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14 hours ago, Anna N said:Grew up in Britain in the 40s and 50s. Offal was a huge part of our diet. Liver, kidneys, tripe, black pudding (blood sausage) etc. Do not ever remember pasta in any form.
I was about twenty years old before I discovered that spaghetti didn't always come from a can. The fact that the great BBC spaghetti hoax of 1957 fooled most people shows the level of ignorance we lived in. It all changed in the seventies or eighties when cheap travel became available.
14 hours ago, Anna N said:Grew up in Britain in the 40s and 50s. Offal was a huge part of our diet. Liver, kidneys, tripe, black pudding (blood sausage) etc. Do not ever remember pasta in any form.
I was about twenty years old before I discovered that spaghetti didn't always come from a can. The fact that great BBC spaghetti hoax of 1957 fooled most people shows the level of ignorance we lived in. It all changed in the seventies or eighties when cheap travel became available.
