The thing I remember about grandfather, he came from a time when food was hard to come by.  When we used to go occasionally to dinner at Granny’s, they were much into greens.  Kids don’t like greens do they?  The greens they ate were just so green, bitter.  They used to have curly kale and leave it in the ground for about two years and you would strip the stalks off and it would put out little shoots and they’d go along and rub the shoots off.  It was gritty.  No doubt it was good for you if you’ve got nothing else.

The nicest thing we had in those days, in the fifties, when we were small…At the back of the railway station was a siding and sugar beet there in trucks.  We used to go down there and lift a few sugar beet.  If you cut them up they’re quite nice.  You didn’t eat it, you just sucked the sugar out and left the fibre bit behind.
Alec Cokes b 1945