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Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Martin (Admin) on December 28, 2020, 02:14:46 am
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What food from your childhood do you still miss but can't be found nowadays?
... or is still around!
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My dear old Dads toast.......60 something years ago near the top of Mt Koscuisco [Australia] the night before the snow, freezing cold......huge open log fire just outside the canvas tent...Dad cut the loaf of bread length ways......so each piece was about 12" long x 5" high and about 3/4" thick
The cooked toast just overlapped the sides of a 10" diameter pressed steel enamelled steel plate ...then a 1/3 of a tin of Bully Beef & potatoes that were roasted in the coals from the fire.....Yummo...... :P :P :P
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Just boiled beetroot from the stall in Portobello Road market. Yum. :-)
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My Dad's eggnog... with nutmeg and a drop rum.....
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Grandma's kangaroo tail soup.
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Mum's homemade Yorkshire pudding - beats today's shop bought stuff into a cocked hat.
Definitely don't miss Grannie's watery cabbage - ugh!
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Bird's Instant Whip.
It was probably bogging really, but we loved it as kids.
Strawberry was the favorite.
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Dripping Toast %)
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Manchester Tart!
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Grandma's kangaroo tail soup.
:o :o :o
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Frog Spawn with jam O0 Sadly not allowed in the house by SWMBO <:(
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To coincide with the festive season home made mince pies and Christmas cake laced with alcohol. Baking at home was passed down to each generation happy days.
Stan.
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My mum's spotted dick and custard. She used to make the best apple crumble too :-))
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Toast with beef dripping and lots of lovely gravy/jelly. Strangely enough, dried egg from living through WW2
Roy
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Lol!! Haven’t heard that expression for a while - ‘Bogging’
Covered a multitude of way to explain that something was awful. Lol!
Declan
Bird's Instant Whip.
It was probably bogging really, but we loved it as kids.
Strawberry was the favorite.
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Mothers jam rolypoly, spotted dick, rice puddin' gooseberry, apple, rubbarb, black/red current pies, jam, lemon curd tarts and cakes for every occasion,sunday roast with almost every thing and so on........ and before I forget, mincemeat and stuffing was always home made.
LB
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Bird's Instant Whip.
It was probably bogging really, but we loved it as kids.
Strawberry was the favorite.
According to the wife our son likes it and it is still available in most stores, a blamongey type of trifle topping, we also liked it as kids, not had it for years
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My mother’s egg custard tarts, gorgeous, plus all the other things she used to bake.
John
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A custard tart like biscuit that Huntley and palmers used to put in their Family circle selection tin until around the early eighties. I loved those but they do not appear in any selections today. Oh and additives and preservatives in food! I know tropical lilt did taste better in its lurid green state, and dull things like Cornflakes did taste better before the goodness was removed.
[size=78%]People say your senses dull in age, but they stopped tasting so nice before I became a Teenager so am certain its the removal of all those scientific 'nutrients(?)' and not my still youthful taste buds [/size] :}
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My only early memory was the school dinners and the ersatz cream substitute they came out with during the war (39-45 that is) it was vile. That and frogspawn (tapioca) which was not quite so bad if you had a lot of jam on it.
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I can't eat tinned apricots! Not that I have to now, but when I was on long radar courses at RAF Yatesbury we had tinned apricots 7 days a week with varying colours of custard for months on end. Now the site is mercifully ploughed into the ground to hide the evidence.
Roy
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Vesta curry. In the early 70s it was days before pot noodle and the vesta curry was the nearest thing to instant junk vood we had (I will not hear a word against Smash). I remember really liking it and sometimes I get the memory of the taste. You can still find them on Amazon, but I dare not get one in case it tastes utterly vile and my memories are ruined.
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Bird's Instant Whip.
It was probably bogging really, but we loved it as kids.
Strawberry was the favorite.
Ah yes, or Strawberry Angel Delight with a flake crumbled over it. Still an occasional treat in this house.
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Licorice pipes I loved them, you occasionally see them these days but half the size and don't taste as good. {:-{
Joe
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Birds Eye Steaklets, the forerunner to beefburgers.
Bob
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Home made meat pie with mash and peas.
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Rice Creamola pudding !
