British cuisine | 1970s British cooking | Vincent Price | Claire Rayner | Part 1 | Today | 1972

[@Crystall1961]

Back in the 70s my mum served up freshly cooked nutritious meals with plenty of vegetables which we all loved so not all British homes were like this.

[@highgarden9704]

I agree,

[@linpollitt8950]

Mine too. Although we sometimes had sausages, chips and beans it looked a lot nicer than theirs!

[@SuperTed19021]

Britain suffered a lot during WWII with food storage/rationing (austerity from that didn't really end till about the mid 60s). The "little Englander" syndrome didn't help either. Also saying that, it was rare to find exotic/new culture restaurants in those days unless you either went to the London West End or any other affluent British town/cities. It was only an Indian, Chinese or Tandoori takeaway in your local town if you were lucky or a just local chippie. TV chefs/programmes were basically non existent apart from Fanny Cradock. I guess the arrival of McDonalds in 1974 and the American influx during the 80s changed a lot of that. Along with the introduction of more daytime TV with more cooking programmes and new, up-to-date presenters (e.g. Delia Smith etc).

[@GaryJohnWalker1]

Not at my house! Very much the convenience and chips.

[@SedriqMiers]

Now PFAS is in our food, air and even blood too !

[@jamesgale2147]

this gold pure gold, imagine such an informed sparkling line up of informed and witty people today ?

[@SuperTed19021]

The opening with the European comparisons and Eamonn Andrews' narration during those were *class!* 😁

[@jemmajames6719]

I’m working class and didn’t know anyone eating that for their tea. Maybe beans on toast for a quick meal, or egg and chips, my mother cooked all sorts of dishes as did her mother when money allowed. I’m in my late fifties so remember 70s food.

[@koont666]

Same mate 👍

[@SuperTed19021]

It is mostly found in hotels and cafes for breakfast. Most of us for breakfast at home just have toast and a bowl of cereal like corn flakes.

[@jemmajames6719]

@@SuperTed19021 We always have a cooked breakfast on a weekend if we have one.

[@SuperTed19021]

@@jemmajames6719 *Lucky!* I don't know about you, but most of us cannot afford it, especially at the moment with the cost-of-living-crisis. It is still mainly a treat thing when you go away to a hotel, or a café, especially for tradesmen/builders/truck drivers as their main source of food for much of the day. Off-topic, but really a steak-and-kidney pie, boiled potatoes and peas would have been the stereotypical "British/English" main evening meal of the day, (still pretty much is!), with the husband either being lucky or/and have enough cash in his pocket to get that fry-up at the local greasy spoon in the morning (making such he *also* does not along the way develop heart disease), before getting a skinful after the evening meal at the local fag-infested boozer.

[@SuperTed19021]

@@jemmajames6719 *You must be well-off!!!*

[@frazzleface753]

Delightful. You can tell Vincent had a great affinity for Britain and the British.

[@iVenge]

Indeed he did. Children from Missouri do not grow up speaking with his accent. Not even close. God bless him.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Indubitably!

[@skyrocketautomotive]

I love Vincent Price. Just an old school gentleman. What a distinctive voice too!

[@seantynan1]

He was so funny! That cigarette!

[@kamwickw933]

It's that 'Transatlantic Accent' 😂

[@jubalcalif9100]

I certainly have a notion to second THAT emotion!

[@nightburgers3670]

Vincent a King amongst men. Love his wicked chuckle in the background. Love him!

[@stuartpe-win2757]

Its great seeing clips like this as it really gives you a sense and ideas of the times. Also its always a pleasure seeing Vincent Price! Today with all the Instagram influencers and what not, you just dont get this level of informed and entertaining opinion. Thanks.

[@markige]

Spot on Stuart… now all we have is girls ‘pouting’ on ‘Insta’ and ordering JustEats from their credit card… My my, how we have fallen !

[@jubalcalif9100]

I heartily concur!

[@jasonayres]

"Madame Prunier", "Professor Bender"..even Vincent Price. I was waiting for the lights to go out, and a gun shot to be heard. "Alright. Nobody is to leave the room. It's over to our audience to decide as to who *they* think the murderer is tonight."

[@nazb33]

The best comment on this Saturday morning. I raise my hat to you 😊

[@darganx]

Whodunnit with John Pertwee! Loved that show as a kid.

[@andybailey3888]

Sausage, egg, chips, beans, b&b and a brew, what's not to love?

[@archstanton4365]

What's b & b?

[@andybailey3888]

@@archstanton4365 bread and butter

[@darganx]

A heart attack

[@andybailey3888]

@@darganx we've all gotta go at some point, if that's by an heart attack by food we love, then so be it 😂

[@archstanton4365]

@@andybailey3888 oh thanks, cheers!

