbs." *me thinking about all the carbs I've had today* - "I'm basically a bread" 🍞🍞🍞
Tusia0407 Same same
What she said is true
Lmao
78% bread and rice since i rarely drink....
The worst thing I have done is to take up bread baking! I haunt UA-cam Day and night for bread recipes. I have put away the rotisserie and in its place is my big kitchenaide mixer with the dough hook! Why couldn’t I take up a hobby like exercising?
I get so depressed so often, but I've been consuming Grackle videos like nobody's business and I can honestly say...NOTHING brings me MORE JOY!!!! I feel so much more lighthearted during the day. I typically feel awful after binging UA-cam vids, but after watching Grace I feel more positive, I feel motivated, I feel actually HAPPY. And that's not to mention the giggles I get during the videos. Thanks Grace, you have really helped me through some dark days.
Love your video Grace! I was born in 1962. My mum said that in the 1960s, breakfast during the week was almost always toast and jam with tea, lunch was, in fact, the largest meal and then they had tea between 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm and it consisted of maybe 1/4 to 1/2 of a sandwich and one biscuit or A small cake. Dinner was between 8:00 pm and 10:00 pm and was a light meal. Tea was served with all meals. You did a great job with your research but for some reason, people have forgotten about tea, the meal, AND the drink.
What time was sleep?
Tea time is still a thing in Hull. And dinner is what you have at what London folk call lunch. It’s supper after tea.
My dad was Canadian and he always his his tea with dinner..no wine!
I was born in 1956 and we never ate after 6.30pm in the evening. Tea was more substantial - always sandwich based finger food and a slice of cake, or occasionally you'd have a high tea, which was hot and you needed a knife and fork to eat, such as baked beans on toast. That was it until the next morning.
8pm and 10pm ?are you spanish
Loved hearing your mum remenicing about the food she used to have and the excitement of real butter, bless her.
We always had 'real' butter (being irish it was easier and cheaper) but my mum always reminisced about staying at her aunt's farm in the summer (literally 6 miles outside the country town she/we grew up in) and sitting on the kitchen step, churning the fresh milk (just milked minutes before) with a hand churn and having the butter later that day on fresh baked bread, homemade jam, while her little arms ached from the churning 😊
Food was a lot more appreciated back then. Hearing your grandad's tale of sharing a treat between the 4 of them really makes me realise how lucky I am. This is probably still the reality of a lot of low-income families. Then there's me with the ease of eating a whole chocolate block in 10 minutes. Makes me wonder how much I am actually overeating...
The face you made when you tried your jam was the purest form of joy i’ve ever seen! 😂
I’m late, but my grandmother used to make this throughout my childhood. All of these meals. Since she turned 93, though... and her dementia caused her to slow down, she can no longer cook... but she used to make all of these meals so well, and even as a genZ (I think) teen, I hold most of these meals dear to my heart
You should make her one of these desserts and bring her :)
In Finland there is an ice cream brand called Pingviini that still makes blocks of ice cream that you can cut slices out of it and it is very popular in here :)
Grace should try making some Finnish foods! 😋
@@MJ-he1hf as a Finn I agree!
Heii suomalaisii
@@xoxo3785 jep jep
We still have a brand like that in Canada too!
I grew up in the 60s in New Zealand and I remember eating a lot of fruit, which we bought by the case as every household bottled their own fruit (peaches, pears , plums etc). Our Friday treat was fish and chips which we got after doing the shopping (late night Friday opening - no weekend opening). We had stew on pancakes in winter and salads with cold meats in summer. Dessert was pavlova or Eskimo pie ( slice of ice cream covered in chocolate and eaten out of the bag, just like eating a hot pie). I could get 20 cents worth of mixed sweets and that would keep me going all week. We put really butter on everything, loads of salt on everything, and bread at every meal. Can't imagine doing that now! Really enjoyed this video. Thanks for the trip down memory lane 😍😍😍💕💕💕
Sam Richards our fish and chips were wrapped in newspaper from the corner shop. The only way to have them!
putting butter on everything is actualy healthy fat dose not cause heart disese and salt is not as bad as its made out
Tacos, spaghetti, lots of cold cereal, block ice cream in checkerboard design mixing orange sherbet and vanilla ice cream. Lunches taken to school had a sandwich, a handful of potato chips (crisps) a piece of fruit, and two store-bought cookies.
In California: Yes, we also had Pineapple upsideown cake, fish sticks with tartar sauce, pie, lots of casseroles, popsickles and Neopolitan ice cream that we sliced into squares. Also, Tang!!!! (it's what the astronauts drank), anything Hawaiian (BBQ, drinks, etc), frozen dinners, meatloaf, coconut cake, instant coffee and tacos!!!! Thanks for the post!
