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Those tiny Pizzas that came in a stack of 10 from Bejam’s!
The fact that I remember Bejams makes me ****ing old.
Had a dalliance with Angel Delight when my eldest was 2-3 years and liked helping MrsMC in the kitchen. She'd stand him on a stool with a jug of milk on the worktop, pour in the Angel Delight powder and leave him to whisk it with a little hand whisk. By the time he'd got bored it was just about done.....
Sugar puffs – the same, although I’d probably still like these
My favourite breakfast cereal but I have to warn you, in recent years they’ve taken all the sugar out and call them honey puffs or something now. They taste awful now. If you get the Lidl own brand ones they taste better than the proper ones now which is saying something.
Polony
I properly love this. My wife and I have spent many an hour searching for it in supermarkets - I think Asda still sell it but it’s getting rare. I don’t want to know what it actually is and I don’t care. I’d chomp down one of the mildly spicy pink sausages right now if I could.
Not had a good toad in the hole for years now.
Not had a good toad in the hole for years now.
Made one last week, it was delicious. Very easy to make, too, if that's an issue.
I can now confirm that Heinz tinned ravioli is indeed very nice
Not had a good toad in the hole for years now.
M&S do a good toad in the hole, serves 2
I worked for Dalepak, the home of Dale Steaks And much Bejam branded "stuff"
Actually Bejam just had a lot more cereal in that Dalepak stuff..
Liver with bacon. We used to have it fairly often growing up, but not since my late teens.
What Canadians (and Americans?) call 'boloney'. A loved boloney sandwiches, but haven't had one since leaving Canada in 2003.
I still love a Chicken & Mushroom pot noodle now and again though I'm sure they must have had loads more MSG in them than they do now, luckily I've got a big bag of MSG I can sprinkle onto them.
What Canadians (and Americans?) call ‘boloney’.
@saxonrider It's just mortadella isn't it, boloney just being a corruption of Bologna (bologne)
It’s just mortadella isn’t it, boloney just bring a corruption of Bologna (bologne)
I hadn't heard of mortadella before, but have just looked it up. They look (and sound) similar, but I will just have to go out and buy some to check!
I remember when it was hard to avoid Spud U Like style outlets everywhere. We even had 3 spud pubs around Wodstock.
And what heppend to the time when pubs would serve big Yorkshire puds with fillings like chilli or a Sunday lunch in there?
Anyway back to wondering about the wrongness of
Egg and Chipps
And what heppend to the time when pubs would serve big Yorkshire puds with fillings like chilli or a Sunday lunch in there?
You'd think in the days of social media "like chilli" would be hugely popular.
I can now confirm that Heinz tinned ravioli is indeed very nice
Get to Sainsburys. They do three, a meaty one and a cheesy one (neither of which are any use to me) and a "vegetarian" one which is excellent.
What Canadians (and Americans?) call ‘boloney’.
I believe that "bologna" is the sausage and "boloney" is bollocks? (As in, talking nonsense, not actual... well...)
And what heppend to the time when pubs would serve big Yorkshire puds with fillings like chilli or a Sunday lunch in there?
When I first visited Yorkshire aged 17 I was taken to a pub which sold these.
Very disappointed moving up north 20-odd years later to discover it's not really a thing.
Though there's a place in Mcr centre that did them, might have shut down now? Never fancied one for my lunch at work personally, unlike some greedy sods in the office.
Boloney is possibly derived from the Emilian Romagnol language, which will have been in more widespread use in the 40s especially (fun fact, Italy didn't officially speak Italian until 2009, it's also one of Europe's youngest countries having been unified 6 months after Germany in July 1871).
Bologna would have been bulognais, combined with francophone Canadians and heavy local accents it could easily have been phoneticised to buloney by the anglophone Canadian and Americans.
Of course it could be that the Americans took the word for bollocks with them and (aptly IMHO) applied it to the longstanding Bolognese sausage.
One of the great culinary pairings.
Fish and chips.
Meat and potatoes.
Curry and rice.
Ham and egg.
Sausage and bollocks.
Tinned potatoes
Oh blimey, yeah, they were grim. New potatoes in a can... why??
Those tinned (marrowfat?) peas as well. Horrid things!
Marrowfat peas can be used to to make very nice mushy peas at home.
Cook them for a few minutes with a large knob of butter, seasoning, a glug of white wine or cider vinegar and a bit of the juice out of the tin. Once soft crush them with a fork to the desired consistency. Stir in some chopped fresh mint or a little mint sauce and a squeeze of lemon.
