Food from childhood and do you still eat it?

[aggie]

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.

Is the name “Hetty” short for something?

 

[1875]

Is the name “Hetty” short for something?

Marietta, hence my Scouse and Las Espanyas allegencies.

 

[Hammi]

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.

Sounds good! I make coleslaw all the time, no made piccalilli for a while

One to try, I'm in!

 

[Fernando]

Fried bread wae a breakfast,only get it oan holiday noo in Tenerife

 

[sockyboy]

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I will eat anything apart from liver and kidneys

It's offal....

 

[sockyboy]

On a Saturday morning when I was wee my mum would make me either scrambled egg or banana rolls for breakfast, as i watched Lone ranger, the monkees, munsters etc.
I told her this recently and she had no idea Saturday mornings were one of my childhood highlights. Funny how the wee inexpensive things are very often the best.

 

[1875]

On a Saturday morning when I was wee my mum would make me either scrambled egg or banana rolls for breakfast, as i watched Lone ranger, the monkees, munsters etc.
I told her this recently and she had no idea Saturday mornings were one of my childhood highlights. Funny how the wee inexpensive things are very often the best.

What a lovely memory that is.

 

[GORDONSMITH7]

Short story long.

My abiding memory of young grub was eating baked beans on buttered rolls. The hot beans melting the butter. Mmm. I remember telling my wife about this back in the 1970s and incongruity was expressed .

Also my dad taking me to see his beloved Hibernian FC from the early 1960s. Before we got the SMT bus up to Easter Road we would have beans on top of a Bonnars of Musselburgh pie, probably because it was cheaper than buying one at ER, or possibly that the pies at ER back then were as crap as now.

I remember as as 14 year old on a Saturday job working, delivering individual small parcels of various meats, mince, stew, etc, wrapped in brown paper to doors with people's names on ,and house addresses from Bonthrons the butchers in the High Street, cycling with one of those fucking difficult to turn Granville bikes with a big basket on front.

I would also take a big tray of fresh mince to Bonnars across the road, where they put the mince into their splendid mince pies.

Neither Bonthrons nor Bonnars exist now.

My memory now at 69 years young could not remember whether it was my Blackfriars Street, Blackie boy, Hibee dad of Little Ireland or Wallyford mum who introduced me to to beans on a roll or beans on Bonner pie delicacy.

I phone my 90 year old mum just now to find out about the beans on rolls.

She said it was her, as it was a cheap, tasty way, to fill me and brother up when everyone was totally skint.

Thanks to this random thread she informed me that she worked in Bonnars, pre my birth. Brilliant.

Beans on a roll is still both of our favourites

What with my mum's beans on a roll and my dad's beans on Bonnars mince pies, I can only apologies to anyone, still alive, who stood behind us at Hibs matches in those years.

BIG G

 

[Davy]

My grannies sweet tablet..probably one reason I am now diabetic.

Crispy cornflakes cakes things in cream at school and caramel cake and custard

Remember the crisps they called bones, ribs etc..might have been Smith's.

Corn beef stories.. some vall hash, I still make.

 

[tricky]

I was a marmalade sandwich enthusiast as a kid, usually consumed with a glass of milk before bed

 

[Findlayhibby]

I wouldn't eat food from my childhood.It'd probably be aff.