Food you associate with childhood

[skyscraper101]

Mr Frosty!!!

 

[Orang Utan]

very international mix there. I see French, English and North African cuisine.

My parents are Francophiles who once lived in Morocco and my mum taught English to people from all over the world who passed recipes on to my mum, but it's the middle eastern cuisine that stuck for some reason

 

[moose]

meat

 

[Biddlybee]

pink wafers

 

[Lea]

cream soda

 

[mrsfran]

Birdseye burgers, smash and peas.
Chicken nuggets
Peanutbutter sandwiches
Fried fish fingers
Chicken Kiev
Fray Bentos pies
Scampi and chips
Spaghetti and Dolmio with a chicken escalope
Pot Noodles

 

[skyscraper101]

pink wafers

Mmm pink wafers

Superior in every way to bourbons and garibaldis

 

[Melinda]

If I am then I'm disrespecting mine too! (you can - or could - generally go out and buy them on the street in some places I grew up - not sure what else to call it apart from streetfood - the equivalent here maybe being a bag of chips?)

Its a strange moment the first time you realise that most of your friends arent eating the same food as you at home.
It never occurs to you that people have never heard of matzo meal, falafel or red snapper!
Our food influences came from everywhere.

Or when you went over theirs for tea and it was just oddness!

 

[Orang Utan]

cream soda

ooh yes, a rare treat

then there were the sweets - Yorkshire Mixture, Kola Kubes, Pineapple Chunks, Rhubarb & Custards, Acid Drops

 

[mrsfran]

Rice pudding with jam in.

 

[trabuquera]

My ma was a good and international cook, so much of what she made I still eat regularly. weirdly it's the odd bit of rubbish she'd let me eat which instantly transports me back to childhood and which I crave when I'm sick:

- heinz cream of tomato soup (maybe even with an extra swirl of cream in the middle
- findus crispy pancakes! do they even still make these?
- and frozen bags of various 'vegetable stir fry'.

 

[Orang Utan]

Its a strange moment the first time you realise that most of your friends arent eating the same food as you at home.
It never occurs to you that people have never heard of matzo meal, falafel or red snapper!

Or when you went over theirs for tea and it was just oddness!

I remember being really excited at eating a meat pie and home made chips round a mate's house!

 

[electrogirl]

sodastream!

that was the most lamo thing ever.

 

[Orang Utan]

brandy snaps

 

[Melinda]

What was in that cheap but tasty ice cream which came in big fuck off tubs and kept its shape if you left it out overnight.

 

[Orang Utan]

sodastream!

that was the most lamo thing ever.

I remember my great uncle had one of those, but I preferred the treacly cola pre-bubbles

 

[Lea]

ooh yes, a rare treat

then there were the sweets - Yorkshire Mixture, Kola Kubes, Pineapple Chunks, Rhubarb & Custards, Acid Drops

plus those fake cigarette sweets, gobstoppers, pear drops and those fizzy space whatever you call them (wafers on the outisde and fizzy bits inside shaped like a ufo)

 

[Orang Utan]

Knorr packet chicken noodle soup when you were ill!

 

[Melinda]

I remember being really excited at eating a meat pie and home made chips round a mate's house!

sodastream!

that was the most lamo thing ever.

They always promised so much on the adverts.

Same with Mr Frostie. Cunt. It always looked so tasty and fun.

 

[mrsfran]

Knorr packet chicken noodle soup when you were ill!

Yay!

I still eat them when I'm feeling in need of comfort. Salty goodness.

 

[Maggot]

Eggy Bread
Cauliflower Cheese
Shepherds Pie
Spaghetti Bolagnese
Trifle

My mum was (is) a pretty good cook and made decent, traditional meals from scratch.

Once a week she taught an evening class and my dad cooked. The only thing he could cook was sausages.

 

[Lea]

slush puppies

 

[Orang Utan]

ooh I forgot about eggy bread!

 

[Melinda]

slush puppies

oooh! KFC do something approximating a slush puppy, but yeah, not as nice as you ever remember.

 

[RubyBlue]

Kippers - every saturday night Even now when I hear the music from dr who I can smell kippers

 

[Melinda]

ooh I forgot about eggy bread!

And syrup!

 

[Orang Utan]

Not with syrup surely?

 

[Orang Utan]

Kippers - every saturday night Even now when I hear the music from dr who I can smell kippers

I remember being forced to eat herrings cooked in some kind of grain - yuck!


Mince scollops!!

 

[Stig]

School yoghurt with crushed ice in. Yum.

Whole fish, my mum would line them up on the table to gut them and when we came in she'd shout 'They're alive!' and pick one up by the tail and waggle it at us. We'd scream and run for it.

Home made english style curry, complete with raisins and other fruity abominations.

Really really cheap supermarket pizzas, tiny with not a lot on top.

 

[Melinda]

Not with syrup surely?

Shit yeah!

Eggy bread and syrup. Thats the way its served. Anything else and its abuse.