Ray's Rants Podcast - Things We No Longer Have Or See In The UK
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- Who remembers the iconic Hoovermatic Twintub washing machine? A staple in British homes during the 1960s, it was incredibly popular. And what about the Rolls Dishwasher that perched on the kitchen draining board? Join us this Sunday as we take a nostalgic journey through household and other items of the past that have since disappeared! Also, I’m chatting from Amberley Museum.
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Hi, Ray. This is a good video. You're absolutely right about growing your own fruit & veg. When I was growing up in the early 60's our back garden had a lawn one side, path in the middle, and a veg plot on the right. My parents grew all their own stuff, and we never had shop bought produce at all. Later in life, I worked as a Potato buyer & salesman, and the vast majority of potatoes in supermarkets are force grown, and have very little flavour. Jersey Royals used to be a fabulous potato, but what you see in the supermarkets now are a pale imitation of the real thing. I live in Bognor Regis now, and buy all of my meat from a farm shop in Runcton, and the difference in quality is, as you say, phenomenal. The problem is that people want fresh strawberries in December, so they import highly forced fruit that is tasteless, as they do with all out of season fruit & veg. Best wishes to you & your family, Ray.
Hi Adrian, it’s good to hear from you. I used to grow a lot of my own vegetables when we had a bigger garden. Our garden now is relatively small. That’s interesting about potatoes. I remember Jersey Royals they were a fantastic potato. I didn’t realise potatoes were force grown these days. I suppose most things are. We do have a local farm shop which we often visit. The stuff they sell is really good. You are quite right, we shouldn’t need strawberries in the winter! Cheers for now, Ray.
Hi Ray, thanks for sharing another great podcast. We had black clouds appear here yesterday, though very little rain. Some things that have disappeared here include TV and radio stations running individual programming, analogue TV, decent working pocket radios and TV receivers that ran on standard batteries, nine to five work work hours from Monday to Friday and not forcing weekend work, a lot more rural train lines, tram systems in all capital cities, video recorders, video tapes, audio cassette tape recorders, cassette tapes, solid steel scooters, billy carts, swings, money bars and slippery dips (slides) in parks, many public swimming pools, corner shops, fireworks, pea shooters, bows and arrows with plungers, cap-guns, restaurants with simple home coked meals, barber shops - we have a shortage of them here, washing machines with ringers or even twin tubs, simple vacuum cleaners that don't require a scientist degree to use, carpet sweepers, steam engines, Matchbox Cars, Disney comics, individual newspapers, Sunday newspaper comics, Top 40 Survey Charts, TV test Patterns and clocks. Even pirate radio and TV seems to have now disappeared. Incidentally, many of the food items that are coloured red or even pink (raspberries, strawberries) the flavouring includes 120 Carmine, which is actually made of crushed bugs.
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I actually saw something on RUclips about the 1987 storm over there. It was certainly big enough. Our worst event were the Victoria bush-fires in 2009. Two rural towns were completely wiped out. In the fire areas, the temperature reached around 1000C and cars in the area actually melted into the road. Like you, I am also not into clowns. Anyway, take care. Rob in Melbourne Australia.
Hi Rob, okay on your list of things disappearing. There are so many things it’s hard to list everything. Thanks for the links. I will have a look at those later when I get a minute. Storms are really dangerous at times. I love thunder and lightning as long as it’s not too close!
Talking about things disappearing. Have you ever lost something in one place and found it later in a completely different location? This has happened to me twice. Actually, this could even be a subject of a future podcast.
@@RGC198 yes, I know what you mean.
Hi Ray , enjoyed the podcast . back in the 1980s to early 1990s I was greengrocer firstly for a supermarket chain and then on my own and you are right about the taste . Nowdays strawberries have next to no taste and I rarely even buy them , grapes are not the same varieties and not as good , Jersey Royal potatoes used to be amazing and the first of the crop were really expensive and coveted , tomatoes are more miss than hit . My gran never had any type of washing machine but used to have a spin dryer so she would wash the items by hand and then put them in the spin dryer . I never liked clowns never made me laugh .
Hi Martin, everything you say about fruit and vegetables is true. I really don’t think young people today have ever tasted the real thing. It’s such a shame. Okay on the spin dryer. We also had a spin dryer back in the early days.
We had two memorable games in our school playground. It would start with a boy yelling "Operation 26" and the game would begin. "Operation 26" was a violent form of Releasing's, where boys would be randomly grabbed in the playground, then taken off to a place in the corner and beaten up. Other boys would then get together to try to rescue the "prisoners", without getting caught and beaten up themselves. Operation 26 was actually the milder base version of the game. When the operation numbers went higher, all the beatings become stronger. One day, a boy randomly yelled "Operation 99" and we all dashed into the classrooms in utter terror. The teachers all thought that we came in because we were all extra keen to learn more lessons. The other game we had was "Nerves", where the boys would run high speed from one end of the playground to the other, running deliberately head on into a brick wall at the end. I remember when one boy in our class came in with crutches after running into a brick wall and said "Now do you believe I've got guts??" I replied, "Yes definitely, after you hit that wall, I saw them spread all over the playground!!!" Our area of the school was all boys. The girls had a separate school building and area, which meant that no girls were involved in our "fun". Also, when any of the boys had a birthday, they would be taken by force to the boys restroom area, shoved head first into a toilet bowl and flushed. Just to note, our school was known to be the safer of the two schools in our suburb. I shudder to think what may have happened at the other school. Happy days!!!
Hi Rob, that game sounds extremely dangerous and antisocial! Cheers for now, Ray.
Hmm! Maybe dangerous, but never antisocial!!! I mean to say that while those guys were beating into their victims, they always made a point of never ignoring them and making them feel left out in any way!!! LOL!!! I remember one day, they were giving me a beating, which was fortunately not too extreme. One of the teachers saw us and told us to take it to the other corner of the playground, as we were blocking the way. So, we all got up and quietly walked to the new location and then the beating continued. Good grief!!! How dumb does that sound??? It was almost like being in an episode of the Three Stooges at times.
@@RGC198 I assumed to meant beaten up, properly!