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General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: Roseneath on February 02, 2019, 04:43:16 PM
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My kids asked me today what I ate as a child. Thought it may make an interesting thread.
My mum never cooked so we lived off processed food 1970s style:
Vesta Currys (reconstituted meat pellets)
Primla cheese triangles (Different colours/flavours in a round box - I loved the tomato one!)
Findas crispy pancakes - hot on the inside and hard like cardboard on the outside
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I used to get a Vesta curry for a treat 😆 you still get the findus pancakes
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Yes I liked the Vesta curry as well, very exotic ;D
Still one of my favourites fish fingers.
Angel Delight
Tinned fruit cocktail and tinned cream
Smash potato
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Have bumped similar threads
We had school dinners so ate evening meal at 5.00 and most weeks it would be the same
Left overs from Sunday - tea would include tinned peaches or mandarin orgenges with tinned milk
Boiled egg with soldiers
Beans on toast
Fish fingers with beans and/or chips
Spam
Angel Delight
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My mum always used to make me cheese spread sandwiches (upwrapped) then put a banana in the lunch box. By lunchtime the sandwiches would be slightly soggy and taste of warm banana. Knowing my mother as I do now she probably did it on purpose!
My husband goes on about bilberry (?) tarts he used to get at the bakers. Maybe a Yorkshire thing, we never had them in Derbyshire....
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Gypsy Tart. It's a Kent thing.
My mums cornbeef pie.
Cheese and jam sandwiches
Salard with fresh peas from the garden
Loved all the above.
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We see people picking bilberries on the Pennines, Roseneath. Bilberry tart tastes wonderful.
My mum was an excellent cook so we had lots of roast dinners and my dad was often given pheasant and salmon.
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You've just reminded me of a fizzy drink maker my friend had. Was it called Soda Stream maybe?
I thought it was so stylish. The drinks tasted foul though - the cola was weird and metallic tasting.
Always made out I loved it though!
I used to get cherry Panda pops from a local youth club. Would give me a migraine now...
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My mom used to make coconut rock cakes. OMG, they were delicious.
We used to eat them still warm, she couldn't make enough of them, (there was seven of us)
Lol. I've tried making them, but I'm not really a cake baker. Lol
We used to get cooked meals all week, then Friday night was chippy, and the weekend was salad, sandwiches, pork pies, ect.....then a big Sunday dinner. I come from a family of big eaters, and not one of them was fat....lol..
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My mum had a soda stream,many a time it exploded all over the ceiling 😆
I used to love gypsy creams
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Gypsy Tart. It's a Kent thing.
My mums cornbeef pie.
Cheese and jam sandwiches
Salard with fresh peas from the garden
Loved all the above.
Gypsy tart was always a love or hate thing. I hated it. My mum was very into cooking so we had a lot of roast dinners (Sunday only), cold meat and salad, lasagne, spaghetti Bolognese, Shepherds Pie, cheese and onion flan (also with salad), sausage, chips and beans, liver & bacon with mashed potato, home made stews, apple crumble/sponge puddings and cooked breakfasts amongst other things.
Where in Kent did you live? I was in the Medway Towns (Rainham/Gillingham during my school years).
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Still in Kent but now in Tunbridge Wells area. Brought up on the North Downs, not far from Ashford.
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My husband goes on about bilberry (?) tarts he used to get at the bakers. Maybe a Yorkshire thing, we never had them in Derbyshire....
I bet you've eaten them but by a different name. They're called whinberries here in NW Derbyshire. We even have Whinberry Wood just up the road so presumably called whinberries for a long time. Where I grew up in Cumbria they were billberries.
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Still in Kent but now in Tunbridge Wells area. Brought up on the North Downs, not far from Ashford.
I haven't lived there for a long time. I moved to London as a student in 1983 and later my Dad sold the Rochester house and moved back to London in 2000. I do go back from time to time.
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Talk of Vesta meals and Angel Delight brings back memories of the 1970s the start of convenience foods in our house when my mum started to go out to work. Until then everything was home cooked as we did no have money for expensive foods as my mum called them. Really unhealthy when you look at the ingredients and the knowledge we have about bad stuff today especially mono sodium glutamate the flavour enhancer which was widely used then.
My husband likes to tell me all about the flavours of Angel Delight he used to have, the Lemon Meringue packet mix and cake mixes they endured so his mother could save time on feeding a family of six. They had more money than my family.
Does anyone remember their grandparents revelling in the use of cream on all desserts in the 1960s and 1970s? This was no doubt a luxury to them as cream was something to aspire to during WW2 when food was rationed.
No doubt in years to come future generations will laugh at the concept of KFC and MacDonalds!!!!!!!
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Tinned pears and condensed milk😊
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Talk of Vesta meals and Angel Delight brings back memories of the 1970s the start of convenience foods in our house when my mum started to go out to work. Until then everything was home cooked as we did no have money for expensive foods as my mum called them. Really unhealthy when you look at the ingredients and the knowledge we have about bad stuff today especially mono sodium glutamate the flavour enhancer which was widely used then.
My husband likes to tell me all about the flavours of Angel Delight he used to have, the Lemon Meringue packet mix and cake mixes they endured so his mother could save time on feeding a family of six. They had more money than my family.
Does anyone remember their grandparents revelling in the use of cream on all desserts in the 1960s and 1970s? This was no doubt a luxury to them as cream was something to aspire to during WW2 when food was rationed.
No doubt in years to come future generations will laugh at the concept of KFC and MacDonalds!!!!!!!
I like your comment on cream. I have a one off recollection of my great auntie talking about cream as a special treat for us and being so surprised to hear that we didn't like it. That must have been very early 70's I do like cream now as an occasional treat.
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Talk of Vesta meals and Angel Delight brings back memories of the 1970s the start of convenience foods in our house when my mum started to go out to work. Until then everything was home cooked as we did no have money for expensive foods as my mum called them. Really unhealthy when you look at the ingredients and the knowledge we have about bad stuff today especially mono sodium glutamate the flavour enhancer which was widely used then.
My husband likes to tell me all about the flavours of Angel Delight he used to have, the Lemon Meringue packet mix and cake mixes they endured so his mother could save time on feeding a family of six. They had more money than my family.
Does anyone remember their grandparents revelling in the use of cream on all desserts in the 1960s and 1970s? This was no doubt a luxury to them as cream was something to aspire to during WW2 when food was rationed.
No doubt in years to come future generations will laugh at the concept of KFC and MacDonalds!!!!!!!
My mum had a thing against shop bought cakes or puddings. She went very much for home made. One of my earliest memories is helping her to make cakes and cleaning the bowl afterwards.
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I used to love flaked rice pudding with grated nutmeg on which my gran made with I think it was sterilised milk (it came in a tall skinny glass bottle with a I think gold metal cap like beer bottle ones from the milkman) it was my favourite pudding x
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I used to love flaked rice pudding with grated nutmeg on which my gran made with I think it was sterilised milk (it came in a tall skinny glass bottle with a I think gold metal cap like beer bottle ones from the milkman) it was my favourite pudding x
When I was very small, my Grandma used to make fantastic coconut ice. Overall her cooking wasn't very good. We used to joke about it. My other grandma was a much better cook. However I did love the coconut ice and her version of bacon and egg for breakfast. She used to chop the egg, bacon and fried bread into small pieces and put it in a bowl when we were small. It somehow tasted better that way or just different and we asked her to do it even when we were bigger and didn't need it cut up.
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Gypsy Tart. It's a Kent thing.
My mums cornbeef pie.
Cheese and jam sandwiches
Salard with fresh peas from the garden
Loved all the above.
I was brought up in Kent too and absolutely loved gypsy tart. Bread and butter pudding too. Had to have a crispy top
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Gypsy Tart. It's a Kent thing.
