[Closed] Meals you no longer eat.

As kids we were given many foods I wouldn't touch now - tinned spaghetti, yes...tinned most things really - like beans and sausages (although I suspect they'd still be delicious).
Pot Noodles and Findus Crispy pancakes were summer holiday staples.
Those round gammon steaks with a pineapple ring on top. The 70s were an awesome time for British cuisine.

Liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Tinned spaghetti bolognaise was the worlds best camping food, deliciously sweet when cold straight from the tin.

Liver and mash, because I don't have to eat school dinners anymore.

Anything with condensed cream.

Those tiny Pizzas that came in a stack of 10 from Bejam's!

Fray Bentos Pies.....

Mock chop supper.

Must be almost 40 years since I last had one.

Vesta curry.

Anything with meat or fish

Anything with liver. Hideous. Served with Stork margarine on white bread, and Angel Delight/instant whip for pudding......pity, I still hanker after the last bit, particularly butterscotch flavour.
Tinned tomatoes on toast - cheap student house sunday lunch.

Tinned ravioli. *kisses fingers*

Might go and get some for lunch.

Monday night fry up...

All the left overs from sunday hoofed into a frying pan and served up as a sort of "potato paty thing"

Corned beef hash, would smash a bowl right now
Spam fritters, gip.

Tinned tomatoes forgot they were a meal rather than an ingredient.

Boil in a bag fish...

and Angel Delight/instant whip for pudding……

Angel Delight was quite a treat for us as kids. Not had it in about 35 years!

Anything with wheat in it.

Started this a year ago to see of it helped with my IBS. A year later I'm not sure it has. But I generally feel a lot better and my Colestol has halved. Turns out that just happens when you're not eating anything wrapped in pastery, battered or stuck to a biscuit! so I'm sticking with it.
I have introduced a bit of sourdough though, that seems fine.

Artic Roll...

Artic ****ing Roll.

Also i can remember when a tin of salmon could make sandwiches for 12 people....

Anything with Banana, they're the devil's appendages. Apparently I used to like them as a kid, I have no memory of this.

Chocolate pudding and green custard.

Actually "chocolate flavour" things is probably about the only stuff I don't really eat these days that I used to.

Late 70s when I left home I perfected a meal that only required boiling water. Boil in the bag fish in cheese sauce, lob some frozen peas in alongside the bag, then use the water to make Smash. I thought it was ok at the time.

Liver or Kidney, any offal TBH - my mum used to make it and it was horrid, MrsF's mum used to dry fry mince - that's it, nothing added.

We used to send cottage pie to my in laws. They loved it. Little did they know we added a lot of veg into the mix, onion, carrot, peas, mushrooms, chopped tomatoes etc etc... Had they known they were getting veg, I doubt they would have eaten it !

when I was a kid I hated tomato. Anything with tomato in, including ketchup, so spagbol was a no-no.

My mum used to fry off mince and onions, make a tomatoey sauce, and a cheese sauce. My family would then mix the mince, tomato and cheese together to make a topping; I'd have spaghetti, mince and cheese sauce.

I'm home alone tonight.... and that's now tea sorted.

Artic Roll…

Artic ****ing Roll.

You are one of the Apprentice contestants, I claim my £5, and .....YOU'RE FIRED!

To bald and ugly to get anywhere near being an Apprentice....

Worse than that a mate of mine looked at me and said "you won't have any problems in the prison showers these days"

I bought some tinned ravioli a few years back, warm memories of childhood, thought I'd let my kids enjoy it too - christ it was rank, none of us could eat it.

My grandmother used to simply grill some cheese on a plate.

Also, blancmange in rabbit or rocket shaped moulds.

Roast dinner is another one... Except at Christmas when someone else cooks it for me. I'd never cook a roast for myself. Nothing about it is nice enough to bother.

we have home made everything and on the side of being pretty healthy lots of fish and pulses and beans and brown rice etc. But.....

We have a bit of fun with food with my boys (11 year old twins), we have tried pretty much everything mentioned above, even tried Spam fritters the other day, **** they were vile!

We go to a amazing Greasy Spoon sometimes after football/rugby/track on Saturdays sometimes and we all have the 'Works', I might take them over tomorrow in fact...

