Your fantastic food memories!

whiskeyman

Kids these days are exposed to so many types of food.
A little kid in the shop the other day was asking his Mum to buy him Papaya.
Papaya!?? It was far from papaya we were reared!

Jam sambos for lunch, and spuds and meat were our staple growing up.
But the odd time you'd get something out of the ordinary.
Maybe a neighbour up the road was having rice! the madness of it all! Sure he'd probably turn Chinese!

For me, I'll never for my first Goodfellas pizza.
It was World Cup 1994, Ireland Vs Italy, and we were all kids around in my mates place, when his Mum cooked up 'The Big Cheese' pizza.
Before that, we may have had those yellow pack pizzas in a pack of 10, but this was something else. Big thick bready base, with cheese overflowing and burning your mouth and it slide off the red, herby sauce that would stain your white Ireland away top like a b*tch!
Oh how we thought we were kings of kings!

Any food related memories stick vividly in your head?

Ipso

Green Curry in Koh Samet, Thailand. Cost about one euro. Best meal ever and I doubt I will get a better one at 100 times the price.

Filmer Paradise

'80s teatime often included Fish Fingers,Vesta Curry or the legendary Findus Crispy Pancakes.

Not all at once of course.:D

DMcL1971

Johnston, Mooney & O’Brien chocolate pies, my absolute favorite snacks. Unfortunately I haven’t seen one in decades.

Rubberlegs

I can remember spaghetti bolognese and chicken curry that were frozen in bags that you had to boil to heat through. Crispy pancakes. And I swear I can remember a Goodfellas pizza that had peach on it , would have been early 90s. No one else can remember it though

gifted

Sausage sandwiches as kids on holidays....

Doyler92

First time having a spice bag...

Glico Man

Not so much a happy memory, more like a nightmare, but I remember being given cucumber and cress sandwiches as a child. Horrific.

OldMrBrennan83

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Herpes Free Since03

Koka noodles... curry flavour...manna from heaven!

4Ad

My mothers homemade chips we had every Friday.
Findus Pancakes, now theres a blast from the past !
The filling would burn the mouth off you.

JohnnyFlash

Passion4Food, Clanbrassil Street, each and every time I go there. Men who care deeply about the art of the kebab.

Ulysses Gaze

Ipso wrote: »

Green Curry in Koh Samet, Thailand. Cost about one euro. Best meal ever and I doubt I will get a better one at 100 times the price.

Similar experience here in Thailand with Green Curry. The best I ever had. I came close to madness trying to find it here in the Ireland, but they just can’t get the spices right.

Graces7

My mum;s lemon meringue pie.. Lancashire vanilla slices ( nothing like they sell here),, ditto custard pies..

Second childhood here; large birthday on Monday next and they are marking it with a PUBLIC HOLIDAY!

jester77

About 20 years ago I was in Prague, back then you would just arrive and walk towards Muzeum and you were guaranteed to find somewhere to sleep. Met an old Czech army soldier and he took me to his place in the suburbs. Next to it was the most amazing little Czech restaurant, food for only 3 or 4 pounds back then. Still can taste the orange duck I had there.

weemcd

There are few greater pleasures than standing outside Friar Tucks in Newry steaming after a session devouring a chicken supreme meal. Complete and total bliss. Not a care in the world. There are few things that will ever beat it for me.

First barbecue stands out. First takeaway pizza.

badabing106

First pitch black charcoal burnt barbecued sausage. Heaven

mackeire

I remember when I was in third class in school my dad collected me early on my birthday and brought me to McDonald's.

It was great because we didn't do much together because he was always working.

God I miss my dad!!


He's not dead or anything, just haven't seen him in about 2 weeks.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

whiskeyman wrote: »

For me, I'll never for my first Goodfellas pizza.
It was World Cup 1994, Ireland Vs Italy, and we were all kids around in my mates place, when his Mum cooked up 'The Big Cheese' pizza.
Before that, we may have had those yellow pack pizzas in a pack of 10, but this was something else. Big thick bready base, with cheese overflowing and burning your mouth and it slide off the red, herby sauce that would stain your white Ireland away top like a b*tch!
Oh how we thought we were kings of kings!

Those Goodfellas pizzas were amazing. I lived on them for years!!! Why did they ever have to change the recipe?

Ush1

4Ad wrote: »

My mothers homemade chips we had every Friday.
Findus Pancakes, now theres a blast from the past !
The filling would burn the mouth off you.

