Reminiscence Café - We Are What We Eat

Free, all welcome. Refreshments included.

What we eat has changed so much over the years, as well as how and where we bought and stored our food. The High Road’s larger grocery stores, with their separate counters and freshly wrapped food gave way to supermarkets, and we started to shop weekly with the benefit of our new fridges. The thriving corner shops in the side streets – dairies, grocers, butchers and bakers – gradually closed, as did the once numerous fruit and veg stalls parked on convenient side streets off the High Road.

Today we have a greater range of foodstuffs to choose from, available in the new independent food stores on the High Road and the thriving Holcombe Market. Our tastes changed and our food choices became more adventurous. What food did you particularly enjoy in childhood. Spam? Upside Down cake? And the best of today’s – mangoes, pasta varieties, red snapper and yams?

Come to the Museum and share your memories over a cup of tea.

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