Fav old food memories.

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What is your oldest favourite food memory?
For me it would be Jacobs cream crackers with Marmite whenever I felt poorly as a kid.
And a small bar of Cadbury milk chocolate which a visiting uncle always used to bring for me.

Those raspberry ripple moose’s I always eat them frozen but recently found out you were supposed to defrost them. Also miss Wonka bars they were so good but only available for a short amount of time.

Being introduced the 'Angel Delight' sachets as a kid and thinking it was the best thing ever, sadly everyone since then has never been quite the same. And Zappp ice lollies

Sooo many…

Choosing 20 penny sweets for 20p in pick and mix
hedgehog crisps
white buttered bread at a friends house (my mum always got healthy seeded/brown loaves and low fat spread)
little jars of spicy bean spread/pate
lemon /vanilla French set yoghurts
st Ivel gold spread (the salty blue one)

Bread and hot milk sprinkled with sugar
Gooseberry tart made by Mum
Lucozade when off school, poorly.
Home made treacle pudding and custard

When my mum and dad first divorced 40 years ago my dad literally lived off Fray Bentos pies. There’s no pie like a Fray Bentos pie.

Fiendish Feet yoghurts.
Lucozade with the cellophane wrapping.
Beer bottle sweets- like cola bottles but shandy flavour.

I still eat them.

Definitely a glass bottle of Lucozade wrapped in cellophane when unwell.
Minestrone soup packed full of veg and broken spaghetti- a cauldron sized pan would last three days for lunch and dinner.
Using a Cadbury’s Spira as a straw to drink hot chocolate from the vending machine at school.

Spam.

And I still eat that, too.

Ben and Jerry's Rainforest Crunch.

Vesta Beef Curry.

I don't still eat that

Same. Wish smash and tinned peas. My dad visited recently we laugh now I served it up and we toasted the divorcee dinner.

Cabana bar - was cherry, coconut and all wrapped in chocolate.
Mum used to make curries using homepride tinned curry sauce. They were really mild but sweet and lovely.

School dinner puddings - butterscotch tart. I still dream of that.

Toast toppers

@BridgetJonesV2 cabanas were top tier!

Going to add the short lived period where Double Deckers had raisins in the bottom layer - delicious. Why that was dropped I’ll never understand….

honourable mention to Ice Magic.

Sometimes I got to stay at my grandparents' house without my little sisters and with my favourite cousin, who was just over a year older than me. We'd have toast with butter and jam and a cup of tea for supper, chat until late into the night, then in the morning Gran would bring us breakfast in bed, which would be a plate of beggar's pancakes (I think they were made without eggs, they were savoury rather than sweet and fried in butter) eaten with a shake of salt. If we wanted tomato ketchup with them we had to get up and eat them in the kitchen.

The most recent time I saw my cousin was at my mum's funeral. We reminisced about those days (my sisters had similar memories of their own to contribute). My daughters declared themselves aggrieved that nobody had ever made beggar's pancakes for them when they were children.

My mum used to make cheese, ketchup and tuna pasta bake, with ready salted crisps crumbled up to make the topping. It was genuinely fantastic. She now denies any knowledge of it, so I can’t get the recipe (and my versions aren’t the same).

Fruit salads and black jack chewies.
Heinz tomato soup from a can when we were poorly.
White bread with butter and sugar sprinkled on the top - so unhealthy, no wonder I had fillings.

I googled this as never heard of it, then saw the ‘Flavour Graveyard’ section and now I’m sad I missed out on so many delicious flavours 😩

Turkey twizzlers before a certain chef got his hands on them!

M&S used to do a lasagne in a gold coloured foil container that you boiled in a pan to cook. It’s the most delicious lasagne I’ve ever had!

I was just thinking about something today actually, not childhood food but from when I was pregnant 40 odd years ago. I was working in London, quite a long commute for me but I couldn't manage to eat first thing in the morning. On the way to work there was a little Jewish bakery that opened early and I used to buy a pastry there for a late breakfast - I've never tasted pastries like that before or since. My favourite had half a peach in the centre, and it was so delicious. I wish I could remember the name of the bakery to recommend it!

Dandilion and Burdock
Cider ice lollys
Screwballs
Homemade crinkle chips cut with a metal crinkle cutter
Smash potato
Bazooka Joe pink bubble gum

Pretty sure that would have been Kossofs. I remember their proper cheescake - it was, dense, mildly cheesy, sweet and had sultanas in it. They also made marvellous cream cakes that were packed in old fashioned boxes.

Which reminds me of the chicken lokshen my dad used to make. I can't recreate it, perhaps because I can't lay my hands on a kosher chicken. And Latkas.

Rice Creamola in the orange/brown box from the 80s
Top Deck pop
Tab Clear
Big bags of salt & vinegar crisps (possibly corn) that were shaped like a wheel, think they had a squirrel on the front.
Postman Pat strawberry milkshake penny sweets