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!

Paste sandwiches. Yuck. Tongue which my mum used to buy. When I was a child circa 60s you just ate what you were given!

Similar to my recipe except I use brown rice and add prawns and/or seafood mix.

There is actually a proper old fashioned style sweet shop in my town, which costs a fortune, you just don't see them in the newsagents any more.

They're the best aren't they!

A classic chicken Kiev..

Haslett! Yes we used to have that in sandwiches in packed lunches - I cannot say it was delicious with sliced white turned soggy from the unripe tomato slices mmmm….

and the blackcurrants? I used to make a fruit crumble using tinned blackcurrants. it was bloody lovely eaten hot with a dollop of vanilla ice cream. I sometimes come across frozen ones as part of a pack of a freezer pack of mixed berries but have not seen tinned ones for years.

Turkey burgers...

@Whoistheeasterbunny have a look at The Prawn Cocktail Years - brilliant book of favourite foods from yesteryear - Simon Hopkinson and Lindsay Bareham so top notch recipes too. Nostalgic and a great read too…..

Thank you, I shall!

Birds Eye SuperMousse. Came in packs of 6-10. Strawberry and chocolate.

Oh this talk of kedgeree is making want to make some. Bought some smoked haddock half price in Lidl a couple of weeks ago and it’s frozen.

My local ice cream place sells that
used to drive home from school and beg my dad to stop in summer, he was always “oh no I won’t get anything…. Oh go on, a scoop of rum and raisin and a scoop of clotted cream”

Proper Cadbury's Dairy Milk - not the waxy sweet stuff it's become since Kraft started to produce it.

Just had a google and sainsburys do them in a tin. We used to have them as a treat from the fruit stall as children. I'd forgotten about them until you said.

Here’s their current flavours

Oh I miss Spud U like!

yes!!!! a real treat when I was little, I can remember struggling to bite into that thick chocolate cup but I persevered

Can still get these in sainsbury and also Indian shops

Dm used to make a fantastic oxtail stew.

We used to suck on the bones to get all the juices out too.

Mum worked in a deli and would bring home luncheon meat , haslett, tongue & other gruesome treats.

Not tgat i ate any of those but since the deli's have gone from our local, and not so local supermarkets the variety of cold meats is now pretty limited.

In Inverness, where we lived in the 1980s, there was a McTatie's.

🤣🤣🤣

I used the just roll vol au vent pastry at Christmas when I did a 70’s buffet - filled with Campbell’s condensed mushroom soup!

my 23 year old daughter loves spam - it’s actually lovely fried!

Heron do spam fritters. DH is quite partial but would need a bucket of gaviscon these days.

"S puh DOO likkay"

I'm veggie too, but regularly make haddock kedgeree for DP and DS and corned beef hash occasionally (my Mum's recipe and, apparently, quite tasty).

hexsnidgett · Today 12:14

Gooseberries, where are all the gooseberries?

Yes! Where are all the gooseberries. Can't find them frozen or tinned. Have just bought a bush from B&Q to plant in my garden.