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Food you don’t often see anymore

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BigJanette · 21/04/2025 11:48

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!

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JohnTheRevelator · 21/04/2025 16:57

Oh yes I remember the M and S smoked haddock kedgeree! I absolutely loved it. Was gutted when it disappeared. I was bloody annoyed when I asked one of the staff what had happened to it. She flatly denied that they'd ever done it! But I've realised that this is par for the course with M and S. Several (food) items have disappeared over the years and when I ask about them,they invariably say they've never sold it! Why not just admit they've discontinued it?! I also remember a couple of lovely sandwiches that M and S did. One was wafer thin turkey with salad and coleslaw,the other was smoked haddock and rocket lettuce. The latter one was obviously not very popular because it only appeared for about a month!

CountryMouse22 · 21/04/2025 16:57

Hastentoadd · 21/04/2025 12:24

Brown sauce
Stew
Angel delight
Prawn cocktail
Volovants
Garabaldi biscuits

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Angel Delight is still extant
Ditto prawn cocktail (in M&S as we speak)
Vol-au-vents
Garibaldi biscuits still extant, in Tesco!

JHound · 21/04/2025 17:03

SharpOpalNewt · 21/04/2025 12:02

Jacket potato places. I love a nice jacket spud.

This! I was horrified when I moved back to the UK and Spud U Like was no more!

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Liz1tummypain · 21/04/2025 17:06

Someone has possibly said already - angel delight

CountryMouse22 · 21/04/2025 17:07

TrickyD · 21/04/2025 12:35

Green’s Carmelle. A dead ringer for real vanilla
egg custard. Maybe it’s still around.

Still available at Tesco for 80p!

EcruCardigan · 21/04/2025 17:07

Instant whip
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canthavethatonethen · 21/04/2025 17:09

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buriedminion · 21/04/2025 17:14

EcruCardigan · 21/04/2025 12:57

Tongue (I've not eaten it)

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It is amazing and still very much around.

I raise you jam rolypoly.

most stuff from the 60s/70s has made a comeback.

I love tongue, liver, ox heart, kidneys. I don’t think I will ever be anaemic!

AAT65 · 21/04/2025 17:15

Symington Table Cream - only rarely sighted now.

quantumbutterfly · 21/04/2025 17:15

LittleGreenDragons · 21/04/2025 16:00

It's been a long time since I had liver and bacon. Those that still do it - do you use lamb or pigs liver?

Lambs liver
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gmgnts · 21/04/2025 17:16

Hwi · 21/04/2025 15:52

Love kedgeree! Loved coconut ice sweeties - M&S used to sell them. Also, my auntie used to make this thing I don't know what it is called, but you boil eggs, take out yokes, mix them with poached salmon, stuff it all back into egg halves, put it in oven, having covered with some sort of pinkish/orange sauce - I googled it to death and can't find it. And jellies with port and fruit!

Devilled eggs? But I don't think they ever go in the oven, just served cold straight after the pink gloop goes on.

Diversion · 21/04/2025 17:16

Elder (cows udder), my Granny introduced me to it as a child, lovely with salt. Also pickled herrings, I had a craving for them when pregnant with my eldest child and used to buy them at the fish market across from work. I fancied one the other day and bought some from Booths in a tub, they were awful, no onions and just bits of herring not a proper rollmop at all and had a very weird consistency.

Themagicfarawaytreeismyfav · 21/04/2025 17:17

A chip shop down the road from me does spam fritters.

oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends · 21/04/2025 17:17

Brains
Sweetbreads
Veal
Boiling fowls
Pigeons

WooleyMunky · 21/04/2025 17:18

WhatWouldTheDoctorDo · 21/04/2025 12:49

Gammon with egg or pineapple and chips. It was my staple when going out to eat for a pub lunch (I was pretty fussy and unadventurous when younger). I know that you can still get it, but I can’t remember the last time I saw it on a menu!

as a child - those crispy pancake things. Birds Eye? They were vile. But a regular on our 70s/80s convenience food rotation when I was growing up.

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Kissedbyfire1 · 21/04/2025 17:18

JohnTheRevelator · 21/04/2025 16:57

Oh yes I remember the M and S smoked haddock kedgeree! I absolutely loved it. Was gutted when it disappeared. I was bloody annoyed when I asked one of the staff what had happened to it. She flatly denied that they'd ever done it! But I've realised that this is par for the course with M and S. Several (food) items have disappeared over the years and when I ask about them,they invariably say they've never sold it! Why not just admit they've discontinued it?! I also remember a couple of lovely sandwiches that M and S did. One was wafer thin turkey with salad and coleslaw,the other was smoked haddock and rocket lettuce. The latter one was obviously not very popular because it only appeared for about a month!

M&S definitely did a turkey coleslaw sandwich. I used to have it pretty much every day when I worked in town.

Hwi · 21/04/2025 17:18

gmgnts · 21/04/2025 17:16

Devilled eggs? But I don't think they ever go in the oven, just served cold straight after the pink gloop goes on.

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What is the pink gloop? And it definitely went into the oven and on top they sprinkled it with some paprika. Can't find the recipe for the pink gloop?

Hwi · 21/04/2025 17:19

Kissedbyfire1 · 21/04/2025 17:18

M&S definitely did a turkey coleslaw sandwich. I used to have it pretty much every day when I worked in town.

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And a grilled vegetables sandwich, mmmmm

Ladamesansmerci · 21/04/2025 17:20

LillyPJ · 21/04/2025 16:16

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.

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I'm sure you can still get it and it has uses in cooking! I just never hear about it anymore, and defo not in the context of on toast 😂

sodabreadjam · 21/04/2025 17:21

As a child I ate potted head (brawn); ox, pig's and lamb's liver; kidneys; sliced tongue; oxtail; faggots; Spam - and bone marrow eaten from the bone with a spoon.

Fried cod's roe.

Tinned Heinz Russian salad and tinned potato salad. Whole chicken in a tin - white and wrinkly and covered in jelly.

Sandwich spread - chicken, ham, salmon etc.

Vesta dehydrated meals - chow mein, veg curry, etc.

Flavoured custard - came as a packet of sachets of custard powder - strawberry, orange, chocolate, etc. Also blancmange which set and wobbled like jelly. Often had jelly made with evaporated milk which curdled but tasted quite nice.

Wouldn't eat most of it now.

Hwi · 21/04/2025 17:23

And Maria and Ratafia biscuits, mmmm

Dellaandthedealer · 21/04/2025 17:27

Scentedjasmin · 21/04/2025 13:00

Lemon puff biscuits!!

Bought some the other day in Morrisons because I missed them too! They were a brand called Boland’s made in Portugal! Not quite the same as the sticky rectangular ones I remember but not bad!

gmgnts · 21/04/2025 17:28

Hwi · 21/04/2025 17:18

What is the pink gloop? And it definitely went into the oven and on top they sprinkled it with some paprika. Can't find the recipe for the pink gloop?

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The paprika sounds right, as I remember. The pink gloop will be the same stuff prawn cocktail is made with, I think - i.e. mayonnaise coloured with prawns. I don't get the oven bit, though. I was looking at a recipe for devilled eggs just recently - they're coming back into fashion with all the 70s revival food - when looking for some canape ideas.

thenightsky · 21/04/2025 17:29

Spam in batter, deep fried. My favourite school dinner.

RJ2023 · 21/04/2025 17:30

It might have been mentioned already - but Strawberry Super Mousse from the late 1980s. It was in a plastic tub that had a strawberry centre and cream around the outside that you kept in the freezer. Each tub would take hours to defrost but it was worth waiting for! I wish they would bring it back

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