All this fancy stuff you eat and drink nowadays, were you brought up on it?

[charliecat]

Or is it a sainsburys/waitrose/millenium thing?

we used to cook everything in lard - very unhealthy!!!

my dad used to have that fish was it yellow?

lol at QM's 'tuna fish slop'

OMG,only the British could make food that soundes (let alone tastes) so hideously unappealing!

qm - my mum was an expert with mince. in adulthood she's said to me that there were times when she thought she'd go nuts if she had to cook mince again - I had to tell her that I hadn't actually noticed. to a kid spag bol is completely different from shepherds pie and I had no idea that it was any cheaper than pork chops. she could also get a huge amount out of a roast chicken, cold with salad, what she called chicken chasseur, then soup.

Fio I think that some people are just more interested in food and the skill of cooking than others.

well certainly didn't have the sundried tomatoes, fair-trade mangoes, organic blueberries, salad sprinkle seeds, rice-cakes, oat-cakes etc etc.. ds seems to think these are perfectly normal, suppose they are to him!

Did anyone else have hedgehogs? Again, it's a variation on mince. It's meatballs with rice (to make it go further) and then cooked in tomato soup, I think. We never had bacon. Occasionally, for a special treat, if my dad was working late, my mum would make him a bacon sandwich, and us kids would sit and drool. Once we had lambs' hearts in a "casserole". They were heart shaped and had the tubes coming out of them. They were disgusting, and recently I asked my mum what had possessed her to give us them, and she said it was all she could afford that week. We all ate them. We must have either been really hungry or too scared not to.

my dad had hearts, he loved them. chicken chasseur that was sophisticated

and spag bog was quite sophisticated, wasn't it? Or maybe that was us country folk out west in the 70s...

Yes MC.
My dh says he was transfixed by schhol dinner of spag bol and he and his brothers begged his mother to make it.
He remembers intrepid shopping trip tpo buy spaghetti and his mother's nerves!!

remember avidly watching Jim'll Fix it where a little kid was being "taught" how to eat spaghetti properly ...by a real Italian!

we never had spaghetti - only in tins, we seemed to eat our own body weight in potatoes daily!

Ah,innocent times!

God I love this thread.

We never had rice as a savoury food. Mum insisted it was for puddings only. And pasta was considered nasty, slimey stuff so we werent allowed that either. I remember too the carnation milk in jelly (to give it more goodness).

I also remember getting very small highly concentrated bottles of orange juice from the health clinic. You added water and stirred like mad to get it to mix. And something in a jar that we were fed on a spoon... Virol?? Urgh, just remembered being force fed cod-liver oil and malt - it made me retch.

I remember we were allowed a packet of crisps on a Thursday after school. Seabrook ones. Imagine, only one pack of crisps of week! Chocolate was considered only for special occasions, like xmas. Fizzy drinks were special occasions only too.

We didn't even have a bag of crisps a week - they were a rare treat! We got 2p on the way home to spend in the corner shop - you could get 4 blackjacks, or 4 fruit salads for that. I think Golden Wonder crisps were 5p a packet - so you had so save your pennies for 3 days to get those - and I was always more of an "I want it now" child. I used to long for those candy necklaces on elastic...but they were lots of pennies.

ooo corona cream soda and cherryade yum and in summer with ice cream

have read this thread with great joy, followed swiftly by great shame as I realise I still love (and make occasionally) both jelly mousse made with evaporated milk, and milk jelly. And that we had pork chops with mashed potato and green beans for dinner last night, which could have come straight out of one of my mother's cookbooks.
But it was very tasty.

anyone remember the frozen blocks of concentrated juice you used to get? Just added water to it and pounded for aeons to make into a palatable drink

Crisps were a rare treat and when we did have them they were always ready salted or those where you had the small salt packet in the bag - a novel idea at the time !!

Home made custard , my two brothers used to fight for who had the skin off the custard , YUK !

Always had to wait for my Dad to come home from work before we could have tea. None of this eating separetly from the kids, meal times were defintely a family time. Happy memories !!

It was my grandads food i remeber the most fondly. he had a veggie patch and bought all his ingredients daily for the days meals. he cooked 3 times a day breakfast, tea and supper - lunch was a sandwich. we had lots of fish, kidneys, lamb, boiled chicken (this was lovely btw !!), boiled bacon, mature cheese and homemade sauces like parsley sauce (with the bacon). my nan and grandad were very poor and spent probably all their money on food, no new clothes or things for the house like today and they certainly could never hope to have a car.

Oh yes... Corona pop. The Corona man used to come to the village once a week. We used to around collecting empties from all the houses coz we got paid a couple of pence for each one returned. Come to think of it, why arent pop bottles recycled like that anymore?? It seems so obvious.

We used to get the greengrocer van once a week too. Mum used to always say he delibertely snuck a bad orange into every bag, just to get rid of his out of date ones. He used to weigh the village babies on his scales too.