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Your fantastic food memories!

  • 28-05-2018 09:02AM
    #1
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Kids these days are exposed to so many types of food.
    A little kid in the shop the other day was asking his Mum to buy him Papaya.
    Papaya!?? It was far from papaya we were reared!

    Jam sambos for lunch, and spuds and meat were our staple growing up.
    But the odd time you'd get something out of the ordinary.
    Maybe a neighbour up the road was having rice! the madness of it all! Sure he'd probably turn Chinese!

    For me, I'll never for my first Goodfellas pizza.
    It was World Cup 1994, Ireland Vs Italy, and we were all kids around in my mates place, when his Mum cooked up 'The Big Cheese' pizza.
    Before that, we may have had those yellow pack pizzas in a pack of 10, but this was something else. Big thick bready base, with cheese overflowing and burning your mouth and it slide off the red, herby sauce that would stain your white Ireland away top like a b*tch!
    Oh how we thought we were kings of kings!

    Any food related memories stick vividly in your head?


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  • #2
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Green Curry in Koh Samet, Thailand. Cost about one euro. Best meal ever and I doubt I will get a better one at 100 times the price.


  • #3
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    '80s teatime often included Fish Fingers,Vesta Curry or the legendary Findus Crispy Pancakes.

    Not all at once of course.:D


  • #4
    DMcL1971
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,445 ✭✭✭DMcL1971


    Johnston, Mooney & O’Brien chocolate pies, my absolute favorite snacks. Unfortunately I haven’t seen one in decades.


  • #5
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    I can remember spaghetti bolognese and chicken curry that were frozen in bags that you had to boil to heat through. Crispy pancakes. And I swear I can remember a Goodfellas pizza that had peach on it , would have been early 90s. No one else can remember it though :(


  • #6
    gifted
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,226 ✭✭✭gifted


    Sausage sandwiches as kids on holidays....


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  • #7
    Doyler92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭Doyler92


    First time having a spice bag...


  • #8
    Glico Man
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    Not so much a happy memory, more like a nightmare, but I remember being given cucumber and cress sandwiches as a child. Horrific.


  • #9
    OldMrBrennan83
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #10
    Herpes Free Since03
    Closed Accounts Posts: 398 ✭✭Herpes Free Since03


    Koka noodles... curry flavour...manna from heaven!


  • #11
    4Ad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,875 ✭✭✭4Ad


    My mothers homemade chips we had every Friday.
    Findus Pancakes, now theres a blast from the past !
    The filling would burn the mouth off you.


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  • #12
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Passion4Food, Clanbrassil Street, each and every time I go there. Men who care deeply about the art of the kebab.


  • #13
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Ipso wrote: »
    Green Curry in Koh Samet, Thailand. Cost about one euro. Best meal ever and I doubt I will get a better one at 100 times the price.

    Similar experience here in Thailand with Green Curry. The best I ever had. I came close to madness trying to find it here in the Ireland, but they just can’t get the spices right.


  • #14
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    My mum;s lemon meringue pie.. Lancashire vanilla slices ( nothing like they sell here),, ditto custard pies..

    Second childhood here; large birthday on Monday next and they are marking it with a PUBLIC HOLIDAY!


  • #15
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    About 20 years ago I was in Prague, back then you would just arrive and walk towards Muzeum and you were guaranteed to find somewhere to sleep. Met an old Czech army soldier and he took me to his place in the suburbs. Next to it was the most amazing little Czech restaurant, food for only 3 or 4 pounds back then. Still can taste the orange duck I had there.


  • #16
    weemcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,588 ✭✭✭weemcd


    There are few greater pleasures than standing outside Friar Tucks in Newry steaming after a session devouring a chicken supreme meal. Complete and total bliss. Not a care in the world. There are few things that will ever beat it for me.

    First barbecue stands out. First takeaway pizza.


  • #17
    badabing106
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭badabing106


    First pitch black charcoal burnt barbecued sausage. Heaven


  • #18
    mackeire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭mackeire


    I remember when I was in third class in school my dad collected me early on my birthday and brought me to McDonald's.

    It was great because we didn't do much together because he was always working.

    God I miss my dad!!


    He's not dead or anything, just haven't seen him in about 2 weeks.


  • #19
    omb0wyn5ehpij9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,066 ✭✭✭✭omb0wyn5ehpij9


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    For me, I'll never for my first Goodfellas pizza.
    It was World Cup 1994, Ireland Vs Italy, and we were all kids around in my mates place, when his Mum cooked up 'The Big Cheese' pizza.
    Before that, we may have had those yellow pack pizzas in a pack of 10, but this was something else. Big thick bready base, with cheese overflowing and burning your mouth and it slide off the red, herby sauce that would stain your white Ireland away top like a b*tch!
    Oh how we thought we were kings of kings!

