Your food memories please.

building_with_lego

Posting on the Food Shaming thread I was taken back to my student days and the memory of a friend sharing his chips covered in ketchup and salad cream and with me discovering that, rather than being disgusting, the combination is actually delicious .

Does anyone else have strong food memories? Those meals which stick in your mind?
I still drool over the memory of a crab sandwich I ate in Mousehole when I was 8. I almost want to have another but shy away in case it doesn't live up to my memory and spoils it.
I ate a guanabana in Trinidad in Cuba, so ripe the juice ran down my elbow, and it was THE most delicious fruit I've ever eaten. I know you can but the juice here but again, what if it doesn't taste as good as I remember?!

It can't be just me, surely?

notjustlaura

Thanks for this thread. I'm now floating in a sea of childhood 1970s food - and a desire to reread Nigel Slater's 'Toast'.

The strongest memory is of my mother's mince and mashed potato which I insisted in mixing into a 'dog's dinner' and then woolfing down with a spoon!

Or there's the first time I ate a burger-in-a-bun - I'd been refusing to touch bread for years but was so hungry on a Pony Club away day that I ate the burger, bread and ketchup and it was so delicious on a cold, wet day sitting on a hay bale in a barn that I went straight back for another. I've had a weakness for ketchup ever since!

meg72

notjustlaura wrote: »

Thanks for this thread. I'm now floating in a sea of childhood 1970s food - and a desire to reread Nigel Slater's 'Toast'.

The strongest memory is of my mother's mince and mashed potato which I insisted in mixing into a 'dog's dinner' and then woolfing down with a spoon!

Or there's the first time I ate a burger-in-a-bun - I'd been refusing to touch bread for years but was so hungry on a Pony Club away day that I ate the burger, bread and ketchup and it was so delicious on a cold, wet day sitting on a hay bale in a barn that I went straight back for another. I've had a weakness for ketchup ever since!

That made me giggle, as a 40s child, my dear old Mum would have had a freaky fit if I`d mixed my mince and potato, If not a smack, a stern rebuke "To Eat Nicely" would follow.

365days

Ohhh my memory is of a bowl of lentil soup and flatbread.

A friend and I had travelled to Turkey before it was totally touristy. We had nowhere to stay and arrived in the middle of the night. My friend had been before and knew where he wanted to head to.

We took a ride in a boat skippered by a very old wrinkly man who spent the whole journey bailing out water with a bucket. All journey I had the 'Don't pay the ferryman, don't even fix a price' song running through my head.

We arrived in this small town and there was this old woman siting crossed legged outside her house. She didn't speak a word of English but through hand gestures got us to sit down and gave us bowls of this wonderful soup and flatbreads. Wonderful.

kboss2010

A waffle I had for breakfast at a Florida diner when I was 5 - best breakfast I've ever had!

Old Spaghetti Factory (Canadian restaurant chain) clam chowder served in a hollow sourdough loaf and the Vancouver restaurant's peach Bellini served in a martini glass with a scoop of peach sorbet.

Canadian blueberries from Granville Island market and orange flavoured green tea from "T" in Vancouver.

Chestnut flavoured mousse yoghurt thing I had in France once. Can't find them in the UK.

maman

I love Turkish lentil soup. Thanks for the memory.:)

First thought that comes into my head is of coming home from school when my mother had been baking. Often that was for some sort of chapel occasion and we were allowed any 'rejects' so jam tarts where jam had bubbled over or coconut tars looking a bit too brown. Yum!

Second my former MIL had many faults but she did a mean meat and potato pie!

mollythewestie

When I was at primary school I would go for swimming lessons after school once a week.
It was a mile walk there and back and then an hours swimming, which meant I would be ravenous by the time I finished.

So my mum would let me have 20p to get a pack of Burtons fish and chips from the vending machine: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4526817/Burtons-Fish-N-Chips-is-voted-your-fave-retro-snack.html

They were a savoury snack biscuit and they tasted amazing! I was only thinking about them yesterday when I saw the advert for Jacobs oddities and thought they looked similar.

Sometimes I would get some Cadburys Snack biscuits or bags of mini choc chip cookies instead.

I also remember being allowed to have a box of microwave chips after Brownies as a treat!

Uniscots97

Spaghetti with a plain tomato sauce with grated cheese on top, made by my Mum or Gran. Not the same made by me.

Mince and mashed potato had to be mixed together.....guess what I fancy making now!

busiscoming2

Not a food but a drink. My Mum used to make wines, one of them being Elderflower Champagne (that's what she called it) and we used to be able to have a small glass on the last day of the school year. I suppose that was when it was ready.

She also made a very rich cake called something like 'the great wall of ripley' She died a few years ago and I have tried to find the recipe but to no avail

flubberyzing

Not that long ago, perhaps 5 years, I met up with some old uni friends and we went to the restaurant "Las Iguanas". It was 2-4-1 cocktails, so by the time the food arrived, I was more than tipsy... I'd ordered a fajita and it was, and remains to this day, the tastiest meal I've ever eaten.

I've subsequently had other fajitas at different places, and at Las Iguanas, but none come close to matching "party in my mouth fajita" as it's now referred to!

Sagz_2

My food memories:
Coming in from school on a cold and wet day and being fed a mug of tomato and beef soup (some sort of packet mix?), with a slice of bread and butter. Nothing better to warm you up.

When ill were were given ribena mixed with milk - even the thought of it turns my stomach.
But when were were getting better we had mashed potato and tomato soup. I think my Mum was a bit odd!