it's totally new to me
Not necessarily. "Hancock's Half Hour" and "Goon show" episodes were sold on vinyl records at the time (and are still to be found on the big internet retailer on Vinyl, CD and MP3).
If the media were in the house, years later, kids would play them for amusement.
:)
the only time I've ever heard the Goon show or Hancock's Half Hour, has always been whilst listening to the radio (typically 2 or 4) that makes a reference to the shows and plays a few seconds clip
Within my limited field of family and friends I would say that people have heard about them, but have not really listened to them
The funniest one I remember is "The Blood Doner", which turns out was a TV episode (most were just radio).
"The Radio Ham" is also good.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_Donor / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEUvyaNu0uw
A web search turns up this pre-decimalization advertisement: https://englandspuzzle.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Batche... . Just plain "Windsor soup", but dark (dare I say brown?), and so clearly not the Francatelli recipe mentioned in the article. It's also on a 1926 menu in the Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, shown here: http://www.foodsofengland.co.uk/brownwindsorsoup.htm . Binns was a department store in Sunderland, England.
So it definitely existed, but appears to have fallen out of fashion decades ago.
On the other hand, I rescued my late mother's recipe books when we cleared their house and I can offer up a recipe for "Brown Stew" if anyone's interested. Still not "Windsor" though.
Is that the Good Housekeeping recipe book by any chance? That has a number of brown things, including stew.
"SAVOURY SAUCES
"Vast as the number of individual savoury sauces may be, most of them can be divided into White (simple or rich), Brown and Egg sauces, plus a group of Miscellaneous ones such as Mint Sauce."
Though it is actually a pretty good cookery book in many ways.
If I were to point at a dish that was probably more popular in the past it would be fried eel, which you can still find in certain places in London.
BWS, never heard of it, family is British and they've not heard of it either.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_80_Days_...
I have never heard of Brown Windsor soup until today. An article that's debunking a myth itself contains a myth.