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Food in your early Years

Posted by Pineda Pete <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Pineda+Pete' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 12:29 pm

I never had pasta or rice with any meal when I was growing up,rice pudding excluded.It was always some kind of potato.

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Posted by TC61 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=TC61' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 17, 2025, 12:18 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

I recall going to school with sugar sandwiches... yes, two slices of white bread buttered and sprinkled with sugar.

On occasion, crisps or Bovril would replace the sugar.... but we were all the same and had no arse in our trousers in the 60's. Also, you brought your milk with you and most of my class arrived everyday to school with milk in Whiskey bottles !!!! Can you imaging the alarm bells today.

My kids think I'm making it up tbh.

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Posted by 4squares <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=4squares' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 17, 2025, 10:48 am, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

Brawn and chips

"When lads have money they think they're men and when they're skint they're lads again".

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Posted by kop_gobshites <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=kop_gobshites' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 17, 2025, 10:33 am, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

“Irish” diet of spuds, cabbage, bacon etc. ice cream/apple pie/rice pudding for desserts.

As TT said below, the fancy stuff came later. My dad loved it when I started cooking, pasta, rice and all sorts of other meals that mum wouldn’t/couldn’t cook.

The king’s servants but Ireland’s first

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Posted by Steve03 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Steve03' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 17, 2025, 8:57 am, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

We had a variety of foods. Roasties, Boiled, Chips or Mash. Never did me any harm. That reminds me, must take my Statin and Blood Pressure tablets.

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Posted by Tonytaxi1970 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Tonytaxi1970' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 17, 2025, 8:40 am, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

Same regarding pasta or rice when growing up (excluding rice pudding or tinned spaghetti).

My Dad's mates, one of which was Tom Fraser of 'Fraser's -ship's butcher's' on Dublin Street, facing Clarence dock where me Da worked. Another mate was Richie, who had one of the fresh fruit handcarts on Walton Road. Every Friday, a big box of meat joints and other goodies were picked up on his way home. Likewise, a huge box of fresh fruit and veg was purchased every Friday.
We were lucky in respect we always had meat for our evening meal, and fresh veg on the plate too, (or home made chips) beautiful!.

Don't think I tasted curry until I was 15, and never ate rice or proper pasta until about 18.

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Posted by bluechadd <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=bluechadd' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 9:42 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

Spent my first five years living and travelling with parents in the middle and far east, returning to Dublin every six months .So was exposed to wide variety of foods and flavours. Unfortunately after settling in Waterloo in1965, we only had mother’s cooking.
Lash everything in a pot and boil for hours. The meat was mainly bone, gristle and fat. I couldn’t eat it. So was regularly sent to my room without food. My taste buds were spoiled so the slop mother made was inedible to me.

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Posted by Essy <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Essy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 9:35 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

Same here Pete the ol' girl would only cook good old British stodgy food

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Posted by Heisenberg Blue <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Heisenberg+Blue' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 9:12 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

Not one mention of Scouse in this entire thread! Corned Beef Hash absent too.

"When I think of Everton, I think of Howard Kendall"

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Posted by drexxxler <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=drexxxler' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 9:13 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

Never took to lamb; so my mum made me blind scouse with gray bentos corned beef cubed and lashed in

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Posted by bluegenes <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=bluegenes' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 9:15 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

Freudian slip there with ‘gray bentos’ or maybe not.?

Don't forget lads, one Evertonian is worth 20 liverpudlians.
Brian Labone 'The Last of the Corinthians'.

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Posted by drexxxler <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=drexxxler' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 9:26 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

Ha ha maybe not…

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Posted by General_Zod <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=General_Zod' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 9:07 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

First restaurant experience was aged 19, a pizza express in 1991. Didn't know I had to tell the waiter to stop peppering my pizza (he asked my mate if I knew, like I was in a wheelchair or something)

As for food as a kid. It was chips, chip and egg, chips and beans, chips and crispy pancakes, chips and fish fingers and all served with loads of buttered bread to fill you up. Utterly grim.

One xmas at school they said we were having a special; duckling. I was aghast. And when a teacher came up and asked why I was crying they told me it was mince and dumplings.

My grandad who we barely saw, made us lambs heart and mash one time. Never went back.

I went veggie at 14.
I cooked all my own meals and bought whatever else I needed from my myriad of jobs.

Never looked back. Still not arsed about chips.

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Posted by pea45 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=pea45' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 17, 2025, 12:33 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

I was around the same age when I had my real pizza and that was eating out somewhere. The pizzas we had previously at home were frozen cheese and tomato 10 for £1 Iceland type that just tasted dry and flavourless. So I never knew why people on films would talk about pizzas as a fun meal.

