[Pansy-Mae]

...I take it the WW2 folk acted the part, so walked everywhere, or used public transport?

Tbh, I doubt it and in a 50 minute programme who can really tell? The programme is basically just about food, not a complete lifestyle, so anything shown outside of that is just padding for dramatic effect anyway.

The '40's diet was quite edible, if somewhat limited, but some of the muck that people ate in centuries gone by as haute cuisine, is positively disgusting in many ways, not least of which is quantity, and the amount of alcohol that was consumed is staggering - literally!

If you google " supersizers" you'll find loads of references to the series on BBC ( I should probably have said we've recently been watching re-runs from 2 or 3 years ago).