Retro food you love...no food snobs please

[DryWhiteagainW]

Just had a craving for Coronation chicken, made it for my DTeens ....Everyone has gone mad for it.
Made me think.....in these times of quinoa, butternut squash and halloumi (which I love) what retro food do you still serve?

Me?
I love a retro curry with raisins.
Can’t beat chicken Kiev.
And at a party I once served a tin foil wrapped grapefruit with cheddar and pineapple on cocktail sticks (like my mother used to serve) ironic obv, but it went down a storm.

Also a prawn cocktail on avocado fan and loved ice magic as a kid - once I put it it in the freezer in an ice cube mould to make blocks of the stuff - so good . We still eat artic roll on Dr Who nights - my 11 yo loves it. This whole thread is making me hungry.

Oh, Gino Ginelli ice cream. We thought I had broken a tooth when I was little, but it was a mint chip! They were so crunchy and white...

We had tinned corned beef and home made chips the other day in desperation of a light meal as it's been so warm. It was amazing.

Sandwich spread
Chicken kievs
Cheese and pinapple (I make it just for me sometimes)
Angel delight.

Cheese and potato pie with warmed corned beef.
Fish fingers sandwiches (cheap fish fingers and white bread)
We have mince in gravy and either pasta or rice. It's gorgoeus

Vienetta, bought one at Christmas last year and it was rubbish ! Nowhere near the same amount of chocolate in. Love a chicken Kiev too!

Tinned peaches and raspberry ripple ice cream.

Burger bites crisps.

Neopolitan ice-cream.

Flintstones ice pops drool

Oh and tinned meatballs 🤢

Tinned peaches and evaporated milk.
Butterscotch angel delight.
Black Forest Gateau.
Prawn Cocktail.

School butterscotch tart - for the PP who mentioned it: allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/8986/butterscotch-tart.aspx

Arctic Roll and Viennetta are big treats to my dc. Both cost £1 from the corner shop. The DC also think that Angel Delight is very special.

I buy Tunnock’s tea cakes or at least the Aldi version pretty often and we have fishfinger sandwhiches for tea quite often on a weekend.

Space Dust - still available, now generically called “popping candy”.

We had a Soda Stream, but we were never allowed the syrups, we just had to use squash.

Toast toppers.

Jamaica ginger cake.

Tinned fruit with cream.

Bovril crisps (rip).

Watercress sandwiches on Hovis bread.

Tinned sardines grilled on toast.

Findus crispy pancakes, yummy. Favourite childhood dinne....With potato waffles and vienetta for puds.

I love coronation chicken too.

Funny feet ice creams.

Bernard Matthews mini Kievs. I still buy them. Bloody amazing.

Well apparently we’re quite retro - we eat lots of this on a regular basis

@HyacinthsBucket70 Thanks for the butterscotch tart recipe, can't believe it's so simple!

I love Bernard Matthews mini kievs! DS loves them too but DH calls them nursery food and won't touch them - all the more for us!

How could I forget tutti frutti Gino Ginelli? Mmmmmm

Lidl version of vienetta is much more like what the proper one used to be (choclatey!)

Batchelors pasta and sauce mushroom and wine flavour with a sausage chopped through it (presumably cooked ) my Grandad used to cook this for us all on holiday in the caravan.

We had arctic roll last week for first time in years and dds loved it.

I make a "mean" chocolate or toffee flan, they haven't worked out yet it's just chocolate or butterscotch angel delight on a digestive biscuit base, dds beg for it on special occasions so I hide in the kitchen drinking wine pretending to slave for ages

Boeuf bourgingon
Steak Diane
Coq au Vin

Roast beef boil in the bag. With Smash.
Tinned minced beef on bread.
Frozen melon balls.
Prawn cocktail on half an avocado.
And I miss Texan Bars so much!

Tinned fruit with evaporated milk
Semolina pudding
Butterscotch angel delight
The cheesecake you make from a box..green something

Prawn cocktail with avocado I could eat forever.

Tinned syrup sponge pudding.

Those ham and cream cheese pinwheels M&S used to sell before they decided to produce interesting party nibbles.

Ooh loved evaporated milk but with fresh raspberries
Angel delight
Chicken a la King
Blancmange in a rabbit shaped mould

@DryWhiteagainW SpaceDust masquerading under the name Fizz Wiz.

Arghhh Gino Ginelli !!

^"Gino oh Gino Ginelli,
Ice cream-o supreme-o piazza!
Italian chic! Italian sty-yallll!
Mint choc chip!
Tutti frutti what a cutie,
Take a Gino home with you!"
^

Can anyone remember the ice ream
Imitator called..... super whip??
It was a cheap Iceland style ice cream I think but was bloody delish