Nostalgic Food - Good and Bad!

Deleted User wrote: »

The pickled onion flavour were majestic.

I don't recall them at all.
I remember Tayto being 5p but not those.

Toasted banana sandwiches from the toasted sandwich maker that sealed edges and formed the triangles. Sprinkled with sugar before cooked. I ate them everyday for lunch in school. Every day for about 4 years until the day i top loaded with sugar and it over-caramelised. Turned me off them completely, for about 4 years!

Then i turned to egg and salad cream sandwiches.

Cheap and nasty frozen burgers that were then added into a pot of gravy before being put on top of mashed carrot and potato

When i started work i was partial to i think the knorr quick lunch trays curried rice or noodles. Only in the long trays mind you. Never took to the pot versions!

I also remember the first time i had taco chips in Abrakebabra in Baggot St.
My mind was blown. Tasted unbelievably gorgeous and barely resembles what they serve now.

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

Not too long ago but pork chops with an inch of fat on them. Drool!

And a bone! Droolier!

Hallaz wrote: »

Toasted banana sandwiches from the toasted sandwich maker that sealed edges and formed the triangles. Sprinkled with sugar before cooked. I ate them everyday for lunch in school. Every day for about 4 years until the day i top loaded with sugar and it over-caramelised. Turned me off them completely, for about 4 years!

Then i turned to egg and salad cream sandwiches.

Cheap and nasty frozen burgers that were then added into a pot of gravy before being put on top of mashed carrot and potato.

Our neighbour that used to mind us when we went to her house at lunchtime from school fed us the banana sandwiches from the sandwich toaster aswell..Remember her sprinkling the brown sugar over the sliced bananas using a desertspoon to this day. We met her recently in the company of my mother and were having a laugh about the old days. She pointblank denied feeding them to us even thou the guilt was written all over her face

Also remember one of my friends telling me his family were loaded compared to the rest of the road cos his Mother could afford the Granby frozen burgers and only the well off could afford them

At one point when our mother could finally afford a small amount of frozen food every week i developed an addiction to Bacon and Cheese Mini pizzas(3 in a box/bag)..cant find them anywhere now its either ham and cheese or pepporoni thou they would prob taste so different now anyway.

Grandeeod wrote: »

keeponrockin wrote: »

Also remember one of my friends telling me his family were loaded compared to the rest of the road cos his Mother could afford the Granby frozen burgers and only the well off could afford them

LOL!

Granby were the poor peoples burger. Frozen? NAH. Fresh (sort of) wrapped in cling film with a label. 15p each.:D

I was privileged to be allowed a look in their freezer where they had stockpiled enough of these to last an entire snowed in winter so presumed frozen. You are right thou..think i saw them in the fridge in Dunnes last week along with the sausages.

keeponrockin wrote: »

I was privileged to be allowed a look in their freezer where they had stockpiled enough of these to last an entire snowed in winter so presumed frozen. You are right thou..think i saw them in the fridge in Dunnes last week along with the sausages.

My parents bought them with the shopping. Our freezer wasn't big enough to hold any after the crispy pancakes and cheap small pizzas were stuffed in. I have to admit I haven't looked for the burgers. The sausages I've seen and I think Dunnes are the only big chain stocking them.

BaZmO* wrote: »

Talk of salad cream reminds me of the “salads” we used to get in the summer. A plate of unmixed salad leaves, scallions, hard boiled eggs, rolled up slices of ham or turkey, and homemade chips. All with a big dollop of salad cream.

Did anybody’s mother try the aul hiding some mashed turnips in mashed potatoes? She always ruined perfectly good mash by trying that nonsense!

Just remembered cold boiled tongue my mum used to serve with her salads.

Seamai wrote: »

So did mine, I'm not sure why people are so squeamish about it, it's a muscle no different to many other cuts of meat, true it's not a thing of beauty with it's outer casing intact but the meat is delicious.

But it's TONNNNGGUUUUE!!!!!!!

Does anyone remember a frozen potato product that was sort of like large hash browns with baked beans inside them?

May have been a specific Northern thing (NI/Donegal) as I mainly remember getting them in Donegal from The Cope branches and they would often have NI stock. Always only had Irn Bru when in Donegal until about 2007/8 when it started to appear in ROI.

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

I have been thinking of revisiting. What do you do with your sheeps’ tongues?

I'm afraid I've never cooked them but I remember eating them in a friend's house with pickled chillies.
I'd say they were just simmered with some aromatics until tender.

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