Tastes of Childhood | Nostalgic Food Memories

[@brickie59]

Decent clean living people back then, a much better time to grow up in.

[@michaelrawson6261]

So many items on here I tucked into in the 70s. I particularly loved the minced beef crispy pancakes, fish finger butties, crisp sarnies (salt and vinegar or roast chicken usually) sausage, chips and beans, angel delight, trifle, Arctic roll, Findus chicken pies, tins of Tyne brand stewing steak and minced beef and onions, jam sarnies were good, but jam on hot buttered toast was king. Cheddars are a huge let down these days, they used to be a rich golden colour and be cheesy and savoury. These days they're an anaemic light yellow and tast of bugger all!!!

[@simonwilson1237]

I want my 70s childhood back😇😥

[@peterskegness3204]

Mostly remember Funny Faces ice cream, my mum used to buy me from the ice cream van after school, in that era 😂

[@rw8733]

Banana and toffee lollies. 😊

[@robertroberts3703]

So do I my friend. Here's the channel to meet!

[@insertuselessname]

​@@rw8733Zoom for me or cherry brandy from ice cream man !.

[@terrymurphy276]

Me too and I'd stay there permanently. 😢

[@thomascook578]

Cooking instructions for crispy pancakes were....Cook at least 5 days before trying to eat, contents may be warmer than the earths core

[@karenbell1005]

😂😂😂😂❤💯🇬🇧

[@SandyHowarde-b6e]

😂😂👍

[@jstanders6973]

Well. I'm 55yrs old and in my kitchen cupboard I have a packet butterscotch Angel Delight and a packet of Smash... Some things never leave us. Chocolate cake and pink custard was my forever favourite lol. ❤

[@errolnicholson5632]

Findus Crispy Pancakes was my true favourite and I use to buy 5 packs of them and I use to hide from my mum because she took one out of my plate and I knew that my mum loves it ever since. Rest In Peace Mum xxxx

[@bencoleman8350]

Yes I remember findus crispy pancakes the filling was like molten lava when you bit into it used to burn the roof of your mouth

[@peterskegness3204]

Think I tried them once - contents tended to resemble the core temperature of the Sun from memory 😂

[@shelleychase1366]

I used to love the curry ones wish they would bring them bk

[@neilrobinson5115]

They were ok until we were told findus were using horse meat

[@0010-n8q]

@@shelleychase1366make’um at home .. very easy to make

[@mrmacc1312]

56 and still, love a crisp sandwich and butterscotch angel delight thanks

[@stephen3511]

Now craving fishfingers and chips, washed down with an artic roll. Oh, and bring back Tizwas 👊🏻💥

[@ashdrive]

How lovely 😍

[@rafiqadarr6217]

@stephen3511 - You can't do better than fishfingers and chips, I still love them - with petit pois peas and tartare to "posh it up" a bit!! And ketchup on the side, ofcourse. Delicious.

[@gilgammesh1]

We are adults now so can eat what we want. I always forget that ^^ And is arctic roll still made? That was proper Kwik Save fare my mum would buy ^^

[@atae7185]

When my mum used to make yeoman mash, I remember sometimes she never mixed it properly and I’d get a mouth full of powder! Usually served with crispy pancakes and cheap beans! I genuinely still eat most of these foods 😂

[@ROCKINGMAN]

Love it.... a mouth full of powder!

[@arthurvasey]

If your mothers were anything like mine, they probably skimped and made it with all water instead of all milk - probably why it tasted horrible! My mother used to make tinned soups and milk puddings (rice, semolina, sago, tapioca and suchlike) “go further”, not by opening another tin - but by using copious quantities of Northumbrian Water Authority’s finest council pop! I was in boarding schools in the years I should have been in secondary school - they used to make us eat everything, whether we liked it or not - not sure if there were food allergies or intolerances - or they weren’t a big thing - I have always had issues (don’t press me for details) with citrus fruit - but it wasn’t enough to grant me an exemption from eating it - if I had all the intolerances that today’s kids seem to have, I couldn’t have eaten anything on that menu! Even if my family doctor at the time had tested me to determine what I could and couldn’t eat or use, the schools would have just disregarded it!

[@simonhodgetts6530]

Crispy pancakes! Always hotter than the sun inside! I think my gums finally healed in late 1988!

[@F4Insight-uq6nt]

@@dddayesq5061 Nothing is..............

[@hazelanderson1479]

I may be wrong, but didn’t Findus introduce Sweet Pancakes at some time? Maybe they were withdrawn after complaints that they didn’t go well with mushy peas and chips.

[@trevorbrown6654]

Does anyone else remember Kellogg's 'Rise and Shine' powdered orange juice? We always took some with us on camping holidays. There was also Cadburys tinned sponge puddings that you were supposed to boil in tbe tin to heat up but as a kid i was impatient and ate cold out of the tin with some custard.

