Retro food you love...no food snobs please

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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.

Warburton's milk roll bread.

It was a round loaf of white bread, sliced thinly. Really soft.

Was gorgeous. Especially as sandwiches or toast with butter.

This is like my childhood!

A lot of these foods are still available, but not all - I've only seen one variety of crispy pancake which might be cheese. But get thee to Farmfoods because a lot of this stuff is there!

Fray Bentos pies - not as good as I remember tbh
Vesta - like me as a child, DD loved making the crispy noodles when I got one!

That hot crunch pudding - I'd forgotten about that completely, it was lovely - why did they stop it?

We still have Angel Delight occasionally, and I buy the packet of Birds Trifle and then forget to make it (not a problem in the past as no best before dates - packet in cupboard = food).

I rediscovered corn beef hash from a similar foods-from-the-past thread and it was lovely. I must restock my cupboard with the emergency tin now!

I may have to make some Angel Delight tonight!

The thought ofcornbeef makes me queasy i think I ate it most days when my dad was on strike in the 80s cornbeef hash cornbeef chips beans cornbeef mash and beans of course I am grateful I didn't starve but

I still eat most of this stuff! But I had a findus crispy pancake a week or so ago and it was horrendously bad, I used to love those as a kid! Totally ruined the memory for me

It is a sad day when crispy pancakes are ruined

Ooh I'd forgotten about Milk Roll. Best bread ever!

There was some sort of chocolate mint pudding at school which was delicious.

I had a findus crispy a few weeks ago... I even got excited at seeing them in the shop. But it tasted like cardboard
I’m sure they didn’t used to be like that !?

You can still find milk roll in some shops here, but no Mighty White 😔.

Can you tell how much I miss it? 😂

Finders crispy pancakes and faggots always smelt like dog food to me 🤢

I always traded my pancakes for my sisters potato waffles!

Sad news about the findus crispy pancakes being horrible now I bet they're full of palm oil.
(I'm surprised people think angel delight is still nice as I thought it was awful now that's full of palm oil)

I remembered something else today. I used to love beans and mini sausages in a tin. I'm a vegetarian now so I can't/won't be having them.

And Heinz Baked Beans pizzas! They were the dogs!

Definitely prawn cocktail - my mum always did it as a start at Christmas, so yummy. She used to make a cracking corned beef hash too, wish I had the recipe. And a lemon cheesecake that had something called dream topping in it and I think lemon jelly. I need to root around as I'm sure I have the recipe somewhere. It was flipping lovely!

Loved findus crispy pancakes as a kid. I remember about ten years ago dh has never had them, so we got some as I was raving about how amazing they were, and they were absolutely rank :(

Vienetta always felt like a super posh treat too. Still love it now (and the mint on is amazing on warm chocolate brownies!)

And omg yes, mini kievs! Chicken Kievs are yum but the mini ones are amazing!

Riotgrrrl - I’m pretty sure you can get beans and veggie sausages.

Heinz used to do a baked beans pizza as well, I loved that

Tesco and Suma both make beans and veggie sausages.

Potato waffles and beans
Alphabites
Smash
Supermousse
Shippams paste
Frey bentos steak n kidney pie
Meat and potato pie
Cornish pasty - proper ones
Cheese n onion pasty from Greggs

Yum yum yum

Oooh do they? I may have to look for the beans and veggie sausages!

Thanks

Mini Kievs lava rolled in breadcrumbs more like

Maxi-Bon ice creams. Divine

Sliced roast beef with gravy in a foil tray - think it was birds eye. Loved it with tinned peas and smash!
Ham and cheese toast topper. Lush!

@LesAnya you can get Jubbly lollies in Tesco (other supermarkets are also available) and I think they are what you are looking for. They used to be called something else, but I can't remember what!

I miss Texan bars, Vesta curries and mince and tatties that my mum used to make. Anyone else remember boil in the bag cod in parsley or butter sauce? Drooooool

I love coronation chicken and wasn't born until 95! It is amazing!

And @NotUmbongoUnchained they sell screwballs at Iceland! £1 for 6!

OMG mushroom and herb pasta n sauce

I still buy boil in the bag fish because it is just me that likes it but I buy Youngs because Birds eye portion is teeny tiny

Remember the 'Delia Effect' a few years ago, when shops completely ran out of things that she used in recipes?

There are going to be a lot of puzzled supermarket managers scratching their heads tomorrow, when their shelves are unexpectedly and completely cleared of Findus Crispy Pancakes, swiss roll, Angel Delight, Spam, prawn cocktail sauce, vol-au-vent cases, evaporated milk and cocktail sticks

Hedge

excuse me Mr Shopkeep can you direct me to your birds trifle