Food from your childhood.

Shenshen

MrWalsh wrote: »

Yeah, sugar sandwiches and worse, an uncle of mine used to eat brown sauce sandwiches.

Heh, my husband still does!

whiskeyman

Journey Victorious Registry wrote: »

Our "recent history?" It was 170 years ago!

exactly :rolleyes:

chakotha

I'd never even heard of haslet before this thread.

The small pizza's we used to sometimes have were called King Harry's I think.

I remember when Knorr Quick Lunch's came out we used to pester our folks for them but were hardly ever allowed such junk food.

chakotha

My grandparents had a big dairy and beef farm and had a massive chest freezer choc full of 'mate (field to cattle box to butcher to car boot to freezer).

Dinner used to be roast beef nearly every day between 1 and 2.

'Tea' was between 6 and 7 and was either a small fry, or breadcrumbed fish (sole or plaice) or a salad usually with deviled eggs.

Day Lewin

OOh yes! Hot pot dried dinners! Little plastic pot like some types of noodles. You added boiling water and it was supposed to turn into a full meal, with tiny cubes of dried potato, "meat" "mushroom" etc.

Perfect student food apart from being expensive and wasteful of packaging. Didn't last long, I think.

There used to be an Erin Dried Potato Flake that even pre-dated Smash, it was absolutely vile, like soap flakes. Turned into a greyish sludge.

And there were Instant Packet Dried "Chips", just like little orange matchsticks in colour and consistency.

I'm loving this thread, it has opened whole seams of memory. Wasn't it Proust who wrote a book based on that? Memories opened by the taste of a childhood food?

Shenshen

katemarch wrote: »

I'm loving this thread, it has opened whole seams of memory. Wasn't it Proust who wrote a book based on that? Memories opened by the taste of a childhood food?

"In Search of Lost Time (French: À la recherche du temps perdu)—also translated as Remembrance of Things Past—is a novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust (1871–1922). His most prominent work, it is known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the madeleine.""

kylith

Lia_lia wrote: »

What are these sugar sandwiches that yer on about? Is it bread butter and sugar? Never heard of anything like that! Mad!

They're mega, so they are. Has to be crusty bread and proper butter though.

MrWalsh wrote: »

You just reminded me, a Sunday treat was a block of ice cream in a tall glass of red lemonade!

Sounds gross, we loved it.

They were gross. I always dreaded getting one at a birthday party, especially a coke float. An orange one isn't too bad, it tastes a bit like a melted super split.

Tripe. There's something you don't get any more. I think my butcher would fall over if I asked for some, especially after his confusion when I tried to buy mutton from him. There's something else you don't often see; mutton.

Lingua Franca

anncoates wrote: »

Think there was a brand called Shipmans too. Fish or meat paste, kinda like pate.

This is an absolute delight:

https://twitter.com/shippamspaste

Highlights:

not shippams paste @ShippamsPaste · 3 Nov 2011
for a lunch time treat try a sandwich

not shippams paste @ShippamsPaste · 19 Oct 2011
remember to learn something new every day today i learned about seo for e-business and that tuna is a fish

and my all time favourite:

not shippams paste
‏@ShippamsPaste
theres no vegetarian pastes sorry but why not try the crab spread its only crabs

MrWalsh

When we were growing up my mother observed the "no meat on fridays" rule, but we didnt always have enough money for fish (or none available) so sometimes fridays dinner was chips, eggs and beans. When we were a bit older the "no meat on friday rule" was forgotten and it was chips, eggs, sausages and beans. A real treat if there was also gravy!!

I personally hated any "organ" dinner - liver, kidney, tongue.

Lingua Franca

katemarch wrote: »

@Kwiecien

There was also a substance-in-a-jar called simply "Sandwich Spread". Possibly sold by Heinz?

It looked exactly like vomit. Sorry, but it genuinely did!

That's still on sale in a lot of places. The taste is best described as coleslaw made with salad cream. I quite like it as a one off, which is why I haven't tasted it in over 2 decades.

MrWalsh

Course while we were still all being duped that cereals were healthy and not massive bowls of sugar...... we used to eat huge bowls of kellogs AND add about a quarter inch of sugar on top!

