Food memories

[gail2]

When shopping in Tescos on Tuesday I came across Carnation condensed milk, they even do it in a squeezy tube now. It took me right back to my nanna who used to have it in her tea. She used to let me have a slurp out of the tin. She also used to have lettuce and sugar sandwiches. Then there was my Aunty Joyce now she could bake like a good one. When she did bake the word used to go round the family and the whole family used to descend on her house, just for a small wee taste. Her rock cakes and cheese straws were legend. They both knew how to bake with not a lot to go on, both were brought up in hard times, but you could guarantee that their houses were always open with love and a warm welcome and you would always get a good plate full.
PS I came home with a squeezy tube of the condensed milk just for the memories of love and comfort it brings

 

[Pumper_Sue]

My Favorite food memory is Norfolk dumplings. Very yummy they was too.
Not so favorite were the crabs caught off Cromer pier.

 

[Steff]

My favourite food memory is panakelty had it every saturday when i went to my dads, my nan was a ace cook
Food nightmare was tinned crab used to have it with a salad but id hide it under the lettuce to make it look like i'd eaten it, my family hate waste when it comes to food yuk,even though i like fresh crab these days the tin stuff is eurghh,funny coinscidence there Sue x

 

[tracey w]

My nana used to have condensed milk in tea too, i used to have it too, very sweet xxx🙂

her bread was legendary, i can smell it now just thinking about it makes me salivate............was about 35 years ago too 😱

 

[Sheilagh1958]

Maderia cake is the cake that brings back memories of Sunday tea at my grandma's cut up into little 1 inch squares and tinned fruit with carnation milk and bread and butter. 🙂

 

[StephenM]

The first meal remember going out for was Prawn Cocktail, rather charred steak with chips and peas followed by Black Forest Gateax ( was only allowed a few forkfulls of mum's). My parents drunk Blue Nun and I had orange squash.

 

[KateXXXXXX]

My very first food memory is of sitting in the high chair at the corner of the dining table, eating small squares of ham. I told my mum about this memory, down to the details of the peachy coloured walls, dark red curtains beside me, and me picking up the ham and holding it out, saying 'Ham!' My mum swore I could only have ben about 15 months old, as this was just after I cut ALL my teeth in a month!

I still like ham...

 

[trophywench]

As I recall the problem when I was little with tinned crab was the fact it used to be liberally doused in at least half a gallon (slight exaggeration I'm sure) of malt vinegar ... YUK.

And I never met a prawn ever till I was 17 !

 

[Blythespirit]

One of my earliest memories concerning food was Christmas Day when I was 2 years old. I was sitting in my high chair by the dining table with a mince pie. Mum and Dad were having cold meat and salad and I saw Mum spooning picallilli onto her plate and decided I wanted some. She told me I wouldn't like it, especially with mince pie but I was adamant, so she put a small amount on my plate. I scouped it up with my little plastc spoon and shoved it in my mouth. It was eye wateringly disgusting but I wasn't going to admit it. I was a stubourn little madam even then! 🙂 I love picalilli now though and dislike mince pies...which is just as well. XXXXX

 

[novorapidboi26]

She also used to have lettuce and sugar sandwiches...

WOW, that's sounds interesting.......😱

 

[Muttley]

I can remember having Carnation condensed milk in tubes for portability during a five-day hike across Northwest Scotland when I was a Joy Sprout in the 60's. Haven't seen it since then, but it's not a new idea. White tubes, and metal, not plastic.

 

[Mark T]

We used to have carnation on our tinned fruit for our puddings when my parents used to take us on holiday in the caravan to Devon 🙂

But it would also be tinned corned beef most the time as well.

Considering the caravan my parents have now has central heating and a nice big fridge, it must feel like a luxury compared with those times.

 

[Pumper_Sue]

We used to have carnation on our tinned fruit for our puddings when my parents used to take us on holiday in the caravan to Devon 🙂

But it would also be tinned corned beef most the time as well.

Considering the caravan my parents have now has central heating and a nice big fridge, it must feel like a luxury compared with those times.

Ooh i love tinned fruit and carnation milk.
As a small child I used to delight in drinking coffee with evap in it plus 1/2 doz sweeteners in it 😱
I now drink coffee either black or a slurp of semi skimmed milk and no sweeteners.

 

[HelenM]

One Easter, I was ill, I can remember my Granny trying to tempt me with a the 'best' slice of white chicken breast (chicken was a special treat then), some really tiny new potatoes and some fresh (?)peas.
It looked lovely but I couldn't eat it. It turned out I had 'jaundice' (hepatitis A) . I couldn't eat much for several weeks including my Easter Eggs and then when I was allowed them could only eat a bit at a time. I carried on doing that in future years, it made them last longer.
The first thing I fancied eating, and was given was tinned raspberries.

Still love rasperries but prefer them fresh. Eating little bits of choc at a time to preserve the treat serves me well as someone with diabetes🙂

Hated memory is from nursery school so I must have been about 3. Tripe and onions for lunch and brought back for tea when I didn't eat it. Tripe is a favourite dish round here, they serve it as a communal meal for breakfast on fete days. I still won't eat it, in any shape or form.

 

[AlisonM]

Picking brambles and making jam with my gran and doing the same with gooseberries, rhubarb and raspberries. Yum.

Least favourite thing, school rice pudding. I don't know what they did but you could sole your shoes with the skin off it.

 

[Northerner]

Tripe is disgusting eeurgh! 😱 My dad once 'surprised' me and my sister with boiled tripe for lunch - I remember the awful stench coming from the kitchen whilst it was cooking and he brought it in on plates covered with plates so we all did the 'reveal' together! I had a small mouthful and couldn't eat any more, I think my sister declined completely!

I always remember the custard flan we got at school dinners - loved it! Shortcrust pastry base with a layer of jam and covered in set custard about an inch thick - yum!