Two Cooks and a Cabbage (1941)

[hitlermugabetashtwin]

Good to see the boys were up to something useful.

[bear4cubs]

This was great!!

[PiPxTc]

'I want it to cook for ever such a long time'  -- hahaha!

[Buffalobigboy69]

I like this film. A nice grandma with the girls making lunch. Boiled cabbage with some boiled potatoes on the side sounds like a pretty good lunch to me. With a little butter and salt & pepper you can't go wrong. And with food prices going up each week here in the USA. I think simple foods like this are going to make a big come back on peoples tables. I think i'll pick up a nice big cabbage today!

[goinghomesomeday1]

@Buffalobigboy69 - I AGREE. My wife and I went out for a meal recently to a 5* restaurant. On the plate was """a creation""" which cost a fortune and it wasn’t that nice. I can tell you that I would have preferred a plate of my Mum's or Grandmothers special stew. If you want the recipe let me know.

[lozza649]

MR CAVENDISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[demipanko]

This film is effing golden

[teenelizabeth]

Yum, this makes me want to eat boiled cabbage...one of my favorite vegetable dishes, actually. I didn't like it at all until it was practically the only thing my husband and I could afford to eat. I can't even begin to count the number of times we ate boiled cabbage and red potatoes out of sheer necessity; now, we eat it simply because we love it. :) This video was adorable - thanks for posting!

[paulj0557]

Cabbage can be prepared in dozens of ways plus it's growing season extends almost year round. Sour kraut is an easy dish that requires little hands on preparation. Cabbage rolls can be filled with ground lamb, beef, turkey, etc. and can even be mixed with TVP, or rice to stretch it out into more rolls. There is no reason we need to panic about food rationing, even if it is in our future. Our parents and grand parents survived and so can we. The key is to share and share alike, not hoard.

[Likeaperv]

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[mrsotter19]

This was great. It is a fact people were in better health and shape during the war years. I guess boiled cabbage is healthier than today's fast food.

[djdavegolden]

wheres mr cholmondley-warner ?...... i want my money back

[electrogeek77]

5:08 - Bad cabbage: the cause of society's ills.

[somersetdc]

Guess their parents were out building Lancashire bombers...or something.

[marmadukesymesparker]

I wish I lived in the days where we ate boiled cabbage with bread. And where girls were creepy.

[fortunatebyword44]

I always get stuck for dish ideas over the holiday period. I use cookingdinnerfortwo (.) com to liven up my range.

[goinghomesomeday1]

Common sense films.

That’s what we need today to try and educate the feral children of today’s society whose eating habits and table manners are an embarrassment to any civilised person.

With all our modern technology today we have lost an awful lot. Manners, correctly spoken English, deportment and attire, in short etiquette.

We are living in a world which is on a very fast downwards spiral.

[theliberator1]

@goinghomesomeday1 don't worry old lad, soon you won't have to be around to see it crash, you'll be 6 feet under and never bothered by us young whipper snappers!

Tally-ho chaps!

[electrogeek77]

@goinghomesomeday1 Your parents most likely said the same thing about your generation. And their parents, and their parents, and their parents...

[goinghomesomeday1]

@electrogeek77 - LOL :-} You know, your correct. As a young-lad when I would be playing the gramaphone I would be told ""Turn down that blasted noise"" Oh! the memories. LOL.

[Crecybowman]

They can actually use cutlery! Not like people today!...

[mmmbeachlover]

This is still prime time viewing in the Ukraine.

[ROCKTHEPOLL]

Check the Two Cooks out at petercook1001 on You Tube

[isaveu]

Oh how I wish kids were more like that these days :P

[Billabongs122988]

There's still a chance that those lil gurls are still alive right?

[mmmbeachlover]

@Billabongs122988 Why, you fancy one of them?

[hylozoik]

hmhm, the world's alright - where girlys cook - and guys on fight °L°

[heightsgreen]

Spoiled little buggers those lads. Should have been fighting Germans!

[MerleOberon]

Why couldn't they just put it in the microwave?

[rosrychaplet]

he he!!!

[faithoffaith]

ive learnt something new today.

[wishywashy2016]

"Oh joy! we can cook something!"

Pay heed women! You can maybe learn something,,,

[lyricessence]

Great lesson on cooking cabbage; terrible lesson on 40s-era gender inequality: the girls are the ones who work, the boys get to play and benefit from the work of the girls...and get to pass judgment on their work, as well as the one getting to be a bully to his brother and still getting rewarded with food from his grandmother's plate.

[wishywashy2016]

I think the bullying brother bit was to highlight the type of issues poorly cooked cabbage could cause... lololol...

[elmcgruffle]

Hopefully Grandma slipped him a little cyanide or laxative...

[qbzzt]

Is forgetting our history conducive to not repeating it?

[lyricessence]

Unfortunately, remembering our history isn't always conducive to not repeating it... :D

[MerleOberon]

True...but remember it was all those Alans and Davids who were fighting the Nazis and dying....

[9Fabian]

I love these BFI films.

:-)

The way the economy is going - and with the "energy gap" coming up - this could be our future as well as our past!

[matrags]

Ah....the good ol' days when we all ate cabbage. mmmm cabbage.

[Mangina9000]

Life during rationing was simpler.

[Brandtalones]

I quite enjoy the tone of this bit of education. Nothing truly didactic, nothing heavy-handed...

[mrrk]

nice , but god what a huge bust granny has.

[reluctantpaladin]

Ahh.... the good old days. When the men could goof around outside and play with paper airplanes while the women cooked ;)

[chopin65]

LOL! ;P

[xyzllii]

NOWADAYS the kids would smoke it ...what went wrong `/- ?

[mikkifly]

check out grandma`s two cabbages hidden up her dress

[DasGreenCow]

One more helpful hint for when I live on my own as a bachelor on on a budget. I enjoyed this piece and I hope to see more!

Thanks!