Food you remember from the 80s

Terminal_Boy · 25 Jan 2019 at 08:17

Angilion said:
Fruit salad goes back further. When I was a boy, fruit salad and blackjack were the cheapest sweets at 4 for a penny. You could really stretch your pocket money with those.

Ah, a fellow ancient!

I remember Hubba Bubba gum being 2 a penny and he size of an old 10p piece. A quarter of most sweets was 10p at the local corner shop.

jsmoke · 25 Jan 2019 at 08:24

I remember we often had a fry up on Sat night, the greasy works, egg, chips, beans, sausage while watching the A-team. Good days.

No non sweet food really stands out, we ate well though, had our own potatoes, eggs and veg, ate best cuts of meat, topside, sirloin regularly etc.

People were poor generally in those days.

Feek · 25 Jan 2019 at 08:50

SexyGreyFox said:
Anybody remember old money?

This thread is about 80s food, that’s post decimalisation. How does old money fit in?

(but yes, yes I do).

markoboyo11 · 25 Jan 2019 at 08:57

5.4.3.2.1 biscuits, got I miss those.

MookJong · 25 Jan 2019 at 09:10

JAWS Crisps
Return of the Jedi biscuits

builder22 · 25 Jan 2019 at 09:23

markoboyo11 said:
5.4.3.2.1 biscuits, got I miss those.

And Taxi’s

markoboyo11 · 25 Jan 2019 at 09:39

builder22 said:
And Taxi’s

Taxis are still on the go.

jsmoke · 25 Jan 2019 at 09:41

All Uber these days.

lookitsjonno · 25 Jan 2019 at 11:19

Volovants, at what point did they get removed from the buffet table

Kainz · 25 Jan 2019 at 11:44

markoboyo11 said:
5.4.3.2.1 biscuits, got I miss those.

Oh god, those were amazing. I would down entire packs of them in one sitting as a kid!

ttaskmaster · 25 Jan 2019 at 11:57

flea.rider · 25 Jan 2019 at 11:58

one thing I did eat lots of when I was 12-14 kraft mac and cheese ..(was in Canada)
but the stuff over here taste's like garbage ..

flea.rider · 25 Jan 2019 at 11:59

lookitsjonno said:
Volovants, at what point did they get removed from the buffet table

we still use them ..lol for weddings creamy mushroom and onion filling

robfosters · 25 Jan 2019 at 12:17

lookitsjonno said:
Volovants, at what point did they get removed from the buffet table

Vol-au-vents

SPG · 25 Jan 2019 at 12:30

flea.rider said:
we still use them ..lol for weddings creamy mushroom and onion filling

Well that`s wrong straight away, they should be home baked and filled with tiny prawns from the cord en blue freezer place and marie sauce from salad cream and DADDIES tom ketchup. Maybe just maybe 5 sprinkles of paprika.

terley · 25 Jan 2019 at 12:48

Brown Milky Way bars

DN3000 · 25 Jan 2019 at 16:05

Takes me back to my childhood...

jsmoke · 25 Jan 2019 at 16:08

Cola cubes lol, genuine memory.

Pinapple cubes also.

ttaskmaster · 25 Jan 2019 at 17:06

it1uk · 25 Jan 2019 at 17:23

Chelsea Whoppers and the pink and white Nougat.

Cherry lips, the hard almost perfumed ones. Not the soft haribo one's you get now.