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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.
How did anyone of us survive to adulthood?
Pudding type things:
Blamonge / Blancmange
Semolina
Trifle (with 1/2 liter of sherry in it....)
Merange / meringue
Brandy Snaps
Rhubarb crumble. Who the **** decided that Rhubarb was food??
Rhubarb crumble. Who the **** decided that Rhubarb was food??
Oi! Our stalks are 3-4 inches high and coming on at a hell of rate with the mild spring, soon be crumble time again.....
Rhubarb crumble. Who the **** decided that Rhubarb was food??
My favourite pudding in the world. I also love rhubarb yoghurt and gin
I have a brilliant recipe for that.
Throw the yogurt down the drain. Drink the gin.