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Sharron

Sharron Report 28 Apr 2020 15:15

I eat blancmange and did once serve it at the village lunch.

I'm anybody's for custard anyway, not that they even really need the custard!

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 28 Apr 2020 15:10

Does anyone eat blancmange these days?

A yellowish tone of cold blancmange that had been set in a rabbit mould was always placed in chopped 'grass' green jelly at many children's parties.
Pink wafer biscuits and marshmallow cakes in bullseye foil paper and iced party ring biscuits were other party treats.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 28 Apr 2020 14:41

They've removed all the sugar, Kathleen :-(

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 28 Apr 2020 14:34

There are loads of foods that I don't think taste the way they did years ago, so my family always tell me that it must be my taste buds that have altered - but I'm not so sure.

Kath. x

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 28 Apr 2020 14:29

I remember mum feeding our youngest sister born 1949 with Farleys Rusks

I had our daughter in 1958 and they were still a solid mushed in milk as a food for a baby being weened

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 28 Apr 2020 14:28

I remember having 2 Farleys Rusks with hot milk and sugar for my breakfast well into my teens!
I was a small child, and could go ages without eating - I just didn't get hungry.
The doctor encouraged my mum to pander to what I wanted, (She hated that), even though, as I didn't get hungry, it wasn't much. Just rusks :-D

JoyLouise

JoyLouise Report 28 Apr 2020 14:26

Kathleen, I used to love Farleys Rusks years ago when my children were small.

I bought some for when my grandchildren stayed and when I tried them again they did not taste the same. I think they may have had more roughage added - at least that's what the taste was like to me.

When my two were young, the older one could not stand 'rabbit food', as he called a salad while the younger one loved them, ate them from being very young, and would happily take them for her packed lunch. They were both brought up with the same food fed to them so I guess inherited taste buds have a lot to answer for. :-S

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 28 Apr 2020 14:17

Farley's rusks. I ate loads of them and the kids didn't get a look in. However I tried some a few years ago when a friend was feeding her grandchild and they were awful. How my taste buds have changed!!

Kath. x

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 28 Apr 2020 13:55

:-D :-D :-D :-D

Mine had Ovaltine teething rusks.

Sharron

Sharron Report 28 Apr 2020 13:16

Bickiepegs, I ate hundreds of them.

I know you are supposed to take them away after twenty minutes when they are soggy but I don't think anybody was brave enough to try!

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 28 Apr 2020 13:04

Both my daughters are on messenger asking about food they ate before 7! :-S :-S
Eldest started it.
She remembers space invaders on toast, with marmite, by some boats when she was 5/6.
Eating the duck food, and her dad boiling her some eggs, but not 'everyday' stuff
:-S
Actually, eating the duck food was an 'everyday' food for her! She'd steal it from under their beaks!

With a bit of prodding, she remembered the stuffed marrows her dad did with soya mince (ugh!), my shepherds pies and eating the veg straight from the garden.

I never gave them 'toddler' food, they had what we had - just cut up.
In Essex, as we lived on a farm, they'd eat chicken from the farmer, pheasant from the gamekeeper, vegetables from out garden, or the farm, and duck from our garden :-D