In Mill Hill, there was an exotic Chinese restaurant called the Kwan Yin (where the Good Earth now sits). Takeaway food was pretty much Fish and Chips, if you were adventurous, you would have a pie. Of course we had places such as Bar Italia doing great things, but these were seen as strange places catering for people from other places. For many coffee was seen as the poor relation of tea, the only advantage being that it could be made instantly, without the need for a strainer for the leaves, a pot and without waiting for it to brew, just a teaspoon of powder and voila! The high streets proliferated with cafes serving bacon sarnies, industrial strength tea and if you asked for a coffee you got a spoonful of Nescafe. Puddings were apple pie and custard or spotted dick. Anything vegetable that wasn't boiled to disintegration was deemed uncooked and any sauce on any meat or fish was deemed foreign muck. At the start of the decade, Pubs generally didn't serve food, garlic was frowned upon and onions were largely only served with liver. Sadly the decade was not a fun decade like the 60's, but it was the decade where the British discovered that food was to be enjoyed and experimented with. But while all of this fun and frolicking was going on, a visitor from 2020 would be amazed at the bland cuisine that we all ate in the 1960's. Legal changes such as the decriminalising of homosexuality, legalisation of abortion and the advent of the pill lead to a complete change in the stuffy attitudes of young people in Great Britain to sex. The 1960's was the decade of the sexual revolution.
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