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!

Well, I bought a packet of Morrison's frozen Spam Fritters this year. Erm, not wonderful.

Milk jelly and Findas Crispy Pancakes.

I have very fond memories of FCPs for tea on The Big Shop day and watching Tales of the Gold Monkey.

A quick Google, however, tells me that Findas Crispy Pancakes are very much still available.

Stuffed lamb’s hearts. Roasted ox heart. Delish. Wonder if you can still get them?

Tinned lychees. Really miss them!

I still eat spam, faggots, haggis, tinned sardines/pilchards, prawn cocktail and fish paste, 😂

Also missed Heinz veg salad in a tin :(

Oh and ox tongue 😋

Chinese restaurants have them quite often. They are awful, the memory is better - they aren't ice cream.

Brawn. I arrived home once as a kid to find a whole pigs head bobbing around in a pan, sort of peeping over the rim. Horrendous. Trotters sometimes as Dad loved them.
Mum worked in a deli and would bring home luncheon meat , haslett, tongue & other gruesome treats.

I think Wetherspoons still does it as does Brewers Fayre which are usually found attached to Premier Inns

@HappySheldon Tinned asparagus rolls in white bread were an absolute staple of children’s birthday parties in my Kiwi youth. I included them in DD’s sixth birthday party. Queue parents asking me for the recipe as their offspring all raved about them. I also served fairy bread which went down a storm too

Spud-U-Like.
What a time to be alive that was!

Just come back from New York, the adverts for Spam on the tv were constant. Husband saw some in Target, not sure how much it costs in the UK but it was nearly five dollars a tin.

Steak and kidney puddings - ready made - can be seen in supermarkets now. Some people still know how to make them from scratch.

A pig's chap i.e. pig's face, had very sweet meat on it.

They still sell them in our Aldi!

Halal shops but you have to stuff it yourself. For any "unusual" stuff, halal butchers. Stars.
Brains, all kinds of offal, cuts, bones, hard chicken etc... DH cooks these bits a lot for himself

@slug I seem to remember fairy bread in Australia, was it sprinkles on white bread?

Tinned cream, Instant Whip

Corned beef hash. 😋

edit: jam sandwiches too, now that I think on it!

Liver and gravy. Absolutely hated it.
OH still loves it, same as sausages with onion gravy.
Not for me.
I can still remember my mum bringing French Bread Pizza in - frozen, think they were Findus or Bird’s Eye. Felt like being on holiday, whereas it was frozen bread, soggy on the middle, with a bit of cheese topping?

I still make corned beef hash and corned beef rissoles. With brown sauce and greens it's the food of the gods. My children were brought up on them 😁

I make stew. It is one of the things everyone in my family will eat. We sometimes out brown sauce in it, or have brown sauce with sausages.

I also frequently have prawn cocktail1 for my lunch. And make vol au vents,mostly mushroom or chicken and bacon, but sometimes prawn cocktail. They are definitely still a thing in Ireland.

I have tried and tried and tried to get people in the UK and inside my own family to like fairy bread. It just does not fly. I even told my two Dcs before we applied for dual citizenship that if they were anti fairy bread then that had to be a 'fail' right there. And not to tell the authorities.

I made it for myself on my 50th birthday. White bread, butter and hundreds and thousands. With champagne.

But yes- asparagus rolls- the best thing ever. Sometimes if my mother was being particularly fancy she would brush the rolls with butter and pop in the oven until pale golden brown and serve with hollandaise.

I love breast of lamb. A fatty, historically cheap cut.

Tesco used to do it but haven't for a few years - at least in my area. I buy it now from online butchers where it is cheap for a lamb joint but certainly not a 'cheap cut' anymore.

As a child of the 80s I loved those cheap frozen mousses in pots that came in a stack? Raspberry ripple or chocolate though I doubt either had much of those ingredients in. I haven't seen them in years.

It’s very popular in Hawaii they have spam restaurants

my dads wife is from the Philippines she doesn’t understand my dislike for curried spam 😆 it’s become popular again in the US where you have large population from the Philippines and South Korea

I love faggots I get them occasionally. Usually when I'm doing a quick shop at Heron's. What I miss is those little Ice cream moose's. I don't know why we can't get them anymore. I always eat them frozen but recently heard you were ment to defrost them.