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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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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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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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Pork and egg roll (but i always hated the yolk),
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Remember when cocktail party snacks consisted of cubes of cheese on toothpicks? Varied with silverskin pickled onions, olives and pineapple chunks.
![]() I also still like those small sweet frozen pizzas |
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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.
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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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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My late Mother used to cook spaghetti & leave it 'soak' until we came back from my grandmothers!😄😐
Dear god!😕 |
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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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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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Vesta meals. I seem to remember something with crispy noodles.
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True. I had a banana one recently. It was so bland.
![]() 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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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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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 Quote:
Vesta meals. I seem to remember something with crispy noodles.
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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. Quote:
Bacon that had little hard white lumps in it
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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.
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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!
Seemed very adventurous at the time ! |
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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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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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Tripe boiled in milk.
Pigs trotters and tails. |
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