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I used to like mashed corn beef in a wide dish spread over with mashed potatoes and browned in the oven. I did it a while back and did not think it was much good. I have since come to wonder if the corned beef in tins we have now are the same recipe as of 60 odd years ago. They seem more mushier. I noted that the ready sliced corn beef a la S. market was much better,
Roy
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Totally agree Roy Corned beef is not the same as it was but it's still good mixed with mash, then made into patties and rolled in corn flour then fried till crispy on the surface, mmm mouths watering now.
Joe. ok2
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I used to like mashed corn beef in a wide dish spread over with mashed potatoes and browned in the oven. I did it a while back and did not think it was much good. I have since come to wonder if the corned beef in tins we have now are the same recipe as of 60 odd years ago. They seem more mushier. I noted that the ready sliced corn beef a la S. market was much better,
Roy
Were you uaing the low fat learn version or the full fat traditional verson?
LB
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HI Guys what about a very good classic bubble and squeak it used to be a favourite on Sunday evening.
Stan
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I must admit Stan.. :embarrassed: ....Mums B&S patties made from the leftovers from Sundays Roast & freshly fried [in Lard] for Monday evenings dinner were mouth-watering.......she would shiver in her boots at the taste of today's versions......but they still bring back memories........thankyou Mum....... :kiss:
Derek
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Sound awful now but:
Tomato Ketchup Sandwich sat watching the ships coming out of the dock locks 2hrs before high tide.
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Hello Liverbudgie I don't buy 'wimp' food!!!! {-) Preparing lunch today I am looking at 3 peaches that refuse to ripen and then I thought what would my mum have done? So I stewed them with some sugar! When cold they were lovely with ice cream.
I remember my little brother and I would walk up to Queens Crescent Market (NW London) and as the stall holders packed up on Saturday night we would ask for rotten fruit. This was not brown and mushy just not going to last til Monday. Always had a bag with us and the fruit would be cleaned etc and stewed, it was a nice treat. That would be 70+ years ago so not that long really!
4 years ago my brother and I took a trip to Chalk Farm tube station, Marine Ices was still there where I first tasted pistacchio ice cream, and walked to where we once lived, met some locals who were quite intrigued to get a short trip down memory lane. Walked through to Camden Town, and Camden Lock, up Park Way to Rip Max model shop where I started my model boat infatuation. Although it was buying Meccano spares that took me in there first.
Well I have more past than future now so a pleasant memory reminder.
Roy
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Hello Liverbudgie I don't buy 'wimp' food!!!! {-) Preparing lunch today I am looking at 3 peaches that refuse to ripen and then I thought what would my mum have done? So I stewed them with some sugar! When cold they were lovely with ice cream.
I never said 'yer did! However, those peaches do sound good I have to admit O0
LB
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Hi LB if you do stew peaches wait for them to suddenly expand like apples do, then they are done.
regards
Roy
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Before flavoured crisps came out my father and I used to pour tomato ketchup into the bag. Shake em up and eat them quick before they went mushy.
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...we had ketchup flavoured crisps back in Canada in the early 70s.
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Bird's Instant Whip.
It was probably bogging really, but we loved it as kids.
Strawberry was the favourite.
Much prefer butterscotch Angels Delight. My late friend used to make it late at night watching TV.
Had gypsy tart at school, a very Kentish thing. Absolutely hate it these days!
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Gypsy Tart? The mind boggles...
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I remember gypsy tart from primary school in Berkshire, and secondary school in North Wales. Wow! there is a blast from the past.
They also used to do some kind of cornflake and golden syrup tart that was really salty. You needed custard just to kill the taste of salt.
They also used to do a tinned apricot or peach tart, that looked like peaches covered in phlegm. Bogging.
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as a young lad a bag of OXO crisps or plain but with the little blue bag for some reason the new kind just not as good and sasperella pop if I have spelt it right
Regards Howard
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Was that the same stuff you got at school? Tapioca and a splash of red syrup in the middle.