E N C wow thanks for reminding me of the ice-cream- I can taste it all over again! The chocolate and the strawberry melting together. Yes, the popsicles. Yes the fish sticks with tartar sauce. The TV dinners. What about the Pillsbury cinnamon rolls with icing that came out of a sort of cardboard tube, like the frozen orange juice?
My mom was from California and that is exactly what we would have.
@@vsee3154 That's amazing because we were eating the same identical things in a small town on the east coast of Canada. You would tend to think it would be different at such far apart places. Go figure.
@@s.r.r. yeah same here in Ontario! My parents are from the 60s and they just love their tacos ! Haha
I was born in the 1950’s and much prefer life today. Much more variety of food, mobile phones and computers to find information and entertainment are great.
People that want to go back are not black, gay or female
@@Zealox lol yeah as a lesbian i definitely would not want to go back
What did your Dad think of the Jam? I remember, in the other video, that you said he was a jam connoisseur.
When your mum was going on about how many people eat breakfast, I was having my first meal of the day at like 5:30pm... oops...
How?? 😂
@@Lisa-RenéeDV I'm a poor uni student lisa, I take naps instead of eating
Georgia I’ll have to try that ~ I used to have a smoke 💨 instead of eating but I’ve stopped doing that now so I might try napping 😴👍🏽😝
Alot of people try to cook vegan food at home only to save money and eat non vegan stuff when going out I think it will be a good idea for you to eat more regular meals..I did not expect to find an army here idky
@@autumn5852 I do crafty things or anything that requires two hands and a bit of concentration. I'm highly distractible...until I get hangry....
First of all, back in the 1960s and I was alive then so I remember this, the portion size were nowhere near the size portions are today. We did not eat half of a chicken at one time. We ate the breast a cup of peas half a cup of mashed potatoes with gravy and a roll. Is that a lot of calories probably and a lot of carbs? Or probably. However we did not sit around and eat chips and cookies and drink Cokes all day there was no such thing as all the snacking we have today. You ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Children would usually have one or two cookies and a small glass of milk as an afternoon snack the hold them over until dinner. We were not overweight because the portions were smaller, and there was no such thing as all the snacking. Women stayed home and took care of the house did the laundry. Women were a lot busier physically and more active than they are today. Most men came home and played ball with the boys mow the lawn played with the dog took a walk with their daughters before dinner. Dinner was eating as a family at the table usually at 6 p.m. everybody stayed at the dinner table when dinner was over the children asked if they could be excused and they went and did their homework or quietly listen to music maybe if you were lucky you got to watch some TV. Mom would clean up the kitchen, and dad would read the paper. play you might think that's not much of a life but let me tell you, compared to what we have today with no real family nobody knows each other parents and children spaces are glued to a screen nobody talks to each other people don't know their neighbors it's really sad and I missed the times of the fifties and sixties I really do
I'm 80's and me and my brother were busy with chores. Mom cooked and cleaned. Dad worked and worked outside. She tried teaching me and my brother to cook and clean, but my brother ended up doing better with the cooking part and ended up doing better with the cleaning part. I eventually took over my brother's cleaning as well then also took on working outside and became a workhorse. So since I was doing my job, my brother's job and helping our Dad. My Mom just kicked me out the house completely so my brother could have some work to do and I was outside sweating with my Dad.
It took getting married for me to learn how to cook.
@@Mimihigh Nintendo was the video game of choice when my son, born in 1981 was a teen. He didn't have one. He had a horse and that's what kept him busy. He wasn't allowed to sit inside with electronics. He also had chores. I think divorce is a big factor although my son's dad wasn't around by his choice. So my son had 2 parents rolled into one. I was a strict mom, but had a soft side. If I was raising children/teens today, they would have a simple emergency use flip phone with no internet. No x box or anything like that. They would be kept busy with outdoor hobbies or doing volunteer work for the church.they would live a life focusing on having a purpose.
I was born in 1960 and remember that we didn't eat much jam in the morning for breakfast, maybe butter on bread, cheese and milk or tea. The lunch was the main course and we had more veggies during the weekday and meat with veggies at the weekends. For dinner we had something light, very similar to the breakfast and the portions were definitely smaller. We didn't have snacks, more fruit, the bananas were very popular and oranges too. We were very active, doing things all the time and in the evening we used to watch one film or a series and went to bed at about 11p.m. All of us were thin.
Food today also has more additives and is less natural.
@dobie gal: What you describe is pretty much what my parents had and did. One glaring issue today that wasnt much of an issue then is the cost of living today v. pay. Back then $20 dollars paid for much much more than today. Therefore, a family of lets say 4 could easily get by on one source of income. Dont get me wrong, I would love to go back to what you describe.
