I remember when I was little that going food shopping was like a little political lesson - coundn't have South African apples, because of apartheid, couldn't have nestle because of, well everything. There's a bit in one of the Adrian Mole books about the same thing, so it can't have been unusual, people boycotting stuff - and we weren't well off by any stretch of the imagination, so our choices were limited to start with.
I didn't really think I grew up in a particularly political house, but thinking about it, it all must've seeped in. That and Thatcher making me redundant from my post as milk monitor, which was still the job I've had with most far-reaching power.