Were there ‘dietary requirements’ in the 1970s? They didn’t exist at school. If the overcooked liver dolloped on your plate wasn’t to your liking, off it went into the pigswill bucket and you went hungry. And I’m certain my parents hadn’t heard of them either. Their friends came round for dinner and there wasn’t a veggie, vegan or pescatarian among them.
That perhaps explains why game, particularly woodpigeon, fetched such extraordinary prices. I remember a 1975 classified ad in offering 75p a bird when you could trot down to the local