White flight?
We shopped more often - had a small shop (2 in fact) a couple of minutes from the house; and ate less. Milk was delivered; so were bread and, in our area, lemonade. Greengroceries, too, when I was a child (nineteenforties). We were on the outskirts of a village a good fifteen minutes walk from the centre of the village.
Local food vs. Supermarkets 177Enrico C The Beeb (along with parts of the government) seem to run a crusadejihad (pick your language-religion) against supermarkets. Erm, where's the problem? What supermarkets have done is to push...
I don't think it was "bad", just strong.
Diet was fairly constant so you tended to buy the same thing every week;and if you did forget you had a neighbour to borrow from (worked both ways) or did without.
Yes. The bus. But heavy things like potatos were bought from shops near home in small quanbreasties - or delivered.
They vary.
Interesting one this.
Smkts got planning position in many communities before their effects on local businesses were appreciated. We have both smkts and local and I appreciate having both (would not want to not have them) but for different items. Haven't thought that one out yet I admit.
Rightly so - even then. Shops should be polite. Of course that doesn't mean
The evidence is all around us.
global knives questions 178sided, I think you have to learn a knife. The knife is made right, you just haven't learned to use it. After...
"Then" or now? I imagine any culture which emphasised the home-making aspect of one parent would have done so; we did until about the sixties. Don't know about Mao's time though.
Today's parents wre raised by people who didn't know how to cook.
Thankyou.
Jane
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