Didn't they do a chicken curry flavour pancake? Filling was hotter than the sun!

omb0wyn5ehpij9

Ush1 wrote: »

Didn't they do a chicken curry flavour pancake? Filling was hotter than the sun!

You are correct on both counts, they did a chicken curry flavour, and the filling was hotter than the sun!

greencap

DMcL1971 wrote: »

Johnston, Mooney & O’Brien chocolate pies, my absolute favorite snacks. Unfortunately I haven’t seen one in decades.

mr kipling, bramley apple ....AND CUSTARD.... pies.

they discontinued them after several orgasm related deaths.

uch

Rum truffle from Anne's Hot Bread Shop, greatest thing on the planet

TooObvious

10 years ago I had the pleasure of cycling the Kellogs Tour of Ireland, on the 3rd day we cycled from Galway to Kilkenny - 244km. We had to climb the Silvermines on the way - it was a hot day and we were all suffering, the final climb up to the food stop was super steep and had people dismounting and walking/crying/contemplating life etc. Somehow i made it to the top without getting off. Anyway, at the top there was a food stop, now, being from Longford and a fussy eater I had never had pineapple, that day we were provided with freshly cut and cold, pineapple slices - Sweet mother of divine baby jebus I had never tasted anything as good in my life! I must have wolfed down half a pineapple before leaving. I'll never forget that day.

Cupcake_Crisis

Poutine. I miss poutine so much.

Billy86

DMcL1971 wrote: »

Johnston, Mooney & O’Brien chocolate pies, my absolute favorite snacks. Unfortunately I haven’t seen one in decades.

Clearly this isn't a minor issue with you either, you're the first thing to pop up when I googled them!

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057565298

valoren

On a school trip during 5th year to Paris.

The hotel we stayed at was modest given the budget but the freshly made croissants we had every morning there were absolutely lovely, proper melt in your mouth ones.

23 years later, I've never tasted any croissant half as nice as they were.

FanadMan

My mum was a great cook. We grew up eating Indian, Chinese and Italian foods regularly. Not the Vesta packet muck, all scratch made. This was in the early 70s in very rural Ireland. Most of my friends only had spaghetti from a tin and rice was boiled in milk for pudding.

No matter how I tweak her handwritten recipes, I can never get them to taste the same

maxwell smart

Ice Creams 'back in the day', When they were made of real Ice Cream.

Gollybars (non PC now), Loop the Loops, Wibbly Wobbly Wonders. All fantastic when originally out. (Actually all those names are probably now objectionable to someone)

Forget your Magnums and your Ben & Jerry's sugar fructose E-numbered ****e.

Bring back the good stuff!!

Corvo

Slice of pizza from Sacco's in Hells Kitchen, New York. Proper old Italian family place, it was made fresh on the spot. You could collect it from the window and stroll down the street eating it. It was Christmas time too. Majestic.

LirW

My first doner kebab when I was about 8 or so.
My mother brought 2 weirdly shaped things home, wrapped in tin-foil. It had the shape of the quarter of a circle.
I was curious and a bit disgusted at the same time, I've never seen anything like it before, bread filled with meat and veg and a yogurt sauce.
But my sister and I split one of the two and I was taken away, instant love.
Now I haven't had one in a good while, because after long and hard research I found this place at home that just does the best, the take-away sh1te here in Ireland doesn't live up to it.

Man I want one right now.

silverharp

when the local deli started selling pizza bases in the 80's , going to some of the chains that opened up back in the day like Dunkin Doughnuts , Eddie Rockets. jaysus I probably sound like an auld one going on about their first banana after the war

Mint Sauce

When Pizza Hut, and Pizza Express first started their All You Can Eat Buffet, and eating competitions amoungst your friends.

Realtai

I had an amazing chicken sandwich with mayonnaise when I was about 6, in Dublin Airport. Haven't had anything like it, before or since.

cherryghost

Crisp or sausage sandwiches were the bees knees

iHungry

When seven eleven opened up the road and my pocket money allowed me to try microwave chips for the first time

biko

Had Lahmacun in Instanbul, very yummy.

valoren

In 2007, I worked in Birmingham with a daily per diem for food of £25.

Every Thursday, myself and two colleagues would have a cheap breakfast and lunch, in order to save the expense rate to have an Indian meal in one of the best restaurants, Ashas, in the city centre. Their Biryani was absolutely gorgeous and those were good times.

