Food memory

[nonethewiser]

Accidently left pan of oats on high gas instead of simmer, result was milk burnt around outside edge of pan. Eating it brought back flood of memories, when mother made homemade rice pudding as kids top would burn, always loved that part & we would fight over who got to it first. Taste & smell of food can evoke memories both good & bad.

 

[SueEK]

My mum would make me Fray Bentos pie, mash and peas when I had been poorly. To this day I can’t walk past them in a shop without remembering how much I loved them then, certainly not now.

 

[RirisR]

Mine is steak juice, when mom cooked steak for my dads tea I used
to have "a dip of the liquor" on a piece of bread tasted lovely ,,,he
had steak I had bread and dripping lol

 

[eggyg]

That’s really spooky you mentioning that @nonethewiser. I made chilli con carne last night and as I dished it up I said to Mr Eggy that the smell reminded me of the chilli the chefs made in the local sports hall/ theatre venue where I used to work. I left in 1997! It was the best job I ever had, still have friends from those days and have many happy memories. I make chilli all the time but that’s the first time it’s evoked that memory. Weird. It think it’s a sign of getting older!

 

[nonethewiser]

Bad memory was kippers, even now smell of them cooking makes me sick. Fav ones was beef roasting in oven & bacon frying, mother spent most her life in kitchen cooking for biggish family.

 

[nonethewiser]

Weird. It think it’s a sign of getting older!

Might be right there eggyg.

 

[JJay]

Not a particular meal, but my abiding food memory is the smell of my grandfather's grocers shop, a mixture of freshly ground coffee, dried fruit (scooped out of mahogany drawers and weighed into orange paper bags made by me!), cinnamon and nutmeg, home cured bacon, bath chaps, polony and other cooked meats that you never seem to hear about now, and broken biscuits! If I could bottle one scent from my childhood that would be it.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Makes sense to me! Smell and taste are intricately linked (just try tasting things blindfold while holding your nose!)

And the sense of smell is renowned for having strong links to the memory centres of the brain