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Memory Lane: What food did you have as a child?

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Magenta8 Fri 13-Nov-26 14:48:44

I have just finished reading "Toast" by the cookery writer Nigel Slater. He recalls the food he ate as a child in the 1950s and 60s.

What are your memories? Did you ever have Spam, Surprise Peas, Powdered Mash or Junket?

I remember all the above and quite a few more horrors, some of which are still around.

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Moth62 Fri 13-Nov-26 14:53:34

Grey inedible slabs of meat and grey lumps in the tasteless mash from school dinners.

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Witzend Fri 13-Nov-26 14:53:54

Can’t say I remember any of those - I don’t know what ‘Surprise Peas’ were, but I do remember having tinned ones.

My mother (almost always pretty skint) cooked virtually everything from scratch. The only tinned foods I really remember were baked beans, the occasional tin of pilchards, and equally occasional tinned fruit.

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