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 )

@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!

Was it in a white and blue tub a round one? I remember this I thought it was called super whip. It was gorgeous.

Kunzle cakes.
butterscotch Angel Delight
Bird’s Eye crinkle cut chips, shallow fried thank you Mum.
Tinned cream mushrooms on top of melted cheese on toast.

I've had the jingle for Birds Dream Topping playing in my head for the last few days so have enjoyed reading this thread.

I remember that sterilised cream that came in a tin, it had a taste of its own.

Champagne spangles were the best flavour.

The first time I tried yoghurt was at the ideal home exhibition in the lates 70's, strawberry ski.

Never tried a Vesta curry, but I love a tinned curry with white bread and butter.

The local shop when I was young used to sell little packets of lemonade powder which you added water to, shook it then drank it straight from the packet, never saw them anywhere else.

I also remember buying KP beef crisps from school once again late 70's and they were the beefiest crisps I have ever tasted.

I really miss the dehydrated snaps pellets you could buy off the rag market in the 80's, you deep fried them and they tasted wonderful, far superior to Snaps.

God I'm hungry now...

I wish Sainsbury’s would bring back Cheese Buttons. They were amazing.

@SeththeSloth loved these!

Mothers Pride bread, and Blueband margarine!

Frozen microwaveable yankee burgers. Came with a delicious packet of relish. Used to frequently have this for dinner as a child, they were amazing.

I used to love Terrys Neapolitans chocolates.

Oh me too, Fl0w3ry!
We so rarely had them but it was one of the best Christmas stocking finds, to have them in the toe (along with the essential satsuma, obvs)

They were so goooood...

Anyone remember 5 Pints? It was a plastic bottle of powdered milk. I hated milk as a child and my mum used to worry and she’d make this up with water and add sugar to make it into a milkshake. Only in the 70s!

*kittensinthekitchen

Oh god, now I want Toast Toppers.

My mum sometimes heats up a can of creamed mushrooms and puts it on toast, a la toast toppers. I'll need to pick up a can.*

Can you please ask your Mum where she gets creamed mushrooms? I've been looking for the them for ages to use in toasted sandwiches. All I can find is mushrooms in liquid.

Does anyone remember Bick's cucumber relish? I used to love it on burgers.

Baxters do a cucumber and dill relish. You can get it from amazon.

@AdaColeman

Vesta Chow Mien was totally exotic when I was a teenager. The sublime magic of the crispy noodles puffing up in the hot frying pan was an absolute culinary delight. I watched a programme of Nigel Slater cooking with someone who did the crispy noodle trick, and Nige feigned amazement, but there is no way that he didn't do that himself as a teenager.

I remember Vesta Chow Mein being an "easy" meal for which you had to use two pans of water, one for the soft noodles and one for the lumpy flavoured paste containing bits of dried stuff that never reconstituted properly no matter how long you cooked them, plus a chip pan for the crispy noodles.

I only discovered that Heinz tinned sponge puddings had been discontinued when I went looking for them for my emergency food stash in case we needed to self-isolate. Hadn't had one for almost 20 years, but I still felt bereft and I've been craving one ever since. Those tiny plastic domes just don't hit the spot in the same way.

I just remembered a family favourite we had when together on vacation etc. sort of a treat and definitely rubbish food.

Slit a hotdog lengthwise to make a pocket and put thin slices of cheddar cheese in the slit.

Open a can of crescent roll dough (made by Pillsbury's) in Canada.

Roll the crescent roll around the hotdog, and bake as package instructions.

Voila! Delicious "rolly ups" as my dear Dad called them.

Betcha can't eat just one.

@shallwethree

Does anyone remember Bick's cucumber relish? I used to love it on burgers.

We can still get three or four varieties of Bick's relish in Canada. Yes, great on burgers.

They also make many different pickles.

@Smokeahontas

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

I do!!! Box was the same design as a tin of Heinz baked beans!

School dinners cheese flan with chips and really really cheap ketchup that was so harsh it would stain the white plastic trays orange.

Delicious.

Oh yeah cheese flan!!! Food of the gods. Especially if you got a corner piece.

@Fl0w3ry

I used to love Terrys Neapolitans chocolates.

They were fabulous! And I loved the thick elegant paper each one was wrapped in. Pure class.

Apple and rhubarb crumble with custard
Spotted duck woth custard
Semolina pudding
I was so grateful for school dinners ad it would have been a nice warm meal that I wouldn't of had at home. At the time I was embarrassed and wished for packed lunch because everyone knew I was on free school dinners. Couldn't afford the packed lunch though! Looming back though we where lucky with school dinners!

One of the puddings at school I used to like (virtually no one else did) was prunes and custard with a shortbread type of biscuit alongside it.

Haven't eaten that since the late 1960s so I obviously don't like it enough to eat it now.

@cobblers123

One of the puddings at school I used to like (virtually no one else did) was prunes and custard with a shortbread type of biscuit alongside it.

Haven't eaten that since the late 1960s so I obviously don't like it enough to eat it now.

It was prunes and rice pudding at my primary school with a tiny teaspoon of strawberry jam!

This thread has reminded me of my least favourite school dinner which I just couldn't eat: cheese flan (I was forced to eat it one day and promptly threw up!), lumpy mash and tinned tomatoes (fine in spag bol etc, not fine as just a veg). The accompanying pudding was always semolina with a sprinkle of chocolate (the only bit I ate). I'd always agreed with Garfield that I never met a pudding I didn't like, but now I've remembered that inedible semolina!

@PriamFarrl

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

They were in a little tub with a cardboard lid. You put them in your lunch box frozen and they were ready to eat by lunch time.
It was half a tinned peach on top of a raspberry ripple flavoured mousse.

Someone else must remember them.

@PriamFarrl

I remember those. I used to love them and was always on my very best behaviour in the supermarket because my DM would buy me one if I was good.

I would be a bit impatient sometimes and the peach wouldn't be entirely defrosted. But I used to love them.