Chrismas Food Thats Declined Over The Years?

[Hindsight]

Yep walkers cheese and onion sandwich

Food of the Gods.

 

[ollie989898]

Ham and salt and vinegar crisp sandwich, although cheese and onion on their own are good too.

Still eat dates and nuts here in our house, don't buy biscuits so the kids graze on them instead.

 

[Lofty1984]

Ham and salt and vinegar crisp sandwich, although cheese and onion on their own are good too.

Still eat dates and nuts here in our house, don't buy biscuits so the kids graze on them instead.

Ham and ready salted

 

[bluebell]

another one i just remembered is pickled onions? The big ones in a jar and picalili?

 

[Exfarmer]

Celery and toast! Never heard of that before.

We had everything on toast as kids, cauliflower cheese, macaroni cheese, you name it. Even buttered Weetabix, and jam on Yorkshire pudding.
But never celery on toast.

not actually on the toast but at the same time often put bovril on the toast as well marriage made in heaven

 

[Muck Spreader]

Certainly had a smokers set like this from an uncle every year.

 

[An Gof]

Always a box of sugared figs to go with the dates and also a box of sugared almonds.
We also had nuts and roasted chestnuts on the open fire. Must remember to pr*ck them first or they will explode.
what about Terrys All Gold chocolates. My grandmothers favourite but I haven’t seen them in years.

 

[Oldmacdonald]

another one i just remembered is pickled onions? The big ones in a jar and picalili?

Both still very much available.

 

[Billboy1]

chocolate liquors first alcohol i encounted

 

[uztrac]

another one i just remembered is pickled onions? The big ones in a jar and picalili?

Along with a jar of pickled eggs & another of pickled walnuts.

 

[DrWazzock]

My Mrs reckons that the remedy for just about everything is a crisp sandwich. Her German friend prefers a sugar sandwich. Thickly buttered white bread with a good sprinkling of sugar in it. Probably just about everything you need in that.

 

[Oilseed]

Always had a tongue at Christmas.

 

[Netherfield]

Always had a tongue at Christmas.

Mostly from the mother in law.

 

[steveR]

Yep walkers cheese and onion sandwich

Food of the Gods.....

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Celery is the one food that has truly declined from a delicacy to a tasteless stringy waste of time. Todays offerings are a pale green imitation of a treat which was only available for a couple of months a year. Such a shame only needed salt and pepper plus some hot buttery toast

Very hard to get proper fen celery now, first year we haven’t been given any. Maybe the grower has packed up? Was grown near Southery if I recall.

Spanish stuff is just watery string.

 

[Woolless]

Seems like pigs in blankets are very popular for all different reasonsView attachment 1005683

Glad to see that The Sport has maintained the standard of reportage which I remember from my youth. I wonder if their racing columnist 'The Dead Jockey' still gives 'tips from beyond the grave'? . At one point Shaun Ryder from the Happy Mondays was their agony aunt. Dear Deirdre he wasn't!

 

[steveR]

My Mrs reckons that the remedy for just about everything is a crisp sandwich. Her German friend prefers a sugar sandwich. Thickly buttered white bread with a good sprinkling of sugar in it. Probably just about everything you need in that.

White or Brown sugar... or indeed, which bread?

In the same vein, a Family delicacy that I passed onto my kids when they were small, is toffee toast. Usually on a Sunday evening, or Boxing day!!

Take 2 slices of packet white bread, med or thin slice, toast both sides under the grill. Allow the toast to cool a minute or two. Butter thickly, then sprinkle as thickly as possible, a layer of soft light brown sugar onto the buttered toast, DO not spread the sugar. Put back under the med grill until the butter and sugar has caramelised. Leave cool. Enjoy.

Apparently, it is "Instagrammable"

 

[Farma Parma]

We had everything on toast as kids, cauliflower cheese, macaroni cheese, you name it. Even buttered Weetabix, and jam on Yorkshire pudding.
But never celery on toast.

Lurpak butter on Yorkshire Puds hhhhmmmmm lovely

 

[Farma Parma]

Do people still make crisp butties? A packet of crisps scrunched up used to overflow the bread so you had some left over. Now I can happily eat a Lidls 36 variety pack on the way home in the car. Well not quite, but they don't last long.

Still need Salad Cream on tho!

 

[steveR]

Lurpak butter on Yorkshire Puds hhhhmmmmm lovely

Golden Syrup or Maple Syrup on Yorkshire Puds..... luvverly too.