1980's recession food

muggins_ · 09-02-2010 9:26pm #1

hey guys was thinking of hosting a 1980's recession theme night and as i was too young to remember i was wondering if people wouldn't mind posting food that you remember mammy cooking for you in the old hard times.

any other suggestions at what you might think would be fun or good to do for food, drink and entertainment please post.

thanks,
James

Galadriel · 12-02-2010 5:14pm

We used to get fish fingers and beans, still a favourite of mine today.

John Mason · 12-02-2010 10:37pm

findus crispy pancakes and angel delight

rubadub · 14-02-2010 12:06am

Those cheapo small pizzas, still have them in tesco both frozen & fresh. They are about 6" across and used to be in stacks of 10, cheese & tomato.

smiley girl · 14-02-2010 12:15am

Flapjacks. Oh yum, haven't had them in years but I used to love them!

kowloon · 15-02-2010 12:56am

Birds custard
TK soft drinks
The pizzas as mentioned above
Angel delight (although that's just horrible)
Golly bars (:eek:) make your own with lolly pop sticks and HB ice cream blocks.
Ice cream floats

xzanti · 16-02-2010 9:43pm

Instant Whip, it was pretty much the same as Angel Delight.
Those nasty little pizzas
Instant Mash
Rose cream pies
Jelly & ice cream

Ah memories

enfield · 16-02-2010 10:13pm

Mince in onion gravy, turnips and mash. Beat that!

phoebe! · 16-02-2010 10:16pm

Mashed potato and scrambled egg...mixed together and sometimes it had tomato added in!!

biblio · 16-02-2010 10:23pm

Yellowpack !!! Good old Quinnsworths attempt at tesco value back in the day

xzanti · 17-02-2010 12:21pm

biblio wrote: »

Yellowpack !!! Good old Quinnsworths attempt at tesco value back in the day

Ah Yellapack

who did the ones with the plain black and white packaging.. simple times..

rubadub · 17-02-2010 2:06pm

xzanti wrote: »

who did the ones with the plain black and white packaging.. simple times..

Thrift in superquinn, think it might have been Thrift! horrible looking things.

Then there was KVI too, think it was in crazy prices -"thats crazy prices, at super crazy prices -don't you miss it"

Tabnabs · 17-02-2010 2:23pm

Fray Bentos type pies, now there's something I haven't had since the 80s.

mike65 · 17-02-2010 2:25pm

Bread pudding for afters.

xzanti · 17-02-2010 2:41pm

rubadub wrote: »

Thrift in superquinn, think it might have been Thrift! horrible looking things.
"

That's the one, their crisps were mingin'.. greesy, overflavoured and usually burnt..

WindSock · 17-02-2010 3:33pm

You mean Crisps!

Everything had an ! at the end :pac:

I remember their crisps! they were fairly ming. They had cheese & onion + salt & vinegar.

I used to always get the wee orange juices, sorry Orange Juice! and freeze it into an ice pop.

xzanti · 17-02-2010 3:36pm

WindSock wrote: »

You mean Crisps!

Everything had an ! at the end :pac:

.

Should have had an * on the end :pac:

Buzz Cagney · 17-02-2010 5:03pm

What ever you get it should be washed down with a few 3l bottles of country spring lemonade. The bottle was too big for our fridge so not only was it not very nice, it was warm:D

Cream soda ftw

AARRRGH · 17-02-2010 11:22pm

Haha good thread this!

I remember the biscuits were cheap and simple: digestives, rich tea, custard creams, bourban creams (??), and those pink wafer things.

For dessert I used to have jelly and ice cream or creme caramel.

I remember eating a lot of lamb chops. It must have been cheap back then. And lots of tinned corn and (I didn't eat these) processed peas.

Cereal was either corn flakes, ricke krispies, wheatabix or shredded wheat.