[@daisybee5943]

So well spoken and clear.

[@SedriqMiers]

init

[@kengeorgejones6855]

Thanks. Nice to see more Vincent Price content.

[@musicalmagpie741]

Great to see so much love for Vincent Price. He was a wonderful art collector too. Fascinating man!

[@jubalcalif9100]

As I do when I take off my hat, you make a good point!

[@judgeberry6071]

I just can't help imagining Vincent Price's great voice-over in the Thriller music video. Even greater is the back-story.

[@christopherbarnett2961]

We had meat and two veg, lovely homemade desserts and rarely munched between meals and had plenty of exercise!

[@catherine59226]

I enjoyed this video very much!

[@antman5474]

Me too

[@catherine59226]

@@antman5474 👍🏻😀

[@jamesgornall5731]

Oh Vincent how youre missed

[@SuperTed19021]

*Eamonn Andrews also!* He was my now late maternal grandmother's fave, along with the equally-missed Des O'Connor. 😥

[@darganx]

Eamonn Andrews, smooth like an Irish Coffee. And Thames TV utilised Vincent very well when he was over here at this time, even done a few sketches on the Tommy Cooper show!

[@SuperTed19021]

*Where the now late Togmeister got it all from!* 😉

[@therealqueenofeverything]

I was born in the 70s my mum (and nan) always good us fresh homemade dinners. I can't recall ever being given processed food, beans on toast was a lunchtime meal or quick snack. Even things like soup were homemade, we rarely ate tinned soup.

[@janeeccleston9196]

Vincent price’s voice is amazing-It’s in my head after watching last man on earth so many times in covid lockdown 🫣😁

[@lesigh1749]

What a movie to pick while you are locked in your house alone.

[@crumplezone1]

VP is entertaining in any setting, still missed

[@thetruthwillout3347]

"Diss is yuuur loife" 😂

[@darganx]

Strange, I'm sure Vincent Price was one of his subjects..

[@robthemod58]

“Dares more te Ireland, dan dis….”

[@BsktImp]

This is nostalgia and recent history gold! Sometimes the algorithm behaves itself. I'm old enough to remember when the very idea of the average working class British mum - and yes, it was typically the mum - using garlic or spices beyond pepper in the week-day tea was daring; _Carry On Henry,_ anyone? When garlic bread, for instance, became popular here I chuckled at just how fickle and selectively amnesic folk are. 🤣

[@gooderspitman8052]

Total bollocks, and I’m not being sexist when I say this, but all the womenfolk I grew with up could cook great meals and that was the same with the cooks who served up the school meals too. When you see old holiday programmes or seaside photos from the, 50s 60s or 70s we all looked a lot fitter and that was despite smoking being more prevalent among the population.

[@TrueBrit1]

Sadly, they're all long gone. Arnold Bender - 1918-1999 (aged 81). Vincent Price 1911-1993 (aged 82). Claire Rayner 1931-2010 (aged 79). Madame Prunier 1904-1976 (aged 72). Eamonn Andrews 1922-1987 (aged 64).

[@leenevin8451]

its odd to think

[@shawngilliland243]

May they all rest in peace. The world is a poorer place without them.

[@chucky2316]

Says it all 😂

[@davidspendlove5900]

Vincent Price , that voice !

[@SuperTed19021]

*THRILLER.....and then Rattigan!*

[@eboulter]

I love the chairs!

[@jakecavendish3470]

My uncle loved a fry up in the 70s. He was dead by 1981 but not a bad way to go

[@SuperTed19021]

My late maternal grandfather (who died in 1978 in his mid 60s) lived on fried bread and a greasy-spoon cuppa always with six sugars!! 😉

[@jakecavendish3470]

@@SuperTed19021 Nice! Don't blame him.

[@SuperTed19021]

@@jakecavendish3470 If only he didn't have to inject himself with insulin in his leg every day before he went. 😥

[@jakecavendish3470]

@@SuperTed19021 Luckily my uncle just had a massive coronary, don't know how they carried the coffin as he was about 20 stone

[@SuperTed19021]

@@jakecavendish3470 Sounds like he went peacefully and happily.

[@79devo]

Smoking on tv ! Those were the days

[@SuperTed19021]

Also at the cinema, pubs etc, etc, etc. 😁

[@aaronhooper1110]

on aeroplanes 😂

[@79devo]

@@SuperTed19021 in the cinema but only on the right hand side !

[@SuperTed19021]

@@79devo It still would have spread across the whole auditorium, especially if the screen capacity was small.

