Food you don’t often see anymore

[BigJanette]

What dishes did you used to eat, but don’t really see around anymore?

I’ve just remembered a M&S ready meal I ate quite regularly in my student days (this would’ve been in the mid 90s) but haven’t seen since.
Smoked haddock kedgeree.
Anyone else remember it?
I used to make it every so often, but haven’t done in years.
I think it’s time to remedy that and get it back on the menu.

Any easy recipes welcome!

Regularly make kedgeree it’s lovely!

We used to have faggots for dinner when we were kids growing up in the West Country (cheapo meatballs you would eat with mash and gravy) . Not sure they are allowed any more given the name.

Sometimes used to get a brand called Brains Faggots from the supermarket - blimey that sounds unappetising now. Loved them at the time….

Faggots are still under that name. Even tesco has them. The Brains ones. I never had them but remember them because it made me do a double take when I first spotted them😂 Had to ggole them (I am not from UK)

www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/282049626?srsltid=AfmBOopVPnlPrIGG2qQZLmkOO4utdppchD9SBiO9K_tGkVKn0SyWxvw7

Brains faggots are still very much around. Our local butcher also makes them.

I was brought up in Australia by a mother who was brought up exceptionally poor. We ate alot of offal. Lowlights include (cold) crumbed lambs brains in white bread sandwiches with salad cream and stuffed lambs hearts.

But my mother also made a wonderful meatloaf and I was just thinking last night I need to make one. She also made little sandwiches with tinned white asparagus, butter and pepper. Loved those.

Jacket potato places. I love a nice jacket spud.

All the local towns by me have jacket potato food trucks, I thought it was quite on trend nowadays

I'm partial to a Costco one now and again

Yes there used to be one called Spud U Like! Haven’t seen one for years….

I miss Spud U Like so much. There isn't one near me. I don't know if they even still exist

Tripe. Thank goodness. And sweetbreads.
Pig’s head. Tongue. Brawn.

Faggots were a delight in comparison- we had local butcher ones, really good. Oh and oxtail.

You could afford M&S as a student? Wow!

I regularly make kedgeree.

Occasionally make liver and onions.

I recall meatloaf, stuffed marrow and lots of meat and fruit pies from.my childhood, also rice pudding and blancmange.

Boil small mug of rice using the Delia method having lightly sweated half an onion in the butter. When nearly cooked add a couple of smoked haddock fillets (skinned) and put the lid on. The final cooking and steam will cook the fish. Chop three hard boiled eggs and a handful of parsley. Break up the fish and stir in. Add a heaped tip of curry powder to a small pot of single cream and stir through with the egg and parsley. Finish in the oven for 15 minutes with a few knows of butter. Serves four and we have it with a green salad on the side.

I was talking about the time some friends and I found some money as a child in the 90s. We spent the lot on lemon Vienneta.

What happened to those? I could still smash one.

Gooseberries, where are all the gooseberries?

I use to like kedgeree. I’m vegi now so don’t make it.

Do people still make corn beef hash?

Pink custard on school dinner puddings.

In my meat eating days we regularly had fried Spam for dinner, with homemade deep fried chips in lard and frozen peas. Makes my arteries twinge just thinking about it.

I was amazed to see it in the supermarket recently and wondered who was still buying it.

Yes corned beef hash was a regular childhood dinner. God! the salt!

Corned beef hash is on the menu tonight, or it might be bubble and squeak, to use up all the leftover veg from last nights dinner.

Very long spaghetti! Not the stuff that’s like 30cm long, more like 50-60cm. Where has that gone?

Brown sauce
Stew
Angel delight
Prawn cocktail
Volovants
Garabaldi biscuits

Yes. It was bent like a hair pin and you snapped it.

Milky Way crispy rolls! Bring them back.

The brown sauce in my fridge would like you to know that it’s alive and kicking.
Angel Delight is crap now as it’s all sweeteners.
Garibaldi biscuits are still around.

@Comtesse i used to work in a bakery that sold faggots...... I'm still haunted now 🤣🤣 used to get pensioners bringing tin plates or trays and buying one or two. Then some people would buy a dozen at a time!!

Here is the very long spaghetti.

Hi, I found this on Ocado and thought you’d like to see it: www.ocado.com/products/garofalo-traditional-long-spaghetti-50584011

I suspect that if I'd been fed spam, corned beef, faggots and pilchards as a child I'd have lent towards being a vegetarian.