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!

I used to.eat .it frozen were you not supposed to?

Blancmange! I love it!! Can get it in Europe I believe 🤔

Love kedgeree and do make it every now and again.

never eat corn beef hash these days but had it regularly as a child.

I bought frozen haddock this weekend to make a kedgeree! I love it with Lea and P

You can buy it in Morrisons!!!

or Amazon

Every Chippy where I live, still sells them. I’m in the North West.

Even better now though, as we have a local Chippy that sells rag puddings (delicious)

Green's Carmelle still available, I bought mine and the (bargain) Green's egg custard in Morrison's

Early 2000s Sainsburys in Putney did this bread in their bakery section that was slightly sweet maybe similar to a brioche made from two doughs, a plain one and one chocolate loosely mixed together. I think it was dusted with cocoa powder. I used to have it spread with butter an a cup of tea. It was so good. Still miss it a quarter of a century on.

Vesta beef curry (in a box). I loved it as a child, along with findus beef pancakes.

I know a few people have mentioned tripe and tongue. I’m not a fan, but you can still buy both at my local indoor market.

Beef cobblers - one of the worst school dinners.

Looked up 'Devilled eggs' - no, not them, they don't have poached salmon in them and seem a main dish, not a starter. And they were hot, not cold. I wish I had written down the recipe!

Home made alcoholic trifle
Apple turnovers

Fruits of the Forest and Peach Melba yoghurts. They were in every pack of yoghurts you ever saw when I was a child - these two plus a strawberry and a raspberry. You never see these flavours now.

Sorry if it’s been said many times but: Sarah Lee double chocolate gateau. I know it must have stopped being made about 15 years ago but I still miss it!

@SabrinaThwaite

I have some pink custard powder [inaptly labelled as "blancmange"] in the cupboard. I really must use it up [though still in date]. Leading a sad life I sent for it some while ago on eBay

We used to eat them frozen too,you were supposed to leave them for five minutes or so before eating, but who could wait !

Same feelings about M&S Christmas boule - they never brought it back!!!!

When I was at Uni in York in the 90's in our 2nd year we lived in a house a few doors down from a Sarah Lee Factory shop.
Any visiting parents were frog marched there to buy Double Chocolate gateau!

Garibaldis..squashed fly biscuits we called them, we loved them!

The lemon baked cheesecake in M&S in the 80s. Cadburys chocolate before the takeover by USA.

Faggots in gravy (not the ghastly lumps of pulp in a box in the freezer department). Our local butcher has started making them so salvation is nigh.

Calves liver - lambs liver tastes like the bits of Dartmoor where the sheep snuggle under a rock. Calves is bliss.

Heart - I was stunned by how meaty and delicious they are.

Mince pies with unsweetened pastry.

Symington table cream.

Also in Sainsbury's with others in the range.

I think you can still get them - try Morrisons.

Yes, we loved them, with peas 😁

Still get them in Aldi, about £1.25 for 6. Delicious. And why wouldn’t they be ‘allowed’?! Nothing to do with a gay slur at all.

@MyKingdomForACat Oooh Pease Pudding. Not had that for years. I am 63 and became vegetarian years ago. Before Quorn or Linda Mccartney etc. My mum used to open a tin of Pease Pudding at both ends and slide it out, slice it into 6 or so and then fry the slices to make burgers! Was lovely.