Fun foods you remember from growing up ?

mikedublin

Anyone have any special memories of food / dinners that remind you of days growing up in the 80's early 90's ?

My own included.......these pizzas which were on top of baguettes,
toasted cheese sandwiches, potato cakes, snax crisps, chicken olives (rolls of chicken with stuffing inside them), a desert made with ice cream in fizzy orange, fish fingers (I used to drive my ma mad by just eating the breaded crumb outside bit !). Arctic rolls. These oblong pots with tinfoil where you poured boiling water in and stired and left them 5 minutes (I always cheated and ate them after just 2 minutes !).

lord lucan

Coddle and Stews were staples of our dinner table during the 80's. Everything came with spuds! On a saturday a treat would often be fish fingers or crispy pancakes with chips. Ah,simple times:)

gipi

A bit further back than the 80s (showing me age now ) but I remember being able to tell which day of the week it was by what was served for dinner!

Monday was leftover from the sunday roast (beef or chicken), Tuesday was stew, Wednesday was sausage and chips, Thursday was liver or occasionally pork chop, Friday was egg and chips (no meat!) and Saturday was mince or, if we'd bought some, rabbit stew.

I'm sure there was more variety than I remember, but maybe there wasn't!!

xzanti

My mam used to bake butterfly cakes.. I loved them, the topping was to die for I wonder if they still sell it.. I would eat that on it's own from the bowl

Used to love bangers and mash, my dads stew, those chips that were shaped like the alphabet, they were gorge.. I'm getting hungry now

Ruu_Old

My Mam used to fry eggs and chop them up into fried turnip, it was delightful when I was younger but I haven't had it for years.

jonas7

Like the op i used to love ice cream in fizzy orange too but another of my favourites was breaking cream crackers up into small pieces and pouring them into a big mug of Dwans orange.Thinking about it now it doesnt seem to appealing but back in the eighties it was bloody gorgeous!

Agricola

My granaunt used to make the strongest beef stew. Think there used be two large onions in it and what seemed like half a container of salt!

You could nearly stand on it!:D
I imagine it wasnt the healthiest, but that taste.........Id love to have it again.

anewme

Laughing at the OP's post. Remember Artic Rolls. Also the little pots of mousse you could get with a swirl of ripple in it. We also had the ice cream in Coke or Orange and called it an ice cream soda. Also remember yellow pack Pizzas came out first. Soggy horrible yokes, but we loved them. I think the baguette pizza yokes were called Findus French Bread Pizzas. Loved them too. Crispy pancakes, yum. Were the pots with the tin foil noodley things. They are still out. Quick Lunch or something like that. I used to love curry ones and when you got to the end there was a load of the sauce stuff that you had not put water on.

My favourite on Sunday night watching the Muppet Show was crinkle cut chips, a fried egg and a granby burger.

lord lucan

And not forgetting a Guggy,basically a boiled egg mashed up in a mug with butter!:)

anewme

lord lucan wrote: »

And not forgetting a Guggy,basically a boiled egg mashed up in a mug with butter!:)

Ah guggy egg in a cup. I was speaking to a friend and she remembered that as well. Was it a Dublin thing though, because I said it to a friend from Meath and he had not a clue.

We also had bread with hot milk and sugar which we called goody and they had something similar called bread biddies.

Den_M

Pizza rolls on a Friday evening!

lord lucan

anewme wrote: »

Ah guggy egg in a cup. I was speaking to a friend and she remembered that as well. Was it a Dublin thing though, because I said it to a friend from Meath and he had not a clue.

It seems to be a Dublin thing,any country friends of mine i've ever said it too looked at me like i was mad!:)

fionnmar

saucy sponge

Irishpimpdude

Dippy egg and soldiers ftw!!!! :cool:

deadhead13

Angel delight.

pikachucheeks

Chicken Dippers...
and ice-cream flavour chewits. I miss those bad boys!

Ann22

Like Deadhead 13, Angel Delight. On a Sunday evening during 'The Muppet Show' or 'Little House on the Prairie' or 'Worzel Gummidge...butterscotch or strawberry. Bought some recently, soooo delicious!My mam used to make buns with jam and coconut on mmm!
We too would have the same dinners for particular days. One thing we got was mash, beans with tinned salmon...yuck! I hated it!! Fridays were grand -fish and chips!:)

lord lucan

Jelly And Ice Cream. Does anyone even eat that these days?

ghost_ie

gipi wrote: »

A bit further back than the 80s (showing me age now ) but I remember being able to tell which day of the week it was by what was served for dinner!