Gypsy creams
Followed by a pack of midget gems.
What were those things... I want to say Iced Diamond but that was a sort of fridge I think. Biscuitty little buggers with hard, coloured sugar(?) on top that looked like it'd been piped on.
What were those things… I want to say Iced Diamond but that was a sort of fridge I think. Biscuitty little buggers with hard, coloured sugar(?) on top that looked like it’d been piped on.
Used to be dishes of them out at birthday parties, nasty hard things as I recall
Iced gems?
YES!
Last Christmas along with other things I gave my eleven year old son a tin of alfa betti spaghetti. He looked bemused until I said. "Toast and swear words."
Chicken fricassee on fried bread.
If father was feeling particularly flush on a Saturday afternoon ,then we would have cockles pepper and vinegar with brown bread and butter whilst checking off his pools coupon as the live results came in.
If he was really flush , then we might be treated to a tin of M & S Chunky Chicken in white sauce on toast. 🙂
Mock chop supper.
What is this?
I saw a jar of this the other day. I bought it, obvs
Vol au vents. For some reason they seemed to be the peak of sophistication when I was a small child, now, just odd. Iceland still sell the shells so you can make your own though.
My guilty "GF Away" treat is beans on toast. With cheese. Lots of cheese.
Turkey cheese burgers.
Vol au vents
I had one in a pub in Belgium about 2 years ago. Hadn't had one for years so gave is a go. Bit meh. Pie would have been preferable. The beer was good though.
As for giant Yorkshire puds I was going to suggest Morrison's Cafe but just checked their menu and they are no longer available! Must have too many stores outside Yorkshire these days.
Bang ’em back in a fryer for a minute like they do in seaside cafés.
No thanks it’s full of putoline!
Surely adds flavour??
I saw a jar of this the other day. I bought it, obvs
I saw some a while back and bought it - gave to my teenage boys who looked at me, for the only time thus far in their lives, with pity in their eyes that their Grandma used to feed me that...
OMG, Sandwich Spread!
I may just print this thread out and use it as a shopping list
Mock chop battered lamb kebab meat....
Guinness, I mean, it's practically a meal right?
Tins of soup
Also Heinz ravioli, but I am still partial to an occasional beans with sausages in
My mum used to do celery sticks wrapped in ham with cheese sauce poured over and baked. It was a kind of dinner party dish I think. I suspect it was a cheap version of something else involving asparagus and serrano or some such. Never been tempted to try to cook it myself though it would probably be OK.
Tyne Brand irish stew – in a tin.
I did my school work experience in the P&G labs in Longbenton. I was put in the Fairy Liquid lab and had to test different detergent formulas on dishes coated with a disgusting greasy sludge.
Guess what the main ingredient was....
2 Chicago town pizzas and a pint of ribena.
Ghostbusters spaghetti on toast.
Boiled egg and soldiers.
Not had a good toad in the hole for years now.
Its a firm Fazini family favourite, both meat-style and vegetablearianism variety.
cockles pepper and vinegar
I remember in the pubs in Grimsby towards closing time people would come around selling them… seems a bit risky to me. Down the road in Market Rasen I remember a bloke coming into the pub and opening his jacket to offer (dead) rabbits to the punters.
No mention of Stagg tinned chilli yet?
Stagg? Still gets eaten regularly around here.
I will add:
Jam butty’s (sandwiches)
Treacle sandwiches
Sugar sandwiches
White thin sliced bread and Stork marg out of a huge tub.
Not had a good toad in the hole for years now.
It's a regular in our house, although I can't not giggle while remembering this
Down the road in Market Rasen I remember a bloke coming into the pub and opening his jacket to offer (dead) rabbits to the punters.
I remember going to a bar where a pretty young lady did something linguisticaly similar.
Shame, I'd have been more interested in potential pie.
My mother was a very good cook and baker but there were some aberrations so in addition to tyne brand irish stew I posted about ^^^ I give you...
- Shiphams fish paste sandwiches for Sunday tea
- cold corned beef with either boiled veg or salad; corned beef is only edible with spuds and onions in a pie
- rollmop herrings
My dad was partial to bread'n'dip - fresh bread dipped in hot fat from beef joint; nope, not for me.
It was a throwback to his childhood as part of a large family on Tyneside when life was ****g tough.
I haven't eaten any of that ^^^ since I left home a million years ago.
On Tyneside - man in van selling cockles and whelks; a free pin with every purchase to get the little buggers out of their shells.