My mums cornbeef pie.
Cheese and jam sandwiches
Salard with fresh peas from the garden
Loved all the above.
I was brought up in Kent too and absolutely loved gypsy tart. Bread and butter pudding too. Had to have a crispy top
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Can still buy it in some cake shops. Mega sugar hit though.
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Oh shady,blimey I went back in time there,my mum used to make corned beef pie,totally forgot about that 😊
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Condensed milk on bread
Sugar sandwiches
HP sauce on hot toast
My sister loved those small sausages in baked beans :sick02:
Bilberries; blue berries; whimberries; winberries ........ as the same plant. We used to pick bilberries in Wales, the dog would pick her own ::)
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went out to lunch with DD today and they were selling gypsy tart, so we both had a piece. I had forgot all about gypsy tart until I read it on here, quite surprised to see it in the restaurant.
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Never heard of Gypsy tart but just looked up the recipe; quite simple evaporated milk & sugar in pastry case? I love egg custards if it tastes like that.
We used to have Heinz spaghetti bolognese in a tin on toast! I assume everyone had it like that until I was about 18 and a friends mum made it from scratch with mince. I still love spaghetti in tomato sauce in a tin on toast...Have never got into sardines from a tin. Tried to like them but :sick02: Same with anchovies.
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I never liked sardines from the tin Roseneath but have you tried skippers? A smaller version of a sardine they're much nicer but you don't tend to see them on shelves so much now.
My mum was a very old fashioned cook in Glasgow.no processed foods of any kind other than a tin of beans maybe.
Everything was cooked from scratch always a huge pot of chicken soup on the stove the eggs had to have the wee lion stamped on them or she wouldnt buy and we used to do battle for a brown one at the breakfast table lol..you could have stood a knife in her porridge and we used to sprinkle sugar on it and top with milk i always got the cream because I was so thin lol changed days.Her jelly always had a big skin on it and we hated getting that bit and the oven cooked rice pudding always had a big brown skin on it that I hated.I do miss my mum's cooking though lol.
Everything was bought from the butchers the fruit shop the grocers.it was fresh butter moulded with the big paddles wrapped in greaseproof paper.It was great in its time especially the proper Italian ice cream that you took a bowl to the cafe to buy it and was covered with greaseproof paper and you'd to run all the way home with it before it melted happy days im feeling very nostalgic now 😂DD😘
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My mum used to make a huge pot of broth,I can't make anything close to it,also the rice pudding but I LOVED the skin
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Isn't it ironic that people have so much more disposable income these days but eat a poorer diet in terms of both taste and nutrients.
Supermarket veg is so bland. Meat is stuffed with water and hormones. All the processed and convenience stuff. I have just re-read all the Arthur Ransom books and they are full of delight over simple fayre like boiled eggs and salt, fresh apples from trees, homemade fruit cake.
We probably don't do enough physical work or exercise to ever be really hungry these days.
Babycham anyone?
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;D. no thanks. I would have a glass of Babycham at lunch time but in the early hours my gut would bubble ..... trapped wind, I would feel SO sick. Twice. Never again.
Generally the population did different jobs too. My background is farming or In Service on both sides. Days began early. Breakfast was the main meal to keep the workers fuelled for the day. 11 o'clock we took sandwiches or scones to the fields and the men came home for lunch at 12.30. They then worked until 6.00 - home for a bath, supper and bed. Some were herdsmen, others did ploughing behind huge Shires :-).
Granma - born in the 1880s - went to school on a bowl of porridge taking a slab of bread with butter or pork dripping. She went into Service. Every household in the country had a garden or access to growing space: spuds, greens in season, peas/beans/salads throughout the Summer. Bottling and canning was common and every house-maid learned how. Nothing was wasted. Ash from the fires went onto the garden when it rested - parts were not planted for that year. Worms did their job.
I agree Roseneath - Yorkshire pudding of course was served prior to the main meal so that meat went further. Chicken was expensive and a treat! I don't know how people managed in the towns but in the villages we had : butchers, bakery, grocery, milk delivered ..........
Tinned foods were much a part of our life. Kept for years! OK there was sugar in the cans but we survived because we exercised it off.
Beefburgers etc. hadn't been invented then.
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When myself and the toy boy were "winching" lol I went to his mum's house for Saturday night tea and she'd made a fry up with chips.i thought she was the cleverest woman id ever met because she'd had the patience to cut all those little zig zags in the chips.it was Frozen crinkle cut chips lol id never seen a fozen chip or heard of them let alone eaten them.
We were brought up in a room and kitchen 5 of us, outside toilet on the tenement landing shared by 3 families.My mum was a milkmaid on her 3 wheeled bike with milk urn on the back which she filled the customers jugs from and my dad was a lamp lighter for the gas mantle lamps that lit up the closes in Glasgow.I never ever felt deprived or underprivileged we were loved and felt loved.DD😘
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Very interesting points, ladies.
I have started serving my children (17,12,10) BOILED potatoes.
At first they were like “what are these??†;D
They are used to eating Roast, Mash, New, Boulangere, Dauphinoise, Chips - you name it but not just plain old peeled and boiled!!!
My mum has always talked about home cooked unprocessed meals as being the most healthy thing for us and I have to say she is right. Seasonal, simple, unprocessed.
I grew up in the 70's and 80's and processed food for us was a tin of baked beans. Everything else was simple and unprocessed. Fish and veg. Meat and veg.
I think I was lucky that my mum was a great and caring cook.
I made a pie with my son recently. He said it tasted better than any pie he'd ever eaten. Just easy pastry and stewed apples, bless him xxx
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Instant Whip? Birds custard mixed with hot water or milk? Now in packets which are great when camping.
Mashed spuds go a long way. Boiled can be sliced the next day and fried - bubble and squeak was enjoyed in our house ;). New potatoes with freshly picked mint leaves and lots of butter and black pepper - same as freshly picked broad beans: podded, simmered gently, served with butter and black pepper. OHHHH 8)
Any one get cold cooked tongue as a treat on Sundays :-X
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Nooooo. ::)
Id have Thought I'd done something really naughty if my mum gave me something like that 😂😂 :sick02:
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:rofl: apparently it was a treat :o ....... I suppose in the war any meat was welcome and my Grandparents were more used to eating the whole animal :D ...... except of course, the squeak ........
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Just remembered....I used to love Heinz Ox Tail soup - never used to think where it came from. Had little stomach button sized pieces of chewy, gravy coloured meat. Don't think it exists any more. My mother rarely cooked from scratch. Processed was the nouvelle cuisine in our house. We had tinned rice pudding with broken up piece of penguin biscuit mixed in once. The height of sophistication. Tasty though....
The only time we had anything resembling cooking was this strange casserole which had bits of chicken with an assorted mixture of tinned veg - could be mixed veg, tomato, broad beans. It was called ' Bobs' Cock' (Coqu?) for some reason. (My father is Robert so I now think this was an adult joke of some kind). Never thought to critique the food. Just ate it!
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Hello Roseneath.
The boiled potatoes have been an eye opener for my children.
I'm wondering what's going to happen if I serve up Bob's Cock followed by Penguin Rice Pudding.
If we do a Menopause Cookbook, I fear we will make limited sales.
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I used to eat that Roseneath, with bits of bread floating on the top.
Ox tail soup, errr couldn't eat it now!
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I live boiled potatoes with lots of butter.
Yummy 😋
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I live boiled potatoes with lots of butter.
Yummy 😋
I often eat boiled potatoes now but I use the smaller salad potatoes or new potatoes. I don't bother to peel them.
