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!

Maybe it’s an East Midlands thing but theres bloody LOADS of jacket potato places around here, not that I’m complaining, they seem to be popular

Does he eat a lot of blancmange ?

My brother buys spam. He fries it and has it with scrambled egg for breakfast. My mum used to coat it in batter to make spam fritters. She made corned beef fritters too.

I always assumed faggots and peas to be a Black Country dish. My grandma who was from Dudley, used to make her own. She used to make stuffed herrings too. I used to think they were delicious straight out of the oven.

I bought dripping in a supermarket (probably Tesco or Sainsbury's, maybe Aldi) just a few weeks ago though it was in a block (like butter) rather than the pots of it I remember.

In the 70s M&S used to do a sort of pork and apple pasty which was really delicious, full of minced pork and apple chunks and potatoes

The two (Northern) sisters on Gogglebox often talk about regularly eating spam fritters.

I have never had it

Spangles and Ice Magic (although I’ve seen a few recent imitations)

Not many in the SE of England or London. There used to be little carts selling them in the street even. Where I used to get them for lunch is now a noodle bar.

I also miss all the independent Italian cafés there used to be in central London, that had really lovely freshly made sandwiches or salads. Choose your filling and bread and they make it for you. Subway is not the same!

Yep, you can still get faggots.

My thoughts exactly!

I could not live without brown sauce.

My DS LOVES Spam!

I buy him a tin every Xmas and he knows he has to wait for the next because yikes!

See also Lucky Charms and Mallow Fluff.

One a year is more than enough!

Vesta Chicken Supreme
Cheese and Tomato Pot Noodle
Toast Toppers

A Turkish owned shop near me sells it. It comes in several different flavours but as a child I only remember it in orange flavour. When I first saw it in the shop it was £2.99 a bottle but it’s closer to £3.99 now

it’s ultra concentrated so a little goes a long way and it looks and tastes very different to squash.

it tastes the same as I remember it

You don't happen to live in North Yorkshire do you?

Indeed. I have fond memories of going to a friend's house for Tea and having strawberry angel delight in the 80's. I bought some recently and it was god awful! It has a really soapy aftertaste and the consistency is all heavy and gloopy. Not like the smooth and light "mousse" that it used to be!

Minnesota-St Paul's airport has a huge spam merch section - bags, keyrings etc. I think it's made there and it seems to be a cult object among the young.

I’ve got a freezer full of frozen gooseberries. I’ve got 4 bushes, bought for a fiver each and they are delicious. Family are sick of gooseberries though, so I cook them in small batches and stir into Fage yogurt.

I always use lamb's liver. I love liver and onions - tasty, cheap, low fat and a good source of protein.

25 years ago I used to wait 20 mins before Selfridges Food Hall shut - and in I went. As a student - it was there that I used to buy the incomparable Village Bakery range bread at 20 p a loaf, Grodzinsky cholla breads and buns, all reduced to 20 p. I even used to get lucky at the cold meat counter - it was there, that as a student, I was introduced to biltong and jerky - again, reduced to something like 50 or 60 p a tub. As a student, I used to buy Selfridges full price liver sausage (better than many pates) very very cheaply.

I don't know if it's still available as I don't live in the UK anymore, but we used to get packs of 10? See through, round plastic tubs of icecream with cardboard lids. Raspberry ripple, vanilla, chocolate orange. They were awesome. They used to come stacked on top of each other in a plastic bag like you would buy bagels.

Hollands frozen puddings are in most Asda, morrisons and Iceland.

I remember that! It was in King Street, Hammersmith.

Yes! We had a very long thin jar on the worktop to store it in, it was far too big to fit in a cupboard..

Great thread OP I loved many of things mentioned. I still fry sliced Spam and have it with a packet of Chicken Super Noodles. I used to love lambs liver cubed and toss the cubes in a mixture of 1 tsp ground cinnamon and 1tsp of cumin powder. Then fry the cubes till crispy. Serve with bread and butter or rice. I have been eating Bonne Maman Salted Caramel Creme desserts recently. They remind me of butterscotch Angel Delight.

For the veggies in our family we make vedgeree, just leave out the haddock.😁