All this fancy stuff you eat and drink nowadays, were you brought up on it?

[charliecat]

Or is it a sainsburys/waitrose/millenium thing?

[moondog]

One person's fancy is another's bread and butter (to coin a phrase)
When I tell people in Turkey |(where I live) that wood fired ovens,flat bread,rocket,pomegranate syrup and green walnuts are fashionable in UK,they fall about laughing.

[edam]

Nah, I was a small child in the 70s, we had Rise and Shine powdered orange juice, flying saucers and Angel Delight!

Although if I'm being honest, my mother did make most of our food when I was little, traditional stuff like steak and kidney pudding. When she went to work full-time though, I'm sure some Vesta Curries crept in...

[charliecat]

I thought Vesta Noodles were the dogs bollocks, made a brilliant change to the stew/liver onions and mash/chicken soup that was usually dinner!

[Carmenere]

Um my parents were pretty sophisticated for our particular village in 1970's Ireland. I remember getting grief for bringing avocados for my packed lunch in a small Wicklow village school in 1975!!

And of course we will never forget the macrobiotic phase our mother made us all go through in the early eighties

[edam]

Oooh I've started remembering home-made ginger beer with one of those weird plants (are they called something like a vinegar mother or something?)... crumpets toasted on a proper coal fire...

[fairyfly]

Oh it's been happening for ages, well before the millenia, i think it's a reaction to rationing in ww2 combined with the socialogical problem that people in this society need to find an identity that they are ashamed of here. British food is getting good press at the moment though so it will all find a balance.

[bubble99]

edam. Rise and Shine powdered orange juice!!! That's brought back a few memories.

[LadySherlockofLGJ]

'scuse me Carmenere.............

For my child I miss...............

Taylor Keith (Cidona and Cream Soda)

Tayto

Manhattan Popcorn

Brennans white floppy bread, what else do you eat with a full Irish ??

The fact that on a Monday you could only get Pat the Bakers bread...........

[thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat]

I remember quite vividly the first time I heard of a latte - late 1990s. and as for chirizo - that was 99. I remember thinking that the sandwich shop in question ought to make clear that bean soup with chirizo wasn't veggie. I can;t imagine life without chirizo now. I was brought up on home grown vegetables, tho my mum has always been quite a sophisticated cook. She couldn;t believe it when she saw me feeding dd1 age about 12 months avocado. horrific extravagance apparently

[marthamoo]

Bloody hell no, the most exotic thing we had was spaghetti bolognese. We had Co-op orange squash (and boy, was it orange) - we had orange juice delivered in a milk bottle by the milkman but that was just for Dad, we weren't allowed to touch it. Barr's Dandelion and Burdock was a major treat. I was 21 before I ate smoked salmon (at a wedding). Mum cooked everything from scratch - we had real chips a lot, and there was always a plate of white bread and butter on the table at dinner (which we called tea, lunch was dinner). She made wonderful cakes but we used to beg to have...Arctic roll

She used to make a thing called corned beef mummy - with puff pastry plaited over corned beef. Can't even think of the fat content. And we'd have it with chips...and bread and butter...

I remember having a Chicken Kiev for the first time at University and thinking it was the height of sophistication.

Dad made his own wine, and beer - and I think the first 'bought' bottle of wine I remember seeing was Blue Nun.

[Carmenere]

Ooh TK red Lemonade and Tayto crisps!!!Reminds me of summer visits to Britas Bay
And of course the Manhattan Popcorn only diet I went on as a teen

[bubble99]

Tayto crisps....mmmmm. I used to buy these in The Archway Road when I was a student nurse. Best crisps ever.

[puff]

My lovely Mum's staples were:


irish stew
boiled bacon bones, cabbage and mash
egg, chips & mushy peas
sausage, mash & onion gravy
shepherds pie
roast dinner (of course, but her best was leg of lamb)
steak & kidney pie with greens
irish stew
apple & blackberry pie
apple duff
baked apples with raisins & honey
apple charlotte
apple tart
apple turnovers


................can you tell we had a hoard of apple trees in one of our gardens

I loved it all, plus my Mum and was the size of a whippet.

[Feistybird]

When I grew up in the 60s/mostly 70s, foreign food was, in our house:

pizza

anything with garlic

croissants

rice (savoury or sweet)

chips

avocado

curries

'chinese' food

and for some bizarre reason, apart from fruit, we never had puddings/desserts

[puff]

I've mentioned Irish stew twice....we had it often, but in many guises

[marthamoo]

Just remembered flying to Germany on a school trip when I was 17 and when lunch came it had baby corn as one of the vegetables. We were all utterly nonplussed and nibbled the teeny 'kernels' off like you would with a full-sized corn on the cob.

[Feistybird]

oh yes and 'olives.....hmmm olives...but what are they'?

[Tortington]

me and my mum lived with my nan and she was a catering manageress. needless to say everything was so yummy even the dog ate the cabbage when no one was looking - right off the table.

and she prepared food so very lovely. she made me faces and shapes out of food - she took lots of time.

to this day she makes the BEST salad butties - now you all think sticka bit of lettuce and tomato on a buttie - but no. i dunno what it is - but she peels the tomatos and presents it in quarters stood on end. yummy. and she used to shout to me when i was a litte girl " waitress can you put this ont he table for me please" nothing was ever a chore.

[Tortington]

effin 'ell the point of that last piece of nostalgia - was for me to say that i ate better growing up than i do now. - it seemed to taste better too and i know damn well it was cheaper becuae it came from local shops and oldham market

[thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat]

did anyonehave packet lemon meringue? loved it at the time. think I might find it a bit grim now

[northstar]

Carmenere and ladysherlock I am sitting here reading this eating Tayto, which I was contemplating putting into a sandwich made with brennans bread - am i living in your past????

[threebob]

I was brought up almost exclusively on rise and shine, arctic roll, tins of stuff on toast, liver sausage, vesta chow mein, sausage rolls, bananas and custard, birds custard.

Mum believed that if it was in a packet it must be good.

I have IBS and I'm convinced it was the shite processed food that I ate for 15 years that did it.

My mum still won't buy or eat anything she couldn't buy in the 1970s.