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.

@northerngravy. I bought sardine & tomato paste in Sainsburys for my corona cupboard

Omg I love that stuff

I also hated meat in school, gristly and just typing about it is making me heave

Cheap potato croquettes with bright orange coating

Haslet

My family still eat this. For a treat

Margarine in and on everything and supposedly healthy

Campbells meatballs

Yum!

haslet

DP loves this!

We’re all different.

Those things filled with fruit sludge that you put in the toaster.
Vesta dried curry.
Flying saucers.
Fish paste and meat paste/potted meat. All the bits that couldn't be used otherwise. It was our Sunday tea, with celery, hated Sunday tea.

I used to like school semolina...

Blancmange, always served at MIL's for Sunday tea.

School cabbage and swede, so overcooked, no texture or flavour, just watery gloop.

As a child I lived not far from a meat & fish paste factory, so paste sandwiches were a feature of all childhood parties. We never had meat or fish paste at home, so they used to be a party treat for me!

Toast toppers...savoury greige slurry
Bright orange plastic cheese slices
Gammon and pineapple
Corned beef (in fact most tinned meat. Especially Pek, Goblin or Tyne Brand.)
Tiny cheese and tomato pizzas that came in packets of 6 from the frozen food section
Stuffed heart (fortunately never had to eat this but my mum had a 1950s Good Housekeeping cookery book which had a picture of it, resplendent in its rubbery indigestible glory)

Semolina, sago, rice pudding. Bleugh

Home made ‘curry’ using left over roast, simmered in curry powder with apple slices and raisins and served with a sprinkling of dedicated coconut.

Campbell's tinned meatballs.

Sandwich spread. Looked like vomit.
That and horrible Matteson’s liver pate. 1980s packed lunches weren’t great!

Almost all the food they served for school dinners in the 80s...

Smash
Spam
Corned beef
Mince in gravy that smelled like dog food and stank out the whole school by 11am on the days they cooked it
Cheap, grey looking fishfingers

My grandmother loved cooking with kidney and liver. Urgh.

Yes potato glow in the dark croquettes - disgusting

Fluorescent dried up boney haddock

Tinned orangey ravioli with added grit.

Why did so much food have to be bright orange coloured?

Maybe they were expecting power cuts so we could eat our food in the dark?

@tobee

I forgot about that gritty orange ravioli. The thought is making me retch.

A lot of the food should have been fine in theory but was somehow made in the worst possible way!

Smash, often with powdery lumps in it.
Parma violet sweets, tasted like cheap talc.
Pink shrimp sweets, it was like eating plastic.
Doughnuts filled with artificial cream.
However, I am quite partial to sardine and tomato paste or corned beef sandwiches

Rissoles
Tinned asparagus soup

Mince meat in a tin for spag bol.... I never knew about fresh mince, garlic, herbs as a kid.. revelation!
Chitlin (not sure about the spelling) but essentially pigs intestines that you eat like ham either on it's own with vinegar or in a sandwich... I had always assumed it was ham, strange folk my folks.

Tinned beans with those pink tiny penis-like sausages in them (Not envy)

Tongue sandwich anyone?

Faggots and meat loaf

There was sometimes a whole boiled tongue (pressure cooked of course) carved up and served with boiled potatoes for Sunday lunch but strangely we quite liked it. I don’t think kids would eat it nowadays. A bit too “real” in appearance.

Liver and onions my mom used to do a huge panful for her and my dad thankfully she worked out early on that my sister and I HATED it with a passion

Burgers from a can, mum and dad used to make them for me when I was a child, maybe explains why I've been veggie since i was 13 lol

Marshmallows floating in tomato soup - we liked it but... why?