Crispy Pancakes. What the hell happened???

The Peanut

The Backwards Man wrote: »

They probably tasted awful back then too, but in those days we were used to poundies or meatloaf for dinner, crispy pancake and soggy sunburnt frozen chips were practically cordon bleu!

Had to google poundies; never heard of the word. Knew it as champ or Mammy's fancy mashed potatoes. Rural living eh!

Applause

They were one of the first things I ever "cooked", I loved them, we always had the mince and onion ones. I remember if you over cooked them the burnt part would turn into a black bubble and you could just pick it off.

Luke92

Banjo String wrote: »

This.

More dangerous than the other edible booby trap, the ****ing baked bean toasted samwich.

Lava wouldn't burn as much as those bastards :mad:

Ham and cheese toastie is worse!

cloud493

Spam and cheese toasties are delicious though.

Applause

cloud493 wrote: »

Spam and cheese toasties are delicious though.

Posts like this are the reason we need a "No Thanks" button.

Filmer Paradise

cloud493 wrote: »

Spam and cheese toasties are delicious though.

Applause wrote: »

Posts like this are the reason we need a "No Thanks" button.

Dunno........Sounds like a plan.

Have to find this Spam stuff.

cloud493

Try it, its utterly delicious.

Filmer Paradise

cloud493 wrote: »

Try it, its utterly delicious.

Mashed & processed 'meat' with loadsa E numbers?

Perfect nostalga for the '70s/'80's kid.


I'm on the case!

Tarzana2

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

but the Findus Crispy pancake with it's lava hot fillings of Steak & Kidney, Chicken & Bacon & latterly Chicken Curry.......have gone.

Surely you mean "with it's lava hot fillings of "Steak & Kidney", "Chicken & Bacon" & latterly "Chicken Curry"..."

They are mank. At least fish fingers have a decent amount of fish.

Filmer Paradise

Tarzana2 wrote: »

Surely you mean "with it's lava hot fillings of "Steak & Kidney", "Chicken & Bacon" & latterly "Chicken Curry"..."

They are mank. At least fish fingers have a decent amount of fish.

They sold well in times gone by...

Do people know what goes into Chicken Nuggets, Cheap Sausages, Corned Beef?

This kinda feed is still bought widely.

Also. on the mouth burning issue, the 'apple pies' in micky d's still sell well.:rolleyes:

Tarzana2

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

They sold well in times gone by...

Do people know what goes into Chicken Nuggets, Cheap Sausages, Corned Beef?

They're all shíte. What's your point?

We never had crispy pancakes growing up. Plenty of other processed stuff mind, but I don't get the fondness for crispy pancakes. For people saying they're different and worse now, it's probably just your palette is more refined these days.

Zippie84

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How Soon Is Now

Crispy pancake sambo s!!

There ****e lately though dry out really easy hhave feck all filling.

Actually now that I'm thinking of this does anyone remember the chicken and mushroom pastry s dunnes used to do? They had like a criss cross design on top. Where Fecking lovely!!

Ol' Donie

C'mere to me, do they still make those bags of little pizzas that you grill?

kfallon

Ol' Donie wrote: »

C'mere to me, do they still make those bags of little pizzas that you grill?

The ones that only had cheese on them? I used to love those

Filmer Paradise

Tarzana2 wrote: »

They're all shíte. What's your point?

We never had crispy pancakes growing up. Plenty of other processed stuff mind, but I don't get the fondness for crispy pancakes. For people saying they're different and worse now, it's probably just your palette is more refined these days.

Nah, most of us growing up back in the day had the standard meat & 2 veg for dinner (when dinner was at 1).

Teatime (6 in the evening) was host to all kind's of ****e like these.

Processed food like this was seen as a 'treat' then & it sticks in your mind as a happy memory of times gone by.

Hence my mission to find them & my surprise that they are just not as avaiable as I thought they would be.

Nothing sinister. I promise.

Never even heard of them!

Mountainsandh

Ol' Donie wrote: »

C'mere to me, do they still make those bags of little pizzas that you grill?

Pizzinis ?
Bought them for the kids last week, they love them once in a while, reminds me of the meals I used to get as a student in host families in the early 90s (that's how I first met Ireland) : Pizzinis, waffle, beans. They're still there, but you kind of have to look for them.

Used to buy the pancakes for the husband when we were young, I'd say I'd die of heartburn if I had one now, can't handle that much processing, if I had to die of processed food I'd rather the pastries with same filling or the bags of dried pasta with them lethal sauces.

The French frozen pancakes on the other hand...

Candy_Girl

I loved the curry ones, no matter how much you tried to cool the ****ers down you'd always end up with a burnt tongue,wouldn't touch one now.... we lived in deprived times

Savage Tyrant

They were rancid alright and could require a skin graft for your tongue afterwards. I don't miss them at all.....

But what I DO miss that just dissappeared was "Bagel Bites" ... Boxes of 9 mini bagels with pizza toppings.... Heavenly.

cofy

cloud493 wrote: »

Spam and cheese toasties are delicious though.

I remember cans of spam, I wonder did you like brawn too!!! I was always disappointed with the amount of mushrooms in the chicken and mushroom pancakes, but this thread has me trying to figure out how to make them.

The Backwards Man

cofy wrote: »

I remember cans of spam, I wonder did you like brawn too!!! I was always disappointed with the amount of mushrooms in the chicken and mushroom pancakes, but this thread has me trying to figure out how to make them.

Very simple to make
Rustle up a few breadcrumbs and give your dog a laxative.

shruikan2553

I remember them being in Dunnes not long ago. Haven't had them in 10 years, they were awful.

Savage Tyrant wrote: »

They were rancid alright and could require a skin graft for your tongue afterwards. I don't miss them at all.....

But what I DO miss that just dissappeared was "Bagel Bites" ... Boxes of 9 mini bagels with pizza toppings.... Heavenly.

I loved them as a child wish I could find them now.

cofy

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Very simple to make
Rustle up a few breadcrumbs and give your dog a laxative.

I would never do such a thing to my little doggie:eek::eek::eek::eek::D

cofy

It's so funny though, we used to love them as children, yet as grown up's we think the same as our parents thought of them "pure and utter muck"

The Peanut

The Peanut wrote: »

Back in the day when toasted sandwich makers first came out, toasted tomatoes were lethal. Would scald the roof of the mouth something awful.

There was nothing more lethal in the fridge, or anything that scalded your tastebuds into a week long hibernation worse, than a toasted easi-singles sandwich eaten too soon. Think they still use this as a torture technique in some parts of the world despite the UN strictly banning their use for torture and/or B.D.S.M.

Findus crispy pancakes were up there as well, we used to cut one open and dry all the washing over it as we waited for it to cool down.

On Topic; I had my fair share of Findus Crispy Pancakes as a young fella. They probably have gone scarce and are hard to find now, I wouldn't know though because I'm never on the look-out for the rancid hell-spawned lava canisters.

foggy_lad

cloud493 wrote: »

I regularly buy them in marks and spencers.

For the more discerning upmarket shopper:D

They are in short supply because stocks are now sent to Guantanamo to "feed" the prisoners there.

Tearin It Up

I've got a craving for them now. Yum yum yum.

Tearin It Up

Yum

JONJO THE MISER

Can still get them, see them in Dunnes all the time.