Monday was leftover from the sunday roast (beef or chicken), Tuesday was stew, Wednesday was sausage and chips, Thursday was liver or occasionally pork chop, Friday was egg and chips (no meat!) and Saturday was mince or, if we'd bought some, rabbit stew.

I'm sure there was more variety than I remember, but maybe there wasn't!!

I think we're of the same vintage. Monday was the leftovers from Sunday's roast (mainly beef or mutton - chicken was for special occasions. Maybe I'm of an older vintage after all), Tuesday was baked beans and potatoes mashed up together (we used to call them orange potatoes), Wednesday was fish, Thursday was liver or kidney and Friday was pork chop or pork skirt (I loved pork skirt. You can't seem to get it any more). Saturday was always mince for the one midday dinner of the week, and a big fry-up at tea-time.

ghost_ie

lord lucan wrote: »

Jelly And Ice Cream. Does anyone even eat that these days?

I had some only the other day. Delicious

subtle_as

anyone remember Smiley bars? they had an orange wrapper and were the size of Chomp bars. they were lovely, orange flavour if i remember correctly!

scottie pippen

marathon bars!!!

used to love that chwing gum that had all the crunchy bits that fizzed
& crackeld in your mouth.

dinosaur shaped potato thingys

golf ball chewing gum

scottie pippen

subtle_as wrote: »

anyone remember Smiley bars? they had an orange wrapper and were the size of Chomp bars. they were lovely, orange flavour if i remember correctly!

used to love these.

also liked lazer bars, hard toffee coverd in cheap greasey white choclate, would last ya hours, bad combo, but value for money - 10p

byte

subtle_as wrote: »

anyone remember Smiley bars? they had an orange wrapper and were the size of Chomp bars. they were lovely, orange flavour if i remember correctly!

I'm pretty sure I came across Smiley bars in a convenience shop recently, so I think theyr'e still about.

Wham bars, Stingers and Chomps are still available too, but not easily found.

In my youth, Sunday was pretty much roast chicken every time, and then a salad in the evenings. Dessert was always either apple tart, trifle or jelly with cream. Or, HB vanilla ice cream wedged between two wafers.

Silverfish

There was this thing we used to be given for supper, I'm retching at the thoughts of it now but used to love it when I was younger!

It was a slice of bread, torn up into little pieces and put into a cup. Then boiling water was poured onto it, and soaked into the bread, then poured out, and then the cup was filled up with milk and a teaspoon of sugar. It was eaten with a spoon, sort of a hot cold sweet mush.

Barf.

anewme wrote: »

Ah guggy egg in a cup. I was speaking to a friend and she remembered that as well. Was it a Dublin thing though, because I said it to a friend from Meath and he had not a clue.

We also had bread with hot milk and sugar which we called goody and they had something similar called bread biddies.

God yes, I missed this post but that was the stuff alright! My dad used to make guggy eggs as well. Barf.

Oh yeah, and I'm from Meath.

rcdk1

Was out for dinner with some friends last night and I swear to god the mash the chef served up tasted like Smash! Brought back old memories.

TheScribbler

My own favourite was bread pudding and custard. It was probably comfort food, but hell, why not

lord lucan

Beans on toast. Simple. Classic. Cheap.

TheScribbler

Hi Lord Lucan. I agree with you. Cheese on toast - can't beat it

poisonated

There were a few breakfast cereals which I loved:

Banana bubbles - I don't really like bananas but I loved them

Redy brek - A healthy breakfast made unhealthy with lashings of sugar

Lucky charms - They had to ban them in Ireland.Damn you health conscious government.Whenever I can,I get this cereal.Every time I am in America I get a box or two.

Speaking of breakfast.Does anyone remember those frozen breakfast rolls wich you stuck in the microwave?
They were absolutely horrible

gipi

TheScribbler wrote: »

My own favourite was bread pudding and custard. It was probably comfort food, but hell, why not

Ah how could I have forgotten bread and butter pudding! My mother made it, with white bread, custard and sultanas (and no doubt tons of sugar coz everything had sugar on it back in the day!), and I always wanted to eat the crusty top straight from the bowl it was cooked in (enamel of course!).

