What food (that you don't eat anymore) do you miss from your childhood?

[merciasounds]

Could be anything from your dear old mum's roast chicken, to your granny fruit cake - to tinned strawberries and Carnation milk -

[ummmm]

Tinned strawberries and carnation milk. I use to love that.

I miss my Nans omelette and chips. I don't know what she done but they were lovely. She also use to make home made cod in butter sauce just for me (I didn't eat meat) and it was gorgeous.

[craft1948]

My nan's bread which she used to bake in the fire-oven.

[ethandron]

what i don't miss is tinned fruit salad with tinned thick cream - total yuk!
or vesta beef curry served up with an over cooked beefburger and potato cakes, another of my mum's puzzling combinations. she was one of those to totally embrace the new food technology for convenience foods....and we all suffered for it :)
can't actually think of anything that i actually miss, apart from my mum :(

[redman41]

I miss all the produce from my Grandfathers garden as he was a very good gardener and enjoyed growing just about anything really. His New Potatoes were to die for.

[mccfluff]

my nans dahl and roti, it was fooking fab, my mum's is good but my nanas was unreal

[merciasounds]

I asked my dad what he missed, and he said his mum's liver and black-fried onions, and her rice pudding with a thick nutmeggy skin on top!
My mum's was her grans roast lamb she said she's never tasted lamb like it since. My grandfather (who is 98 years young!) says cockles swimming in vinegar, a good rabbit pie and Lovells assorted toffees, especially the treacle and the liquorish varieties.

[funnygirl]

My gran's apple pie!

It was to die for and the pastry was really succulent melt in the mouth.

[McMouse]

Bubble & Squeak. My grandma always cooked too many vegitables and the leftovers made the greatest bubble........especially the bits that had just caught.

[society]

All of my Granny's baking. She never used recipes from books and she never measured her ingredients. Everything came out perfectly delicious. Gosh, I miss her!

[Androcles]

My grandmother's Tripe and Onions - magnificent and her roast beef done in the blackleaded range oven by the side of the fire and her jam tarts and ....and .....and......How many characters do we have?

[paddywak]

My Mum was like that society, when we were growing up in the 50-60's she always seemed to be baking cakes or bread and everything came out perfect though I can't remember her ever owning scales. We lived in a pit village and every body had big gardens and Dad would come home from the club with stuff like home made jams, rabbits etc and then send me down the garden to dig some tates or carrots to take down to Mr So and So. I don't know if it's a case of only remembering the good bits but every seemed to taste better, but my special favorite was always Apple and Blackberry Crumble covered in Birds custard

[marval]

My Mum's home baked bread, her Apple Crumble.

[razza]

Cows udder,Sheeps brains,wood pigeon,a meat we used to call bag,its proper name escapes me at the moment,bacon bone soup,black pudding,jellied eels,scrumped apples,tripe.

[Alibobs]

My Mum's Egg & Bacon Pie

[piggynose]

the crumpet from next door

[Mr Veritas]

Call me strange(yes, feel free!),but I had a craving some weeks ago for baby rusks(with hot milk over them).
Well,Elsie (my ever patient and sainted wife) bought some(I think they may have been Sainsbury's?),and I had a couple every day for brekkies,till they ran out.
Now I wonder what other odd cravings I will get?
BTW I am male and 87,so I am NOT pregnant LOL

[ttfn]

My father would make pigs brawn - he brought home half a pig's head which he would soak in water for 24 hours. I was fascinated and revolted by the spectre at the same time. It was reminiscent of the Laughing Cavalier - no matter from which angle you viewed the pig's head, its eye would, apparently, follow you around the kitchen. I remember him preparing jellied eels and watched the skinned eels still moving on the chopping board as he cut them up into 2 inch pieces. Then there was the time the lobster tried to get out of the boiling water and we had to bear down on the lid and listen to its whistle - freezers weren't around in those days to nullify the poor crustacean. Father had on that ocassion presented mother with a brown paper parcel tied up with string. The parcel proceeded to move itself along the table. Somehow shopping in the supermarket is quite bland by comparison. But what I miss is the puddings - jam roly poly, bananas and custard, heavenly rice puddings with shredded lemon peel and wonderfully crumbly fruit pies.

[ELVIS68]

Lambs hearts, my mum always used to cook them, the meat on them was delicious and then you got to the tubes and rubbery bits..yuk

Carnation milk (Libbys) was also a fav of mine on porridge

[MarkRae]

Grannie's Sunday dinner.