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!

Mum used to buy Chinese rabbit from the butcher for our Siamese cat. (He was very spoiled)

You can still get it in Waitrose (and other supermarkets, generally where there is a cheese counter).

I will look @DisabledDemon

Wall's Stawberry Mivvi ice lollies were lovely. They brought them back for a limited time a few years back and they were still lovely. The strawberry split lollies they do now just aren't the same.

We also had a Koblers walnut cake as a tea time treat sometimes. It was a very light pale sponge cake covered with white icing and a ring of walnut halves on top. Yummy!

I preferred the raspberry Mivvi. Lovely strong fruity flavour.

I was a pineapple mivvi kinda gal.

Oh God yes, me too. They also did a blackcurrant one for a while, but I think it was discontinued - it was heaven on a stick !!

Oooh I want a mivvi now.

Why do they stop making all the good stuff!

Ohhhh Mivvis! I want a raspberry one now. They were divine.

I say this in every food nostalgia thread. Lemon puffs.

Proper ones with the crust of caramelised sugar on top of the biscuits, not the round ones that you can get from Home Bargains, and not the ones from the Asian supermarket.

It just doesn't taste the same!

Morrison's used to sell frozen Chinese rabbit pieces back in the 80s, and very good value it was too. I remember making up batches of rabbit curry to freeze when I was trying to eke out my meagre Unemployment Benefit - something like £22.50 a week, from memory.

I was, and I am. See also liver and onions, school dinner mince and other such delights.

Has anyone mentioned Beanfeast? One of the few instant convenience foods for vegetarians back in the 80s, but no longer made as there are far better options around now.

Another early veggie thing I miss is Cauldron Food's vegetarian paté - a kind of herby flavoured stuff sold in chilled packets, very different from the vegetarian paté you can still get in tubes. I used to eat loads of it on oatcakes as an easy cheap packed lunch.

Omg, I remember Beanfeast, was it made by Realeat? We used to call it FeindBeast. It was really nice. I remember Cauldron brand but never tried the pate`, must check it out.

I used Beanfeast when we were first married, and poor. I also used soya chunks and mince. It came dry in packets.

Not too sure if it was Beanfeast. There were pack mixes to make veggie burgers by adding water or an egg. From what I remember they were in the supermarkets near to the canned pulses.

I liked beanfeast as well.

On a stopping things note, Greggs have stopped selling ham salad rolls - too much salad is my guess and practically nothing contains much of it any more and their salads are all pasta based...

I miss liqueuer chocolates where the sugar has crystalised on the inside of the chocolate. Most ones I've tried lately are the syrupy type that aren't nice.

Ooh yes! I actually hated the liqueurs themselves (too strong) but loved that crunchy sugar.

Like the original Newberry Fruits. The ones now, that they call Jewels, just have a slightly softer centre. No liquid at all.

Omg yes! My mum has filled her long glass spaghetti holder with fairy lights and it now sits in her living room!

They are all still around, they never went away, and vol au vents have made a comeback.

I like mutton pies with hot water crust, but they are now made with minced beef a or a mixture of of beef and mutton.They are available from firms in Scotland but all mutton filed ones are rare-and expensive!

That is genius!

I've got a long spaghetti holder, nothing special but it was a wedding present from a friend and so has sentimental value.

I am so stealing this idea from your mum!

Not a dish but cheesey moments. They came in a little pack like scampi fries and were sooo moreish. I remember my dad coming home from work on a Friday with his wages in a little brown envelope and we’d pop to the off license as it was the only shop open. We’d get a bottle of cream soda that we’d all share, I’d have a pack of cheesy moments and my little brother a sherbet dipdap.