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You can't beat new potatoes in a hot potato salad or jersey royals with lots of butter yummy x
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I bought some new potatoes yesterday, just for a Change. My husband thought it was the height of decedance to buy them in winter.
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You can't beat new potatoes in a hot potato salad or jersey royals with lots of butter yummy x
I often par cook them and then bake them In the oven. At the last minute I stir in a small amount of Stilton chopped into tiny bits and leave it in the oven just long enough for the cheese to melt and coat the potato chunks. I often eat that with chicken and spinach or carrots.
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Don't barf or anything but my ex and his two brothers loved potatoes in custard 🤢
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You've just reminded me of a fizzy drink maker my friend had. Was it called Soda Stream maybe?
I thought it was so stylish. The drinks tasted foul though - the cola was weird and metallic tasting.
Always made out I loved it though!
I used to get cherry Panda pops from a local youth club. Would give me a migraine now...
Just bought a Soda Stream to make my tap water in to sparkling water, to cut down on buying plastic.
Relieved to say progress has been made since I last owned one in the 80's and it no longer explodes when you use it ;D
I used to love ‘Lord Toffingham' ice lollies - chocolate outside and chewy toffee inside
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Don't barf or anything but my ex and his two brothers loved potatoes in custard 🤢
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Don't barf or anything but my ex and his two brothers loved potatoes in custard 🤢
My brother used to eat lettuce with sugar sprinkled on it (plus salad cream). Also, when small, he would only eat boiled egg if the shell was pink. My mum used to put cochineal in the water. Guests used to look a bit surprised to get pink eggs.
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Right, that's dinner sorted. Boiled potatoes in custard. Thanks so much, Jaypo. Best tip I have ever received on this forum.
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OK so I'm thinking my Masterchef entry as follows:
To start:
Heinz oxtail soup with floating sugared lettuce.
The Main:
Bobs' Coqu with a side of boiled potatoes & custard.
Dessert
Lord Toffingham ice with a soda stream chaser
Nailed It . That's dinner with the in-laws sorted.
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Cripes. Check out the packaging for Lord Toffingham ice cream.
It's Jacob Rees- Mog to be sure. That's how be made his dollar.
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Omg what a laugh ladies,thank you
I did say he was my ex,let's just make that clear
Brilliant rose
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Right, that's dinner sorted. Boiled potatoes in custard. Thanks so much, Jaypo. Best tip I have ever received on this forum.
😂😂 glad to be of assistance
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OK so I'm thinking my Masterchef entry as follows:
To start:
Heinz oxtail soup with floating sugared lettuce.
The Main:
Bobs' Coqu with a side of boiled potatoes & custard.
Dessert
Lord Toffingham ice with a soda stream chaser
Nailed It . That's dinner with the in-laws sorted.
;D Excellent combination
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Me and my brother used to make,
Get a slice bread, spread butter on, sprinkle salt n pepper on, then spread mustard over,
And a sprinkling of vinegar. The bread used to be a bit soggy, but we'd have such a laff making it and eating it.....why, I don't know....lol
We even tried grilling an egg, ???????? Don't ask me.......🤣😂🤣
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That really does sum you up Jill 😂
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Hahaha, I know stupid...... :rofl:
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Bump
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When we were kids, ( me & my brothers) my Nan used to boil .......PIGS TROTTERS..🤢🤮
Apparently, we loved em....YUK! .....
One of my brothers, the oldest, STILL eats em when he gets the chance! 🙀 :sick02:
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Yep - everything of a pig can be used except the squeak ;-) - It's the way that the toe nails poke through the steamy water ;D
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When we were kids, ( me & my brothers) my Nan used to boil .......PIGS TROTTERS..🤢🤮
Apparently, we loved em....YUK! .....
One of my brothers, the oldest, STILL eats em when he gets the chance! 🙀 :sick02:
So does my OH, he loves them. Also used to eat gizzard but I've weaned him off that.
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CLKD, you just made me 🤢 🤢 🤮
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:-X - chiltins anyone ........ or cheeks?
Don't know if I could face them now ....... :whist:
We have an old fashioned sweetie shop locally :-*
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I can still remember what they looked like when in the pot....think id just paint them nails now so they'd look prettier when cooking.... ;D........ :neutral:...........
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:rofl: :bbq:
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The worst for me taste & smell is baby gannet, a delicacy in the western isles!!! :sick02: :stretcher: :barf:
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Baby gannet,chips and mushy pease please 😆😂
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It's rank, the house smelling of salt for days!!
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Faroe Islands springs to mind?
It's dangerous collecting this eggs etc.. I would never have survived there: don't tolerate eggs unless in :cupcake:, don't like fish and wouldn't be keen on gannet 'cos they taste of fish :D
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My mom used to try and get me to eat mushrooms.
Being a child, I looked at them and NO WAY.....
It wasn't until I reached 18 that I tried them. ( I think)
And I've never looked back.... ;D all them years of missing out on something that's sooo yummy.. ;D
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When I was very small we all sat at the table for supper & I wouldn't eat tomatoes,so my dad said,you'll sit there til you're finished & of they all went through to watch tv,mum,dad & two sisters,my mum kept come through and saying come on,just eat one,hours must've passed and obviously my willpower/stubbornness 😆 was pretty good and eventually my mum came through and ate them for me 😂😆😂 sorted
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Never liked mushrooms, smell, taste & texture :sick02:. I know prunes has been discussed in other thread but I was force fed them (dad pinched my nose, Mum shoved spoon of them in my mouth) 'to aid constipation'. Prunes & milk of magnesia :barf:
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🤢🤮 awww Foxy, how awful......did it work....😆😂
Sorry I shouldn't laugh......😆
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Foxylady, I sympathise. With me as a little'un, it was Mum spoon-feeding me Milk of Magnesia & Syrup of Figs! Dire. Will leave the missing word to your imagination!
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yeh awful, no wonder I can't even think of going near a prune!
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Force feeding is abuse. Don't get me started on Rose Hip Syrup and Cod Liver Oil :-X
I fancy foods i.e. cheese for weeks then go off them :-\ even chocolate. So I can eat mushrooms on toast for lunch for a few weeks [not every day] then can't face them :-X
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Foxylady - the idea is you go after a prune, not near one!
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;D
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I loved Rose Hip Syrup fortunately I've had Cod Liver Oil in liquid form the thought of it turns my stomach.
Lanzalover x
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Yes, loved rosehip syrup. Gripe water too!
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;D. I got addicted to Gripe Water, I put it onto my Wisdom teeth when they were painful ........ had to tip the liquid down the sink as I loved it.
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If you drank enough of it CLKD, you wouldn't remember where your wisdom teeth were! I hear the magic ingredient has been removed since our day. Shame ;D
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Not worth buying then ;D - was it the parents that were getting addicted then :o ;)
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Wrensong, maybe I'm scared they will come after me if I get too close, prune paranoia :rofl:
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;D yeah, look out Foxylady - I hear they can take you by surprise :o.
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blacmange, sachets with different flavours if I remember right!!
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Foxylady is that like the ones you used to get with birds trifles, my mum used to buy them at Christmas especially the sherry one. I used to just have the dream topping off the top as didn't like trifle lol 😁 x
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blancmange :-X :sick02:
Tifle - :-X :-X although I love all the ingredients but not together ::)
Sponge fingers?
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Thinks so countrygirl. ooh I love a trifle. Trifle, cheescake & sticky toffee puddings my favourites but not all together, like the sticky toffee warm:P
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Foxy,do you remember sweeties called lucky tatties?Think they were Scottish,flat things but covered in cinnamon (I think) & in the middle was a plastic toy,they were chewy too,my god,imagine getting sweets like that now?😆 kids choking on the toy,not sure how us lot have lived so long,what with all the dangerous ........... er,everything......apparently
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Ive never heard of a lucky tattie, asked OH he's 10 yrs older but he hadn't heard of them either, he's googled them from the 60's. i'm not a cinnamon fan so probably wouldn't have tried them anyway!!
