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Old 03-10-2016, 11:38
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Semolina has now cunningly rebranded itself as couscous, kind of like an ageing film star or rock musician discovering a whole new style and audience. It's still exactly the same stuff, though, just served as a savoury rather than a dessert.
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Old 03-10-2016, 11:40
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Remember when cocktail party snacks consisted of cubes of cheese on toothpicks? Varied with silverskin pickled onions, olives and pineapple chunks.
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Old 03-10-2016, 11:42
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Semolina has now cunningly rebranded itself as couscous, kind of like an ageing film star or rock musician discovering a whole new style and audience. It's still exactly the same stuff, though, just served as a savoury rather than a dessert.
But that's the difference right there, it was disgusting as a dessert but very nice as a savoury accompaniment.
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Old 14-10-2016, 13:20
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Tinned mandarins and if my mum was feeling in a good mood she'd make a rowntree's orange jelly with them in. The tinned fruit cocktail i used to hate the pears in them.

Beef broth - used to love this (but not the pearl barley) but it has a really odd taste now.

I remember going to a friends for tea and they gave us one of those mini smart price cheese and tomato pizzas with a side of supernoodles. Thats when i discovered supernoodles - the food i hate to love! I had a spate of eating them when I was working nights.

It was a real treat (usually on a random friday) to not have a ham sandwich in my lunchbox and have a cold sausage roll in there from hampsons

Pork and egg roll (but i always hated the yolk), billy bear sandwich meat or the one with the dinosaur if we pestered mum during the shopping trip.

I used to love ricicles when they had the marshmallow pieces in them.

Everything else i still eat now and love!
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Old 14-10-2016, 14:19
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Pork and egg roll (but i always hated the yolk),
With pastry the consistency of paving slabs.
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Old 15-10-2016, 03:10
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There was a weird wobbly thing that I remember from school dinners, that I used to think was jelly, and then be disappointed.

Blancmange I think it was called, awful stuff.
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Old 15-10-2016, 04:46
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Fray Bentos pies. Mum used to feed 4 people with one pie. When I left home I would eat a whole one on my own.
Bought one the other day to try again. Yuck.
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Old 15-10-2016, 12:47
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Fray Bentos pies. Mum used to feed 4 people with one pie. When I left home I would eat a whole one on my own.
Bought one the other day to try again. Yuck.
I bought one of those the other day for the Harvest Festival donation to the food bank. It was listed among the suggestions for acceptable items.
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Old 16-10-2016, 05:26
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I bought one of those the other day for the Harvest Festival donation to the food bank. It was listed among the suggestions for acceptable items.
It's a cheap meal I suppose. £1 for the pie, some spuds and carrots and you can feed 2 adults and 2 kids for a couple of quid total.
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Old 16-10-2016, 09:23
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Fray Bentos pies. Mum used to feed 4 people with one pie. When I left home I would eat a whole one on my own.
Bought one the other day to try again. Yuck.
I used to like them as well but tried one a few years ago and although the filling was ok the pastry was horrific. I stick to Pieminister now.
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Old 16-10-2016, 11:17
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It's a cheap meal I suppose. £1 for the pie, some spuds and carrots and you can feed 2 adults and 2 kids for a couple of quid total.
Yes, and it can be kept indefinitely. They don't want perishable food because supply and demand varies.
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Old 17-10-2016, 20:46
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Remember when cocktail party snacks consisted of cubes of cheese on toothpicks? Varied with silverskin pickled onions, olives and pineapple chunks.
Nothing wrong with that

I also still like those small sweet frozen pizzas
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Old 18-10-2016, 13:23
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Remember when cocktail party snacks consisted of cubes of cheese on toothpicks? Varied with silverskin pickled onions, olives and pineapple chunks.
A cheese hedgehog!

I love a lot of the things that have been mentioned, still eat spaghetti hoops but since they took all the salt out they are too sweet. I love a nineties dinner of pancakes, alphabites and beans.
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Old 18-10-2016, 17:15
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Bernard Matthews turkey ham
Frozen mini pizzas
Billy bear sandwich meat (I was actually eating this until recently - god knows what's in it!)
Ready Brek with drinking chocolate
Cows milk (I drink almond or hazelnut milk now)
Plain ham sandwiches on white bread without crusts
Pork chops
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Old 24-10-2016, 11:27
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My late Mother used to cook spaghetti & leave it 'soak' until we came back from my grandmothers!😄😐
Dear god!😕
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Old 24-10-2016, 13:23
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Bernard Matthews cheese hamwich and rissoles that came from Bejam, I can remember when you had to open every freezer in the shop to see what was in there before they introduced clear topped ones.
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Old 24-10-2016, 21:14
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My brother and I were made to eat Shredded Wheat with hot milk, before we went to school, hated it then, couldn't face it now. My brother says he still has it for breakfast sometimes.
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Old 29-10-2016, 15:27
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Vesta meals. I seem to remember something with crispy noodles.
They did those powdered curries, which still tasted like powder even when reconstituted. Meat content 2% or something.
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Old 29-10-2016, 15:33
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True. I had a banana one recently. It was so bland.
A lot of the artificial flavourings and flavour enhancers have been taken out of things these days, not to mention salt. I think, if we all went back to the 1970s, we'd be surprised how flavourful things were compared with now.

Also, in terms of fruit/veg, grow-fast full-of-water varieties have replaced the old species. Tomatoes, bananas, mushrooms... all these used to have much more flavour.
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Old 30-10-2016, 10:05
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Tomato ketchup sandwiches. I used to take them in my packed lunch to school

Also my mum used to buy these pizza roll things-like a crispy pancake but pizza filling inside. Can still remember the feeling of the 3rd degree burns from that scalding filling
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Old 30-10-2016, 19:37
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Tongue sandwiches (my nana's favourite)

Smash (with Dairylea Cheese Spread mixed in)

Baked beans and sausages together in the tin

Blancmange and Angel Delight

Vesta meals. I seem to remember something with crispy noodles.
Don't remember a noodle one, but I do remember Vesta chicken supreme and rice. Even back then, when food was a little more bland, it was tasteless.

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.
My mum always added some cheese and ready salted crisps to liven it up a bit, but the crisps always went soggy.

Bacon that had little hard white lumps in it
I'd forgotten about that. Horrible!

Tinned mandarins and if my mum was feeling in a good mood she'd make a rowntree's orange jelly with them in.
My nana would make Rowntree's jelly, cover it in Dream Topping and then put tinned mandarins on the top. At the time it was lovely, not sure I'd enjoy it now though!
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Old 30-10-2016, 19:59
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My nana would make Rowntree's jelly, cover it in Dream Topping and then put tinned mandarins on the top. At the time it was lovely, not sure I'd enjoy it now though!
One of my Mum's 'trendy' dishes in the 1970s was home made trifle........with sponges covered in jelly, let it set, then a layer of thick custard and some cream on top with chocolate sprinkles

Seemed very adventurous at the time !
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Old 30-10-2016, 21:28
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Does any one remember Sweetheart from the 70's? It was a strawberry dessert in a tin and Bob Monkhouse did the adverts on the telly.
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Old 02-11-2016, 13:20
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One of my Mum's 'trendy' dishes in the 1970s was home made trifle........with sponges covered in jelly, let it set, then a layer of thick custard and some cream on top with chocolate sprinkles

Seemed very adventurous at the time !
We have that every Xmas, it's my favourite dessert!
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Old 02-11-2016, 13:39
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Tripe boiled in milk.

Pigs trotters and tails.
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