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Nostalgic Food - Good and Bad!

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    #302
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Ah guggy egg, cooked on the solid fuel range in s specific cup.
    I still have a solid fuel range & daddy often comes up for a guggy egg & tea.


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    #303
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    I have never thought of eating them but I remember they were a plot point in Only Fools and Horses. The episode where Rodney marries Cassandra. Her nouveau riche east end Dad insisted they be part of the buffet much to the horror of west end Mum.[/QUOTE

    lol.. yep that says it all!


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    #304
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,625 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Rows Grower wrote: »
    There was no charge for cordials in pubs back in the day, you could have either had Rasa or Mi-Wadi orange if you were lucky enough to be brought out.

    I know this is an older post now; but this reminded me - I used to frequently stop in the Dunkerrin Arms for dinner when on the road (and before the M7 was built) - its now a quite poor quality direct provision centre apparently. Suspect the M7 killed the passing trade stone dead and it couldn't live off the remains.

    If you didn't order a drink with a main course, a pint of Mi-Wadi orange would be plonked down FOC with it. This being long enough ago that one pint wasn't over the limit I'd never seen it until maybe the tenth time I was there and didn't want booze - and got quite confused!

    Food was rather bland/generic there but there was always a table and it timed well if leaving Cork around 5; did Corbett Court if leaving later. All a past world now with motorways.


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    #305
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    My father used to love tripe. My mother hated cooking it and we hated seeing it! Still the thought makes me cringe

    Is it still eaten much?


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    #306
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Graces7 wrote: »
    My father used to love tripe. My mother hated cooking it and we hated seeing it! Still the thought makes me cringe

    Is it still eaten much?

    There are at least two places in Cork's English Market that sell it, one specialises in it along with that other Cork delicacy drisheen. There must be enough people eating it though I suspect that a lot of them might be eastern European.

    The Farm Gate Café in the market serve it.

    I remember my mum cooking it for by dad and the smell seeping through the house, it's not the worst smell but it's like a dirty dish cloth being boiled.


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    #307
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Seamai wrote: »
    There are at least two places in Cork's English Market that sell it, one specialises in it along with that other Cork delicacy drisheen. There must be enough people eating it though I suspect that a lot of them might be eastern European.

    The Farm Gate Café in the market serve it.

    I remember my mum cooking it for by dad and the smell seeping through the house, it's not the worst smell but it's like a dirty dish cloth being boiled.


    The look of it on the plate...

    He left us when I was 12 but the long ago memory lingers on.

    He loved winkles too; we always got sent out when we were on holidays by the sea.. They eat those here too!


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    #308
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Graces7 wrote: »
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    The look of it on the plate...

    He left us when I was 12 but the long ago memory lingers on.

    He loved winkles too; we always got sent out when we were on holidays by the sea.. They eat those here too!

    The look of it wouldn't exactly get the gastric juices flowing, to add insult to injury the drisheen it's served with in Cork is grey when it's cooked.

    I was in Malta a few weeks back and I saw curried tripe on a menu, wasn't remotely tempted.


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    #309
    FatBallerina
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭FatBallerina


    Findus Crispy Pancakes, one of my best 80s memories. Nothing half as nice as them now.


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    #310
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    FatBallerina wrote: »
    Findus Crispy Pancakes, one of my best 80s memories. Nothing half as nice as them now.

    Stop the lights, they were unreal.

    Findus must have made millions off them.

    They were addictive, if memory serves me right they started off with minced beef and onion then they brought out the bacon and cheese version.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



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    #311
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    FatBallerina wrote: »
    Findus Crispy Pancakes, one of my best 80s memories. Nothing half as nice as them now.

    If I got a penny for every time I burned my mouth from wolfing those things down I'd be a wealthy man.


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    FatBallerina
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭FatBallerina


    Rows Grower wrote: »
    Stop the lights, they were unreal.

    Findus must have made millions off them.

    They were addictive, if memory serves me right they started off with minced beef and onion then they brought out the bacon and cheese version.

    Weren't they just! The chicken and bacon were my favourite followed by the minced beef. I don't remember what order they came out in. The first week in my first job, on payday, I bought a packet and had the whole lot myself. I considered it quite the luxury!
    I wish they would bring them back, exactly as they were.


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    #313
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    Seamai wrote: »
    If I got a penny for every time I burned my mouth from wolfing those things down I'd be a wealthy man.

    The trick with them was the same as the fish fingers, slap them into a slice of fresh well buttered bread.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



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    #314
    FatBallerina
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭FatBallerina


    Rows Grower wrote: »
    The trick with them was the same as the fish fingers, slap them into a slice of fresh well buttered bread.

    Oh God Yes!! Instant foodgasm!


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    #315
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Rows Grower wrote: »
    The trick with them was the same as the fish fingers, slap them into a slice of fresh well buttered bread.

    I only discovered that fish finger sandwiches were a thing lately, bit of a guilty pleasure of mine, especially when I'm working from home.


