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!

St Ivel gold. I remember being over in the uk mid 70s and my auntie had it on the table(to accompany the “proper” salad spread you gave visitors.) I just couldn’t stop eating it, it wasn’t marg, it wasn’t butter, I wasn’t sure I liked it.
And from the same time, Special K, but they were small and platelet shaped, very light and lovely.

Oh my god don’t! I’m from Scotland and a 70s baby and in the 80’s … a McTaties -are you kidding me! I’d still be longing for it back all these years later, that would have been my dream place to eat! 😂

Baked Alaska.

Ice cream cakes for children's parties.

Chicory as a cheap and nasty substitute for coffee.

We were regularly given lamb cutlets (similar to burgers rather than a slab of meat). I reckon my son would love them.

Oh I liked cutlets I saw some in morrisons at the weekend but they were beef.

Dream topping?

Thanks for the recipe links @TheBossOfMe , Delia’s and the BBC Good Food one were the ones I looked into.

I loved SPUD U LIKE! 🥔 McTatie’s sounds epic 😁

Anyone hankering for gooseberries or blackcurrants, befriend an allotmenteer! Our lovely neighbours gives us loads of excess produce from their allotment.

Waitrose sells oxtail and breast of lamb, but they are no longer considered cheap cuts, they’re silly money now.

I also love a Spicy bean burger. Again in my uni days (! - sorry @nocoolnamesleft ) I always got the BK Bean burger or their Ocean Catch, which was far and away superior to McDonald’s Filet o’Fish.

Fairy cakes
Jam tarts (6 in a box)

I got haddock mornay for my mum on Friday from M&S

My mate still buys Spam. He got me to get him some on my Tesco order. He just has it with beans and chips now, but he doesn't bother to fry it

When I was a kid, we used to have a deep fried with chips, I'm a vegetarian now so haven't had it for 35 years!!

Spam is the secret ingredient in good "Chinese" fried rice, taught to me by my friends dad who owned a restaurant.
It crops up a lot in Korean and Filipino cookery due to The US having Army bases there

Brains still sell faggots. Aldi has them.

Things in Aspic. I don't know why my gran did this, but lots of things ended up in Aspic. Meats, hard boiled eggs, tomatoes (sort of weird salads). Nasty.

Russian salad in a tin. Chopped up veg in a sort of mayo.

Sunday tea at my grans was an adventure.

Oh yes, they were good.
Nutty bars and Texans were the best though!

Blue Dragon crispy noodles, like the topping on Vesta Chow Mein. My DGM was amazing cook who took Cordon Bleu classes and never used anything ready made except for these. Little flat golden ribbons like small pieces of thin tagliatelle that you deep fried until they puffed up. We loved them when we were DC.

I know you can make them from noodles but they aren’t quite the same.

Arctic roll

My childhood meals when ( I guess money was low ) spam fritters , faggots , offal , and I remember a meal we'd sometimes have , a beefburger in the middle of the plate , baked beans ( mum would put curry powder in them ) and they sat around the burger and then a serving of white rice around the beans ! Filled us up and I remember it being nice !

Blancmange
Iced gems
Greyish sandwich spreads

Frozen Boil in the Bag Curries with Sultanas in

Proper iced gems that had really crunchy biscuit bases were gorgeous!

My dad was always on a diet so the only biscuit we had was bran biscuits from Sainsburys which was basically compressed bran with sugar. You had to be desperate to eat one.

Aldi had some gooseberry yoghurts the other week that were absolutely delicious. I only managed to eat one of a four pack because DS11 had the rest.

I keep looking for them and can’t find them, but if you see them buy them. 10/10. Hoping it signals a gooseberry renaissance.

Waitrose used to do a vegetable moussaka ready meal and it was absolutely delicious (or maybe it was Charlie Bingham???). Then they changed the recipe and it wasn’t so good. Then they stopped making it altogether. I still think about it.

It was Waitrose and it was lovely. I miss it too

I used to pick them in my grandparents garden and try not to get jabbed,the greener and more sour the better.