We had beans on toast with cheese on top last night in fact.

PS - we tried Heinz spaghetti and ravioli, they were disgusting, beans and sausages (from the same tin), now they were quite nice. We have Angels Delight quite often and we did a triple layer of Banana, Chocolate and Butterscotch a few weeks back

Couple of things.

Egg and Chipps is food of gods, your wife needs to experience it once to understand.

Tinned spaghetti is great.

How about bacon. When was the last time you had three slices of bacon, boiled potatos and cabbage or peas? nowadays its practically a condiment rather than the main event*

*with the exception of the bacon roll obviously

Do a mini-roast, I did one the other day for the boys and myself. Chicken thighs salt and pepper, roast spuds, veg and Bisto onion gravy, all clean plates and so easy to cook

"Cottage pie" Is the main reason I stick a few Kg's on each winter 🙂 Love, love love it, bang on some Worcester Sauce while your there, and a ton of peas and cabbage.

Arctic roll, not had one in a few years but was impressed how good they still were

How about bacon. When was the last time you had three slices of bacon, boiled potatos and cabbage or peas?

Bacon with cabbage or peas?

What the * * **** is wrong with you?

Mr Brain's Faggots. Not had them in a good 25+ years.

Funny as we were talking about this last night.

Many years ago, one of our favourite meals was salmon fillet, baby new potatoes, tenderstem broccoli and hollandaise sauce.

For some reason, we both now find salmon repugnant!

Bacon with cabbage or peas?

What the * * **** is wrong with you?

Fair question. 🙂

tinned most things really – like beans and sausages

Oooo, those were ace!

Tinned ravioli

And that - shopping list amended...

I bought some tinned ravioli a few years back, warm memories of childhood, thought I’d let my kids enjoy it too – christ it was rank, none of us could eat it.

... And re-amended. Sometimes it's best notvto go back...

Bacon with cabbage or peas?

What the * * **** is wrong with you?

Cabbage and bacon.

Food of both champions and Gods. And continental scale farts.

Bird's Eye beef burgers - you know, the ones that are about 75% fat and 20% onion and are the size of a biscuit by the time they are cooked.

Things like this were my stable as a kid:

Beef burger, chips* and frozen peas
Polony, chips* and frozen peas
Sausage, chips* and frozen peas

*Always proper deep fat fried ones

As a treat it would be Fish fingers, mashed potato and beans.

In the summer we'd have salad (oooh, get you) – it was lettuce, (and cucumber/tomato that I would never, ever eat) cold boiled potatoes and pork luncheon meat only made edible by drowning it all in salad cream.

Dalesteaks. How did I ever think they were nice?

Cabbage and bacon.

Food of both champions and Gods. And continental scale farts.

Yes but that's a side dish, or the basis of soup (like peas and bacon) it's not bacon served with cabbage.

Bacon served with cabbage is like serving up a plate of broccoli with a whole bulb of garlic as dinner. (Or some nonsense deconstructed crap, which deserves a good kicking not space on a plate)

like beans and sausages (although I suspect they’d still be delicious).

it is mmmm this mornings breakfast though it was served on lidl's best artisan low gi bread toasted and aldi's best orange juice. Haven't had fish fingers, tinned spaghetti in a long time. Used to live on egg chips and beans at uni, so cheap.

Oh I remember eating microwave dinner kebab things years ago. 🤢🤮

I note @binners is conspicuous by his absence from a thread about crap you no longer eat

Disappointing to see the hate for offal... if you're going to eat meat then in my view it's good to eat liver, kidney, faggots etc. I like faggots with pasta and a spicy tomato sauce.

Egg and chips is absolutely the food of the gods. We deliberately over-order chips when we have fish and chips, so we can have them with fried eggs the next day.

I no longer eat chicken - we keep them as pets and my kids refuse to touch it. The older one is veggie so we're eating much less meat anyway.

We deliberately over-order chips when we have fish and chips

Now I'm a great believer in left overs* and lots of things being as good or better cold but cold chips? You're a monster!

Bacon grill. Loved it as a kid but not been near it for years.

Similar with brains faggots.

