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 )

I must have half a dozen boxes of half-eaten proper luxury chocolates on the shelf, but I would bloody love a lime barrel right now.

Me too!

Sweet tobacco, shredded browny coloured coconut wrapped in red and yellow waxed paper in a rectangle shape and chocolate cigarettes in a packet.

@Sparklydiplodocus

Findus crispy pancakes. They were absolute crap but the ham and cheese ones were so yummy!

I came in to say that!

Also, those ice cream things in transparent plastic cones that had a ball of bubble gum at the bottom and a cardboard lid. Cant remember the name of them.

@Kingsruby

Sara Lee double chocolate gateau

Oh my gosh yes! We used to have one of these after a Chicago Town pizza and oven chips, washed down with Virgin cola and with Gladiators on the TV - Saturday nights have never quite been the same...

@Verv

Screwballs.

You can still buy Heinz Sandwich spread. Pink wafers are still available in Home Bargains, I bought some this morning!! yum.

Spam fritters and Gypsy Tart.

It was the 1970s...

@SingleHandSue french bread pizza was absolutely epic! I used to have one when we got home from the 'big shop' when i was a kid!

Brannigans roast beef and mustard crisps were the best!

There used to be a pre-packaged deli meat, poss Bernard Matthews that was ham or turkey and had a dinosaur shape in the middle? I remember having that in sandwiches when I was at school!
That and spam!

Only other thing that I miss was chips from the chip van, wrapped in newspaper.
I remember there used to be a van round the back of my doctors surgery when I was a really young child.
I had a number of health issues and when Id been poorly and seen a doctor, mum would take me to the chip van and then onto the pharmacy for my prescription where she would but me lucozade.

Butterscotch Angel Delight

Mini milks

M&S chunky chicken in a tin

Oh and Manchester Tart. Set custard on layer of jam on top of pastry. They did it at my school (weirdly not in Manchester) and it was amazing. Never seen it since :(

McVities Harlequin Gateau. A bit like a chocolate and raspberry angel cake, with icing and sprinkles on the top.

@NiceShrubbery

Oh and Manchester Tart. Set custard on layer of jam on top of pastry. They did it at my school (weirdly not in Manchester) and it was amazing. Never seen it since :(

M&S sold a Manchester tart for a short while, a couple of years ago. It was vanilla custard and wasn't a patch on the ones we got for skool dinners, though, which had chocolate custard in.

@NiceShrubbery

Oh and Manchester Tart. Set custard on layer of jam on top of pastry. They did it at my school (weirdly not in Manchester) and it was amazing. Never seen it since :(

Hmmmm. That used to be my favourite dessert.

Sponge with big jugs of pink custard

Thanks for that Fangs. Any M&S food technologists around, who can reinstate M tart GF version? Proper yellow custard though..

Sorry if this has already been said! But Sundog Popcorn (cheese flavour)

I'm sure you used to be able to get a peach flavour blancmange, maybe Browne and Polson. Definitely not the peach Angel Delight.

@NinaDefoe

I’m craving tinned fruit pie filling now!

I used to buy Summer Fruit compote in a carton from M and S, it was wondeful over ice-cream, even better if the compote was slightly warmed, what we called in German Eis Und Heis, ( maybe vice versa, Heis Und Eis).

@NiceShrubbery

Oh and Manchester Tart. Set custard on layer of jam on top of pastry. They did it at my school (weirdly not in Manchester) and it was amazing. Never seen it since :(

I'm sure that it only ever existed in school canteens!

@Pirrip1868

Cider lollies from the ice cream van outside the school gate.

Loved those but had to go into a shop, no vans around school in the early 60s. In the 50s we were one of the first families in our avenue to have a fridge, Mum used to make Vimto lollies, marvellous! Reading this post, I wonder how many would give their chidren the things they loved or would they be deemed unhealthy etc etc? We al survived them so maybe they'd survive too.

[quote LonglegsMumtheBlacksmith]@MistyGreenAndBlue
YES!! The Little Chef pancakes!!
I tried to recreate these at home using shop bought pancakes and cherry pie filling from a tin. Alas, tinned cherry pie filling is now on the decline too [/quote]
Oh, Jubilee pancakes, black cherries and ice cream, wonderful, almost made it worth stopping at Little Chefs for.

@BendicksBittermints4Breakfast

Marks & Spencer used to sell a Manchester Tart, although I haven’t seen it for a few years. You had to keep it upright in your shopping bag or the filling spilled out.

@AngelicInnocent

M & S used to do a foil package of freeze dried potato with onion and bacon in that you fried. It was divine but I think it was viewed as a bit common for the M & S image so they stopped doing it after about a year.

ALdi or Lidl do something similar except it goes in the oven. Needs more bacon though.