[@johnnyboy-f6v]

Rise and Shine! Yes, it was excellent (in the day). Would be pretty bad nowadays but in the mid 70s it was a revelation. I forget the flavours. I think one was Grapefruit and Pineapple?

[@CrowdControl2K8]

Cod Fish fingers are like 28p each now.....I still love em.

[@gwheregwhizz]

I'd like to see back Heinz Potato Salad, Heinz Curried Beans (with the sultanas), Vesta Beef Risotto and Pot Rice.

[@happydays310]

Vesta beef the best Indian curry.

[@johnnyboy-f6v]

These are still around. The Heinz potato salad is. I agree it was excellent!

[@lilliankeane5731]

Oh I enjoyed that! Thank you so very much, I cant believe the kick I’m getting out of these nostalgic goodies! 😃.

[@stuviewtv]

So glad you are enjoying the nostalgic memories! Many thanks.

[@DJGillman]

Cheese & Onion Walkers crisp sandwich was and still is the best!

[@ashdrive]

I loved the 70s, it felt more secure and homely...to add, at the ripe age of 63, I brought some Cadbury Smash the other month, I still have a crisp sandwich...delightful 😊

[@stuviewtv]

Marvellous!

[@neilrobinson5115]

Nostalgia is wonderful,I remember all you mentioned,I still get a Rupert Annual at Christmas and I’m 53,I love plasticine,crayola wax crayons etc,I just collect nostalgic favourites.

[@paulwheeldon3075]

The much missed Toast Toppers. Somebody (Heinz) is surely missing a trick there!

[@dawnfinch2836]

Toast toppers cheese and ham I've looked around the discount stores hoping to find some but to no avail sadly 😒

[@hogwashmcturnip8930]

​@@dawnfinch2836 They are still out there I believe .the Devil's crap on a piece of synthetic sponge pretending to be bread! When I went veggie at 13 (I eat meat again now) That was all I ever got if mum was cooking. Toast Toppers, cheesy pancakes, and one I actually introduced her to ,Mexican Toast. Tin of sweetcorn, a shedload of cheese, to glue it all together a shake of red pepper (Its Mexican, remember?) and a bit of parsley That one is a darlin' Try it. I used to make Cheese curries too! In my early married days, our mates would come back after the pub, and my cheese curries were Legendary! Basically a roux sauce with Branston pickle, curry powder and cheese cubes just about to melt. But they were all drunk and I had saved them spending money at the Chippy or Chinese. That one still works too, if you are drunk enough! These were bona fide recipes from the Milk and Cheese Marketing Board! Fisherman's Mackerel! A whole mackerel, deboned and stuffed with a stuffing of breadcrumbs, onion, mushrooms grated cheese and herbs. That one is good too! Some of these poncey restaurants in Cornwall would charge you a fortune for that! Jamie Oliver or Stein have probably pinched it. So while you lot were eating your Radioactive crazy foam puddings ,I was keeping the Dairy and Fishing industry alive!

[@dawnfinch2836]

@@hogwashmcturnip8930 ha ha interesting combinations

[@hastiebar]

Vesta chow mein and crispy noodles . Still get one wrapped up for christmas every year.

[@harrogatefan4976]

They have changed the crispy noodles they now taste like carboard, i have stopped bying them after 50years i wish i knew where to buy those crispy noodles

[@cdub5033]

At Primary school the lunches were always superb, I really enjoyed them. For 45p/week, we got meat & 2 veg with gravy & dessert was mainly some kind of sponge & custard. My favourite was green (mint flavoured) custard with their chocolate sponge. I could never get enough of it & always got more until they ran out. It was popular. Their "Spotted Dick" was always really good too with loads of Raisins, this always came with a delicious vanilla custard. Tragedy struck when lunches went up to a whopping 50p/week.

[@Ionabrodie69]

Yes my school lunches were great … ( I’m 54 ) it was a small village school and the dinner lady lived across the road from my grandparents… bliss 😊🇬🇧

[@lucius4556]

Our school dinners were wonderful too...they used to leave a board up in the kitchen window to say what was for dinner the next day, one day it said chocolate pudding and mint custard for desert ...I thought about it so much I was sick and couldnt face it so went home for dinner 🤣🤣🤣

[@martindunstan8043]

Great video, born in '71 I still remember all these as a kid, strawberry Jan sandwiches always and never anything but cheese and onion crisp sandwiches. You're obviously the same as me with angel delight, butterscotch definitely my favourite. I ever had Smash, mother wouldn't allow it in the house(chemical puddings were fine she said) too old fashioned🤣 loved green mint custard and chocolate cake at school. Thank you for your video, great memories 👍🍻

[@stuviewtv]

Oh yes, it always had to be butterscotch Angel Delight! Glad you enjoyed the memories Martin. Thanks as always for watching.

