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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?
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.