NOSTALGIA and disappointment - what food fromyour childhood no longer tastes good

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article here for me its sandwich spread. Boy i loved it, although ti looks like set chunder with its teeny tiny carrot flecks; it had a certain piquancy.

but no more

If our children did a thread like this in 30 years time hat would they remember?

Organic granola?

or

Dairylea Munchables

now tell me about Bavarian smoked cheese

MIL buys it, but they do live in Herefordshire so its quite novel there

MayorNaze, that choc sauce was one of the number one 'magical' things I remmeber from my childhood (along with the mythical Soda Stream and Mr Frostie machines I never had because too expensive for my tight poor mum...).

It was so^ cool. Looking back, though, it looks ming.

pink wafers - also stale

my mu wouldnt buy any of that stuff

Am somewhat about this comment under the Guardian article:

"When I used to stay with my gran when I was young she'd make chips for lunch most days. I remember them as the best chips in the world. But talking to my aunty about it over Christmas I know that she wouldn't soak/rinse, par boil/blanch etc. She'd just slice potato and stick it in the chip pan on the hob (albeit in dripping I think). There's no way they could have been really good by the standards I have today, but at the time they were the best thing going."

FFS, that is how you make the best chips in the world - cut them into chip shapes and double-fry in hot fat. And I should know, because my mum and both grans used this method and their chips were awesome.

Anyone who offloads their cookery-poncery onto a plate of chips deserves food poisoning.

at school mtgs i always go for pink wafers

Milky ways- They used to taste like the whippy stuff in Mars Bars but they changed the recipe so now they are tasteless

Smoked cheese comes in a plastic sausage skin and Asds sells it.

Also in a plastic sausage skin with knots at the end- Matterson pate remember that? Foul stuff

ha - bet cheestrings would be on this type of thread in 30 years time - "they used to be lush, now they taste of plastic"

that would be because they ARE plastic

Oh yes I still love slush puppies!

do the pink wafers come in the groovy pink panther packaging or are they spermarket economy ones?

MayorNaze - Ice Magic! Witness the amazing similarity between the product on your icecream and the shiny plastic lid on the bottle.

what does smoked cheese taste of?

smoke

and

cheese

hth

its "Monster crackin'" now

erm

"Man"

and if you ask for it at Waitrose a working class alert goes out

hey look

I used to eat 1000's of theese. Wouldn;t touch them with a bamboo cane now

Mini kievs + chips was my favourite, favourite dish! Eaten in front of Johnny Briggs on the 'lovely' swirly brown decor of our living room.

Vimto

Birds Eye 'Steak' burgers

Walnut Whips (stale choc wrapped around shaving foam)

what is that?
I spent the 70s in scotland eating wholeweat flapjack.

adn the cats had porridge

is it a teacake?

Dairylea triangles

Mars Bars...so disgustingly sweet, ditto Cadbury Caramel and Creme Egg

Liquorice Allsorts, now they are like sour shoe leather

BTW "smoked" cheese these days is NOT smoked it is injected with chemicals to imitate the taste of truly smoked food and the EU are looking into the chemical that are used as they now think some of them are dangerous.

Wagon Wheels

Potted meat of any sort

yes it is but Mum got ours from Marks

you know i will be looking for that icemagic crap in sainsbos tomorrow now

Oh I love Coronation chicken too. I stil amke it.