[@sdeee3842]

1:22 hated blomonge yuck! 1:52 yes! 2:06 yep 😅

[@sdeee3842]

Doesn’t taste same😢 4:5:06 5:08 5:32 ah yes love it!Farm foods sell Artic roll 😅 6:49 yes! Cheese and onion best for sandwich

[@chrisearp3232]

Will thank you very much, I now really want a Vesta beef curry.

[@OutandAboutwithDave]

Brilliant video, I loved having crisp sandwiches for Saturday dinner and Raspberry angel delight, one school puddings I hated was Tapioca as we called it Frog spawn, it was disgusting. Pink custard was my favourite.

[@richardthered]

Haha, the Tapioca frog spawn brings back some memories, always wonder who actually did like Tapioca, as every kid i have met at school hated it . Dont remember the Raspberry Angel Delight tho, i thought it was only Chocolate, Banana, Strawberry, Butterscotch? I would love to try the Raspberry.

[@mrsapplez2007]

Omg.....I used to have a crisp sandwich whilst watching the wrestling on a Saturday afternoon. Big daddy.....EASY EASY EASY

[@martinwebb1681]

I always loved the chocolate custard at school, never liked the pink though.

[@robertleem5643]

I always remember it being known as Sago not Tapioca as it's called today, likewise used to call it Frog spawn

[@Ionabrodie69]

I loved sago pudding and angel delight always tasted like soap.. 😂🇬🇧

[@kinsellaSE7]

My main school dinner memory was the square of ginger cake with lemon sauce. Yum!

[@georgecullen9516]

Red Mountain coffee.......we wer talking about this the other day ........don,t see that anymore .😄😄😄

[@Pierre61]

I joined the Brook Bond factory in Trafford Park in the mid 90s when they were just finishing production of Red Mountain. Not the best coffee in the world and deftly avoided in the works canteen :)

[@rachelcamm4990]

Some amazing memories! I loved Findus Crispy Pancakes! Definitely the beef ones 😂 I loved school dinners and puddings!

[@darenjones2351]

Loved this video. So many memories. An item I used to like which you don't see anymore was Tip Top. Single cream in a can. Yum. One of my favourite desserts at home was slices of bananas in custard. Simple but so delicious.

[@stuviewtv]

Tip Top, I'd forgotten about that one. Great shout! Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks.

[@Ionabrodie69]

Oh I remember tip top.. 😂👍and yes bananas In custard..lush.. 😋

[@davidboyce8683]

Nice one Daren , wow tip top , my Mum bought that all the time .

[@SandiMarchant]

I’m 76 and I still love Ready Brek 😃

[@dondesmond7969]

Can you tap your head and rub your tummy at the same time?

[@cosmiccat6708]

The 70's were the best for everything, including music and of course, the food. I miss toast toppers! Great vid, thankyou!.

[@josephbickerton2335]

I loved Findus crispy pancakes. My Friday night tea treat chips and crispy pancakes. Mmm! And a bag of pick n’ mix and a comic , either the Dandy or Beano and I was happy.

[@stuviewtv]

Great days!

[@gaggymott9159]

Over here in Northern Ireland, I had 'school dinners' for a year in 1979. My favourite dessert was pink custard, with a disc of really buttery shortbread, that I'd smash up and let the custard soak into the shortbread, making it soft and gloopie! I can remember our Late Dining Hall supervisor, called Mary George....She was a born leader, banging the table with a big metal spoon to bring the childish rabble to order, before saying 'Grace!' 😊...'Thank you for the world so sweet, thank you for the food we eat. Thank you for the birds that sing, thank you God for everything...EAT!!!' 😂😂😂

[@andy70d35]

Loved crispy pancakes, angel delight and Arctic roll, so many memories wish I could go back to then. While my parents and family were still around. Remember dad doing Vesta meal for supper for me and him while we sat down to watch pot black. Still have jam and cheddar cheese sandwiches even now.

[@Opel_Guy]

I'll never forget the warm tomato sauce we had at infant school around '76/'77. It was fantastic! You would make a hole in your ice cream scooped mash and fill them up. I assumed they made it as was served in metal jugs. Still eat Spam. Sliced, lightly fry it and have it with chips and a runny fried egg 😋

[@philipatkinson7039]

That tomato soup was delicious and i still use an ice cream metal scoop to serve our mashed potatoes 😂😂great memories 😋 👌

[@the_unrepentant_anarchist.]

Spam is *ridiculously* expensive! These days, it's dearer than bacon, which is just stupid... 🥺 🍄

[@paulanderson7796]

I still love that Central TV ident jingle

[@ashdrive]

I wondered what that music was, me too, fits well into the intros...

[@johnmacleod4481]

Thank you so much for the memories of fish fingers,captain birdseye,and school dinners with pink custard and as we called them chocolate bricks but all joking apart they werent that difficult to eat and like yourself i enjoyed primary school dinners

[@stuviewtv]

Glad you enjoyed the memories. Many thanks for watching.

