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Tastes Of The Past

sospiri said:
Mbenne,

McEnnedy is the brand Lidl uses when it has an American Week - here generally twice a year and your middle image in the previous post looks precisely like the Sandwich Sauce I saw in Lidl the other day and has since disappeared. As they haven't had such a week for some time, perhaps they were disposing of dead stock, they do that quite often. Yesterday they had an odd pack of saw blades and an odd pack of grinding wheels, not ticketed & not advertised.

Maurice
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Maurice, interesting, I have never seen this brand in the USA, might be regional or something. FYI both Hellman’s and Heinz are continuing to expand their offering of of various sources. Not necessarily a good thing!
 
Richard,

I doubt in McEnnedy is a real US brand because the whole thing is most probably manufacturered entirely within Germany as Lidl is a German company.

Maurice :cool:
 
speaky said:
One meal I yearn for is a piece bread, not your modern day crap bread, but a real piece from the past, all crusty and freshly baked by a small bakery as they used to be. Thickly covered with a good old dollop of dripping including the dark jelly that came with it, a liberal sprinkling of salt, and topped with a coating of that wonderful "Flag" brown sauce.
Then for afters, a big wedge of Bread Pudding!
Without doubt the so called culinary experts and dietitians of to-day will throw their arms up in the air with horror at such a meal. I say to them "get a life"! I and hundreds of thousands of other Brummies were brought up on a diet like that and my arteries are as a clear as a bell, and I feel privileged to have experienced such culinary delights and would be estatic to have it shoved under my nose for lunch to-day.
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To me American bread is to sweet. I loved going to Harding's on Church Rd Yardley and getting a piece of fresh baked bread YUMMY nothing tasted better
 
There i also the point that the "healthy" brigade , who support such abominations as soya milk (Yuck), spinach and cabbage juice drinks etc, also are reducing the salt level in bread, which for , at least, commercial brands, makes it pretty tasteless. I can remember a friend 40 years ago having the cost of her sandwiches (from a local bakery/sandwich shop) refunded because they had not put enough salt in the bread. Regrettably that would not happen now
 
mike your post has just reminded me of when i was a kid.. if mom was cooking spring cabbage dad would give us a cup of hot cabbage water with a tad of pepper in and say...get that down you it will do you good...did anyone else do this?...actually it tasted ok to me

lyn
 
Mike,

I am intolerant of ordinary cow's milk, and after over 30 years without it, can't stand the taste of it now. But I totally agree that the soya milk that they tried to foist on me is definitely yuckety-yuck. Spinach I can eat raw as a salad component, but cook either that or cabbage and they both well and truly turn me off. When it comes to bread, we have a lovely selection here in Crete and the only sliced & wrapped rubbish is brought in from Germany by Lidl.

Maurice :cool:
 
I like Tesco`s Tiger batons. Cut a few slices off, a dollop of butter & some Gouda cheese & i`m as happy as Larry (Who is this Larry? ) Lincoln plum bread is to die for !!

Wife says to her husband, who was that on the phone darling? Hubby replies, Just some nutter who thinks we live by the sea, wants to know if the coast is clear.
 
Astoness said:
mike your post has just reminded me of when i was a kid.. if mom was cooking spring cabbage dad would give us a cup of hot cabbage water with a tad of pepper in and say...get that down you it will do you good...did anyone else do this?...actually it tasted ok to me

lyn
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Yes Lynn, my Gran always gave me a cup of cabbage water, I loved it!!
 
Astoness said:
mike your post has just reminded me of when i was a kid.. if mom was cooking spring cabbage dad would give us a cup of hot cabbage water with a tad of pepper in and say...get that down you it will do you good...did anyone else do this?...actually it tasted ok to me

lyn
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My nañ at Harborne did that supposedly good for spots, but then a slice of dippy bread. What would the woke brigade say to that?
Bob
 
Astoness said:
mike your post has just reminded me of when i was a kid.. if mom was cooking spring cabbage dad would give us a cup of hot cabbage water with a tad of pepper in and say...get that down you it will do you good...did anyone else do this?...actually it tasted ok to me

lyn
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it is good for you,it keeps you fit, drink lots, and it keeps you running.:grinning: we drunk it becouse mom was a very bad cook. every thing she boild went into the water. tatter soup.water, bless her cotton socks:heart:
 
TASTE BUDS? I know that cod liver oil and malt has probably been mentioned before but I was wondering what members memories of it are. Mom regularly dosed us with it in the 1950's and my brother loved it. It was called 'toffee stuff' in our house and he said that was all he could taste. I thought it was just awful and could only taste the fish.

Looking at Mike's post about salt I am trying to cut my salt intake down as I'm a salt junkie. We eat a lot of vegetables and salads and I find them incredibly difficult to eat without salt but Graham doesn't seem to notice whether there's salt or not. We ate in the local chippie the other day with friends and I just couldn't eat my fish and chips without salt although I wasn't so generous as I would have been.

