Food from your childhood.

In sandwiches. Oh yes. *borks*

For some reason we were never allowed peanut butter as children. So I eat it all the time now.

Loved spam fritters. Bones and gravy was another.

Salad Cream is awesome. Much nicer than mayonnaise. I lived on salad cream and cheese sandwiches when I was about 18.

Oh… just remembered…

They were definitely a lot bigger

Salad Cream is indeed awesome. And still the only way to consume salad. Absolutely drowned in the stuff

When chips were just not posh enough

the debates we had about how old you had to be before getting a whole cod in butter sauce to yourself 😀

Posh nosh?

/end thread

Yep, nice school milk at my primary too – I drank loads of the stuff – my 1/3 pint bottle but also those of two of my mates (who didn’t like milk) plus a further two or three at lunch time…

butterscotch angel delight

butterscotch angel delight

……Tastes of Aluminium !

Aluminiummmmm…

If we’re going down the non-food route, other forgotten tastes of childhood probably include HB pencils, erasers and thumbs.

Non food….A lolly stick chewed all day

Speaking of sticks…. liquorice root

and more liquorcey stuff: aniseed balls and pontefract (or was it pomfret?) cakes

My fave 70’s snack was pork dripping (especially the jelly at the bottom) on white bread with salt.

Bread soaked in the fat from the grill pan after cooking bacon.

Bread soaked in the fat from the roasting tin after roasting beef.

My Dad loved beef and pork dripping. I mean really loved it. He died at 78 from a heart attack.

My Dad was something of a Gourmand so the bad has turned out good and the good has turned out bad e.g.

Haddock Mornay was bad, now good
All sorts of french paysanne dishes involving confit of everything and anything – was bad now good

Turkey Burgers – was good, now bad!

Viennetta FTW!

Chicken Hero’s from the local 24 hour garage….just when we started to get the 24 hour garage nearly 30 years ago.

we used to trek up there at god knows when as young teenagers and purchase these disgusting articles which were on some kind of rotating hot rack (been there for at least 2 weeks I should guess) but I used to love em. Not seen for at least 20 years…..though im sure some garages still have the original ones rotating somewhere.

my dad used to eat pickled walnuts….the dirty bastard

Crumpets. Hot, buttered crumpets, slathered in Marmite, Bovril or honey

I bet you had one of those fancy clamps for toasting your bread for your Aga..didn’t you…

Aluminium you say?

I’m sure these contained it…

😆 @ cbmotorsport!

Actually no, always used a toaster. 🙂

(As it happens though, I have an Aga again now and it makes the best cheese on toast ever. Fact!)

Mutton stew with dumplings.

Rabbit stew with the shotgun pellets still in the meat…

werent there some little chewing gum nuggets in like a little tobacco sack or something?

Shippams Paste

Probably explains why I haven’t touched meat in 30 years. I am aware that it probably didn’t actually contain any meat.

I blame my mum for my addiction to this:

Very posh Al, we had:

“werent there some little chewing gum nuggets in like a little tobacco sack or something?”

yep, Golden Nuggets? I loved that you had a little bag to keep stuff in after. They were never the same when the bag started to be plastic 🙁

APF

i’m sure that almost all breakfast cereal sizes have shrunk since i was a lad,
shredded wheat, 3 , and i was stuffed. now i can easily pack in 6.
same for weetabix.

Love the recent government push for smaller choccie bars. They’ve (snickers/mars) shrunk- still a big wrapper and still the same price. Nice.

Ooooh. Shippams Paste.

Salmon and Shrimp
Sardine and Tomato

What other foul flavours were there? Actually quite liked them at the time, God knows why.

Marrowfat peas – urgh!
Tripe – lovely with vinegar, not so nice cooked in milk & onions
Skin on custard and rice pudding
Semolina – my Mum used to serve it very lumpy, made just about edible by adding loads of jam
Suet puddings
Liquorice roots – great to chew on
Bacon with rind on, often with pig hair still attached
Cheap cuts of grisly meat which needed cooking for ever – anyone remember skirt
Salmon or ham out of a tin when you were trying to be posh for visitors

Bean Bake – mum used to from some bacon, throw in some beans, put it in a bowl, a packet of Smash on top, greater cheese, then grill it until the cheese melts. Damn it was good and rather 70s..

Has anyone ever had Marsh’s Sassparella (god knows on the spelling)?

My granddad used to drive wagons and his depot was next to the spot where they made it in Barrow. He used to get crates of the stuff, it tasted fantastic. Unfrotunaltey they’re no longer in business.

Who remembers those chocolate bars called ‘Zing’ ?
They were a bit like a KitKat and we used to get them out of the vending machines at the swimming baths. Loved them.
And ‘Mint Cracnell’, remember them ?
A kind of clear minty brittle covered in chocky and in a bright green wrapper, two square bars in one packet. Whatever happened to that ? They were great too.

davidtaylforth 😀 “Sass”, my Nan used to live in Marsh Street Barrow and it was always a treat to go to the sweet shop nearby and get a bottle of “sass” or Dandelion & Burdock.

davidtaylforth “Sass”, my Nan used to live in Marsh Street Barrow and it was always a treat to go to the sweet shop nearby and get a bottle of “sass” or Dandelion & Burdock.

🙂

If you returned the bottles you used get some pennies back aswell!

DT – do you remember Underwoods pop van? Their cream soda was on a parr with marsh’s sass in our house

We had the Marsh’s lorry down the street every Sunday morning. The cherryade was good.

I used to steal the fat off the raw bacon in the fridge. Or suck frozen prawns and fish fingers. Not sure how I never got worms. Not surprisingly I went vegan at 18…

95% of the time the 80s versions of these were eaten frozen as I was too impatient to wait for them to defrost into mousse.

God yes I could never wait to defrost either, I had forgotten about those!

Ben Shaws Dandelion and Burdock then take the empty bottle back for 5p 😀

Or BASS Shandy in cans. Gorgeous.