[@bollas76]

food was better than. whatever they said then. claire would be spinning in her grave now with the ultra processed nonsense and the obesity . these days we are made to feel guilty by the zealots eating anything un adulterated

[@gpo746]

Claire Rayner complaining about the Sunday roast...saying it was "dreary" ..who would have thought. I rather enjoy....actually, I look forward to a roast on Sundays . Same as Fish on a Friday and a fakeaway (home done takeaway) on a Saturday . I would not want some fancy foreign dish in place on a Sunday . Monday to Thursday is whatever nights . So , I think the word "dreary" to describe a proper Sunday roast is far flung when there are 4 other nights of the week to be adventurous with food . In lockdown we had plenty of time to experiment with things and we tried many things among them were Tagine , Japanese curry , Tiryaki etc . I am sure , even back in the 70's people didn't live on sausage beans and chips . Maybe a quick throw together meal once in a while .

[@redfeather8927]

❤ Vincent Price ❤

[@ruthpaige6689]

The presenter has such a lovely refined manner and a pleasant voice. Who is he?

[@darganx]

The legend, Eamonn Andrews. Former BBC sports commentator in the 1950s, he is best known as the presenter of the long running TV show This Is Your Life, which he did from the 1960s through to the late 1980s. Died some time early 90s, much missed.

[@SuperTed19021]

*EAMONN ANDREWS!* My mom's late mother loved him.

[@kamwickw933]

I just love baked beans, broiled mushrooms and tomatoes for breakfast.

[@Beardodoomus]

Anecdotally most women in my friendship groups are not the cooks of the house. My own partner never cooks. I love being in the kitchen and cooking up a storm. Maybe the roles have just reversed over the decades.

[@LawnMowersThingsThatMakeNoise]

The portion of Petit pois was 25 pence in 1972. now its £25 in 2023

[@SuperTed19021]

*Cost-of-living crisis and shrinkflation!* Also, I don't know how much 25p would be worth to an average person in today's money (51 years ago now).

[@GaryJohnWalker1]

And Claire Rayner - gosh, not just an interesting person but a very interesting woman as well.

[@sammyb1651]

Eh? What's the difference? Answers on a postcard, please.

[@ronmccullock1407]

Fantastic

[@vamphunt666]

fish and chips rule

[@mikenow3050]

Vincent is hilarious

[@Fenristhegreat]

"A colourful plate of coq-au-vin" Proceeds to show a plate of purest 'brown'.

[@tonyclifton265]

it's come a long way since the bad old days. you can even get good food in pubs now

[@SuperTed19021]

Back then, it was "Les the Barman" fare at pubs if you wanted food. Places like "Little Chef", "Happy Eater" and "Wimpy", (despite how much we scoff at the them now), were considered exotic places to eat. Also, unless you travelled to London and other major British cities with their own West Ends, a foreign cuisine restaurant/takeaway was rare to non existent apart for a local chippy, or an upstart Chinese/Tandoori if your town/village/area were lucky enough. McDonalds did not arrive on these shores till 1974 (2 years after this was aired), and you know how much that affected the British eat-out food scene.

[@Mishima505]

“In Germany, Helmut will be eating a piece of dead pig with some kind of potato dish. Like he does every night.”

[@sammyb1651]

Bish, bash boche!

[@eboulter]

Sooo cool that smoking was allowed back then

[@SuperTed19021]

My mum could *not* see a film at her local cinema without smiling like an ashtray coming out (PS: she did not smoke!) 😁

[@wpl955g9]

Bless. And Clare Rayner's lad Jay is among England's foremost restaurant critics...

[@gaggymott9159]

A supercilious wanker ....Simple!

[@davestevenson9080]

and jewish

[@sammyb1651]

Good old Captain Pugwash.

[@chucky2316]

Take the micky we never had an obesity crisis

[@jeffpagan7735]

Isn't he from Baltimore?

[@mabbrey]

probably cost and availability

[@antman5474]

And 50 years on it's all keto and vegan. Oh and don't let us forget lactose and gluten free for the ibs sufferers.

[@blakaeg]

I just hope you never ever suffer from any of these disorders!! Shows that you don’t know that Gluten Free has nothing to do with IBS!! The agony IBS causes is no joke!! Like I said, I hope you never get any of these!

[@zellah]

Thinking back, my whole family all had stomach issues. Glad I figured out I’m dairy, sugar and gluten sensitive.

[@OlafProt]

Food was generally shite IF you ate out back then. Britain hadn’t really got its chops (boom💥) down yet cuisine wise unless you were wealthy. Home cooking was ok though (I remember, I was there) Pretty much everyone cooked from scratch as the microwave and its meals, weren’t a thing yet. Fascinating bit of telly.