I'm very fussy about my bread and like Cranks which Graham won't eat as he says it's like chewing a brick. What that says about me I don't know. I do make my own sometimes and this is a quick recipe which was used in the war. The Doris Grant loaf might be worth a try for all those who crave something 'real'. http://www.lindseybareham.com/the-grant-loaf/
 
Nothing like salt for hardening your arteries, Lady P, and I used to use a lot when I was younger. Now I can't remember the last time I put salt on anything. I do have a lot of use for pepper - white or black. Since the salt was removed from such as cup-a-soups, the taste has gone as well. Perhaps that was all that was in it - salt! :) Can't avoid it in such things as potato crisps, of course, and I can never eat just part of a packet, so perhaps it is the yearning for salt, who knows?

Maurice :cool:
 
Lady Penelope said:
TASTE BUDS? I know that cod liver oil and malt has probably been mentioned before but I was wondering what members memories of it are. Mom regularly dosed us with it in the 1950's and my brother loved it. It was called 'toffee stuff' in our house and he said that was all he could taste. I thought it was just awful and could only taste the fish.
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sospiri said:
Nothing like salt for hardening your arteries, Lady P, and I used to use a lot when I was younger. Now I can't remember the last time I put salt on anything. I do have a lot of use for pepper - white or black. Since the salt was removed from such as cup-a-soups, the taste has gone as well. Perhaps that was all that was in it - salt! :) Can't avoid it in such things as potato crisps, of course, and I can never eat just part of a packet, so perhaps it is the yearning for salt, who knows?

Maurice :cool:
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maurice i have to avoid having lots of salt due to the very high BP problem i had last year which as you know put me in hospital for 10 days...have very little in veggies and i can get none salted bacon..i also buy salt your own crisps.. i just throw away the little blue bag..actually i now prefer crisps without salt on them..

lyn
 
Astoness said:
maurice i have to avoid having lots of salt due to the very high BP problem i had last year which as you know put me in hospital for 10 days...have very little in veggies and i can get none salted bacon..i also buy salt your own crisps.. i just throw away the little blue bag..actually i now prefer crisps without salt on them..

lyn
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lyn, I am also on a low sodium diet, 2000 mg per day. When I taste anything salty I can tell immediately and prefer without. It took sometime to get used too but I did. I had a kidney removed a few years ago and go to see a nephrologist and dietician every three months to keep me in check. So far so good!
 
excellent richard so pleased you are doing so well...keep up the good work as you say you do get used to these new ways....by choice i gave up alcohol 4 and half years ago now...now just the smell of it makes me feel sick:D

lyn
 
Lyn, I made a similar decision just after I got married but in my case it was sugar not alcohol :laughing:
I stopped having sugar in my tea and now I cannot drink it if it has been sugared. Perversely I cannot drink coffee without sweetener! I drink tea with milk no sugar and black coffee with sweetener. How weird am I?:laughing::laughing:
 
jmadone said:
Lyn, I made a similar decision just after I got married but in my case it was sugar not alcohol :laughing:
I stopped having sugar in my tea and now I cannot drink it if it has been sugared. Perversely I cannot drink coffee without sweetener! I drink tea with milk no sugar and black coffee with sweetener. How weird am I?:laughing::laughing:
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Join the party

Bob
 
Reading these comments made me pleased that I managed to show my children, now all grown up, how to cook food on a budget. With the recent COVID lockdown I had the time to bake more and to invent new cakes. Not all tasted fab but with custard on them they would do!! Its just me and my youngest son living together now ( he is 32) and he knows that if he doesn't eat what's put in front of him he gets nothing else. Listening to other moms they all say how much food they waste and they cook different food for each child whereas in my house, I had five children, if you didn't eat what was put in front of you then you did without. I wasn't standing for any nonsense about picky food eaters at my table. I realised recently that I had turned into my nan. Perhaps we should have a recipe page on the site that has to have a good old fashioned meal that we all know we can't do with out. Mine is beef stew with dumplings. Followed by home made rice pudding. Still cheaper than shop bought ready made stuff.
 
Sheila Harris said:
Reading these comments made me pleased that I managed to show my children, now all grown up, how to cook food on a budget. With the recent COVID lockdown I had the time to bake more and to invent new cakes. Not all tasted fab but with custard on them they would do!! Its just me and my youngest son living together now ( he is 32) and he knows that if he doesn't eat what's put in front of him he gets nothing else. Listening to other moms they all say how much food they waste and they cook different food for each child whereas in my house, I had five children, if you didn't eat what was put in front of you then you did without. I wasn't standing for any nonsense about picky food eaters at my table. I realised recently that I had turned into my nan. Perhaps we should have a recipe page on the site that has to have a good old fashioned meal that we all know we can't do with out. Mine is beef stew with dumplings. Followed by home made rice pudding. Still cheaper than shop bought ready made stuff.
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Welcome to the Forum Shelia.............great folks here!

I think you have everything about right especially the part with beef stew and dumplings, low sodium of course :)
 
jmadone said:
Lyn, I made a similar decision just after I got married but in my case it was sugar not alcohol :laughing:
I stopped having sugar in my tea and now I cannot drink it if it has been sugared. Perversely I cannot drink coffee without sweetener! I drink tea with milk no sugar and black coffee with sweetener. How weird am I?:laughing::laughing:
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very:grinning:
 
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