It's a Grand old team to go to jail for

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Posted by WaltonBlue <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=WaltonBlue' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 10:32 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

I went veggie at 13 after a failed attempt at 12, not trying to go one better- mainly after reading about Neil Robinson. We didnt have everything with chips, but did have steak and kidney, liver and onions and vegetables were pressure cookered to death. Later my mum did do some foreign meals - lasagne/moussaka/sweet and sour but by then I was well off meat.

Dad eating heart and brawn along with spam and the smelliest fish imaginable made sure I stuck to it.

Eating out in the early 80s left me with the massive choice of mushroom omelette or cheese salad. Even most Chinese restaurants did not have much choice.

In Moyes We Trust

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Posted by General_Zod <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=General_Zod' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 17, 2025, 3:39 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

Aye, liver was another meal that'd be served up on occasion. Hated it.

They did roast dinners perhaps every two weeks but once I made that association with actual creatures I was off it overnight.

They did those boil in the bag dinners and later some beuno vistas but I never tried them

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Posted by Forcryinoutloud1 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Forcryinoutloud1' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 9:00 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

I remember having Vesta boil in the bag prawn curry & rice for tea. It was about 1978 & Skylab had launched & I was wearing a glow in the dark, 'luminoos' watch.

I thought this is it, the futures is here now & I've made it. It won't get better than this, ever!

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Posted by drexxxler <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=drexxxler' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 9:40 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

We regularly had boil in bag uncle bens

I was almost when mum first put non boil in bag rice on the table and curry was and is makeway in her house

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Posted by bluegenes <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=bluegenes' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 8:35 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

Mam used to make a hot pot with a pie crust, always remember her placing a cup upside down in the centre roasting dish to keep the pastry from sinking, lovely it was too Pete.

Don't forget lads, one Evertonian is worth 20 liverpudlians.
Brian Labone 'The Last of the Corinthians'.

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Posted by KS_Blue <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=KS_Blue' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 8:25 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

At primary school we had a choice of hot dinners. My favourite was steak pudding, chips and gravy. With or without dessert which was usually cake or jelly.

Absolutely blows my mind

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Posted by drexxxler <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=drexxxler' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 7:34 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

First Indian meal for me was at uni

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Posted by benefitfraudster <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=benefitfraudster' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 8:30 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

Same here. 1991.

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Posted by MickeyO <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=MickeyO' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 7:20 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

Good thread, this...

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Posted by wafty_crank <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=wafty_crank' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 7:10 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

Toast Toppers...look and consistency of dogsick

""Oh, you filthy beast! You've cum all over my umbrella!"

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Posted by GG <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=GG' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 5:49 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

Shocking diet really, and that is not a reflection of today's knowledge, advice, etc. Fruit? Fresh veg? What were those? Just being working class, relatively poor, I suppose, and Mum (RIP) not really up to it.

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Posted by MickeyO <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=MickeyO' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 7:17 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

What about kewins (or however to spelled it?), my Nan always had a pan of them on the boil. Use your sewing needle to flick the 'eye' off & work the flesh out of the shell. I thought they were lovely at the time, but my stomach turns at the thought, now.

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Posted by backbingham <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=backbingham' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 8:06 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

Periwinkles? Used to love all that stuff!

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Posted by Touching_Cloth <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Touching_Cloth' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 17, 2025, 8:51 am, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

Haha.

My nan used to feed us anything but prime cuts - brawn, tripe, cod’s roe, kidney, liver. If we were very lucky a ham shank.

I used to love it.

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Posted by celedon <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=celedon' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 8:00 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

Any other name for them? I have no idea what they are.

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Posted by RKidsbrother <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=RKidsbrother' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 8:14 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

Winkles...as above

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Posted by Moodyblue <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Moodyblue' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 4:48 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

Huge home made apple pie and rice pudding cooked in the oven with a lovely skin on it. Food of the gods it felt like.

UTFT
FTRS
Stop bloody raining.

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Posted by efcman4ever <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=efcman4ever' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 4:09 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

i was a fussy eater growing up so it was probably equally my fault and the fact my mum is shit at cooking food.

she started giving me spag bol as a teenager and although it took me a while to like it, the food floodgates were opened.

How can you tell if someone is a Kopite? If the hat, scarf, T shirt or tattoo isn't enough of a clue, they will have told you within two sentences. Basically, it's a cult.

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Posted by AndyIsOurKing <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=AndyIsOurKing' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 4:46 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

I was about 15 before I knew there was spaghetti that didn't come in a tin !

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Posted by GG <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=GG' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 5:55 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

Spagetti? You were lucky...

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Posted by Forcryinoutloud1 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Forcryinoutloud1' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 5:38 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

I didn't know it was pasta!!

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Posted by GG <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=GG' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 5:57 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

I was pasta 16 when I found out it was Italian

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Posted by efcman4ever <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=efcman4ever' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 5:28 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

Same as pal

How can you tell if someone is a Kopite? If the hat, scarf, T shirt or tattoo isn't enough of a clue, they will have told you within two sentences. Basically, it's a cult.