As someone who is completely ashamed of her inability to use a tin opener.. ring pulls are the best invention.
I'm left handed and I swear tin openers are right handed....
@@MelissaThompson432 im left handed too haha.
They are.. we need a leftorium like in simpsons.
@@Pendragon88 Absolutely!
I usually twist my can opener (I'm American, that's what I call it...) backwards: otherwise it WON'T work....
@@MelissaThompson432 i just cant get a good grip. Even electrical ones dont play ball.
@@Pendragon88 I can understand that. My one that works (backwards) is a very old one I can't replace because they don't make them any more. If it breaks I'm out of the game....
I grew up in the 60's...In America. However, I fell in love with things British. British fashion, British fashion sparked the drive for me to learn to sew. British music which I still play today. Yardbirds, Kinks, Zombies, and of course Beatles and Stones. Food was amazing. Mom was a great cook. My friend and I could take a walk after dark. It was a time a kid could stay out all Saturday and show up for dinner and no one called in a missing kid. I do think it was a better time to grow up for sure. There was a freedom for a kid to learn independence and resilience. I learned how to stand up to bullies and was able to pass that on to my children. There will always be bullies. It makes me sad that my grandchildren do not have these privileges. I honestly can't think of anything that's better today. Today is more quantity and less quality. I really enjoy your channel. Thank you.
Think this is the first time I’ve ever commented on UA-cam but just had to tell you how much I am enjoying your content! Love the research that goes into your videos as most of all I love how wholesome they are! This really is a lovely positive corner of the internet! Thank you Grace! x
I love your originality and how down to earth you are. Watching from Japan! 🇯🇵
Thank you for your video. I enjoyed it especially since I remember many of these things! One thing in the 60s that is different from today (and shifted in the 70s) is the cooking medium: Women cooked with lard or butter. In the 70s that shifted to vegetable oil (or salad oil as we called it) and margarine. I think that might be the main contributing factor to the ability to go for so long without snacking - animal fat gives you a sense of fullness for longer and vegetable oil doesn't.
My mom frequently made soft boiled eggs for us kids for breakfast! She also cut the bread in strips and always buttered it. Except we never heard of whole-grain or even whole wheat bread until the 80s! We ate white bread. Rye bread with caraway was an "old-time" bread my parents would swoon over, German pumpernickel with whole grains inside was an expensive treat that we would have very occasionally as it was expensive. We didn't really eat cereal until the 70s - on cold days my Mom made Cream of Wheat.
Also salads became popular in the 60s particularly "tossed salad" with iceberg lettuce. I haven't had iceberg lettuce in years, actually decades! Maybe it was different in the UK than it was in Canada. Also you pretty much ate peas and carrots all week. We didn't really eat a lot of frozen veggies then. Mostly we ate what was seasonal or canned: spinach, green beans, corn, peas (they were rarely so green as in your upload as they came from the can!). And in those days no one ever left the peel on the potato, in fact no one ever left the peel on anything! Everything was peeled! It was later that scientists told people that the peel was healthy and should be eaten (now they're switching their opinion again - saying the peel has anti-nutrients and shouldn't be eaten, sigh).
Also, it was considered unhealthy not to eat meat, and so we ate meat every day. Again maybe in the UK it was different. In the late 70s that shifted - people not only cut back on meat they started removing the skin from poultry - no one in the 60s removed skin from poultry unless they were cooking some specialty food such as Chinese.
omg I LOVED THIS!! this was soo interesting and insightful! I love learning about other eras and particularly their diets! its fascinating! they really were so much more resourceful back then! makes me sad and angry about how much we take for granted nowadays and how much we WASTE!! we are so spoilt and do not appreciate how much we have! :( particularly loved the interlude with all the info on the screen that was so interesting and I learnt so much that I didn't know! Love learning when certain foods were released etc! but defo DEFO DO THIS AGAIN! love it!!
As one born in 1940 I find your "typical" meals to be anything but typical of the times. That is probably because the food eaten varied according to the region and income of the families. In low income families the meat eaten in the week revolved around offals - liver and onions, tripe and onions, with slow cooked cheaper meats in hotpots with dumplings. Fish and chips from the chip shop was also a staple for some families if they could afford it but more likely cooked at home. Larger meat joints were a weekend treat with the "dripping" used on toast for breakfast during the week with the bread as often or not home made home meal (the Graham loaf) and not sliced white loaves. Deserts or puddings were usually a part of the weekend menu and often involved custard as in apple crumble, apple pie or upside down apple cake but also in trifles. Baked Alaska was a restaurant dish with bread and butter pudding more common.
