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.

My DF used to have a job putting the bags of salt in crisp packets when he was young!

You can still get them.

Remember in the 80's they did a stint of "flavour and shake", where you got a packet of flavouring instead of salt? I never got to try those either, but other kids at school did

Sterilised milk and omg yes findus crispy anything.

Nesquik

Instant transportation to childhood -
findus crispy pancakes
banana sandwiches
butter on weetabix sometimes instead of milk
Viennetta
Angel delight (the butterscotch one!) yum
Vesta curries (they were ace. Are they still around?! )
Forgot all about Ice Magic! OMG. Used to have that on icecream when we went to the grandparents - truly thought it was magic!

Cheese n onion pasty from greggs
Frey bentos pies

Ooo and cream soda from the pop man who came round in his van!
Bring back the pop van!!

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

No you're not imagining it, we used to have it too! Chocolate crunch with mint custard. Absolutely amazing.
Found the recipes for them both on Pinterest and recreated them a while back - just as amazing as I remembered them!

Maynards milk gums
Sponge flan with tinned fruit on it and Quickgel over the top
Jelly topped with angel delight
Supermousse
Findus crispy pancakes
Minced beef and onions in gravy

foxsticks Dent's Lemonade? Also purveyors of Dandelion & Burdock!

Oh and Might White bread - it was so good!

We used to have chocolate concrete at school? Anyone else?

Instant mash before you add the water so eating the dried stuff! Why?

Frey bentos pie

Tinned fruit and carnation cream

Tins mixed veg

Gypsy tart.

I'm sure I remember chocolate concrete - I am going to go and google to see if I can get a recipe.

Great thread!
Strawberry jam or fish paste sandwiches on white mothers pride bread
Arctic roll
Cola floats
Birdseye beefburgers with birdseye potato waffles
Banana angel delight
KP salt and vinegar crisps
Yorkie bar
Fry's chocolate cream
Cola cubes
Strawberry fizz bombs
Spangles

Chocolate concrete cake recipe.

Screwballs, is that what they were called? Ice cream in a plastic cone with a bubble gum at the bottom.

Boil in the bag cod slice with parsley sauce. Though this one is a bad memory.

Chip butties 😋

Haven't had one in years, mind

Fish and chips played a huge party of my childhood. It was the first British meal I ever had when we first arrived in the country - we picked it up on the way back from the airport - and then every Saturday night was the same:
Football pools (during which you dared not move!), then Basil Brush, Generation Game, 2 Ronnies and fish and chips for tea!

Bananas and custard cold, tastes better than it sounds
Red jelly made in a rabbit mould with a dollop of cream for its tail
"Doorstep" slices of bread toasted in front of the coal fire with proper butter on

Ketchup butties

P.s I can't wait till all the sodding politics thread do one.

Angelic - did you ever have Manchester tart?

Pastry base with jam, then sliced bananas and then topped with custard. It was delicious!

Angelicinnocent, you've just made me remember toasting slices of white bread against the gas fire using a fork. Had totally forgotten about this, great memories!

Bloody hell yes gypsie tart!

Tinned prunes

Um bongo

Potted meat sandwiches

And the sweets in the 70s'

4 half penny chews and if you were rich a 2p fruit salad and gob stoppers. Oh Kali and liquorice dip

And the sweets in the 70s'

4 half penny chews and if you were rich a 2p fruit salad and gob stoppers. Oh Kali and liquorice dip

I remember getting some Winter Mixture and Aniseed twists from the sweet shop and my dad telling me they used to be his favourites.

I was so surprised: I could just about accept that he was once a little boy, but surely they never had our sweets in those days?!!