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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jun 23, 2021 20:20:53 GMT
Baxters Royal Game soup was eaten every Christmas dinner in our house, no idea why as we never ate it the rest of the year. Had Big Soup a lot. Cupasoup is something I've not had for years, nor Nesquik which I had all the time.
I remember regularly eating the frozen sandwich steak mentioned by Nightfly.
We had a Breville toaster, I remember making a toastie with Cadbury's Flake. One of those gadgets that didn't get much use & ended up at the back of the cupboard.
Salami is another thing that springs to mind that I haven't seen anyone eat for a long time, I remember eating it on Blackpool Milk Roll ( bread ) as the round salami fit the bread perfectly. Pepperoni I ate a lot of. Again, not healthy at all but at the time it seems everyone was ignorant of what was & wasn't healthy. Growing up both my parents smoked & the lounge was thick with smoke some evenings, beyond it making the walls yellow & my clothes smell I thought nothing of it.
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Post by Nightfly on Jun 23, 2021 20:32:30 GMT
I have to admit I still treat Best Before as merely a suggestion. To the tune of "As Time Goes By"... A tin of Irish Stew, from 1982When opened gives a sighBut heat it up and you won't dieAs time goes by....And of course there's always the Two Second Rule for anything that hits the kitchen floor....Mmmm just me then ? I use the “if it isn’t green” rule for eat ability. It's only a bit of mould. I'll cut it off. They make penicillin out mould, so it can't be that bad. Do you remember the old butcher's shops with the street furniture of a smiling little piggy dressed in a butcher's apron with the caption Try Our Tasty Bacon ! Always thought that bordered on dark humour.
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Post by Three Litre on Jun 23, 2021 20:35:09 GMT
I use the “if it isn’t green” rule for eat ability. It's only a bit of mould. I'll cut it off. They make penicillin out mould, so it can't be that bad. Yes for cheese and bread, not so much for chicken.
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Post by Nightfly on Jun 23, 2021 20:42:13 GMT
Pepperoni I ate a lot of. Again, not healthy at all but at the time it seems everyone was ignorant of what was & wasn't healthy. Used to love Peperami's with a pint back in my teen years. One of the girls in our group of drinkers refused to sit at the same table whilst I unwrapped a Peperami in the pub. Reckoned she couldn't stand to be in the vicinity of anyone eating something so disgusting. I spotted a veggie Peparami in Tesco last week, or rather an empty box for them on the shelves, so someone must have had the same idea as me. We also used to have "The Prawn Man" visit the local pubs in my area years ago. A guy would come into the pubs off the street, white hat and coat and would sell bags of prawns and bite sized seafood goodies from a basket. I haven't seen anything like that for years.
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Post by Sparky on Jun 23, 2021 21:01:26 GMT
And we all survived without Best Before and Use By dates! I have to admit I still treat Best Before as merely a suggestion. To the tune of "As Time Goes By"... A tin of Irish Stew, from 1982When opened gives a sighBut heat it up and you won't dieAs time goes by....And of course there's always the Two Second Rule for anything that hits the kitchen floor....Mmmm just me then ? Is that what's in your cupboards Nightfly?
I recently fitted some sockets at my mums house and she had a bottle of food colouring lurking in the back of a cupboard with an old Co-Op sticker on. She went "Ahh, I remember buying that, it was when the Co-Op opened a new store near us, it was opened by Miss Diane out of Crossroads. That was in 1977." Amusingly, the bottle hadn't even been opened.
Next time I empty her cupboards, I'll expect Narnia will be in the back of there...
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Post by Cartman on Jun 23, 2021 22:01:16 GMT
Remember clearing out some cupboards at my Grans once, would have been about 1989 ish, and there were tins of beans with the label 2/6 on them! That plus a tin of some things called Meggesons Dyspepsia tablets that appeared to date from the 1930s
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Post by Nightfly on Jun 23, 2021 23:50:42 GMT
I have to admit I still treat Best Before as merely a suggestion. To the tune of "As Time Goes By"... A tin of Irish Stew, from 1982When opened gives a sighBut heat it up and you won't dieAs time goes by....And of course there's always the Two Second Rule for anything that hits the kitchen floor....Mmmm just me then ? Is that what's in your cupboards Nightfly? Well during the first month of lockdown when the supermarket shelves were bare and you couldn't get flour because, like everyone else I had a sudden desire to bake bread, Mrs Nightfly swore she bought some bread flour "only a few months ago". When I found it, it was best before 2009. No, I wasn't tempted. It got thrown out together with some Ainsley Harriot cuppa soups from 2007. A guy I used to work with had a collection of un-opened chocolate bars from the 70s - Bar Six, Mint Cracknell, Old Jamaica etc. It was intentional. He was a serious collector and was able to answer one of my all time mysteries - yes, Curly Wurlies WERE bigger back in the day.
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Post by Sparky on Jun 24, 2021 6:14:26 GMT
Is that what's in your cupboards Nightfly? A guy I used to work with had a collection of un-opened chocolate bars from the 70s - Bar Six, Mint Cracknell, Old Jamaica etc. It was intentional. He was a serious collector and was able to answer one of my all time mysteries - yes, Curly Wurlies WERE bigger back in the day. I've seen people collect the different styles of wrappers and crisp packets. Bet he had a "Frys Turkish Delight", "Fruit and Nut" and that Frys chocolate that came in a white and navy blue wrapper (the one that always seemed to be advertised using a cricket match - post chocolate I used to call it).
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Post by Three Litre on Jun 24, 2021 10:40:59 GMT
Is that what's in your cupboards Nightfly? Well during the first month of lockdown when the supermarket shelves were bare and you couldn't get flour because, like everyone else I had a sudden desire to bake bread, Mrs Nightfly swore she bought some bread flour "only a few months ago". When I found it, it was best before 2009. No, I wasn't tempted. It got thrown out together with some Ainsley Harriot cuppa soups from 2007. A guy I used to work with had a collection of un-opened chocolate bars from the 70s - Bar Six, Mint Cracknell, Old Jamaica etc. It was intentional. He was a serious collector and was able to answer one of my all time mysteries - yes, Curly Wurlies WERE bigger back in the day. Mrs ThreeLitre is always throwing away dried stuff past it's date that I'm sure is OK. I think they found some unopened tins left over from one of the polar expeditions some still ok. Not in my house mind. Chuck a bit of curry powder in and it'd be fine. Bar Six and Mint Cracknell, I remember them!
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jun 24, 2021 19:35:39 GMT
Speaking of out of date food & flour I remember as a youngster being disturbed seeing flour mites infesting the kitchen cupboards. When you have no idea what they are & how they got there you go into a panic. I don't think my mum knew what they were at the time so everything was thrown out.
Raspberries are the worst for going off, they go mouldy just looking at them.
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