[Closed] Food from your childhood.

First thought that comes to mind: liver. Maybe I had it badly cooked, but I doubt I'll have it again.

That sounds absolutely rank!!!

I remember my gran cooking these things...

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which apparently still exist. Served with big fat chips, peas and gravy, obviously. Might have to try some of these again 😀

Not food, but I'd kill for a bottle of Sang's Moray Cup fizzy juice.

Coming in from the beach for lunch and spotting the golden syrup tin on the Aga. Meant only one thing....Rice pudding!

Ideal Milk which was either evaporated or condensed, can never remember which.

Bloody hell, id forgotten about cabbage water, delicious
We used to have slices of white bread and hot milk (pobs) for breakfast
Chips with heinz vegetable soup poured over

The Good - My grandma's chips.

cooked in a well worn old pan, served with a bit of salt and vinegar. Also anything that she baked; jam tarts, mince pies, cakes, etc.

The Bad: Tripe.

My ( probably well meaning ) parents only tried once to feed us tripe cooked in milk, keeping my brother and I at the table for 3 hours trying to get us to eat it, before admitting defeat.

A couple of my favorite's we used to have as regular meals , pigs trotters and tripe cooked in milk nomnomnom.

Chips with heinz vegetable soup poured over

Heresy!

Cream of tomato soup is what you want. In a pique of wanting to be 14 again I had that for tea last night.

Dad used to soak slices of bread in the juice and black bits in the roasting tray after doing a joint of beef - Special Bread.
Nom nom nom.

- Special Bread.
Nom nom nom.

The correct term is, Dippy Bread 😀

I still do it ( as part of a balanced intake 😉 )

St Ivel Gold

Dunsters Farm and Ski yogurts

Funny Feet

St Ivel Gold

Dunsters Farm and Ski yogurts

Funny Feet

Wham Bars and Gold Bullion toffee bars

Mine are:

Cornbeef Hash
Carnation Milk
Gooseberry pie
Liver
and Dixons ice cream.

Proper old school Yorkshire stuff

Moray Cup -- you can still get it I think unknown..

Only about 3 things (from childhood) I still can't eat.
Liver (as above)
Marmalade
Baked Beans

Other greats -- Cremola Foam.
Bread in milk with sprinkle of sugar

Arctic Roll! When you got it for school dinners it was like winning the lottery (particularly as compared to the worst options like liver...)

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Tinned mandarin segments with Evaporated milk...

Ham that comes in a can....

Corned beef hash

White bread spread with dripping and Bovril; heart attack bread 🙂

gypsy toast
toast toppers
sugar on bread
fussells on bread

In a proper trip down memory lane, I cooked corned beef hash the other week. It was absolutely bloody lovely! 😀

My mum was a brilliant home cook so we often had loads of tasty grub on the go including the best ever pepperoni pizzas, cannelloni, chicken supreme and other 70s/80s classics.

But when we were totally brassic we'd sometimes have complete cack. I rememeber filling out a Pools coupon one evening then sitting down to:

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Also remember making the batter for these bad boys:

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Sausage plait served with spaghetti hoops was another.

Artic roll at school dinners?

No! Chocolate sponge WITH chocolate custard

Or ginger sponge with custard.

Chocolate sponge though- man that used to light up my day!!!

Those were good too but c'mon Arctic Roll is ICE CREAM. AT SCHOOL!!! That's like a birthday!

Good:
Spam fritters
Exeter shortcake
Semolina pudding
Sponge pudding in all its many glorious forms
Mandarin oranges in green jelly

Bad:
Dripping on bread

corn beef fritters
camp coffee [ oooerr ]
sugar butties
rice pudding with a thicker skin than freddy kreuger
fruit salad [ bits of soggy fruit in duckhams engine oil ]
cod liver oil and malt

Liver, still can't eat the horrible stuff.

Bought a can of tinned ravioli a couple of years ago, that was horrible too. Definitely something best left in the past!

Most of the rest of my childhood food I still cook every now and then, apart perhaps from 70s classics like cheese n pineapple cocktail sticks, and pineapple sauce on gammon steak.

Pizza and chips for dinner, scrape off the topping and eat, then butter the pizza and fill with chips.... amazing. also get a penguin type biscuit and bite off a small piece of the opposing corners use as a straw in a hot drink (when the liquid has made it to the top of the biscuit then consume entire biscuit in one go!).... go on try it you know you want to... 🙂

Potato scallops from the Chippie - Yum!

braised steak (hated it as a kid, love it now)

worst of all - this stuff:

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Angel Delight
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Angel Delight
Bad 80's food

God, completely forgotten about Angel Delight... Nice link, we really did eat some weird stuff back then!

Mike,is that a picture of the aluminium flavour ? unless my memory is playing tricks.

Long hot summers, jumper for goalposts and

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Fried Spam anyone?

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

On a recent 28dayslater forum inside an old abandoned building was a can of pop from the 70's- a weird ring pull one with a white body and a sort of 2lt coke bottle bottom. Anyone remember that?? If you asked me to I'd never know but as soon as I saw the can I thought WOW- it flooded back.

righog - Member
Mike,is that a picture of the aluminium flavour ? unless my memory is playing tricks.

Hora. For the first time on this forum, I am on your wavelength. What was that can?!! We used to buy it at school if I remember rightly.

I used to like drinking the vinegar from the bottom of these...
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Yep- a weird shape- went slightly wider as it went up. Was the body plastic and the top/ring-pull part metal?

School food - the good, most puds especially oat tart. The bad, the lamb, makes my shiver to write the word
Crispy pancakes as above
Vesta chow mein with soft and fried noodles
Raw oats and apple slices as a snack at my grans
School tuck shop - strawberry bonbons, American hard gums, wrigglers and beef and onion crisps
The standard starters in a restaurant - minestrone, melon or a glass of orange juice
Beans......

+1 for

Dixons ice cream
Angel delight
Findus crispy pancakes (though, I had some about a year ago, they were crap.)

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

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

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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?

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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 ....)

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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

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Beef paste sandwiches

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
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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?…….

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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.
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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 😀

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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 😀

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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?

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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.