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.

@hawleybits King ribs! Also classed a (rare) 'delicacy' in my childhood!

Looked forward to 'once a week' Lamb grill steaks, smash (with a knob of butter on top) and tinned plum tomatoes- butterscotch Angel delight and 'hot banana crunch' (basically banana flavoured packet custard with crumbled digestive biscuit topping).

Anything was a step up from returning home from horrendous (not eaten) school lunches to be faced with a prepared Jam sandwich and an apple.

But I did get two digestive biscuits and a glass of milk before bed

(We were far from poor btw, but my parents were hardly ever home....and also quite selfish as they'd cook themselves 'nice' meals separately).

I love cooking fresh everything for my Dd's and us all eating together at the table, no way will they ever be faced with a Jam Sandwich dinner!!

Liver when at primary school. You received one ice cream scoop of mash, some type of vegetable and liver. So bitter and disgusting.

You had to eat it because a) you'd go hungry otherwise as it was only bread and jam in the evening and b) you'd get shouted at for being ungrateful for the food you'd been served.

I like a lot of the things mentioned here, rabbit, kidney especially fried with bacon or in a steak & kidney pie, liver especially calves’ liver fried with sage leaves.
A lot of the dislike seems to be because of poor cooking skills, for example correctly cooked liver wouldn’t be tough and bitter.

Offal in any form is horrible. My dad used to eat tripe with vinegar and cow heel 🤢

It's a long walk from 70's school liver to pan-fried calves liver with sage. The cooking is one thing, but I'm pretty sure it's also the liver itself.

TSSDNCOP but there's a big difference in flavour too between delicate calves liver and coarse, strong-tasting pig's liver.

Yes, I agree Tarty. I'd bet that my school used pigs liver in the 70's. Then cooked the ass out of it for about 6 hours. It managed the unique ability to taste tasteless and disgusting at the same time. It also had sharp yet not burnt edges.

Tinned fruit, especially the fruit 'cocktail' that looked uncannily like mixed veg, with tinned cream or evaporated milk curdling in the juice.

Ah yes jen. I remember the tinned fruit! It was supposed to be some kind of amazing dessert back in the day.

Tubes in the liver

I liked tinned fruit cocktail! I'd fight for the 'one cherry'! That and the tinned cream, cant remember the name!?

Tapioca milk pudding - godawful school food

ikl There is a name for that fear of discovering small hidden holes, it's trypophobia.

I'm not really bothered about holes Ada (bloody love crumpets) just those awful gristly tube things.

Kidney as in steam and kidney and liver ,I never liked them and never will.because my mum kept serving thinking I might change my mind and not a,food but milk when I was at schoo! We were forced to drink those little bottles that had been kept in a warm classroom all day ,why they couldn't give us then in the morning and cold I don't know ,but they were vile and smelt of vomit, it's given me a life long hatred of milk😩

Oh and my friends mum used to look after me and dsis and obviously friend during the school holidays ,she was generally a good cook but used to frequent!y serve a pea soup.for lunch it was ,very ,very thick it was not nice sorry 😞

Offal in any form.
I know it still exists, but it’s but so widely eaten as it was in my childhood (79s-80s) I don’t think. I have been veggie for over 30 years though!

Some lovely inspiration from Weight Watchers on the 70s

Those photos actually are horrific!

Oh they look awful.@Stuffofawesome ,I think.if i was forced to choose it would have to be the tomatoe thing 😲

Meat of any kind. However i do like fish paste!
Agree about tubey liver. too. Yeucch!

Iced buns. Fingers of mouth-drying cotton wool stodge with a thin covering of icing. They used to be a treat on Christmas party day at infants school.

Semolina and school rice pudding with the dollop of jam in the middle that was only good for turning it pink.

Never tasted it but I'm glad never to have endured tapioca or the sort of school stew that comes with dumplings. I don't like stodge, I don't like gristle and I can't stand slimy lumpiness.

A lot of these foods taste very bland indeed and I'm reminded of an old Goodness Gracious Me sketch where one of the group insists she doesn't want to go 'too bland'...I'm with her.

Ooh those photos remind me of an advert where there was a bowl of steaming Heinz Cream of Tomato Soup with loads of shell-on prawns on the rim all dipping their crustacean arses into the tomato-ey deliciousness .

I actually did enjoy most of my primary school dinners ( my school insisted all.children had a,school.dinner this was late 70,s early 80,s though ) they were lovely and cooked on site though ,we had lots of yummy puddings too particularly remember the chocolate pudding with mint custard 😍

Tinned fruit - any kind - revolting soft sickly sweet and the nasty "syrup". Creme Caramel that came in a box - you mixed it with milk and it was a wobbly beige blob sitting in a pool of sticky brown liquid.

I do still dream about tinned corned beef though - in a white bread sandwich. But I could never bring myself to eat it now I know how bad it is. What was that coating of white fat all over it! The same stuff that's in pork pie?