Childhood Food memories......

[EcclesCake]

Inspired by Sherrards corned beef pie like her gran used to make.

I was wondering what foods you love and loathe from childhood.

I loathe lamb stew (grey with slimy pearl barley) and shepherds/cottage pie (reminds me of old folks homes).

I love gingernut biscuits dunked in milk.

[emmie]

suet pudding, dumplings, anything so stodgy it would make your tum hit the floor. Cannot look, smell or abide in any way tripe or black pudding

[janbee]

Tapioca and semolina at school dinners. Yuck yuck and thrice yuck.

[Kiki-frog]

I really miss my mum's shepherds pie. I've never been able to make it as well as she did. It was always for Monday's tea with the leftover meat from Sunday lunch.

Worst food memory has to be school liver and bacon with mashed potatoes. The liver was like shoe leather and always had tubes in it, and the mash was tasteless and had horrid hard grey lumps in it. Yeuch.

[tenrec]

Black Jacks, Victory V's, Imps! All yummy sweets.

[janbee]

Oh yes Em, hated tripe too. The smell alone would make your toes curl. As for the look of it... it was like old face flannels. I LOVED any sponge puddings with custard. LOVED them. Still do.

[McMouse]

Beef dripping on toast was an after school favourite.
Semolina and tapioca (frog spawn) puddings were dreaded at school.

[NOX]

Now I love lamb stew with crispy doughballs, like Mrs Kelly a few doors down used to make. Make the stew and dumplings normally and then turn the grill on in the oven for the last 10 minutes- awesome food.
Hate cold limp toast.

[237SJ]

Nothing from home as my mother didn`t cook us stuff we didn`t like but I went to a primary school that had a policy of making the kids eat the food. From that I loathe bananas (due to the banana custard), mince pies, beetroot (particularly on a salad when the red juice has permeated into the disgusting sliced hard boiled eggs). Anything such as sponge pudding with custard. I don`t think I`ve eaten custard since. They did me a favour because I don`t like traditional, stodgy British food and only eat tasty exotic stuff these days.

[tonyav]

Hated nearly all school dinners but especially the mashed potatoes with the lumps in, they used to make me heave, put me off for life, I won't eat mashed potatoes even now.

[EcclesCake]

I remember a chewy sweet called Mojo's, they cam in three varieties; toffee & banana, toffee & strawberry and my favourite backcurrant & liquorice.

Bad school dinners have a lot to answer for, so many people have been turned off perfectly good food due to their crimes against ingredients.

[craft1948]

Cabbage, they tried to make me eat over-cooked cabbage at school..........I was promptly sick.

[dennisb66]

Hot peas and mint sauce from Rotherhams old market town when mum used to take me shopping,yummy on a cold winters day.

[emmie]

custard with the skin on top, enough to make me feel sick, never did like stodgy puddings much, spotted dick, treacle tart, the stuff that rotted your teeth and gave you bad stomach pains for hours

Loved all the childhood sweets, flying saucers, koala cubes, aniseed twist, orange jublies, smith's crisps with the little blue salt bag, sherbet dip, and many many more.

[friedgreentomato]

hated cowboy hotpot from the school lunch

loved my mothers homemade pizza with scone base mmmm

[ummmm]

Mashed potato. Hated it. Every mouthful made me gag...

I didn't actually like many foods as a kid. I ate just enough to have a healthy diet. Mum served peas and carrots with every meal because they were the only veg I'd eat.

My Nan used to make me home made cod in butter sauce (I didn't eat meat) it was lovely. I used to have that about 3 times a week :-)

[emmie]

greens so overdone they could have disappeared entirely, shame they didn't, well overcooked beef on Sunday, total waste of meat, turkey on Christmas day, still don't like it much.

[ummmm]

I was lucky...my aunty was a chef. She stopped the tradition of over cooked food.

[mallyh]

spam fritters , semolina lovely

[emmie]

that was the problem, i have no worries about eating green veg like sprouts now, it's just they were always soggy and tasteless, as to cabbage, just the thought makes me heave.

[emmie]

always loved birds eye fish fingers with tomato ketchup in bread, so comforting on a cold day.