I'm so disappointed with my revisited childhood memory

[IJustWantFiveMinutesAlone]

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?

If we are including old movies, I recently watched both Raiders of the Lost Ark and Ghostbusters (original version) and found them both pretty meh. And it's strange because I had seen them a few times before, even if not in a while.

In fact I'd go as far as saying that the female remake of Ghostbusters was actually funnier than the original.

Anyone else invested in @biddybird being reunited with her ice cream love?
Although if it turns out to be crap there will be plenty of people to say 'I told you so'

Mine is tales of the unexpected. I was allowed to watch as a kid and thought it was ace. Watched recently and was pretty rubbish.

@glowfrog In fact I'd go as far as saying that the female remake of Ghostbusters was actually funnier than the original.
Yes!!! Especially with Liam hemsworth

I don't think films like 'romancing the stone' and 'jewel in the Nile' stand the test of time!!

@Pr1mr0se

My claim to fame is that I have been kissed by Dr Who, I especially liked to tell people that when it was Ecclestone and Tennant in the role.

OK so it was John Pertwee and he kissed my hand when I was 5 and he was guest at an event my father organised but it counts, it really counts :o

@FiveFootTwoEyesOfBlue

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).

Tennis cake is something else - it's a very lightly fruited madeira cake type thing with icing. I only know this as it was the only cake my brother could cook so we ate an awful lot of it growing up (my mother hated baking so my brother and I used to make all the cakes in the household).

@Silvercatowner It was on Forces TV.

@IJustWantFiveMinutesAlone Asda do a Feast copy called Chunky Chocolate Lollies (or something like that), and they are really nice, and only £1 for four!

When I first got married, my idea of an evening meal for my husband was Findus Crispy Pancakes with Batchelors Savoury Rice. Thank god I learned to cook properly.
Also - the film Ghost! We persuaded our two daughters to watch it about 3 years ago. Told them what a brilliant film it was. Oh it was dire! The special effects were shockingly amateurish. Shattered my happy memories of it.
As an aside, did anyone watch The Singing Ringing Tree? Weird children’s programme about a small man that lived in a rain cloud, there was a Princess in a walled garden and some huge fish in a pond in the garden?
And another one called Paulus the little Gnome, which my DH tells me is a figment of my imagination, but if it is, how come I can sing the theme tune??

Lemon Bon bons - I remember them bring proper toffee inside the lemon coating but now it’s just horrible chewy stuff with no flavour - yuk’

@MrsToddsShortcut there is zero chance of me clicking on that. The horror.

If we're talking tv, one kids programme that is exactly how I remember it is The Children of Green Knowe. Ok, the special effects are rubbish, but the series itself still feels wonderful, and very true to the books.

@BarkandCheese Thank you so much! I have spent literally years trying to remember the name of this book. My memory of the plot and characters was so hazy that no bookstores could help me figure out what I was looking for. I just hope I’m not as disappointed when I get hold of a copy 😁

@Cam2020 we have a Wimpy where we live, 2 in the city until a few years ago. And they still sell the weird sausage circular sandwich, it’s genuinely really tasty 😋

Butterscotch Angel Delight is still fab........ unless you get the no added sugar version!

Probably your palate has changed though. I can't stand a lot of the sweet stuff I liked as a kid now.

@Jigsawpuzzles looks like I'll be going to Wimpy to try that then!

The Just William books. I loved having the stories read to me as a child. I bought the set to read to my DCs. I don't think I got through the first chapter, let alone the first book. So dull!

I adore Talkingpictures, they preface 1970/80s programmes with a screen saying " this show was made in 19XX and contains views and language that might be considered offensive today" HAHA, if you're offended by the 1970/80s you shouldn't be watching Takingpictures, PS Never liked Fawlty Towers but I don't think the BBC should ban episodes

Sapphire and Steele program is on Forces TV - funnily enough managed to come across it on Tuesday - it was the train station 11/11/11 one. It lasted about 11 minutes too before I switched off.

The scary ITV program, I still can't listen to saxophones without being freaked out, even Jerry Rafferty's Baker Street. The episode with the potters kiln still gives me shudders.

Sandwich spread tastes the same to me as does Westlers Gravy beef burgers in a tin. I have 2 tins in the cupboard in case of famine/lockdown/nostalgia. Along with PEK chopped pork FABULOUS!

I used to rave on to my children about Puff n Stuff, we finally sat down to watch it... no longer my happy place. Oddly enough, 'Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging' was my DD2s happy place. She recently rewatched it and binned the DVD she couldn't stand it anymore.

Nearly forgot, Paulus the Little Gnome really was a program. I remember it because my little brother is called Paul too, he LOVED me singing the theme tune to him.

@biddybird

On that subject, I once (approx 22 yrs ago) had a chocolate and cherry ice cream that I remember as being the most divine thing I had ever tasted. It was a major UK supermarket brand, possibly Somerfield or Asda (somewhere I don't usually shop). Does anyone remember this? If so pleeeeease tell me what it is/was so I may seek it out again!

Stay away from the Ben and Jerry's version, there was 1 cherry in the entire tub 😟

MrsOrMiss, you’ve made my Saturday, Thankyou!! Maybe we could go on Britain’s got Talent and do a duet!!
I think we were possibly the only two children in the 70’s watching the show though??!

It’s interesting to note the different pace between tv now and in the 70s/80s. We’ve recorded Sapphire and Steel, only seen the first few minutes which was incredibly slow paced! Lots of views of clocks, a child doing homework, a baby. Now there would be lots more noise and whooshy visuals. No wonder we have such short attention spans! Same for kids programmes, in the past it was slow paced (and a bit patronisingly middle class) but actually it did encourage you to stay still and listen. And possibly spark off an interest in something.

Re the crystal maze post above, someone was disappointed that it wasn’t real time - the actual winning or losing of the game was real but they would make you go back in to re-do bits to get the camera angle (I was in the 1992 series). You’d do your game, re-shoot any bits they wanted, then run to the next place where they’d cut and send you back to the portakabin while they put the next game in place and get cameras ready

Do you think Proust ever ate a Madeleine and thought, “nah, not how I remembered it at all”?!