What Food Takes You Right Back To Your Childhood?

[barry1010]

For me it is jelly and blancmange in a waxed paper dish, usually patterned with clowns. It appeared at every children's birthday party and the school's Christmas party. If we were lucky there was a bit of ice cream, too.
I quite some jelly and blancmange :)

[piggynose]

Forgot to mention ice cream van broken wafers.

[iluvmargie]

Mum used to cook us finny haddy with an egg on top and she made tasty rissoles. My Grandma loved tripe and would eat it as it came, on bread and butter (ugh).

[AuntPollyGrey]

Raspberry 'Mivvi's icelollies. Used to get them when staying at my Nanas,loved the smell of the ice cream van diesel as well!

[horselady]

For my 8th birthday party my mum ordered an ice-cream cake from the local dairy. Layers of sponge with layers of ice-cream and beautifully decorated. Out of all my food memories that one stands out the most. We weren't a family who could very often afford shop bought cakes.

[Vagus]

Horrible sherry trifle when we had visitors, made with tinned fruit salad..yuk..and topped with tinned cream.
And salad consisting of one slice of ham, half a hard boiled egg, two lettuce leaves and half a tomato, occasionally a spring onion but not often. A plate of bread and butter as a side dish.
This was my mum’s ‘go to’ visitors meal. The only thing I liked was the ham and bread and butter.

[Ken4155]

David Small; "Beef extract drink after swimming baths session."
Was that from the vending machine, DS? Always looked forward to the dregs - made one's eyes water :-)

[Jude1630]

We used to have a westlers hamburger and a cup of hot vimto after swimming at the local pool, loved those burgers then, not sure about now though, don’t know if you could still get them.

[Vagus]

At secondary school, my sister and I took a small flask each with a hot oxo drink in it, in winter, to have at morning break along with the cold marmite toast we should have eaten for breakfast.

[Mamyalynne]

Still around Jude

https://groceries.asda.com/product/tinned-meals/westlers-4-burgers-in-onion-gravy/910001058412

[Jackdaw33]

Panhackelty (various spellings) is a Geordie dish, traditionally eaten on Mondays and made from the fried-up leftovers from Sunday lunch (also known as a 'ca'ad wa'am up).

[zebo]

When we lived in Germany they sold chocolate covered marshmallows, much bigger than the UK version, but they had an amazing name that would get me banned for life were I to use it here!

[Jude1630]

Yes, that’s them mamya, thanks for that, not sure I’d buy them though, palette has changed over the decades. Frey bentos pies were another love of mine, I’ve seen those still kicking about.

[tiggerblue10]

Gypsy tart with a blob of whipped cream. We used to have it a school.

[Jackdaw33]

Remember that meat was strictly rationed until 1954. Things like tripe, pigs' trotters and cow heels were not, which may help to explain their popularity as sometimes there was nothing else to be had.

[jazzyjen]

We used to get “smashed eggs”.
Boiled and chopped up in a cup with a blob of margarine and a pinch of salt. 2 eggs shared between 3 children. On a good day we also got a slice of bread to eat with it.

[ummmm]

My dad used to make that for us, Jazzy, loved it.

[roopower]

Shrimps, bought by the pint from the fishmonger on the high street and sprats fried by my mum. Living in what was then a thriving fishing port we ate a lot of fish!

[Jackdaw33]

Fray Bentos pies are not as you or I remember them. They consist mainly of gravy and the pastry is nothing like it used to be. Avoid.

[-SharonA-]

My mum's steak & kidney pudding. Really miss it.

[pastafreak]

Jackdaw33

Remember that meat was strictly rationed until 1954. Things like tripe, pigs' trotters and cow heels were not, which may help to explain their popularity as sometimes there was nothing else to be had.

Please excuse this quite possibly stupid question. Just remember I'm not a UK native....if tripe etc was all that was available...where was the good stuff...the rest of the beast? What was it used for?
Obviously there were animals from which those bits came.