I liked frosties similar to cola cubes but I preferred them. My OH has just reminded me of choc cigarettes!! ;D
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You just can't imagine these thing nowadays,puffing away on our sweety cigarettes 😆
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Yes, remember blancmange & milk jelly & jelly with tinned fruit embedded in it.
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I love trifle....all of it....🤣
It used to be such a treat when we were kids, my Nan used to make a huge one.
Banana and custard, we had that quite a lot....
Never liked blancmange.....
Rice pudding, Mmmm, still eat that now actually....
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Birthday parties as a child with the jellies with tinned fruit in the bottom like wrensong mentioned and cheese and pineapple on cocktail sticks stuck in a foil covered orange 😁 x
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We called those 'hedgehogs' CG ;D ........ worked really well!
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Mum's sweet tooth drove her to buy, repeatedly, slab toffee so hard she had to break it on the hearth with the business end of the poker.
Then there were the anaemic pork chipolatas, 9 parts rusk, Dad barely cooked for Sunday breakfast, the leftovers later speared, cold, with the retractable black, thin-tined toasting fork & roasted over the open fire at teatime until the skin crusted & blistered black & fat dripped onto the coals, making them hiss & pop, licked by blue flame. The melting butter soaking into the yangy white bread, wrapped around the pork chips for butties. To be followed by tinned fruit & evap which, if the fruit were mandarins or pineapple, curdled horribly! Then a slice of pale yellow, shop-bought sultana cake from a cellophane wrapped slab.
Some Sundays, a tin of strong smelling pilchards in glistening tomato sauce, upended on a heat-crazed, once white dessert plate with a barely ripe sliced tomato & a pile of thin bread & butter. Tinned fruit set in jelly to follow - usually orange with mandarins. The tinned fish-jelly combination our mortifying (to my teenage self) family teatime offering to my 2nd boyfriend, at age 16. A 6' rugby player with blond boy band looks & 70s feather cut, whose own mother gave us gristly garlic snails in their impossibly lovely dormer bungalow with amazing-to-me central fireplace under beaten copper canopy, at the posh, hillside end of town where they lived, with a view of the sea.
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wrensongs reminiscing!! My mum was a fan of toffee too, treacle was her favourite, that would be a very occasional treat. I can almost hear the fire spitting & hissing. Open fire always reminds me of my childhood & my grannies.
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Oh Wrensong 8). ........ why mandarins in the jelly? ? posh ?
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Ohhh yes Wrensong.... ;D
My mom used to bring the pilchards out on a Sunday....sandwich's and salad, sometimes a tin of salmon aswell... ;D I'd forgotten all about that....also, pickled onions, red cabbage, and piccalilli...
Our Sunday evening tea, was sometimes better than the Sunday roast! ;D ;D....( sorry mom).. ;D
Awww, you've brought back lovely memories there....x
Cheese n pineapple on sticks! ;D my dad loved them, I still love em today! 😆
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Ooh-err, yeah Foxylady, seem to have gone a bit misty eyed there last night! I'd blame it on the wine . . . if menopause hadn't put an end to that particular pleasure :(. Must have been the smoke from the chipolatas ;)
Why mandarins in the jelly, CLKD? Good question. I think perhaps because they matched the orange jelly! Mum used to do them in the lemon one sometimes but looked a bit neon & didn't taste as good. Sure she must have put other fruit in the jellies sometimes. Think maybe pineapple chunks in raspberry, or maybe peach slices. Hard to remember that far back & boyfriend's presence at tea was far more attention grabbing than what food was on the table!
Anyone remember Corona pop? Ciderapple & lime were faves. Sorry if I'm repeating other people's memories - haven't read back through the thread.
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Tinned foods are very under-rated. Left for Sunday best in my day. For when we had company. I can't actually remember what we had when we ate alone ::).
I have tinned peas, beans, soups, B.beans on our shelves. Packet custard which is handy for camping. Mum used to take small packets of spices when they went caravanning. No mandarins though ;)
Oh Corona - orange was the most likely to taste proper, probably all chemicals anyway. Left the empties on the door step to be refilled. My sister had a permanent moustaches of orange :D she liked burdock too but YUK ;D.
Did anyone drink the fruit juice from the cans rather than eat the fruit ?
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Oh Jilly - bless you :-* Thanks for fessing up about the pilchards! Was thinking I was probably the only one with that particular trauma :o!
Yes - pickled onions & piccalilli sometimes on the table too. Rubbery pickled eggs from the chip shop, or sometimes in a huge jar up at the bar in the pub. Those were the days, when you could still get rigg & chips at the chippy. Loved that fish, so sweet tasting & soft!
Cheese & pineapple on sticks?! Lovely, but only in other people's houses :'(. The fruit-cheese combo too exotic for Mum to contemplate!
Wx
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Ringed pineapple and sultanas on rice when people began cooking 'vesta' packet curry?
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Agreed CLKD - great to have tinned staples in the cupboard. Like you, we always have a few tins of baked beans, tuna & some choice soups to grate strong cheddar or chop cooked chicken into when too tired to cook. Usually only Waitrose French onion & tomato/basil, as other tinned soups seem generally poor compared with homemade, which is so easy to do anyway.
Tinned tuna somehow seems to taste strong these days compared to how it used to be. OH says maybe different varieties from when we were kids - the childhood stuff overfished? Fresh tuna steaks or the pricey stuff in oil in jars is far better I think, but reserved for that 70s fave - salad Nicoise!
The only tinned fruit I ever buy - pears - & those only once a year for the old fashioned sherry trifle OH insists I make at Christmas. Every year! ;D
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Yes CLKD, Mum used to do Vesta curry for me one day a week - beef or chicken with sultanas - which would be waiting on a covered plate in the oven at 4:30 after the 45-min long, 10-mile bus trip home from school. Neither she nor Dad fancied curry & would have eaten earlier. Sometimes the chow mein too, with fried crispy noodles that puffed up in the pan, like Quavers!
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Oh! Quavers ;D
My taste buds have altered in recent years.
I don't like tinned fish in brine and maybe there's less sugar in general?
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Yes, less sugar, less salt. But don't think they ever put sugar in tinned tuna!
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I'll have a look at the old tins in my pantry - if I remember ;D
I never fancy fresh tuna ::)
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Can be a bit tricky to get just right - easy to overcook, then a bit tough. When all the planets align though, it can be so much better than tinned.
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I don't like eating fish that tastes of fish :-X
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Agree CLKD - but if fresh enough, many of them don't taste fishy.
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Mackeral fresh from the sea, cooked on the beach :-*. With fresh brown bread.
Can't stand the smell of cooking in general other than toast so no cooking in our camper van ;D
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Oh Lordy lord!... ;D .....Vesta curries! ;D....we thought we were soooo exotic!
We loved them, they had currents in em....as I remember.....wouldn't eat em now mind.... ::)
Oh yes Wrensong, Pilchards were the THING. Remember the bone in the middle? ;D
And my Nan would always make me sift through the tin salmon to get the bones out.... ;D ;D
Then we smothered it in vinegar.... ;D
Imagine if I dished that up now!..... ;D......they'd say what the hell is that? >:(....or words to that effect.... ;D ..... :neutral:
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Loved vestas,was a real treat ;D
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Yes Jilly, Vesta curries seemed daring ;D
Pilchards were the THING?! Gawd - I never realised! So we were up there with the trendy crowd? Yes the bones - ugghh! Remember the way the tinned salmon skin got compressed into the middle of the steak & turned up, grey & slimy when you cut into it on your plate, though you'd thought you'd got it all off before dishing up? 'orrible!
