Food from your childhood.

deco nate

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Still eat them, love it.

I thought dennys stopped making pies in a tin??

Day Lewin

The bread, I'd forgotten the bread!

Batch bread really WAS made in batches, came as a sort of sheet of loaves, with dark domed crusts rising up like cobblestones.
They would break one off, leaving a soft, pulled crumb surface called "the fly's walk".
There was often a sort of flap or strip of loose bread hanging from it so you could pull that away and eat it on the way home. Sometimes this hollowed out a regular little shallow cave in the side of the loaf...

There was also a version of the loaf called a Duck, (shaped something like a Calzone) and another shape called a Turnover, which was folded into a sort of L-shape and also "batched" along the sides.

eternal

deco nate wrote: »

I thought dennys stopped making pies in a tin??

Steak and Kidney pie in a tin, it's over 1,000 calories.

Smiles35

Dunnes used to do an own brand steak and kidney pie in a tin. Contained the nicest gravy in the world.

eternal wrote: »

Steak and Kidney pie in a tin, it's over 1,000 calories.

Yeah. I used to fall asleep after one.

5star02707

Planters

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Bubble gum skittles

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Pepsi blue

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Turtyturd

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Mashed potato with beans through it and a pork chop is one my fondest memories from the 80's

Still get this occasionally...with two sausages on the side.

My memory of it growing up was that every time without fail I wouldn't have enough beans to mix with the potato and have a big dry chunk.

MrWalsh

eternal wrote: »

Steak and Kidney pie in a tin, it's over 1,000 calories.

I was in LIDL one day and a junkie came in and and shouted at staff that he was looking for a steak and kidney pie "IN A TIN!!"

SEPT 23 1989

Living Off The Splash wrote: »

Tapioca with a dollop of ice cream. Could eat it all day. Unfortunately it takes ages to make.

Ambrosia do it in a tin

ardmacha

Funny, while my mother made lovely apple and rhubarb tarts and the like, all you ever wanted was Angel Delight.

fleet_admiral

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Ambrosia do it in a tin

And dealz sell it

MRnotlob606

고양이와 독수리

Smidge

fussyonion wrote: »

My other half said "Oh yeah, I remember brawn. What was it made from?"
I have no idea; anyone care to enlighten us?

anncoates wrote: »

It's like spam, wasn't it? Processed pink "meat" in a huge roll that they used to slice with a electric slicer.

Or am I mixing it up with something else.

As far as I remember it was neon pink in colour processed sliced meat that you got at "the counter" (it wasn't sold in packs).
It wasnt the texture of spam though. It was like a cross between sliced corned beef and pork, onion and tomato roll(there's another one from the past )

I dread to think what it was made from considering the makers thought the best way to sell it and make it in anyway possible appealing, was to make it that colour

deco nate

eternal wrote: »

Steak and Kidney pie in a tin, it's over 1,000 calories.

Mmm, tasty tasty calories dennys made the best,
All others can feck off

deco nate

eternal wrote: »

Steak and Kidney pie in a tin, it's over 1,000 calories.

Mmm, tasty tasty calories dennys made the best,
All others can feck off

deco nate

eternal wrote: »

Steak and Kidney pie in a tin, it's over 1,000 calories.

Mmm, tasty tasty calories dennys made the best,
All others can feck off

eisenberg1

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

I remember the excitement, many, many moons ago, when we had a Vesta curry.

They used to advertise every night on the Tele and there were loads of flavours.

Couple of years back I got nostalgic and got one again. What utter sh1t. It was awful. We had to get something else to eat

Jesus, I remember those well, my introduction to "exotic" food. As a matter of interest, where did you buy them?

JONJO THE MISER

deco nate wrote: »

I thought dennys stopped making pies in a tin??

Im pretty sure they still make them only had one last year, i get the ones in dealz now by some english company.

Jam roly-poly with hot custard. Why is this not sold everywhere?

eisenberg1

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

A type of spicy sausage that was used in sandwiches. Don't be put off by its grey colour.

I see wiki gives as liver, heart, lungs - all good stuff

Lips, eyeballs and assring. Plus "flavouring":)

eternal

Candie wrote: »

Jam roly-poly with hot custard. Why is this not sold everywhere?

Is that not just swiss roll?

JillyQ

eternal wrote: »

Is that not just swiss roll?

Thats what i thought

emigrate2012

Sundays in the granny's the adult always had a roast of some kind,us kids?pink meat....was feckin gorgeous only found out recently it was cow's tongue... Oh the betrayal!
Was bloody lovely all the same!

eisenberg1

Anyone remember rissoles? God only knows what was in them.

Also spice burgers, washed down with Slainte Orange, moxey stuff altogether.

emigrate2012

Cassidys on Westmoreland st. Do have buckets of old school bars and lollies and crips for free,class pub to boot.

emigrate2012

Club shandy 0.5% alcohol, loved them when I was a nipper,might have cometh to do with my love of gargle now.....

5.15?!? Christ,tis time for a pint!

grouchyman

Always remember rice pudding had it on a Friday.. Loved the burnt bit from the bottom of the saucepan.

Lollipops23

Billy Roll, Pop Tarts and those apple pastry yokes you could get in Superquinn back in the day.

Mesrine65

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Im pretty sure they still make them only had one last year, i get the ones in dealz now by some english company.

Fray Bentos pies

Irish Guitarist

Findus Crispy Pancakes deep fried in a pot of orangey-brown cooking oil with burned black crumbs floating in it. Every so often my mother would strain the oil through an old pair of tights. The tights were clean but it makes me retch to think about it. When a pot of nice new clear cooking oil was used it felt like all my Christmases and birthdays had come at one.

I don't recall ever having anything with the pancakes. No chips or potatoes. Just a couple of pancakes on a plate.

fleet_admiral

Does anyone remember the frozen food section in the old Crazy Prices in Kilbarrack. I think it was unique in that it was a massive walk in freezer that you walked around