Food from childhood and do you still eat it?

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The earliest memory thread got me thinking about food from childhood. School dinner slop, my Grannies lentil soup, fantastic.
Now I'm in Thailand with easily available fresh seafood if that's your thing and for me (vegan) wonderful fruits and vegetables I never knew existed. Despite all this there's one thing from childhood I still crave and have fairly regularly....A jam piece! Raspberry, nae butter.
 
Semolina? No had it for about 35 yrs, no idea if I’d like it now!
 
My grandmother used to make Ukrainian pierogie served with fried bacon and onion for me and my cousins when we were young.
 
Potted hough. You can get it in a butcher’s shop but I remember my granny making it using a hand mincer clamped to her kitchen table. It was delicious and, in spite of trying the shop bought stuff nowadays, nothing’s ever come close to my gran’s recipe. Never wrote it down either, was all done from memory
 
ILHTD said:
The earliest memory thread got me thinking about food from childhood. School dinner slop, my Grannies lentil soup, fantastic.
Now I'm in Thailand with easily available fresh seafood if that's your thing and for me (vegan) wonderful fruits and vegetables I never knew existed. Despite all this there's one thing from childhood I still crave and have fairly regularly....A jam piece! Raspberry, nae butter.
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Always had access to seafood as we lived about 30 yards from the harbour where my old man worked from.
Fish a plenty and occasionally raans freshly boiled.
Oddly , I cant eat them nowadays.
 
greencol said:
Always had access to seafood as we lived about 30 yards from the harbour where my old man worked from.
Fish a plenty and occasionally raans freshly boiled.
Oddly , I cant eat them nowadays.
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WTF are raans?
brianmc said:
My 22 year old daughter has been buying Rusks for her 24 year old boyfriend for the last couple of months.
I told her I thought it was fuckin weird - now I've read your post I KNOW it's fuckin weird 😱🤣🤣
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Spot on.
No fuckin danger is Forza 24.
 
ILHTD said:
The earliest memory thread got me thinking about food from childhood. School dinner slop, my Grannies lentil soup, fantastic.
Now I'm in Thailand with easily available fresh seafood if that's your thing and for me (vegan) wonderful fruits and vegetables I never knew existed. Despite all this there's one thing from childhood I still crave and have fairly regularly....A jam piece! Raspberry, nae butter.
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I remember at Primary school spending my dinner money at the pie and mash shop - pie, mash and liquor, food of the gods. Still visit them whenever I get home. Another early memory is having duck at Christmas. Not many folk had chicken as it was before mass produced chicken and it was very expensive and one Christmas my Dad won a chicken in a raffle at work. It was a free range bird and the most delicious thing I had ever tasted and I have loved chicken ever since (though not as much as pie and mash or jellied eels and bull's heart). I remember my Mum cooking tripe for my Dad once and it stunk the house out. He persuaded me to try it and it was honking, like chewing the sole off of a Doc Martins.
I have to say as a kid (born in 1946 in a big family) I just ate whatever my Mum served up as I was always hungry through playing out all day and I think that's why there is very little I don't like.
 
Wishbone said:
I remember at Primary school spending my dinner money at the pie and mash shop - pie, mash and liquor, food of the gods. Still visit them whenever I get home. Another early memory is having duck at Christmas. Not many folk had chicken as it was before mass produced chicken and it was very expensive and one Christmas my Dad won a chicken in a raffle at work. It was a free range bird and the most delicious thing I had ever tasted and I have loved chicken ever since (though not as much as pie and mash or jellied eels and bull's heart). I remember my Mum cooking tripe for my Dad once and it stunk the house out. He persuaded me to try it and it was honking, like chewing the sole off of a Doc Martins.
I have to say as a kid (born in 1946 in a big family) I just ate whatever my Mum served up as I was always hungry through playing out all day and I think that's why there is very little I don't like.
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You got liquor with your school dinner at primary?

No wonder you ended up supporting Hibs.
 
Cornbeef hash!
Mash tatties and a tin of corned beef, winner.
With a tin of beans thrown about it.

Banana sandwich is a good shout, used to like lemon curd on a sandwich too, don't think I'd enjoy that so much nowadays though.
Cheese and jam, tried that too, wasn't for me but my sister still likes it.
 
Beagle said:
Potted hough. You can get it in a butcher’s shop but I remember my granny making it using a hand mincer clamped to her kitchen table. It was delicious and, in spite of trying the shop bought stuff nowadays, nothing’s ever come close to my gran’s recipe. Never wrote it down either, was all done from memory
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We called it Potted Heid
 
After baby food,food was just food?I remember hating liver and love it now.But food was just the usual mince and tatties etc and it still is,but round about '75 we got introduced to spaghetti,then it was crispy noodles, then curries, then sweet and sour.Around '85 ish I tried a kebab,I tried okra, and aubergines,and, olives, and garlic.About 5 years ago I tried celeriac.But still my go to food is lentil soup,mince and tatties,and rhubarb crumble-not all in the same plate.
 
I still eat beans on toast and have tomato soup out a can. My Dad was a merchant seaman then an expat worker. He loved ham, cheddar, coleslaw and piccalilli sandwich, I still love that mix, I would go as far as to say it is up there with deep fried baby squid and Spanish rabbit and onions in my food ranking. I have a ham, cheese, piccalilli and coleslaw roll every week of my life at least one.

My Nana Hetty (god rest her soul) made the best home made coleslaw in Scotland, none of my pals knew what it was. I miss her, I miss her coleslaw, extra strong mature Scottish cheddar, boiled ham and piccalilli well fired roll. A 'buffet' tea at my Nana's was a home made thing of wonder.
 
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