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 wouldn't cook rabbit - one of my uncles was a policeman and one of his many macabre stories was about going to the house of a man who'd eaten a piece of rabbit from a pack of rabbit pieces. There was a bone in it that had been sliced razor sharp and when he swallowed it his gizzard was cut open.

Now I don't believe it was a true story but at the time we were scared out of eating rabbit. Although being a Beatrix Potter fan as a child I don't think I'd have eaten it anyway.

I can remember my grandma skinning and gutting a rabbit that grandad took home after a day's shooting.

My DH wouldn't touch rabbit. He was a country boy when myxomatosis was rampant.

I remember my grandmother's velvet stew fondly. I bought rabbit from a supermarket over 30 years ago and it was so full of shot it was very unpleasant.

My late DH used to go rough shooting, haven't had rabbit, pigeon, or game birds for many years.
I used to go over them with a metal detector that tradies use to find hidden pipes for shotgun pellets.

Having kept pet rabbits for many years I just couldn't eat it now, probably be the same for pigs, sheep, goats, chickens & I'd end up vegan or vegetarian. My Czech friend asked me if our rabbits were pets or for food.

Boil in the bag fish, thank goodness it’s no longer around was tortured with it several times a week as a kid 🤢

Oh and stuffed marrow, glad that’s not so much of a thing now too!

@kwetuthats my go to food when my Crohn’s is bad. Nice parsley boil in the bag fish. Have loads in the freezer :) sorry!

@kwetuYoung’s do a box of four in Sainsbury’s.

My mum always made tapioca and sago for dessert. I never made it for mine and haven't heard anyone mention it in years.

A friend's father had a trip to Peru. He hired a couple of teenagers to be his 'guides' and bought them a few bits, new shoes being one.

Anyway the parents were grateful and asked him to come for a meal which he did. At the end of the evening they said to him, via teenage translations, that if he came again they would serve 'Winnipeg'.

After various attempts to explain what this treat was they took him to an outhouse were a number of guinea pigs were running around.

I've eaten guinea pigs in Peru. Quite tasty but not much meat on them.

On this tack I've eaten puffin in Rekyavik. As a starter not so much but very good as mains - casserole as I remember. For reasons I can't fathom I was disappointed that the multi-coloured beak and big orange feet weren't part of the deal. You know, like star-gazey pie.

Holy moly - the idea of the BEAK poking out of the pie - nooooooo!

I miss proper butchers where the carcasses were hung up in the shop and people knew what they were eating.

Friend is a TA and when asked where food came from, they kids (reception class) though sausages grew on trees and a lot of other nonesense. We are quite removed from our food and its production. Not a good thing imho

@sashh Oh no! Just imagine tucking in to little Snowy and Cinnamon😕. Our biology teacher got us to dissect the school guinea pig when it died, it was traumatic.

Those little jars of meat paste. We sometimes got some that were in white pots … a salmon one.

I used to like sardine and tomato. Not white though; they weren’t Princes, but similar colours I think.

@AnneKipankitooi still eat those particularly the chicken ones. I does occur to me though that’s it’s probably mechanical lips and arse hole chicken when it’s under 50p a jar :/

Blancmange I haven't eaten it in years.

Those frozen mousses in recycling unfriendly plastic pots. Raspberry ripple and chocolate.

God, I loved those! Oddly I don't remember raspberry ripple, just the chocolate ones.

And orange..I ate them frozen so it was like an ice cream.
Didn't get ice cream very often.

I can't remember the orange ones either. Yes, I used to love it when they were still frozen in the middle.
Ice cream for us was a bit tub of the cheap plasticky Wall's stuff. Viennetta at Christmas only.

These are definitely still available in most supermarkets, if I’m thinking of the right things. Shiphams?