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Food from your childhood.

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Sometimes I feel that people are drawn towards food because of what they were fed growing up. You could either try to recreate the taste or be repulsed by it. As adults, we can attempt to feel secure by surrounding ourselves with reminders of being young or 'safe'.
Growing up we always had roast chicken/lamb/beef on Sundays with desserts like Trifle, Lemon Meringue Pie or Baked Alaska. I never thought about it but as a comfort now I would eat those things. Is there any food you like because of your childhood? Or have you been completely turned off by certain foods you were force fed when young?

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conorhal

In a fit of nostalgia I bought and made some 'Angel Delight' a while back, perhaps after tasting a good lemon posset's, a wonderful Belgian chocolate mousse or a 'delightful' raspberry souffle, going back to a childhood staple was a bad idea. It didn't just not taste like I remembered it did, it tasted so foul it ruined my childhood. :mad:

The Backwards Man

I was in college before I realised that poached salmon was an actual dish, and that the restaurant wasn't obtaining the fish the way we used to. :P

Always the standard meat and two veg for me growing up, apart from the occasional sweet and sour chicken or beef curry. Vienetta was the big treat, once or twice a year job. Them round white ice pops once a week, were they Fizzlers or Pizzlers or something?

Homemade scones and jam though, they were the business. I make my own now and again, never turn out the same though.

Magico Gonzalez

Findus crispy pancakes and sunday roasts cooked to the consistency of leather. As teenagers we had a worrying amount of microwave lunches and dinners.

Mcains microwave chips, microwave kebabs, microwave pizzas, microwave curry meals, microwave burgers. The kebabs had to be the worst, frozen pitta with the meat inside, i'd say dogs ate better quality meat.

The early 90s was the death of homecooked food in ours, both parents were working and as kids we often made our own meals.

Inspector Dhar

Sundays in our house- the roast (chicken/beef/lamb/pork) went into oven before Mass. Always served with mashed and roast potatoes and 2 veg. Mondays were leftovers -vile. Tuesdays we had chops, mashed spuds and carrots. Wednesdays we had bacon, cabbage and mashed spuds. Thursdays we had mince meat, browned on the pan and served with turnip and mashed spuds. Fridays we had fish fingers, home-made chips and beans. My mother always called Saturday 'mix-um gather-um' day. We'd have rashers sausages, pudding, fried tomatoes and fried eggs, and on Sundays we started all over again. To this day, I celebrate Fridays because I don't have to eat fish fingers.

anncoates

YurOK2 wrote: »

What's bread and dripping?

An essential aperitif to Hovis, tuberculosis and short trousers.

SEPT 23 1989

YurOK2 wrote: »

What's bread and dripping?

Tenement food

cloud493

YurOK2 wrote: »

What's bread and dripping?

Dripping, also known usually as beef dripping or, more rarely, as pork dripping, is an animal fat produced from the fatty or otherwise unusable parts of cow or pig carcasses

Spread it on bread, delish.

YurOK2

What's bread and dripping?

RollieFingers

Bovril on toasted white bread is my number one comfort food, my nanny passed away when I was five but she always used to give me that when she minded me, I think I love it so much cos it's my little way of remembering her

fussyonion

Loved those little pizzas in the red plastic bag the OP mentioned.
Grill 'em and serve 'em browny black, almost burnt.
Delicious.

Also had Potato Waffles, Crispy Pancakes and who remembers those Big Al's Quarter Pounders you used to microwave for two minutes?
They were flipping gorgeous!

I also remember eating this baguette, which came in paper, and was filled with chicken, cheese and spicy salsa, which you cooked in the microwave for about five minutes.

I always brought tuna sandwiches and orange juice to school for my lunch and even to this day, drinking orange juice and eating a tuna sambo brings me right back to my schooldays.

BN-BN biscuits were horrible biscuits!
Onken yogurt-filled chocolate balls, Onken FrooFroo yogurts, Kinder Pingui, Kelloggs Fruit Winders and Dairylea Pizza Dunkers were always in the shopping trolley of a Thursday!

cloud493

I love dripping and bread, haven't had it in ages. And ketchup sandwiches in microwave for whatever reason.

Turtyturd

Campbell's meat balls....dog food for people.

Galwayguy35

Monster Munch crisps.

Day Lewin

OK: time for old-timer's reminiscences...

Back when I were a nipper, string of kids in the family, if my mother hadn't much in the house or needed to make a quick emergency supper she did this:

Heat some milk in a saucepan, pour into a bowl for each child. Into this she would break up some bread - using Batch bread as I recall, or crusty bread of whatever kind was available (it could be stale, economy plus point)
Sprinkle the whole contents with white sugar, eat with spoon. It was lumpy and sort of stodgy, but quite satisfying as well as sweet.
We called this bread'n'milk stuff Naydee, but when, years later, I described it to my grandmother (born in the late 19th century) she told me that it used to be a basic part of most children's diet back then and in her family it was called "goody".

There yez are now!

ElleEm

I feel like every meal I had up til I was about 10 was accompanied by a mound of half mashed potato. The lumps made me gag, but my ma was feeding 8 of us so I can imagine she just gave up mashing through exhaustion.
She discovered pasta and rice in the 90's which really shook things up!

