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'm eating one as we type! Sorry to report they aren't the same as the old ones.

I love faggots but not Brains ones they are like jelly. I miss my dad making faggots with onion gravy.

I didn't realize my tastes were quite so retro but I love a prawn cocktail and fan of faggots.
Spam is underrated. Spam slices fried in a little panko breadcrumb coating, either in a bun chicken burger style or on a noodle dish is a go to in my house. (I'm sure we had an amazing Korean- inspired recipe with spam but can't find or remember the details!)

I was thinking the deli counter as a whole I never see anymore. With big cured meats you'd get slices off, or the pie that was like a big scotch egg with somehow egg all through the middle.

More recent- I was thinking how 5/10 years ago everything a bit flash was served with Samphire, you never see that anymore.

I've got M and S haddock mornay on my Ocado delivery this week!!

May be different to what you had as it's a ready meal with potato and spinach I think but the reviews are good and I'm getting it on a 40% flash sale for less than £3 so I'm going for it 😀

Wasn't Tab an early sugar free version? I used to love it.

Herrings. I asked a fishmonger for some and he said he didn't carry them because people didn't know how to cook them any more.

I found Lemon Puff biscuits, along with Marie biscuits at my local world food supermarket.

I recall doing tinned asparagus spears rolled in a couple of slices of ham and then baked in a cheesy sauce, OH loved it and decided it was a 'cheap meal' because it didn't used proper meat!

Bean burgers. Everywhere used to do them as the veggie option. Everywhere now seems to do beyond meat stuff, which I don’t like.
I loved spicy bean burgers.

Make cheats kedgeree!
hard boil some eggs
bake smoked haddock in oven
in a frying pan fry some spring onion and peas
Fry a packet of pilau rice for 2 mins
add in cooked smoked haddock
add a tea spoon of curry powder
add hard boiled egg
mix it all up

serve with lemon mayo and crusty bread - yum!

No steak puddings 😭. I'd leave but I'm in east lancs so it's a staple here even if I don't eat them very often.

Drfiter chocolate bars!

Sunquick- thick sticky orange syrup you mixed with water to make juice. Doesn't seem to be in supermarkets any more, on amazon its £9 a bottle! Cheaper to buy a multipack but I'm scared it won't taste the same as when I was a kid and ill be lumbered with it

I have a huge bag of semolina for making pudding with.

Aldi sell them and they’re lovely - sainsburys do also but Aldi are the best 🌶️

Sorry-unless you meant in pubs - and I agree I hate those meat fake ones taste like hot dog and repeat on me

Used to bloody love drifters 🤤

For anyone wanting to make nostalgic dishes, I follow the dinner lady on YouTube she makes cracking stuff, not least of which is home made steak and kidney puddings

buy on Amazon, in blue paper, called Garafolo

Marks and Spencer used to make Chicken and Bacon Lasagne. Ds2 loved it. I make my own now.

I remember those bakes and they were epic.

Around the sake time there was also an allegedly Chinese- style? pork product which was reformed meat shaped into a kind of chop full of pink/brown colouring with raised bits so when you cooked it in the oven the taller bits browned so it allegedly looked like grilled meat.

Bit like a Mcrib I think.

I loved those but am pretty confident I wouldn't enjoy it now.

But I'd give my left tit for a cod and prawn bistro bake

Yes! A spicy bean burger is much nicer than fake meat. I have them at home but you don’t often see them on a restaurant menu.

Same with pork chops, you used to be able to buy a pork chop from the butcher with a piece of kidney still attached, I think the EU put a stop to that. My butcher used to keep a few 'under the counter' for people like me who asked for them!

Gooseberry muller light yogurts
Peach barcardi breezers

Actually Mark's and Spencer often are the lowest price for milk egg and some vegetables/ like carrots and bananas

That's not to say it overall will be cheaper but don't write it off from thinking it's always the most expensive. I have 2 at uni. I know they both at times go to what is perceived more expensive supermarkets as they know they can get specifics cheaper. Its about shopping around.

Dd1 only shopped in waitrose as a student as she worked for waitrose and with the discount it was by far the cheapest for her.

DH and I were trying to remember the other day what the fake cream was you could get. Not Elmlea or Tip Top but there was something else.