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Or unearthing something from the freezer! Who can forget Arctic Roll, inevitably served with tinned fruit (75% pear, 24% peach and one lone cherry that everyone fought over)?

I only saw and tasted my first Terry’s chocolate orange in my mid twenties - they weren’t available in NI.

You didn't miss much! They are a crime against chocolate and I'm opposed to any food you have to batter your way into with a blunt object.

Pretty much yes. A lot of 70s/80s desserts seem to involve pouring sachets of powder into jugs adding milk or water and whisking furiously 😂

Ah I see, the semolina version of instant hot chocolate. **

I don’t remember either of those products but I can confidently state that 7 year old me would have LOVED them.

Lots of GB food products weren’t on sale (or advertised) in Republic of Ireland/Northern Ireland until GB supermarkets entered the market here in the late 90s/early 00s.

I only saw and tasted my first Terry’s chocolate orange in my mid twenties - they weren’t available in NI. Have to say, I wasn’t fussed with it although it looks cool. I much prefer Irish Cadbury chocolate which has some of its own Ireland-only products and generally tastes better (to us) than Cadbury from the UK.

Oh jam definitely

Fellow school semolina fan! But the one with raspberry coloured jam or the one with chocolate shavings? Jam for me!

It was a powder you added boiling water to
They did a custard version too

Whisk and serve semolina? As opposed to regular semolina which needs whisking and serving?

Oh I loved it. Not as much as school semolina but still...
I was a weird child

Tinned tapioca pudding with a dollop of jam was a staple pudding in our house.

whisk and serve semolina

Dear God, please, no.

I used to love Birds Eye cheesies. Sort of cheesy potato croquettes in triangle shapes
Mum used to shallow fry them
Anyone remember them?
And Birds whisk and serve semolina.

Those were the days

Oh aye. Mince and tatties was a staple in our family too. Occasionally mixed up with the same mince but with spaghetti.

It was the most tasteless mince in the world I do believe. It was artistry.
I'd have welcomed a sloshing of tomato soup 😂

Wasn't Campbell's tomato soup the basis for the invention of Chicken Tikka Masala?

My Granny used to make deep-fried chicken with a coating of crushed cornflakes - it was a recipe from Woman's Own or Woman's Weekly magazine I believe. I can't remember how it tasted (probably a mercy lol).

As a 70s child, I loved the entire gamut of 'astronaut food' like Smash, Angel Delight, Cremola Foam, Sodastream, UM tinned stew, Vesta curies and chow mein, Bird's Eye's entire frozen food oeuvre, Kraft cheese singles - basically the more processed and freeze dried the better 😊

I always have to keep some Dairylea triangles in the fridge for emergency cravings 😬

We have some Askeys Crack in the cupboard. Well, it might not be called that on the bottle but it's what the kids call it. It's great as long as you shake the bottle really, really well.

Mince with tomato soup sounds odd but Cambells suggested such things on the side of their tins of condensed soup. Cream of mushroom was regularly used as a pasta sauce in my house. I also remember crushed cornflakes on top of things for extra crunch. Can’t remember what they were on top of though.

It is also school holidays just now and academics have children at school too so prime holiday demand season for that reason (plus summer so the weather is better).

To be fair, it's when staff are encouraged to take holidays - even non-teaching staff - so arranging anything at the moment just means umpteen Out of Offices by return.

I should imagine trying to convene a panel will be impossible until September, maybe even October.

It is undergraduate holidays but certainly not university holidays. When the undergraduates are off is when academics catch up on research, write papers and courses etc. Like most other sectors more people take their holidays during school holidays which could delay stuff, but undergraduate students being off doesn’t mean anyone else is!

Entirely possible 😄

The crispy noodles were the best bit of the whole "bolognese".

That's classic - thank you! We grew up on mince and tatties but this was occasionally transformed into "italian mince" by the addition of a tin of Heinz tomato soup spread on top of the mince. Very exotic

Definitely seen ice magic or something very like it on sale in the uk in a big supermarket in the last 5 years.

We loved ice magic! Also findus crispy pancakes were a regular treat. And Birds Eye Steakhouse Grills.

Mum was a great cook but dad was funny about meat texture, it had to be very tender which was difficult on a very limited housekeeping budget. So the steakhouse grills were more acceptable than the cuts of beef we could afford.

She also pureed the homemade bolognaise sauce she made so it was like baby food. Again for dad reasons. If she served him food that he’d never had before he’d look suspiciously at it, lean in and sniff it and say “what’s this?” in an accusatory tone. She told us one day that if he did it again she was going to push his head into the plate. She never did, to our great disappointment as kids.