There was a very large variety of food during this time that one cannot cover here but you can get a good idea from the Wartime recipe guide that were calculated to provide the necessary essential nutrients - that is why my generation do not generally suffer obesity or the ill health of later generations following the 1977 Food Pyramid guides that are the source of most current health problems by promoting sugar (especially fructose syrup), simple starch and vegetable oils at the expense of healthy the animal fats that I was brought up on and have continued to consume as my main energy source to the present day. :
recipespastandpresent.org.uk/wartime3.php
The way your mom said "you used to love a chOc IIIIcE" had me cackling 😅😅😅
I came down to the comments to find this (8 months later!). Genuinely had me weeping
Hi Grace,
Thanks for your thought provoking vid!
Honestly I’m not that old but it is extremely interesting to see your reaction to food things I just take, took for granted. My childhood was mostly the 80s and a Weetabix and a round of yeast extract spread on toast or marmalade etc was very very normal for breakfast. And the thing is personally I was still starving hungry, as in feeling a bit faint by first break at school which about 10.15! (School started at 8.30). Unlike the 60s by the 80s we were pretty snacked up, so everyone at school would be gobbling down a packet of crisps or hoolahoops or Skips at first break and maybe even a little choc bar like a Club or a Wagonwheel too! I wouldn’t have lasted 2 minutes without any breakfast!! And actually still don’t do well without it!
Therefore by lunch half your sandwich box contents were gone, which just left you with a cheese and pickle sandwich, or the like, an apple and a little juice box or some watery orange squash in your flask.
It does make me worry and wonder if school aged children just aren’t eating enough good food to start their busy day. School life is chaotic and really demanding as is working life, no wonder everyone seems unable to concentrate!
This jam is exquisite I couldn’t stop laughing 😂😂😂
"sorry, my dungarees are in the wash and are making a right ruckus"
*subbed*
I can't wait to show my Nana this and see what she thinks! She went to see The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Small Faces, The Kinks and she is my absolute idol ❤️
Ahhhh I hope she enjoys it! Let me know her thoughts :)))
SHES SO LUCKY
@@Grackle I will!
@@charlie891 she saw the Beatles 4 times! Historical!
Dude you're so pretty
The best part of this...you having those awesome conversations with your grandparents!! Believe me...you will cherish those conversations once they are gone...and you can share that information with your kids some day.
This was SOOO interesting. I'm 51 (so born in 1968) but lots of these meal types are very familiar. In the seventies my mum would cut spam into cubes and serve it with bisto gravy. Actually, we loved it. We had Fray Bentos pie with chips - everybody had a chip pan which was kept on the stove and yes, they often caught fire. Treats were few and far between. I remember having fizzy drinks on holiday and probably had a bag of crisps once a month. Sweeties were for a Friday night when my parents went shopping at the local Co-op. There was a lady there who weighed the fruit and veg out for you. She wore rubber gloves and lots of make-up. I can see her face now!! Christmas was the best. Boiled ham, dry turkey and lots of sherry. This was the only time that chocolate was really available to eat when you wanted.My Dad always had dates and dried figs, and we had a huge bowl of different nuts with a pair of nutcrackers.
The little dance she does when she's done good - so cute!
For a five year old perhaps?
So looking forward to this. I hope you enjoyed filming this as much as we will enjoy watching 💕
This was absolutely informative. I love watching thses types of videos. Makes me appreciate the things we have now and also helps me have better perspective in my daily life. Thanks Grace!
Interesting! I live in Finland and I would say that here more than 50% of the larger ice cream packages are blocks!
Awesome video. I was born in 1967, and when I was 10, my mother and I moved in with her parents. We ate a lot of things like you did (except, I'm in Canada, and I have no idea what some of the brands you mentioned were...hahahaha). We always had a small dessert bowl of pudding (we call the treat after dinner "dessert", and pudding is just, well, pudding...the creamy confection...mmm) for dessert, cooked. Usually butterscotch, chocolate, or vanilla. When I say a "small dessert bowl", I'm not kidding. It held maybe half a cup! Before bed, a treat was a Maple Leaf cookie (I think this is a Canadian dessert - look it up, if you'd like...it's a maple-flavoured sandwich cookie, in the shape of a maple leaf, and with maple-flavoured cream in the middle. Sweet, and yummy). Portions were miniscule, but we did just fine. Mum's parents were in their 70s then. These portion sizes were normal for them, and neither one of my grandparents was overweight. Looking at old photos of my mother's family (five kids), no one was overweight. My dad's family was the same (10 kids!). Folks back then likely took it for granted that snacking wasn't a "thing", and this is what they got! Post-war, post-rationing...made sense! In the present day, we REALLY need to scale back our portions. They're not "servings" anymore, they're "portions". We need to go back to what a suggested "serving" is, and really learn how to feed our bodies the quantity (and quality!) of food we need, and really scale back the fast food. Maybe then the obesity epidemic would decline. Neat experiment. I have to go find your 1950s video. These are fun, and your accent is, too. :) Thanks!
