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Aibu to ask you what weird and wonderful food/drinks you remember from your childhood?

332 replies

DannyOD · 26/03/2021 10:26

Mine are :-

Kellogg’s Rise and Shine, a very strange powdered juice drink that we had on special occasions’ instead of actual juice.

Vesta ready meals, particularly the Chow Mein which had crispy noodles on top.

Toast Toppers - weird sludge resembling baby food.

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PissTestRightNowDaniella · 26/03/2021 10:27

There was an alternative to Ruse N Shine called Apeel that we used to have now and again as a special treat with breakfast.

Remember 5 pints dried milk?

DipSwimSwoosh · 26/03/2021 10:30

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BriarsHollow · 26/03/2021 10:30

I used to love Fiendish Feet yoghurts.

Aibu to ask you what weird and wonderful food/drinks you remember from your childhood?
DannyOD · 26/03/2021 10:30

Oh yes I do remember Apeel now!! Why was it considered so posh as to be only used for special occasions?!

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Sillysandy · 26/03/2021 10:32

Gammon steak with tinned pineapple rings on top

KatherineJaneway · 26/03/2021 10:33

Remember 5 pints dried milk?

Yes, we used to use that. Awful stuff when I think back on it now.

passengers · 26/03/2021 10:34

American cream soda and dandelion and burdock

Sooverthemill · 26/03/2021 10:35

We had findus frozen mouse for a special treat. My parents got their first fridge in 1967 and their first freezer in 1971. Trios to the freezer shop were awesome!

Vesta meals were so posh. We had spam fritters occasionally. We had some kind of toast topper moosh when on holiday which you got out of a tin spread on toast and retoasted. My mum didn't really 'cook', her mum was a cook for a catering company and she hated it. My granny used to give us sugar sandwiches on white bread. Heaven. And if we had any lettuce ) rarely mum didn't do fruit or veg unless in a tin or frozen) then it was sprinkled with sarsons vinegar and white sugar. I dream about that still! I was born in 1958 and my family were very low income

Beamur · 26/03/2021 10:37

I remember the powdered juice. Oddly tasty.
Tinned cream
Frozen superwhip desserts
I loved toast toppers
Crispy pancakes
Tinned potato salad

I used to spend a lot of time with my grandparents who were food hoarders - hence tinned everything.

DaughterOfEvening · 26/03/2021 10:38

A pea-green, opaque, slightly fizzy soft drink called Quattro. It was sold in two litre bottles and my sister and I would down the lot on a Friday (shopping day) afternoon when we came home from school. If I’m remembering correctly it was subsequently banned. Or so my Mum told me.

Mintjulia · 26/03/2021 10:38

Butterscotch Angel Delight Smile

MrsTulipTattsyrup · 26/03/2021 10:40

Haunted House ice lollies. They were, I suppose, milk based because they were white, and had a transfer of a scary thing on them in black - skeleton, witch etc. They must have been around for a few years in the mid-70s.

DannyOD · 26/03/2021 10:40

It WAS oddly tasty @Beamur!! Ooh remembered some more minted tinned new potatoes and Frey Bentos pies.

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PissTestRightNowDaniella · 26/03/2021 10:41

@DaughterOfEvening

A pea-green, opaque, slightly fizzy soft drink called Quattro. It was sold in two litre bottles and my sister and I would down the lot on a Friday (shopping day) afternoon when we came home from school. If I’m remembering correctly it was subsequently banned. Or so my Mum told me.
Oh god Quattro...... I loved that stuff. Did it really get banned?
Tangledtresses · 26/03/2021 10:41

Sun quick squash

MrsBungle · 26/03/2021 10:42

I still have gammon with pineapple on top! Gin I loved fiendish feet.

Cremola Foam! Remember that? It reminded me of the horrible thread worms medicine Grin

MrsBungle · 26/03/2021 10:43

That gin was supposed to be a grin!

TheHelpfulHiker · 26/03/2021 10:48

Oh yes I remember Fiendish Feet and Toast Toppers with their vomit like texture.
I'll add sandwich spread (equally vomit like), paste sandwiches and our family weekend tea of ham, cheese and pineapple on toast.
Also, does anyone remember Looney Toons crisps? They had pictures of the characters on the actual crisps (unless I dreamt it, no-one else seems to remember this from the 90s)

HarkAVagrant · 26/03/2021 10:50

Bacon burgers, as in a burger made out of bacon, not a burger with bacon on top. We used to have them all the time, you don't seem to be able to get them any more. The salt and nitrate content was probably through the roof.
Also I am sure beef sausages used to be more of a thing. I can remember it being a discussion whenever we got sausages "Shall we have pork or beef? Gran prefers beef but we like pork.."

Beamur · 26/03/2021 10:51

Haunted house lollies! That's a blast from the past.
Hell yes to Quattro too!
It's amazing I have any teeth left after growing up in the 70's/80's

FoxyTheFox · 26/03/2021 10:51

Neon blue Kia-ora, I think it was tropical flavour? We used to swig it neat from the bottle when mum wasn't looking.

Toast toppers.

Flavoured Micro-chips, there was a cheese and onion one and a smokey bacon one.

Ninja Turtle pizzas in the shape of a ninja turtle foot. There was a ham and marshmallow flavour and a pepperoni and apple flavour.

Fiendish Feet yoghurts but also Onky Blocks which was a yoghurt inside a Duplo shaped pot, you could wash them out and then build with them.

I can't remember it's name but there was a pudding that you made from a box. It was like a cross between hot Angel Delight and custard with a crunchy crumble topping sprinkled onto it. Also boxed cheesecake kit, always lemon flavour and you never got enough biscuit to cover the base of the tin.

My nana used to make us sugar sandwiches too, also ketchup sandwiches.

Vesta Chow Mein was usually a Saturday tea, we only liked the crispy bits and would try to leave as much of the vegetable-noodle mush as possible.

Secret bars, they looked like a shredded wheat but made of chocolate and had chocolate mousse inside.

Sky bars from the ice cream van that were a choc ice with a bubbly aero-type chocolate bar inside. Mr T ice lollies, it was a lime green bust of Mr T.

BrownEyedGirl80 · 26/03/2021 10:53

Um Bongo fruit drink and Vesta beef risotto and paella

skirk64 · 26/03/2021 10:54

Tesco's potato triangles. Other supermarkets did own brand versions too. Basically imagine a triangle with rounded corners, more or less a sixth of a circle. With a lot of salt.

They always seemed to come in 100g bags whichever supermarket was selling them. They disappeared for a while but came back for a few years (with less salt). Not seen them for a very long time though.

UseOfWeapons · 26/03/2021 10:54

Cremola Foam, it was supposed to be a substitute for for fizzy drinks, but came in a tin, one spoonful of the crystals per glass. Wasn’t really fizzy, and didn’t taste good, but my friend’s mum used to give it to us for picnics.

FatCatThinCat · 26/03/2021 10:54

Golden syrup sandwiches and boil in the bag curries.

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