JohnnyFlash

biko wrote: »

Had Lahmacun in Instanbul, very yummy.

Most of the food in Istanbul is fantastic.

The food in the main restaurant in monart is amazing

TPD

I was backpacking south east Asia last year and had some amazing food. On my hundredth day travelling I was in Vientiane, and found a very well reviewed American BBQ style place. Facebooked them explaining that I couldn't pick one thing from their menu, and would they give me a wee bit of everything for $20 delivered, which they did. Got enough food for 2 people easily - Burger, ribs, wings, mozzarella sticks, fries, dippers, about 8 different hot sauces, sausage, was brilliant. The difference from the (amazing) food I'd been eating up til that point made it all the better.

Pretzill

DMcL1971 wrote: »

Johnston, Mooney & O’Brien chocolate pies, my absolute favorite snacks. Unfortunately I haven’t seen one in decades.

I remember them they were delicious - don't think they make them anymore :-(

B0jangles

On a family holiday in Scotland years ago, we got a load of cambozola that they were selling off cheap in the local shop because no-one liked it.

So.

Much.

Cheese.

Cheesy heaven it was

humberklog

DMcL1971 wrote: »

Johnston, Mooney & O’Brien chocolate pies, my absolute favorite snacks. Unfortunately I haven’t seen one in decades.

These. Unbelievably good. I only ever got them in my school's tuck shop. 30 years since I've saw one.

LirW

biko wrote: »

Had Lahmacun in Instanbul, very yummy.

Reminds me of another really nice moment: Travelled Georgia (the country) for a few weeks, now that was a good few years ago and dealing with Georgians can be a bit of a pain because many are not very approachable. Anyway, we did our last 2 days in Tbilisi and we were on the hunt for some food. We ended up in a backyard Turkish restaurant, with like a huge meat display and lots of TVs playing Turkish pop in the restaurant area upstairs. Now the waitress didn't speak a word english but she took us downstairs to the display and shows us a few things, one of them a Lahmacun.
Ordered one to share as starter, it was absolutely mindblowing!
We had a few shish kebabs after that with sides, it was hands down one of the best meals out I've ever had.

Squatter

Showing my age here, but the first time that I every encountered real garlic bread was a real eye opener! Although we occasionally had a curry of sorts, my ma wouldn't have ever contemplated allowing garlic into our house - dat was for foreigners!

I also remember my first introduction to pizza which occurred while on a football trip to Liverpool. Couldn't even pronounce the word, let alone understand what the fuss was about! Anyway, I wanted steak and chips!

SEPT 23 1989

Cans of Campbell's Chicken Stew

Succulent pieces of chicken and potatoes and carrots

Lived on it back on the day seemed healthy enough compared today's crap

Can't understand why it's no longer on the shelves

Also Green Isle slices of pizza

Rubberlegs

Teat Time Express Australian layer cake was the nicest shop bought cake ever. They did a pineapple one and a coffee one too and others probably but they didn't come close. The bakery closed in 2012 after 70 odd years , God I miss that cake

cloudatlas

Maverick bars!
Also Marks and Spencer did a white chocolate torte that was divine but also discontinued.

AllForIt

My Lemon cheesecake. My favourite dessert second to baked alaska.

PARlance

whiskeyman wrote: »

Big thick bready base, with cheese overflowing and burning your mouth and it slide off the red, herby sauce that would stain your white Ireland away top like a b*tch!

Goodfella's Deep Pan Pepperoni. Despite being a bit of a pizza snob, (make my own from scratch as do my parents who owned a pizzeria once upon a time), I'll always turn to Goodfella's in times of need.

We grew up in a shop, Saturday evenings were spent stocking shelfs up until Match of the Day. The Deep Pan's would be timed to perfection for the opening theme tune. My parents and 3 brothers would just sit there in bready bliss every Saturday night. It was our ritual and about the only time we weren't knocking lumps out of each other.

Somehow my father managed to cook 4 of them in the oven at once.

Another one is also bread related. As soon as the baker arrived to the shop with some fresh white batch loafs, I would fire up the meat slicer and cut myself some thinly sliced Brady's Ham. Fresh batch, plenty of butter, fresh ham and a sprinkle of salt. Just beautiful.

Somehow my father let me operate the meat slicing from the age of 8.