Boke!! :o
:D :D :D :D
Frog Spawn with jam O0 Sadly not allowed in the house by SWMBO <:(
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I made corned beef fritter today, in honour of my Dad..... I need another practice run... he won't be proud! {:-{
(https://i.ibb.co/G9fThHn/Fritters1.jpg) (https://ibb.co/qCL5ZJ7)
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They look alright to me Martin. At least they won't be raw in the middle :-))
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Cheese & onion pie followed by prunes and custard for afters for school dinner, God it was awful and the mixure made me very ill one afternoon.
I liked flies cemetery & custard though.
LB
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Well Done is an expression in OZ to ensure the meat is cooked all the way thru.....
....they also say that eating charcoal is good for blood {-) obviously our Martin is of this School
I am up to 110 donations at the Blood Bank........they feed you salty chips...then you get thirsty & so you drink water to hydrate you
At no time do they offer a Charcoal Sandwich <*<
Derek
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I cannot stand the sight of rhubarb after school dinners. >:-o
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Well, maybe not quite childhood ;) ...last week in my kitchen pantry I found a 340gm tin of Coles Baby Beetroots .....
Use by date was 20/07/2014...so waste not, I open the tin & the contents looked & smelt like beetroot in vinegar......nothing more, nothing less, no furry fungus growing anywhere
Contents...Australian baby beetroot, salt, vinegars, spices & and a dash of sugar :P :P :P
Absolutely beautiful........[told my youngest daughetr [42 YO] & she nearly died of shock horror that I was still alive]
It's a marketing ploy all of this 'use by'...'best by'.......if it's 20 seconds over the printed date.......in the rubbish they go
Derek
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My grandparents used to eat "natlings and chitterlings?" tripe and pigs trotters. Haven't seen them for years fortunately as I hated them.Also "skate wings" I haven't eaten fish since and I'm 66 this month (God willing)
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Welcome Barny.....according to % & the Law of Averages %) ......if you go to your favourite Restaurant & don't order
.....'natlings and chitterlings' 'or skate wings" you should be OK to post more about your builds here on MBM :-))
Derek
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Jellied eels and mash .. Once tried never forgotten. Can still get it served up with liquor up the Portobello Rd and one or two other places
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Most of my childhood food memories is of overcooked vegetables and meet >:-o
But my grandmothers home-made Citron Fromage (Danish Lemon Mousse) and her cooked salted pork belly is 2 of my good memories.
Working hard on replicating those recipes.
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Most of us remember our mother's baking, my favourite memory is of freshly baked cheese scones, warm from the oven, slathered in Jersey butter, Mmmm . . . .
Those of use growing up in the 1960's probably have rose tinted memories of convenience foods from those new-fangled supermarkets, you know, the stuff crammed with trans-fats, salt and sugar.
My favourites were Heinz 'Toast Toppers', a small can of gloop which you spread on buttered toast and grilled, and Findus 'Crispy Pancakes', the cheese ones had the consistency and taste of yellow wallpaper paste, still, happy days!
Cheers, and stay safe!
Mike
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yeah I do remember the little tins of Heinz toast toppers the bacon one I recall had the colour and consistency of brick laying mortar but actually tasted quite good. :-)
Joe
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Fish finger sandwiches, Birdseye crispy pancakes..... and my mums cornbeef hash... tin of cornbeef, potatoes, chopped onions and a tin of chopped tomatoes all mixed together and cooked in the oven.... 30-40 minutes..... 10 mins before removing from oven sprinkle with cheese return to oven for final 10 minutes..... then enjoy.
David
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Hi all, the memories from the late 50's and 60's really reflect the rationing that was our previous situation. I can remember my mother scraping the very last of the butter or perhaps it was margarine from the wrapper and then putting the wrapper on top of a pie so nothing was lost.
The only meat not on ration was rabbit, which is something I cannot eat now. To not have to take a ration coupon with you when buying sweets was a new world.
I remember breadcrumbs going into make the scrambled eggs go further, but then you should try it, its OK!
I went into the RAF in 1957 to find the cooking at Boot camp atrocious the NAAFI did well with evening meals. I was posted to RAF Germany again the food was so bad there was a refusal to eat on one Sunday, you had to go to the meal, but you did not have to eat it! There was an enquiry and it was found that the Catering NCO was selling our rations to the locals.
