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 have just had bone marrow as my starter on holiday in Mallorca to bring back memories @IsThistheMiddleofNowhere

Just catching up reading through and you’re all making me hungry!
Does anyone remember those hard boiled cola sweets with a chewy centre?
Came in a tube, like fruit pastilles.

@Lovelysausagedogscrumpy We used to argue about who was going to get the skin, lol. My mum also used to make tapioca pudding, semolina pudding and a milk pudding made with macaroni (my favourite). I haven't had any of these for years but fancy making them now.

@Unorganisedchaos2 We had a pressure cooker too but unlike your mum, my mum didn't know how to use it. Often the stew she was cooking in it was forced up through that valve thing that released the pressure. There was a permanent brown stain on the ceiling above the cooker.

Frosties? I loved those.

Does anyone remember lea and perrins table sauce? Was basically ketchup with a hefty glug of Worcestershire sauce. Bloody lovely.

Yes! That’s them! Can’t think the last time I’ve seen those in any shop.

Arctic roll. My son has it for school dinners and loves it but no supermarkets seem to sell it.

Asda do it .

Stand corrected they may have discontinued it.

Ovaltine chocolate - as in a bar of chocolate, not the powder you add to milk. Came in an orange wrapper with a picture of lady holding a basket of grain. This would have been mid 1980s. God it was good.

My aunt used to call it Birds Eye droppings.

i used to buy them in coop but now can find them in tesco and asda

My relatives in France use caramelised biscuits like Biscoff for cheese.

In French markets they think you are a bit odd if you don't want to try lots of things!

@Lovelysausagedogscrumpy Ah that was sublime, I loved it and wish I could get the recipe, it was really cheesey, not so much egg!. My friend was head of an infants school circa '88 and the dinner ladies would give him left overs; trays of cheese pie, spam fritters, scoops of mash, various puddings, large jugs of normal or pink custard, chocolate sauce & I would be invited to a school dinners night. School sausages were delicious, they came in tins but nothing like hot dogs or other horrible pale offerings. Very meaty and tasty.

'Can we have chocolate bunny for pudding?'

Thats what we called chocolate blancmange made in a rabbit mould.

(Really want to get a rabbit mould now, even though I will never use it, and I'm trying to get rid of loads of stuff)

Both butter and cream cheese are great!

The contents of my grandmothers buffet table is seldom seen these days.
Pease pudding sandwiches (made on a doorstop size slice of stottie)
Tinned PEK ham in aspic
Packet savoury rice.
vol-au-vents (chicken and mushroom)
Iced gems/party rings
Goblin meat puddings.

It will be probably in the kosher section, @Auburngal. Telma is an Israeli brand. Tivall is another kosher brand, for whoever was looking for Tivall Kievs, although I think they are owned by Nestle now.

I love the world food sections. If I’m somewhere with a huge selection I’ll pick something I’ve never seen before and give it a go
Last time I ended up with some wraps that were big enough to burrito the cat in

Was the purrito tasty? @lunaemma

He looked at me like “don’t even think about it”

this is how big they were

Those cracker selections that go on sale around Christmas usually contain a couple of Digestive biscuits. I love them with cheese, DH looks on horrified.

I like the Tivall vetarian hot dog sausages. I haven't seen them in a shop for a long time. There used to be a nice Kosher Deli near to where my sister lives but sadly it closed a few years ago. There must be a Kosher Deli somewhere in Birmingham, but I don't know where it is.

I’ve never come across this but do remember my sister loved Horlicks sweets, she used to buy them from Boots.

I love mooching around the world section of supermarkets, and browsing through supermarkets when on holiday abroad is one of my favourite things to do!