Can you remember your diet in the 1950’s.

Well according to a 2008 article in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, the 1950s diet was largely made up with fatty meals—even predating the rise of fast food. Common dishes included the likes of meat stews, creamed tuna, meat loaf, corned beef and cabbage, mashed potatoes with butter, breaded and fried veal cutlets, deep-fried vegetables, French fries.

According to GOV.UK Salmon sandwiches, tinned fruit with evaporated milk, fish on Fridays and ham salad for high tea every Sunday were frequently on the menu for 1950s families. People ate four meals a day and relied on gardens and allotments to grow more than double the amount of food they bought.

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Source: The Ladders