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Nostalgic Food - Good and Bad!

tickingclock

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

Toad in the Hole with Onion Red Wine Gravy and Peas.

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Please don't quote pictures! Thanks! Shenshen

You make the nicest most varied dinners ever. I would love to eat at your house. Its never the same auld dinner like my house!

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odyssey06

Rows Grower wrote: »

Bovril, the drink of the Gods.
Made from ground up beef bones, take shagging that vegans!
Served in a mug with a Calvita sandwich if you were lucky to get to the cupboards before your siblings.
(Calvita was cheese in a small cardboard box and was wrapped in the thinnest tin foil ever known to mankind.)

Still in our cupboard... to thicken beef sauces.

No Calvita then or now... Galtee singles I think.
Lovely melting into hot toast.

Rows Grower

Bovril, the drink of the Gods.

Made from ground up beef bones, take shagging that vegans!

Served in a mug with a Calvita sandwich if you were lucky to get to the cupboards before your siblings.

(Calvita was cheese in a small cardboard box and was wrapped in the thinnest tin foil ever known to mankind.)

Leg End Reject

The above has reminded me of Heinz sandwich spread. Vile stuff.

odyssey06

Rows Grower wrote: »

Anything used as a spread on bread that wasn't real butter was known as margarine and the people using that were frowned upon. A bit like the vegans of today.

Fair play there!
But I should have been clearer, I meant the ingredients were reformulated in shop bought soups, stocks, sauces, cakes, biscuits.

Rows Grower

odyssey06 wrote: »

Yes there were not so many fad avoidances back then. But I also heard sth interesting about gluten.

A lot of food cupboard items were reformulated to remove butter and animals fats. They were replaced with worse fats and then also more gluten containing products to be vegetarian friendly.
A lot of glutebn intolerant - as opposed to allergic - coaeliacs didnt know they had it. they just thought they had sensitive stomachs or sth nebulous.

One reason why ppl may have preferred the taste of the good old days and its not just nostalgia.

Not in my house. There was no such a thing as vegetable oil, everything was fried using Frytex. Big white blocks of natural beef dripping.

It was left go cold and harden in the pan too ready for the next time, proper recycling before it was heard of.

Black pudding was another thing that was made with pure fat (and raw blood.) and there was no such thing as a health inspector visiting wherever it was made.

Anything used as a spread on bread that wasn't real butter was known as margarine and the people using that were frowned upon. A bit like the vegans of today.

Leg End Reject

Anyone else have ready brek in winter?

My mother used to cremate food, I hated red meat as a child because it was always like old boots. Veg was boiled to the point of nearly being liquefied too.

Sunday - roast beef or chicken, rock hard roasted, lumpy mash and liquid veg
Monday - left over from Sunday, mixed and fried
Tuesday - lamb or pork chops, mash and beans
Wednesday - steak, fried onions and mushrooms, mash
Thursday - mince stew and mash
Friday - egg, chips and beans
Saturday - gammon steaks, pineapple and mash

Desserts were a mixture of angel delight, or jelly and ice cream in summer
Rice, semolina or custard in winter

To this day the smell of home cooked chips reminds me of Friday afternoons and the happiness of no school for 2 days.

0lddog

tickingclock wrote: »

Noone was a coeliac either .......

I think you might mean that no one was diagnosed as coeliac.
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Coeliac disease was first put forward as a possibility in the late 1940's

For many years knowledge of the possibility of its existence was limited mainly to a few gastroenterologists.

Due to limitations of early flexible endscope technology it wasnt really feasible to diagnose coeliac disease before the 1970's

Sorry for the off topic post

odyssey06

tickingclock wrote: »

Noone was a coeliac either or allergic to anything and the words childhood obesity weren't linked together.

Yes there were not so many fad avoidances back then. But I also heard sth interesting about gluten.

A lot of food cupboard items were reformulated to remove butter and animals fats. They were replaced with worse fats and then also more gluten containing products to be vegetarian friendly.
A lot of glutebn intolerant - as opposed to allergic - coaeliacs didnt know they had it. they just thought they had sensitive stomachs or sth nebulous.

One reason why ppl may have preferred the taste of the good old days and its not just nostalgia.

tickingclock

Noone was a coeliac either or allergic to anything and the words childhood obesity weren't linked together. I was well fed with a Mammy who was a good cook. My Daddy could do steak and bread and a fryed egg and banana sambos for lunch!! Looking back now I didn't appreciate it at all

Gloomtastic!