Yes, vinegar was the thing on tinned tuna long before mayo or salad cream got in there, mashed up before putting into sandwiches.
Yes words to that effect more likely that the more polite version you suggested, on being presented with pilchards these days!
Pot Noodle anyone? Used to take the curry one to work in my first job. Dire!
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I'm another that loved a Vesta curry ;D and I still enjoy a tinned salmon sandwich but I buy skinless and boneless now :)
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never heard of a vesta curry, as fancy/exotic as my mum got was chicken tonight - sweet & sour flavour, otherwise staples mince & tatties, stew, fish etc.
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Someone asked about a Scots potato thing earlier - lucky tatties or something - I asked OH who's a Scot & he didn't know of them, but suggested Lees macaroons, which he says were made of potato but sweet with coconut covering. Sound appalling, but he says delicious! Have I missed out on a N of border delicacy here ladies?
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Haha pot noodles,you eat one and think,yuk but a few months later you buy it again 😆
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No wrensong, although I'm seemingly too young to know about them, OH googled them lastnight as he hadn't heard of them, we are both Scots!! I do love macaroons, the coconut ones,mmmm.
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You mean you can still get the poodles Jaypo?!
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No,wasn't macaroons wrensong,maybe they were a north east sweet,they were round and flat covered in cinnamon,going to have to find them now,must've been the 70s
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Yes and the curry one 😊
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I found them,just googled lucky tatty sweet
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Aah Foxy - you have the Scots sweet tooth then ;)?! OH can put away so much sugar & so many carbs, it's frightening. And he's as skinny as anything. Anything with ginger too. What IS it with ginger?! I'm mostly sugar-free - can you see my halo? And a liar - can't resist strong dark choc!! The 70% proof stuff - the closest I get to alcohol these days ;D So we're not well suited as regards his entire family's sweet tooth. All the Christmas, Easter & birthday sweeties they send my way, he ends up eating. On top of his own!! You cannot imagine how much chocolate & how many ginger variants his lovely Mum can get into every opportunity for gifts! She simply cannot get her head around my needing to avoid sugar. Bless her. She thinks I'm deprived ;D
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Found the lucky tatties on Wicki, jaypo, thanks - OH now says he has a very vague memory of them but suggested they were a regional thing.
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Ginger is good for us. Helps ease nausea. Spices foods - grated or chopped.
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I used to eat ginger snaps when pregnant to help with nausea
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I'm not a ginger fan wrensong although OH is he loves the Borders dark choc ginger biscuits. Unfortunatley I had/have a sweet tooth, since Jan I've been limiting myself to one sweet thing a week (doing the Fast 800 calorie diet, lost 2 stone!) and to be honest I've not had the addictive urges for sweet things I'm assuming it's my blood sugars being stabilised & also since HRT my sleep has been gradually improving. I had got into a bad habit of costa coffees at least one large a day plus bag of choc I think it was to try and make myself feel better as I was soooo tired & exhausted.
I was telling a colleague who has started slimming world to try dark choc, I think it is an acquired taste but I def dont/didn't have the moreish ness with dark choc that I did with milk/white. I hope your OH doesn't sit & eat sweeties in front of you?? Mine does sometimes. x
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Dark chocolate can be sickly, that's why it's good for us. We don't eat much of it at a time ;-).
Coffee makes me nauseous ++
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Foxy, I don't hate ginger & use it fresh in cooking - it's just that so many of the ginger things OH's family like seem sooo sweet to me - ginger wine, ginger beer, ginger cordial, crystallised ginger, stem ginger in syrup. . . I do quite like the very dark choc & ginger combo very occasionally - but couldn't eat more than 1 or 2 biscuits & just feel better avoiding sugar.
You've done amazingly well on the diet - well done!! I find the same with taste changing - when I first went mostly sugar-free my taste for it very quickly went, so that anything sweet then tasted horribly over-sweet & was repellent. Sleep deprivation can play havoc with blood sugar regulation so what you say makes sense.
I'm lucky never to have really liked milk choc or very sweet things that much - even as a kid I preferred dark choc, though then the only stuff was Bourneville, which was sweeter than the good dark stuff we can get now. Easter eggs used to sit in the cupboard unopened from one year to the next then got chucked out! Was an only child, so no competition from siblings & was always bought too many of them by kind relatives!
Doesn't bother me if OH eats sweet stuff - I don't feel deprived, though sometimes crave a lump of fruit cheesecake & really good very dark choc desserts can be tempting if we're out to eat for a special meal. That said, I do worry he eats rather a lot of sugar, as diabetes runs through his family like pink through a stick of rock.
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Same in DH's family Wrensong so we are careful. I haven't baked since we moved here in 1980s, my shortbread was to die for :D .......... he eats apples by the tree full! I can't be bothered. We enjoy chocolate and have treats when we are out and about. Chips is my downfall. But they have to be cooked properly!!
A little of what I fancies ;-). Again, I go 'off' stuff often.
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My mum couldn't cook but thought she could :cupcake: my childhood food memories are of what we HAD to eat or "No pudding!" (which was Instant Whip - couldn't afford Angel Delight - and fruit) I was forced to, and still hate liver, rhubarb, most beef and ultra-weak dilute orange juice. We weren't allowed yogurt or drinking chocolate..................times were hard when there's a lot of you!! :bunis: Thank goodness times have changed!
Padine xx
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Agreed CLKD, good chips can't be beaten. I love them made with new potatoes. We only have oven chips at home & those not often, but Mum used to make fresh chips & they were delicious. Homemade oven chips are far better than shop bought too. At a favourite taverna in Greece they made new potato chips in Spring - absolutely delicious as a side to proper Greek food, eaten outside with a view of the sea. Chip shop chips hereabouts leave a lot to be desired. They were always fab in the seaside town I grew up in - many chip shops there & always freshly caught fish. They knew how to cook fish & chips & I was dismayed when I moved away to uni in an inland city & the chip shops were so rubbish.
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Chips - why double cook them :-\. DH cooks ours fast, deep and dries them on kitchen roll. Crisps them loverley.
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Mmmm I love chips made from new potatoes....something my mom never did, she always used old potatoes, as she put it...🤷♀️
I've just threw away my chip pan....so if we have chips, it's either oven chips, which no one really likes, or we get them from the chippy........simples....🙂
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Chip pans are dangerous :(
Chips in the frying pan are OK!
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Chip pan - haven't owned one since my first flat after leaving home! Mum always cooked chips in a frying pan. I never fry them - only oven chips, either shop bought or homemade.
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Oh my, Foxy.....well done girl.... :congrats: On losing two stone!
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Instant Whip :-*
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Thanks ladies, I'm still feeling motivated since starting in January so would love to lose another 2!!
I love chips too, try and stick to once a week (would prefer fortnightly but OH loves a chippy, we now share one instead of one each).
Waffles, potato croquetes another childhood delicacy (I quite liked them).
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Yes Foxylady, we always have a portion of chip shop chips between us these days & halve the fish too! I don't eat the batter, partly as on low gluten diet, partly as chip shops don't seem to be able to cook it properly these days. Hate that thick, gummy, uncooked flour-water paste inside. Cooking batter-covered fish properly is one of the things our local chippies did so much better when I was a kid.
Waffles & croquettes never featured in my childhood - I think they probably only came in later. Love hash browns though. OH doesn't like them, which I find strange as he is a carb eating machine & seems to like all other forms of potato! Including the dreaded potato soup! A Scots "delicacy" he introduced me to. Like dish water with pepper. Once was enough!
