Been a vegetarian since 1975. I rarely eat traditional British foods because how many trad meals are animal-free? Beans on toast is not a cuisine! That said, I always have some old-fashioned products in my larder for those times I do my version of mam's 1960s cooking - quorn sausages and Smash or meat-free shepherd's pie with onion gravy or chilli without the carne.

I loved the puppet advert for Smash potato - ET robots laughing at stupid earthlings for making mashed potatoes the hard way - and more than fifty years later I still buy Smash out of nostalgia. I hope they paid the ad agency for their work because it was brilliant, really innovative, even on a tiny black and white tv.

I cannot think of another ad/product I am fond of as I am fond of Smash. I cut ads out of my life - have not even seen one this century as I resent being manipulated but that old puppet advert still lives in my head. Does anyone else remember that ad? I could probably recite the script from memory "... an

As an old person, I would like to hear from other old people about stuff - let's make this apparently abandoned lemmy community lively and fun.

I am a 'boomer' (according to USA culture) in my society (UK) I am just 'old'.

According to typical profile of 'boomers' by non-boomers we are scum of the earth and spawn of Satan. I am not sure its true but I am intrigued enough to wanna try it!

Here's my profile: UK citizen, born early 1960s ('late boomer'), feminist, socialist, environmentalist, vegetarian, and atheist - in all of that stuff was typically the only one in my family/school/community so I was a pioneer/lonely kid. I grew up weird and indefatigable and incorrigible - just like a battleship (a navy joke).

Grew up in poverty. First in my family to go to university - a posh one, had a scholarship, made friends who went on to rule the world (knew future Empress of Japan, knew Prime Ministers, ambassadors, popes, CEOs - all sorts). If you read this, you're one or two person

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