We had new NCO's and the food was now as good as it gets! Same money spent it is what you do with it. I used to get up early for breakfast it was as good as 4* hotels I frequented in the 1980's. Then I was posted to RAF Lyneham and the food was even better, they used to win the Catering trophy every year.
So memories of childhood meals do stay with you and nearly all the posts are about home cooking I think just one about some tinned food. We have been weened onto fat and sugar and fast food and look at the consequences!
We can all choose what we wish to eat just make it an informed choice.
Sorry about that, bit of a rant really,
regards to all
Roy
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Not a rant at all Roy. I'm really enjoying your reminiscences, I was born in 1954, which, purely co-incidentally, was when sweets finally came off the ration. Back in the 1950's and 1960's
a greater proportion of the household budget was spent on food, with meat being particularly expensive. These days in terms of relative cost and variety 'we've never had it so good', as somebody
once said, but some people make the wrong choices. Meat has never been as cheap, but it certainly doesn't seem to taste as good as back in ye olden days.
Cheers,
Mike
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I was born in 1953 and I remember my Mum cooking hearts which were like trying to eat old leather and liver which to this day I still hate the taste of, the only difference now is that I can choose not to eat it.
My other hate is sprouts and white cabbage, I've had so many people says 'you'll like them the way I cook them' no I wont I have tried all different peoples cooking methods and I still don't like them, so don't tell me again. (https://www.davejohnson.co.uk/Smileys/dave/head_wall.gif)
A couple of comical stories for you.
My Mum used to make great bread pudding. One day she had a brainwave of an idea for getting the excess water out of the bread. She put all the wet bread into a pillow case and put it inside the new spin drier that they had bought. She closed the lid and flicked the switch on the wall. She help the top for a short while then let go. The spin drier then started to walk around the kitchen as the contents had all collected on one side of the drier's cylinder. She was running around the kitchen panicking until she realised to switch it off at the wall. (https://www.davejohnson.co.uk/Smileys/dave/wash.gif)
Not long after Mum and Dad were married Dad went out to work and Mum said to him what do you want for dinner tonight and he said a he'd like something with baked beans, I say that because I cannot remember the exact request.
So Dad got home and Mum dished up the dinner. My Dad looked down at the plate and was confused and said 'where is the tomato sauce from the beans?' to which my Mum replied 'I thought you had to rinse off the tomato sauce' (https://www.davejohnson.co.uk/Smileys/dave/rofl1.gif)
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Hi all, as far as home cooking goes I am not bad at it, BUT I am used to the oven etc and cook accordingly. I was with my son in Oz and I was requested to make what they enjoyed most roast lamb and roast potatoes etc. It came out awful, I was embarrassed to say the least.
The digital temps on the oven did not conform to our oven either one could be right/wrong etc. The next time my daughter in law said they always went for 20 degrees higher than the recipe said! So much for Miele!
As far as leathery hearts go I am afraid they are over cooked and possibly at too high a temperature, I remember stuffed sheeps hearts with paxo stuffing and they really come out quite tender, when the children were young these were eaten along with fried liver and onions. My wife denies ever eating liver so a rather selective memory! But daughter is all but vegan my wife will only eat lamb and no other red meat and is shocked at some of the things I used to cook.
I do like lambs kidneys in sherry and I do remember when I was about 11 cycling up to the market in NW London to buy pigs fry! This is all the bits plus the brains you would not be offered today, I liked it then as did we all, however not so sure now!
Today I break my rules as I really do like Charlie Brighams Cottage Pie, the lasagne is not bad euther.
Many of the cooking dishes and tins do not suit a two portion oven cook and having watched the 3 Christmas Childrens lectures I am trying to eliminate waste food. I am wary of where our food comes from, as I really do not trust unknown sources any more.
About 30 years ago I occasionally worked with my brother who is a qualified bakery engineer (I did the electronics) and we would go and fix the equipment at a large bread company who exclusively sold to the well known hotels in London and the like. When we were finished we were always offered any bread we wanted. The bread was never meant to last more than the day and all I can say is if you are used to wrapped sliced bread you really do not know what you are missing.
