Memory Lane was a disappointment

Marmin

I had a Tunnock's Caramel Wafer last week. It was dreadful. The chocolate was tasteless and the biscuit was lacking in crunch and substance.

I thought it was just me getting older, but I thought exactly the same. Another cost-cutting exercise by a greedy company. Shan’t buy them ever again!

We used to use cooking oil until quite recently when we changed to beef lard. Much better.

Another change we have made is tonstop using malt vinegar and changed to 'non brewed condiment' it's amazing how different it tastes and makes fish and chips so much more like the old days.

I’ve never tried the chicken F&B pies Witzend but I’m fairly sure we have one on our ‘In case of emergency’ shelves in the pantry. MrB bought one chicken pie and one steak pie.

Mr Brain's faggots. Anyone remember those. Much to my surprise they are still available and still under the same name (in this politically correct era!). I totally adored them, but discovered that actually they are so soft and lacking in substance its like eating baby food.

I used to have holidays with my mum in a village in Somerset where we stayed with her old friend from school. She lived in a pretty cottage where a stream ran through the garden, up a long hilly road just on the edge of the village. I visited the village again a couple of years ago. The cottage was still there, with its lovely well tended garden and the road itself unspoilt. However the village was such a disappointment. It looked very down at heel with empty shops, and had lost its charm. Generally I prefer not to visit the places I loved when I was young now to keep those happy (and rose tinted!) memories intact.

Sorry that wasn’t really food related🤣 but the shop in the village which sold a delicious sort of crumbly fudge had gone!