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

I PROPER enjoy your vids Stu. Always put a smile on my face and a laugh in my heart to know that others remember exactly the same things as I do. With the 70s ads, groovy music and your ownperfect warm delivery. My own observations.... somethings are best left as a happy memory... I bought a packet of Findus crispy pancakes a couple of years back and they were AWFUL. I've tried to expunge that experience from my mind and just remember the childhood version. For me its not the variety of crisp, but my discovery a couple of years back that "Golden Wonder" crisps still taste EXACTLY the way I rememeber them from childhood, and for me they beat the awful "walkers" into a cocked hat. While "Toast toppers" are a long gone memory, a VERY strange thing that both my wife and I agree strongly reminds us BOTH of toast toppers is.... wait for it.... ASDA's tinned barbecue mackerel, mashed up on toast and under the grill (we know how to live and NO mistake!!!). That's not a wind up but it is something about it brings the magic of toast topper right back to mind. I still eat Strawberry jam butties (no "lumps" please) and crisp butties (the aforementioned Golden wonders of course). Vestas... a guilty council estate pleasure (I was born and lived for 30 years on a council estate so I can say that). Please keep up the great work... always appreciated.

[@stuviewtv]

That's great to hear! So glad you enjoy the videos. Thanks so much for the kind comments and for sharing some great memories (and culinary tips!)

[@steevobarker581]

Corned beef, chips and beans! 😋😋

[@jaynewton5278]

The skin on rice pudding was the best part. My fave was mint custard and chocky sponge.😊

[@TheGlassman63]

Love your nostalgic vids Stu. Can i share some school dinner hall thoughts of my own with you from my experience in the 1970s. No 1 - always wanting the dinner lady to give me the corner slice in the tray of the lemon curd as that piece was always bigger. No 2 - Dreading the thought of arriving for dinner late and finding out the only dessert left was Prunes, lots of prunes. No 3 - Making sure you was near the start of the dinner queue on a Friday as you would be assured of getting fish and chips, they never did enough and soon ran out about 10 minutes into lunch. No 4 - Thinking that midweek they had chips on only to find out they were chip shaped Parsnips ! No 5- The water jug on the table would invariably contain more than water, lots of food bits too. Quite disgusting, but did we moan, no, we just got on with it.

[@stuviewtv]

Oh yes, getting the corner piece was always a big win! Glad you are enjoying the videos! Thanks.

[@BarryFrancis]

Do you remember the slop bowl, or did you even have one in your school. I remember there being a big stainless steel bowl at the back of the hall, you would scrape off any leftovers from your plate into it, I think it went off to feed pigs somewhere.

[@androgyny77]

I actually can't get my head around the fact they had prunes on a school lunch menu, that's low-key sadistic. I only had school lunches for 1991 and 1992. We NEVER got prunes. The only thing I liked was the curry on Wednesdays that came topped with deep fried onion bits. The other days of the week I would fill up the hole for my 'main' with 2 extra desserts - and still put a dessert in the dessert hole. I was a fat kid.

[@johnnyboy-f6v]

Great memories about your school dinner experience there. At primary we had weekly dinner tickets you bought on a Monday and they got clipped/punched each day or you could buy a daily ticket. Each table of 8 kids had two servers (p7 kids) and they filled the water jugs. Sometimes kids had a tin of Cremola Foam - a powder flavour mix which fizzed up the water. Loved sponge and custard days but hated semolina, tapioca and rice pudding days. They were truly the BEST of days and we'll never get them back which I genuinely find depresses me.

[@CarlB_1962]

OMG, I’d forgotten all about Findus Crispy Pancakes! I used to have them with mushy peas, lots of tomato sauce, and bread and butter.

[@clivepotts1273]

Mince and dumplings is still my favourite and I still love a fish finger sarnie with ketchup

[@stuartbear6126]

So many memories! Semolina at my school had rose hip syrup to go on it.. did anyone else have white ice cream wrapped in paper as part of the dessert? We also had corn flake tart too!

[@stuviewtv]

Oh yes, I remember the ice cream in paper!

[@Ionabrodie69]

Oh yes I remember the rose hip syrup.. and loved the corn flake tart 😊

[@gbhxu]

Oblong in shape and you used to get cones that the ice cream fitted into too.

[@lucius4556]

We had a shortbread type of pudding with jam oneside and lemon curd the other,it was served with custard and was out of this world..we also had manchester tart which was delicious (and we were many miles from Manchester) lol.

[@joanne26]

If I remember correctly schools cooked on site. It was all healthy meals. Cottage pie/Shepherds pie But most of all the puddings were what you waited for My favourite was Chocolate Concrete and Custard and if you had time you mixed it together and it looked like sick Or pink Blancmange and chocolate sauce And Arctic Roll That was always in my parents shopping trolley Made sure we had one inte freezer in case of visitors

[@vxrdrummer]

I still eat Crispy Pancakes now! Love those bad boys! Angel Delight never gets old either. We had choc ices in the freezer.

