French bread ring any bells?
French bread ring any bells?
The Findus French Bread Pizza?
Like eating a lightly seasoned rounders bat. How exotic!
The Findus French Bread Pizza - hotter than the core of reactor No. 4 at a certain power plant.
Who remembers these?
They were a Friday night treat from Parkinson's; the best sweet shop / tobacconist in Christendom.
This was very popular in the 70s. Served with salad or as a lunchbox extra.
cromolyolly - Baxter's Royal Game soup?
Still available.
No evidence of royals in the ingredients list - and not much game either...
Ingredients
Water
Game (4%) (Venison, Pheasant)
Potatoes
Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin)
Tomatoes
Carrots
Modified Maize Starch
Onions
Venison Liver
Swede
Cornflour
Yeast Extract
Sugar
Venison Heart
Barley Malt Extract
Salt
Caramelised Sugar
Beef Extract
Spices (Black Pepper, Cumin, Fenugreek, Ginger, Pimento, Red Chilli Pepper, Turmeric)
Thyme
Coriander
Garlic Powder
Bay Leaf
Sunflower Oil
Ooh, I love a bit of Gala pie. Annoying if you get the bit that’s just white with no yolk though.
Yep love Gala pie and the above one looks high quality
I've usually got a shaker of Aromat on the go but I've run out and none of my locals have it stock at the moment.
I still love Angel Delight too.
Apparently, we were too poor for the pop man so I never got to sample any of the sugary delights available. Still got shit teeth though. 🙁
Gala Pie, salad cream and Chinese Leaf lettuce with loads of salt. Washed down with Barr Lemonade with a dash of Ribena (but not too much as it makes you wee!) and a French Fancy or two.
Sunday tea in my Gran's flat circa 1976.
10p pushed into your hand on the way out with a strict instruction not to tell your parents.
What is that aromat stuff?
I really fancy a brown derby, was my fave.
Them 70's salads with the fried bread, no wonder my and my Mates dads all ended up with triple bypasses 🙁
*s***** Bender the meaty frankfurter.
Has someone locked binners away? Thread about dodgy food and he's nowhere to be seen..?
Makes you think...
Another s**** - brown derby; I wasn't a Wimpy customer so don't know if the taste was consistent with the photo and mental image.
Hope not.
****ing ‘gala pie’. Wow haven’t heard that for a while. Still no idea what it is!
Whatever happened to galas in general though, eh? And those community treasure hunts where mom and dad and the kids would pile into the Austin Maxi with a photocopied sheet of clues, then wind up at the final clue//location which was ALWAYS a pub and ALWAYS either a fish n chip supper delivered en-masse to said pub from a local chippy, or a chicken-in-a-basket supper if the pub was a bit more a-la-mode!
Happy days.
‘gala pie’. Wow haven’t heard that for a while.
She's still got her strong beliefs.
Has someone locked binners away?
He has no interest in Wimpy, they provided real cutlery.
Treacle sponge pudding tins that you cooked in a saucepan of water.
Robertson's golliwog jam.
^ We generally had Robertsons strawberry jam 😉
As a kid I had a whole set of those gollies in a band. I loved them and it never occurred to me as a 9-yr old how horribly racist the emblem/backstory was! Which is sort of the point that these ‘golliwog clubs’ (seriously on FB) seem to miss. It was normalised in 70s but I’m surprised that it was remained their emblem until 2001 before they finally grew a pair and ditched it that year.
Worth a read for any one
Heinz Treacle or Strawberry sponge puddings from the tin with hot custard on were incredibly good. Ate them up until not that many years ago when Heinz got rid of it (2015) Why did they do that? The other brands in tiny plastic microwave tubs are nowhere near.
Baxter’s Royal Game soup?
Still available.
No evidence of royals in the ingredients list – and not much game either…
Frank - yep, that's the stuff. Never read the labels as a kid. I never think to look for it in the shops. I only remember it when someone starts talking about the food I used to eat and that. Reminds me. I'm guessing if I had it now, it would be as good as I remember. Although I occasionally have a pot noodle and those are as good as they always were.
And those community treasure hunts where mom and dad and the kids would pile into the Austin Maxi with a photocopied sheet of clues, then wind up at the final clue//location which was ALWAYS a pub and ALWAYS either a fish n chip supper delivered en-masse to said pub from a local chippy, or a chicken-in-a-basket supper if the pub was a bit more a-la-mode!
Happy days.
My God, I’d forgotten all about them. Read your post and it brought back a flood of good memories. No clue what we were looking for though. Just remember loads of kids piling in to some random dads car. Sat on each other’s knees in the back. Early 80’s safety! Always ended at a pub called The Traveler’s Rest which was great because they had Vigilante and Double Dragon arcade cabinets.
10p pushed into your hand on the way out with a strict instruction not to tell your parents.
Heart-warming.
Cheese and tomato pot noodles. Magic
Tinned fruit cocktail, with maybe 2 cherries in the whole tin.
Soup and pudding was the worst dinner ever, I hated soup and pudding days.
10p pushed into your hand on the way out with a strict instruction not to tell your parents.
Heart-warming.
when my niece and nephew were little, when we used to see them I always made a point of having a pack of choc buttons, or jelly tots or whatever, so when i took the littl'un out to the car for my sister at home time I could quickly leave them in the grab handle on the door on my niece's side.
I think she knows it was me, but we never spoke or speak about it. I don't know if my sister knows at all.
LOVE this. 😃
10p pushed into your hand on the way out with a strict instruction not to tell your parents.
The giving of "spends" - was always accompanied by the dreaded nana kiss. Full vacuum that displaced blood volume and a hibiscus red mark on the cheek. Loved my nana though. When we stayed over at a weekend, she used to make me a shandy - worthington E and a splash of lemonade.
