The newspaper reminded us the other day that it was 50 years ago the British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, made his "Winds of Change" speech in our Parliament. Of course he was right, because things change just about daily, but some changes take longer. The political changes in South Africa did take a long time after the speech of the Prime Minister, but I am not going to amuse you with politics, I want to refer to some other changes, specifically changes in our day to day living, for instance, food.
When Mr Harold made his speech 50 years ago, we were still trying to absorb all the changes brought about by the Second World War, and many of them changed our eating habits and I am now thinking about meat consumption. At that particular time things like ox tails, offal, and tongue were not in great demand, in fact, many people looked down upon them, because in the days gone by our consumption of meat was quite different from what we regard as the norm today, the three that I mentioned above, were not considered quite the correct thing by many of our citizens, and were therefore quite cheap, after all, the butchers wanted to sell all of the meat of a slaughtered animal and not just certain portions. But look at the current situation: ox tail and tongue are quite expensive and offal is just about impossible to get unless you have a very special contact!
And then there is the saying "the more things change, the more they remain the same", which is quite true for many things in life, but not for items bound by fashion, like food, clothes, hair styles and the like.
What is going to change next?
Oupa
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