Tinned ravioli? WTF! Bits of sick between two postage stamps. 🤮

Asked my Grandma the other day about a drink she used to make us when we were kids. It was a frothy, lemony creation. Contained bicarb of soda or something similar I think to induce the froth. Called Boston Cream apparently.

Crispy Pancakes. Maybe from Findus or Birdseye, cant remember. Loved them as a kid though, always a treat and as mum couldn't cook to save her life, one of the better offerings to grace our dinner table.

Cheese with 'ham' bits were good, but by far the favourite was minced beef. Had a kind of tangy flavour to them.

Not sure it was actually beef though, probably horse.

Accompanied by - Mixed up egg in a cup. Raw egg, sugar, milk. Beaten till frothy. The drink of champions.

Edwina Curry ruined this for me 🙁

Also i can remember when a tin of salmon could make sandwiches for 12 people….

You are Jesus and ICMFP

Burger Toast.

Now I’m a great believer in left overs* and lots of things being as good or better cold but cold chips? You’re a monster!

If only we had some way of heating them up... perhaps a metal box with shelves and an electric element.

Ice cream & Lemonade

Kievs, crispy pancakes & chips with peas

Egg and Chipps is food of gods, your wife needs to experience it once to understand.

Add a bit of Serrano ham and you've got a Spanish tapas* dish, "huevos rotos" (and we shared a dish of this with some friends just last weekend). When it's brought to the table one of you customarily offers to slice it up, mixing the egg + chips + ham together. Anyway OP you could sell it to your wife as something vaguely exotic.

* It's more of a ración than a tapa, but whatever

Now I’m a great believer in left overs* and lots of things being as good or better cold but cold chips? You’re a monster!

This has actually brought back one of those forgotten moments.
Many years ago as a student I had a dalliance with a girl that fell flat as many do.
After we'd been out one night she bought a kebab, not for munching in the taxi home or similarly laudable consumption, nope, she put it on the drawers beside the bed when we got in then the following morning ate it for breakfast before she got up.

It didn't last long.

It didn’t last long.

The kebab or the relationship?

The kebab or the relationship?

You just need to go to Iceland (the frozen food shop) and it'll be a trip down memory lane. Arctic roll, vienetta, low grade southern fried chicken

Baked beans and sausages are still as good as you remember. Me and my kids all hate Kidney beans so when I make chili I use baked beans instead. Well if you're gonna use baked beans you might as well use beans & sausages right?

Those Bernard Mathews Turkey Roast joints, mechanically recovered turkey for mid week roasty.

But Sausage, egg, chips, and beans. Now that was a meal to look forward too.

Fray Bentos Pies…..

Tried one of those a while back. 40 years ago, as kids they were considered to be amazing. As an adult it was profoundly dissapointing, hardly any meat in it!

Asked my Grandma the other day about a drink she used to make us when we were kids. It was a frothy, lemony creation. Contained bicarb of soda or something similar I think to induce the froth. Called Boston Cream apparently.

Reminds me that I used to love Cremola Foam!

Tinned potatoes - have fond memories of these from caravan trips as a kid but I suspect they are actually rank.
Sugar puffs - the same, although I'd probably still like these
Boil in the bag fish with parsley sauce - who would have thought this would taste rank? Not my mother apparently
Home-made miso soup - I seriously overdosed on this and it just doesn't appeal any more. Would still order in a Japanese restaurant though.
Home-made curry - used to cook a good curry. Then one time something went very wrong and I couldn't even bare to open the fridge (I'd cooked a batch), the smell was so bad. Chucked it and never cooked one again.

Re offal, I don't eat meat any more but I used to like some offal. Haggis is delicious. Can't even have the veggie one now as it's got palm oil in it. And flash fried liver is good too. Kidneys are grim.

As an aside and seeing as someone mentioned gammon, I bumped into a fellow dog walker earlier. She said her dog had an upset stomach and was off his food. It was his favourite this morning too, she said, gammon and toast. I'm not sure if a slice of tinned pineapple was included or not.

I think we lived off shaped mechanically recovered meat, oven chips and canned peas or carrots. I often think it’s a miracle I don’t have new variant CJD.

