Foods from yesteryear I do not miss

[snowqu33n]

Thought it might be nice in times of uncertain food supply to remember some foods we no longer have to eat.
To kick off, I would like to reflect on fish paste sandwiches and how happy I am not to be served these or ever fall back on eating these.
Also the spam fritters that were served at school lunch. Oily batter that emitted greasy liquid when breached, then peeled back to reveal pink spongy pretend meat.
Realizing I am unlikely ever to see those on a plate again in my lifetime makes me happy.

Fish paste was my first thought OP! We used to have it on toast on a Sunday as if it was meant to be some kind of treat [boak]

Blancmange

Vesta curries

Haslet.
Had it every Tuesday and Thursday as a kid in my pack up. Dairylea was for rich folk

I don't mind a spam fritter though with tinned tomato!

Smash..
Went to a popular new food chain about ten years ago.. Was served Smash....
not envy..

Totally with you about school spam fritters - i don't know exactly what they did to them (in their natural states spam =ok-ish, batter =ok) but put together they toasted utterly weird and were inedible.

Potato chats (school dinners)

In fact, any school dinner I hated them all.

I don't mind fish paste but I'll gladly never eat grilled liver ever again...... dry, rubbery, powdery, chewy, just the thought of it is making me boak. What was my mum thinking??

Tasted! They didn't toast them, that would have made them even weirder.

Oh god yes, blancmange, served at every children's party when I was little, why? Also green jelly. And tinned mandarin orange segments.

Those hideous waxy sweets you used to get in a paper bag of penny sweets; the teeth and the waxy chocolate mice

Another one - my school used to serve liver and onion casserole. Almost certainly pigs liver, the coarsest.
Hint -- liver boiled for hours does NOT become more tender. The reverse, in fact.

Oh I quite liked the chocolate mice, and those round ones from the same ersatz chocolate topped with hundreds and thousands.

Those sherbet things in edible paper though, eeurgh

Spam, baked beans and the mash my mum used to make (no milk or butter and lumpy) 🤮🤮

Campbells meatballs.

Fucking horrible things. They smelled like dog food and when you tipped them out of the can, the sauce they were in was all jellied a la pet food.

Tyne brand minced meat. All snouts, lips and arseholes.

Unfortunately I was made to eat both of these on a regular basis. I'm now by and large a vegetarian.

School dinner mince. Grey, gritty meat in brown water

And rice salad, with sweetcorn kernels and RAISINS in - an 80s thing I think - so glad it's disappeared

Fricassee. Cheap beef olives. School semolina.

I love a sardine and tomato paste sandwich! Can’t find the bloody stuff anywhere.

Liver and Onions 🤮

Mashed turnip or reconstituted potato served by ice-cream scoop

Kidney soup. Disgusting

Fish pie 🤢
Nothing to do with school dinners, my mum used to feed us all kinds of ping meals or oven food, most of it was okay (I used to love Bernard Matthews Turkey drummers and findus crispy pancakes!) but admirals fish pie used to properly turn my stomach.
When I first met bil and his wife, they invited us round to theirs for dinner and served it up. Thankfully I was pregnant and had an excuse ready for feeling queasy and not being very hungry!! I have since fessed up, they are lovely people and said they would have whipped me up something quickly there and then if I’d just have said but I couldn’t!

Findus Crispy Pancakes, there was one variety which was filled with grey sludge, it could have been chicken flavour, it could have been mushroom, I don’t know.

I love a sardine and tomato paste sandwich! Can’t find the bloody stuff anywhere.

I've just got some in my local Sainsbury's. Bloody lovely on cheap white bread.