Food from your childhood.

Dreem ice cream (I think – a powder mixed with milk and frozen).

Birds trifle.
Browis.
Cheese grated into milk with onion in and grilled, eaten with bread. Nom^10.

What were those odd shaped sort of triangular ice lolly type things in cardboard used to get them up north?

That’ll be a Jubbly

Ah yes Jubblys! although I am of a certain age so looked more like this!

I hope you all appreciate you have Maggie Thatcher to thank for Angel delight and soft scoop ice cream!

she was a food researcher at lyons back in the day

CFH – Beach, AGA… oh do bugger off, you are not kidding anyone you know.

Beef paste sandwiches
Crispy Pancakes
Pork chops – grilled to death by my mum. It was like trying to eat a wetsuit

3 reasons why I have all but given up eating meat.

Best food from the 70s has to be rissoles. Sounds like arseholes, tasted like breaded processed meat (including arseholes I suspect) perfection.

Hora – Chilly Willy was the name. Surprised you don’t remember that.

I used to love Pacers, and we used to get these ‘crisps’ that were little pigs, not Monster Munch material, but thin material and hollow. What were they?

On the ice pops- we had those but they had a different name. Gah cant think of it.

These by any chance?

And not forgetting a bag of scraps covered in S&V

Nothing particularly 80s about icepops (or whatever you call them), they’re still popular today (at least in Spain). And they’re still sugar+E numbers+flavouring+water.

golden syrup sandwiches and everything tasting of lard

Gypsy Tart (makes you ….)

Luncheon meat with pickled beetroot on Blackpool milk roll. Sandwich heaven back in’t day.

Plumrose hotdogs on finger rolls.

Sausage, egg, chips and beans with piles of Warbies toastie loaf.

Roast lamb dinners, oven roasted pork belly and rice pudding…. Infact I made rice pudding on Sunday and it was amazing

duck eggs
riddlings
spam fritters
stewed mushrooms
goosegogs

Good shout ZZjabZZ – Marsh’s Sass

Hamburgers and onion gravy in a tin
Butterscotch Instant Whip
Ulster Fry
Ben Shawes fizzy drinks

Beef paste sandwiches

This thread was proceeding quite nicely (with the exception of liver and tripe) until this point – my dear old mum, bless her, if she found an acceptable sandwich filling she would run with it for eons. Hence for me beef/crab/chicken/fish paste sandwiches induce vertigo and a hint of nausea.

My favourite school lunch: a chip barm* from Jeff’s Chippy with so much vinegar that the barm was wet with it.

*barm – truncation of barmcake aka stottie, bun, roll, bapm, breadcake, oven bottom etc.

ladies and gentlemen I give you the Chicken Kiev

where generally any kind of liquid had escaped during cooking

Which is probably just as well, as any liquid remaining would be hotter than the surface of the sun.

The only substance hotter?…….

i remember eating mushroom toppers something like that,

a very small tin of creamed mushrooms you put on toast then grilled.

also loved the chocolate bars texan, cabbana ? and terrys chocolate fry ??

Paste sandwiches. I never ever ever managed to eat them without feeling grim. Horrible horrible inventions for tight Mums. Especially the fish/shrimp crap ones!

Milk in a can.

nom nom nom:

fried liver and bacon… anyone who says liver is not good is wrong.
pea fritter with chips
boiled eggs with dippy soldiers
fried bread
welsh rarebit
macaroni cheese

not nom, no:
sandwich spread

Which is probably just as well, as any liquid remaining would be hotter than the surface of the sun.

The only substance hotter?…….

Exactement!

The McApplepie – I welded some new sills onto an old mini with a few of them 😛

Lamb/Sheep Hearts..
Bubble & Squeak

Corned Beef Sarnie

My Nans super thick Chocolate Blancmange.
Roly Poly Pudding
Earnfield pudding.

A nice nudge, binners.

Trips to McDs with my grandparents. Set menu I had:

Big Mac
Quarter pounder with cheese
Chips
Apple pie
Strawberry milkshake

I don’t know how I didn’t end up the size of a house…

Toast toppers were ace! Apparently they too still exist. I’m getting some on the way home. I’m going to try an experiment on my kids. See what they make of it 😀

EDIT: Quarter Pounder with cheese AND a Big Mac. The meal of champions there Clubber 😀

I had no childhood 😐

I do remember Black Jacks and Licorice shoe laces though.

mikewsmith – Member
ladies and gentlemen I give you the Chicken Kiev

where generally any kind of liquid had escaped during cooking

Try waitrose, this is still a regular in the Fish household.

In fact come to think of it, had not a bad one from Aldi the other week still loads of garlic butter..

Spacemonkey – arrrrggghhh! You posted a picture of a spam fritter with the completely unnaturally pink inside and gave me a panic attack. I’ll have nightmares now. They are still all-too-familiar after all these years. Vile things, they used to literally ooze grease.

Primula!

And Fish Paste that you spread on toast – Heinz wasn’t it?

And Blueband margarine.

Tongue sandwiches

My mum’s liver – dryer and tougher than an old boot (I have had nicely cooked liver in restaurants since though and like it)

Risotto – the dish my mum used to cook bore very little resemblance to what I now know risotto to taste like – hers was American long grain rice with leftover ham or chicken and peppers. We used to eat it with mango chutney(!) – it was incredibly dry so moisture was needed

In fact looking back my mum had no clue how to cook meat really!

*Wonders if HtS will get annoyed at this one, too*

Crumpets. Hot, buttered crumpets, slathered in Marmite, Bovril or honey, sitting in front of the fire on a wintery evening watching Rugby Special and Ski Sunday. Occasionally with some sweet chestnuts roasted on a coal scuttle in the fire. Childhood heaven!

In fact looking back my mum had no clue how to cook meat really!

Don’t be too harsh on your mum. I think that was universal fella. Meat had to be cooked until the texture and colour of an Alpine Ski Instructors forehead! All vegetables are to be boiled to the point where they have almost reverted to a liquid, and all actual flavour has long since evaporated

Christ! Pretty much all food back then was really, really grim!! No wonder a Friday trip to the chippy represented being given the keys to the gates of heaven

Oh… and clubber… Primula is still very much going strong, and Primula with chives tastes as great as ever on thick white toast 😀

If you were a real slob, you could sit there squeezing it directly into your gob. Not that I know anyone who would be that uncouth

Thats a point. The ONLY thing my mum could cook was Brisket.

Everything else was over-cooked. Do you think its because there wasn’t really many cooking programmes or books around as there are now? People actually make an effort and dating is about cooking a meal rather than going out too?

With the creamy bit on top, ice cold.

Yeuck. It always tasted bloody sour!!!

That was just preparing you for a life ooop north. Down sarf we had nice school milk.