    Those Goodfellas pizzas were amazing. I lived on them for years!!! Why did they ever have to change the recipe? :(


  • #20
    Ush1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,484 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    4Ad wrote: »
    My mothers homemade chips we had every Friday.
    Findus Pancakes, now theres a blast from the past !
    The filling would burn the mouth off you.

    Didn't they do a chicken curry flavour pancake? Filling was hotter than the sun!


  • #21
    omb0wyn5ehpij9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,066 ✭✭✭✭omb0wyn5ehpij9


    Ush1 wrote: »
    Didn't they do a chicken curry flavour pancake? Filling was hotter than the sun!

    You are correct on both counts, they did a chicken curry flavour, and the filling was hotter than the sun!


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  • #22
    greencap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭greencap


    DMcL1971 wrote: »
    Johnston, Mooney & O’Brien chocolate pies, my absolute favorite snacks. Unfortunately I haven’t seen one in decades.

    mr kipling, bramley apple ....AND CUSTARD.... pies.

    they discontinued them after several orgasm related deaths.

    discussion/2058195983/russia-threadbanned-users-in-op/p3135

    😁



  • #23
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭uch


    Rum truffle from Anne's Hot Bread Shop, greatest thing on the planet

    22/25



  • #24
    TooObvious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 308 ✭✭TooObvious


    10 years ago I had the pleasure of cycling the Kellogs Tour of Ireland, on the 3rd day we cycled from Galway to Kilkenny - 244km. We had to climb the Silvermines on the way - it was a hot day and we were all suffering, the final climb up to the food stop was super steep and had people dismounting and walking/crying/contemplating life etc. Somehow i made it to the top without getting off. Anyway, at the top there was a food stop, now, being from Longford and a fussy eater I had never had pineapple, that day we were provided with freshly cut and cold, pineapple slices - Sweet mother of divine baby jebus I had never tasted anything as good in my life! I must have wolfed down half a pineapple before leaving. I'll never forget that day.


  • #25
    Cupcake_Crisis
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    Poutine. I miss poutine so much.


  • #26
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    DMcL1971 wrote: »
    Johnston, Mooney & O’Brien chocolate pies, my absolute favorite snacks. Unfortunately I haven’t seen one in decades.

    Clearly this isn't a minor issue with you either, you're the first thing to pop up when I googled them! :D

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057565298


  • #27
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,707 ✭✭✭valoren


    On a school trip during 5th year to Paris.

    The hotel we stayed at was modest given the budget but the freshly made croissants we had every morning there were absolutely lovely, proper melt in your mouth ones.

    23 years later, I've never tasted any croissant half as nice as they were.


  • #28
    FanadMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    My mum was a great cook. We grew up eating Indian, Chinese and Italian foods regularly. Not the Vesta packet muck, all scratch made. This was in the early 70s in very rural Ireland. Most of my friends only had spaghetti from a tin and rice was boiled in milk for pudding.

    No matter how I tweak her handwritten recipes, I can never get them to taste the same :(


  • #29
    maxwell smart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,941 ✭✭✭maxwell smart


    Ice Creams 'back in the day', When they were made of real Ice Cream.

    Gollybars (non PC now), Loop the Loops, Wibbly Wobbly Wonders. All fantastic when originally out. (Actually all those names are probably now objectionable to someone)

    Forget your Magnums and your Ben & Jerry's sugar fructose E-numbered ****e.

    Bring back the good stuff!!


  • #30
    Corvo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,811 ✭✭✭Corvo


    Slice of pizza from Sacco's in Hells Kitchen, New York. Proper old Italian family place, it was made fresh on the spot. You could collect it from the window and stroll down the street eating it. It was Christmas time too. Majestic.


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  • #31
    LirW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    My first doner kebab when I was about 8 or so.
    My mother brought 2 weirdly shaped things home, wrapped in tin-foil. It had the shape of the quarter of a circle.
    I was curious and a bit disgusted at the same time, I've never seen anything like it before, bread filled with meat and veg and a yogurt sauce.
    But my sister and I split one of the two and I was taken away, instant love.
    Now I haven't had one in a good while, because after long and hard research I found this place at home that just does the best, the take-away sh1te here in Ireland doesn't live up to it.

    Man I want one right now.


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