[@matthewhopkins666]

I loved the taste of school mash back in junior school, if there was a choice of chips or mash I would pick the mash. Still no idea why but it tasted way different to homemade mash. I still buy a sliced white loaf and a box of fish fingers quite regularly just to make fish finger and chip butties. Has to be sliced white bread with a good amount of Lurpak spread on it, put the fish fingers and chips in, good dash of malt vinegar on top with plenty of ketchup, magic stuff.

[@stuviewtv]

Awesome!

[@grrlpurpleable]

I remember the green mint custard and chocolate pudding... wow... I have never seen or heard of it since so thought I had dreamt it, glad to have it confirmed! :)

[@simonhodgetts6530]

Never had it with mint custard, but definitely remember pink custard. I quite liked chocolate concrete!

[@hazelanderson1479]

@@simonhodgetts6530 We used to call pink custard Windolene.

[@kiwiang983]

Chocolate crumble with peppermint custard. The best school memory

[@robertroberts3703]

Have recently bought Dandy, Beezer and Topper Annuals from 1968-1973 from charity shops. Keep looking because they are out there friends!

[@carolinefinley5632]

I don’t and never liked jam.But I do like salad cream and use to have that in white bread instead of jam.I’m still partial to a salad cream sandwich now.🤗😋. I bought some Angel delight a few weeks ago and I went back to a Sunday afternoon when I was eight waiting to lick the whisk and bowl 🥹 .😋I had forgotten about the Toast toppers.The tins where tiny.Loved this videos it brought back so many nice memories.

[@stuviewtv]

Many thanks!

[@kenjewell5619]

Pink custard was my favourite, we never had green.

[@taraelizabethdensley9475]

Watching this is the first time i've even heard of green custard, though I remember the pink custard

[@corringhamdepot4434]

School dinners were the only time I had salad with big rubber cubes that were supposed to be beetroot, foot long "sardines" in tomato sauce and grated raw carrots. Their "instant" mashed potato made in huge pots, had a unique taste all of it's own. I did love the treacle tart, or Golden Syrup sponge and custard. When I was a student I often had a pork pie and a Individual Fruit Pie for lunch. The fruit pies are long gone.

[@kiwiang983]

Anyone remember Cornflake Tart at school. Pastry with a layer of golden syrup with cornflakes sprinkled on top, lightly baked and eaten with custard

[@janeokeeffe5297]

Yes I loved it

[@gilgammesh1]

And a very thin layer of jam?

[@janeokeeffe5297]

@@gilgammesh1 now you’re talking 👍

[@stingray4real]

I had that at high school in Derby.

[@pixie3458]

Oh yes it was revolting 😱

[@MrGorpm]

Toast Toppers!!! I'd forgotten about those. Mmmmmmm.

[@Ravenswalk]

I’ve lived in Canada since 76 still love jam and bread and the looks I get when I make a crisp sandwich or chip as they known over here are priceless. Thank you for these taste treats from my childhood.

[@chuckjjohnston4568]

Brennan's batch loaf, ice cold butter, and a bag of either Skips or Rancheros jammed in and a pot of tea. I'm off to the shops...

[@johna5635]

I do love "new ideas from the past" which were superseded by newer ideas from the future and therefore became outmoded before they'd really had their time! "Boil In The Bag meals" - like the Vesta range were such a revolutionary idea - and then someone invented the microwave! (...a bit like faxes and the internet!)

[@jackieyoungman7970]

When I was a very small child, back in the mid to late 1950s, my mum used to buy this stuff called Cremona Pudding and it was similar to semolina, but had a very distinctive, almost caramel type flavour. She'd make it with milk, just like rice pudding. Also I remember (again back to very early childhood) a drink called Cremola which were fruity flavoured crystals in a little tin and you added a spoonful of these crystals to a glass of cold water. Delicious! Moving forward in time to when I was in my early to mid teens in the 1960s, I absolutely loved Vesta Chow Mein which was re-launched maybe about five or so years ago, but tastes nothing at all like the original.

[@what-uc]

Creamola Foods based in Glasgow had a range of products and became part of Rowntrees in 1966 - Creamola Custard Pudding Powder; Creamola Custard; Rice Creamola for Milk Puddings; Sago Creamola for Milk Puddings; Creamola Steamed or Baked Pudding Mixture; Gold Reef self-raising flour; "Three Rivers" Arrowroot; Creamola Blancmange Powder; Creamola Caramel flavour Dessert; Creamola Chocolate Dessert Powder; Creamola Coffee flavour Dessert Powder; Creamola Jelli-creme; Creamola Crystal Jelly; Creamola Foam Crystals; Creamola Bakewell Tarts mixture.