Banana sandwiches....with sugar (that's how my mother made them, didn't realise for years that the bananas didn't actually need sugar on!).

My brother's fav sandwich was....salad cream!

All this talk of food is making me hungry.....:P

PS - I must have been deprived as a chisler, never heard of guggy egg till I read this thread

TheScribbler

Actually I adored custard and rice pudding. Custard always tasted better when it formed a skin on the surface and rice pudding never got an opportunity to do so!

chakotha

I forgot about Angel Delight. With a Flake bar crumbled on top.

Alphabety Spaghetti

Eating the outer chocolate from around chocolate bars leaving only the inner biscuit/toffee/whatnot

Cornflakes with banana slices

IvyTheTerrible

Silverfish wrote: »

There was this thing we used to be given for supper, I'm retching at the thoughts of it now but used to love it when I was younger!

It was a slice of bread, torn up into little pieces and put into a cup. Then boiling water was poured onto it, and soaked into the bread, then poured out, and then the cup was filled up with milk and a teaspoon of sugar. It was eaten with a spoon, sort of a hot cold sweet mush.

Barf.



God yes, I missed this post but that was the stuff alright! My dad used to make guggy eggs as well. Barf.

Oh yeah, and I'm from Meath.

Ooh guggy eggs, my mum used to make those, and she's from Meath...vvery strange! My brother still eats them and he is 24, his housemates think it's disgusting!

loglogbarkbark

a boiled egg with marmite soldiers like my grandma used to make. Golden grahams now that was a cereal.

DublinWriter

mikedublin wrote: »

My own included.......these pizzas which were on top of baguettes,

Findus French Bread Pizza? Note that they didn't use the word baguette back then as we wouldn't have had a clue what it meant seeing as the only types of bread we had were batch and pan.

lord lucan

Jam sambos!! Always got them for lunch at school. Come to think of it that's probably the last time i had one!!

gipi

A few mentioned Angel Delight - anyone remember the other brand - Instant Whip?

cyning

Anyone remember hi sours: I still crave them!

And Birds Eye have brought back Artic Rolls I found them shopping today I was like SUPER excited!

Oh and oh tapioca and ambrosia yummy!

00112984

:D:D:D

candy-gal1

Getting dip dabs that dusty stuff that made noise in your mouth from the shop after a day of collecting conkers! happy autumn childhood days!

Mars Bar

"Touchdown" bars with the NFL Footballers on the wrapper. Came in red or blue wrappers and I remember going into the shop every friday after school wondering which colour I wanted. It was such a big deal at the time choosing the colour...

...they tasted exactly the same.

They are the bars I will remember forever!

BluesBerry

cyning wrote: »

Anyone remember hi sours: I still crave them!

And Birds Eye have brought back Artic Rolls I found them shopping today I was like SUPER excited!

Oh and oh tapioca and ambrosia yummy!

Ah Hi sours yes ......LOL my brother chocked on one of these and we all thought he was messing with them being so sour I couldnt stop laughing even when the mammy was giving him the heimleck maneuver I went into convulsions ........sigh.........still cracks me up the memory of it:D

chewed

Crisp sandwiches, sugar sandwiches, marmite sandwiches. I even liked mustard sandwiches at one stage.

I Love Tea

lord lucan wrote: »

It seems to be a Dublin thing,any country friends of mine i've ever said it too looked at me like i was mad!:)

Don't think it was just a Dublin thing. I remember it as a child. My grandfather used to always ask us if we wanted some guggy egg for breakfast

BluesBerry

subtle_as wrote: »

anyone remember Smiley bars? they had an orange wrapper and were the size of Chomp bars. they were lovely, orange flavour if i remember correctly!

Sigh......yes I loved those used to get a horse money 20p pocket money and bought a smiley and a Kalipso bar:)

The mammy always made us Bread and oxo when we got in from school everyday loved it tear up bread sprinkle on an oxo cube add boiling water Viola
I was always partial to a big bowl of mash with a happy face on top made with red sauce the mash always tasted nicer with a happy face drawn on it................it still does:o