Shiphams fish paste
Good lord. Beef paste sandwiches. 🤢
I used to quite like brawn, and the butcher I used to use when I lived in town made their own which (despite being well aware what it was) I really enjoyed.
One afternoon I got a small ring of onion in my sandwich which I wouldn't cheers properly and this happened to come up in conversation along the lines of I'd never tasted onion. "No it won't be an onion, there's no onion in it, it'll be a cornea, they don't cook down" said Keith the butcher as if passing comment on the weather. I never ate brawn again.
There used to be a cafe in Sheffield called Butlers which was a proper old school cafe (tiled walls, pint mugs of tea and pies in the window) which did Yorkshire Pudding with syrup for a pudding. Really miss that place, I’d end up in there after lectures at uni and it was one of my earliest memories with my dad. Might give them a go again for nostalgia purposes.
Good lord. Beef paste sandwiches
I still regularly have a potted meat and tomato sandwich for my lunch from a little sandwich shop near work. Love that it’s just “meat”.
Diagnosed coeliac nearly 16yra ago, lots of meals I don't really do anymore.
Sure as hell miss a man bread.
Sure as hell miss a man bread.
The patriarchy has gone too far.
Marrowfat peas can be used to to make very nice mushy peas at home.
Cook them for a few minutes with a large knob of butter, seasoning, a glug of white wine or cider vinegar and a bit of the juice out of the tin. Once soft crush them with a fork to the desired consistency. Stir in some chopped fresh mint or a little mint sauce and a squeeze of lemon.
Or buy a tin of mushy peas for next to nothing - even now they are only about 30p
Tyne brand stuff now made about a mile from here. 100 miles from Geordie land!
Same factory has picked up a handful of the blast from the past brands.
Tinned mushrooms anyone?
Oh yeah, single man life Friday tea favourite used to be boil in bag fish in parsley sauce, smash and tinned marrowfat peas.
Subsequent wife banned all 3 items! Meh.
Around here you have to go to M and S for rollmops and Waitrose for Shippam's paste. Rare examples of dietary upward social mobility.
Quite a few. Notably:
Doner kebabs.
Sausage rolls
Various other lardy salty giblet-y things.
Also any meal with tinned meats (Although I do miss corned beef I won’t buy it)
Bachelor's Super Noodles
Birds Eye Chicken And Veg pie (the frozen ones) and mash (still crave this meal)
Vesta Curry
Pot Noodles
Cod in parsley sauce
Most of the meals I was given as a kid are still favourites now, although more of a rare treat than staple… one that I’ve not had or seen or even hear mentioned these days was Faggots & mash!. Dread tho think what was in em but delicious 30yrs ago.
I also miss Heinz toast toppers. Or dog vomit on toast as the mrs calls it!!
Quite a few. Notably:
What's wrong with Super Noodles?
Tyne Brand - a potted history...
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/lost-tyneside-factory-once-biggest-16063749
Funny, had a discussion with a colleague all about Shipphams 'pastes' today.
Dad always raved about bread and dripping. Never tried it myself, but i reckon i'd like it.
He always has rollmop herrings... i can't stand the smell.
This was fizzling out when I was at junior school but, my nan used to feed us dripping sandwiches and I'd always ask for the tasty bit at the bottom 🤢
And not sure if this is still a thing in Yorkshire but, I miss a good chip butty with scraps.
Finally, as opposed to Dalesteaks with '100% meat', anybody remember minute steaks with probably exactly the opposite. Tasted like a thin leather chew with some seasoning but was surprisingly tasty at the time
We do the left over chippy chips thing. Bang em in the freezer and you've the basis of tea another night.
The thing you have to understand is that there's a chip continuum running from fresh chippy chips at the nice end, down to own brand supermarket oven chips at the other. Our kids don't countenance oven chips (I don't blame them) so reheated chippy chips are the acceptable face of frozen chips in our household.
This thread is bringing back memories of an 80s/90s childhood. So much freezer food! I don't look back on it especially fondly on the whole 😂
A great dish of that era was the jelly my Grandma used to make: jelly from a packet with fruit suspended in it, and finished with that whipped cream you could get in an aerosol can.
I recall one time she had such a jelly out on a trolley for wheeling through to the table (literally the other side of the kitchen surface, but hey ho) and the dog got wind of it and snaffled all the cream off the top by means of a bit of cunning yogic spine bending and a dextrous tongue. She just sighed and squirted a bit more cream on, then served it up. I wasn't bothered, the jelly was ace.
What’s wrong with Super Noodles?
