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1980's recession food

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    #122
    Dot Cotton
    Registered Users Posts: 40 ✭Dot Cotton


    Hi I'm a newbie! Laughing at the memories this thread brings back!

    Potato salad in a tin!
    Findus crispy pancakes & the mini pizzas!
    Banana sandwiches were all I'd eat for supper for years! Along with milk straight from the bulk tank mmmmmmm :D


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    christmas2012
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭christmas2012


    Fruice - 80 cent a litre

    Fish fingers an 80's recession favourite of mine all you need is chips or rice and peas with soysauce..


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    #124
    bassy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,550 ✭✭✭bassy


    macaroons,calypsos and stinger bars lol


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    #125
    Sala
    Registered Users Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭Sala


    I found a tin of Squeeze in Dunnes, I didn't know they still made them, you know the ones that you add the tin to water? Our next door neighbour used to make up jugs and I thought it was really posh :D Anyway, I made it up and it is manky! Either they changed the recipe (like the crispy pancakes which I'm convinced were much nicer) or our palate evolved during the bubble


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    #126
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,379 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    [QUOTE=Sala;81036248 Either they changed the recipe[/QUOTE]
    Its not really a recipe, as its just concentrated orange juice, unlike kia ora or something. It should be pretty much the same as the "made from concentrated orange juice" stuff you get which is ready diluted for you, as opposed to tropicana "not from concentrate" stuff.

    I am surprised there has not been a resurgence of this stuff, since it is more eco friendly.

    If your tap water is nasty the juice will be nasty of course.


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    #127
    boiledsweets
    Site Banned Posts: 104 ✭✭boiledsweets


    baked beans and toast an 80s favourite


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    #128
    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 68,196 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Chucken wrote: »
    Granted 1 of my children has a terrible aversion to spuds with "everything" :D

    Mam? :P

    I've not cooked boiled potatoes once in >5 years due to my mother cooking them *every single day* for at the previous ~20 years.
    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Microwaves were new back then, actually this might have been early nineties.
    And local centers ran night classes on how to work them, hard to believe.

    They're actually a 50s invention but definitely only became just about cheap enough then.

    Found the 'cookbook' that came with my parents 1980s one, it suggests painting on gravy on to a whole chicken skin before nuking it to ensure that it looked "brown"!


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