Scummy food that hits the spot

[Rudy]

27 minutes ago, Dimron said:

My flat mate tried to talk my missus out of marrying me all those years ago.

"You haven't lived with him, he eats a FULL Fray Bentos Pudding to himself" was one of his reasons 🙂

And she still married you?

jesus you must be hung like a mule

[Winchester White]

42 minutes ago, wanderer1984 said:

The ultimate scummy snack. 3 mins in the microwave and about £2 for a two pack. Can't beat these beauts! 

Good shout. However I can't eat one done in the microwave, they are just rubber.

[Traf]

Some proper fake food snobbery going on here.

Ooooh, I'd never eat that...

I bet most of us have eaten everything on this thread. I know I have, but that's possibly because I was dragged up on a Farnworth council estate where you ate what you were given or you didn't eat. 

[Dimron]

34 minutes ago, Rudy said:

And she still married you?

jesus you must be hung like a mule

Full meat and two veg man

(These days a chipolata and two nutmegs)

[Casino]

Ive had goblin puddings but 45 years ago

I doubt they were highest quality then, so likely worse now

I liked em though

 

Ive had the minute steaks...as recently as today cos @MancWanderer mentioned em. They were edible

 

Ive never had lobby as im not from horwich pretending to be from leigh, but potato hash, is good solid winter grub. Used to love it with an inch thick suet crust but mrs casino wont make it

The odd chick and mush pot noodle

I actually had beans on toast, heinz on best of both, so high class, last night

 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

Kinell.

Meat, spuds, onions, stock and thickener.

Suet, flour, water.

Piece of piss.

Red cabbage too.

[Winchester White]

Lobby is Wigan shite, tatty ash is far superior but still isn't great.  However a tray of it watching a bommy early November is a nice change. 

[Casino]

4 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Kinell.

Meat, spuds, onions, stock and thickener.

Suet, flour, water.

Piece of piss.

Red cabbage too.

I didnt get wed to fuck about cooking for myself

[Tonge moor green jacket]

2 minutes ago, Casino said:

I didnt get wed to fuck about cooking for myself

Did you tell her that before the wedding!

[Casino]

No, and i wouldnt tell her now  😀

[Winchester White]

9 minutes ago, Casino said:

No, and i wouldnt tell her now  😀

At least she cooks! My wife is shite at cooking, I end up doing it most of the time.

[MancWanderer]

58 minutes ago, Casino said:

Ive had the minute steaks...as recently as today cos @MancWanderer mentioned em. They were edible

Had em yesterday. Fried onions, English mustard, on Warby’s white

Cant emphasise enough how disappointed I was. I was barfing for hours after with the most revolting aftertaste 

Bring back Cordon Bleu in Astley Bridge

[Escobarp]

Findus crispy pancakes (cheese or minced beef) on a barm Or warbies toastie used to be a delightful snack  

 

also Bernard matthews mini chicken Kiev’s on a butty as well are a thing of beauty. 

Edited September 21, 2021 by Escobarp

[wanderer1984]

8 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

Findus crispy pancakes (cheese or minced beef) on a barm Or warbies toastie used to be a delightful snack  

 

also Bernard matthews mini chicken Kiev’s on a butty as well are a thing of beauty. 

[bolton_blondie]

I remember one of my teas as a kid was a carrs pasty with butter beans. Think sawdust had more flavour. 

[Casino]

20 minutes ago, bolton_blondie said:

I remember one of my teas as a kid was a carrs pasty with butter beans. Think sawdust had more flavour. 

Wtf were butter beans all about

Dreadful things

[bolton_blondie]

5 hours ago, Casino said:

Wtf were butter beans all about

Dreadful things

Wouldn't touch them now. Horrible things. 

[Youri McAnespie]

That's like saying pasta is a horrible thing, or rice...

They're just bland, a carrier...

What's horrible is how they're served.

No-one would open a can or steep/boil dry beans like; cannellini, kidney, black-eyed, rossecco even haricot (baked beans beans) and just plonk them unadorned on a plate as a side...

They did this (with butter beans) at school and they are indeed crap served this way.

Stick a can alongside your kidney beans in your next chilli con carne.

Justice for the butterbean.

Retrial.

 

[Youri McAnespie]

That said, I'm not exactly over-enamoured by salads with cold beans of any type, your Tuna Fagioli or Nicoìse Salads etc.

I've a mate who'll cook a nice curry and pilau then insist on opening a can of 'mixed bean salad' and plonking a ladle of it, cold, as a 'side' on each plate, it ruins everything.

Edited September 22, 2021 by Youri McAnespie

[Zico]

11 hours ago, Casino said:

 

11 hours ago, Casino said:

Ive never had lobby as im not from horwich pretending to be from leigh, but potato hash, is good solid winter grub. Used to love it with an inch thick suet crust but mrs casino wont make it

 

Horwich born and bred and never heard of it till it got mentioned on here 

If it's prevalent in H Town it was brought in by a tourist or interloper

[Tonge moor green jacket]

11 hours ago, Casino said:

No, and i wouldnt tell her now  😀

Strangely, as a kid my Gran would do a massive tater hash with a thick crust on, god bless her.

Lovely stuff, bout time I made one. I find cooking enjoyable. 

[Whitestar]

A lot of things you try as a youngster are instantly horrible but give it ten minutes and you think, giv us anotha go a that, eg: lime pickle.

First time i tried lime pickle i thought it was the worst thing I'd ever tasted except 1 (but we'll come to that) 10 mins later you try it again, still disgusting but by now addictive.

One time on an all inclusive hol, been drinking all day and night and bored of the same stuff, i join the queue at the bar and think right, whatever this geezer in front of me gets I'm getting the same. Turns out he's German and ordered a couple of neat hazelnut schnapps, well tasted like fookin wood shavings but again strangely addictive, drank them the rest of the holiday.

Ok. Back to the previous mention of the one thing i tried and tried and better tried to eat but always had to spit out after about 20 seconds Victory Vs!!!!!  WTF???

And some kids at my school actually liked them.

[e2e4]

its weird, but victory vs are like a halls mentholiptus. 

its not really a toffee. 

the spanish in a bertie bassett bag is a toffee. 

[bolton_blondie]

Given myself 3rd degree burns in my mouth. Didn't have one yesterday. Old skill dinner at its finest. 

[Whitestar]

Working down south with a lad one time, he says I'm off to a sweet shop (he meant toffee shop) do you want anything? I said naah, aye go on, get us a spanish!.  

Nope, Clueless as to what i wanted.🤦🤷