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've not had crispy pancakes for years. How are they soggy now? Maybe you just need to overcook them to get them crispy?

Tinned garden peas. My mum’s idea of convenience food for lunch on washday was homemade chips, fried eggs and tinned garden peas - absolute heaven! Re-created this meal not long ago. The peas were hirrible!

So many products have changed their ingredients over the years. It’s no wonder things don’t taste the same as we remember them. Angel delight tastes very bland now, so I presume it was packed full of sugar before and...I’m sure the sachets were bigger?!

I loved beef dripping with bits and salt on toast or bread. I can't test this now as I can't afford a beef joint for one. In my childhood , beef was affordable but chicken way too expensive, even at Christmas

Fruit salad sweets
Vesta Chow Mein
Heinz Beans and pork sausages
Starsky and Hutch
The Persuaders

All Very Disappointing

Taste buds change over the years. Your cells are renewed so every 10 years or so you're a completely different person. I never used to like custard but now I love it

Your tastes change and develop as well. I am much more of a savoury person these days. I wouldn't eat as many sweets as I did when I was a kid. I had Brain's Faggots a bit back and they were "meh", rather than the gravilicious goodness I remember

@biddybird Ben and Jerry’s used to do ‘Cherry Garcia’ ice cream, I haven’t seen it for ages. It was amazing!

@namechangenumber204 I totally agree with the Caramac bar they are disgusting! However randomly try the buttons! They are so much nicer 👍

@MyDogPatch

My husband has fond memories of Wimpy as a child. He grew up in poverty but his aunt (who was only about 15 years older) used to take him as a treat.

There is still a Wimpy in Bermondsey South London and he wants to take DD and me to have the experience. Reading this thread I wonder if it's a wise idea.

Oh god no. We had a Wimpy in our town as recently as 10 years ago. Went there once and it was utter shit. Worse than McDonalds. Flat, dry burgers and what tasted like oven chips swimming in grease, followed by sad, flavourless cake that was a little bit frozen in the middle. And I'm no food snob. I occasionally love trashy food but this was awful.

Button Moon was my big disappointment. I was spellbound by it as a kid and remembered it as all sparkly and magical. But it's basically a load of characters made out of bog roll tubes and it looks so crap as an adult!

We are looking to move house and my old childhood home came on the market. It fulfilled all our requirements so we went to look round (before lockdown). It was soooo disappointing and although my parents did not move until I was in my twenties it was so cramped with a tiny garden compared to my exceptionally fond memories. I was stupidly quite upset at what they had done to my house!!!!!

I bought some Battenburg cake for VE day as something old-style for the kids to try. We used to call it 'tennis cake' when I was young and it was a treat to have it at my grandmother's.
It was horrible. None of us really like marzipan, and the cake bit is incredibly sweet (Mr Kipling).

Not childhood exactly: I was 17, went to the cinema with my first ever boyfriend and very unexpectedly saw a French film, Un Homme et Une Femme. It was the most romantic film I had ever seen, even with subtitles. When we came out of the Odeon it had snowed and Blackburn boulevard (yes that's its name) was covered. Cue the most romantic wait for a bus in the snow and then the ride home humming the Michel Legrande theme tune. I even bought the album. Saw the film years later and it was absolute tosh and had attitudes to women that made my hair curl. Anouk Aimee's cardigan was still quite nice though.

@coldwarenigma did you get the right Wagon Wheels? The red packet don’t have jam, the blue ones do. Frankly the blue ones are the only ones worth having

PyongyangKipperbang, it could be worse...I was obsessed with Worzel and Aunt Sally as a 6 year old and my parents ended up going somwhere so that I could have a photo taken with him. I was a bit put out that he was off the TV as I hadn't thought he was real - THAT freaked me out.

I think sadly butter and animal fat has been replaced with palm oil now in lots of products. Really has an impact, salt and sugar content lower. Also we all have become accustomed to spicier food now.

@biddybird could it have been Morrison’s?

@PyongyangKipperbang

Wurzel Gummidge.

I loved it as a kid but didnt make it through the first episode as an adult before it freaked me the fuck out! How the hell I wasnt bloody terrified as a 6 year old (ish) I dont know!

Did you see the new ones with Mackenzie Crook at christmas. They ar won iplayer now and quite good. My young dc enjoyed them and they are scared cats.

@cushioncovers

Artic roll

I used to love Babycham in the 70 ‘S. Tried one a few years ago - less sweet, totally changed flavour.

LOL
Wrong quote 😂

@nevermorelenore Button Moon was my big disappointment. I was spellbound by it as a kid and remembered it as all sparkly and magical. But it's basically a load of characters made out of bog roll tubes and it looks so crap as an adult!

Oh my god yes. I loved it and remembered it so fondly. I watched it with my kids a few years ago and it was so sad. I'm not crafty at all but I could have done better myself!!!

When we were young teens my father would put little bottles of Babycham and Snowball into our Christmas stockings. My sister and I felt SO SOPHISTICATED drinking them (in the Babycham coupe glass.)
He, jokingly, gave us Babycham at Christmas 2019; it was vile! (Still like a Snowball though!)

My DC quite liked “Button Moon” but it definitely doesn’t live up to my childhood memory of it. I’m so glad to say that “Bagpuss”, however, remains utterly enchanting!

Never go back: any memory of childhood will be a disappointment when tried afresh as an adult after x years. Tastes change, products change, the atmosphere is different. If you want to keep the memory, keep it as a memory

As my mother used to say 'Never go back' (although she sometimes succumbed, and was always disappointed, hence, I guess, her advice!)

The early Dr. Who and the Daleks. What tripe it was!