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Old 10-06-2013, 14:13
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I love Rum Babas and Rum Truffles - haven't seen any in cake shops for ages - when I was pregnant with my daughter I had to eat a bag of truffles a day.

The solution is I suppose I could make them myself.

Is there any food you yearn for that you can't find in shops now? Or even foreign food you'd like to be able to buy locally?
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Old 10-06-2013, 17:45
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For some reason the other week I had a nostalgic feel for a turkey escolape with cheese.

Used to have them all the time when I was a kid. I couldn't find them in any supermarket. They had basic breaded chicken/turkey but none with the cheese (or cheese & bacon/ham) under the breading.


I know it's not a push to add a cheese sauce on top or even buy a parmo but it was the original that I was looking for.
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Old 10-06-2013, 19:55
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For some reason the other week I had a nostalgic feel for a turkey escolape with cheese.

Used to have them all the time when I was a kid. I couldn't find them in any supermarket. They had basic breaded chicken/turkey but none with the cheese (or cheese & bacon/ham) under the breading.


I know it's not a push to add a cheese sauce on top or even buy a parmo but it was the original that I was looking for.
I am very familiar with parmo in my neck of the woods - and very nice they are too.
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Old 10-06-2013, 20:14
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Noodle Doodles, anyone remember?

Loved them as a kid, now can only get boring spaghetti hoops lol
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Old 11-06-2013, 17:52
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Frozen Bubble and Squeak I used to love this!
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Old 11-06-2013, 17:56
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Frozen Bubble and Squeak I used to love this!
Asda sell it.
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Old 11-06-2013, 17:57
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I remember my mum getting a full chicken in a tin in a Christmas hamper
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Old 11-06-2013, 18:02
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Not seen malt extract for a while. Used to get given a spoonful every day when I was a kid.
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Old 11-06-2013, 18:08
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Not seen malt extract for a while. Used to get given a spoonful every day when I was a kid.
That hasn't disappeared either. They even have it in the diddly Tesco Express up the road.
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Old 11-06-2013, 18:11
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Thank you!!
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Old 11-06-2013, 18:44
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Tudor crisps. They had some great flavours in their range.


Also Tubes. Like a combination of Squares and Hula Hoops.
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Old 11-06-2013, 18:45
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Tudor were the best pickled onion.

I tried Seabrooks. They are lousy although better than the Canadian Ham.


Cresta. It's frothy man.
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Old 11-06-2013, 18:50
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Creamola foam. Now that was frothy

It made a comeback a few years ago. It might have just been in Scotland. Never seen it around here since I was a kid.
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Old 11-06-2013, 18:52
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Creamola foam. Now that was frothy

It made a comeback a few years ago. It might have just been in Scotland. Never seen it around here since I was a kid.
I thought my luck was in when I saw it on a quarter of so i bought loads only to discover it is nothing whatsoever like the original. It is literally coloured bicarbonate of soda. Disgusting.
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Old 11-06-2013, 21:22
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I used to like carnation cream/milk in a tin - I tried what I thought was the same thing recently but it was thin and not sticky and sweet - it was also white whereas the other was a lovely goldeny colour.
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Old 11-06-2013, 21:23
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There is evaporated milk and condensed.

Condensed is what you want.



Campbell's used to do something called Omelette Mate. It was various omelette fillings in a tin. It was lovely.
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Old 11-06-2013, 21:28
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There is evaporated milk and condensed.

Condensed is what you want.



Campbell's used to do something called Omelette Mate. It was various omelette fillings in a tin. It was lovely.
So they do still do it - good - it's naughty but nice
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Old 11-06-2013, 23:52
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I used to like nestle's cream in a tin.............
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Old 12-06-2013, 00:16
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soy sauce flavour crisps
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Old 12-06-2013, 15:10
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soy sauce flavour crisps
Never heard of them before. I would have liked to give them a try.
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Old 12-06-2013, 15:14
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Luncheon meat. Not that I'd want to eat it now but it was everywhere in the 70s.
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Old 12-06-2013, 15:20
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Luncheon meat. Not that I'd want to eat it now but it was everywhere in the 70s.
Fresh sliced or in a tin?
It's still available up here.

I had some Ye Olde Oak stuff out of a tin ages ago and was physically sick minutes later.
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Old 12-06-2013, 15:24
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Fresh sliced or in a tin?
It's still available up here.

I had some Ye Olde Oak stuff out of a tin ages ago and was physically sick minutes later.
I don't know. My mother never bought it but other people seemed to offer it out all the time.

I'm not even sure what meat it consisted of. Some derivative of pork I assume.
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Old 12-06-2013, 15:25
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soy sauce flavour crisps
They sound nice. I used to like Oxo flavoured crisps.

Whan I was a child someone opened a sweet shop in their front room here up north (they used to have them in the entrances to pubs sometimes) - they sold bags of different coloured sugary citrus flavoured kay-lie - or white powdered stuff that you'd dip liquorice in and which made your eyes water. Also liquorice wooden sticks which you chewed on until they went stringy - ahh happy days sitting on a wall in the sun reading the Beano and eating sweets!
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Old 12-06-2013, 15:28
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I don't know. My mother never bought it but other people seemed to offer it out all the time.

I'm not even sure what meat it consisted of. Some derivative of pork I assume.
Pork, jelly and a hell of a lot of salt. I'd say it was the product produced for human consumption that is closest to dog/cat food.
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