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Old 22-09-2016, 16:37
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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?
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Old 22-09-2016, 16:41
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Obviously mince crispy pancakes have lost a bit of their reputation lately, but I'd still defend the lovely cheese ones.
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Old 22-09-2016, 16:44
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Spaghetti -Os, known on your side of the pond as Hoops. I was sick a while back, and Mr Maggie bought me some food I could manage while being super incapacitated.

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.
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Old 22-09-2016, 16:51
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Spaghetti -Os, known on your side of the pond as Hoops. I was sick a while back, and Mr Maggie bought me some food I could manage while being super incapacitated.

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.
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Old 22-09-2016, 17:29
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Friend of mine has spaghetti hoops as her secret vice. Husband won't allow them in the house, she sneaks them in when he was off on trips.
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Old 22-09-2016, 17:31
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Old 22-09-2016, 17:35
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Weetabix with marge and jam on them. Yuck.
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Old 22-09-2016, 17:41
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Sago milk pudding.
We always called it frogspawn.
Dreadful stuff.
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Old 22-09-2016, 18:00
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Vesta meals. I seem to remember something with crispy noodles.
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Old 22-09-2016, 18:10
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Dream Topping. bleugh
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Old 22-09-2016, 18:11
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Spam Fritters!

I couldn't touch spam now, unless it's to use as fishing bait.
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Old 22-09-2016, 18:52
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Old 22-09-2016, 20:14
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I had tripe as a child - I don't think I'd eat it now
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Old 22-09-2016, 21:37
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Dream Topping. bleugh
I suspect I might still like it. I have a weakness for very artificial creamy things.
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Old 22-09-2016, 23:00
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sugar butties.......
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Old 22-09-2016, 23:02
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Lettuce........that plain boring iceberg lettuce that was the mainstay of 'salad'

wouldn't touch it with a bargepole now
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Old 23-09-2016, 10:23
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I'm sure there was a lot of stuff my family ate in the '70s simply because we knew no better:
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!
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Old 23-09-2016, 10:33
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Brawn and haslet. I was not fond of either of them.
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Old 23-09-2016, 10:35
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I had tripe as a child - I don't think I'd eat it now
I was forced to eat it in Lancashire with two old crones egging me on. "Gerrit down yer neck!" It was like eating rubber.
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Old 23-09-2016, 12:05
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Brawn and haslet. I was not fond of either of them.
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.
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Old 23-09-2016, 12:07
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I think the lack of a freezer back then accounted for so much tinned food!
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.
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Old 23-09-2016, 14:05
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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.
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.
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Old 23-09-2016, 14:35
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Sago milk pudding.
We always called it frogspawn.
Dreadful stuff.
Oh cripes - I can't bear frogspawn! I mean semolina.
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Old 23-09-2016, 14:36
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Sprouts. They can stay stuffed back in the childhood. Or slung into outer space. Ick.
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Old 23-09-2016, 14:37
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I had tripe as a child - I don't think I'd eat it now
I've never even tried it. I don't think I'm likely to.
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