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.

Egg mashed in a cup and toast
Square sausage and potato cakes
Mother's Pride in paper wrapping
Mince n tatties
Cremola Foam
Chips cooked in a chip pan
A fry up with a cup of tea on a Saturday afternoon while listening to the football results coming in with my Dad.

Yep, I'm aware my diet doesn't sound like it was the best but my god I was happy!!

Cheesy mash.
Mash and ham and lettuce- I used to make a weird wrap with the ham and put the mash and lettuce in the middle.
Pasta with beans and cheese.
Those jelly sweets you got in strips from Woolies. They had a really greasy texture but I miss them so much. (veggie stuff is not the same!)

I was desperate to try those birds puddings - the advert said "just whistle" (like a kettle, you added boiling water) and they had a crunchy topping, but my DM would never ever buy them. Did anyone ever try them?

Pineapple Rock, cola cubes and my absolute favourites, salt and vinegar super crunchies and cheese snaps!!!!

I wish I could time travel!

The internet tells me they were called birds instant hot crunch pudding, and they came in lemon, banana or chocolate.

Damn you, healthy eating mother. Damn you. I ended up fat anyway 😭

Oh yeah buying 1/4s of pear drops, rhubarb and custard etc from the shop. I realise you can still do this in some places but I generally don't.

Remember the massive boxes of chocolates with pictures on the front of kittens, thatched cottages and vases of flowers etc?

Wagon wheels

Yes I remember those instant hot crunch puddings! Loved them!
Pink mash is another, mix tomato sauce into mashed potato to make it pink! Bliss

Mint Ice Magic

Feast ice lollies

10p mix!

Spam fritters (I recently discovered them again at Morrisons )

Sherbet dip dab

Puddings with "tip top"

Luncheon meat in a tin. And tongue.

After Eights. Always a Christmas treat when I was a kid. Now you can get them in the pound shop. Going to just buy some next time I'm in.

In a bad way - school spam fritters!

In a good way - my mum's sherry trifle at Christmas!

Caramel slice and custard from school lunches

Yellow lemonade which we only had on our annual trips to the lakes. My mum's roast dinners and lasagne - they were the best

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Fiend ish feet
Supermousse
Beans
Mr Kipling apple pies
Potato waffles
Weetabix
Semolina

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Birds Sherry trifle at Christmas.

Primary school pink custard and semolina (seperately, not both together).

Cheese and onion Ringo's.

Being able to get a bag of sweets for like 2p........God I'm old 😂

Semolina, or tapioca with a dod of jam

Dairylea triangles and steamed pudding with currants that my Gran made and Cream Soda to drink also thunder and lightning cake

I am my DC have eaten most of these things!!!!!

Butterscotch angel delight was a favourite along blancmange and all milk puddings(tapioca,rice etc)with dollop jam my DC draw line at the jam for some reason!>stewed rhubarb and custard. Crumble

Corned beef sandwiches
Salmon and shrimp paste sandwiches
Tomato mash(ketchup and mash really) and sausages

Cream soda
Those crisps with salt in the blue bags
Pacers(spearmint chews)
Mojo's
Cola/pineapple cubes

Ah.such simple happy days

Vesta chow mein

Proper long twiglets that came in boxes

Anything eaten by light of oil-lamp (3 day week and rice pudding straight from the tin)

And junket.

Can you still get junket?