Food from your childhood.

eternal

Mam of 4 wrote: »

Anyone else eat rabbit stew growing up?? Loved it , haven't had it in years though. And duck and pheasant . Eat or be hungry , so we ate

I remember being about three and walking into our kitchen to see a bloody, gutted rabbit hanging from a hook for the night's dinner. There was blood everywhere. I couldn't be consoled no matter what anyone said and I refused to eat it. I think it was the amount of Enid Blyton books and Watership Down childhood fantasy that surrounded me. I'd eat it no problem now though.

Aglomerado

Mam of 4 wrote: »

Anyone else eat rabbit stew growing up?? Loved it , haven't had it in years though. And duck and pheasant . Eat or be hungry , so we ate

I had a granddad who loved to shoot rabbits and pheasant so there was always something gamey to eat. I haven't had rabbit stew in over 20 years though....

swimming in a sea

I think my mother used to bake a lot when we were kids in the 80's, I don't think we had much money but we ate well. Cottage pie/steak & kidney pie and pizza's. I can remember she made and Birds trifle or a block of Ice Cream on a Sunday with home-made sponge cake.

kylith

nathang20 wrote: »

Country style Luncheon Sausage (Huge Waterford thing). Loved it!

Red lead blaas, boi! Gotta love 'em. Or the old tuck shop favourite; a Meanies blaa. Such memories.

eternal wrote: »

I remember the milk. It was thick and we used to try to make it come out of our noses whilst drinking it.

We used to refuse to drink any that had a drop of milk up in the straw insisting that it was 'germs'. You had to get in there early to get a non 'germy' milk. Never remember getting sandwiches though.

kfallon

kylith wrote: »

Red lead blaas, boi!

God created them on the 7th day when he was having a rest!

Pumpkinseeds

We got bags of milk in primary school, with little straws. They were left in buckets outside each classroom door. We pleaded with my mum every year not to pay for it so we wouldn't have to drink it, but she never listened to us. I can still smell the stench of the buckets....*shudder. Funnily enough though, we all survived and there were a lot fewer 'allergies' and 'food intolerances' in those days too.

Aglomerado

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

We got bags of milk in primary school, with little straws. They were left in buckets outside each classroom door. We pleaded with my mum every year not to pay for it so we wouldn't have to drink it, but she never listened to us. I can still smell the stench of the buckets....*shudder. Funnily enough though, we all survived and there were a lot fewer 'allergies' and 'food intolerances' in those days too.

I remember the bags, the milk used to be disgusting out of them! To this day I cannot take milk from plastic containers, always buy cartons.

Pumpkinseeds

Aglomerado wrote: »

I remember the bags, the milk used to be disgusting out of them! To this day I cannot take milk from plastic containers, always buy cartons.

I feel queasy even looking at a glass of milk.

eternal

There used to be a layer of scummy cream at the top of the little bottles in Primary school. I hated it with passion. The cartons were worse though.

Faith+1

eternal wrote: »

There used to be a layer of scummy cream at the top of the little bottles in Primary school. I hated it with passion. The cartons were worse though.

I used to hate the sandwiches more. Can never eat corned beef again!

RobertKK

My mother would make homemade brown bread, apple tarts, apple pie, rhubard tarts, semolina, sago, tapioca, sponge cakes, buns, scones, currant bread.
Stews, pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, would grow our own fruit and being in rural Ireland would also collect wild fruit and make different type of jams. Christmas Pudding and cake, home reared turkey for Christmas, we were fed very traditional food.
Rerely were soft drinks bought and they were a real treat.

Learned to cook so while still young - under 13, was able to bake cakes, so made stuff my mother wouldn't like or make. We were always well fed so no complaints, always a homemade dinner and homemade desert made with milk from our cows unless it was HB ice cream.
Ham sandwiches and milk for school lunch.

Amalgam

Mince for you, mince for the whole family, mince for the cat. All eating it at the same time. The cat must have thought he was living in an egalitarian socialist paradise, '..those dirtbirds are eating the same thing as me, hooray!'