Err they didn't have 'Granary Seeded Batch' in the 60's. Try Wonder Loaf or Mother's Pride or Hovis.
you're the greatest thing that happened to youtube
Now I really want to know what food was like in the 1960s here in Germany so I guess I’m gonna go research that for the next two hours ...
Edit: I’m back this is gonna be harder than I thought ... food in German is Essen which is also a city ....
Saida Maybe search for "Ernährung"
You weren't, and still haven't been subjected to the awful packaged imitation bread made by the Chorleywood process, in Germany you only have that packaged as ''Toastbrot'' as it is inedible untoasted. Most people in the UK still eat the crap packaged fake bread, there are hardly any bakers like you have in Germany except for the new ''artisan'' bakers which are a bit pretentious (i.e. hipster) and very expensive , however many supermarkets bake loaves and baguettes on site, some are okay. Luckily we have Lidl here so I can still eat fresh ''Schnitt'' Broetchen every day yum.
I think you will find that German shops in the 1960s didn't have so much Fertigfutter (ready meals and products) as we did - and do - in the UK. I am sure I watched a German documentary about food habits in different eras. The main innovation there in the 1960s was Maggi and Knorr packet mixes.
Instant coffee didn't take off there like it did in the UK either, and you in West Germany could get your hands on normal bean coffee from about the mid-1950s with the Wirtschaftswunder giving you enough hard currency to import, while in the East unfortunately that wasn't the case. There is a 3-part series dedicated to food in the GDR called ''Mahlzeit DDR'' with an entire episode dedicated to the continuous shortage of coffee in the East.
I grew up in the UK in the 1970s/80s and the first time I tasted proper coffee and bread was on a school trip to West Germany in 1986, since then I haven't lost the taste for both.
@Bilbo Baggins I've been to Poland (Katowice) and had a delicious meal for a very reasonable price. Furthermore here in London there are many Polish shops plus there is such a big market for Polish products (due to many Poles working here) that even Arab owned shops stock Polish pork products like kielbasa, kabanosi and ham, and even the major supermarket chains all have Polish food. I like Polish cheeses, hams, sausages etc. and some other Polish stuff, for example last night after a late night working, I had Polish stuffed cabbage leaves in tomato sauce, which I also like. But I have very worldly tastes in food. I guess if I lived in Poland I would miss the wide availability of more exotic ingredients which we get in North-Western Europe i.e. Indian, Indonesian, Japanese, Chinese, Jamaican, African etc. and also I found it weird in Katowice that everyone was white but as far as European food goes Polish food isn't bad at all.
@Bilbo Baggins I can understand that, I had Indian food once (back in the 90s) in Berlin and it was very bland, adapted for German tastes, as they aren't used to hot & spicy food.
@Bilbo BagginsLike I said I had just one meal during an afternoon in Katowice last year, I popped over for a few hous from Ostrava in Czechia where I was staying for a week. So I can't claim to have had a lot of experience with Polish food, I think I had duck or some other game and it was pretty nice if I remember rightly, but as I can't remember clearly and it was only last year, that means it wasn't memorable. Actually thinking about the home-cooked Polish food I had in the Netherlands, actually it was nothing special, very similar to old-school meat and 2 veg but very dry as they don't seem to know about gravy lol.
I absolutely love these videos!!! Thank you for making them! I’m looking forward to seeing the 70’s and 80’s... even 90’s! I’m a Texan but definitely an Anglophile! I love your kitchen as well! It reminds me of one some dear friends have in the north of England! Keep up the good work! X
sat at home, drinking a latte (almond milk, LOVE being lactose intolerant) and watching this.
PERFECTION
Fascinating! I remember both 60s and 50s food. We were really poor and ate much less meat than this and way more potatoes and veg. Rarely did we have pudding. We had a lot of pork dripping on bread or toast with a sprinkle of salt, delicious. It was often bought from the pork butcher, it was cheap. PS fish and chips was a rare treat but chips, peas and 'bits', bits of batter, were what we did have if we ever had anything from the chip shop, and lots of gravy!
My mum was born in 1951. Her dad was a farmer and supplied potatoes for golden wonder. She said when they first launched the flavoured crisps he was given some to try first and they were all amazed. Also they were shook when pizza came over.
Really REALLY enjoyed this! I was born at the end of the 70s and some of the things you showed from 60s were still the norm then, like ice cream van coming round on weekends, lots of jam on toast and treats only occasionally. Looking forward to you doing the 80s!
