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 think it was rice paper, but l seem to remember taking the paper off as l didn’t like the texture. There were also those flying saucer things filled with sherbet, it was like biting into polystyrene !!

I remember my nan cooking tripe in milk with onions. She also used to serve it raw - pickled. Either way it was revolting !!

Just spotted someone mentioned liver sausage, my mum used to buy it at the deli counter at Sainsburys, along with a round chunk of smoked Bavarian cheese (that wasn't all she bought). My dad used to give her cash for ' housekeeping', that makes it sound like he decided the amount but if she needed more she got it!

When I was a kid Sainsburys looked like this.

Cream horns. My mum used to take me to the cafe after the big weekly shop when I was very young and I'd get one as a treat. I was mentioning to my lovely MIL that I didn't think I'd had one since I was about four or five, over thirty years ago and didn't think they existed any more. Next time we went round to their house she'd managed to procure a box from somewhere and they were as delicious as I remembered!!

I'd forgotten about cream horns @Everlore and liver sausage @TonTonMacoute

It was rice paper on the chocolate smokes it was edible 😊 you can still buy them on Amazon

Ooh, I've never come across pickled tripe! (I've eaten nicely cooked tripe in France, and a disgusting reheated tin of it when camping oop North, which would have been in the early 80s.)

Fiendish Feet. Yoghurts that came with pots with monster faces and feet.
Walkers Toasted Cheese crisps

Anyone remember the drink ‘Cresta’. A polar bear advertised it - the catchphrase was ‘ it’s frothy man’ !! Came in a few flavours -all vile !!

Exactly! I was forced to grow my own and stupidly bought hinnaki red. Which cook to a really vivid pink. Just wrong! Tasted fine but I couldn't bring myself to overcome revulsion at the colour. Now bought hinnaki green and awaiting fruiting

No.

But my brother and I loved Lemon Creamola. Tiny tins of mysterious magic powder that you stirred into water and got a fizzy, sharp, sour, wonderful drink. (They did a raspberry one too but it wasn't quite as great.)

Anyone else?

The loss of deli counters (as well as butcher and fish ones) in UK is a sad thing.
I so enjoy it when I visit my or DH's family abroad and can do "can you do just like 15 thick slices of that please?", "oh that's new, can I taste please?", "Just the small tub of this please. No, the medium is bit too much, can't eat that much quickly"
Just perfect amounts
(same for bakery and fruit and veg per piece)

That little girl bottom left looks just like me ‘back in the day’ 🤣

Safeways were definitely selling huge jars of Gooseberries in the mid/ late 80s. I used to buy them
Very addictive……just delicious

@hexsnidgett

I bought a tin couple of years ago £5 a tin .. major disappointment but at five quid a tin I used it.

I agree. When you could ask for two slices of bacon or three slices of corned beef or a small spoonful of coleslaw. Perfect for those shopping for just themselves.

And Amazin' Raisin bars ?

My mum used to go to the butchers to buy proper pork chops, they were huge (or was it because I was a lot smaller back then 😆
We had a greengrocers too, and a bakery next door which sold… cream horns! Those were my pick. My sister used to always choose an eclair.

Does anyone remember Wickers crisps? Utterly delicious. We used to buy those, and pacers mints.

Kedgeree is delicious!

Bilberries I used to live bilberry pie

Anyone else thinking of that scene in Derry Girls with the grandfather and the cream horns??

Iceland sell these 😆

Herring milts. Delicious lightly fried & served on toast. I don't see that any more. Also Morrisons had a brief phase of selling red bananas. I think they stopped but I don't know why - they were delicious too.

Spud U like is now operated by James Martin. Not many branches but google will let you know where to find them. Spud Bros in Preston have taken over the family Spud cart that has been on the family, and trading for 70 years, and have turned it into a tik tok phenomenon. Mr Beast (whoever he is) was there this weekend and the queue started in the early hours.

My sister went on a diet aged 12 and lived almost exclusively on Findus crispy pancakes. I never actually tried one but this thread made me wonder where they are now.

Cumberland sausage was a regular family meal as a kid. I'm sure they are still about but I've not come across one lately.