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Food from your childhood ...
« on: December 28, 2020, 02:14:46 am »


What food from your childhood do you still miss but can't be found nowadays?


 ... or is still around! 
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Re: Food from your childhood ...
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2020, 02:31:46 am »

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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Re: Food from your childhood ...
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2020, 03:49:40 am »

Just boiled beetroot from the stall in Portobello Road market.   Yum.  :-)
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Re: Food from your childhood ...
« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2020, 07:48:29 am »


My Dad's eggnog... with nutmeg and a drop rum.....
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Re: Food from your childhood ...
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2020, 08:16:34 am »

Grandma's kangaroo tail soup.
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Re: Food from your childhood ...
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2020, 08:19:38 am »

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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Re: Food from your childhood ...
« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2020, 08:36:22 am »

Bird's Instant Whip.
It was probably bogging really, but we loved it as kids.
Strawberry was the favorite.
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Re: Food from your childhood ...
« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2020, 09:22:43 am »

Dripping Toast  %)
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Re: Food from your childhood ...
« Reply #8 on: December 28, 2020, 09:51:18 am »

Manchester Tart!
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Re: Food from your childhood ...
« Reply #9 on: December 28, 2020, 09:59:04 am »

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Re: Food from your childhood ...
« Reply #10 on: December 28, 2020, 10:16:08 am »

Frog Spawn with jam O0 Sadly not allowed in the house by SWMBO <:(
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Re: Food from your childhood ...
« Reply #11 on: December 28, 2020, 11:36:50 am »

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.


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Re: Food from your childhood ...
« Reply #12 on: December 28, 2020, 12:09:07 pm »

My mum's spotted dick and custard. She used to make the best apple crumble too  :-))
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Re: Food from your childhood ...
« Reply #13 on: December 28, 2020, 12:15:04 pm »

Toast with beef dripping and lots of lovely gravy/jelly.  Strangely enough, dried egg from living through WW2
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Re: Food from your childhood ...
« Reply #14 on: December 28, 2020, 12:34:09 pm »

Lol!! Haven’t heard that expression for a while - ‘Bogging’


Covered a multitude of way to explain that something was awful. Lol!



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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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Re: Food from your childhood ...
« Reply #15 on: December 28, 2020, 12:39:40 pm »

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.


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Re: Food from your childhood ...
« Reply #16 on: December 28, 2020, 12:44:27 pm »

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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Re: Food from your childhood ...
« Reply #17 on: December 28, 2020, 01:25:44 pm »

My mother’s egg custard tarts, gorgeous, plus all the other things she used to bake.


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Re: Food from your childhood ...
« Reply #18 on: December 28, 2020, 02:28:41 pm »

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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Re: Food from your childhood ...
« Reply #19 on: December 28, 2020, 02:36:49 pm »

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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« Reply #20 on: December 28, 2020, 03:05:07 pm »

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.
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Re: Food from your childhood ...
« Reply #21 on: December 28, 2020, 03:39:14 pm »

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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Re: Food from your childhood ...
« Reply #22 on: December 28, 2020, 03:41:27 pm »

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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Re: Food from your childhood ...
« Reply #23 on: December 28, 2020, 06:06:43 pm »

Licorice pipes I loved them, you occasionally see them these days but half the size and don't taste as good.  {:-{


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Re: Food from your childhood ...
« Reply #24 on: December 29, 2020, 02:56:16 am »

Birds Eye Steaklets, the forerunner to beefburgers.


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