My mum used to put stork on our bread

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Was that par for the course during the seventies? Or unreasonable?

Was Stork the one that tasted of animal fat?
Think we had this at my nan's. As the daughter of a vegetarian, I could always taste the "meat" on my kraft cheese sandwich at my nan's.
Shudders

I am loving this thread!

My mum - and I lay the blame for all my food problems fair and square at her feet! - used to fill our bloody sandwiches with whatever we had failed to eat the night before. This was after it became apparent to her that serving it again until eaten didn't work. I honestly had fish and chip sandwiches once. That, I think, was around about the time I decided to go back to school dinners.

Charlie was it Cheddarie? Seem to recall it - lovely processed plastic in a jar!!!

I remember chicory coffee - the kind we had was a sort of syrup in a bottle that was added to boiling water iirc. I was quite fond of it. (That was back in the days when children could drink tea and coffee)

My grandparents used to always have a bottle of Camp coffee but I never saw them drink it, I am sure that they had the same bottle of about 25 years!

silk my Mum used to use Echo all the time! Not sure what for, i think it was frying and then she would empty it all in a bowl after frying where it would liquidfy and then be ready to be used all over again!

I use the stork that comes in the gold wrapper for my mashed potatoes, sent my DH to the shops one day for it and asked him to get me Echo...it was probably discontinued in the early 80s so no wonder he couldnt find it!

And I remember ubsalted St Ivel Gold - used it all the time on my many many diets. Silver lid with a red stripe. It was ok, dont remember thinking itwas vile.

My mum used to have these boxes of diet sweets called Aids, like minty toffees, anyone else remember them?

Glad to see someone else remembers Echo. We had a friend who would only eat that, on bread; it was getting increasingly difficult to find. Wonder if you can still buy it. It came in a slab with orange waxed paper iirc.

My mum used Gold.

I used to get dripping because " it's good for you"

Oh yes remember Cheddarie cheese spread, never got it at home though, had Shipphams salmon paste for butties. Also remember Ayds slimming sweets, they had to rename them when Aids became a problem because the ad said 'Get Ayds, lose weight'.

Stork on butties - check
Dripping on toast - check
Chips fried in lard instead of oil - check

Somebody pass me the artery defluffer - quick

I still buy Stork, I obviously became immune to the taste as my mum bought nothing else the whole time I lived at home.

Boxing day breakfast has to be hot toast with turkey dripping - a scraping of the fat first and then the yummy scrummy stocky bits from underneath. It's part of Christmas dh and the ils think it's utterly disgusting. Washes down well with a glass of sherry to give me strength to deal with MIL for another day!!

We used stork, everything was fried in lard (and I mean everything gulp) icing was stork and my dad used powdered milk in coffee and custard

Oh the heady 70's early 80's and my mum wondered why i had my cholesterol checked at 20 rofl

Blue Band margerine was what we had in our house.
I love dripping on toast! And sugar or hundreds and thousands sandwiches (which were a delicious rarity in my chilhood).

Does anyone remember a packet orange juice type mix called 'rise and shine'? It doesn't sound promising but I recall it being absolutely lovely. I wonder if it would still taste as nice if I had it now?
I have nimble sandwiches every lunch time, I think it's an aquired taste; once you get used to it, other bread tastes all stodgy and stale.

It was a bit gritty IIRC ToThe, but v orangey.

we had the big 2 litre tubs of Kraft.

i don't think i ate butter until i was 14, or at least, not at home.

Why isn't margarine sold any more?

or is it just repackaged as something else?

We had stork in our house, I was an 80's/90's kid. Then when "I can't believe it's not butter (but I can cos it tastes like dog shit)" came out my Mum switched to this.

I remember rise & shine. It was like mixing rainbow crystals with water.

Gold was vile and had the slightest hint of dairylea about it.

margarine is just a term for a non-dairy vegetable based spread isn;t it - they just don't call themselves margarine anymore. I think all UK spreads have removed hydrogenated fats too

Oi Kewcumber - there's nothing wrong with Dairylea, it's a staple in this house.

And Farside - my god, I LOVED Rise n Shine. Would even dip my finger in it and lick the powder. My tastebuds are going into overdrive even just thinking about it. And my eye is twitching slightly too...

that's sort of what i thought thanks kew

i can't believe its not butter etc do taste better than the water & veg oil spread of my childhood. though not a patch n butter.