Kiwi in IE

Feijoas! I miss them!

Yeah none of you know what the hell they are! A gorgeous fruit that you don't seem to be able to get here. We had a feijoa tree and I used to stuff myself with them when they were in season.

My mum was a really good cook. We always had gorgeous dinners, dessert and baking. I'm a pretty good cook too, to the point little Kiwi doesn't like having dinner at other peoples places and the neighbours kids always hang around me when they come over and I'm in the kitchen.

My maternal grandma is Greek so we got loads of the lovely mediterranean style food that my mum grew up with when we were kids.

Jjiipp79

Tayto cheese & onion sandwich

fussyonion

My other half said "Oh yeah, I remember brawn. What was it made from?"
I have no idea; anyone care to enlighten us?

anncoates

fussyonion wrote: »

My other half said "Oh yeah, I remember brawn. What was it made from?"
I have no idea; anyone care to enlighten us?

It's like spam, wasn't it? Processed pink "meat" in a huge roll that they used to slice with a electric slicer.

Or am I mixing it up with something else.

skylight1987

calvita cheese yuk

kfallon

Anyone remember United bars, biscuit, chocolate and honeycomb, beautiful!

Crumpets

Sausages, mash and beans was one of my favourite dinners as a child. Chop the sausages into little pieces and mix it all together

kfallon

Crumpets wrote: »

Sausages, mash and beans was one of my favourite dinners as a child. Chop the sausages into little pieces and mix it all together

Stick the sausages into the mash sticking up the way just like in the comics

maryfred

Jjiipp79 wrote: »

Fried onion and tins of spaghetti..

And my fav turnip sandwich!

Here was me thinking that I was the only one who loved turnip sandwiches!

fussyonion

kfallon wrote: »

Stick the sausages into the mash sticking up the way just like in the comics

Like the way The Bashstreet Kids did in the The Beano!!

fussyonion

Champion Cheese: came in a blue box with pictures of footballers on it.
Used to love that on crackers.

Irish Stew: came in a yellow tin and although I'm against meals in tins, this was actually gorgeous..the potatoes in it were delicious.

fleet_admiral

Mashed potato with beans through it and a pork chop is one my fondest memories from the 80's

maryfred

When our milk was delivered in glass bottles and there would be an inch of cream on the top.Fighting over that at breakfast and also the "dust" at the end of the cereal packet.
My dad was out of work for a while during the 80's and dinners for a long time were mashed potatoes and packet soup poured over. Even now I have this fear of not being able to put food on the table.

Also my brothers loved salad cream sandwiches,which was handy because often that's all was in the house. Myself not so much,therefore I was a very skinny child.

Aglomerado

maryfred wrote: »

Here was me thinking that I was the only one who loved turnip sandwiches!

Not so much in sandwiches but I loved (and still do) raw turnip chopped up in chunks and dipped in a little salt. Delicious.... (Hate the cooked variety though)

Clare crudités...

And "Little Dinners", "Knorr Quick Lunch" and "Vesta" curries, just some of the disgusting processed crap I ate as a teenager....

fleet_admiral

Does anyone remember the cheese sambos one day and corned beef sambos another day in school?

kfallon

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Does anyone remember the cheese sambos one day and corned beef sambos another day in school?

I hated corned beef when I was younger (not the decent meat you'd have for Sunday dinner but the sliced stuff)

Funnily enough I quite like it now but I would never, ever eat it in a sandwich back in the day!

fleet_admiral

kfallon wrote: »

I hated corned beef when I was younger (not the decent meat you'd have for Sunday dinner but the sliced stuff)

Funnily enough I quite like it now but I would never, ever eat it in a sandwich back in the day!

The hanley corned beef they sell in SV is amazing on turnover

Living Off The Splash

Tapioca with a dollop of ice cream. Could eat it all day. Unfortunately it takes ages to make.

kfallon

fleet_admiral wrote: »

The hanley corned beef they sell in SV is amazing on turnover

Must check it out!

deco nate

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Still eat them, love it.

I thought dennys stopped making pies in a tin??

