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

[charliecat]

Or is it a sainsburys/waitrose/millenium thing?

i remember those tins of frozen orange too - a rare treat!

if anyone has receipe for evaporated milk jelly thing i would love to make it again!

Make jelly as per instructions on packet but when it comes to the bit about adding the cold water, add evaporated milk instead.

We call it jelly fluff. What do you call it?

Jelly fluff... reminded me... there were two types of milk jelly. One where you just added milk instead of cold water and the one where you whisked up the evaporated milk till it was all bubbly before adding it. I'd forgotten that till now.

I can't remember Corona, we had a van that came round once a fortnight, Bon-Accord it was, and my Great Aunt used to buy a bottle of limeade as a treat for us. We never had varitey as kids, it was egg and chips, mince and tatties, stew and tatties, fish and chips. We never had pasta or rice until i was about 14. I was a child in the 70's and looking back, although we ate reasonably well, the food was boring
We used to get Cremola Foam - does anyone else remember that, you added water and it made a fizzy drink? I think they stopped making it.

And does anyone else remember Tudor crisps? I used to love their Spring Onion flavour

Even now my mother has never had a curry - she's decided she doesn't like them, even though she hasn't ever put any in her mouth. She will eat chilli at my house as long as i make it seperatley for her and don't add chilli to it!
The only pasta she makes at home now is spag Bol, and it, and everything else is a jar or packet mix!

This thread has been great.

We got our fizzy drinks from the Alpine van. And, yes, themoon66, jelly fluff was when the carnation milk was added as the jelly is setting then whisked up. I've not had it for years, but this thread has put me in the mood. I'm going to make some this afternooon. Raspberry flavour. Yum.

I too was a child of the 70s. Did you have a street/village party for Silver Jubilee in June 1977? We did. I felt dead posh eating vol-au-vents and cheese cake. My dad wouldnt touch half the stuff coz he said he didnt like it. Even though he didnt know what it was - ie; cheesecake.

And mum and dad would never drink wine. They said it was too sour. I think they meant dry. Even now, if I'm dishing up wine in my house and offer mum some, she will do a drama queen style shudder and go 'urgh, not that sour stuff'.

this really makes amazing reading for a foreigner, also shows how fast british taste buds have evolved!
we had a lot of grilled meat and simply cooked vegetables for lunch, salads, melon, ham in summer. Chips maybe once a week, pasta quite rarely, a lot of fruit, yogurt. Cheese mostly at the week-end, as well as cakes.
Everything homemade by my mum, a fab cook. She also made loads of jam ofr breakfast. The only not homemade thing I can think of was fishfingers which we had maybe twice a month!
Week-end meals were always a bit more elaborate and I would usually help making a cake for sunday lunch.
wonderful stuff......

For the benefit of LadySherlock and Carmanere - do you remember when the only cheese you could buy in most shops was Calvita or Galtee? (Though I do remember my parents having chedder cheese and pinapple cubes on cocktail sticks at parties!)

We had a pop van, every wednesday and we'd get dandelion and burdock (I hated cream soda)

And 15p would buy a bag of crisps

frenchgirl, we had home made jam too- we still do when I have time. And chutneys nd pickles. Mum makes them out of anyuthing- rosehip and apple jelly most often as it growws in the garden. I'm the same, but we only have gooseberries, currants or rhubarb atm int his garden.

Peachyclair.... I can remember a bag of crisps being only 5p! I can also remember a mars bar being 4p.

And four black jacks or fruit salad sweeties were 2p.

I can remember when a Mars bar cost 3d! (pre-decimilsation to you youngsters)

decimalisation even

i was a child of the 80's (born late 70's) and 5p crisps were those cheesy puff things and i loved them. i'd get 20p for breaktime at primary school and buy 4 packets from the 'tuck shop'.

I remember when 2.5p (6d for us old uns ) would buy a bag of chips.

Anyone else remember those lessons in school we had to get us ready for the 'new money'?

I remember chanting, 'One pound is a hundred new pennies, a hundred new pence in the pound'

marthamoo, your first post soooo echoes my own childhood - is it a Cheshire thing?

My dad had an allotment (de rigeur in 1975) so my mum never bought an onion, we mostly ate what he could grow, broad beans, green beans (very tough and stringy) gooseberries, blackcurrants, rhubarb, raspberrries - all made into pies with a 'code' on the top to show what they all were then frozen in the chest freezer in the garage. I too know how to blanch veg and make proper jam in my granny's jam pan. Thanks to the allotment! btw there is a waiting list for our local one and it's run like a Stalag camp!

My dad used to make the best potato cakes for Saturday night tea, my job was to make the butter curls

Best thread for ages this (apart from camping ones of course!!)

ON the getting ready for new money - don't remember lessons, but do remember making a huge paperweight from a load of old money stuck together, as instructed by Blue Peter, I think.

Has anyone mentioned CHOPS ??

I seemed to live on chops - lamb chops with potatoes and vegetables one day, pork chops with potatoes and veg the next. Sausages (cheap ones) made a weekly appearance - as did fish on fridays (every friday !). My mother did that curry thing with mince, sultanas and a pinch of curry powder too - when she was feeling exotic !

Salad for us was always the floppy lettuce type - didn't taste iceberg until I went to university, nor garlic, olives etc.

Never ever had pasta in those days. Rice very occassionally with aforementioned curry - quite often pudding rice if no long-grain available ! was basmati not here then ?

Arctic roll was a big treat ! Regular pudding was stewed fruit with custard or evaoparated milk. Also she used to buy those big packs of "frozen mousses" from Icelan or whatever it was called then. Think I vaguely recall thin insipid pizzas from the same towards the end of my childhood too ! Vesta curries with crispy noodles were fab - after all the chops eventually something that tasted nice !

Oh and - I've just remembered that Monday was always RISSOLES made from the minced remains of the Sunday roast - and home made chips.

Was that just me or did any of you eat Rissoles ?

Yep - rissoles. I used to love them.

Frenchgirl, you ate fishfingers in France???
Really?
Surely home-made goujons de poisson rather than Cap'n Birds'-Eye??