[@darganx]

2 years before the first McDonalds landed over here, things wouldn't be the same.

[@OlafProt]

@@darganx Wimpy was like Escofier by comparison

[@SuperTed19021]

@@OlafProt and why roadside chains like Little Chef were so huge at the time.

[@SuperTed19021]

PS: A lot of that was due to the long term effect of rationing. WWII *really* hit Britain harder than a lot of us were lead to let on.

[@OlafProt]

@@SuperTed19021 The Little Chef mixed grill was perfect driving-home-next-day-hungover-food 😂 (we only had a Happy Eater near us, it was there or the Wimpy for a burger).

[@Eric_200]

Claire’s hair….wow. Impressive. 😂

[@sammyb1651]

Looks like Brian May's plughole.

[@londonlady227]

A bit of profiling....nothing to get bent out of shape over. Vincent's voice is pure velvet but forever thrrrrilling.......👻👹💀

[@davidspendlove5900]

Poor old Albert.

[@adrinathegreat3095]

Trying to be all high brow and patronising, the 70s were tough times for many, you are what you could afford and that's how it was for most people. You knew the rich kids at school because they were fat lol

[@iVenge]

Is paddy British? Why is he judging everybody here?

[@darganx]

'Paddy' was Eamonn Andrews, a TV legend. And it was 1972, attitudes were different then. Life isn't 'reverse compatible'.

[@t.p.mckenna]

Oh, I've just checked my watch. Yes, I wasn't mistaken ... it's 2023. Some people seem stuck way in the past. Chips with everything. Both shoulders.

[@SuperTed19021]

He was Irish (Republic of Ireland). He died in London though. As for Irish cuisine, let me think.

[@SuperTed19021]

What does it say and still say about American cooking? *Sugar, sugar and more sugar!*

[@GrahamGroovyUK]

Sadly no. It's all synthetic fats and artificial sweeteners now. The UK has been following suit for the last 25 years or so with the now banned hydrogenated fats and the unbelievable amount of artificial sweeteners and preservatives. Health complications for just about everyone in that man-made lot!

[@SuperTed19021]

@@GrahamGroovyUK Okay.

[@carmencornelianastase1240]

Interesting & beautiful people in this podcast .I like very much Vincent Price ,but...I don't like the way they eat in England .. Greetings from Pisa Italy!🍀🌻🍀

[@robinwalsh9542]

they are just savages☘

[@linpollitt8950]

To be fair the Italian dinner looked nasty too. I lived in Italy in 1971-72 and the food was wonderful but that escalope looked disgusting. So did the Coq au vin.

[@darganx]

@@robinwalsh9542 tell us how you feel 🤣🤣

[@raycarter4030]

an irishman, a j ew ess, an american and a j e w, all belittling the English. It goes right back.

[@minixtvbox]

Ace observation

[@linpollitt8950]

An Irishman, an American and a Jew walked into a pub...

[@darganx]

@@mistresscatty1 Complaining about racism, them having a pop at the Jewish lady.. ahh how English

[@Albert-Arthur-Wison225]

@@mistresscatty1Codswallop. You might as well have been with Mosely on Cable Street,..ever heard of that, Heinrich ?

[@darganx]

@nowherepeople3431 Oh yes, I know more than most!

[@MarkPMus]

He was never called Arnold Bender!? Plus I hate the way they’ve made this new species they concocted in the 70s called, “The Housewife”. John Lennon was right with his song Woman Is The N Of The World. The woman was indeed judged according to her role in relation to the man.

[@archstanton4365]

Well cry then.

[@TheBenzer9]

All in their late 40s 😂

[@leenevin8451]

all dead now

[@paulanderson7796]

Not wrong - lamb and beef must be served pink.

[@jordanhtiffirg1990]

I'm glad they know how terrible their food is but confused that they colonised and stole from nearly the whole world and still have a terrible cuisine with little to no seasoning.

[@jordanhtiffirg1990]

@nowherepeople3431 No I don't see myself as British 'culturally' but I am British because I was born here. My family and ancestry is not British therefore it is not my food

[@nopeoppeln]

@nowherepeople3431the fuck you mean seasoning police detected? you like bland things?

[@jordanhtiffirg1990]

@nowherepeople3431 what do you mean by "demographically transformed into something else" you dont have to speak cryptically just say whats really on your mind

[@jordanhtiffirg1990]

@nowherepeople3431 thats your very unique bland opinion in liking british food which your entitled to but dont feel some type of way that 99% of the world doesnt agree

[@londonlady227]

The UK has come a long way. The cuisine is one of the best in the world now.

[@Tirnel_S]

I love Vincent Price