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;D ;D yes wrensong, I remember making potato & leek soup in home economics, think it was flushed down the loo when I got it home!! :rofl: Again it's not something you hear of now a days. I'm with you re the batter, needs to be properly cooked, we have a great local chippy no problems on that front. Another favourite of mine, still buy them occasionally steak pie, again pastry needs to be properly cooked!
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No Foxy - nowt as sophisticated as leeks added to OH's potato soup recipe - bog standard onion & that & the bits of potato just floating in this water-thin, onion-tasting greyish "soup". Have smelt tastier washing up water!! And been more inclined to drink it ;D
Stovies known to you?! Don't get me started . . !
Wx
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Yes, love stovies!! ;D
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I still cook potato croquettes. MIL loves em....
We had them when I was a kid, mom thought they were the bees knees...all posh...😆😂
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Speaking of fish and chips, I don't use my local chippie because, walking past their dining area and peering in, I can see that they serve theirs with salad and coleslaw (all on the same plate). Now what's that all about? It proves to me that they know nowt about it. The only correct accompaniments are a pickled onion or gherkin, as any fule no.
JP x
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Haven't met many fules today ;) - yet :D or is that squit?
Shops serve far too large portions overall :-\ - the waste in the catering sector must be HUGE!
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;D Love it Joaniepat! Are you a Molesworth fan?
Wx
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Speaking of fish and chips, I don't use my local chippie because, walking past their dining area and peering in, I can see that they serve theirs with salad and coleslaw (all on the same plate). Now what's that all about? It proves to me that they know nowt about it. The only correct accompaniments are a pickled onion or gherkin, as any fule no.
JP x
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;D Love it Joaniepat! Are you a Molesworth fan?
Wx
I certainly am! You too Wrensong?
JP x
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I had never had potato croquets, until I met my hubby who introduced them to me. Haven't had them for years now! Teenager when he was young hated potato, went on holiday to Austria and children's food sometimes came with potato smilies. Started buying them as a treat but again hasn't had those for 10yrs!
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Yes Joaniepat - the Compleet Molesworth makes a great book at bedtime. Skool sossidges presumably a fave for you then? Those left over by the skool dog ;D
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Arctic Roll.....remember that one?
Again, my mom and Nan thought we were all posh, having that....🤣😂
And then came .........Viennetta....🤣😂🤣😂
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Exactly jillydoll..arctic roll, vienetta and sarah lee choc fudge cake!!
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Awww, could just eat all of them now...😋
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Arctic roll was a special treat,soooo yummy
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We never had arctic roll but Sara Lee choc gateau was a treat after I left home when I used to go back & see Mum. Did anyone have Tunis cake or capon at Christmas?
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No, but we used to have a big stinking turkey.....🤢.....not that it was off or anything
It's just I hate the smell of turkey.....🤮
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I'm pretty sure I had Tunis cake at Christmas once, especially as I don't like Christmas cake.
Artic roll, vienetta & Sara Lee choc fudge cake remember all those - definitely had vienetta once
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Can't buy capons in the UK any more. Due to the chemicals used to castrate them ::)
Artic roll ............ how did that work ;D
Turkey used to be fed with pellets made of fish meal! So they would smell of fish whilst being cooked :-X
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Bernard Matthews turkey roll!!
Never heard of tunis or capon?
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Foxy - Tunis cake is a Madeira type thing, covered in choc with marzipan fruits on the top. More delicious than it sounds - Madeira cake can be dry - I usually don't like it, but with the choc it somehow worked. Mum used to buy one from M&S every year when I was a kid, but haven't seen one since then.
A capon is a castrated cockerel - the emasculation makes the poor thing edible!
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TMI :rofl: .............
They are still available in mainland Europe if anyone is interested ;)
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Oops I thought a capon was a small turkey.....😆😂. ?
I've heard my Nan say ‘ capon' many a time....? 🤷♀️
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No such thing as a small turkey ;D nor a micro-pig ;-)
I could eat some roast chicken with veg. right now ..........
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Not even a baby one? Ahhhh....😆
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Baby game are called poults - not sure about chickens. Ducks are fowl. Turkeies are stupid
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:rofl:
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Stupid.... :rofl:
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Yep. When turkeys get scared they run en masse to the water troughs, jump in and drown :o
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They're trying to hide under water....😆.
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Stupid enough not to realise though ::) - when the low flying aircraft whizz across Norfolk 100s make the dash to hide :o :D
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I think geese are stupid too, got attacked by one as a teenager, biting at my legs chasing me up the road.
Inlaws remember scottish tatties, mum in law described them exactly!!
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OH was chased by a cockerel on his Granddad's farm as a small kid. Cockerel ended up on the supper table he says!
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;D. best place! I was attacked by a bantam cock as I walked between him and his Girls :o. He got my neck and someone had to remove it, I can remember the wings flapping.
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best place for him wrensong!! I bet it was the tastiest one your OH ever ate!! ;D ;D
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Ooh CLKD - that must have been horrible :o.
Foxy - think it traumatised him - he takes a very wide berth now when we pass swans on the river bank ;D.
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;D ;D ;D
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I remember sliced cucumber in a dish covered in malt vinegar, and the same thing being done to a Spanish onion, all as part of a salad. Help!
Tinned fruit and evaporated milk....with bread and butter.
Something better: Eden Vale yoghourt. They were set, and I think they did a chocolate one. 1970s?
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Oh Kalinka - that brings back memories - tinned fruit & evap with bread & butter! Dad always had bread & butter with tinned fruit - actually with everything - roast dinner too. Mum said went back to when he was a kid in a family of 7 kids & there wasn't enough to go round so everyone ate cheap b&b with everything rather than go hungry.
He also spread Fussell's condensed milk on bread & butter! And drank that dreadful Camp coffee that was 9 parts chicory!
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Eek!! My mother visited an elderly lady every week (the mother of a friend) and I used to go with her in the school holidays. She always gave us a cup of Camp coffee and a slice of sponge cake with jam and cream filling.
Kunzle cakes, anyone?
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Camp coffee 🤢🤢🤢😆
I remember little lollipops that you dipped in sherbet,I'm surprised I've still got all my own teeth 😳
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I grow Camp coffee ;D
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I love Camp coffee with cold milk, it's better than any iced latte I've bought ;D
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I've got a vague memory of making milkshakes with Delrosa rosehip syrup.
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Yes Two Hoots, my son drinks camp coffee with cold milk....🤮 loves it...
You can still buy them Jay....in a little packet....yellow n red...
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I used to love em Jill,sweet but sour sherbet 😖 they only cost like 2p or something,does ANYTHING cost as little as that nowadays?😳
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No. You can't get two pence sweeties, anymore...I loved em....I loved peanut crackle?
Or summat it was called...mom used to buy the slabs of toffee from Thornton's...omg, gorgeous stuff, we used to have a little toffee hammer and I'd love smashing it up...🤣😂
No wonder I've got back teeth full of fillings...🤣😂.....nice tho...
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Oh yes I remember sherbet dips, also going to the shop and buying black jacks & fruit salads for half penny each - those were the days.
They were saying on the radio this morning about how millennials haven't heard/had certain desserts like rum baba, jelly & ice cream, rhubarb crumble, spotted dick.
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Aaaaahhhhh YG I've got a bag of black jacks and fruit salad sweets in the car, I still love em 😆
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Thought they may still be around, when I think about them I can actually taste them and I don't eat sweets anymore!
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They are sooooo juicy
Opal fruits..........made to make your mouth water😛
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I choke on those :-\
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Yes remember black jacks & fruit salads & sherbert dips - you beat me to it posting about those! Anyone remember flying saucers - the rice paper ones filled with sherbert? And rhubarb & custard sweets or cola cubes?