Soup and pudding was the worst dinner ever, I hated soup and pudding days.
Don’t know if this was common or not but we had 1970s soup-meals designed around a volcano built from mashed potatoes! They were amazing. Oxtail soup poured into a mash volcano.
Then a Heinz pud for pudding. Horses for courses.
Then, at the end of the decade and with the advent of Smash (instant mash) our ‘soup volcano‘ treat literally dissolved before our eyes. Why, mom? Why? Smash wasn’t cheaper than potatoes. It was just crappier and easier.
Proper mash holds up, even covered in soup. Even better if lumpy. It combines the awesome tastes of good solid potato mash with the taste of the (still mostly liquid) soup. Like a meal!
Instant mash does not hold up. It dissolves quickly, making the soup thicker yet somehow more tasteless.
It was with this disappointment that I first began to suspect much of ‘progress’.
As the 80s were gearing up to deliver such robotic blandness, luck saw a curry-craze on the horizon. Mr Daves? Yo Min Li? Some of you will know 😉
I remember one day a week soup and pudding, the pudding was fine but the soup heavy on the carrot,neep,tauties put me off soup for a while
I was one of 7 in the household , anyone who stole a chip off another's plate would risk getting stabbed on the back of the hand with the 4 pronged fork
No need for food banks back then
Tinned ravioli was one I always liked - but I made the mistake of buying a can a few years back when my kids were small, let them try one of my childhood favourites... god it was awful! Some things are best left in the past.
As the 80s were gearing up to deliver such robotic blandness, luck saw a curry-craze on the horizon. Mr Daves? Yo Min Li? Some of you will know
Let's not forget Ken Hom, Floyd and the rest that were soon to drag British cooking out of the post-war doldrums. The sad thing of course is that the rest of Europe (and quite possibly the world) still has that over-boiled veg and dry meat view of British cooking 🙁
I liked the lolly stick jokes – helped to soothe the disappointment of reaching the end of the lolly!
But then you could hunt around the street (littering wasn't an issue in the 70s, obviously!) and make a home-made frisbee/boomerang thing out of lolly sticks.
Most of this stuff you can still get, however ‘Chinese leaf’ has just taken me back 35 years! Can you still get them? Are they known as something else? I loved them
Don’t know if this was common or not but we had 1970s soup-meals designed around a volcano built from mashed potatoes! They were amazing. Oxtail soup poured into a mash volcano.
Chips in soup was a thing when I was a kid. I still do it occasionally today, I've no idea if it was common anywhere else or just something my family had concocted.
soup-meals designed around a volcano built from mashed potatoes
WHAT?!? ... runs off to peel some potatoes 😃
Has someone locked binners away? Thread about dodgy food and he’s nowhere to be seen..?
Makes you think…
It's possible that one may have overstepped the mark a tad when lefty-baiting on one of the politics threads, resulting in a week-long visit from the banhammer 😀
Anyway... 70's food. I remember these things - Goblin steamed puddings - at my grans house, with chips and gravy. I've never seen them since but it would appear that they are still a thing. Do I try them again this evening and risk divorce? Or leave consigned to the past?
My memories of the Late 70's / Early 80's
Birds Trifle
Greens Creme Caramel
Spam Fritters
Cheap Co-op Jelly - even better if you nicked a concentrated packet from the cupboard and ate it, especially black cherry!
Vesta Chow Mien with Crispy Noodles
Fletchers Sliced White Bread from a Van that came to my Grandma's house in Sheffield.
Ben Shaws Golden Lemonade (At Grandmas)
Ben Shaws Dandelion and Burdock (Ditto)
Jones Cherryade (Nottingham my home town)
Piccalilli
Silverskin Pickled Onions - and the spring loaded fork to try and spear them.
Cheese and Pineapple Hedgehogs at Kids Parties
Batenburg Cake
Celery in a Jug with salt
Yorkshire Platter plate - Sliced Egg / Beetroot / Longley Farm Cottage Cheese (Thankfully I can still get this!)
Super Sour and Fireball Gobstoppers (Always a school favourite, and you got done if you were caught with the chewing gum afterwards)
Sherbet Dib-Dab
Fizz Bombs
Whimpy (Pork Bender) Burgers (Posh Fast Food with cutlery!)
Ordering a McDonalds Banana Milkshake in 1981 on a day trip to London and my mum sending it back as it was full of ice cream and it will be bad for his stomach!
Anyone else remember the spring loaded lamp that pulled down from the ceiling, to illuminate your food from 30cm height? And Serving Hatches to pass the food from the kitchen!
@Malvern Rider - minor hijack of thread here, sorry
Mr Daves? Yo Min Li? Some of you will know 😉
I know the Mr Dave's in Dawley closed (although it's still a curry house); did the one in Lye go too? I've not had reason to go down that way since our office in Halesowen was closed.
Whimpy (Pork Bender)
i loved that wimpy served their burgers in brown rolls. A lot of branches served their fast food with proper plates and cutlery too.
EDIT: I thought Wimpy had disappeared from the UK (their HQ is now in South Africa) but I've just found out theres a branch inside a bowling alley near me in Kilmarnock. Weird
There's also a Wimpy in the bowling alley at M&D's in Stratchclyde Park.
Wimpy branch in Ruislip too. They were closed when I was there so I had to go to the Nepalese curry house instead.
Chips in soup was a thing when I was a kid. I still do it occasionally today,
I love chips in soup.
Anyone else remember the spring loaded lamp that pulled down from the ceiling, to illuminate your food from 30cm height? And Serving Hatches to pass the food from the kitchen!
Mrs Funks Gran still has both of these.
