Cooking with meat alternatives | Textured vegetable protein |1970s cooking | Money Go Round | 1976

Presenter Tony Bastable visits the Elliott School, Putney to discuss what they eat and also to introduce them to the Textured vegetable protein (TVP) which is seen as the new meat alternative.
First shown: 11/07/1975
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[@tinytonymaloney7832]

Tony Bastable was a very good presenter in my opinion. He was the sort of person that whatever he was talking about he could capture ones attention, very well spoken. I remember him in a lot of the schools programs in the 70s and indeed at home after school. What I particularly liked about this video was the fact that all the kids regardless of skin colour sat together seemingly naturally and they flowed. Non of this multicultural crap like we all get rammed down our throat nowadays whether we want it or not. Wonder what these kids are upto now. I would expect that they will be in their early 60s now. 😁

[@Alfredromeothatsme]

Since this show in 1976 the worlds population has nearly doubled from 4.1b to 7.7b!

[@louis-yt6595]

Too many people, we need to chill out on breeding

[@turpialito]

@@louis-yt6595 The problem is the path we take to achieve it. Reason or force. Definitely worth writing volumes on the subject.

[@louis-yt6595]

@@turpialito education is the only way. I think we're doomed as a species if it carries on 🙄

[@4oclocktimefortea794]

Tony Bastable is really good with the children. I love Money Go Round it makes me feel really cosy. The sort of thing I watched if off ill from junior school on the sofa with duvet!

[@dg-hughes]

My mother's family never had meat more than once a week a Sunday roast. And the roast would have been a chicken they raised on their farm. My dad's family would eat meat more often he lived in the city. People today in 2019 seem to believe being vegetarian or "flexatarian" (meat once in a while) is a new thing. It was actually normal to only eat meat once in a while if at all.

[@agfagaevart]

Unfortunately, those soya beans got genetically modified later on...

[@zalibecquerel3463]

"Next up on BBC2, Clive Pounds and the world's first fully automated casserole restaurant".

[@trevorrandom]

Was everything brown in the 70's?

[@dandylionriver]

Hahahaha

[@brunster64]

Except dog shit - which was often white

[@Rob_Walker.]

Yes with orange and green

[@Rob_Walker.]

@@brunster64 very true

[@matthewburns7989]

Beige is great

[@OofusTwillip]

A bigger danger, largely unknown in those early days, is that soy is a major allergen that can trigger anaphylaxis, which can be fatal. At that same time, in the USA, there was a product called Tuna Twist, that contained seasonings and TVP, so you could make 6 tuna salad sandwiches (instead of 4) from a can of tuna. But Tuna Twist was removed from sale, after reports of people becoming severely ill, or dying, after eating food made with it. Today, soy must be clearly declared on the label. A similar problem occurred with Quorn, a protein substitute made from fungus. Quorn is still widely sold in Britain, but now, it's potential to cause anaphylaxis in some people is known.

[@spankysmp]

That was quite a stern lecture / presentation by Mr B

[@turpialito]

The population forecast for the year 2000 was surprisingly accurate. 20 years later, it's 7 thousand 7 hundred million.

[@volvos60bloke]

Alright Google, calm down.

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

Why are you saying it like that? Its 7.7 billion. Do you measure your speed in yards per day as well?

[@turpialito]

@@handsoffmycactus2958 Because "billions" are 10 to the power of 12, not 10 to the power of 9. And speed is distance divided by time. Seems like you didn't do well at high-school physics, eh?

[@operatorjeffdeathstar7759]

@@turpialito Listen, fool, try using Billions...Lol

[@Grahameajohnson]

'Love it, 1:59 -- Mr. Fish says: "What am I, chopped liver?"

[@volvos60bloke]

Channelling Alan Partridge at 4:35

[@SuperZedd]

volvos60bloke 😂

[@xUzi786]

these kids must be in their 60s by now.

[@mossfoster5317]

I wonder how the interview would go if you filmed a load of 15 year olds in London in 2019.

[@trevorrandom]

Thay would all be on there phones!

[@dandylionriver]

Every 3rd or 4th word would be "like".

[@coogeeman]

Most would be on insta, facebook, chewing gum, using the word 'so' at the end of every sentence, then probably beat him up, and told social services he touched them.

[@c4715]

Beef innit.

[@waverunner7063]

British culture is strange yet sophisticated.

[@CM_Burns]

I prefer my meat from animals that were grass fed and grass finished and never fed a single grain of soy.

[@Grahameajohnson]

My caveat is that they're treated ethically.

[@stillbee7222]

Your exactly right now they feed them corn silage, this us why we get ecoli. I live by a feed lot for a lot of years and I can tell you it smelled so bad.

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

It’s weird how reluctant he is to say billion and weird that he says “19 hundred and 10” lol. It’s nineteen ten

[@OofusTwillip]

A billion is 1000× a million. But "billion" is often confused as "a million × a million". So, in Britain, they say "one thousand million", which is more accurate.

[@europa2000man]

I don't care what anybody says, the fake meat (TVP) has a different taste to proper meat, especially chicken and minced beef. I hate the fake miced meat because it tastes more like bread cut up in a blender and brown food colouring put into it. The same goes for chicken, especially the Quorn's chicken nuggets. The only taste there is is the coating on the outside of them, the chicken inside the batter tastes like bread. Give me meat or fish any day (except Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, I'll have fish on them days)

[@melgrant7404]

Alan Partridge

[@c4715]

AHH HAAAA

[@callumhardy5098]

And know we’ve got to many people Help!

[@pit_stop77]

Vegetable proteins passed off as meat, is that when Britain was great?

[@OofusTwillip]

Remember when horsemeat was secretly used in "beef lasagne" and other frozen meals, in 2016? Unscrupulous suppliers to the food companies were to blame, but it killed the Findus brand in Britain, where it had been huge since 1958.

[@raincat9408]

I don't think we eat more meat, we eat less, smaller portions and vegetable protien fillers, nobody is eating a fat slab of filet mignon 5 days a week. This is a horribly informative video, soya grows all around where I am now, it is a toxic weed not fit for animal consumption let alone human alimentation.

[@Grahameajohnson]

"Horribly informative" to a 1976 audience. ; ) I certainly don't disagree with you, however.

[@Landie_Man]

Meme Look we eat way more meat lol.

[@Grahameajohnson]

Landie Man Sure, but is that per capita? Also, maybe back up your claims with facts? ‘Just saying: people will take you a lot more serious with a couple of those in your quiver.

[@Landie_Man]

Grahameajohnson of course. It is but an observation. But generally it seems We eat more food, and more of that food is meat.

[@raincat9408]

@@Landie_Man great, all that estrogen infused chicken and veggie protein mystery meat. I am sure we eat more meat than the common man did 300 years ago, but I do wonder if we have not yet sunk below 20th century standards.