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Yes. Yes. Yes. Our local shop sells those ;)
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I prefer pink shrimps or white mice, pineapple chunks made the top of my mouth sore ::)
After swimming I used to buy a frozen Milky Way from the cafe, I have no idea why they froze them but they were lovely and lasted longer ;D
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Oh they sound nice Two Hoots. Maltesers were a favourite - was allowed those between meals as Mum said not filling!
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Thorntons fondant mice, always got one in our stockings at Xmas!! ;D
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Pink shrimps....now your talking....love em.
Blackjacks and fruit salad are nice but I switched to another make as they were more chewy.
Can't remember their name....
Still have ‘car' sweets aswell....😉
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My problem with “car†sweets is I'm 7 hours in a car at times 😂 usually got treacle toffees or chocolate eclairs,got to be Cadbury though 😛
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Yep, Cadbury's chocolate eclairs,Mmm,
I have pear drops too.
Liquorice all sorts, mmmm, love em...
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Bump ;D
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;D ............ how did we survive!
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Let me see, I remember eating... pickle and mayo and cheese sandwiches, canned spaghetti on toast (loved that), macaroni and cheese with cut up hotdogs, jello made with bits of fruit. But my favourite chocolate bar was the Cadbury Wig Wag, I guess you guys know them as Curly Wurly?
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Curly Wurly now that brings back memories ;D
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Curly Wurly now that brings back memories ;D
I know right? In my town there is a British "grocery", they have different kinds of teas, jams, chocolates, frozen pies etc. and one day I went in and found Curly Wurlys. Don't mind telling you I bought more than one! ;D
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I've read the ingredients ;D and found a photo. I remember them as being quite chewy.
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Loved that caramel! To make them last longer I used to put it in the freezer and then once it was frozen I'd break a piece off and just let it melt in my mouth :)
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:-*. I used to put Mars Bars into the fridge and cut them into pieces. Not as sickly as a whole one.
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Oh that makes me think of deep fried Mars bars! I had one at a local pub a long time ago. They freeze the bars, then batter them and then deep fry them. They turn out crispy on the outside but slightly melted on the inside and served with a huge scoop of vanilla ice cream. ;)
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That's a very Scottish idea :sick02: probably spoils a good batter ;D
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Honestly, I could only eat one bite, soooo sickly sweet. Save the batter for the fish and chips! ;D
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anyone remember smiths crisps made a variety called bones, they were a puff type in salt & vinegar flavour, came in a black bag, i also remember when they did hedgehog flavour crisps, not sure who made them. I used to love the milk tray chocolate bar, so yummy and Terry's biarritz in mint or orange. This isn't doing my calorie watching any good ::)
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Ohh yes I remember bones ;D
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Oh my,what a blast from the past,bones, I remember them
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There was also football crazy crisps/puffs. Does anyone remember the shredded coconut, it was meant to replicate chewing tobacco, like the candy cigarettes used to have the red bit on the end. They were lovely, used to suck the sweet cigarettes until they went pointy.
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Oooh yes, candy cigarettes, I used to love those. And those sweet bracelets on elastic!
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The bracelets were ok but if you got the hairs on your arm caught :madeyes:
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Aww frozen chocolate is the best.
Sweet cigarettes, and shrimps were a favourite.
Apparently, snickers are going back to be called Marathon. Remember those?
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Yep. Wonder how much that will cost! ::)
Shrimps etc. are still sold local to me. ;-)
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Not sure whether it's come up on here before but anyone remember the rice paper & sherbet flying saucers? :)
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They should never have changed Marathon to snickers in the first place!! It's the same opal fruits to starburst
Used to love all those sweets - don't eat them anymore, sets my teeth on edge just thinking about them!
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Never liked the flying saucers, always got stuck on the roof of your mouth :-\ I used to work in a newsagent after school & served the sweets from the jars, i always remember the awful smell of winter mixture :sick02: does anyone remember the little bag of golden nuggets?
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Aniseed balls and cola cubes. Sherbert lemons used to make roof of my mouth all wrinkly. Don't remember winter mixture Penguin99 ???
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Can still buy many of those 'old' sweeties :-)
Our shop sells sherbet flying saucers in different colours but haven't seen rice paper for years.
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I remember Tudor crisps,used to spend my school snack money on them,2 & a half pence ;D
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winter mixture had clove sweets, they stank! I remember tudor crisps. Didn't they used to do a spring onion flavour? They were yummy.
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Haha yes, I think so and pickled onion
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Ooh yeah lovely, think they did gammon too.
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I had to Google Tudor crisps as I'd never heard of them. Perhaps they weren't sold as far south as London? Anyhow, Wikipedia says they did chocolate and kipper flavours :sick02: :beaurk: :sick02:. Tell me it isn't true!!!!
JP x
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I dont recall them flavours ( thankfully) yep they were down south, I'm about 30 mile from London. :)
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Penguin99, think I had a lucky escape there ;)
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The gammon, spring onion & pickle onion flavours were lovely, you missed out ;D I'm glad I missed out of the other flavours! I did try the hedgehog flavour crisps once, think smiths made them.
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Texan chocolate bars
Bones salt & vinegar crisps (very salty!)
Corona Cherryade - used to get a bottle of this when we had fish & chips on a Friday.
The new shape Aero bars when they first came out,me & a friend ate about 20 of those in a day.
Mum's steamed chocolate pudding with chocolate custard
Vienetta - the height of sophistication if we had guests.
In general - all chocolate, as you got a much bigger bar than the piddly little things you get nowadays.
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I used to get a Texan Bar every day from school tuck shop. They were my absolute favourite! Also love chocolate cake and choc custard.
I remember raspberry ripple ice cream being a treat x
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What was a Texan bar again? Rings a very faint bell
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Chewy toffee nougatty in the middle and choc on outside. Had a yellow wrapper I think. Advert was 'Its a mighty big chew' or something like that!
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No ringing of bells in this head about Texan bars ::)
Don't like nougart [sp] anyway.
Who thought that jelly with ice cream might be a good idea >:(
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Production of Wagon Wheels and Jammie Dodger biscuits could be halted at an Edinburgh factory this month as staff strike over pay, a union has warned.
The GMB union accused Burton's Biscuits, which also makes Maryland cookies, of making a "derisory" pay offer that had "insulted" workers.
It said staff would stage three 24-hour walkouts, with the first on Wednesday.
Will these be stockpiled like loo rolls were ;D
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Not by me... they are my least favourite biscuits. Although I wouldn't turn down a Maryland hazelnut cookie...
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I remember wagon wheels when they were the ACTUAL size of a wagons wheel,now they're more like a 10p ;D
Thanks Jane,yes yes I do remember them
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my dad's favourites wagon wheels. I love a jammy dodger! x
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Is that someone who evades paying tax foxy? ;D
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Aww yeah, Jammie Dodgers. Nearly always got them in the house. ( or in my mouth) 😆😋
Wagon wheels were huge back in the day. Had loads of jam in them aswell. Not any more tho,
now they're tiny, with a pin head sized amount of jam! 🤨
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:rofl: to tax evaider!!!
Does anyone remember pink chocolate that tasted yummy? Talking about it in work recently with colleague, neither of us could remember the name!
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I remember pink mice
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ugh, didn't like them, loved the Thornton's mice with fondant, always got them in my xmas stocking as a child! x
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Nope - pink chocolate went by me. Wonder how that happened ;D
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Does anyone remember pink chocolate that tasted yummy? Talking about it in work recently with colleague, neither of us could remember the name!
I do, wasn't it something to do with the pink panther?? It was delicious.
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I used to love pink wafers but don't remember pink chocolate..
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will need to google it! ;D
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I used to love pink wafers but don't remember pink chocolate..
