Foods your children eat daily that you NEVER had as a child

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As I watched DS(3) gorging himself on blueberries, crabcakes and houmous (yes. On the crabcakes) for his tea, I realised that I never saw a blueberry until I was at least 18. Likewise, despite growing up beside the sea, I never had crab in cakes or otherwise, or houmous.

Now I'm watching Back in Time for Tea, and feeling like a museum piece.

When did we start taking this stuff for granted?!

curry that dosent come out of a vesta box
strawberries other than summer,
Pasta that isnt plain spaghetti
passata
feta cheese
patrami
chirizo
basically most food that is not english in origin as when i was a child supermarkets were very new and carried a limited range of products and people didnt travel that much, we only went to belgium, france and ireland before my dad died when i was nine, so we were brought up on very traditional english food by my mom

Tawdry , I also remember a rancid bottle of olive oil in the medicine cabinet that was brought out when we had earache which I often had unfortunately.
We never had any juice and I honestly can only remember drinking tap water , milk or tea .At Christmas we got a crate of lemonade just for us three kids , absolute heaven.
We didn't have salamis, and different sorts of sausage ie serrano , parma ham etc which is a staple part of my kids diet living in Germany.
My first olive I ate on a plane at 8 years of age thinking it was a grape, didn't eat them for years after that.

Fruit and vegetables

Schnubbins, I did the same thing with an olive at a family party aged 5/6 and also didn’t touch them until I was at least 20.

How did people never have cherries and blueberries? They grow here ! We had a cherry tree but the greengrocer sold cherries, and avocados ( late 70s/80s).
We also had real bagels from the Jewish deli.
I can't think if anything dc has that I didn't actually! ( and we were pretty poor).
Oh, no, I can - rabbit! They used to hang outside the green grocer, and you could choose one and he would take it in the back and skin it for you. I never see rabbit anymore.

We were a meat and two veg or sandwiches/spaghetti hoops/tomato soup family. Mother made lots of puddings, often boiled sponges with evaporated milk. I also loved banana in evaporated milk.

Dd eats far more variety:
Mangoes
Greek yoghurt
Garlic
Peppers
Pineapple
Blueberries
Dark chocolate
Cheerios/coco pops
Brioche
Salted nut bars
Pepperami
Honey
Nutella
Pasta
Sparkling water
Salami
Parma ham
Broccoli
Precooked chicken drumsticks
Curry

Hang on, that's the wrong way round! Doh!

The blueberry was heard of but not seen in Ireland prior to the 1990s. We did have the odd fraochán (wild bilberry) but they are much smaller and sharper. Cherries were obviously heard of, but also not seen in un-glacéed form until about the same time.

we had cherries because they wernt expensive in season but never had blueberries till i was an adult , my mom didnt have a lot of money so we had things like corned beef hash, oxtails, pigs trotters, liver and bacon, egg and bacon flan mince beef stew, cottage pie, our treat was when the corona man came round each week and we had four bottles of fizzy pop between the two of us to last the whole week

I'm 56 and due to continental/Jewish parents had a wider variety than many but the following were absent:

Pizza
Hoummous
Blueberries (violet in Wonka)
Lentils (we never had lentils although did have pearl barley)
Chicken kievs and breaded chicken
Salmon was an absolute luxury
Mexican food wasn't about
Wraps
Sushi
Tortilla chips
Edible yoghurt. It was sour and foul
Cheese cake - we had dense, curranty cheesecake from Kossof's but the American type was unheard of
Ribs
Brown rice and wholewheat pasta (but we had demerara sugar for coffee)
Chicken pieces and breasts

I remember my mother making chicken kiev for a dinner party and buying four chicken to get 8 breasts to make it with. We had loction for weeks afterwards!

...... and oddly brocolli - I have no recollection of brocolli as a child except for purple sprouting from the garden.