What did you used to eat years ago,But Dont eat now?

AKA Fisherman's Friends! I do! Tried one not so long ago ...

 

Syrup of Figs.:D:eek:

 

David-is that that stuff people used to put on babys dummies-brown syrupy stuff??

 

Lollipop - aren't you thinking of cod-liveroil and malt stuff or Virol?
Tasted like toffee I thought - not that I've had any lately.

 

Virol..........hhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmm I will google it. I remember my cousins had something like it on their dummies and I (apparently) used to pinch their dummies and suck it off!

It was a herby kind of flavour but sweet, and it had a strong smell.

 

Oh begad-my mam was sneaking medicine into me all the time!!

Just like worming medicine-she told me it was raspberry milkshake!!

The pure deceit!!!

 

Lol, if I were to list the whole series of italian mistakes we would still be here at judjement day, and miss the angels calling.

Miraflores, I will forgive you for liking cotechino, I have a few perversions myself, lol.
I can get many of my regional specialities here (at criminal prices and lesser quality, but ya well). SOmething tat I cannot find is the Salame di Felino (mentioned earlier), that is not made of cat, just comes from a place called Felino. That is the very taste of home.Mom is coming to visit next week and bringing one, yupppy!!!! I would have liked her to bring 20 :D but since she is coming by motorbike ( I have a Tom-Mom) that is not possible. No problem I will fill the car this winter :D

 

fresh bananas and pineapples ....straight from the fields. The bananas I buy now taste good but never as good as what I have tasted.
Mangoes, straight from the tree. never bought a single mango when I lived in Kenya.
tomatoes...we used to buy them from the roadside sellers. they tasted and smelt of tomatoes and you could smell the sun in them.
cucumbers- little ridged cucumbers that you ate with a pinch of salt.
the milk from fresh coconuts
fresh sugarcane
molasses from the sugarcane factory (with all the bits in it !!!)
honey by the bucket-load

Mum used to buy plum jam in tins (It came from South Africa) and we used to think we were so posh eating this jam....forgetting that Mum always made guava jam, pineapple jam, hundresds of different types of pickles. Funny how kids like ready made food and processed food.

the other thing we used to like was Carnation condensed milk on white pappy (yuk) bread.

and fresh vegetables too numerous to mention...all of whihc I can still get but I can't get that taste back.

My father used to get a gallon of milk from the local dairy and when you boiled the milk, the skin on it was almos a 1/4" thick. I used to like drinking milk then.....not so now.

 

always knew you were barking John

 

Love this language barrier. I think, maybe, I understood everyone.:confused:

 

Woof,woof:D

 

Spam
Liqurice sticks( like tree bark )
Bread and Dripping
Cow & Gate hot Chocolate at the swimming baths
Bread Pudding
My Dads fresh veg out of his garden.