You missed out, it was yummy :madeyes:
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I remember Pink Panther chocolate, it was pink ;D tasted lovely
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I'll look on Amazon, they're bound to sell it!
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It must be the pink panther, although it doesn't seem familiar to me but it's the only pink chocolate coming up on search. x
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Used to love toffo - really yummy chewy toffees
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I found Reiss chocolate toffee the other day. Mmm, lovely.
My son said he'd not had any since school.
We enjoyed the whole packet in two days. 😋
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Anyone remember Caramac?
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Yes I do. I've never liked it. My mom did though.
You can still get that can't you now?
I like the white and pink marshmallows. Trouble is, I eat the whole bag then feel 🤮.
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My best friend at school always had a caramac at break. I'd have my Texan.
Yes I used to quite easily scoff a bag of marshmallows. Too much sugar gives me palpitations now. My body decides what I eat and drink now... Being in meno is a bit like having someone else in charge of your body!
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Oh tell me about it Jane,used to eat ANYTHING and now? >:(
Sherbet dibdabs,stick a sugar lollipop into yet more sugar ;D
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When we were in Rye last week there was an old fashioned sweet shop, the windows and walls were crammed with jars, I spent ages oohing and aahing at sweets I havent seen you years. I was really boring and bought pear drops ;D they were passed to us via a fishing net to keep out distance ;D
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Our village shop sells old fashioned sweeties and there's a dedicated old fashioned sweety shop 5 miles away :-)
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I'll have to find one near me and take my fishing net ;D
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That's funny re the fishing net!! ;D. Yes I loved caramac & toffo's too. x
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I found Reiss chocolate toffee the other day. Mmm, lovely.
My son said he'd not had any since school.
We enjoyed the whole packet in two days. 😋
2 days! You were good, we'd have scoffed them in a night ;D
I loved toffos too, really chewy.
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The white waxy wrapper used to get stuck in the toffee I remember..
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Digestive biscuits topped with Philadelphia. Still have that now occasionally.
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Sponge pudding with treacle and/or custard
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Used to love philly in my pre vegan days. Digestives and stilton too. Digestives crumbled on banana and cold custard. I quite like a digestive!
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:-X. rhubarb :-X U can tart it up all you like I still won't eat it ;D
Nor tripe or octopus.
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Mmmm, rhubarb. Just as long as put enough sugar on when you cook it. Old fellow down the road used to eat it raw. He died...
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:rofl: oh I shouldn't laugh, he may have eaten the leaves :o
It's 1 food stuff that should be dug straight back into the ground :D
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"should be dug straight back into the ground" - husband always used to think that about beetroot, until i made a cake with it and smothered it in chocolate icing
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Beetroot of course can be roasted which gives it a totally different texture and taste: that's how we treat parsnips.
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I hate parsnips but roasted they are so yummy
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winter mixture had clove sweets, they stank! I remember tudor crisps. Didn't they used to do a spring onion flavour? They were yummy.
I remember hedgehog-flavoured crisps and the absolute outrage in the school playground... "they don't even taste anything like hedgehogs!". Like we knew. ::) ;D
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;D. .......
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I think it was pickled onion periwhat,I can still remember buying them from the tuck shop at primary school, two and a half d :D
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Ah, perhaps the hedgehog flavours ones I remember were a different brand then. This would have been early 1980s, there wasn't a school tuck shop but they were in the vending machines at the local swimming baths. The crisps were always out of my price range, but you could get Wham bars and Highland Toffee for a few pence.
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Oh so sorry periwhat,it was penguin that said she remembered Tudor crisps,ignore everything I said ;D most people do ;D
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So very true jay. ;D 😉
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Oh so sorry periwhat,it was penguin that said she remembered Tudor crisps,ignor everything I said ;D most peopydo ;D
Aw, nothing to apologise for! Crisp wars ain't worth it! :)
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Corned beef makes me :sick02: :-X
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Aww I love corned beef with a baked potato. 😋
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:-X
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I hated those pink wafer biscuits (which were always the last ones in the biscuit tin as someone had eaten all the plain chocolate digestives!)
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Take that back Jill or I'll show everyone the pic of you and the moustache.........oops,I've said too much ;D
Oh yes padine,the wafers are yuk,what's even the point of them?🤢
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To dip into hot chocolate? They always tasted damp, probably due to being the last in the tin?
I saw at C.mas that those alernative slices of 'lemon' and 'orange' in sugar in a round box are still sold ;D. Was there a point to those ever ::). Easier than peeling fruit I suppose. And sugared almonds, great if you want to ruin your implants ;D
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Peanut brittle yum yum,or at least it used to be until I found I was intolerant to peanuts >:( Now that WOULD ruin your implants
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DH makes it from our curly hazel nut tree.
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*Heinz tinned steamed puddings. Think they took an hour of boiling. I was always worried the tin would explode!
*Fray Bentos "steak and kidney" pie was like dog food (not that I know!) under soggy "pastry".
*Sugar sprinkled on everything, granulated mind. On tomatoes, BANANAS......sets my teeth on edge thinking about it.
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My Aunt had a pressure cooker explode when it ran dry: with a steamed pudding in - oh the mess ;D :-X
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Remember when banoffee pie was a big thing, and we all started boiling tins of condensed milk? I never did trust them not to explode, I used to keep out of the kitchen until they were done, then run in, turn the ring off, and run out again
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My friends were in the pub the 1st night bannoffee pie was served: The Hungry Monk : now out of business as the family retired 2 years ago.
Love it! 18 months ago I had an old can of commiommie that had gone the colour of toffee all by itself: it was about 2009 . I didn't think it would 'go' in the tin!
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I don't remember it ever being used to make anything when I was young, but now and again my mum would open a tin and put it in the fridge. Every day for the next few days she would hand us each a teaspoon and nod towards the fridge...
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We had 2 ginger kittens years++ ago loved cheese and condensed milk. Which shelf it was on, they seemed to know and as soon as the fridge door was opened, paws would grab ;D.
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My mum's pressure cooker exploded,scotch broth all over the kitchen ceiling ;D
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My grandma used to make us spotted dick boiled in a cloth.
I used to love it sprinkled with caster sugar. I've never tasted another like it .I asked my mum for the recipe but she said grandma never measured anything , just threw it a together.
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Watching adverts for a certain fast food chain we remarked how the cheese flopped onto the dry looking bun reminds us of Butyl that we use to line our ponds ;D and that got us to those triangular cheese thingies but can't remember the name. I couldn't face 1 of those these days ::)
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Do you mean dairylea? Ha,that was a treat when I was little ;D
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That's they ;D ........ and Edam, who ever thought that was a good idea!
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And I like both. We were in St Helena on a yacht several years ago in the days of EU food mountains. They were selling whole edam cheeses for £1. We bought the last 20 and munched them all the way to Venezuela.
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:-X :sick02: with biscuits I hope ;D as well as lots of fresh fruit?
jelly
blancmange
octopus
corned beef
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When we were in Amsterdam we went to a cheese shop and bought a big block €11 if you don't mind but it was the nicest cheese I ever tasted.
Hey hey Sheila,you speak about me being posh,what's this? St.Helena on a yacht!?! That beats a house in Scotland ;D
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:rofl:
When in Switzerland there were cheeses about 12 feet round, 1 would have needed to roll them through Customs ::). We used to buy whole Stilton from Shrewsbury as well as 150 croissants from the bakery there, to freeze. Both would last for months.
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Not quite the yacht equivalent of the Gorbals but not far off - 33ft in the middle of the Atlantic isn't quite the same as a gin Palace in Monaco :).
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I feel queasy at the very thought :-X however lovely the surroundings or how blue the sky ;D