Old-fashioned, yes, but I wouldn't think the 40s, exactly -- there'd have been rationing then. When bread-and-dripping came up on Girlsown once, seems to me several people said they still ate it, but that's some time ago and I may have forgotten the details.

Orange sherbet and vanilla ice cream is a classic combination in the US, so I always thought of orange-juice-and-cream as being something like that. But I never could figure out how the cream didn't curdle from the acid in the orange juice.