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Posted by RKidsbrother <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=RKidsbrother' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 3:53 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

Same in our house, we also had a tiny bottle of olive oil for earaches!!!

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Posted by ThommosSocks <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=ThommosSocks' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 3:42 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

Big plate of buttered white bread in the middle of the table regardless of what the meal was.
Great with chips, not so great with pasta or rice dishes but i always made a buttie

Thommossocks is innocent

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Posted by GG <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=GG' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 5:59 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

We loved our Mum's didn't we? But, most were shite at cooking...

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Posted by MickeyO <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=MickeyO' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 7:06 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

Haha, I remember when there was a bread strike in the 70s and my Ma had a go at making a loaf from scratch. I'm not kidding you, you could have built houses out of them, rock solid bricks. We never could get a knife in it.

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Posted by bluegenes <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=bluegenes' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 8:32 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

We lived in Halewood at that time. Dad was a long distance lorry driver, he brought a tray of loaves back from the Midlands, mam shared it with the neighbours. Good old days.

Don't forget lads, one Evertonian is worth 20 liverpudlians.
Brian Labone 'The Last of the Corinthians'.

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Posted by No Mates <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=No+Mates' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 5:43 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

You can't beat a lasagne butty.

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Posted by celedon <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=celedon' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 4:36 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

My dad and grandparents had sliced bread with their afters. Obviously a ‘fill you up’ thing.

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Posted by beerwulf2 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=beerwulf2' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 3:28 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

I remember having my first donner kebab. It was a place in Bold St. I was amazed, next time I was in town I dragged all my mates there, I was like a kebab evangalist.

Now I'm on tablets for me blood pressure and chlorestral

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Posted by Count Erode <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Count+Erode' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 8:22 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

Hahahaha...same here.

First kebab 1982 kings Cross London.
Couldn't find a chippy. Ate said kebab and immediately went back and bought another.

What house didn't have a giant chip pan full of fat in the kitchen.
Remember all the house fires because of pissed people falling asleep whilst cooking chips? I woke up myself a few times to smoke bellowing out the kitchen.
Grim.

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Posted by beerwulf2 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=beerwulf2' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 17, 2025, 6:48 am, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

My mum used to bring a chip pan full of lard and a frying pan on our camping holidays, dunno how the tent never went on fire when they fired it up for chip butties after a night on the ale.

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Posted by backbingham <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=backbingham' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 6:20 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

I had my first kebab in Leicester in about 78/79 it was like a road to Damascus moment!!!! I was in complete awe of the drunken scoffage the gods had bestowed upon me!!!
Had only about a year earlier had the posh girl friend spag bol as described 👇 then not long after the kebab revelation I had an Indian banquet in South London, my god 77/78/79 was like a voyage of scoff discovery,Everton away games, scoffage and posh girlfriend shipped out to Paris by parents trying get shut of a Bootle scruff saw me staying in cheap hotels in the Latin Quarter for posh bird on gap year rumping and stopping off in South London with family/mates for Footy/ale/Curry.
Not sure if they were quite my halcyon days,but pretty damned close!

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Posted by celedon <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=celedon' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 2:24 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

Someone cooked me proper pasta for the first time. In the early days it was proper long stuff. I decided to have a go myself, but couldn’t work out how to put it in the pan, so snapped it into bits.

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Posted by Otto <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Otto' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 1:44 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

The only takeaway I had until about aged 16 was Fish and Chips, every Friday night like clockwork

Only pizza I had as a kid was those little supermarket frozen ones, came in packs of 5 or 10

Same as you no pasta or rice dishes at all, only spuds

Parents brought up in WWII and rationing, pretty much everything was home cooked apart from some tinned stuff and a bit of frozen stuff which was seen as a treat

Fat wheezy boy with a note from Matron

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Posted by StringerBellend01 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=StringerBellend01' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 3:39 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

Exactly same here.

It was a revelation going to town when we were about 17 as one of me mates dad owned uncle sams and we’d get a freebie in there. I really don’t recall ever going out with me ma for a meal prior to this !

I wanna moonwalk son but life’s a shithouse

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Posted by Tom Joad <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Tom+Joad' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 1:44 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

Same, never ate pasta or rice at home.

It was porridge for breakfast and I got so used to cod liver oil I wouldn't eat it without and a spud based tea.
School dinners never had chips it was boiled or mashed.

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Posted by SnafflesBlue <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=SnafflesBlue' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 1:43 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

I didn't have a curry until I was about 20.
I didn't eat garlic (knowingly, as in for the specific taste of it as opposed to it being in something or other) until I was about 22.
I first had an avocado in 2019.