The nearest I have come to a decent loaf is from Morrisons the Wheat, Rye and Spelt loaf, this is excellent. It was recommended to me by my nephew who is a Baker working for Morrisons. I have made my own bread and with 4 of us at home it was economical but with just the two of us it would not be worth doing.
So when my loaf is 2/3rds used the rest goes into making another bread pudding and I agree with the mum trying to get excess liquid out of the bread when soaked in milk (we are up market)! It has to be done. Now if you want building up, OK, to put on some weight, I recommend bread pudding, (try soaking the dried fruit in brandy for an hour).
What a way to go!
regards
Roy
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I also remember mother serving stuffed hearts in the 60's and it was quite nice when slow cooked,
however there is a meat product that sticks firmly in my memory - none of the family liked it - dreaded TRIPE !
The smell of this weird substance cooking was plain awful and lives with me to this day,
mother tried in vain to encourage us to eat the weird honeycomb rubbery plate of horror -
threatening to resurrect the pig's trotters and cow's heels she ate as a child - if we didn't eat it. Happy Days !!
Paul
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I remember tripe the only one who liked it was my mum and when she had it she was banned to the kitchen and the door shut until the smell cleared away.
Regards
Roy
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My favourites were Heinz 'Toast Toppers', a small can of gloop which you spread on buttered toast and grilled, and Findus 'Crispy Pancakes', the cheese ones had the consistency and taste of yellow wallpaper paste, still, happy days!
Mike
As far as I am aware both are still available - though the toast toppers might have gone since, need to check ASDA next time I am in, findus pancakes were reported to being removed from the shelves a couple of years ago due to a lack of customer demand and they suddenly found a resurgence so kept them going, last time I had them was last year, though I only go for the mice beef or beef with onion, there ok and a cheap addition for a light meal (4 for a £1 last lot we got)
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Hi Warspite,
You're right about Findus Crispy Pancakes, they brought them back by popular demand! I actually contacted Heinz about Toast Toppers (how sad is that!) and got the following reply 'The Heinz Toast Toppers Range has been discontinued - thanks for your interest'.
Cheers,
Mike.
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Oh my goodness crispy findus pancakes - my Mum used to cook these all of the time - but there again she could and still could burn water :o
I left home when I was 17 I think and findus has a lot to answer for {-)
I still love marmite on toast though and fish finger sandwiches are always a winner O0
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...... and Findus 'Crispy Pancakes'
Mike
Oh yeah, remember those!
(https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/findus-crispy-pancakes-e1551701036418.jpg)
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I have had Ox hearts once casseroled in gravy with onions and it was very nice. Like with Liver (best with bacon and onions) if cooked properly it is lovely, but like all food you can't like everything.
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Not me, but our youngest daughter.
One Sunday evening about 6 pm. when my wife was pregnant, she had a craving for salt fish. You know how it is.
Yours truly, had to go out to find some and the only place that was open was a local Chinese corner store. "Yes, they had some"
Well my wife did eat a bit but it was so salty and tasted terrible. The smell was disgusting as well.
Since her birth, our daughter has absolutely refused to eat seafood. >>:-(
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Findus Crispy pancakes - most always split and contents like lava if they didn't, many a scorched tongue {-) {-) {-) {-)
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Marmite on toast soldiers, dipped in a runny boiled egg. When you were still encouraged to eat runny eggs.
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Runny eggs are the ONLY eggs.
They don't very often make YOU runny unless you pick the wrong hen... :o
Colin
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Findus Crispy pancakes - most always split and contents like lava if they didn't, many a scorched tongue
Yeah! {-) {-)
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I suppose I was privileged in a way, but the food at prep and later at boarding school in the 50s and 60s was pretty dire. The only thing I remember enjoying was 'treacle stodge' - steamed golden syrup pudding. Luckily by that time my father's business was going well, so the holidays meant good food at home and meals in some pretty fancy restaurants. Blackcurrant puree - anyone remember that? It came in tins as part of the rations and was great in semolina. I actually remember the end of rationing and being given the unused ration books and a pair of scissors to play with.
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NHS Orange juice. My mother was a Health Visitor and brought us the bottles that mothers did not want. Also Virol YUM
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I remember that Orange juice, highly concentrated, bright orange and very nice. Virol and molasses only seemed to come at school where undernourished children had a large spoonful every day. The cod liver oil was pretty ghastly and I had to have a spoonful every day swiftly followed by the OJ.
