Crap food that reminds you of childhood...

HAL9000

Meat with tubes in it
Rice pudding with a swirl of jam in it
Semolina pudding with a swirl of jam in it
Tapioca pudding with a swirl of jam in it

Not that I eat any of those things nowadays, but I can't think back to my childhood without remembering the sheer awfulness that was school dinners and being constantly reminded that 'a child in Africa would be pleased to have it'.

Even now I can't even think about eating milky puddings.

bluechargeboy

Ice Magic, that sweet crap that used to solidify on top of ice cream
Funny Feet ice lollies

I had forgotten about French bread pizzas and crispy pancakes! Good God.

freakboy1610

Corned beef in a tin with key on the end.
Evaporated milk.
Pizzas when you got 6 in a plastic bag for storing in your chest freezer.
Tapioca pudding....yuk!

jonnyburgo

Minute steaks, wafer  thin "meat" made to appear exotic by the prefix "Canadian". 1 minute under the grill and bosh, there's dinner.

shitty pop like Panda pops. 

Bread in a paper wrapper which would always split open when you went down a curb on yer bike and drop bread in the street.

sterra milk or "council milk" our street wasn't complete without a few broken bottles amongst the dog shit.

them burgers that when yr mans cooking them you had visions of mahoosive American diner style burgers. When you got it it was the size of a 10p and came without relish or burger mustard as they didn't even exist in the UK.

BRISTOL86

Heinz Toast Toppers anyone? Cheese and 'ham' sludge in a can. 

Oh and iced gems. And Gold bars. 

Nikko

Smash. Saturday dinner round at my nans house when I was a kid. Bloody horrible stuff. 

monofin

Fish paste sandwiches X(

viz

Kalimna said:

Bernard M's Turkey roasts.
Grated vomit in a tub.
Lemon Meringue pie.
Arctic roll.

Corrected. 

Jalapeno

Fray Bentos canned pies - I still love 'em - there's a couple in the emergency/meal-for-one cupboard.

Mince with bisto, peas & mash (either peas in the mince/bisto stew, or as a side veg) - was vile then, still is.  My mum used to add chunks of celery in <shudder>

DiscoStu

A lot of the above plus

Campbell's Meatballs
Cremola Foam

viz

BAM - butter and jam mix spread.

57Deluxe

School Dinners: Spam fritters with tinned tomatoes and lumpy mash followed by semolina and that drizzly jam that wasn't!

Home: Cadbury's Smash

BUT - Loved Loved Loved - Rissoles!  Haven't seem them for years and years...

Rissoles - so called cos contained Rice and Pigs Arseholes! - scrummy though when in from school on a cold winters eve and Sexton Blake was on Telly!

Emp_Fab

cruxiform said:

Just remembered Birds Eye Potato Waffles! Not so bad and pretty awesome with a poached egg on top.

The jingle for that ad is the worst earworm in the universe.  It's worse than Alien - you can never get rid of it.  I was actually singing it in my head an the supermarket yeaterday, 30 years (?) since the ad's been on.

"Birds Eye Potato Waaaaffles, are Waaaaafley versatile - (woo woo)!"

EricTheWeary

sev112 said:

Heartfeltdawn said:

The way my auntie used to live on frozen beef mince and processed peas. 

School canteens bring me right back to the 1980s and shitty food loaded with additives and preservatives. I'm allergic to a lot of them. Off school for a long time, got better. First day back, sausage pie on the menu. Ten minutes later, I've projectile vomited it all over the school hall floor. Clean up on aisle 3 to 6 material. 

School dinners

choc pudding with choc custard. ....

We used to have chocolate pudding with green (mint?) custard at school. My mother had won awards for her baking so pretty much all school dinner puddings seemed rank to me.

When I was at primary school we had free milk (in tiny glass bottles). I don't think it was refrigerated, just left somewhere in a big crate and I can recall drinking a bottle down only to realise it had gone off and throwing up. 

I remember the Vienetta coming in (1982 according to Wikipedia)and that seemed a real treat. Having had it again many years later it was disappointing to find out it was cheap, slightly artificial tasting mush. 

Kalimna

cruxiform said:

Kalimna said:

Where did you get the Crispy Pancakes - I've been trying to find them. No, seriously I have. I loved them when I was a kid.
Other naff foods?
Bernard M's Turkey roasts.
Grated Parmesan in a tub.
Lemon Meringue pie.
Arctic roll.


Adam..

In Tesco, on offer for a quid. 

Ta muchly - must have missed them last time i was there

djspecialist

Flavour-n-shake crisps

ThePrettyDamned

Turkey twizzlers. 

Diabolical rubber with additives. 

Danny1969

Pigs trotters for dinner with hair on em, pigs head boiling in a big pot of water was the cheapest meat for Sunday roast. Bread and dripping sandwiches, sandwich spread or lemoncurd sandwiches to take to school, powered custard or ideal milk in cans for desert mixed with  jelly
Crispy Pancakes would have been a luxury

Kalimna

Normally im a complete food snob, but i still make sandwich spread sandwiches for my lunch, and lemon cheese if theres any homemade stuff in the fridge. On proper white Warburtons Toastie bread of course

Adam

mudslide73

+1 for Campbell's meatballs. Brains Faggots also.