Old fashioned things which are great

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The spam thread reminded me that I have had a craving for a salad with hard boiled egg and ham, possibly potato salad or warm new potatoes with butter and salad cream.It isn't chopped up or involving chickpeas and reminds me of cricket teas in the 70s, but it is what I fancy so I might make it for all of us tomorrow.
What else is dated but really 'hits the spot'? I'll throw in a 'Cornishish' pasty made with corned beef instead of real meat.
Anyone?

Me too - they have everything a bun could have, crisp pastry, soft fragrant cake, delicious secret jam (usually raspberry). The apple ones are good too, but I have a little stewed apple with breakfast every day, it it doesn't seem a treat in the way the jam does.

I made a batch of Maids of Honour on Sunday. Pastry base, little blob of jam topped with sponge cake. I add ground almonds to the cake mix. Almond flavoured glacé icing with half a cherry on top.
Poached egg pans are still available, the type with four removable cups in a water filled pan. Amazon have them or can usually be found in local old fashioned Hardware shops.

Non food related. Having one tv in the house with just 4 channels. Kids tv finished at 6 and wasn't on all day at the weekend, so we had to read, do crafts, play board games etc.

Exactly what I do, most mornings - if the eggs are upside down you can flip them onto the toast the right way up. I can cut off any frothy bits too, but if the eggs are fresh you get a better white anyway (more than a couple of days old they're boiled instead). And I don't add anything at all to the water, not necessary, I don't like vinagery eggs.

You're going back a bit now - we never got a second TV for just this reason, though our four children weren't very co-operative and tended to quarrel in pairs if the TV was off. However videos became widely available in the early 1980's so they took over once the childrens' programmes finished.

We had much more control over what our children watched then as we chose what was recorded whereas now I'm guessing they can choose what to stream. Films were great too, Superman was a particular favourite and my youngest son used to mouth the words when he watched it.

What, no Marmite?!

A friend of min, in the 1980s had a TV in her son's bedroom but with no ariel and linked to a VHS recorder downstairs so she could put a film on for him but he couldn't change the channel.

Yep brilliant , I watched it way back when it was first on but I had nobody to discuss it with as it seemed it was just me who watched its dark excellence 😂. I can hear the theme tune now and see Jill “jogging on the spot” lol 😂

saw it maybe a year ago on BBC iplayer (it may still be on there). My husband didn’t find it as funny as me ha ha

@AmethystSparkles

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I say ‘always’ as if they break…they don’t -I just had to leave one behind when I moved house.''

I bought a Miele Cat & Dog back in 1994. It moved with me until 2018 when I left it behind in a flat I was selling.
I moved in with my Mum to be her carer - her Miele Cat & Dog was bought in 2012 & is still going strong!

@angela1952 I'm not going back that far! Only to my own childhood...I'm mid 40s

We didn't get a video player until mid 1990s and videos were very expensive. All electronics were expensive I think compared to today. I have fond memories of trips to blockbuster and renting a film for a Saturday night, but that would have been in the mid 1990s.

Nobody else I know found it funny either! I loved it and have watched the whole two series again in a binge watching few days recently! Sorry Joy, I thought you were an assailant!!! 🤣🤣🤣

Yes, you're the same age as my oldest children. I'm an old fart who wouldn't let them watch ITV because of the adverts for toys and sweet...

I put them on kitchen roll and fold it over the top and dry them off carefully, then dump them on the toast.

Yes, you're the same age as my oldest children. I'm an old fart who wouldn't let them watch ITV because of the adverts for toys and sweet...
@angela1952

TBF I hated DS watching 'milkshake' (channel 4 or 5) and Nickelodeon when he was small for this reason .

It’s just too funny lol 🤣

Corned beef and chips! Just a slice cut from the tinned cube, on the plate, with chips.
delicious

@theduchessofspork love the idea of Chicken Kev

Anyone remember cars without automatic choke? How you had to pull the manual choke out before turning on engine and push it back in at the right moment before flooding the engine? For some reason I feel a bit nostalgic for them.

I drove cars like this for years after automatic chokes came in, and I was very proud of my ability to time it perfectly! In my Minis the choke was always slightly wobbly, sticking out of the front dash with all three of the controls you had in the cockpit then - the heater, which hung off the bottom of the dash; the foglight; and the heated rear window.

You two are my people, and Julia Davis is our queen. I’ve loved everything she’s done since Human Remains. I’m still astonished that something so very very dark was allowed on TV 😁

I have just added pease pudding to my shopping list for this eve! I flipping love ham + pease pudding sandwiches.
It's also the stalwart of slimming world classes in this neck of the woods.. apparently it has no sins

My friend, who does SW swears by corned beef pie made with Pease Pudding. No pastry involved, just corned beef with a thick layer of pease pudding on top that goes crispy in the oven. Virtually syn free of you use the low fat corned beef.

Sadly, even though I'm from the North East of England, and my whole family love it, I do not like Pease pudding.

We can start our own little Nighty Night tribe!!! I have found my people! 😁😁😁❤❤❤

@SmashedPrawnsInAMilkyBasket and @MoonWoman69 HIYA CATH!!

I love Nighty Night. Nobody ever remembers Human Remains but I think about it far too much really.
Ducky tongue going down.

Is that a film or a series, Human Remains? It rings a bell 🤔

I'd rather have the equivalent in cash Cathy... Here she is, Catherine wheels... 🤣🤣🤣