Your food memories please.

ska_lover

Boiled eggs and toast for every sunday teatime. When we were kids, sometimes Dad drew a face on the boiled egg in felt tip - we loved it.

Alikay

Gypsy tart was my favourite school pudding when we lived in Kent. They'd never heard of it when we moved up to the Midlands . My mum also did a great Saturday tea in front of the TV with cheese-and-marmite sandwiches. Oh and my grandma's Sunday tea which was always salad with the cucumber sliced and soaked in vinegar.

Molly41

glitterkitty wrote: »

Also when I was little my mum used to make me a snack of sliced apple, cubes of mild cheddar, a handful of sultanas and some ready salted crisps. So yummy!

So did mine - I will have to recreate that!

I dont have good memories of childhood food but a childhood favourite was cold custard with the skin on and is a favourite today.

MoaningMyrtle

Bird's trifle - the packet mix.
Fray Bentos pies.
Green's Carmelle.
Brain's faggots.
Tunis cake at Christmas.
Club/Viscount biscuits.
Royal Scot biscuits.
Egg and Bacon pie- Pastry on an enamel plate with whisked egg/milk and a couple of rashers of bacon.
Chips fried in lard.

I wasn't keen on school dinners but liked these dessert, chocolate rice crispie dessert with pale green mint 'custard', Gypsy Tart.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Nana cooked everything on the range, from one pot vegs and mash for roasts, viennese fingers, jam tarts, mince pies. All crumbled by hand, not mixed. I even do this with my trotters for spotted !!!!!!.

But the best was always on Thursday. 5 day old curded Rice Pudding. With skin on, made with propper milk, sterilised! The skin was always to be desired and was a race between us brats and Gradndad. I still think he cheated most weeks!

Sligo

Vesta Crispy noodles!! They looked like little strips of plastic and you dropped them into a pan of hot oil and they puffed up like magic. Haven't seen them in years!

School dinners were ace - hotpot with a round of puff pastry sat on it, spam fritters, baked sausages (never tasted the like since)manchester tart, gypsy tart, chocolate sponge with bright green mint custard. When we were in the last year of junior school, you had a table of 8 or 10 young ones to sit with and you served their dinner. You collected the food from the kitchen hatch in serving dishes and then doled it out on to plates at your table and had to supervise them eating and then cleared all away. Our village school was so crammed we had to sit at classroom desks for dinner. Elf and Safety probably wouldn't allow 10/11 year olds to do that now!;)

My granny's yorkshire puddings with gravy - I've never been able to recreate the taste.

And the best of all, the chip buttie in Skipton Bus Station cafe with my mum. And that's well over 40 years ago now! It was my favourite treat. I can still see the place in my head but it's long long gone!:)

~Chameleon~

My first ever knickerbocker glory in the market cafe with my mum. Aged about 7. It was the best thing I'd ever tasted

building_with_lego

Sligo wrote: »

Vesta Crispy noodles!! They looked like little strips of plastic and you dropped them into a pan of hot oil and they puffed up like magic. Haven't seen them in years!

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This sounds exactly like prawn crackers! The first time I saw them being cooked blew my little mind- how can anyone look at that little hard strip of whatever and think it'd be good to eat? And then the hot oil does its magic and...

recovering_spendaholic

Gosh I had forgotten about Vesta noodles - they were ace!

I was in Sainsburys before and just happened to see jars of sutherlands spreads - I remember we used to have them on butties when I was little so I bought a jar of the beef one!! Bet it's vile but it was really cheap!

We used to have a chip pan which always had beef dripping it it - I used to love watching it melt as it heated on the stove. The chips we had were absolutely lovely!! My Mum used to go mental at my Grandma who used too do deep fried pork pies in it when she was out!!

scaredy_cat

i miss the sausages which used to burst in the pan and the ends and split bits would burn and go ultra crispy! i loved the crispy burnt bits the best!! i'd pick them out of the pan after they were cooked!