Food from the 70s

We had the Corona lorry down here in Hampshire.
We also had a van go round our estate, the well renowned Leigh Park, selling toffee apples.
This might’ve been late 60s/start of the 70s?
“SIXPENCEEACHATOFFEEAPPLE!” we’d hear the cry. This happen anywhere else?

“SIXPENCEEACHATOFFEEAPPLE!” we’d hear the cry.

CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANDY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPLES!

We had the Corona lorry round our way in Salford.

The cherryade was sublime.

I lost a massive filling to a Drumstick lolly.

Swizzels = dentist!

Who remembers McCowan’s egg and milk chews?

Tinned new potatoes – little orbs of soap. Bleugh.

CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANDY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPLES!

Erra Macaroon Bars

I lost a massive filling to a Drumstick lolly.

I lost two teeth to a McCowan’s Highland Toffee bar sometime in the 80s…

I lived in Inverness for a couple of years in the early 70s. There was American Ice Cream Soda that was a vibrant blue – or maybe that was the basic cream soda.

Drinks of my past – Hays (or Sangs lemonade) – who could not yearn for a Moray Cup?

I lost two teeth to a McCowan’s Highland Toffee bar sometime in the 80s…

I lost my heart to a starship trooper.

I lived not far from McCowans and got a visit of the factory. Amazing place and providing you didn’t have plasters on your hands, you were allowed to help yourself to samples on the production line. Wham bars and the fudge were my weakness…still dream of those!

It is no wonder that us kids of the 70s have such shit teeth!

Tinned new potatoes – little orbs of soap. Bleugh.

Brilliant for cooking breakfast for four in a tiny gimballed stove as you trek across the North Sea in a Sigma 33. Just add bacon, beans, tomatoes and hot fat burns on the hands and legs.
I’m almost nostalgic.

I grew up in Aberdeenshire and we had the Bon Accord drinks van. I remember liking Bon Accord Cola, but only if drunk from a plastic beaker.

Someone revived the Bon Accord brand in the past few years but they seem to be trying to go down some sort of “artisinal” path. I tried the new Bon Accord Cola and I didn’t like it very much.

Draught Double Diamond – I thought it was great but is it just my memory playing tricks?

Just remembered Tyne Brand; if it could be canned – they did!
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/lost-tyneside-factory-once-biggest-16063749

“SIXPENCEEACHATOFFEEAPPLE!” we’d hear the cry. This happen anywhere else?

We had a rag & bone chap who’d regularly rattle down over the cobbles in the back street with his pony and cart shouting “AG BOOOOE!” It was years before I discovered that it was supposed to be “rag and bone” and had just degenerated over the course of decades.

Pomagne I think.

Used to love that stuff and Cinzano. Can’t imagine anyone giving that to their kids now.

Baxter’s Game soup. Perhaps you can still get it, I haven’t looked but used to eat that all the time.

The green liqueur (was it chartreuse?) In the sack shaped chocolate in Terry’s all gold.

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 🙁

*snigger* Bender the meaty frankfurter.

Has someone locked binners away? Thread about dodgy food and he’s nowhere to be seen..?

Makes you think…

Another snigger – 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.

**** ‘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. 😃