Things you cannot believe you ate as a child

[NovemberAutumn]

One of my mother's favourite sandwich fillings- deep fried crumbed lambs brains with iceberg lettuce and salad cream in white bread.

I did eat it a few times until I properly realised what it was- but- [shudder]. Just why?

DH used to love and adore his mother's pureed (pickled!) beetroot in white sauce. Just pureed pink slop surely (I made it for him once).

A few of my faves have been mentioned, raw potato (still have a nibble, got to be the right variety though); those French bread pizzas, potted meat sandwiches, tongue (my grandma lived next to a butchers and she used to send me round to buy a slice as a treat), Smash, packets of dried soup were a staple on holiday, school spam was delicious - ours was served either fried in winter or cold with a salad in summer and the salad had sultanas in it - happy days!

This stuff. I'm not entirely sure what it was. The closest thing would be bacon grill possibly? Not sure what that is either come to think of it!

Yes my granny had a frying pan that was used again and again. Sausages and bacon for lunch and pork chops for dinner. Then the fat was left to sit for the same next day!

I loved tapioca and sago puddings - haven't eaten them for years however, maybe I should make some.

I was a child/teen in the 60s and 70s, but didn't eat offal. Dad liked tripe so Mum would cook it just for him now and again (the smell!!), but we didn't eat anything else in that line because none of us like it.

A pp said there were no chocolate biscuits and cakes in the larders decades ago - did mothers and grandmothers not bake in the UK? Surely some did. The tins at our house were always full of home baking, but I also remember my Nana having shop bought biscuits and cake in her pantry when I was a child. I've never had a sugar sandwich in my life. I'm not in the UK, don't know if they were a thing here or not, but we did have fairy bread.

I did love fish paste sandwiches as a child!

Winkles. You would extract the soft part from the shell with a pin. Turns my stomach to think about them now.

They were amazing 🤩

I make corned beef pies and corned beef stew. Dead easy tin of corned beef, any veg you want using up, onion, spuds essential though. seasoning, ALDIs beef casserole mix all in a pan.

Vanilla Icecream with salted peanuts

Child of the 70s..macaroni cheese with absolutely tons of cheddar cheese grilled in the oven with more cheese on top.
Sometimes followed by treacle tart. We were all skinny as rakes!!

Also condensed milk sandwiches.
Fish and chips from chop shop weekly - heavy on the batter.
French bread pizzas and crisp pancakes with cheese filling.
Fabulous childhood

Ketchup sandwiches on white bread with margarine,
meat paste sandwiches.
i used to vinegar salted crisps to make them salt and vinegar!
dont think I could eat any of them now

Sugar sandwich, thick white bread thick butter then sugar.
bread and dripping, again thick white bread then the beef dripping
Brown sauce sandwich, yes thick white bread butter then brown sauce.

none of the rubbish brown bread in my mums kitchen !! I’m surprised I have any teeth or did not have a heart at age12.

but here I am a very fit old lady (62) which is good as the government has decided I will have to work till I’m 66 .

Gingerwarthog

i had forgot about the Condensed milk on white bread with butter. Yum yum

When I was a child I used to buy and eat faggots from the fish and chip shop. Later I found out that they are made of brains.

The thing is when you read all this thread we really did not eat a healthy diet, but I don’t remember hardly any kids being fat. We were all very slim I think it was because we were out playing all the time . In the summer holidays my mum would give us breakfast then say now off you go see you at lunch time if you don’t make it home for lunch, make sure you are home at 6pm for tea.

Omg.. tinned pilchards in sauce ( i actually used to ask for them) and winkles.. used to go for them at our local beach in the 70s with my parents, sadly not longer here, but loved eating them though don't think i could touch one now!

I had pasta in pink custard once. Slimy pink yuckness. This was years before my mother used the stuff in our house.
Sugar sandwiches.
Liver and onions with apple in it.

We used to eat those all the time. Molten lava cheese that took a layer off the roof of your mouth if you ate it too soon. Chicago pizza do something similar, they aren't as big though

@NeverDropYourMooncup

Just bought a large multicooker (to replace the SC that cracked)

^ what is an SC please?

Eating winkles used to be one of the highlights of my childhood summer holidays.
My Mother and I would go to Cullercoats to buy a crab or two from the women selling them from their doorsteps, and we'd get a bag of winkles each too.
We would sit on the veranda of a ramshackle old watchroom, looking out across the bay, and while we wriggled and tweaked our winkles out of their shells, Mother would tell tales of her schooldays or of the wartime.

I still like seafood now, but the vinegary peppery winkles of those summer days is hard to beat.

JamJarson. I'm guessing a SC is a slow cooker.

Those of you who had mothers who baked cakes and pies etc. Lucky you! 😂 . My mother had no talent with a mixing bowl and her pastry was awful. She rarely attempted to bake but if she did we had to eat it and not refuse. The other day I saw something in a discount shop. Boxes of broken biscuits!! Oh that brought back memories.. being sent to the local baker's to buy a bag of broken bits was fun. You never knew what you'd get.

Slow Cooker - the type with a ceramic crock. DP had a glitch and added cold water to it when it was cooking on high and getting a bit dry, so the ceramic went 'ping'.

My nana (my DM’s mum) didn’t bake cakes but did make delicious apple pies (homemade pastry), truffles, fry ups and roast dinners. Not much else!

DM luckily is a good cook and cooks a lot but her DM admits she wasn’t a good cook, mostly because she had her own successful business so had no time to cook most things but the basics.

@Nanalisa60
Imagine giving that to our kids? Would have to be the low fat oat milk version.