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Nostalgic Food - Good and Bad!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,360 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Ha! Can you believe that it wasn't until 1992 that I had my first pizza from a Pizzeria?

    I was bowled over, never tasted anything so tasty. I was 19!

    I was about the same age when I had my first proper Pizza in Ayia Napa, unreal stuff altogether.

    "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.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,647 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    phormium wrote: »

    The nanny used to give us 'goody' if we were sick, it sounds disgusting stuff but if you are sick it's amazing how nice it tastes.

    Tell us more...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 430 ✭✭bubbles o hara


    Ah the memories this thread is bringing back. I remember my mother preparing the veggies for Sunday's dinner while the Late Late was on Saturday nights (yep, Saturday back then). We always had the same thing, mashed turnip, boiled spuds, roast chicken & gravy, followed by strawberry jelly and cream..with sugar added.

    The first time I tasted real pizza was in 1977 while visiting Cork, I hated it, it offended my culchie tongue. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,209 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    My first Chinese takeaway. China Inn Clondalkin (not very original) Chicken Curry, rice and chips. My first posh Chinese meal, The Orchid Szechuan on Pembroke Road, Dublin. All in the early 80's/90's. It's gone downhill since in a lot pf places.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,542 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    ^ Danish Orchards jam was nice.
    I remember that from the early '90s

    But we did not have microwave ovens in the 70s!

    Consumer microwaves are from the 50s, pretty sure my parents got one in the 70s to enable my mother to actually make dinners... The one we had when I was a kid was a veritable antique, fully analogue controlled with dials.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,209 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    L1011 wrote: »
    Consumer microwaves are from the 50s, pretty sure my parents got one in the 70s to enable my mother to actually make dinners... The one we had when I was a kid was a veritable antique, fully analogue controlled with dials.

    Ours was the late 80s and still had dials. My mother still couldn't cook with it. My memories are reheating cups of tea and defrosting meat. Really terrible times.:eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    The bad : Vesta Curries Instant whip :mad:

    The good : Self caught salmon from the Boyne :)




    ( Its was the naughties before a microwave found it way into chez dog )


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    phormium wrote: »
    Gosh I loved the Vesta curries but it's true there was always one dry powdery bit that didn't soften!

    My mother did not really cook, we had a nanny :) and she did most of it but on her day off curried mince stew was my mother's special plus butterscotch instant whip which I hated!

    The nanny used to give us 'goody' if we were sick, it sounds disgusting stuff but if you are sick it's amazing how nice it tastes.

    Ha !

    Didnt see your post 'till after mine above

    Probably still have some packets of Vesta and instant whip in the top shelf of a press here. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,360 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Tell us more...

    The goody my nan made was a big pot of broth/stew that was never served until it was after a couple of days of slow simmering.

    It could be the same nan, she had a lot of children.

    "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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    What was it about Ground Ginger to be used on a slice of honeydew melon as an appetizer ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭honeybear


    Showing my age - I remember my siblings and I fighting over ... Marietta biscuits!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,487 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Talking about Vesta curries, I just googled them and would you believe it, you can still buy them! Why?????


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,952 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    Alun wrote: »
    Talking about Vesta curries, I just googled them and would you believe it, you can still buy them! Why?????

    Nostalgia ?

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭screamer


    My parents both great cooks, still are. so we had no boring ould ****e food.
    Mum always used to make lovely sweet waffles on Sunday nights with her very posh electric waffle iron that relatives in the uk gifted us.
    The smell of waffles to this day takes me back.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    honeybear wrote: »
    Showing my age - I remember my siblings and I fighting over ... Marietta biscuits!

    Special occasion = buttered Marietta / 'Kerry Creams" / Nice

    ( were they really called Kerry Creams ? )


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  • Registered Users Posts: 409 ✭✭holliehobbie


    0lddog wrote: »
    honeybear wrote: »
    Showing my age - I remember my siblings and I fighting over ... Marietta biscuits!

    Special occasion = buttered Marietta / 'Kerry Creams" / Nice

    ( were they really called Kerry Creams ? )
    We used to get buttered Marietta 'sandwiches' when we were sick!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,624 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    0lddog wrote: »
    Special occasion = buttered Marietta / 'Kerry Creams" / Nice

    ( were they really called Kerry Creams ? )

    Buttered Marietta and Weetabix with butter and jam/marmalade. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,360 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    Buttered Marietta and Weetabix with butter and jam/marmalade. :)

    Ye must have been loaded.

    "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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,624 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    Ye must have been loaded.

    With big glasses of milk! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,360 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    Soft boiled egg and soldiers.

    "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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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,647 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Soft boiled egg and soldiers.

    Oh I lived on them when I was very sick.
    My poor mum :(


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,647 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Red lemonade.
    Heated up to take out the bubbles.

    When we felt sick.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,276 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Red lemonade.
    Heated up to take out the bubbles.

    When we felt sick.
    My friend in England refused to believe there was such thing as red lemonade.

    To thine own self be true



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    I’m starting to have memories I forgot I had reading this thread! :D

    My mother was a decent cook although she probably suffered from the same thing as a lot of home cooks back then, overdonemeatitis and boiledtodeathvegieitis. For years I didn’t think I liked veg!

    Staples in our house were stew, coddle (white! None of that red nonsense!), usual meat and 2 veg stuff. Always a roast on a Sunday, with the stuffing balls and trifle made by the kids the night before. Towards the end of the year she would make apple tarts made from the cooking apples from my Granny’s apple tree out her back garden. A dinner I used to love was fried mince, mixed with mashed potato and fried in the pan, and served with beans. I type of has I suppose?

    As we got older she got a bit more adventurous. I remember the big hullabaloo when one of her work friends came over to show her how to make a curry! Fried onions, mixture of curry powder and flour fried in the onions for a bit , then a pack (or tin) or chicken soup, a load of water, and then add in shredded cooked chicken. Always served with homemade chips and rice. Amazing, and so exotic at the time.

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,015 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    "Breakfast is ready"

    lostandfound039.jpg

    "Dinner is ready"

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭phormium


    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 :)


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,110 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dizzyblonde


    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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,276 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    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.

    To thine own self be true



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,110 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dizzyblonde


    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.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,110 CMod ✭✭✭✭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 :)


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,726 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tree


    Buttered rich teas are amazing


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    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. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,209 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    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????
    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,153 ✭✭✭✭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"!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 850 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,153 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭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!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,153 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,624 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    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?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,020 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭nompere


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,382 ✭✭✭✭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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,542 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,647 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    L1011 wrote: »
    Burger, baked, served between two slices of sliced pan

    Ah yes, the infamous burger sandwich.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,209 ✭✭✭✭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:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,153 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,360 ✭✭✭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.

    "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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,624 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    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.......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 850 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,143 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    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.

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



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