Rows Grower wrote: »

No one was fat, and we never heard of diabetes or cholesterol. Mainly because the only time we sat down was to eat or to watch telly for an hour or two a week.

I remember my mum starving herself every Monday because she had Weight Watchers in the evening.......

Rows Grower

Fried bread with an egg, a hole was made in the center of a slice of bread and it was put into the frying pan along with the egg in the middle, the small piece of bread was fried too and used for dipping.

Homemade apple tart and cream.

Tayto sandwiches.

No one was fat, and we never heard of diabetes or cholesterol. Mainly because the only time we sat down was to eat or to watch telly for an hour or two a week.

the beer revolu

As a kid I didn't appreciate how well we ate. I do now.
For the people who's mother's gave them some of the awful food described here, it must have been an awful chore for the said mothers.
It must have been some drudge serving up dinners daily when you have no interest or knowledge of food and cooking. And then get little or no appreciation as the food is so bad.
What a horrible job.

Grandeeod

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Ah yes, the infamous burger sandwich.

Two grilled burgers, between two slices of batch loaf with ketchup is a thing of beauty.

But I'd never post on boards about it. Credibility ruined in one click of the mouse.:eek:

igCorcaigh

L1011 wrote: »

Burger, baked, served between two slices of sliced pan

Ah yes, the infamous burger sandwich.

L1011

Remembering some of the awful stuff now. My mother won't buy burgers that don't have nearly 100% meat content which for many frozen ones means utterly tasteless. Burger, baked, served between two slices of sliced pan, boiled potatoes and microwaved mush of veg turned up a few times a month

Plain chicken breast oven baked and served with unadorned microwave white rice and the micro mush - effectively prison food!

Canned soups with extra micro mush veg added "to make it healthier", as if there was a shred of nutrition left in them

We were all told that we could cook for ourselves if we told her what to buy in the supermarket. She shopped in Superquinn, so no restrictions on ingredients really. Surprisingly enough 4 out of 5 of us took her up on that and can cook proper food

rubadub

anewme wrote: »

We had the ice cream in lemonade - called them ice cream sundaes

had them with coke and called them coke floats. I remember getting one as a treat in the Ilac centre, place I think called "the soda fountain" on the stairs up to the library.

We got those 10 pack stacks of frozen pizza. Used to do them in the microwave but it was actually faster to grill them as if they were microwaved the father would make you wait 6-7mins before eating them otherwise "they will cook your insides".

Got frozen chinese meals in dunnes cornelscourt for the oven in foil trays, think the brand was "mr chow" made in bray. I remember frozen quarter pounders coming in and everybody shocked at the massive size of them!

nompere

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

I use semolina for my pizza dough but to show the kids what we had for pud when I was a kid, I added some to boiling milk and added sugar. It was gluupy and quite disgusting. Is there a better way or would I get the same result regardless?

Start with cold milk, add semolina and sugar, then whisk as you heat it.

anewme

Dizzyblonde wrote: »

I never had that, although my mother did when she was young. When we'd had tummy bugs my mother would make a bowl of cornflour with hot milk as you would with powdered custard. To 'bind' our stomachs :pac:

Did anyone else put HB vanilla ice cream into a huge glass with Club orange? It'd have a huge froth on it and it was delicious!

Goody for us (hated it) was when there was no money for anything else. Same as tapioca and sago. We used to stick them behind the curtains.

When I was a child, I could not eat anything without getting sick. Was always sick. We were given cornflour to bind us up as you say. Because we hated the CornFlour, we were told it was "hot ice cream" just to make us eat it. Well, even though we knew it was not hot ice cream and we were being scammed, we ate it on the off chance that it COULD be hot ice cream. Well that came back up too.

We had the ice cream in lemonade - called them ice cream sundaes, the nicest ones were with the TK raspberry.

Hated tinned spaghetti too, made me sick. Was told that the alphabet spaghetti was differnt...made fck off on my plate and ate it...yep, came back up and the hot ice cream cycle began again.

