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Old 23-09-2016, 14:58
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Potato waffles with those tiny little frozen pizzas
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.
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Old 23-09-2016, 16:27
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I've never even tried it. I don't think I'm likely to.
Recently discovered a butcher here in Edinburgh who still sells it, so there is obviously a market, although I suspect one that is dying out gradually. Details available on request.
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Old 23-09-2016, 16:33
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Any kind of tinned meat, tongue, liver, yuck!

And I doubt I'll ever eat tinned fruit and evaporated milk again but I liked it at the time. Straight out of the cupboard, not even chilled.
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Old 23-09-2016, 16:34
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Potato waffles with those tiny little frozen pizzas
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.
LOL
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Old 23-09-2016, 16:41
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Dripping on toast with a sprinkling of salt. Loved it as a kid in the 50s. Wouldn't want it now.
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Old 23-09-2016, 20:34
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Lettuce........that plain boring iceberg lettuce that was the mainstay of 'salad'

wouldn't touch it with a bargepole now
You've just reminded me of the 70's salad None of that fancy foreign dressing stuff.
Tasteless tomato, couple of slices of cucumber, bit of cress, salad cream and something horrific like luncheon meat. A boiled egg was usually also involved.
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Old 23-09-2016, 20:46
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I love iceberg lettuce it's great in burgers, tacos, pasta salad, sandwiches.

Really refreshing and full of vitamins and tasty too, i think.
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Old 23-09-2016, 20:56
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I bought some recently. It's not the same!
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Old 23-09-2016, 21:01
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Something called Sandwich Spread which looked as though somebody had vomited over the bread.
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Old 23-09-2016, 21:22
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I bought some recently. It's not the same!
The butterscotch one is still amazing.

Something called Sandwich Spread which looked as though somebody had vomited over the bread.
I used to like that, is it horrible now?
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Old 23-09-2016, 22:13
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Tinned fruit cocktail. I mean, seriously? With those sickly artificial cherries? Whatever made supermarkets think that anyone might ever like it.
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Old 24-09-2016, 01:26
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I used to like that, is it horrible now?
I couldn't tell you, I wouldn't have the stuff in the house.

Tinned fruit cocktail. I mean, seriously? With those sickly artificial cherries? Whatever made supermarkets think that anyone might ever like it.
It predates supermarkets by a long way.
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Old 24-09-2016, 02:33
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Tinned fruit cocktail. I mean, seriously? With those sickly artificial cherries? Whatever made supermarkets think that anyone might ever like it.
I don't personsally think it's that bad...
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Old 24-09-2016, 05:37
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I don't personsally think it's that bad...
I like it.
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Old 24-09-2016, 12:11
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Liver casserole.
Yuck, used to chew it and put it in my pocket then flush it down the loo. Why mum didn't try it coated in flour I don't know.
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Old 24-09-2016, 12:17
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Liver casserole.
Yuck, used to chew it and put it in my pocket then flush it down the loo. Why mum didn't try it coated in flour I don't know.
Yuck!! I'll never forget the smell in the school kitchen when they cooked liver one day!
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Old 24-09-2016, 19:40
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I know it was/is probably crap, but I loved my childhood food

Findus crispy pancakes, and Birdseye potato waffles (a waffly versatile) for dinner, was a rare treat, but most welcome.

The tinned fruit cocktail, I liked that, with Walls ice cream.

Birds Angel Delight, good stuff.

But my most favourite was faggots, not the mushy things in gravy one can pick up at the supermarket, but proper solid brick like things only a Butcher sells.

I only eat them cold, the rest of the tribe had them warm, but I didn't like them that way.

Faggots & Mash, with mushy peas, was a Saturday night staple for many years, with extra bought to have with the Sunday morning fry up.

The only thing from my childhood that should be left there is Wagon Wheels.

Grim, just Grim
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Old 24-09-2016, 20:50
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You've just reminded me of the 70's salad None of that fancy foreign dressing stuff.
Tasteless tomato, couple of slices of cucumber, bit of cress, salad cream and something horrific like luncheon meat. A boiled egg was usually also involved.
To me a salad is still round-headed lettuce, scallions, sliced hard boiled egg and ham. 80s salad all the way
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Old 25-09-2016, 10:44
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The butterscotch one is still amazing.
True. I had a banana one recently. It was so bland.
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Old 26-09-2016, 10:01
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Cheap chocolate wafer biscuits- Blue Riband. The chocolate was greasy and flaked off. Obviously we kids wanted Jacobs mint clubs or Trios.

Tinned peaches in syrup that made the evap look curdled.

Tongue and salad cream sandwiches

Pale orange woody turnip boiled in water for hours and mashed up.

Boiled spud in the winter that were an off grey colour and all flaky with wholes where the eyes had been scooped out.

Marrowfat peas

Bacon that had little hard white lumps in it

Mince that had been boiled and then cooled and the fat skimmed with little unidentified bits of tube and gristle.
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Old 26-09-2016, 10:32
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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.
I still eat haslet occasionally - nice in a sarnie with mustard. It's pork with stuffing type herbs.
I recall having brawn as a kid too - not so keen on that.
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Old 26-09-2016, 10:54
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Something called Sandwich Spread which looked as though somebody had vomited over the bread.
That still exists, almost bought a jar the other day.
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Old 26-09-2016, 10:55
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Tinned fruit cocktail. I mean, seriously? With those sickly artificial cherries? Whatever made supermarkets think that anyone might ever like it.
In those days you didn't get fresh fruit 52 weeks of the year unless you were seriously rich, so you ate tinned peaches, pineapple chunks, even strawberries.
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Old 26-09-2016, 16:09
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In those days you didn't get fresh fruit 52 weeks of the year unless you were seriously rich, so you ate tinned peaches, pineapple chunks, even strawberries.
Even quite posh people had cling peaches and tinned pears in the winter. Tinned mandarins and pineapple rings were a real treat for us. We also had lots of flans. Flans were a ready made spongy base filled with slices of peach or orange segments and topped with something called quick gel which set over the fruit. That was always made for family parties along with trifles
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Old 28-09-2016, 06:57
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Tinned Irish stew with smash mash.

I loved cheese & ham fundus pancakes if they remade them & also pork luncheon meat with quality ingredients I'd rather them now
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