Childhood comfort foods

[daz]

After seeing the recent post about Marmite (Which incidently is the the weeping pus, from a festering boil on the devils arse).  What foods did you aquire a taste for in childhood that could be considered unusual.

Mine was, Luncheon meat and tomatoe sauce sandwiches (ummm - Unfortunately the luncheon meat just does not seem to taste the same anymore as it did in my youth   )

Daz

[Dominic]

Sausages dunked in demerera sugar. It actually works surprisingly well...

[Dr Stevil]

Sounds like an extract from the four yorkshiremen sketch, but as kids we were encouraged on a sunday, about an hour before dinner (it weren't called lunch back then when ah were a lad   ) to get huge doorsteps of crusty bread and dip it into the hot fat and brown gooey stuff given off by the roast.

I discovered, as an adult, that this was so that when it came time to dish up we wouldn't be as hungry and the roast would go further, (same as proper yorkshire pudding served as a starter) but ee by gum we were 'appier then when we 'ad nowt, nay lad, because we ad nowt! etc etc

Anyhoo.... anyone else have fond memories of sarsaparilla tablets ? Or chips in newspaper wrappers, sigh...

[peter k]

A bite out a chocolate Digestive and a mouthful of chicken+mushroom Pot Noodle.

Peter

[MATTBIN]

Fillet Steak

Matt

[Sean]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] (Steve W @ Dec. 04 2003,14:36)]to get huge doorsteps of crusty bread and dip it into the hot fat and brown gooey stuff given off by the roast.

Bread and dripping, my old Nan used to give me that, with just a sprinkling of salt  yum 

Originally Posted by [b

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A bite out a chocolate Digestive and a mouthful of chicken+mushroom Pot Noodle

Thats got to be a northern thing  

Spam and home made chips & egg

[Kate]

<font color='#3BB9FF'>Bubble &amp; Squeek with cheesey Baked Beans, mmmmm, still love it!!!!!!

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[Ian B]

<font color='#0000FF'>I used to love brown bread sandwiches containing banana and honey. Great if out hill walking. For getting rid of a hangover (maybe not a childhood food, but still a comfort foood) I used to like left-over spaghetti pasta microwaved and covered in sugar with cinnamon - great!

[dave archer]

Bread in dripping, mmmm, mmmm!
You used to be able to get a bread roll in dripping from the &quot;burger and sweets&quot; van that parked outside the school gates when I was a nipper. It was called a &quot;dip&quot;, and at 10p was the best way to get something foodlike with your dinner money and have the max left for &quot;cets&quot; (Co Durham for sweets)

And sarsparilla tablets Stevie boy! Fantastic!
I once made a load of sarsparilla pop from some kit - ended up with about 15 2 litre bottles of the stuff, which was pretty rank to be honest, and most of them were so fizzy they were &quot;auto emptying&quot; the minute you took the cork out. Ah.... happy days &nbsp;
Army and Navy tablets were the dogs too, and (praise be!), you can still get them! I might buy some tonight on my way home from school, er...... &nbsp;

[dave archer]

Forgot to add my own contribution just then, getting too excited reminising about childhood sweets &nbsp; Don't let me get started on that (sherbet fountains anyone? &nbsp; )

Anyway... raw carrot and salad cream sandwiches - lovely, and dirt cheap! Maybe for tonight's tea methinks...