My brother and I would demolish a 2 lb. tin of baked beans with sausages, in from America, if I remember correctly for breakfast whenever it was available.
We once had a food parcel sent out via GPO (1950?) to all families from Canada, full of stuff we had never seen, it was great, always been fond of the Canadians ever since. It does show what a small act of kindness can do!
I also remember a daft argument between my mate's mum and me. We had been asked to bring a sealable container for an issue of drinking chocolate at school. I took a 1 pound tin (ex cocoa) and she supplied a 2 pound jam jar. The tin's volume was clearly a bit larger than the jam jar but she insisted that they had twice as much, as hers was marked 2 lbs! As I found out, adults always won arguments!
It is easy to forget that many adults in those times had left school at 14 or even earlier so we did become a priveliged generation and although on rations we were all a lot healthier than previous generations.
regards
Roy
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I remember that breakfast was almost always augmented with Halibut oil capsules and Parrishes Chemical Food through a straw to stop teeth going black from the iron!
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A desert spoon of "Malt and Cod Liver Oil" before bed.
Butter and sugar sandwiches.
I still treat myself to a Tomato Sauce sandwich when I want something quick and tasty... has to be Processed sliced white bread and Heinz sauce... nothing else.
Regards
Terry H
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Cod liver oil? Luxury.
Our mother used to give us castor oil, we are sure that was her passive aggressive response if we played up.
Proving perhaps that not all of our food memories are flavoured with happy nostalgia.
Who remembers Haslett? I think it was Mattessons who made it. It was something you bought sliced at the deli counter in the 70s. Poor man's meatloaf. Not bad, but my dad was a supermarket manager, and the van driver would give a whole haslett, maybe 2lbs, to my dad every week. We soon grew sick of it, and my dad kept bringing it home every week.
Same goes for torton cake. Basically a large round sponge cream cake. Sponge cake layer, thick layer of sweetened cream, another sponge layer, the whole cake then covered in sweat cream, and topped with fruit pieces. Sounds yummy, but almost every Saturday at closing time, dad would box one of the unsold tortons to bring home. We grew sick of this too. We had to finish it in a couple of days and were forced to eat all of the sickly goopy cake. I know it sounds ungrateful, but you can have too much of a good thing, and unlike the haslett you could not disguise in a curry, or in beans.
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Morrisons have Haslett, or did on Saturday.
My pet hates where and are: Connieonie(sp), tinned pears and mangoes, cow heel, oxtail (not the soup) fatty lamb, cheese pie (see Previous) Damsons.
That will do for a start.
LB
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Ahah......orange juice........in maybe 1959 [5th Class at Primary school]...end of year excursion 55 miles by coach from Wollongong to Sydney
1. before lunch.....the Museum of Technology in Harris Street Sydney
2. after lunch...a guided tour on the P&O Liner Orsova at the International Terminal...we had English biscuits and a small steel can of Califorianian American Orange juice......not Orange cordial syrup, but real Orange juice :P ......I don't believe we had real Orange juice in cans or bottles in Australia at that time....[or any fresh Orange juice that we could afford]
3. in the evening we went to the ABC Television studio at Sydney's Gore Hill to be in the audience to a televised live Quiz Show
Derek
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Has anyone mentioned snoek (snook) ? A fish import from South Africa which the Government thought it would help to bolster the shortage of protein . Stuff was so disgusting nobody would buy it, even the cat would not touch it.
http://www.recipespastandpresent.org.uk/wartime/snoek-snook/ (http://www.recipespastandpresent.org.uk/wartime/snoek-snook/)
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I was as a child sent daily to an OPEN AIR SCHOOL, used to be collect by a Salford green bus and taken to those who know the area as 'Irlam of t Heights', the school was one big long corridor with rooms off to one side, the diner hall at one end and the rooms all looked onto the grounds where the activity kit in the grounds were cut up tree trunks, I was given the spoon full of molases about 10-11 each day so remember that in the post mentioned earlier - ahh those were the days, waiting for the bus in the dense pea souper fog. >>:-(