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I’ve not seen an ice-cream van in ages, wow. Forgot they existed for a hot minute.
been waiting since 1950!!🤣❤️
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Happy grew up in the 60's and 70's in the U.S. we had Rice Krispies for breakfast no toast and on Saturday sometimes pancakes or French Toast. Which is what I think you called egg bread? We did have syrup and if that was low we boiled sugar and water and used that for syrup. We lived out in the country so a store was pretty far away. Good video. My family is from England and my grandma used to make Lemon Curd all the time.
In my family we call it French Toast. We are British.
gillian bergh We call it French Toast also and I’m American.
IDEA: you should do a 2050 (or 3019, you get the idea- some year far ahead) 5 days of eating, predicting what food will be like in the future! My guess would be like the impossible burger, more genetically engineered/packaged/convenience stuff, or maybe astronaut-style freeze dried stuff. It would be fun to see your creativity at work!
I love every video that you put out. You could literally sit in front of the camera and meditate for an hour and I would still watch it and find you completely entertaining.
The amount of gravy on a meal is different depending upon the region you live in. In Wales, we had the meal swimming in gravy.....and mopped up the excess with bread. I now live in the South and I have to ask for more gravy all the time!
same in northern England. when I lived in London I would ask for extra gravy before the plate even hit the table. lol
This was so entertaining, your videos by far are my favorite on UA-cam. I’d love to see more of these!
melting moments just brought out a memory from my time at primary school i didnt even know i had
Melting moments in Australia look sooo different!
I dont know how i found this channel but you are an absolute delight. I have watched so many of these in 2 days.
I love that you’re making your own jam! My grandma makes her own from going strawberry picking in season and absolutely never buys it!! Love this video x
At our house when we had dessert, it was often Banana Pudding (custard). We still have it. Ambrosia was around. My favorite dessert was lemon pie. Made with sweetened condensed milk, can’t think of what it’s called, lemons, sugar, in a graham cracker crust. I’m impressed by your Jam! The 60s were hard in a lot of ways but Looking back it gives me a warm feeling. Even though we (US) were in war, the Cold War as well, assignations too many!! But there were good things as well. I grad in 69. You are a breath of fresh for this old lady’s eyes. 😊
Your church always looks like such a party! 🙌🙌🙌❤️❤️❤️ So uplifting I imagine xx
These types of videos had me hooked on this channel! Awesome content and learned lots. Thank you!
These are my favourite videos to watch! Defiantly keep going with different ones. Maybe even try medieval/Viking ones? They would be fascinating to watch
CAN YOU PLEASE DO LIKE AN HOUR LONG VLOG. Don’t care what it is, but I have severe anxiety and your videos are the most relaxing thing I’ve ever watched. I’d literally use long vlogs (even if the mixed up ones you haven’t really used properly on your other channel) to calm me down and help me wind down to sleep. Literally you chill me out so much it’s unreal X
I literally had a lecture about culture in the 1960's today. I love these videos, I've been recommending them to my uni lecturers 😂
Thankyou for putting so much research, time and effort into these video Grace!
SO informative and interesting!!!
Supposed to be doing uni work but grackle uploads and suddenly I need to desperately know what 5 days on a 1960's diet is like
Every time I think your videos can't get any better you come out with something like this!! So informative, interesting and fun to watch! Thank you for taking the time to do your research and film this type of videos. You also take these "challenges" very seriously, I felt very bad when you couldn't have the Chinese food :(
These are my favorite OG grackle videos- the informative yet entertaining ones. Please try a week of eating like a different country
How nice to see someone using an egg cup!! When I visited Florida and went out for Breakfast they didn’t know what an egg cup was. Funny that I assumed that everyone ate boiled eggs. When my Nan cut my toast like that she called them soldiers.🤗
Yes! Dippy soldiers!
Also very different from the states. I remember staying at my gran's house and every morning she would send me to get fresh bread and rashers. Then back out to get the dinner meat after lunch. No refrigerator, no heat in the house. I was from America and couldn't believe there was no grocery store or heat in the house and it was December 😂. We were not in the country, 6 blocks to City.
Then as an adult, I missed my garbage disposal, dishwasher and dryer (only washing machine). Although I always used a dryer at home, my mom still hung our clothes to dry. They had grocery stores and heat.
Love these videos. They're entertaining and you learn so much at the same time!
I know it's not the exact same as block ice cream but Viennetta could be a good substitute! My mum and dad still have that in the freezer often and they cut chunks from it when they want sth sweet after dinner.
