I just had to- didn't I?

[sharonthewaspandthewineywall]

WIBU to feel so ashamed about buying a Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie I had to use the self serve checkout?

Tinned new potatoes were such a camping treat for us.

I think my brother and I just assumed they were too special and fancy to eat regularly and that's why we only got them on holiday (served with tinned mince and beans).

What about tinned meatballs and hotdog sausages, along with meat paste? (Not all together!) All regulars in my childhood.

at the slimfast and tinned pie in the same basket.

Had I been the checkout operator serving you, I admit I would've judged.

What is meat paste Lapsed?

Is it a downmarket sort of pate?

Very, very down market. It comes in little jars and in fish flavours too. I had it in my school lunch sandwiches 40 years ago, with crisps in the sandwich. A true culinary experience.

We still have meat paste in the little jars! potted dog sarnies we call them!

I've just had salmon paste on buttered squidgy white bread for lunch and so have the dc with some cucumber garnish for that sophisticated touch .

I liked the bloater one. Strong flavour and very salty and the bread does have to be white and squidgy, it's true.

Oh sandwiches with crisps in! I was never allowed those. My mum was a food snob and had eating 'issues'. White bread with butter and marmite and crisps was how it was done in my home country.

I've seen those little pots of paste, now you all mention them. Are they expensive? (Won't be trying any!)

Is a bloater a fish?

This thread is SO educational to a forriner like me.

I am am inverse snob. first time i bought bought smoked salmon i felt i had betrayed my working class roots. thanks to lidl i can eat it all the time though!

I want a Goblin meat pie now.

I don't remember there being goblin meat - just the usual things like chicken or steak.

does anyone still buy sandwhich spread? my dad used to eat it all the time! wonder if its still available?

I remember Goblin tinned burgers- we use to eat them on family holidays as a child.
Oohh FrayBentos pies- that pastry!! Haven't had one in years. I have my reputation to think of now!!

Oh god those tinned burgers - boak.

And those meatballs in gravy. Both suspiciously tasted of dog food.

Loved a FB pie though - it was a treat for us!

And squashy sausage which I think is similar to the jars of sandwich spread.

There was a wonderful twitter feed a while ago from a guy who was the new social media guy for Shipphams Paste. It was a pisstake and so funny. Worth looking up.

As for fish paste and sandwich spread, it's not so different to pate really is it? I'm vegi so I haven't eaten it in years.

#paste

i thought sandwich spread was vegi... like salad cream with chunks!

I've just had salmon paste on buttered squidgy white bread
Oh. My. Gods. You just triggered a memory I didn't even know I had. I can taste it.
And my mum is such a food snob. This knowledge would have come in handy all those years she was protesting about me feeding her precious granddaughter processed meat pies.

My dad used to take sandwich spread sandwiches (on Mother's Pride bread) to work with him in the late 80s. At the age of 3 or 4, I thought that was the most exotic lunch imaginable.

My dad used to take sandwich spread sandwiches (on Mother's Pride bread) to work with him in the late 80s. At the age of 3 or 4, I thought that was the most exotic lunch imaginable.

i thought sandwich spread was vegi... like salad cream with chunks!

Yes. It's paste that is sort of like pate, but with less identifiable ingredients, I think...

I used to love paste on toast as a child, for a winter Sunday tea, but I don't remember having had it for years.