| | What wierd and wonderful foods do you remember having when you were a kid?Page 1 of 4 (1, 2, 3, 4) | Cabbage Water, i remember when i was a kid, on sunday we had a roast with all the trimmings, one of which was cabbage. And with the cabbage came cabbage water, we were told it would put hairs on our chests, which was upsetting for my sister, but hey ho, sh1t happens, i also remember having dip butties, that was the greasy stuff at the bottom of the roasting tray, it was awesome.
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Posted: 4/7/2009 6:48:57 AM | Cabbage and potatoes mashed and fried in a pan every Monday. I just could not stomach it. My mother would sit over me and make me eat it and it would end in a crying match, sometimes her, sometimes me.
I'd eat it no bother now though! | |
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Posted: 4/7/2009 6:49:29 AM | | My Nan used to boil a whole sheeps head for hours every weekend. There were four of us kids so only the two who had been best behaved got to eat the eyes but at least we all got our fair share of sheeps brains butties. Yum yum. | |
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Posted: 4/7/2009 6:49:47 AM | i remember being lined up after tea each evening and being forced to swallow a spoonful of malt extract..
it was a light brown fudge colour/textured stuff that made myself brother and sister heave , but eat it we did as we were made to...
god that was rank... | |
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Posted: 4/7/2009 6:54:16 AM | Ha ha bubble and squeak, that's what mash and cabbage refried is...
I had bread and dripping sandwiches, with lashings of salt on them too..
My grandad would spend ages trying to get my sister and I to eat pig's feet...
'Put some fat on yer titties' he'd say...
I never gave in though thank God.. Mom used to buy half a pig each year and he'd have the feet and head, I'd love watching him making the brawn but I would never have eaten it, or the chitterlings.. Ewwwwwww ugh ugh ... | |
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willow
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Posted: 4/7/2009 7:22:58 AM | Sugar on bread and butter
Tomato sauce sarnies.
Hot Oxo with bread broken up and put in it.
Rhubarb dipped in sugar.
And my cousin used to dip his toast in his cup of tea.
One thing I have never tasted and refuse to even put in my mouth, Semolina or Tapioca..Ewwwww. | |
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Posted: 4/7/2009 7:40:51 AM | Used to do the sugar on bread thing and the oxo / bovril with bread in it. Never had tomato sauce sarnies but I did have brown sauce sandwiches.
Oh.. raw white pudding was a lovely.
My grandad was the same pants.. every Saturday night a pot of Crubeens was left on the stove to boil so they could be eaten after the pub. The smell would make me nearly vomit.. | |
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Posted: 4/7/2009 7:45:57 AM | I used to visit my grandpa each weekend and he would enjoy a plate of tripe with vinegar sprinkled on it.One day i tasted it and nearly spewed up! It as horrible!
Same as Guiness,i was dyyyyyyying for a taste as i imagined the lovely dark brown colour with creamy froth tasted of cola,i wished it had,i spat it straight back out of my mouth like a fountain! | |
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Posted: 4/7/2009 10:37:40 AM |
it was a light brown fudge colour/textured stuff that made myself brother and sister heave , but eat it we did as we were made to... Virol
Sounds rank, but try cream cheese and lemon curd sarnies. Honestly, give it a go! | |
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Posted: 4/7/2009 10:42:12 AM | | An elderly neighbour used to give me yorkshire puddings with jam, they were lovely :) | |
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Gagged
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Posted: 4/7/2009 10:45:44 AM | Sugar sarnies, I was never allowed them at home, I had to get them from next door!
Banana sarnies too.
I used to have family in Barrow-in-Furness whom we used to go and stay with in the summer (exotic holidays!), I remember a butcher that always used to have a big bin of tripe out the front. It was foul!
Ooh, corned beef hash with brown sauce! | |
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Posted: 4/7/2009 10:52:28 AM |
Same as Guiness,i was dyyyyyyying for a taste as i imagined the lovely dark brown colour with creamy froth tasted of cola,i wished it had,i spat it straight back out of my mouth like a fountain!