P.S. Hehe I love me some Strictly drama in the morning lol
Very enjoyable again. Your Yorkshire puddings looked great. I don’t know where you got the lack of gravy from. We used to have it swimming around everything! Would never give a man his roast without heaps of gravy. Again I’m talking about New Zealand, a dairy producing country and there was heaps of food. No shortage of eggs or butter and we had Watties tomato sauce which wasn’t a luxury. I can remember children’s parties with buttered bread and hundreds and thousands sprinkled on. Cherries (small savoloys) with tomato sauce, crisps (these we were not allowed every day because they were bad for you and you wouldn’t eat your dinner) I bet you never wanted to go back to store bought jam. I still make mine when stone fruit is in season. One thing I never saw here until the late 60s was yoghurt. I saw ladies eating it in magazines advertising. When it finally turned up here it was a disappointment because I thought it would taste sweeter.😂
how about a 1920's video Grace? x Lovin' these diets from different eras! Keep it up!
This was so much fun to watch. I've never seen one of your videos before, and as an American who has married into an English family, it made me smile ear to ear!
You must have the metabolism of a hummingbird... so thin and yet so many starches and desserts. I am envious!
only if it passed her body all the way
Starches do not make you fat. Try to gain fat by eating legumes, whole grains and potatoes, without oil, meat or dairy. Is is almost impossible.
starches are long chained sugars, so are whole grain and potatoes. vegetarians should eat a whole lot of nuts for healthy fats and proteins.
@what the flying fuck ...
How has this anything to do with my comment?
When you look at people that eat more whole grains and/or legumes, then you see that less of them are overweight [1]. Or you can try it yourself, eat only whole grains, legumes with only a little bit of fruit, vegetables and nuts and no oil and no added sugar. Try to gain fat this way: It is very very hard.
Why does everyone in the internet believe whole grains and legumes make people fat? It is just the total opposite of reality. It must be an American thing, it would explain why there are so many people that are overweight. Anyway.
Everyone that doesn't have an allergy should eat nuts, since it is one of the healthiest food [2] but only for a limited amount, after that there are not many more benefits. I think you have a too reductionistic approach. There are no healthy nutrients, only healthy foods, something like healthy fats and healthy proteins does not exist. Legumes are healthy and have lots of protein, flaxseeds have lots of fat and are healthy but protein powder nor oil, even cold pressed flax oil, are not healthy. Same with carbohydrates, fruits are healthy but refined sugar is not.
And why do you mention vegetarians? Vegetarians are closer to the ideal weight compared to omnivores [3], and they normally eat more starches.
[1] Food Groups and Risk of Overweight, Obesity, and Weight Gain: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Prospective Studies. - Schlesinger S, Neuenschwander M, Schwedhelm C, Hoffmann G, Bechthold A, Boeing H, Schwingshackl L - Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.). 2019 - PMID:30801613
[2] Food groups and risk of all-cause mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies. - Schwingshackl L, Schwedhelm C, Hoffmann G, Lampousi AM, Knüppel S, Iqbal K, Bechthold A, Schlesinger S, Boeing H - The American journal of clinical nutrition. 2017 - PMID:28446499
[3] Vegetarian diets and incidence of diabetes in the Adventist Health Study-2. - Tonstad S, Stewart K, Oda K, Batech M, Herring RP, Fraser GE - Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD. 2013 - PMID:21983060
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@@whattheflyingfuck... How dare you insinuate she is bulimic? Many people have metabolisms that allow them to not have to eat like a bird. Her portion sizes are very controlled, so she is hardly binging. And given that she lives with her family, I’m sure they would notice if she had an eating disorder.
Such an unnecessarily negative comment...
These are my favourite kind of video's of yours Grace, really interesting thanks for posting Xx
The placement of the cookies had me creasing x
I grew up in California, and apparently the UK was still recovering from the war.
Breakfast during the week often was 2 poached eggs on toast, coffee and juice. Sometimes oatmeal or cold cereal.
Lunch was packed in a brown bag.
A sandwich, some fresh fruit, perhaps some potato chips (what you call crisps.) or cookies.
Some kind of snack after school, then a good dinner meat, salad starch and vegetable. Maybe Ice cream or jello.
On the weekends for breakfast my mom would mix things up, sometimes pancakes or waffles, or perhaps bacon and eggs.
I’m assuming you are as gutted as everyone else over the JOKE that was strictly over the weekend. This cheered me up so thank you ❤️
I’m a 34, mum of two.. from Australia and I love watching your videos! Thanks for doing these fun experiments Grace!
What a cool throwback! My gran called the sliced bread with the egg soldiers...
My mum calls them the same haha and she’s only 50
I don't really go for these kind of channels but I am a huge fan and a subscriber.every video I smile through the whole thing.love ya gracks.👍👍❤❤
As an american, everytime she said "spaghetti-HOOPS" I was absolutely triggered
But they are 🤔
@@luminouspuff7733 No, they're "SpaghettiOs. O, as in the letter o.