Indeed. Pretty useful staple in my cupboard. Very nice poshed up as Singapore-esque noodles with random veg and prawns, leftover chicken etc.
What’s wrong with Super Noodles?
Never really thought about them being ‘wrong’ as such. I just have memories of going camping and chewing on vomit-smelling sticky clumps of something of that name oh yegods it was Bachelors ‘Pasta ‘n’ Sauce’, not the other.
With this revelation I may yet have cause to try the noodles. Unsustainable palm oil would prove a barrier to my purchasing, but I wouldn’t turn my nose up if offered.
Corned beef hash, would smash a bowl right now
Spam fritters, gip.
That's odd - I dont remember seeing you at our house in the 70s 🙂
single man life Friday tea favourite used to be boil in bag fish in parsley sauce, smash and tinned marrowfat peas.
Subsequent wife banned all 3 items! Meh.
I find this bizarre. Why are you letting someone else dictate what you eat, what business is it of hers? Get yourself to Iceland.
The thing you have to understand is that there’s a chip continuum running from fresh chippy chips at the nice end,
Running from home-made chips to the rest of that.
Running from home-made chips to the rest of that.
Maybe, but my deep fat frier either doesn't exist or is full of putoline. I forget which.
Never really thought about them being ‘wrong’ as such. I just have memories of going camping and chewing on vomit-smelling sticky clumps of something of that name oh yegods it was Bachelors ‘Pasta ‘n’ Sauce’, not the other.
I remember using Pasts 'n' sauce when hiking in the 90s. I then migrated onto Noodles - but a specific brand (Dragon something) that had two flavour sachets - one sauce and one chilli flakes. Really enjoyed those! Although anything probably tastes amazing on a tent up a hill after a long day slogging up and down fells.
My mum used to do celery sticks wrapped in ham with cheese sauce poured over and baked. It was a kind of dinner party dish I think. I suspect it was a cheap version of something else involving asparagus and serrano or some such. Never been tempted to try to cook it myself though it would probably be OK.
Isn't this some weird perversion of asparagus wrapped in prosciutto (or the like) and covered in a posh sauce? (My mother would cook, a lot, and when she didn't have the correct ingredient she'd just sub in something that looked similar. No tomato juice? Orange juice will do..
I find this bizarre. Why are you letting someone else dictate what you eat, what business is it of hers? Get yourself to Iceland.
Iceland, land of Vikings, where men are men and women make the tea.
Lol my list is all stuff from the 80's when convenience food started being a thing and my mum was a working single mum who didn't enjoy cooking.
Boil in the bag beef in gravy-yuk
Findus crispy pancakes-yum
Boil in bag fish in white sauce-yuk
Angel delight-semi yuk but addictive once you start
Fish or chicken paste sandwiches in my packed lunch-think i quite liked them at the time but would be yuk now
Pop tarts-oh my poor teeth! I'm guessing that was advertising/nag pressure on my behalf and not something my mum would have let me have too often.
I eat very little ultra processed food now but still enjoy the odd tinned spaghetti on toast or tinned macaroni cheese with ketchup.
Fish or chicken paste sandwiches in my packed lunch-think i quite liked them at the time but would be yuk now
Shipmans paste was our staple sandwich filler in the 80s.....
An anus jalapeño... stings both ways.
Shipmans paste was our staple sandwich filler in the 80s…..
Must be a sickipedia joke about that.
My Mum misses Harold Shipman.
She used to love his beef paste.
My parents house still runs on all this food that you have abandoned.
My father, in his seventies, is relatively healthy except for problems with his digestion. He lives on white bread and mini pizzas. Doesn't listen to me, I remain a child to him. Not entirely sure the doctor is aware how bad the household diet is.
My Mum misses Harold Shipman.
She used to love his beef paste.
🙂
These were the ones, tiny portions in glass jars...
Shame you can't get them anymore, would be curious to try one...
Waitrose still sells Shippam's paste but not those with butter.
I've not eaten jelly for years. So inspired by this thread, I've bought some orange jelly from Adsa and it's currently cooling in the fridge.
Ready to eat in 6-8 hours 🙂
Pop tarts-oh my poor teeth! I’m guessing that was advertising/nag pressure on my behalf and not something my mum would have let me have too often.
I had a mate that used to get them. Dreadful stuff. It didn't seem to matter how you toasted them they never seemed to taste the way i think they were supposed to taste!
He also had McCain Microchips. We would climb over the back fence at school and sneak back to his place to have them for lunch. God knows why, they were awful.