Favourite and maybe Rare foods from your childhood?

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Just that really .Reading about Dates in the Guardian today ,and remembering from my childhood 60s/70s they were a special treat we had at Christmas .Also does anyone remember Matinee Selection at all?My Nans favourites ,and she used to let me have the fondant creams ,Ate too many one year and was rather sick!

Gino Ginelli ice cream was the ultimate treat! But I rarely had it because it was my mums special treat and if I ever got to taste a bit I thought I'd won the jackpot.

If they still sold it I would be treating it the same I'm sure lol

Reading this has made me want to make an old school trifle like my mum used to make, complete with sprinkles on top! I remember her buying a kit in a box - do they still exist?!

Yes, I believe the trifle kits are still around.

trifle kit

Marzipan fruits!
Matchmakers
'Proper' Turkish delight eg pink and yellow gelatine cubes covered in talc icing sugar rather than Fry's

I remember lemon meringue pie in a tiny box kit with a sachet of powder you'd cook up in a sauce to make the lemon filling which had a little pod of lemon essence in and another sachet which might have been icing sugar to make the topping.

Also frozen concentrated orange juice in a cylindrical tub which you took out the freezer and mixed into water. At least I think it was sold as frozen concentrate. Mum might have just put orange juice in the freezer I suppose? It made a very delicious ice cold orange drink.

The little foiled cup chocolates you got in a pick and mix.
Packet orange juice from the chemist.

@Margotsflounceyblouse yes the lemon meringue pie filling. I was about 12 when I was allowed to do it by myself. I was so proud.
Vesta chicken supreme. The height of sophistication.

@howls my dps work sell those in their pic n mix

@Scoobygang7 - really? I haven't seen them for years! Have some for me!

A bowl of Bombay mix was present at all times during my childhood.

Mine too. I love the stuff.

My DF would always have a box of crystallised ginger at Christmas and my DM would have the proper Turkish Delight as another PP mentioned. I can still remember the smell and it just makes me think of Christmas.

We'd always have a tin of Danish biscuits too. Those lovely buttery biscuits that come in little paper cases. I bought a tin from Sainsbury's a few years ago but I haven't seen them since.

Birds trifle mmm

@GingleJangleScarecrow I remember Tunis cake! My great-grandparents always had one at Christmas (we are talking early 80s). I would quite like to get one (if they are still around) but I worry it would spoil the fond memories.

@missyB1 we can still get Kimberly, mikado and coconut creams here!

Just remembered the pic n mix at Woolworths. Foil covered fruitellas and you could just pick all strawberry ones. Also these amazing chocolate covered caramels. Happy days.

Yes to 'Berry Fruits my dad got a box every Xmas they were his favourites.
Danish biscuits too. Not much to them tbh but a Xmas treat.
Cremola foam.
Yes to lemon meringue pie box with the tiny capsule of lemon oil in it.😀
My mum.made her own trifles. I miss them cos my kids don't like custard so not worth it just for me.😣
We also made our own marzipan Fruits, love marzipan.
I remember 'Weekend' chocs too. Was a strange mix of chocs nothing else like them.

@f00k - Iceland have the traditional Dutch biscuits in the tin.

Danish sorry

My mum used to always make baked Alaska at Christmas. Although she used to make it with tutti frutti ice cream (does that exist any more) which I wasn’t a fan of.
Then when Haagen Dazs started making baileys ice cream she started using that instead which was yum.
Not had baked Alaska in 20+ years.

Bring back Neapolitans, that's what I say!!!

Jelly that had named like yippee yellow and bugaloo blue...they were opaque

Ooh yes, Neapolitans. Often bought as a Christmas present for my Dad in the 1970s.

One thing I was thinking about the other day was sweetbreads. I probably haven't eaten them since the 1970s. I've never seen them for sale and I've never cooked them. Must ask the butcher about them next time I go in.

Something else I used to have a lot of in the 1960s and 70s was herring roes (on toast). About 20 years I cooked some for my daughter (about 2 at the time). She was sick. I tried again a few months later. She was sick again and I've never cooked or eaten them since!

One of my favourite sweet treats when I was young were dried bananas. Not banana chips, but long brown sticky things. I always thought they smelled of silage, but I loved them. I occasionally buy them at the health food shop but they're not as good (or sticky) as they used to be.

80s child here - Sara Lee Pecan Danish Pastry. It came frozen and tasted amazing!
M&S used to do a version but haven't seen it sold in at least the past decade.

The little foil chocolate cups I've found in the Olde Sweet Shops in their pick n mix selection.

As for Danish butter biscuits, I bought a tin recently for Xmas but we've tucked into them. They were bland and didn't taste as good as they used to.

I baked a Tunis cake recently for my father-in-law's birthday. I had never heard of it before but he had said it was his favourite. He was overjoyed! (I used the Mary Berry recipe).

@Margotsflounceyblouse yes yes I remember the frozen cylinders of concentrated fruit juice!

I think it was called "Florida" frozen orange juice - very exotic but I doubt it had been anywhere near Florida.