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over a year ago
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"I remember chips done in lard. When you wanted chips you had to turn the chip pan on a month in advance for the lard to melt "
My mum never cooked chips,we had mash every day expect Sunday when it was roast potatoes. We only had chips from the chip shop. As we got older we started having Bolognese now and then or Bachelors savoury rice with crispy pancakes. |
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Mrs P came to stay at my parents when she was Inbetween flats as a student. It was the one and only time my mother has seen an aubergine and a courgette. |
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"Mrs P came to stay at my parents when she was Inbetween flats as a student. It was the one and only time my mother has seen an aubergine and a courgette. "
I hope they were being used as a food source or that could have been awkward |
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"Mr brains faggots. They were just nasty and scared me for life "
They're one of those Marmite things.. lovely served up with a dollop of mash and mushy peas, mmmmmmmmm!
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"I remember chips done in lard. When you wanted chips you had to turn the chip pan on a month in advance for the lard to melt
I feel sick now  "
They make the best chips though, especially with red spuds   |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Actually chips in lard are awesome as its flash point is much higher than vegetable oil.
Trick is get the the fat smoking and make sure the chips have the surface starch washed off and dry, drop them in and the heat seals them and you get lovely crispy chips.
I remember we used to eat suet, but again it was very nice in steak and kidney pudding and roly poly. |
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By *hortieWoman
over a year ago
Northampton |
Still love it now - but lambs hearts have a special memory for me.. coming home from school and that unmistakable smell from where they had been slow cooking for a couple of hours.
If you mean something we no longer have - then it would be Cabana bars. Coconut and cherry bars covered in chocolate  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I remember my mum making spaghetti for the first time and when yogurt first became popular it was sour and vile.
My mum has never had pasta.
That's fairly unusual, my dad won't eat yogurt "
My mother comes from a funny eating family. My auntie has never had cheese.
I can't stand yogurt. It's the texture. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Oh Heinz spaghetti, my dad when he made us tea, we always got this on toast, I hated it then and I hate it now, actually not had it for years, but not going to buy it anytime soon. |
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"I remember my mum making spaghetti for the first time and when yogurt first became popular it was sour and vile.
My mum has never had pasta.
That's fairly unusual, my dad won't eat yogurt
My mother comes from a funny eating family. My auntie has never had cheese.
I can't stand yogurt. It's the texture. "
I can't stand the texture of ox cheek but I love Greek yogurt |
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By *omaMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
"I remember chips done in lard. When you wanted chips you had to turn the chip pan on a month in advance for the lard to melt "
Occasionally I still do chips this way. Not often but hey, what a taste!
Deep fat fryer melts the lard within two minutes. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I remember chips done in lard. When you wanted chips you had to turn the chip pan on a month in advance for the lard to melt
Occasionally I still do chips this way. Not often but hey, what a taste!
Deep fat fryer melts the lard within two minutes. "
Use proper beef dripping, makes even better chips. |
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" Proper school dinners.
One choice only, eat it or leave it. "
My old junior school was obsessed with beans with gravy...
But all its forgiven because of chocolate sponge with mint chocolate (has to be bright green) custard. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Fish and Chip biscuits  they are selling large bags of those in pound land I bought the lot "
They sell them in poundstretcher too damn they are far too addictive |
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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago
Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria |
"When we were kids we used to go to chippy and get "crinklings". The odd bits of batter from the fish in a bag with salt and vinegar and they were free !! Awesome "
They were called "scraps" round here and you could get them free on their own or with your fish and chips |
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"I remember chips done in lard. When you wanted chips you had to turn the chip pan on a month in advance for the lard to melt
I feel sick now "
i feel sick when i think back at all the salt we used to put on stuff - bread and butter on the table at every meal - if you were hungry thats what you had to fill up on |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"When we were kids we used to go to chippy and get "crinklings". The odd bits of batter from the fish in a bag with salt and vinegar and they were free !! Awesome
They were called "scraps" round here and you could get them free on their own or with your fish and chips "
Pea wet and scraps, lots of salt and vinegar. All for free! I know how to give a woman a good night out! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Semolina at school God that was horrible stuff do they still make the kids eat that crap today ?
Ewwww! That and tapioca, aka frogspawn"
Oh god yes that was horrible |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"been on bury market they still sell cow heel and tripe, years ago there was a shop UCP that sold that type of food"
my mum used to say,"if ucp on tripe,dont eat it" |
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I used to hate Mondays at Junior school as then it was invariably cheese and potato pie followed by semolina with a dollopof jam in it. bleurgh
at least the rest of the week was good
chock pudding with mint green sauce... no wonder we were all Billy the Whizz round the playground afterwards  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Chips cooked in beef dripping - yum
Meat and two veg cooked fresh by mum
every day.
Fish & Chips & mushy peas on a Friday.
Sunday Roast.
Only thing from packet slice of Icecream
from the block in-between wafers. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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If this thread is making u hungry,there is a chippy here in Manchester called Armstrongs,home of the jumbo cod,do a search and check out the size of it.We had one and no kidding it was about a foot long.yummy |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"French bread pizza
Smiley faces
Them rib thingys that where just meat
Hienz spaghetti
Birdseye potatoes waffles there waffling versatile
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bubble and squeek |
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chock pudding with mint green sauce... no wonder we were all Billy the Whizz round the playground afterwards "
Dylan Moran said it best...
“You know it’s a sad day when your child looks at you and asks ‘Daddy, are these organic?’”
“Organic? I grew up on Angel Delight. We didn’t have anything in the house if it wasn’t neon!” |
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"Still love it now - but lambs hearts have a special memory for me.. coming home from school and that unmistakable smell from where they had been slow cooking for a couple of hours.
If you mean something we no longer have - then it would be Cabana bars. Coconut and cherry bars covered in chocolate "
Check out Cherry Ripe; made in Australia but available, in Northampton, via the internet.
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"I remember chips done in lard. When you wanted chips you had to turn the chip pan on a month in advance for the lard to melt
I feel sick now "
If it was best beef dripping the flavour was outstandingly good. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Yes I bought a carton of the beef dripping they sell today in those shitty little white paper carton.After spreading a bit on toast with a bit of salt I spat the whole lot out.The dripping in my day tasted like beef,even little bit of beef were in it.But today its disgusting and is bland. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Crispy pancakes... Can still get them but not many places.
Salt and shake crisps but the flavour ones. I know you can get the normal ones again now.
Always get batter bits with our fish and chips though x |
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Crispy pancakes you can still get them. I bought some they are horrible now. The pancake is really thick the filling just isn't the same. Yak.
When we used to turn up at my hubbies parents home we get a you Hungary he instantly came in with pek and chips. Pek had to be from Poland though. Lol.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Crispy pancakes... Can still get them but not many places.
Salt and shake crisps but the flavour ones. I know you can get the normal ones again now.
Always get batter bits with our fish and chips though x"
batter bits ........it's scraps now your up north x |
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we were quite poor .i didnt realise at the time . but looking back ,sugar sandwiches .weetabix with butter on
..nothing very healthy really .if we did it was probably over cooked and devoid of nutrients..no wonder i couldnt concentrate at school and suffered from dreadful mouth ulcers for years |
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Do you remember going to the drive in to watch a film and ordering a rack of ribs that was soooo big that when the waitress (who must have been hella strong) served them onto your cars food shelf the whole car tipped up?? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Aztec bars tins of curry and rice with curry in one end and rice in the other.
Crinkle cut chips
Tinned potato and vegetable salad
Heinz sandwich spread (bleeurch) |
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Make no wonder most people were thin. 