Funnily enough I used to drink Guiness years ago and loved it...... but took a break from it and can't stand the stuff now! 
Bread & dripping with lots of salt (I never could stomach jelly at the bottom of the bowl though!)
Bubble & Squeak
Bread and milk (a bowl of warm milk with slices of bread broken up in it)
Sugar butties
Cheese and strawberry jam sandwiches (I still love those!) | |
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Posted: 4/7/2009 10:54:07 AM | I loved malt extract ha!!
Tripe, onion,s and potatoes once a week.
Macaroni in the mince to make it go around everyone.
Custard with a dod of jam in the middle.
Rabbit stew.
I swallowed all
Whelk,s and a pin was a favorite.  | |
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Posted: 4/7/2009 11:13:43 AM | Bloody hell, I thought I was the only one ever to have a penchant for sugar sarnies, but it seems to be really poplear. Sugar on lettuce is good, too.
Most of mine came from spending Sundays with my grandparents:
Green water (which was really green, thanks to nan boiling the cabbage for three or four days.
Pease pudding (served with boiled ham) - tasteless muck.
Winkle sandwiches - took hours of diligent pinwork and pricked fingers to get enough winkles to make a decent sarnie.
Boiled hearts. Good god, they were truly awful.
I was once stood behind a woman in a Soho sandwich bar who ordered a cream cheese, honey and banana sandwich. I thought, wtf?? Then thought sod it, I'll give it a go. Heaven. Pure heaven. Oh, and another one, recommended by a geezer in the pub - bag of plain crisps with a liberal dollop of Worcestershire sauce and a pickled egg lobbed in. Shake it all abaht and enjoy.... | |
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Posted: 4/7/2009 11:32:39 AM | Jayeff I was thinking we were the only healthy ones to have sugar and LETTUCE sandwiches as a child
After eight mint sandwiches were brilliant too, but we only had after eight mints as Christmas so that was a seasonal treat 
I used to have to make my Grandad bread and dripping, yuk, yuk and double yuk ; he had a penchant for gross food like that and faggotts  | |
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Posted: 4/7/2009 11:42:50 AM |
One thing I have never tasted and refuse to even put in my mouth, Semolina or Tapioca..Ewwwww.
Tapioca no no no even my mum called it snot and bogie
Norfolk, you are showing your age, bread and milk, with sugar no of course I can't remember it I was far too young | |
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Posted: 4/7/2009 1:58:40 PM | Tapioca featured weekly on the school dinner menu - and in those days you had no choice. It always had a prune in the middle of it too. Like a bowl of frog spawn looking stuff wasn't bad enough - let's stick something akin to a jobby in the middle to make it even more appetising  We had a scary dinner lady too, so you didn't dare leave anything, even if you did boke with every mouthful.
I quite liked semolina though - specially with loads of cinnamon on the top. And served with Carnation evaporated milk.
Think I'd heave if given it now though....... | |
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Tinky2
| | Joined: 2/25/2007
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Posted: 4/7/2009 2:16:10 PM | Ooh, still love tapioca, but detest semolina.
Condensed milk sandwiches (yum yum yum)
Yogurt with bread and butter soldiers (yuck yuck yuck - still can't eat yogurt to this day!)
Dripping on bread with lots of salt and pepper (didn't like the jelly bit either)
Raw cabbage core
Crisp and banana sandwiches / salad cream sandwiches
I'm sure there are loads more but they're the few I can vividly recall. | |
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| | Joined: 5/24/2008
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| What wierd and wonderful foods do you remember having when you were a kid?
Posted: 4/7/2009 2:35:33 PM | Oh I used to dread Fridays, it was always fish with parsley sauce and mashed potatoes ... spent the whole meal picking bones out of your mouth, I hated it.
Our treats were Angel Delight with a Glace Cherry in the middle, which I would eat from the outside in til there was just a column of wobbling angel delight and the cherry left, the best bit saved til last .... and tinned fruit with either custard or condensed milk. | |
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