So I reckon I win. I'm not unadventurous food-wise, but thanks to home cooking, I am starting at about minus 4million. So even these landmarks were kind of momentous (hence remembering them).

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Posted by Augustus <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Augustus' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 3:13 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

I didn't eat curry until I was 21. I worked behind the bar in a pub when the landlady decided to start serving food. One evening she came to me with a plate of chicken curry and asked me to try it. Having simple tastes back then, and never very experienced in culinary diversity, I still didn't fancy the look of what she plonked in front of me. Not wanting to offend however I tentatively took a fork and tried a but. My taste buds exploded. It was like angels were dancing on my tongue. I loved it and haven't looked back since.

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Posted by MickeyO <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=MickeyO' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 7:12 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

I was the same on first experiencing Chop Suey rolls from Ray Low's chippy on Muirhead.

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Posted by SnafflesBlue <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=SnafflesBlue' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 3:48 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

Very similar here lod.
Just grew up in a household where Papa Snaff treated everything with suspicion that wasn't familiar to a child in post war Britain. He makes out it's because of his guts but I think he's just a throwback.

I saw him the other day and he was wanging on about what he didn't like.

"That plastic shite, can't stand it."
"What are you on about?"
"What's it called... plasticy shit in little shapes... PASTA... that's it."

That's what I'm up against.

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Posted by Augustus <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Augustus' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 5:23 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

Foreign muck my grandad used to call it.

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Posted by zcarspete <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=zcarspete' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 1:26 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

I remember me nan back in 74 putting heinz spaghetti in front of me, what was this? It was better than the tripe or hooves!

Re: Food in your early Years

Posted by backbingham <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=backbingham' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 1:24 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

I copped for a posh girl friend from Formby,and when I was told we were having spaghetti Bolognese for dinner (they didn't call it tea) I thought they were mingebags and it was going to be from a tin on toast.
I had to study and quickly master the spoon/ fork twirly action,was aghast when they bought out the parmesan!!!
Prior to that when I heard "life is a minestrone"
By 10cc I used to wonder what "parmers" were as I heard it as "topped off with parmers and cheese "
When you think back food we all eat regularly now was mostly unheard of by working class people.

Re: Food in your early Years

Posted by MickeyO <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=MickeyO' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 7:20 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

First reaction to parmesan... 'yuck, I'm not having that, that stinks!'.

Re: Food in your early Years

Posted by backbingham <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=backbingham' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 7:59 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

Aye,but that was the in the round rigid cardboard carton stinky stuff then! Use loads of it now,shave it off a block with a vegetable peeler.
Bizarrely now,with everything on offer, my grandkids, whilst liking Thai/Chinese/Italian/Mexican actually love,and ask for, Cabbage,mash, carrots,gravy, actually not fussed if there's no meat with it.

Re: Food in your early Years

Posted by twoblue <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=twoblue' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 1:19 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

Used to have ready brek and dip bread in it. Lovely

Re: Food in your early Years

Posted by passinginterest <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=passinginterest' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 1:11 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

Ours was always summat with chips and then boom Vesta brought out their dried foods from across the globe...a game changer

Re: Food in your early Years

Posted by ically <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=ically' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 3:53 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

First exotic meal was a vesta beef risotto.

Re: Food in your early Years

Posted by fourjays <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=fourjays' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 1:19 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

They looked like old peoples toenails.

Re: Food in your early Years

Posted by Billybookcase <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Billybookcase' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 1:13 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

I lived on those during the school holidays.
Chow mein with crispy noodles, beef risotto and paella.

Re: Food in your early Years

Posted by passinginterest <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=passinginterest' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 1:29 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

All over it mate their Vesta Beef Curry was outstanding

Re: Food in your early Years

Posted by Billybookcase <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Billybookcase' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 1:37 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

Ooh I forgot that one.

Re: Food in your early Years

Posted by NoelBlakeFanClub <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=NoelBlakeFanClub' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 1:02 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

Angel Delight for pudding.

Re: Food in your early Years

Posted by Forcryinoutloud1 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Forcryinoutloud1' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 3:08 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

Or tinned fruit with evaporated milk.

Re: Food in your early Years

Posted by WaltonBlue <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=WaltonBlue' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 10:39 pm, in reply to "Re: Food in your early Years"

I still have that now.

In Moyes We Trust

Re: Food in your early Years

Posted by Billybookcase <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Billybookcase' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 12:55 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

Tinned spaghetti was the closest we got to pasta.
And you could only get olive oil from the chemists.

Re: Food in your early Years

Posted by Augustus <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Augustus' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 16, 2025, 12:53 pm, in reply to "Food in your early Years"

I' the same as you. It was always a potato based meal in our house. Rise and pasta were for those who were, or thought they were, posh.
If life was a sit com the Ropers would be having spuds / chips while the Fourmiles would be tucking into the pasta dishes.

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