And Birds' trifle every Sunday.

worded

Denny sealed pies in a tin with pastry on top = death to you in a can. You wouldn't feed it to a dog now.

Packets of savoury dried rice = just add water and boil to slowly kill your self. More Es in that than a scrabble factory

There was some right muck around

Mostly the folks fed us healthy with lots of fruit. It was rare we got curries so I love them now

yorlum11

emigrate2012 wrote:

Haslet(some sort of luncheon roll,dunno what the click was in it,probably don't want to either!)is something you couldn't pay to eat now,manky stuff. Me nanny would us toffee yoghurts in superquinn,loved them dunno if I'd eat them now though.

It was good stuff the auld Hazlet.

VulcanRaving

Getting a serious nostalgia buzz from all of this!

Spag Bol
Sweet n sour pork (from the jar, with cardboard pork and bland rice, the stuff of nightmares!)
Vienetta
Romantica
BNs
Monster Munch (when I was allowed them!)
Champion Crisps (around the time of the 94 World Cup)
Burger Bites
Wagon Wheel biscuits
Bruiser bars
Milky Moos and sparklers
Push Pops
Pokemon lollies (pay god knows how much for the sake of a little plastic Pikachu on a stick!)

Egginacup

My mother was a great cook.
Weekday meals were the usual....bacon and cabbage, stew, shepherds pie, smoked cod pie, chops peas and potatoes with gravy, fishfingers beans and mash when the cupboard was bare. She was a dab hand and the baking too (and she had a bit of a sweet tooth) so no shortage of apple/rhubarb/gooseberry tarts, buns, sponges, scones, flans and trifles. Good thing I was active or I'd be a blimp.

But some Saturdays when she couldn't be arsed cooking anything she'd make a mountain of corned-beef, sliced onion and salad cream sandwiches cut into triangles. If you came in after playing football and had any semblance of hunger on you could almost O.D. on these things such was the addictive bingeing. A tankard of strong sweet tea helped pack them down into your belly.

Ranchu

Billy Rolls were the business.

Wacker The Attacker

Fish Fingers,
Macaroons,
My Girlfriend Kim's Fanny,
Chipper Chips
Corned Beef

SimonTemplar

Jelly and icecream

JillyQ

My Grandmother used make the best soda bread, she always had it timed where it was just coming out of the oven when arrived, so we had lovely fresh warm bread when we arrived and red lemonade

Shenshen

Egginacup wrote: »

Ahh, the old Kartoffelklossen or Solvite Snowballs and sauerbraten. Talk about sitting in your belly like a fucking cannon-ball

The way my mom made them they would actually glue your mouth shut, first...

Now, Semmelkloesse I love. Still do. Light and fluffy and tasty. But she never ever made those. And my husband doesn't like them, so I rarely get to make them myself.

Egginacup

Shenshen wrote: »

My mother is a decent enough cook, I would say. But she's not the least bit inventive unfortunately. She would do some 10 different dishes and that's it. Now, most of them she does rather well, but I would run miles before I would touch any of them ever again, I'm just so sick of them.

Being German, she particularly likes her potato dumplings. I don't think I'll ever be ready to face those again.

Ahh, the old Kartoffelklossen or Solvite Snowballs and sauerbraten. Talk about sitting in your belly like a fucking cannon-ball

TheChevron

Cheesy Sausages!

Jesus I'd love one of them right now.

Irish Guitarist

Fried eels every Sunday morning after my father went fishing on Saturday. I loved them at the time but one day they just started to repulse me.

There was constantly bloody, dead rabbits on the kitchen floor after my father had been out shooting. I can still clearly imagine the smell of their innards. As soon as I was old enough to light the cooker I vowed never to eat another rabbit, or pheasant, ever again.

Some junk food I remember fondly are Barry McGuigan crisps and Pink Panther Bars. The Pink Panther Bars were a bit like a Milky Bar but were pink chocolate and had a kind of strawberry flavour.

I think there were a few varieties of Barry McGuigan crisps but I loved the tomato flavour ones. I collected some tokens from the packets and joined the Barry McGuigan fan club although I had absolutely no idea who he was. I started watching some of his fights and acted like I had an interest in boxing but in reality I only liked him because of his crisps. As far as I'm concerned he's still a crisp producer first and a boxer second.

I loved Coke sodas, ice cream and Coke mixed together. I couldn't afford ice cream and a bottle of Coke so I would buy a small can and a Golly Bar.

Then there was Corcorans drinks. The cola was horrible but it was the only cola I knew for years. The orange was nice enough but the fizz would make your throat feel like it was melting. I'd love to see a Corcorans label from the eighties now. There was a nice picture of Carlow Castle on them as the factory was in the town near the River Barrow.

Jjiipp79

Fried onion and tins of spaghetti..

And my fav turnip sandwich!

walkingshadow

My gran used to make dog food sandwiches before she was put in that home, and strangely enough, I used to really like them.

kfallon

*come in from playing football*
"MAM?"
"WHAT?"
"CAN I GET SOMETHING TO DRINK?"
"THERE'S STUFF IN THE FRIDGE!"
*opens fridge - sees flat TK Red Lemonade in end of the bottle*
"Oh ffs - I'll go thirsty"