And lots of toast and tea! And kiplings french fancies, bramley apple pies and jam tarts.

xzanti · 18-02-2010 12:18pm

I remember eating a lot of tinned fruit aswel for snacks and deserts etc.. usually with a scoop of icecream.. Wasn't all that bad back then

Andrew33 · 18-02-2010 12:20pm

irishbird wrote: »

findus crispy pancakes and angel delight

At the same time???:D

I remember eating stew with no meat in it, (looking back, I reckon my siblings ate all the meat before I got to the table!)
Wednesday was always the poorest day in the house, God knows what you'd get for dinner, usually something with no label that had been found at the back of the icebox, didn't have any of them fancy seperate freezers in the 80's

lala stone · 18-02-2010 3:57pm

Mince meat with that massive red bottle of Candy red sauce!!! Not exactly a proper bolognese!

smiley girl · 18-02-2010 7:53pm

rubadub wrote: »

Then there was KVI too, think it was in crazy prices -"thats crazy prices, at super crazy prices -don't you miss it"

KVI was in Quinnsworths, Crazy Prices was a separate store. I remember going there and thinking it was so colourful, all blue!! I'm not sure if they only did their own brand or like Quinnsworth, had all the other brands aswell.

rubadub · 19-02-2010 10:47am

smiley girl wrote: »

KVI was in Quinnsworths, Crazy Prices was a separate store.

Quinnsworth owned crazy prices and super crazy prices so I think it was in both. I used to get KVI in the supermarket next to me and it was never a quinnsworth shop. They had 2 or 3 "cheapo brands" at the same time, i.e. they might have yellow pack crisps and kvi crisps.

I think KVI was "keen value item" or something.

I think superquinn also had or might still have euroshopper brand which I have seen in supermarkets in the netherlands.

smiley girl · 19-02-2010 4:24pm

rubadub wrote: »

Quinnsworth owned crazy prices and super crazy prices so I think it was in both. I used to get KVI in the supermarket next to me and it was never a quinnsworth shop. They had 2 or 3 "cheapo brands" at the same time, i.e. they might have yellow pack crisps and kvi crisps.

I think KVI was "keen value item" or something.

I think superquinn also had or might still have euroshopper brand which I have seen in supermarkets in the netherlands.

Oh! I didn't know all that, sorry! I just remember our local quinnsworth and crazy prices and my 7 year olds mind assumed back that back then

AARRRGH · 19-02-2010 10:53pm

xzanti wrote: »

I remember eating a lot of tinned fruit aswel for snacks and deserts etc.. usually with a scoop of icecream.. Wasn't all that bad back then

Yeah me too!

How spoilt we've become!

kowloon · 20-02-2010 10:39am

xzanti wrote: »

Instant Whip, it was pretty much the same as Angel Delight.
Those nasty little pizzas
Instant Mash
Rose cream pies
Jelly & ice cream

Ah memories

Forgot them, every time I buy those the filling has gone rubbery, I remember them being much nicer years ago.

Tiriel · 20-02-2010 2:00pm

Woppa's and Mr. Freezes for the win.

Angel Delight as mentioned earlier, ice-cream and wafers, egg nogg (don't think you can have this anymore cos of raw egg..), easi-singles, triangles of cheese with bits of yucky ham in them :eek:, pandy (mashed potato put under the grill mmm) and of course a whole lot of home baking - as it was the norm to make all buns/bread etc. as opposed to now when most stuff is bought in!

Hmm.. my memories all seem to revolve around sweets

And there are just so so many I won't get into it!!

rubadub · 20-02-2010 3:00pm

Cork_girl wrote: »

Woppa's and Mr. Freezes for the win.

And the cut up "chelsea smile" lips from the gigantic ones, my favourite flavour was "Blue", they were addictive

For dessert I used to have jelly and ice cream

I used to get jelly make in a horrible orange rabbit shaped mould. Like this

dudara · 20-02-2010 10:19pm

Angel Delight or Instant Whip

Smash

Ravioli or Spaghetti hoops from the tin

Fruit Salad from a tin

Flapjacks

Spiceburgers!

Chicken Run · 20-02-2010 10:23pm

Vesta Curry as a special and exotic treat.

1980's recession food

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