Post by: choc expert on November 04, 2005, 07:54:27 pm
asked my local shop today as i'm missing these so much and yipee they are coming back for christmas!!
Post by: Forth Bridges on November 04, 2005, 10:45:29 pm
Post by: clairestelle on December 09, 2005, 09:17:16 pm
Post by: on December 10, 2005, 11:28:01 am
There's a shop near me that sells Freddo Caramels. It's one of those Open all hours type shops that sells kiddies plastic guns and tins of Fray Bentos pies and other stuff nobody ever buys.
Post by: oldspice on December 10, 2005, 02:04:50 pm
Vesta Chow Mein!
Heinz London Grill
Chopped Ham and Pork with Egg
Post by: on December 10, 2005, 03:26:28 pm
Yes they have Vesta paella.
They also have a 2005 calendar!
Post by: goldencup on December 10, 2005, 03:40:43 pm
Does anyone remember Vesta Chicken Supreme? That was truly awful, with an advertisement to match. Now how did it go.....I remember the end bit, something like, "If I were manager of the team, I'd see they all had Chicken Supreme."
However, I have to confess that I used to quite like Vesta Paella!
Post by: on December 10, 2005, 04:25:26 pm
Yes it was nice, but I had some a while ago and it was horrible. My favourite was Beef Risotto. Can't remember Vesta chicken supreme.
Post by: goldencup on December 10, 2005, 05:02:34 pm
Ah, I have fond memories of the Beef Risotto. I used to play squash every week and often the guy I played with invited me back for dinner afterwards. The only thing he could cook was Vesta Beef Risotto and there was never enough of it so we had three between the two of us!
Maybe Oldspice remembers the Chicken Supreme?
Post by: loulou on December 10, 2005, 05:35:59 pm
Post by: oldspice on December 11, 2005, 04:35:26 pm
Yes! I remember it! It was my first expereince of 'foreign' food! I took a freind home for tea and my aunt cooked us that. I used to like the Chow Mein and those crispy noodles! Not very healthy though.
Does anyone remember a Birds Eye product that was tiny baby onions in white sauce? They were fantastic! I can't think why they don't still do them. I also used to love Birds Eye Country Rissoles and those lovely beef pies they used to do with the rich gravy.
I used to eat all this food when I had my first little flat in the late 1970s.
Post by: smurfboy on December 12, 2005, 02:29:03 pm
My mom and dad were given a tin of hamburgers in gravy in a wedding gift hamper! Now that is 70s for you!
They left them in the back of the cupboard for years and then gave them to the old people's home for Harvest Festival. The subsequent deaths of three old women were unrelated, I'm sure.
Post by: oldspice on December 12, 2005, 05:52:51 pm
Anyone ever been brave enough to eat tinned meatballs?
Post by: loulou on December 12, 2005, 09:43:35 pm
Post by: smurfboy on December 13, 2005, 12:12:54 am
When my mom was a teenager she went carol singing at an old people's home and had to give out sandwiches to the wrinklies afterwards. One old man took a sarnie, took a bite out of it, said 'eurgh, fishpaste' and threw it back!
Post by: loulou on December 13, 2005, 12:25:52 am
I thought of something else horrible that was in those hampers. Tinned meat in sort of triangle tins. I have a real dislike of meat that comes out of tins surrounded in jelly.
Post by: smurfboy on December 13, 2005, 12:39:02 am
Post by: loulou on December 13, 2005, 12:44:01 am
Post by: lorri on December 13, 2005, 02:21:25 pm
sounds like "yea olde oak ham " a christmas hamper staple lol that and cheap tunis cake
Post by: lorri on December 13, 2005, 02:23:34 pm
where are they? has anyone seen them yet? i've looked in every sweetie shop in the south east.
they had them in stationary box in eastbourne a couple of days ago....not the obvious place to look i will be honest
Post by: goldencup on December 14, 2005, 08:17:19 am
