To ask for your nostalgic rubbish food?

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At primary school, we sometimes used to have "cheese puffs" for dinner. I'm fairly certain they were just puff pastry and cheese but I can't replicate them. They were kind of like a cross between cake and a Yorkshire pudding inside, and looked like a scone.

Cant find a recipe that looks right on google. I'm aware they have no nutritional value but I really want to taste these again. Anyone else have a silly childhood food like this?

(And if you know what I'm talking about and have the recipe I'd be eternally grateful )

@twominutesmore

Also Vespa/vesta (can't remember) ready meals. The curry had what were essentially Quavers sprinkled on top. Loved them.

Vesta curry, yes! And the noodles came flat and had to be heated in hot oil to create the "quavers" effect. We always had ours with lashings of mango chutney as well!

Vesta paella - I still remember the flavour of that and wish I could re-create it. I can't :(

Findus crispy pancakes were indeed crap but filled a hole so nicely!

Angel delight - I can still buy that in the international shop in Australia - but my kids don't like it!

Rice pudding and jam - also can still get that, but I can never find the right "red jam" or "purple jam" that we used to get at school, so it never tastes quite right!

I loved the Heinz tinned puddings, especially with sterilised cream also from a tin (not condensed milk or Carnation, definitely sterilised cream).

Does anyone remember cook-from-frozen pig-shaped pork ‘nugget’ type things? They were quite small, flattish and covered in breadcrumbs.

I remember the Rise and Shine powdered orange juice that a PP mentioned too. Wasn’t there something similar called Birds Apeel [sic] too?

'Week-End' chocolate selection box we took to Granny on Sunday.

Bernard Matthews turkey drummers, instant noodles. Pot noodles with bread dipped in.

Oh and Golden Nugget cereal! Honey flavoured crunchy golden rocks - they did bring a version of it back a few years later but they weren't as good, and were much smaller.

@Anystarinthesky

'Week-End' chocolate selection box we took to Granny on Sunday.

Oh, goodness, 'Weekend' chocolates were the epitome of unattainable sophistication for me in the 70s. There were green ones!

@EmmaH2022 I remember an ad for it "birdseye super mousse it's got peach flavoured mousse and cream flavoured mousse and peach sauce running all over it"

I loved Kunzle cakes or Showboats as they were also known. Chocolate shell with sponge and buttercream!

Heinz Coronation Chicken jars of sauce. My god they were good.

Lakeland Creameries banana yoghurts....never had anything close since

Does anyone remember the chocolate spread that Cadbury's did in the 80's - it came in a margarine style plastic tub (round), the chocolate spread wasn't thick like Nutella nor did it have any hint of hazelnut. More like a honey or golden syrup consistency and really dark and chocolatey- spread on a thick white slice - it was amazing! God knows why they stopped doing it, Nutella as lovely as it is, is no substitute

Vesta Chicken supreme

A gloopy liquid in a tin that you mixed with milk called Sweetheart. Bob Monkhouse advertised it.

Omg I remember those cheese puffs, but we called them whirls, it's like a cheese pasty but whirly

ET Coca Cola flavoured custard creams which were green and brown and were brought out to promote the film

Sainsburys 'Breakfast slices' like a thick bacon rasher made up of all kinds of meaty gubbins mashed up and moulded together - my Mum used to slice them up and put them on top of frozen pizza

Mighty White and Champion bread

Gino Ginelli ice cream #Gino, oh Gino Ginelli#

Bags of crisps that were shaped like bones and fangs - can't remember what they were called

Red Mountain coffee - with the advert where the women made 'coffee percolator' noises in the kitchen so her post guests wouldn't realise she was giving them instant coffee

Cherryade and the original lucozade with foil around the top that you only ever had if you were really poorly and only in a tiny tiny glass

Double agents - boiled sweets with chocolate in the centre

Golden Churn marge/butter which became Golden Crown when the decided that the churn shaped lids were too complicated to make

Dream Topping and the Birds Trifle kits with a tiny sachet of hundreds and thousands

@Jouleigh / @MotherMole / @MrsMalcolm I’m so happy others remember it! I really thought I was suffering from the Mandela effect

Vesta beef curry, was always my Friday night tea I cooked myself when I was at school, I added a chopped tomato & bit of onion, always tasted gorgeous. When I think of it now it was really rubbish & full of additives.

@Smokeahontas

Baked Beans pizza! No one else ever remembers this :(

I do! And the baked bean cottage pie was delicious

Black pudding...until I was duly informed as a teenager what it was...never again!

@KurtWilde

Toast toppers Sandwich spread Findus crispy pancakes Potato puffs Piglets Nutty bar Sara Lee double chocolate gateaux Romantica (anyone remember that?)

Piglets!!!!!!

I'd forgotten about them - AMAZING!!!!!

I remember the Heinz Baked Bean pizza.

I like pizza.

I like baked beans.

I didn't like the Heinz Baked Bean pizza .

Does anyone remember a luminous green cordial? It was tropical flavoured, I think. My mum would dilute it and send me a cup in my lunch box every day. It would always leak, but it was delicious.

Pigs in Blankets, we call them here. Hot dogs or sausages wrapped in a biscuit, then baked. SO easy, and GOOD. I may have to make some this week.

Specials from the ice cream man, a cornet with Mr whippy ice cream & a cider lolly stuffed in it.
Gobstoppers from the machine outside the paper shop.
Space dust, the rumour was that someone had eaten 5 packs & their stomach had exploded.

Saucy sponges in the 1980’s, chocolate or lemon I remember. The sponge was made up by adding milk I think then put in the oven. The sauce was a powder that you added boiling water too. Had them for dessert on Sunday. Yum!

@GiveUsACoffee I remember that, the one we had came from the co-op was really sweet and delicious.

The thing I miss the most is birds hot crunch puddings. There was two packets in the box- a flavoured custard mix and a crunchy crumble type topping. The only problem was waiting for it to cool, burnt tongues all round!

@MissyB1

Cakes from our local bakers when I was a kid, rum flavoured truffle thing. It was chocolate and rum flavoured, soft and squidgy, covered in chocolate sprinkles. Haven’t seen them in years.

I'm pretty sure that cooplands bakery does them at Xmas time. With a little crunchy icing Holly leaf on top