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Surely we can't be THAT lazy in this country?

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MrsMerryHenry · 14/04/2009 20:26

I have just made Chocolate Rice Crispy-things for the first time since I was a wee tot.

I am amazed that these things are actually available ready-made in the shops. Chocolate. Rice Crispies. A spoon. Cupcake cases. What's so frickin' difficult about that?

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MrsMerryHenry · 14/04/2009 21:01

Muller corners - the devil in culinary form. Or is that Pot Noodles? Brown Sauce? Ah, of course: he takes many forms.

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onepieceofcremeegg · 14/04/2009 21:02

muller corners and rices have been 8 for £2 in Tesco. Dh will be rather disappointed when we go back to cheapo next week.

onepieceofcremeegg · 14/04/2009 21:03

30g is about 20 cornflakes. By the time I am back from the school run I am faint with hunger and have to have a second breakfast. That's on the days I drive. On the days I walk I would have to stop for a snack on the way home I think.

moondog · 14/04/2009 21:04

Oh, I like brown sauce. Can't beat it on cheese on toast.

badgermonkey · 14/04/2009 21:05

Those cereal bowls always seem vile for several reasons. For one, are they fresh milk or UHT? Two, there's no saying there'd be the right milk-to-cereal ratio. Three, cereal is mostly disgusting anyway and only to be tolerated because it's quick, which going and buying one of those things from a garage isn't. Four, eating out of a little plastic bowl with a little plastic spoon is too depressing for words.

My DH and I have a sort of horrified fascination for all sorts of tinned meat products. We've never bought one, but spend an unseemly amount of time looking at them in the supermarket. A tin of ox tongue runs about £3! Surely if you're that fond of ox tongue, you could buy some lovely fresh stuff for less (vomits).

onepieceofcremeegg · 14/04/2009 21:07

rofl at ox tongue.

When I was little we used to go to a tiny local co op. It used to sell brawn, on the tiny "deli". Also there was always one rollmop herring in a tupperware type container. Probably it was the same one that they never sold.

Tinned pie anyone?

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MrsMerryHenry · 14/04/2009 21:08

8 for £2. And they're still making a whacking great profit. Just goes to prove what utter cack they are.

Moondog - for a minute I thought you were suggesting brown sauce on your home-made muesli! Was about to faint!

Badgermonkey - whenever I go to the supermarket with DH I always sneak some kind of grotesque tinned meat into the trolley and then DH and I shriek with laughter at the obscenity of it!

Have you seen 'tinned processed cheese'? They sell it at our local Asian supermarket. I'm tempted to sprinkle some into my muesli...

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snigger · 14/04/2009 21:09

I couldn't eat the stuff if you paid me, but for old time's sake, I hanker for the peculiar thrill of trying to open a can of corned beef with the key and the lethal metal strip.

See, in the '70's, you had to work for your food.

moondog · 14/04/2009 21:09

I recall there being a real run on tongue circa 1977.

TheProvincialLady · 14/04/2009 21:09

My mum used to dish up Fray Bentos pie every week [vom] It's no wonder I became vegetarian aged 14. It wasn't moral outrage it was self defence.

onepieceofcremeegg · 14/04/2009 21:10

snigger didn't the key always used to snap and then someone (or was this just my dad) got cut on the tin?

moondog · 14/04/2009 21:10

Yes Snigger! Coming away with all fingers still in situ gave one a real sense of achievement.

moondog · 14/04/2009 21:11

at Provincial

onepieceofcremeegg · 14/04/2009 21:12

I was 6 in 1977. I would have become veggie had I been allowed to I think.

For many years I thought that all meat was just a mix of fat and gristle. (yuk)

Realising that it is perfectly possible to buy nice lean meat was very exciting.

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MrsMerryHenry · 14/04/2009 21:12

We used to eat tongue!!! I really liked it!

There was a fab episode of The Simpsons where Bart and Lisa stayed with their aunts and were given baps with little pink tongues hanging out.

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MrsMerryHenry · 14/04/2009 21:13

PMSL at Provincial's 'self defence'!

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TheProvincialLady · 14/04/2009 21:13

I just have one thing to say to you all: Pork Luncheon Meat.

NotmyELFtoday · 14/04/2009 21:13

The pre-packed grated cheese is gross, it doesn't melt, and why buy grated cheese for jacket spuds if its not going to melt?!

badgermonkey · 14/04/2009 21:14

Worse than luncheon meat: that Billy Bear stuff. What IS it? How do they make meat DO that?

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MrsMerryHenry · 14/04/2009 21:14

Luncheon Meat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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snigger · 14/04/2009 21:14

Oh, if we're playing competitive 70's food-abuse, I'll take your Pork Luncheon Meat and raise you a Toast Topper.

TheProvincialLady · 14/04/2009 21:15

No, no, worse than luncheon meat or billy bear - HASLET

I was probably the only person under 70 still eating this in 1981.

TrillianAstra · 14/04/2009 21:15

Oh, that cheese! We got it in the work canteen and it was all powdery and you're right ELF, it didn't melt!

onepieceofcremeegg · 14/04/2009 21:16

Oh pork luncheon meat. We had the posh version with a circle of hard boiled egg in the centre. Later you could get stuffing instead.

What is/was haslet? Something gruesome iirc?

badgermonkey · 14/04/2009 21:17

When I was about 14, my friend got a job working on a butcher's stall in the market. Her descriptions of the vileness they sold provided us with hours of hilarity - the mere mention of the words 'haslet' or 'chitterlings' still make me want to giggle.