[@dawnfinch2836]

Yes I remember Cremona I actually liked it 😅

[@jackieyoungman7970]

@@dawnfinch2836 That's great, at long last someone else remembers it :-)

[@davidboyce8683]

Cremola foam Jackie , my brother used to drink that stuff all of the time.

[@jackieyoungman7970]

@@davidboyce8683 I'm glad someone else remembers it. I can't remember when they stopped making it, but I think I was still a child, so maybe at some point in the 1960s.

[@MONGIE30]

Still eat most of these now! I dont think fish fingers taste the same as they used to do, unless my tastebuds have changed! Love Semolina, Tapioca and Sago.

[@the_unrepentant_anarchist.]

That'll be because fish fingers nowadays are made from Pollock and not Cod. And that's the *expensive* fish fingers- god knows what's in the 'own brand' ones!! 😱 🍄

[@swampdaley6088]

Loving it Stu ! Some nice school dinners I had from 1976 at junior school in Derbyshire. After a year we got to be servers for the whole table so they got crap like veg and gravy and we got extra pie and ravioli and nice stuff. If you were avoiding headmasters table inspection we'd ladel any leftovers into any kids coats pockets or pump bags that were hanging up near our table. Creeping round dinnerladies and doing jobs like stacking tables got you extra pudding. Suppose it was a bit like being a prisoner of war. Then Friday night at nine the Professionals were on telly.

[@stuviewtv]

I love that about the leftovers. Brilliant!

[@Clara-ph7my]

I forgot all about mint and strawberry custard. Loved them. Everything got used then. Sponge and custard for cakes going stale. Angel Delight, big childhood dessert at the table. I used to love making jelly (whilst eating the centre joining segments). Trifle popular also, Sherry the best!

[@theymusthatetesla3186]

Vesta Curries! My God.....a time where food actually had FLAVOUR!

[@joannefoster891]

Loved vesta curries and paella!

[@nealgrimes4382]

Are you joking they absolutely.disgusting virtually no spice and full of Raisins i use them as an example of how not to make Curry, even modern tinned Curry is better.

[@nealgrimes4382]

*are.

[@djjuno106]

I took loved them back in the day and when I saw them last week in a shop I immediately bought a packet. But there horrible now, tasteless, horrible texture and rice was sludge.

[@theymusthatetesla3186]

@@djjuno106 So, standard modern fare, eh? ;) Actually surprised they still make them!

[@gwenelvis5007]

Better times, I miss them. Angel delight love it. Wish I could go back in time more innocent times when all i wanted was a Jackie Comic and a bag of lemmon sherberts. My teens now want SO much more and are frankly ungrateful x

[@stuviewtv]

They were great days in which to grow up.

[@KittyCatFurbabiesMaria1972]

Vesta curries my parents used to have ……crisp sarnies cheese n onion crisps ….or buttered roll with Smokey bacon crisps x

[@m6nster1965]

I remember all of these Stu, I was born in 65 so I got to eat these all the time, In fact we eat fish fingers weekly and have the occasional crisp sandwich too. 👍😃

[@gerardsmith4401]

I loved Heinz tinned potato salad, vegetable salad and their tinned puddings 😋

[@THENINJAWARRIOR007]

I had the best of both 70's and 80's and loved every second of it ❤

[@stuviewtv]

Me too! Both great decades.

[@lemfuntard548]

You've sent me back to the 70s, more specifically a particular lunchtime in the late 70s. As was the custom at our primary school, the older kids (of which I was one at that time) served dinner to the younger kids. On this particular day, me and my mate Steve found ourselves as the last in queue to be servers, with the rare consequence of having no more younger kids to serve. Not only that but it was a gypsy tart (probably not called that anymore but it was the perfect combination of sugar and fat) for afters day which was universally recognised as the king of desserts. The joy we felt whilst stuffing ourselves with an unnatural amount of the greatest last course known to humankind still comes back to me every now and then. I'd pay a lot to get that sense of wonder and joy back!

[@stuviewtv]

Fantastic memories!

[@clivemason-ms8ju]

I have pretty good memories of school dinners, particularly at junior school. My favourite was fish fingers and chips with beans, followed by chocolate shortbread and green mint custard. I was a dinner monitor at junior school. We had a table of 8, and I and another monitor had to collect plates, cutlery and food, and dish it out to those at our table--the same 8 sat at the table every day. Then we had to take the plates, cutlery etc back. When I started secondary school in September '73 school dinner was 12p per day. Yep, I still make crisp sandwiches, but usually mix in some grated cheese. I remember my mum making syllabub quite a lot in the 70s. Don't think I have had it for at least 30 years now. I loved Vesta's Chopsuey and Chow mein. One came with crispy noodles that you had to put in a chip pan.

