I'm so disappointed with my revisited childhood memory

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I bought some piccalilli in last week and I had this memory of having corned beef sandwiches and piccalilli as a child. In my memory it was the best sandwich ever.
I've just had some as an early lunch and I'm so sad. They weren't good. They weren't awful either but they just weren't what I remembered! I kind of wish I had left it in my memory now
Anyone else disappointed like this?

I tried crispy pancakes with my DCs. We all took a bite then scrapped the rest into the bin. I used to love them as a kid. Have they had the equivalent of a Cadbury’s dairy milk greasy palm oil ruination or was my taste back then simply shite?

I loved Feasts! Where exactly has the chocolate gone in the centre though?! There is a paltry amount now.

Wagon Wheels....I'll leave it there

How can something that was so good end up so bad. Gutted 😞

When I was young, I used to stay over at my Grandads house and he would always make me Faggots and Mushy Peas.

A few years ago (before I stopped eating pork!) I was in the supermarket and spotted faggots and feeling nostalgic I bought some.

Oh my goodness, never again! Some tastes are best left in the past!!!

I recently ordered a large bag of black Jack's and fruit salad sweets from Amazon. Looked original and I looked forward to a trip down memory lane. Were absolutely vile. Texture and taste so different to what I remember 😭

Rosegold yes and I bought a nice one as well and it was still disappointing.

Because your meant to use pickle 😉

Nancy Drew. Loved her as a child, re read one recently and was instantly irritated

And angel delight definitely isn't what it once was!

@troysmummy Goblin tinned hamburgers in gravy. In the 70's we ate them with mashed potato and peas. They were delicious. As an adult absolutely disgusting.
Oh. My. God. Yes. I mean I haven't had them since but I loved those things so much....

My mum used to do baked potatoes, scoop out the potato insides, mix with corned beef and onion, back in the skin, top with cheese and put under the grill. Heaven.
I made them a few weeks ago, first time in around 30 years I've had them and they were utterly vile. An abomination. All pink and soft
@TheGoodDinosaur same except tuna instead of corned beef. Still yummy

Jam roll poly. Used to love it, now it just tastes all suety and greasy

TV one from late 80s - I remember absolutely loving Tutti Fruitti (BBC Scotland production with Emma Thompson and Robbie Coltrane) Was a big hit at time (and career maker for some) and then disappeared for a long time because of copyright issues - now available to buy on Amazon Prime. Gah it was lovely to watch from nostalgic point of view but it jarred re acting, plot and misogyny.

Food wise - Toffee Poppets still got it thankfully - no other chocolate mind

Well I’m sorry I read this thread, as in my soon to be delivered shopping are corned beef, piccalilli and sandwich spread!

I’ve a special soft spot for sandwich spread, because often Mum would meet me on the bus after school, and off we would go to the cinema. She would have brought sandwich spread sandwiches, which we would eat whilst we watched Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Anastasia, Oklahoma!
Such happy carefree days!

You could try making your own. You could give give the authentic Indian version a try (Gobi ka Achaar is amazing).

@BlessYourCottonSocks that episode scared the crap out of me.

Yes to Wagon Wheels and especially Lilt- it’s disgusting these days! DH still loves a bit of sandwich spread, but I didn’t even know it existed until we met.

Also currently pregnant and I now have a craving for yesteryear Findus Crispy Pancakes after reading this!

Ribena. When I was little it was such a huge treat. Very intensely flavoured, and you only needed a little in water.

Now it's thin, you need loads to make it taste of anything and woe betide you if you accidentally buy the sugar free version

On the other hand, I'm rewatching Garth Marenghi's Darkplace for the first time since it was screened (so I guess 2004?) and I've been crying with laughter. I really liked it then but don't remember finding it that hysterically funny . I've even been considering buying the DVD

• and I don't have a DVD player...

@HazelBite It could have been Iceland! I just checked and it appears they don't do it any more… now replaced by such delights as "bubblegum" and "unicorn" flavour.

@Marlena1 I don't think that was it… The one I'm thinking of was chocolate ice cream with a cherry swirl. Plus, I used to regularly shop at Tesco and this one was from a shop that wasn't local to me.

@strugglingwithdeciding Wagon Wheels were huge, and came in various flavours. My favourite was mint, which had a lurid green filling. (This was in the early 1970s.)

Most old films tbh. They take FOREVER to get going. I thought Die Hard was pact but honestly fuck all happens for about 45 minutes.

*pacy

Blessyourcottonsocks
Chimam

Just for you. Took me months to get past this when I was 10.

Rowntrees wine gums, they used to be really hard and lasted ages, now they are just tasteless soft mush. Don’t diss the Hartley in Pipkins he was just greatly misunderstood!

I've got the most revolting corner shop near me, but they seem to specialise in food of my childhood.

I was almost in tears when I found they had mallow ice cream cones WITH SPRINKLES last week. The greatest treat of my childhood.

Christ they were grim.