Tastes of Childhood | Nostalgic Food Memories

Just like listening to a song or a theme tune to a television show can take us back to a particular moment in time, so too can eating a particular food. Certain tastes retain a permanent place in our memories, reminding us of moments in our childhood. Today on Stuview TV, we are going to take a nostalgic culinary journey back to the past to revisit some tastes of childhood, both good and bad, that we all remember.
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[@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. 😢

[@brickie59]

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

[@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]

😂😂😂😂❤💯🇬🇧

[@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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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 ^^

[@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

[@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. ❤

[@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!

[@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.

[@johnhamilton7762]

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

[@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 🤣🤣🤣

[@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.

[@johnhamilton7762]

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?

[@mrmacc1312]

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

[@johnhamilton7762]

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.

[@user-es2pb6tw8x]

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.. 😂🇬🇧

[@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.

[@johnhamilton7762]

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.

[@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

[@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

[@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 😱

[@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.

[@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 .

[@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.

[@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!!!

[@steevobarker581]

Corned beef, chips and beans! 😋😋

[@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...

[@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.

[@rachelcamm4990]

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

[@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!!!' 😂😂😂

[@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.

[@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!)

[@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!

[@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.

[@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!! 😱 🍄

[@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!)

[@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

[@TJTimberhurst]

Loved semolina and tapioca

[@cosmiccat6708]

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

[@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!

[@TimeForAnotherWatch]

Butterscotch Angel Delight was obviously the best 😊

[@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

[@jaynewton5278]

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

[@charlottehardy822]

Now I want an apricot jam sandwich and butterscotch angel delight 😂😂

[@stuviewtv]

Sounds like a pretty decent combination!

[@martindunstan8043]

Apricot jam, it reminds me of my father being given it for his cream tea a few years back when we were out somewhere 😲talk about not happy🤣🤣👍

[@charlottehardy822]

@@martindunstan8043 I don’t think it fits with a cream tea either 😂

[@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.

[@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.

[@Canalcoholic]

Oh, I remember Angel Delight from a school camping trip to the Loire Valley. One night when we had howling gales and an electrical storm, we had to jump out of our sleeping bags to each hold down a corner of the tent. In bare feet, I stood in a dish of Angel Delight with peach slices. I can still feel the squelch between my toes.

[@davidbowie2046]

I loved my School dinners in senior school 81/82. In fact it is when I first tasted curry and pizza which weren't readily available back then. Loved the desserts, but we only ever had yellow custard, usually with pineapple upside down cake or syrup sponge. Also remember them tin jugs the water used to be in which were all different colours, along with the thickest, heaviest glasses known to man! I remember our dinners were 11p which was brilliant for such a good meal. Always felt sorry for kids on benefits though, as they would have to give a number to the dinner lady for a free meal.😔 I just don't think the food we had back then tastes the same? maybe we should bring back artificial flavours and preservatives? 🤣 Thanks for another great, retro video Stu 😀

[@stuviewtv]

Oh yes, the super heavy water glasses! I'd forgot about them. Glad you enjoyed the video! Many thanks.

[@user-mh2mi1uu8k]

I’m 76 and I still love Ready Brek 😃

[@dondesmond7969]

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

[@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!

[@mmwaashumslowww7167]

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

[@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!

[@DJGillman]

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

[@lilliankeane5731]

Loved crispy pancakes! They were a staple for me to cook for my little brother😂. Good times😂.

[@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.

[@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

[@Steevo-rj4hv]

Dog poo in the street, smoking on the bus, teachers smacking the kids, being sent to the shop to buy mum cigarettes aged six, I miss the 1970’s.

[@Swans_And_Ducks]

White dog poo, not just any dog poo.

[@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.

[@robertroberts3703]

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

[@user-uw7ey6zt4u]

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!

[@tracya4087]

greatstuff , thanks mate , from wigan lancashire

[@stuviewtv]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks!

[@gilgammesh1]

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

[@gingerbreadaudio]

I'm still eating all these at age 50 👍😀😀 For me dairylea and frazzles are my favourite sandwich 😍

[@gilgammesh1]

Absolute solid butty choice there. Also try Chilli Heatwave Doritos with Dairylea butty. One of my go to combos.

[@richardthered]

🤣🤣 Me to, i never did grow up.

[@nealgrimes4382]

Not so much the other things, but i do like fish finger butty.

[@user-nx8ii4ef7f]

Why was I devastated when I learned that fish didn't have fingers?

[@gerardsmith4401]

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

[@julianaylor4351]

I once ate over 20 spam fritters at school as a dare. Our comprehensive school often had left over food, during one year, so we had food competitions with it..... someone else won the sausage one. 😋

[@jonathanperry4189]

Ice magic on Lyons soft scoop vanilla ice cream

[@johnhamilton7762]

I've just remembered Ice Magic now. I loved the mint choc one. Thx for that new memory.

[@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)

[@alanthomson1227]

The smash aliens ad was a touch of genius

[@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.