[@Richard-fv7rq]

Magic these vids. Great memories from a different time.

[@stuviewtv]

Glad you like them! Thanks!

[@j0hnf_uk]

I used to go home for lunch in primary school with it being only one street away from where I live. There was a few, very rare occasions when I did stay school dinners and I wasn't really impressed at all. The worst offenders were the watery boiled cabbage and mashed potatoes in an ice cream scoop. I got my first proper taste, (pun intended), when going to secondary school, though. Luckily, they'd just introduced a new cafeteria system and the food wasn't that bad. Very samey, of course, as I recalled practically having chips and baked beans with every meal, and the puddings were general a slab of whatever flavoured sponge with custard. The drinks were pyramid shaped flavoured drinks. Smash was alright as long as enough water was added to it. Too much and it was like thick soup, too little and it was like eating putty. Ready Brek was a treat in our house. The fact that you had to heat the milk to put into it was considered labour-intensive, so it was relatively rare for a breakfast meal. I loved the butterscotch variety of it, with chocolate being a close second. Usually, it was either corn flakes or weetabix, with the occasional shredded wheat for breakfast. Cold meat sandwiches and salad were the standard Sunday tea-time meal for me. Either luncheon meat or chopped ham and pork out of a tin you opened with a key. Afters was usually tinned fruit and evaporated milk. Angel delight was another rare treat. Swiss rolls or a homemade Victoria sandwich cake make with margarine and sugar filling and jam were the cake component.

[@stuviewtv]

Ah yes, the legendary mash from an ice cream scoop! What memories.

[@stephenroney2366]

My primary school lunches were terrible except the soup which you only got in winter which was followed by mains and a biscuit. You only got a pudding if you didn't get soup, and no biscuit. The potatoes which I didn't eat after my first taste when I was 4, was smash mash. Yuk. The stew you could eat all day, cos it waa mainly gristle. If you got more than 20 peas, you were lucky. Semolina and Tapioca were horrible. I can't remember what one we called frogs eggs. Usually complete with stewed prunes. Which we ate and brought the stones out and put on the side lip. We always counted them like this. " Tinker, tailor, soldier sailor, rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, and the Indian chief. Nobody git beyond sailor, ie. 4 prunes. The custard was made with powder, oh and the primary school bog paper was izal, waxed paper that didn't work. Most folk only did a pee unless they couldn't hold a crap until home time. Ah, memories.

[@gilgammesh1]

Pink custard on cornflake cake as a kid in the 90's haha

[@mmwaashumslowww7167]

Fantastic! Captain Birds Eye with colour in his beard in black and white. I remember the white beard even in colour 😮

[@altosanon]

My favourite school dinner dessert was like a pot of mousse or angel delight with little green jellies on the top. You can't beat a crisp sandwich, still my go to when I am not feeling very well. Of course the other option for potatoes in bread is the lovely chip butty.

[@johnnyboy-f6v]

Ahh... toast toppers. Remember it well. You made the toast first then put the topper on and stuck the toast back under the grill hoping it hadn't charred the bread! Good 'ol 1970s. We'll never see the like again...

[@michaelhaywood8262]

I remember them from when I was about 10 [1968/9].

[@lenchannon]

My dad worked at Heinz and got many of these at the staff sales. Good memories.

[@alho9231]

Treacle sponge with custard... Yuummmm 😋

[@dawnfinch2836]

Thankyou for the lovely memories ❤

[@stuviewtv]

My pleasure!

[@dawnfinch2836]

@@stuviewtv wishing you a merry Christmas 🌲 and a happy New year and everyone else ⛄

[@marygore-ib4gi]

Loved school dinners, best meals of our week, mind you I'm going back 60 years ago, still eating angel delight to this day, advertising back in the day truly was amazing now so primitive by today's standards.

[@unclenolly3207]

I still love a crisp sarnie! It’s the simple pleasures. 😊. My favourite school pudding was white vanilla ice cream and hot chocolate sauce/custard. My friends and I used to wonder where the white ice cream came from - we only knew the yellow variety outside of school.

[@TheRoger1978]

I had burger and chips everyday for school dinners. The burgers were steamed I think, loved them

[@eddisonfoncette9103]

Before I watched the videos intro I was thinking of Angel Delight. I can remember the time and the place where I had my first one chocolate while on a camping holiday on the Isle of Wight. But butterscotch and strawberry were my favourite flavours. I was a 70s/ 80s kid and I can't express how much I miss those innocent, happy, carefree days 😊❤.

[@stuviewtv]

They were great days to be a kid without a doubt.

[@robertroberts3703]

Loved semolina with a dob of strawberry jam mixed in after school dinner.

