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

[RolandButter]

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

I love them ALL GOML! Even the tapioca. With a blob of jam. I don't have a sweet tooth as a general rule, but school puddings - yummmmm!

How can you eat it how.

Mind you I think my prejudice is based on the fact that the packet's in my gran's cupboard probably predated the Crimean war, and if you shook the packets moths or tiny flies would swarm out

Nigel S calls it snot in Eating for England.

Packet's? Blimey apostrophe abuse I will get hurled off MN. I mean packets obv.

"Mixed Grill" it was meat and it came in a rectangular tin and my granny used to fry it for me.

My Grandad wasn't allowed any because he'd had a heart attack.

I saw a tin about 10 years ago and even the look of the picture on the tin made me a bit queasy.

And Cruickshanks lemonade. Moray Cup especially. Tooth dissolvingly sweet.