Gloomtastic!

tickingclock wrote: »

Everything was fresh with my mother's nose. I loved fundus crispy pancakes. Only bought if my mother wanted a quick easy dinner for my siblings and I. Wouldn't touch stuff like that now. Most school days we had semolina, rice pudding or tapioca pudding with lots of sugar and a spoon of Homestead jam in the middle. I regularly make rice pudding in the winter for my family and we all love it. No jam lots of sugar.

I use semolina for my pizza dough but to show the kids what we had for pud when I was a kid, I added some to boiling milk and added sugar. It was gluupy and quite disgusting. Is there a better way or would I get the same result regardless?

the beer revolu

Mackerel.
We ate a lot of mackerel during the summer!

While I love fresh mackerel fillets, dredged in flour and quickly fried with fresh white bread and tea, I really dislike mackerel as part of a dinner, now. Too many mackerel dinners, I guess.

BaZmO*

To the best of my knowledge I’ve never had Arctic Roll. The only time I’ve ever heard of it is on Jamie Oliver shows. Viennetta though!!!

the beer revolu

I have to admit that I had a soft spot for the crispy pancakes. Never had for dinner - more of a snack/informal lunch kind of thing.
Haven't tasted them in over 30 years, I'd say.

Artic roll.
Artic roll.
Artic roll.
That was such a treat.

tickingclock

Everything was fresh with my mother's nose. I loved fundus crispy pancakes. Only bought if my mother wanted a quick easy dinner for my siblings and I. Wouldn't touch stuff like that now. Most school days we had semolina, rice pudding or tapioca pudding with lots of sugar and a spoon of Homestead jam in the middle. I regularly make rice pudding in the winter for my family and we all love it. No jam lots of sugar.

the beer revolu

At some point, my dad picked up a sandwich grill type thing (a George Foreman when GF was just a boxer). It seemed ever so fancy.
My mum's big, thick, homemade burgers were overcooked in this most Saturdays.

This was before the sandwich toasters that seal the edges so toasted sandwiches were new to us as well.

I don't know who came up with it but I remember making toasted chocolate sandwiches!
Made with cooking "chocolate"!

Grandeeod

Rows Grower wrote: »

Soft boiled egg and soldiers.

A boiled egg mashed with butter in a mug and a pinch of salt.

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Red lemonade.
Heated up to take out the bubbles.

When we felt sick.

Taylor Keith and Cadet in glass bottles.:eek:

BaZmO* wrote: »

Did someone mention Goobays? There’s a blast from the past! They used to have amazing chocolate donuts.

Yep and some really good Rum Cake too! Where the hell can I get a Rum Cake these days????

Dizzyblonde wrote: »

Did anyone else put HB vanilla ice cream into a huge glass with Club orange? It'd have a huge froth on it and it was delicious!

Absolutely!:D

BaZmO*

Dizzyblonde wrote: »

Did anyone else put HB vanilla ice cream into a huge glass with Club orange? It'd have a huge froth on it and it was delicious!

Absolutely, but coke was always preferred. I do remember the very odd time you’d be sent out to the ice cream van with a big bowl and get him to fill it up with whipped ice cream to have back in the house.

We also used to have the “wafer man” that came around at tea time me in a blue VW style van and sell ice cream sandwiched between two wafers. He had this divider tool that would indent a standard block of HB ice cream into segments with each segment being 15p each so you could get a 15/30/45p wafer depending on how flush you were that day.

Tree

Buttered rich teas are amazing

Dizzyblonde

Someone mentioned buttered Marietta biscuits. When you sandwiched them together the butter would ooze out through the little holes. Marietta were long gone by the time I had children, but I used to give them buttered Rich Tea biscuits for old times' sake

Dizzyblonde

Purple Mountain wrote: »

No, we had Coke and a pink Snack bar sticking out of the ice cream.
It was called a Coke Float.

You went the extra mile with the snack bar - I never thought of that.

Purple Mountain

Dizzyblonde wrote: »

phormium wrote: »

The 'goody' we had when sick was white bread mashed up in a cup with hot milk and some sugar, gross sounding but great stuff when you didn't feel well

I never had that, although my mother did when she was young. When we'd had tummy bugs my mother would make a bowl of cornflour with hot milk as you would with powdered custard. To 'bind' our stomachs :pac:

Did anyone else put HB vanilla ice cream into a huge glass with Club orange? It'd have a huge froth on it and it was delicious!

No, we had Coke and a pink Snack bar sticking out of the ice cream.
It was called a Coke Float.