Foods from yesteryear I do not miss

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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.

Oh God I had forgotten so many of these! I loved Vesta curries actually. I also loved school dinners, disgusting though they were , because my mother couldn’t cook.. at all.
I hated Smash. I hated liver. The food really was quite vile generally. I remember a salad was lettuce, tomato and cottage cheese or ham with maybe some grated carrot. Salad cream on the side.
When my mother went into hospital to have my brother, my Dad bought a stack of tins of Spam and that was what we lived on for two weeks while she was in the maternity unit.

Campbells meatballs are an abomination. My mother used to serve them on plain spaghetti. Doubly grim. Those French baguette pizzas from the freezer. Dry, hard as rock and all you could taste was the peppers. Just no.

Tongue sandwiches, Heinz sandwich spread from a jar and dandelion and burdock to drink.

The stew my boarding school had, disgusting fatty meat, to this day I loathe any fatty meat, take off the jelly and cold fat off corned beef I love corned beef hash.

Many years ago:

Goblin burgers in a tin. I think there were 4/tin and they were soft soft and claggy

Bacogrill or something - it was lush, thin sliced and grilled till it curled up, Chewy ,salty,smokey and slight stickiness . DMum used to cheat with sliced Spam and tell us it was Bacogrill but the first bite was sheer disappointment .

Angel Delight or one called Sweetheart (in a tin) . But DMum bought Instant Whip ( you use a pint of milk so you get more) but it was a poor imitation.

The worst though - I used to love lamb. But living across the road from a lambing farm put me off (seeing them gambolling about the hearing them bleat all night ) . And DMum put some cooked lamb in the oven to heat m covered in some bread paper (which is waxed) so it all melted ..

not envy . It spurred my journey into vegetarianism so I don't have to worry now about innards or Spam.

flan , trifle yuck! every sunday one of these abominations it would be !

we love spam here and smash though!

stuffed lambs hearts, I know money was tight mum but yuk.

I just seen that stuffed hearts are a repeated theme😁

Luncheon meat - an alternative to spam. Tinned meat - one had stuffing through the middle - yuck. Birds eye mousse - you could taste the e numbers.

Heinz Oxtail Soup.

Brown slime, brown shiny gloop with chewy bits of chopped up brown rubber bands with knobbly bits on them.

My mum's 80s faux sophistication that really smelled of despair and wet Saturday council house lunchtimes.

Primary school dinners...!
Boiled white fish, tinned pea mush, boiled tinned potatoes....
Mince pie with rock hard thick 'pastry', tinned carrot mush, boiled tinned potatoes...slice of gravy...
'White' pudding
'Pink' pudding
'Spotted dick'....an ironic name for a horrendous invention!

Was so glad for the dinner money in secondary school (even if it did go on 10 Lambert & Butler...)....

I remember when my DD1 and her cousin waged a poster war against their grandmother’s Saturday dinner. She used to make a quiche and basic salad complete with hard boiled eggs for Saturday night every time we visited.
The kids made posters asking for pizza not quiche, and they got it. I never had to eat one of my MIL’s quiches again.

Remember King Ribs? The 1980's frozen delight of pink, reformed 'meat' product, flavoured with Chinese five spice An absolute delicacy in our house.

Oh dear I quite like some of the stuff here! Semolina, corned beef, rice pudding, out of a tin, and LOVE smash.

I’m not from the UK so please forgive me: OMFG!!!!! Is what I’m reading true? Meatballs in a can that smell like dog food? Grey mystery meat with watery gravy? Fried spam! Ugh! It reads like a horror story. If I had been made to eat that I think I would be traumatised for life. I once thought I had it bad being made to eat mushrooms, eggplant and pumpkin as a child but it simply does not compare to what I have just read here.

Someone mentioned tripe - tripe and onions: food if the gods
On the other hand, pudding at school was a dry weetabix, with tinned rhubarb, and evap to cream it up a bit. Totally disgusting

My best friends mum always seemed to serve up tripe and onions in a white sauce for dinner. Just disgusting.

School dinners mostly, which I only had for a year before I changed to packed lunches. The meat was mostly mutton, no gravy, with about 5 tiny, shrivelled roasts. Cheese and onion flan, yuck!! Rock hard doughnuts, the ubiquitous and hated Spam fitters!
At Nan's house; tinned fruit like peaches or fruit salad, so horrible!! Fig rolls, jam tarts. All awful to me.

I’m almost afraid to ask but... why WAS the tinned ravioli so gritty?

School meals - string pie, tongue, grey cabbage. Ugh.

Chops and/or chicken drumsticks that we’re mostly bone and fat.

Grillsteaks, basically elongated burgers that came as either beef or lamb.

Most school lunches. I think I subsisted on mash until secondary school at which point I moved onto rice.

Pig fry is apparently a quarter liver, a quarter kidney, a quarter fat and a quarter actual meat. Supposedly makes a nice casserole.

Anything rabbit

I still love tinned ravioli, it's my comfort food over the top of proper home made chips if I'm ever feeling down

Does anyone remember a cod roll in high school?? Like a fish finger but roll shaped and in batter rather than breadcrumbs - omg I'd pay good money to eat those again with ravioli & chips

Curried mince

I too love tinned ravioli, kidneys love them, when I could cook properly I used to do steak and kidney stew cut my own kidneys, to me it was like dissecting, (I’m a funny one I’m obsessed with medical history) the gravy was wonderful today I can’t cook it’s just pop things in the oven due to arthritis and being registered blind. Very long history of eye trouble.