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

[DannyOD]

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.

Spanish Main sweet tobacco. It was grated coconut coloured brown to look like tobacco. With a few sweet cigarettes and a licorice smokers kit, we felt really adult.

VeryQuaintIrene LollyGobbleChoc Bombs which were an amazing treat, with a small bar of chocolate inside the ice cream, plus my mum found it mortifying to ask for something with such a stupid name... one of my earliest memories is my mum turning to me in the shop and saying 'what was it you wanted ' because she was too embarrassed to ask for a 'lolly gobble choc bomb' and I was annoyed she made me say it as I was a small child too shy to talk to the shopkeeper!

@TroysMammy

My DM wouldn't buy us dandelion and Burdock because we would see who could burp the loudest. It didn't work with other fizzy drinks. I now buy it from Home Bargains and am trying to teach my niece how to burp really loudly after drinking it. To her chargrin she can't manage it. I'm truly an awful Auntie.

I remember my mum being horrified when she came to pick me up from brownies and caught the last song.

🎶Coca-cola, Coca-cola,
makes you burp,
make you burp
Have another bottle,
Have another bottle,
Burp, burp, burp.
Burp, burp, burp. 🎶

Ending with the loudest belch you could force out,

Crackawheats?

Back in the 70’s, there was a tinned cream called sterilised (is it impossible to purchase now?) cream. If you put it in the fridge a few hours before opening it, it came out like thick cream. I couldn’t believe I liked it, as I absolutely hated sterilised milk.
I can only see evaporated milk in tins these days.
My mum made jelly from those partway segmented blocks, but part way through setting, she whisked it, so that when it properly set, you could see the bubbles and feel the bubbles in your mouth.
Mum used to make fish cakes when I was a kid, but her special ones were fish cakes made with tinned salmon.
Also back in the 70’s Waitrose deli counter used to sell vegetable terrine...three diff veg, maybe parsnip, swede, & carrot? I miss that.
Btw, I get hungry in the small hours. and quickly knock up a sandwich spread sarnie!
Mmm, I remember malt extract given to me on a spoon as a medicinal thing, but I loved it.
Also definitely medicine was Angiers Junior Aspirin. Mum hid it in a very high cupboard, but if she was out, a stool enabled me to suck one! I also liked those fizzy round tabs that you dropped in water as a next morning hangover cure!.... no I wasn’t an alcoholic kid.lol..
Loved licking the mixing bowl clean when mum made fairy cakes (and the spoon) and I remember getting cross with her if I felt she scraped too much of the mixture into the cake tin.
So many memories food wise from kid days.
😋

My granma used to make the whipped jelly/evaporated milk thing too @Rawmum30, she called it “flummery”.

@ILikeTheWineNotTheLabel

My granma used to make the whipped jelly/evaporated milk thing too *@Rawmum30*, she called it “flummery”.

Milk jellies! Absolutely lovely, like a mousse. There's no reason we can't make that now if we want, it's easy enough. I haven't thought about it for a long time and fancy it now.

@DiptyqueandDiamonds

Crackawheats?

I thought crackawheats!

My mum was also constantly on a diet in the late 80s/90's so the Ryvita, cottage cheese, beetroot was a staple dinner...then crackawheats started appearing (a godsend replacement for ryvita for me, I covered in dairylea, to her horror ).

You can still buy Krackawheats.

My mother's diets always included St Ivel Gold.

Pacers. (Spear?)mint chews (chewy like opal fruits).

Quattro
And these museli biscuit bars with a layer of that fake yoghurt on (ballisto? ) bars.

@HuntingoftheSnark

My mother's diets always included St Ivel Gold.

God that stuff was grim. My Mum was never on a diet but bought it because it was supposedly better for your heart than butter.

@HuntingoftheSnark

My mother's diets always included St Ivel Gold.

Snap! We had stork margarine though, do they still do that!?

@Mydogisagentleman

I was looking at Goblin burgers in a tin ast week while my car was being mended

What kind of vehicular emporium was this ? sounds like a place I visited in South Africa !

Tizer, Sasparella, Dandilion and Burdock (all drinks), Cod Liver Oil and Malt. Sherbert, gobstoppers, lucky bags, scouse (traditional Liverpool dish similar to Irish stew), marzipan

@Rawmum30

Yes! My Mum bought it all the time. And yes you can still get it a tin, its by Nestle and beside the tins evaporated milk.

Tinned cream

Pizza flavoured crisps - Bitsa Pizza I think?
And Walkers Snaps with the dragon on the packet.

Pizza shapes

Loved those

All Aussie stuff

Anyone remember kali? Fizzy sherbet, basically sugar, in different colours and you could buy it by the quarter. I used to get a mixed quarter from the paper shop then walk home to my nan's dipping my fingers in and sooking all the way

Boil in the bag microwave chicken curry from Iceland and also ham and mushrooms carbonara from Iceland. Probably vile now but loved them as teen!

Wobblers yoghurts , Sara Lee pecan danish ,

@HuntingoftheSnark

My mother's diets always included St Ivel Gold.

Mum bought it-once.It was like engine grease.

Cider ice lolly from the ice cream van with a serving of Mr Whippy on it, and strawberry or lime sauce. Also my nan on a Sunday used to go out to the ice cream man with a big bowl and get him to fill it up, she then dished it out to us with sliced bananas, tinned fruit or (best days!) treacle tart we had made that morning!

She also used to soak sliced onions in vinegar and sugar all afternoon before we had dinner if it was a salad night. I loved living with my nan, she was ace.

@VienneseWhirligig

Cider ice lolly from the ice cream van with a serving of Mr Whippy on it, and strawberry or lime sauce. Also my nan on a Sunday used to go out to the ice cream man with a big bowl and get him to fill it up, she then dished it out to us with sliced bananas, tinned fruit or (best days!) treacle tart we had made that morning!

She also used to soak sliced onions in vinegar and sugar all afternoon before we had dinner if it was a salad night. I loved living with my nan, she was ace.

My mum used to send me out to the ice cream van with a bowl!