Back In Time For Dinner

I came across a British show on Youtube called "Back In Time For Dinner." You follow a family as they literally go back in time for dinner. Their kitchen, living room and dining room is transformed into different eras. The Robshaw family travels through the 50s, 60, 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s. They dress, eat and behave like the people from each specific era. I found this show intriguing. This family chose to endure an experiment that takes them through 50 years of food and culture.

I began watching the episode surrounded by the 50s. The Robshaw family's kitchen was transformed into a kitchen from the 50's. Decked out with 1950s wallpaper and kitchen machinery. I watched as the wife and their two daughters tried to make dinner for the family. During the early 1950s their was still an immense amount of food rationing due to the war. You were only able to get so much of everything and because of that wives had to get creative.

What I also found interesting was the dynamic between wife and husband. The husband went to work all day and came home expecting dinner on the table. They did not help clean up or make the meal. That was not the "man's job." The difference in roles were very extreme. The fact that the husband sat back while the wife cleaned, cooked and took care of the children made me laugh. It felt absurd to watch. Society has come a long way since the 1950s.

I'm going to continue watching the rest of the show and I encourage you to do the same. I'm not only watching an entertaining show but I'm learning about the culture of the time. I was born in the late 1950s and my childhood was really during the 60s and 70s. I'm interested to see what I remember and don't remember from those eras.

"Back In Time For Dinner" 1950s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfPof73YF94

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