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!

We have gooseberry bushes, and the fruit is fabulous, but picking the buggers is like arm-wrestling with Edward Scissorhands.

I’m actually Irish and haven’t tasted any of them since the 90s, I know they are still around though
Haven’t seen vol au vents or prawn cocktail on a menu in years and years, some things just seem to go out of fashion even though they were very good….trends Huh

Lyons Kunzle Showboats

Spam is definitely having a resurgence from lots of instagram/tiktok recipes and a bit of the kpop influence, teenage dn begged dh to bring back a spam gift set from Korea when he last went

You can buy them in Waitrose in the summer …

Tripe (my Grandmother insisted on feeding us this with soaked peas)
Stuffed heart
Sliced brain in a jelly substance
Liver and onions
Sunny D - I think that's what it was called. Orange powder you mixed with water
Tinned fruit with Carnation milk
Prunes and custard
Spam fritters with instant mash
Bacon bones with pea soup
Lamb ribs
Mutton
Semolina with prunes

I'm a 70's child and this was the typical food we were fed.

Not a lettuce leaf or tomato in sight.

Try angel delight with natural Greek yoghurt instead of milk. It's much nicer.

Goblin tinned pies. They used to be like 55p or something. They are LONG gone

Our Home bargains sell them..

Lean cuisine ready meals.
Heinz tomato pickle.
Haywards piccalilli.

Tried Angel delight a while ago...oh dear...tis not for me.

A bit of a cook and assemble one, cook rice, fry a bit of onion in butter in a dish that will go in the oven, add some curry powder and extra turmeric for the colour. Bring the smoked haddock to the boil in milk in a pan, then strain. Boil and peel some eggs. Then assemble: add the cooking milk to the curry dish, add the cooked rice and mix well, flake the fish into the dish and mix, chop the eggs into the dish and mix, add more milk if it's too dry. Then bake until all hot through and the liquid mainly absorbed. Quantities about equal parts fish and egg and as much rice as you would normally serve in a meal. I just do green vegetables with it. It sounds more complicated than it is.

M&S crisps, they were square and salty and in kind of wafery layers. I loved them.

Oh my.... I was only thinking about these the other day... a weekly must back in the day...

They definitely should bring those back...

My Nanna used to make my Grandad tripe and onions he’d have it with mashed potatoes and bread and butter
My mum made liver bacon and onions with a lovely thick onion gravy I’ve not had it since leaving home
One of my Dd’s favourite dinners is faggots with rice and peas
I used to like findus crispy pancakes but they are horrible now
We often had the tubs of mousse that were frozen and also on a Sunday we had just juice a powdered orange juice you mixed with water

South Koreans and Americans apparently. Sure it’s fairly popular in Philippines too…

I love tongue, although it seems to be only pork lunch tongue (smaller actual tongues) now, not ox tongue. In the 1980s I inherited my Grandma's tongue mould ( a cylindrical glass dish) and for several years at Christmas I bought a whole ox tongue from the butcher, boiled it, peeled off the skin and pressed it in the mould. Excellent sandwiches for several days. Then my children realised what it was and wouldn't eat it, and the butcher closed, so I haven't done it for years. Still buy tongue every week though.

Oddly enough just put TV on... on loose women now
Is 70's food making a come back...two of which...

Baby cham
Smash potato with boil in the bag cod in parsley sauce...

Whsmiths are stocking them at the moment, so I've been stocking up incase they get taken away again!
They also have a twix, bounty and Mars bar version which aren't a patch on the originals

Agree. They’ve probably gone to live with the apples that actually taste of anything much.

A popular summer meal in my childhood home was gala pie. A rectangular slice of a pork pie with hard boiled egg in the centre, served with tinned Heinz potato salad and ‘salad’. The ‘salad’ was some little gem lettuce leaves, some cucumber slices and a tomato cut in halves with zig-zags. My mum used to call them ‘water lily tomatoes’. (Why??). A blob of Heinz salad cream on the side.

Blancmange. Powder you heated with milk. God, it was vile, but I haven't seen it for years.

Semolina - I quite liked that one, with a lake of jam in the middle.

Boil-in-the-bag fish in sauce. You got a square block of cod or haddock frozen in various sauces (cheese, parsley etc). It was a quick, cheap meal in the 80s, with mash and peas. I guess the microwave killed off boil-in-the-bag.

Also rarely see gooseberries in the shops, or purple sprouting broccoli (it's all tenderstem now).

Spam became popular because it was given to American soldiers as rations and the locals just added it to traditional dishes they made 😊

What I miss most is Campbell's meatballs. It was a quick easy tea mix a couple of tins in some pasta add a bit of cheese. Kids absolutely loved it. I've tried others but there nowhere near as good. So I get the chilled pork meatballs and add some tomato soup.

Asian supermarkets stock them.

waitrose meat counter is your friend for rolled lamb breast, along with oxtail and ox cheeks

echo the same with frozen mousse (Super Mousse??) and orange juice made from powder

I absolutely adore corned beef hash but I grew up with the poor man’s version - sliced corned beef covered with a tin of baked beans and topped with mashed potatoes then baked in the oven

Waitrose do a steak and kidney suet pudding

I miss M and S Haddock Mornay