To need 5 minutes peace from politics

[Sunshinegirls]

I'm saturated. So here's a lighthearted thread.
What food takes you right back to being a kid?
Mine might be salad cream sandwiches on cheap white bread! Yum.

glitterglitters you can buy the little individual chocolate custard tubs in most supermarkets.

These or these

Hear hear lovely thread!! Salad sandwiches on picnics. We used to walk up one of the glens to a waterfall and have a little ribena in the bottom of the bottle so it wasn't too heavy to carry and full it up with river water to dilute it, bliss! Happy days.

Do Spangles count as food?

And my mum used to buy some kind of cake mix (no idea what it was) and bake it over stewed apples, it was known in our house as apple sponge. It was the most gorgeous thing ever.

Plain sponge cake ( must be circle shaped) with bright pink icing and sprinkles ( 100s & 1000s) just like my grandma use to make, I have never forgotten the taste and no matter how I try I can not make a cake taste that way.

Marmite sandwich.

Grated cheese and tomato sauce toasted sandwiches, yum

Salmon paste sandwiches. Mushroom toastie toppers. Frey bentos steak pie.

Toastie toppers! They were amazing!

@Justmuddlingalong my dh banged on and on about toast toppers and when we bought our house his mum did us a care package food shop with them in.

I hated them! ☹️

Kraft Cheesy pasta. Serves 2-3 my arse!

glitterglitters Ambrosia do chocolate custard in little pots

Oooh and Pasta n Sauce. Nom nom nom
Nom

Thank you for the chocolate custard suggestions. Dh is pissed off as he's being sent to the shop now muhahahahahaha!

Ulster fry, cheese pasties (I can remember when they were first sold frozen in Iceland in the 70's) and Angel Delight.

Sadly Pineapple Chunks and Cola cubes aren't what they were, but aniseed balls haven't changed.

I still eat half of these to be fair

Oooh and findus crispy pancakes and mini kievs.

Coke with vanilla icecream floating in it. The height of 80s childhood sophistication!

Butterscotch Angel Delight. Sadly it exceeds my body's milk tolerance threshold these days.

Blancmange. And yes, I did have to spell check.

I had to spell check it to. It literally translates as eat white?!

*too

OH yes somewhat we used to call them a Coke float! They were fab!

Super noodles with grated cheese and tuna.

Chocolate cake with mint custard, never had that anywhere but primary school or am I imagining it?

"Cowboy hash" and mash.
From memory the recipe is fried onion and mince, a tin of sweetcorn, a tin of baked beans, a tin of oxtail soup.
I must try making it as I remember it being delicious. It's probably actually gross.

How could we forget cremola foam? And I can remember being wee enough to sit in the shopping trolley seat, eating a packet of Iced Gems to keep me amused.

The chocolate sauce that hardens is called magic shell and you can still get it I think.

Vesta meals, in the black box. That was my introduction to paella.