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 Well, going back again into my young wedding days, of course
another revolution just after the war was the advent of the freezer and frozen
food. The first frozen food I remember buying I went to Romford to buy and that
was some six or seven miles distant from where I'm living, of course I was
travelling on the bus then, I wasn't driving then. But I had heard that they
had frozen peas in this shop in Romford, and we were all agog to try this new
element of eating, and sure enough when I got there they had this cellophane,
film packet of frozen peas. I brought it home in great triumph and cooked it
and were well won over because previously of course all our fresh vegetables in
the winter, apart from root vegetables or green vegetables which you got from
the greengrocer, things such as peas and green beans were all tinned, and so
what amounted to the taste of virtually fresh peas- was a tremendous
luxury.
 
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| So from there of course when freezers began to be offered to
homes, a private addition to their own kitchens, as soon as the prices began to
come down, this is the next thing that one, every housewife wanted. And you
immediately went out and started filling it up with carcasses of animals - I
can't believe it now. Of course there were two grown boys at home as the home
as well as my husband, but we would buy a whole lamb, a half pig, great joints
of beef, tremendous amount of meat just because you were able to buy it very
much cheaper by buying it in bulk and you had the ability to store it where
previously you couldn't. 
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