Day Lewin

The bread, I'd forgotten the bread!

Batch bread really WAS made in batches, came as a sort of sheet of loaves, with dark domed crusts rising up like cobblestones.
They would break one off, leaving a soft, pulled crumb surface called "the fly's walk".
There was often a sort of flap or strip of loose bread hanging from it so you could pull that away and eat it on the way home. Sometimes this hollowed out a regular little shallow cave in the side of the loaf...

There was also a version of the loaf called a Duck, (shaped something like a Calzone) and another shape called a Turnover, which was folded into a sort of L-shape and also "batched" along the sides.

eternal

deco nate wrote: »

I thought dennys stopped making pies in a tin??

Steak and Kidney pie in a tin, it's over 1,000 calories.

Smiles35

Dunnes used to do an own brand steak and kidney pie in a tin. Contained the nicest gravy in the world.

eternal wrote: »

Steak and Kidney pie in a tin, it's over 1,000 calories.

Yeah. I used to fall asleep after one.

5star02707

Planters

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Bubble gum skittles

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Pepsi blue

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Turtyturd

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Mashed potato with beans through it and a pork chop is one my fondest memories from the 80's

Still get this occasionally...with two sausages on the side.

My memory of it growing up was that every time without fail I wouldn't have enough beans to mix with the potato and have a big dry chunk.

MrWalsh

eternal wrote: »

Steak and Kidney pie in a tin, it's over 1,000 calories.

I was in LIDL one day and a junkie came in and and shouted at staff that he was looking for a steak and kidney pie "IN A TIN!!"

SEPT 23 1989

Living Off The Splash wrote: »

Tapioca with a dollop of ice cream. Could eat it all day. Unfortunately it takes ages to make.

Ambrosia do it in a tin

ardmacha

Funny, while my mother made lovely apple and rhubarb tarts and the like, all you ever wanted was Angel Delight.

fleet_admiral

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Ambrosia do it in a tin

And dealz sell it

MRnotlob606

고양이와 독수리

Smidge

fussyonion wrote: »

My other half said "Oh yeah, I remember brawn. What was it made from?"
I have no idea; anyone care to enlighten us?

anncoates wrote: »

It's like spam, wasn't it? Processed pink "meat" in a huge roll that they used to slice with a electric slicer.

Or am I mixing it up with something else.

As far as I remember it was neon pink in colour processed sliced meat that you got at "the counter" (it wasn't sold in packs).
It wasnt the texture of spam though. It was like a cross between sliced corned beef and pork, onion and tomato roll(there's another one from the past )

I dread to think what it was made from considering the makers thought the best way to sell it and make it in anyway possible appealing, was to make it that colour

deco nate

eternal wrote: »

Steak and Kidney pie in a tin, it's over 1,000 calories.

Mmm, tasty tasty calories dennys made the best,
All others can feck off

deco nate

eternal wrote: »

Steak and Kidney pie in a tin, it's over 1,000 calories.

Mmm, tasty tasty calories dennys made the best,
All others can feck off

deco nate

eternal wrote: »

Steak and Kidney pie in a tin, it's over 1,000 calories.

Mmm, tasty tasty calories dennys made the best,
All others can feck off

eisenberg1

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

I remember the excitement, many, many moons ago, when we had a Vesta curry.

They used to advertise every night on the Tele and there were loads of flavours.

Couple of years back I got nostalgic and got one again. What utter sh1t. It was awful. We had to get something else to eat

Jesus, I remember those well, my introduction to "exotic" food. As a matter of interest, where did you buy them?

JONJO THE MISER

deco nate wrote: »

I thought dennys stopped making pies in a tin??

Im pretty sure they still make them only had one last year, i get the ones in dealz now by some english company.

Jam roly-poly with hot custard. Why is this not sold everywhere?

eisenberg1

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

A type of spicy sausage that was used in sandwiches. Don't be put off by its grey colour.

I see wiki gives as liver, heart, lungs - all good stuff

Lips, eyeballs and assring. Plus "flavouring":)

eternal

Candie wrote: »

Jam roly-poly with hot custard. Why is this not sold everywhere?

Is that not just swiss roll?