A UK sandwich shop 1971

@PhoenixPhail I'm surmising it wasn't viewed as an issue 53 years ago.

@NativePortlander1970 Standards of food, catering etc. have largely changed for the better during that time. Food is invariably more hygienically presented. On the other hand, we Brits are renowned for eating junk.

@DrWatson I've never had one of those

@meggie Assuming that "liver sausage" refers to liverwurst, I make myself that kind of sandwich pretty often.

@Tminus6453 Indeed

@smiler2012 Things were simple then. I wish in some ways I'd lived those days.

@meggie My association with that period of time, at least here in the US, was lots of political unrest and protests. And since I was in college, I was in the middle of all that. I don't remember it as a simpler time.

@meggie i agree the little corner shops they knew most of the customers on a one to one basis killed by the supermarket just came in and outpriced the little competitors 😢

@Nimbus I've never heard of it either

@meggie Only Fortnum & Mason would sell veal :)

@Nimbus yes it's a delicacy

@ElwoodBlues I can remember some odd quirks with the changeover. The 5p and 10p coins came in a few years early, because they had exact equivalents under the old system. They were followed by the 50p, which had a direct equivalent in the ten shilling note, which it replaced. The 'coppers' (made of steel in more recent decades) had to wait until 15th Feb. 1971, when the outgoing coins without equivalents in the new system (half-penny, one-penny, three-penny) ceased to be legal tender. The 'half-crown', though it had an exact equivalent value of 12.5 new pence, had been withdrawn in 1970, while the farthing - which I don't remember at all - had gone in 1960.

And the sixpence? The 'tanner' was well-liked, convenient and had an exact equivalent value of 2.5p. and continued for a few years after 1971. But by the middle of the decade it, too, had disappeared.

@supersnipe Several years ago I was in london with my middle-school son, and he wanted for some reason to see the flea markets (that's what we call them) on Portobello Rd. And they had farthings for sale! Before that, mostly what I knew was a kind of bicycle called a "penny farthing."

@ElwoodBlues i vaguely remember the old currency before we became decimalised i971 but some of the coins look familiar