No they are spaghetti hoops as in spaghetti hOOps
Honestly this video is so wholesome I love it and I feel like UA-cam has elevated just for it's existence
Vianetta is kind of a block ice cream. You have to cut it to serve it.
I was around in the 1960s. It was fun seeing the meals you chose. We had our today on Sundays after church. Our baking day was Saturday after shopping. We still had shops that had the shopkeeper pick things off the shelf behind the counter that we wanted. I remember going to Sainsburys and watching the man cut butter, then use wooden paddles to pat it into a rectangle shape and wrap in grease proof paper.
@@missbehaving4710 Remembering our dinners were at about midday, my mum would make a lot of vegetable and meat stews. We had one small income for the 6 if it's, so the bed stew was made with cheap it's of meats with lots of potatoes and dumplings to fill us up. As Grace says there were a lot of carbs, and I know in my family that was to fill us up. My favourite dessert was spotted dick with custard, another filling carb heavy dish. Mum was from South Africa so we tended to have slightly different meals.
@@missbehaving4710 No, the portions were much smaller than we have today!
"Hello my name is Grackle and i'm a snackoholic"
Fun fact - in Poland we still have the main meal of the day for lunch and small dinner eg toasts, it always feels so different to eat a big meal for dinner when i'm abroad
You should watch some of Mrs Crocombe's recipes from English Heritage! I think you'd find them so interesting and fun to recreate!
The earliest you can wear Christmas pajamas is November 1st. LOL! Loved your video!
Growing up in the 70's, we did not enjoy sugary cereals for breakfast - yes, they were more expensive..
We ate poached eggs on toast; avocado on toast; oatmeal; cream of wheat; and yes butter and jam on toast.
Really appreciate all the thought and hard work you put into your videos xx
Really wanted to hear the rest of the ‘Ratata’ story from Jesse 😭😆
Isn't that noise just from pokemon or something? 😂
Jenna McCully it’s from a vine 😂
@@j.e.m.7182 ikr i was thinking that purple rat dude but idk lol
Its literally just a vine
Its a catch phrase fromTommy Cooper. If you don't know he was a comic magician from the 60's who died on stage of a heart attack during a live tv show in the 80's.
I so enjoyed this video; wonderful job of researching and sharing. I grew up in America and things were quite different from Britain, obviously, plus as you state each family was individual and unique. My mother grew up in both the Southern USA and California. This meant quite a melange of influences including richness of Southern ingredients and the more culturally diverse Cali cuisine. Nevertheless, this video brought back lots of memories because there are many similarities between Britain and America during those years. Thanks so much for all the attention, effort and good intentions you invest in all your videos. They're always a blessing!!
I love these videos. Have you thought about maybe going around to the elderly homes and asking them questions about those times? I just love hearing their stories😀
@Bilbo Baggins lol that's good! I just meant asking about childhood and stuff cause i used to listen to my grandma's stories about her childhood and she'd tell me about her mom.
I love these videos! I’ll echo what others have said, please do the next few decades gradually so we can see how food developed over time. I feel like there’s a real movement these days to cut down on the processed foods and get back to more natural varieties, so it’s fascinating to see where the processed foods started.
I went blackberrying when I was a kid, and that was in the early 90s! 🙊
A request for these kinds of videos. Could you include the beginning text (where you explain the background of your challenge) in the description box? I read it fine if i'm on my laptop, but it gets kinda hard to read on my phone. I really love these videos, but that'd make it a bit easier on me ^^
It's nice to watch someone so relatable and down to earth!
I’ve literally never heard “Dippy egg” in my life. 😂
I would have called it egg and soldiers. You dip the soldiers in the egg.
toast soldiers - what my local calls it
We call them Dippy Eggs in PA (ours are sunny side up) 😁
We call it a dippy egg in Australia although my family is English so it might just be an English thing.
it was called soldiers . you dipped in the egg usually children had it to encourage them
This is the stuff I originally subscribed for... then I fell in ❤️ with your personality and your family!
Please just film an entire dinner time with your family! Your conversations always make me laugh
Definitely would watch that! I'm always left disappointed when she edits the dinner parts so we can't hear the convos they start hahah
You're doing such a good job, I love all the thought and research on this. I'm 71, and in the US. When I saw the spaghetti-o's and fish sticks--OMG! Every kids "favorite lunch". I agree we would not have had dessert, I mean pudding! every night. It was a treat. Same with crisps in a bag. As for cereal, cereal started going down hill, with more sugar and sweetened cereals. Another treat we had very occasionally was Cokes in little 6 ounce (177 mL) bottles. Another thing very different was the variety of produce-- MUCH less variety.