Tinned spaghetti bolognaise was the worlds best camping food, deliciously sweet when cold straight from the tin.

This! Actually tried some a couple of years ago..... it's not the same anymore.
I haven't had Spam for ages either but that basically because it's similarly priced to fillet steak now!!
(Now I need a spam and branston pickle sandwich!!)

This thread is really taking me back to my childhood - Angel Delight, Vesta dried curries, Fray Bentospies, corned beef, Liver and bacon.

I never realised at the time that Fray Bentos is the name of the town in Uruguay that the tinned meat and pies came from. And that the lumps of “corn” in corned beef were pieces of salt.

Vesta dried curries

I had a friend at primary school that had those (and the paella ones too) and I thought he was some kind of connoisseur of fine exotic foods.

Most of the above.
Though I hated Brains Faggots and bubble and squeak at the time. Also smoked kippers and grapefruit breakfasts

Plus:
oven chips, crinkle cut or otherwise, Haven’t had any in 20 years.
Ready brek
Smash
A frozen microwave meal or stir fry
Tapioca pudding
Semolina pudding
Various other puddings of assorted colours some including pineapple

Fine exotic foods

For me that was when Vesta brought out the Chow Mein with fried rice noodles. Living the high life.

Hmm, tinned ravioli. Think I might get some for lunch.
And the tinned spaghetti bolognese was great.

We still have Angel Delight occasionally, usually Butterscotch flavour

Suggested Egg and Chips the other day, my middle class other half looked at me like i was some sort of cave dweller.

I've always seen this as "oh shit there's nothing else in the fridge" - but actually, it is always nicer than I expect!

Fish fingers and chips…
Tinned spaghetti on toast…
Liver and bacon…

I've had all of them in 2022. Good liver is an amazing thing. Liver like my mother makes is dreadful.

I think we lived off shaped mechanically recovered meat, oven chips and canned peas or carrots. I often think it’s a miracle I don’t have new variant CJD.

As a kid I used to call it 'flat meat' apparently - came out of a tin and had it for lunch most days with boiled potatos.

Me and my kids all hate Kidney beans so when I make chili I use baked beans instead. Well if you’re gonna use baked beans you might as well use beans & sausages right?

That, sir, is genius - bravo!

Faggots from the butchers are ace, never knowingly had a Brains faggot.

Tyne Brand irish stew - in a tin.

If only we had some way of heating them up… perhaps a metal box with shelves and an electric element.

I tried this recently, it really does not work. Reheated chips any way doesn't work. I've even attempted incorporating them into some other recipe as suggested by the internet. Still didn't work. Might be the case of a bad recipe. Or maybe reheated chips are the work of the devil.

Tyne Brand irish stew – in a tin.

Not visually indistinguishable from pedigree chum 😯

Mr Brain’s Faggots. Not had them in a good 25+ years.

Now here's a thing. I was a huge fan of faggots. Rich, meaty and very tasty. I saw a pack in the supermarket a year or so ago and treated myself and the kids, promising heaven on a plate.

They were shit.

I suspect that they have changed the recipe and now miss out most of the preservatives and flavour enhancers that made them so delicious.

Cremola foam think I read that it no longer exists, as it was, because the recipe is lost.

I tried this recently, it really does not work. Reheated chips any way doesn’t work.

I put them in my oven when they were cold, and they came out hot. Did you forget to turn yours on?

Don't be silly of course I turned the oven on! The temperature wasn't the issue. Are your taste buds okay?

Speaking of Fray Bentos (auto correct turned that into Great Benefit...hmm ) I went into a convenience shop in Bristol recently and they had about 6 different FB pies, including this, surely the STW food of choice

Which I shunned as I've been a veggie for 33 years. But they also had this

which I was strangely tempted by.

Don’t be silly of course I turned the oven on! The temperature wasn’t the issue. Are your taste buds okay?

My taste buds are great, having been titillated by egg and reheated chips.

Reheated chips any way doesn’t work.

Bang 'em back in a fryer for a minute like they do in seaside cafés.

Bang ’em back in a fryer for a minute like they do in seaside cafés.

No thanks it's full of putoline!

Favoured drink in the Kremlin?