[@MrGorpm]

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

[@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...

[@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!

[@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.

[@Ginger_Dalek]

To this day, even the sight of rice pudding makes me want to vom. The primary school I went to didn't have a kitchen, so the dinners came by the meals-on-wheels kitchen 25 miles away and most likely were prepared around 9 to 10am. By the time it was served, between 12 and 1pm, the rice pud had turned into yellow mush and had started to spilt. No amount of jam could rescue the vileness.

[@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

[@ukar69]

The original Captain Birdseye, John Hewer, was always the best captain. He was actually in the Fleet Air Arm.

[@CrowdControl2K8]

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

[@rafiqadarr6217]

I know people complain about how expensive the Heinz Curry and Barbecue Beanz range is, but I really like them, I have toast on a plate, with a bowl of the curry flavour with mango chutney, or barbecue sauce with the barbecue flavoured beans. They are really good for a quick snack, or tea if you can’t be bothered. I also like the cans of short-cut spaghetti or hoops, which are much cheaper, but also good for a quick meal, with ketchup, or anything else you feel like. Nowadays you can get curry or chilli in a can, or macaroni cheese, although obviously it never compares to cooking from scratch.

[@wmr9019]

Born in 63 when i was 3 my dad was a delivery driver for SPD in Liverpool , for Unilever, i used to go with him on delivery day friday, we delivered Stork, blueband, summer county, or if on frozen truck , fisf fingers, crispy cod balls , Birdseye mousse, strawberry, ornangeand lemon , choc, arctic roll , and yes Birdseye peas were picked and frozen very quickly , my dad sometimes worke nights on the #PEA RUN to be honest we had mainly home cooked food hot pot, roast dinner , liver, steak, mince, moussaka, mum used to do curried kidneys with lemon , cheese and coriander dumplings , i liked instant whip, remember i could not eat it when i had measles in 1970, happy days and no obese kids😢😢😢

[@charliekane135]

I still buy an Arctic roll occasionally just for nostalgia sake

[@johnwheelan3703]

I remember my school dinners. Some of our meals word disgusting. I'll never forget cold mince meat with a concrete cobbler. I remember blunting my knife on it.

[@lindathomas5500]

I was born in 68 and remember the omelettes in a tin, was wondering if anyone else remembered them from the 70s.. you just opened the tin and cooked them, they had all the ingredients in them. The ham one had ham cubes in it, the mushroom one mushrooms and of course there was also the plain cheese one. 🤣

[@keithadams1538]

I overdid it with a birds trifle so much so I could not touch another ever, even now at 65

[@LOrealHardly]

Great to see the pic is the acual Crawfords Cheddars not the global conglomorate that has subsumed it (don't get eme started on the fact that I boycott Nestle but they own Rowntree!!). Loved the smell coming from the Crawfords factory in Leith in the 70's

[@derekporter7658]

I miss Crawford's the bakers,, I miss City bakeries and when I came to Edinburgh, Martin's the bakers! The scotch pies were the best.

[@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.

[@Richard-fv7rq]

Magic these vids. Great memories from a different time.

[@stuviewtv]

Glad you like them! Thanks!

[@k9nick]

Wagon wheels, sherbet dabs, liquorice all sorts. Jelly babies. Tizer.

[@kevinturvey8213]

whoever came up with "never full of grey bits!" deserves a medal...second only to "it's the taste"!

[@cmick69]

Sometimes when my mum made angel delight, she would put it in the freezer to make different flavours of ice-cream.

[@lucieblue2130]

I would give anythin😂g to go back to the 70's. A time of pure imagination, and I find myself googling 70's interior design. Please do one of these videos. I love the vibrant orange and futuristic 70 s design. We had a sunken living room with white sofas , an avocado bathroom and brown guest toilet. I have never seen brown toilets and sinks since! Bring it on!

[@stuviewtv]

Great idea for a video!

[@helenlogan6481]

I remember the thick skin on top of the custard at school dinners 😂

[@garethparry6673]

Findus French bread pizza: old recipe Pot rice: curry flavour Smokey back on a sandwich is the best Burton’s potato puffs And really old this one when I was about 3 years old, brown or tomato sauce on a butty, but use the sauce lid to make little round pieces😂

[@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 :)

[@stewartfooter3580]

Crispy pancakes are food of gods lol ied i eat fish fingers i do a box of 20! Angel delight and artic roll are great,smash is gross now and cheese and onion crisps sandwiches are the best! All the food at the end i still love.great vid stu as always,a real trip into my food likes

[@stuviewtv]

A box of 20 fish fingers is pretty impressive! Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks!

[@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.

[@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.

[@jonathanperry4189]

Mashing up your pudding into the custard? Those deserts and your description of them is a mirror of my own life. Fantastic times of early school..

[@stuviewtv]

Great days!

[@alho9231]

Treacle sponge with custard... Yuummmm 😋

[@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 😢