DEFTLEFTHAND

Amalgam wrote: »

Mince for you, mince for the whole family, mince for the cat. All eating it at the same time. The cat must have thought he was living in an egalitarian socialist paradise, '..those dirtbirds are eating the same thing as me, hooray!'

I was told to stop feeding my cat meat as it was irritating his stomach, he's only allowed Whiskas Senior and nuts with olive oil poured over them now. Poor animal.

Mars Bar

katemarch wrote: »

@Kwiecien

There was also a substance-in-a-jar called simply "Sandwich Spread". Possibly sold by Heinz?

It looked exactly like vomit. Sorry, but it genuinely did!

I loved that stuff! The first bite would make you grimace but after that it was all good.

http://www.britsuperstore.com/acatalog/Heinz_Original_Sandwich_Spread_270g.jpg

Mam of 4

Mars Bar wrote: »

I loved that stuff! The first bite would make you grimace but after that it was all good.

http://www.britsuperstore.com/acatalog/Heinz_Original_Sandwich_Spread_270g.jpg

I used to love that too ! Have you bought a jar of it lately??

Don't Tastes nothing like I remembered it to be.
Or maybe my taste buds have gone..

Mars Bar

Mam of 4 wrote: »

I used to love that too ! Have you bought a jar of it lately??

Don't Tastes nothing like I remembered it to be.
Or maybe my taste buds have gone..

I haven't and I don't think I will now!

Mam of 4

Mars Bar wrote: »

I haven't and I don't think I will now!

Could be just me that found it , well, not nice, try it let me know

Emsloe

Can't go near any canned spaghetti/space invaders type food because of overkill during the childhood years.

Can't stomach Angel Delight nastiness or 'blancmange' (custard that came in chocolate, yellow and pink). Literally feel sick at the thought of it!!

jungleman

When I was a child I used to have the same food for tea every night - Cracker Barrel cheese and cucumber all diced up on a plate. Each square of cheese had to be the same size, same with the cucumber. I used to call it Ronan Food (my name is Ronan). I always get a bit misty-eyed whenever I see Cracker Barrel cheese!

eternal

Mars Bar wrote: »

I loved that stuff! The first bite would make you grimace but after that it was all good.

http://www.britsuperstore.com/acatalog/Heinz_Original_Sandwich_Spread_270g.jpg

I just bought this to see what it's like now. I got the low fat version

Edit. It tastes exactly the same to me.

eternal

jungleman wrote: »

When I was a child I used to have the same food for tea every night - Cracker Barrel cheese and cucumber all diced up on a plate. Each square of cheese had to be the same size, same with the cucumber. I used to call it Ronan Food (my name is Ronan). I always get a bit misty-eyed whenever I see Cracker Barrel cheese!

I'd say your parents loved you! 'I want them ALL the same size.' :rolleyes:

Spanish Eyes

My abiding memory of childhood is being sent to the shop around the corner for a "Turnover" That was the most gorgeous EVER bread on the planet.

So good, that by the time we got home, my sister and I would have plucked the insides out of that bread and ate it on the way home. Then all that was left was the crust on the top and the bottom. Cue ructions from the ma.

Apple tarts were the Ma's greatest dish. To this day I cannot replicate them. Good ole ma.

When she made a stew, she would bake a round of pastry, that was for dunking in the stew. OMG it was so moreish.

She also made stuffed Hearts, don't know from what animal, but they were great. Never knew they were hearts, until years later. Just shows.

Mammies are great. We never went hungry, although half the time we hadn't a clue what was on the plate, but it tasted great. And the Black Babies bribe was always there to make you eat up yer grub.

And my Dad was on duty on Saturday nights. He would boil up a huge pot of back bacon ribs. We would eat them with all the juices dripping down our arms while watching something ridiculous on the telly. Great memories, and to this day, I do boiled back ribs on a Saturday.

TK Cream Soda - there was one summer when I would buy a bottle of this once a week with any pocket money I could get my hands on!

Superquinn Euroshopper white bread, with superquinn ham/billy roll

Perri crisps - was there a green sour cream flavour? with little green dots on the crisps?