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    #316
    FatBallerina
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭FatBallerina


    Seamai wrote: »
    If I got a penny for every time I burned my mouth from wolfing those things down I'd be a wealthy man.

    The scalded palate was always worth it!


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    #317
    tskk
    Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭tskk


    My favorite was findus pancakes, mash and peas. My Mam was a good baker. Apple tart, millionaire squares and fairy cakes. Loved vol au vots with stewed apple and whipped cream. Had those watching wurzel gumidge as a treat in the front room��.
    If my Mam was working and my Dad was feeding us it was Bovril with bread to dunk or beans on toast at a push��


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    #318
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    FatBallerina wrote: »
    Findus Crispy Pancakes, one of my best 80s memories. Nothing half as nice as them now.

    saw this just today, must be due to pancake tuesday
    https://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/recipes/2013/0131/747759-pauls-crispy-pancakes/



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    #319
    Sober Crappy Chemis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 461 ✭✭Sober Crappy Chemis


    The food of kings from nearly 30 years ago!

    This qualified as gourmet and progressive in our house :pac:


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    #320
    Foggy Jew
    Registered Users Posts: 760 ✭✭✭Foggy Jew


    Potato Waffles. Done in the toaster. (Twice toasted to ensure complete defrost). Heinz Spaghetti hottened up in the microwave. 2 fried or poached eggs.

    Cooking time approx 4 minutes.

    Satisfaction rating: 100%.


    Bonus points if it's Alphabetti Spaghetti & you can make rude words.

    Guaranteed to cure whatever ails you.

    You're welcome.

    It's the bally ballyness of it that makes it all seem so bally bally.



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    #321
    anewme
    Registered Users Posts: 11,859 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Foggy Jew wrote: »


    Bonus points if it's Alphabetti Spaghetti & you can make rude words.

    Guaranteed to cure whatever ails you.

    You're welcome.

    Tinned spaghetti always made me vomit as a child.

    Wanted the Alphabet one to make rude words.

    Ate it, yep, a big vomit.

    Another food item guaranteed to make me sick McDougals saucy sponge in a tin.


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    #322
    brick tamland
    Registered Users Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭brick tamland


    Findus Crispy pancakes are still available. Seen them on sale in Tesco last week. I imagine they wont taste anything as good you remember though. Ive a memory of loving a Chicken Curry flavour, not sure if Im just imagining it though

    Seen Hugh Fernley Whatshisname make home made version on TV a few years ago. Seemed simple to make and looked declicious.


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    #323
    Ryath
    Registered Users Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭Ryath


    There was a curry one alright. They had brought back mozzarella versions but seems to the beef one available now too. I'd be curious to try it I used to quite like them

    https://www.birdseye.co.uk/range/crispy-pancakes


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    #324
    FatBallerina
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭FatBallerina


    I don't think anything tastes as good it did back then. Too many additives and such banned now :(


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    #325
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,871 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    FatBallerina wrote: »
    I don't think anything tastes as good it did back then. Too many additives and such banned now :(

    Plus lot of stuff was reformulated to use cheaper inputs like soya, corn syrup or animal products were removed to be vegetarian friendly.
    Butter was dropped due to cost and dubious health concerns for margarine \ trans fats.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #326
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Foggy Jew wrote: »
    Potato Waffles. Done in the toaster. (Twice toasted to ensure complete defrost).
    they now say to cook them this way on the packets. And due to the anti fat brigade the slogan is no longer "grill em, bake em, fry em, eat em"

    but

    Grill 'em
    Bake 'em
    Load 'em
    Love 'em!
    Waffley Versatile™

    And its not just the slogan, there are now no frying instructions given now (not sure when they were dropped).




    https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=277314942

    Cooking Method: Other
    Cooking Instructions
    Alternatively, toast
    Medium High Setting
    2 toasting cycles
    Place the potato waffles in the toaster.
    After the initial 'pop up' toaster for a second cycle until the waffles are golden yellow.
    Switch off the toaster and leave to stand in the toaster for 1 minute.
    Remove with care whilst the toaster is still switched off.


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    #327
    Mollyb60
    Registered Users Posts: 6,550 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    I've a real craving for potato waffles now. We used to cook them in the oven.


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    #328
    Recliner
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    brick tamland wrote: »
    Findus Crispy pancakes are still available. Seen them on sale in Tesco last week. I imagine they wont taste anything as good you remember though. Ive a memory of loving a Chicken Curry flavour, not sure if Im just imagining it though

    Seen Hugh Fernley Whatshisname make home made version on TV a few years ago. Seemed simple to make and looked declicious.

    https://youtu.be/TZEKJRBbFJw

    Don't know if that'll show up right, but I've just watched it and OMG!! I'm drooling here..


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    #329
    FatBallerina
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭FatBallerina


    Findus Crispy Pancakes between 2 potato waffles.


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    #330
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Never had either the waffles or the pancakes!


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    #331
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    There were plenty of puddings. One we used to get at school dinners was Manchester Tart.

    Made on a large metal tray..pastry, topped with jam, then custard with cornflakes on top. Not one of my favourites. Very substantial ;)


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