[@PaulWalker-f4m]

You've nailed it because I suspect you lived in an average (poor-middle class) 70/80s family like me. It was the crisp sandwich, toast-toppers and Jam sandwich that confirmed real life back then. Another one I remember was digestive biscuits, buttered, and sprinkled with sugar. We were so poor it was margarine (stork probably) from a huge tub (so a bit evil in retrospect). Great channel, and keep, keeping it real.

[@stuviewtv]

Many thanks!

[@neilrobinson5115]

We always had Birds Eye fish fingers at school,we used to see them delivered in a truck,with chips n peas on a Friday,we loved it,there not the same now 😢

[@raydegs1602]

Happy days..artic roll was a big treat in my family 😊

[@rachelbridger2473]

Love a crisp sarnie

[@Paula-e4h]

Loved my school dinner not a lover of mint custard and chocolate cake ,, never had chocolate since ,favourite was cheese and onion pie and fish and chips Friday's happy times loved video ❤❤

[@sheppertonstudios8253]

Best crisp sandwich flavour by far is smoky bacon

[@richardthered]

I remember the very first time a had a school dinner at my Lower school in the 70s, it was a white fish slice with a white parsley sauce (With lumps in) served with lumpy mash & horrible mushy pea's. It was one of the most disgusting dinners i had ever had in my young life, no flavour at all in the parsley sauce, or the fish (But it stunk) I had to wait behind and the headmistress forced me to eat half of it before i could be excused and constantly telling me off for holding my knife & fork in the wrong hands, i felt sick for about 4 hours after eating it 🤣🤣 i still hate mushy pea's & white fish slice to this day, i am 50 years old now and not eaten it since. lol

[@tracya4087]

greatstuff , thanks mate , from wigan lancashire

[@stuviewtv]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks!

[@RobAddie]

Best crisp sandwich is white bread and butter, then dairylea cheese spread and ready salted crisps. Must admit I liked going to my aunt and uncle when they had family get togethers in late sixties / early seventies, as they always made the little cocktail sticks with cubes of cheddar, ham, pineapple and pickled onions. Would have taken them ages to prepare but we ate them all lol. Great upload Stu, thanks.

[@russellstraw]

Artic roll one of my favourites when I was younger

[@Hat101]

School dinner custard with grannys knickers on top. That was what we called the skin. Nobody wanted grannys knickers.

[@Nick-xi9lm]

I remember the birdseye pies being in a red box. & the advert , I think it was with June Whitfield in it. I use to love the Vesta Beef Curry. All ingredients numbered on the box. Also I remember Cod Balls, & Oven Crunches. Takes me back. 😊

[@seanmacailin]

Loved Tudor Pickled Onion and that ad with the lad on the paper round OMG111. Memories come flooding back! Between 1978 and 80 there was a fad here in Northern Ireland, especially in the summer, for the HP sauce sandwich, alongside sliced bread, butter, and caster sugar. But the crisp sandwich, still going strong. We had and still have in Northern Ireland a batch loaf called: Nutty Crust, and the heels of that loaf were ideal for the crisp sandwich: large and fluffy and your crisps usually stayed in!!!

[@tbonebrown94]

Love this. Took me straight back to my childhood. Thank you. Still enjoy a salt and vinegar crisp sandwich now.

[@chocoholic832]

Me too! Can't beat it 😊

[@TheUluxian]

As an American who has become a confirmed Anglophile over the years, I love seeing the differences (and some similarities), between British and American foods from my childhood years.

[@trevorbrown6654]

As a kid in the 1970s I used to see adverts for Hostess fruit pies in the imported Marvel comics my brother used to get. I thought they sounded, especially as I loved Mr Kipling brand individual fruit pies so assumed they would be similar. Anyway when I was in my early twenties I finally managed to go to the U.S. and was so looking forward to trying one. I finally got one from a convenience store and was so disappointed in it. It tasted nothing like I had assumed and had a strange sugary pastry and a puréed filling. I expect its an acquired taste if you aren't used to them but it shows the power of advertising.

[@emmaheyes1694]

Arctic roll delicious my favourite dessert glad they brought it back

[@jrsc01.]

during dinners in the 90s, i always remember the smell of chips through the whole school at dinner time, and large baked biscuits, exactly half of which was coated in Chocolate (like it was dunked on its side halfway in the chocolate)

[@TJTimberhurst]

Loved semolina and tapioca

[@iancosgrove243]

Wish I could still get hold of some Heinz sandwich spread!

[@deboraharris1122]

They still sell it 👍

[@willswheels283]

I grew up in the 1980’s and 90’s and yes I remember most of those foods, some of which mum never bought like Findus Crispy Pancakes that I didn’t try until I was a teen in the 90’s, but Angel Delight we definately had, as well as Rowntrees Jelly. Birds Eye Fish Fingers yes we definately had those as kids and I still eat them now. Mum and Dad always did “Proper” mash with “proper” potatoes when we were kids and so I hadn’t tried “Smash” until just recently! Thanks for that Nostalgic trip it brought back memories.