freddo caramel

[choc expert]

asked my local shop today as i'm missing these so much and yipee they are coming back for christmas!!

[Forth Bridges]

mm that TAZ are't there?

[clairestelle]

where are they? has anyone seen them yet? i've looked in every sweetie shop in the south east.

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.

[oldspice]

Vesta Chow Mein!

Heinz London Grill

Chopped Ham and Pork with Egg

 

Yes they have Vesta paella.

They also have a 2005 calendar!

[goldencup]

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!

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.

[goldencup]

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?

[loulou]

I still buy Vesta paella.

[oldspice]

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.

[smurfboy]

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.

[oldspice]

Anyone ever been brave enough to eat tinned meatballs?

[loulou]

I have ate them and they are horrible. I remember when I was little every Christmas my mam got a hamper from the provident man then spent the next year paying for it. Anyway those tinned hamburgers always got eaten by my oldest brothers when they came in drunk and couldn't find anything else. The tinned sweetcorn and cod roe was always given to me to take for the harvest festival hampers made up at school and distributed amongst the old. My dad always hid the brandy snaps for himself (probably to compensate him for my mam putting piccalili on his sandwiches for 3 months)and we seemed to have tinned pears and peaches with carnation for weeks.

[smurfboy]

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!