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beanielou

Had forgotten about toast toppers

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beanielou said:

Had forgotten about toast toppers

Yes me too. I was never sure if I liked them or not. 

What used to drive my mum mad was those wafer thin steaklets that you used to grill and flames would shoot out. I always used to cook them in the early hours of the morning after getting back from a night out. I used to like them on toast with lots of mustard. She was convinced I was going to burn the house down 😆

enthusiasticsaver

I remember the Vesta meals and angel delight. Butterscotch was my favourite. I still like vienetta ice cream. 

Buffythedebtslayer

I love Bird's trifle, I used to ask for it as a birthday treat.  

WinterWarrior

Just catching up and late to the party. I loved the vesta kits and crispy noodles too. Very rare to have one as my dad was against ‘foreign muck’ too. I didn’t taste my first Chinese until I was about 15 when my sister and her boyfriend brought a takeaway home! I don’t think I had anything Indian until I was 17, it was very exotic as we were a ‘fray bentos pie between 4’ type of family 🤣 we couldn’t afford to be fat 😬 and making a trifle without a birds trifle kit was deserving of a Michelin star or two 😁

Scottiedog_3

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ladyholly said:

I loved those Vesta meals as teenager. We didnt get them very often but a treat when we did. Never liked Arctic roll or vienettas but strawberry angel delight was wonderful. Never liked the chocolate or butterscotch though. To me chocolate should only be eaten as chocolate and only with more chocolate. Dont like anything chocolate  flavour even hot chocolate is a no no. Yeah I know I'm weird.

Definitely agree about chocolate, I hate hot chocolate, I like my chocolate solid 🍫 My weird quirk is I can only eat it with a black coffee, can’t eat it without. I can’t understand anyone who can just eat it ‘neat’ without a coffee 🤣

You get an extra hit of caffeine if you combine good chocolate with black coffee. A legal "high".

Cherryfudge

This is bringing back the memories! I had my share of Vesta meals - possibly more than my share! - and toast toppers were a regular thing in our house. Also lemon meringue pie from a little box. When supermarkets came on the scene in our area, Dad would buy a tray of Coca Cola, I think because he wanted to treat us. Mum would get a tray of barm cakes (a floury white bread bun) from the baker's in the next village and I'd help myself... the other side of our diet was home grown veg and wonderful roast meats - Mum was quite the cook. For some reason I gained weight in my teens...

It's interesting how we all remember those crispy noodles. They were the best.

@Sun_Addict, I got the Jamie book too and mine has also refused to download to my Kindle.

Scottiedog_3

Blackcats said:

I was also partial to toast toppers - that tiny tin of .... errr gloop.  I could have that for Sunday tea instead of tinned pilchards - I'd still chose the toast topper 😋.  Never a fan of sandwich spread though.  

Ooh, sandwich spread! I'm still addicted to it - still stocked by my local Co-op, the shop that time forgot. I had that every day for my school packed lunch. Early signs of vegetarian leanings.

Scottiedog_3

badmemory said:

I remember those Vesta meals.  My ex used to love them.  I loved what they should have been.  In the early 50s my father used to cook curry.  

Could he have learned to cook it in the army? My uncle used to work as a civilian for the British Army and we were invited to curry nights - which were tremendous. 

badmemory

Scottiedog_3 said:

Could he have learned to cook it in the army? My uncle used to work as a civilian for the British Army and we were invited to curry nights - which were tremendous. 

I think you must be right as he served during the war.  But I have no idea where he would have learned as he seemed to have served all over.  He didn't talk about it & only ever said about silly things, like running through a fountain in Durban that he couldn't see as it was raining so hard.  Absolutely no idea what he was doing in Durban though.