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Old 06-12-2008, 17:52
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Okay, so I was thinking about this earlier when I was cooking the kids' dinner. What food or ingredients were not available in this country when you were kids (or if there were your parents just never bought them) but you cannot now imagine not having.

For me it would be pesto (kids had pasta and pesto which is why I started thinking about it) and balsamic vinegar.
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Old 06-12-2008, 17:53
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Don't know but I'm not a fan of pesto really.
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Old 06-12-2008, 18:00
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Old 06-12-2008, 18:24
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i'm sure they're still not yet available in stoke
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Old 06-12-2008, 20:11
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Ooh, yes. Sushi!
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Old 06-12-2008, 20:20
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My Mum didn't see a banana until she was 17!

I do mean a real banana (as in fruit) before anyone posts fnarr fnarr!
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Old 06-12-2008, 20:29
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eggs, peanut butter
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Old 06-12-2008, 21:05
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Old 06-12-2008, 21:43
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Eggs????
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Old 06-12-2008, 21:44
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Rice, Indian spices, bananas.
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Old 06-12-2008, 21:52
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Pizza. That's still considered a food isn't it?
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Old 06-12-2008, 22:14
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Old 06-12-2008, 22:15
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Old 06-12-2008, 22:22
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My Mum didn't see a banana until she was 17!

I do mean a real banana (as in fruit) before anyone posts fnarr fnarr!
I remember only tasting mayonnaise in about 1991 - before then it was always salad cream in our house

Couldn't live without Chorizo, seeded bread, lurpak spreadable or crunchy nut cornflakes now!
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Old 06-12-2008, 22:25
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I remember only tasting mayonnaise in about 1991 - before then it was always salad cream in our house

Couldn't live without Chorizo, seeded bread, lurpak spreadable or crunchy nut cornflakes now!
My house was also a salad cream environment. It was very exciting going to my paternal grandparents' house as my Grandma made her own mayonnaise and I got to do the oil in the little pipette.
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Old 06-12-2008, 22:37
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Mum what is a BBQ, Can we just have a jacket potato out of the bonfire.
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Old 06-12-2008, 22:40
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Mum what is a BBQ, Can we just have a jacket potato out of the bonfire.
lol, I remember making toast via a fork poked through the bread and rested on the gas fire cos we didn't have a toaster

Jacket spuds cooked in a bonfire taste delicious though! (As long as they are left long enough, had many a charred tat that was raw in the middle )
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Old 06-12-2008, 23:01
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Old 06-12-2008, 23:22
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I remember only tasting mayonnaise in about 1991 - before then it was always salad cream in our house
My house was also a salad cream environment.
Salad cream is miles better tho'!

hehe - Remembering the Fawlty Towers episode now!

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Basil Fawlty: [gritting his teeth] Is there anything else we can get you, sonny?
Master Heath: I'd like some bread and salad cream.
Basil Fawlty: Well, there's the bread, and there's the mayonnaise.
Master Heath: I said salad cream, stupid.
Basil Fawlty: We don't have any salad cream.
Master Heath: What a dump.
Basil Fawlty: ...The chef made that mayonnaise fresh this morning.
Master Heath: That's puke, that is.
Basil Fawlty: Well, at least it's fresh puke!
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Old 06-12-2008, 23:25
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Salad cream is miles better tho'!

hehe - Remembering the Fawlty Towers episode now!
mmmm, salad cream mixed with egg & cress - gawjiss!
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Old 10-12-2008, 13:38
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Mayo was quite exotic in my youth. It was salad cream or ketchup.

Pizza wasn't easy to get unless you made it or went to a restaurant.

I didn't eat Chinese or Indian food till my 20s. Vesta was the only thing you could get in a supermarket which was gross.

Butter was like a brick or runny, not the lovely spreadable type you get now.

Not food as such but gas BBQs - it took ages to get the charcoal to the right level to cook.

Pina coladas - I had my first one in the Caribbean in the late 70s and no-one knew what I was talking about when I got back home. Same with key lime pie.
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Old 10-12-2008, 13:39
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I can live without it, I am sick of veggy meals in restaurants having it. The smell makes me want to hurl
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Old 10-12-2008, 13:41
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sour cream - i love it!
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Old 10-12-2008, 13:44
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Spuds, I like my mash and boiled potatoes with butter too much. Probably bread too.
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Old 10-12-2008, 13:47
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tofu, soy sauce, Linda M sausages, halloumi. Pesto and sour cream are good shouts too.
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