Glass after glass of cold milk after playing about outside .. blowing bubbles in it with a straw

Kellogs frosties, ricicles, sugar puffs - have only eaten any of these a handful of times in the last 10 years and only occasionally tasted them when a child but they still evoke strong memories of childhood

Farmhouse vegetable soup from the packet, on top of mashed spuds

sonic the hedgehog biscuits, 1996 i think? .. probably only ate them a couple of times but they stick out in my head for some reason. A small packet of little biscuits with chocolate on the back, shaped like characters from sonic the hedgehog

Amigo orange drink in carton - Super sweet but tiny quantity in one carton. I'd try to stretch it out over little lunch and big lunch but I'd be absolutely gasping for a drink by the time I got home!

Finches orange - we seemed to get this much more than Club (superior) or Fanta (inferior), although we didn't get fizzy drinks often

Jamaican ginger cake

.. could think of lots more!

eternal

Deleted User wrote: »

TK Cream Soda - there was one summer when I would buy a bottle of this once a week with any pocket money I could get my hands on!

Superquinn Euroshopper white bread, with superquinn ham/billy roll

Perri crisps - was there a green sour cream flavour? with little green dots on the crisps?

Glass after glass of cold milk after playing about outside .. blowing bubbles in it with a straw

Kellogs frosties, ricicles, sugar puffs - have only eaten any of these a handful of times in the last 10 years and only occasionally tasted them when a child but they still evoke strong memories of childhood

Farmhouse vegetable soup from the packet, on top of mashed spuds

sonic the hedgehog biscuits, 1996 i think? .. probably only ate them a couple of times but they stick out in my head for some reason. A small packet of little biscuits with chocolate on the back, shaped like characters from sonic the hedgehog

Amigo orange drink in carton - Super sweet but tiny quantity in one carton. I'd try to stretch it out over little lunch and big lunch but I'd be absolutely gasping for a drink by the time I got home!

Finches orange - we seemed to get this much more than Club (superior) or Fanta (inferior), although we didn't get fizzy drinks often

Jamaican ginger cake

.. could think of lots more!

That reminds me of the Animal biscuits in the box. Different shaped animals with chocolate coating. I loved them.

SweetChaos

Tinned Ravioli in tomato sauce (puke) and the tinned irish stew that smelt like dog food

_Whimsical_

Possibly my favourite thing ever : Le Duex chocolate eggs which appeared at easter for a few years. They were mini, the size of a cadbury creme egg but had a white choc outside and a dark chocolate truffle inside.
I would kill for another one of them!

Chips from the deep fat frier!
I haven't had chips from a deep fat frier in many many years but they were pretty hard to beat and a staple of Friday's in my house.

Amalgam

Crispy pancakes with mystery meat, I can't.. I couldn't really say it is a positive memory, a few gristle 'knuckles' and strangely round hard spheres of meat based material, have put me off any need to go back and try them again. Not to mention the third degree burns you'd give the roof of your mouth.

Angel Delight was a big thing, hard to get that across now. Powdered potato mash that you'd reconstitute with boiling water. I ate the pellets raw as a kid..

My family went through a big Fray Bentos phase in the 80s. Steak and Kidney Pie with some mash (see above). Forever associated with the colour blue.

If you're above a certain age, it really is hard to get across to someone younger than you just how barren the commercial food sector, in the Irish supermarkets was, until the 80s.

Mam of 4

eternal wrote: »

I just bought this to see what it's like now. I got the low fat version

Edit. It tastes exactly the same to me.

I did say it was probably my taste buds, it just didn't taste how I remembered it to be and I was sorely disappointed tbh. Glad you enjoyed it though

teotihuacan

Turkey Twizzlers. Loved them. Till they were banned and discontinued.

Thanks Jamie Oliver ya knob.

eternal

Maybe it's when you're very young you have no other food to compare it to then fast forward years in advance and most people ave travelled all over the world and are like, disgusted with the old stuff. You become immune to what you loved when you were younger and are more cynical. I could be wrong now but I am just comparing it to life experience as a whole