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 )

@farley123

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

Sainsburys make a breakfast sausage which is similar

Toast Toppers
Bitza Pizza crisps
Piglet crisps
French Bread Pizza
Highland Toffee (in a foil trough)

Angel delight
Brains faggots
Strawberry shoelaces
Space raiders picked onion
Panda pop

One thing I remember that no one else seems to is individual frozen peach Melba

YES!! I do.

Fox’s classics bars were lovely.

My one that no one remembers were lollies with a sort of jelly bit, and the name was vaguely related to elephants I think. Anyone?!

@Kingsruby

Sara Lee double chocolate gateau

My Mother always saved me the plastic cover to lick 😋

@Brigante9

At primary, we had lumps of iced cake with pink custard. Just the best.

Wasn’t it just the best cake ever 😋

DM used to make lemon meringue pie from a "kit" when we were kids. The lemon bit was made from a kind of yellow bean that melted down into a curd. I think you had to add water or milk. I remember watching the bean dissolve in the pan. Does anyone else remember this?

@EmmaH2022

There was something called supermousse when I was little. I think it was stored in the freezer. No one seems to remember it. I think we had it once or twice, I loved it, my dad looked at the E numbers and decided not to buy it again!

Did they come in little individual plastic pots? The ones I’m thinking of used to be in packs of about 10. Not sure if they were meant to be defrosted first but I could never wait

@rc22

Angel Delight Wham bars Highland toffee - can you still buy that north of the border? Has it just disappeared here in England? Ice magic - chocolate sauce that you put on your ice cream that then set

Those little Highland Toffee bars were lovely. The wrapper would always stick to the toffee, it was so satisfying peeling it off

Wibbly Wobbly Wonders had a jelly bit at the top under the chocolate.

Arctic roll

YYY to Wibbly Wobbly Wonders. They were the best.

Probably a long shot but does anyone remember those snack about the size of a packet of crisps. They were like little pizzas or pizza slices? They were quite herby and did taste a bit like pizza from what I can remember. Bits ‘a’ Pizza or something??? Was always a nice surprise to get a packet of those in my My Little Pony lunch box in the 80’s. Had the matching flask which always contained weak orange squash

Why has nobody mentioned Drifters!

A Vesta Paella was my treat to myself when I was an exceedingly skint student.

Heinz Sandwich spread on sliced white bread. About once a year I buy a jar and scoff it within 24 hours.

Spira
Supermousse
3D Doritos
Mignons Morceaux
Mr Brain’s faggots although these days I prefer proper ones from the farm shop hot counter
And these mini cottage loaves you used to be able to get from Braggs (before it was Greggs) that you could split into two parts and make a sandwich with. Corned beef was my favourite.

Birds Eye Chicken Supreme - boil in the bag or microwave.

@SmallGreenStripes

Why has nobody mentioned Drifters!

I loved Drifters! Haven't seen them for years.

Blimey, so many memories are being triggered by this thread, but I just came on to say that I well remember the chocolate rum balls covered in vermicelli from my days with a holiday/Saturday job in a bakery. The hard truth is that these delicious cakes were a nifty way for the baker to use up all the leftover sponge cake, which was converted into crumbs for the chocolate rum balls. Still gorgeous, though.

I found a recipe that recreates them, if anyone's interested...

@Lizzy1980 Yes! "I'm in pieces for Bitza Pizza" was the jingle

@foreverlove

Chocolate Lovelys.

Those are the ones a pp was trying to remember the name of! Not a mousse, more of a thick gooey melted chocolate thingy with fresh cream rosettes on top! Been racking my brain for the name!

If anyone wants to recreate the school dinner cheese pie and/or school dinner bakes, there's a Be-Ro cookbook Facebook group which published quite a lot of them.

Ski yoghurts were the first yoghurts I ever had, my Mum bought a load from the supermarket and I remember her giving one to all the neighbours to try and everyone went mad for the black cherry. Also remember the M&S almond and apricot ones mentioned above.

Terry's Neapolitans had to be in my Christmas stocking, along with a chocolate orange. Cadburys also did a little rectangular box of their dairy milk in miniature Neapolitan format.

M&S ready meals (which cost 49p at the time) were a Friday teatime treat at university. There was a lovely broccoli bake thing- sounds foul but it was cheesy and tomatoey. Also the crisp bakes. For the first term of university I lived on Findus French bread pizza because I didn't know how to cook anything else.

I've remembered Freaky Feet yoghurts, I think they were called that? The pots had feet. And Munch Bunch yoghurt.
When we used to visit my dad's mother in Mansfield there was a bakery called Don Miller's and they did the nicest jam doughnuts I've ever had in my life.

Potato Puffs
Spam fritters

@scurryfunger

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

Yes! I had it in the 60's too. Loved it on a soft crust of bread with a glass of milk. I don't understand the need for nutty milk chocolate spread.

Chesswood creamed mushrooms
Toast toppers