Food you associate with childhood

[clicker]

lol, yes i remember doing that

5p a bottle or something wasn't it?

That sounds about right....we'd save up and splurge on Top Deck lager and lime.....or Shandy Bass ( I think???)

 

[RubyBlue]

this

because a stick of liquorice has staying power, unlike a boiled sweet lolly

^ for me to cos I hate boiled sweets and like liquorice You used to be able to buy plastic elephant ones stuffed with sherbert where the nose unscrewed and there was a liquorice stuck there!

 

[scifisam]

That's bad luck, but that obviously doesn't make the eating of sweets irrelevant here

No, but it does indicate that there's more going on than just what you eat.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Wow, this thread made me dream about sweet peanuts, I dreamt I went into an old fashioned independent store with rows of jars of sweets behind the counter, and I asked them if they had any sweet peanuts, and they only had a few left in the bottom of a jar, and they weren't getting any more till next week, and I said I'd take what they had, because I needed to send them to ice-is-forming in Australia.

Urban has invaded my dreams!

 

[Maggot]

golden nuggets - the ones with addictive drugs in from the 70's, not the tame ones you get these days

Oh yes! I used to leave them to go soggy, then eat them and drink the delicious sweet milk last. They used to have cartoons on with Klondike Pete and his horse?

 

[Maggot]

Eggy Bread.

 

[lighterthief]

Ipsos.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Shelling peas on the back step. I also remember getting frozen peas for the first time (before that if they weren't fresh, they were dried, tinned or bottled).

 

[peterkro]

Condensed milk sandwiches with hundreds and thousands,lush.

 

[purenarcotic]

Chicken soup, maztah brei, omelette and beans, roast potatoes, cinnamon balls, my dad's 'tomato rice' (savoury rice dish with tomatoes and vegetables), fish n chips, french toast.

 

[dilute micro]

lots of stuff

 

[Orang Utan]

How interesting

 

[DrRingDing]

 

[Badgers]

Watery boiled/mashed potatoes
Bland overcooked vegetables
Tinned soup
Cereal

The good was Wiltshire Bacon Cake and lots of homemade bread/cakes. I also learned a healthy respect for the jacket potato.

 

[Greebo]

Apple fritters
hearts in gravy
stewed apple as a main meal
winkle sandwiches
"soup" made from a dissolved oxo cube and sliced carrots

No prizes for guessing which ones aren't missed.

 

[kittyP]

winkle sandwiches

Ooh yeah, winkle sandwiches

Eating jellied eels, sitting on the wall by the river at Woolwich fish market, early on a Saturday morning with my dad

Ploughman's lunches.

Cheese and apple (little cubes of them in a pink tupperwear box).

Salt and shake crisps.

Shepherds pie

Avacados on toast

 

[Miss Caphat]

peanuts in the shell
watermelon
strawberry pancakes
my mom's awesome cakes with ultra-whipped 7-minute icing, in every shade of pastel color
open-face grilled cheese sandwiches
tuna noodle casserole
orange glazed carrots & cornflake chicken (I got to make this myself - it was from a kids cookbook)
home made juice popsicles
my grandma's amazing potatoes au gratin
artichokes dipped in butter
Maine lobster eaten in Maine each summer
ice cream from dairy farm
corn on the cob
Elio's pizza
frozen burritos
dehydrated fruit

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Lardy cake! How could I have forgotten Lardy cake?
The first time I ate it I was aged about 5 in a sunny garden with two very elderly sisters called the Miss Rices.

 

[stuff_it]

For me, it must be the Findus 'French Bread Pizza' (do they make them anymore?) I guess I have a strong memory of it as being one of the meals that I'd stick in the oven myself, once my mum had started working and so we couldn't always have home cooked meals as before.

Lucky you, for me when that happened I was cooking both our dinners.

 

[8115]

Shelling peas on the back step. I also remember getting frozen peas for the first time (before that if they weren't fresh, they were dried, tinned or bottled).

Yeah, for me it's broad beans, being taught to shell them by my grandma, she was amazed I didn't know how, I like like, hang on grandma, I'm only 5 I still love them

 

[Mrs Magpie]

broad beans

I remember them too, I loved that wet cotton wool interior of the pods. Probably my favourite vegetable. I also remember how my toothless great-granny use to spit out the skins and they'd end up in a neat little curve around the edge of her plate.

 

[Maggot]

These always remind me of the Scottish family down the road from me. I only ever had them at their house.