Food from your childhood thats probably best left there
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Reading threads about old foods always entertains me. Just saw mention of cremola foam.
I used to love it as a child, but even though i doubt its still made any more, i just wouldnt try it as an adult, as im pretty sure it would be revolting. Crispy pancakes would also fall under this.
Anyone anything else from thier childhood they would be afraid to try as an adult for fear of ruining memories?
I used to love it as a child, but even though i doubt its still made any more, i just wouldnt try it as an adult, as im pretty sure it would be revolting. Crispy pancakes would also fall under this.
Anyone anything else from thier childhood they would be afraid to try as an adult for fear of ruining memories?
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Yuck. With a side of disgusting.
Canned spaghetti (generally the regular, non hooped sort) was a childhood staple. I know your palate changes the older you get, but yeesh.
My family loved those when I was a child. I wouldn't entertain the thought of it now. Good call.
We always called it frogspawn.
Dreadful stuff.
I couldn't touch spam now, unless it's to use as fishing bait.
I suspect I might still like it. I have a weakness for very artificial creamy things.
wouldn't touch it with a bargepole now
tinned ravioli
birds eye burgers
evaporated milk
tinned fruit salad
fray bentos tinned pies.
I think the lack of a freezer back then accounted for so much tinned food!
I was forced to eat it in Lancashire with two old crones egging me on. "Gerrit down yer neck!" It was like eating rubber.
Funnily enough, I recently bought a packet of haslet in Asda just out of childhood nostalgia. I should have left it there. Any kind of continental cured meat out of the Foods That Have Appeared In The Last 20 Years thread would have been better.
That and no microwaves. We have already mentioned the Vesta dried foods range, all these things are now only ever eaten by troops doing survival training in the Falklands.
I only discovered haslet existed about 5 years ago (im 36). I had never heard of it until i saw it in tesco. Never tasted it, and probably never will.
Oh cripes - I can't bear frogspawn! I mean semolina.
I've never even tried it. I don't think I'm likely to.
Heinz ravioli (I still buy a tin of this occasionally, forgetting how horrible it is)
Dry Ready Brek
Ready Brek is quite difficult to eat when it's dry. You have to completely avoid exhaling, otherwise it goes everywhere. I have no idea why I used to eat it dry, I can only assume that I was a strange child.