Food From Your Youth

[Protein Junkie]

The one you got from the butchers (loose per oz) or the jars mate ?
Always called the former potted meat.

Jars Harry :-)

 

[kippaxwarrior]

Super Sour & Fireball Jawbreakers

Not only could you choke on them, they could also break your teeth

 

[roman totale]

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The absolute worst. I remember eating the first forkful and it was disgusting. Didn’t finish my dinner that night and never touched them again. That must’ve been in about 1975 and I can still summon the taste now.

 

[Dirty Harry]

Jars Harry :-)

Cheers bud, wasn’t sure, sardine and tomato paste were my favourites , I wasn’t very popular as they stunk like cat food :-).

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

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They tasted far better than they should, given the shite that was in them. Same with Fray Bentos pies.

 

[metalblue]

Super Sour & Fireball Jawbreakers

Not only could you choke on them, they could also break your teeth

Not entirely sure the counted as food but they did live up to their name.

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

Home made spring rolls from The Ocean Chinese chippy at Woodsend in Flixton.
Looked like warty turds, tasted otherworldly..

 

[paulchapo]

I remember jars of toast toppers, ham and mushroom etcetera. You just spread them on toast and a few seconds under the grill. Quick and tasty.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

We had some right oddball meals growing up the seventies...
Soup on chips...Always with Scotch broth..
My dads curries..had apples and raisins with mince beef made with Dinaclas curry powder that was only ever sold in butchers shops. You could slice it when it went cold. We all loved it though.
We always had salads on a Saturday that started out as a couple of slices of various meats, Haslett, Braun, proper boiled or roast ham, some sort of weird luncheon meat with green and red peppers that I never did find out the name of, but over the years it changed to include Chinese ribs and noodles for some odd reason.
Also, on the subject of potato hash, my mums was totally different to my dads. Dads was thick and gloopy and occasionally he stuck a three inch crust of pastry made with lard on top whereas my mums was thin and watery but both were delish..On dads hash we used to stick either pickled beetroot or pickled red cabbage on it, sometimes piccalilly or just brown sauce or ketchup.
We also had bacon and sausage with mash and peas with the bacon fat poured over the mash.
Breast of lamb...God I miss that stuff..I remember my mum sending me out to the mint patch at the end of the garden to get the mint for the mint sauce, Malt vinegar, mint and sugar..Tastes fuck all like the stuff in a jar.
We never really bothered with shop bought convenience crap..The only concession to that was butterscotch angel delight sometimes after the sunday dinner..
Plate pies? where did they go?

Here's a regular thing we had every Sunday, hopefully I'm not on my own with this and it may ring a few bells with some of you...Cabbage water and cabbage cores....fucking lush...Mam would stick the cores when they were cooked on certain plate that had a distinctive sound...We'd hear that noise and all hell would break lose...It was like a Le Mans start between me and my two older brothers to get to them first. Cabbage water with loads of salt and pepper...yum.

Wow...remember my mum doing exactly the same with me. Picking mint from our ' veg patch ' mixing it with sugar and malt vinegar, nothing matches the taste. I'm sure we put it in some sort of blender, like a pint pot with a lethal blade spinning at the bottom, the same blender we made banana milk shakes in.

 

[Victorinodennistua]

Wow...remember my mum doing exactly the same with me. Picking mint from our ' veg patch ' mixing it with sugar and malt vinegar, nothing matches the taste. I'm sure we put it in some sort of blender, like a pint pot with a lethal blade spinning at the bottom, the same blender we made banana milk shakes in.

Need to put half an onion finely diced to the mint sugar and vinegar, had it on new Cheshire potatoes smothered in butter with smoked bacon peas and carrots. It works.