Food I/we used to (happily) eat.

[Dave7]

This is not for the faint hearted
As I am of a mature age (68) there were foods we regularly ate which I wouldn't 'choose' to eat now (and before someone says it......I'm sure that would change it I was starving).
Bear in mind, I was brought (dragged) up near the Wallasey/Birkenhead docks after the war years and money was short.

• Saturday night would often be a sheep's head- as in........literally, the head of a sheep sat in the middle of the table. We would eat the meat & the brain......the tongue was a delicacy.
• Brawn.......that disgusting mix of fat, gristle and if you were lucky a bit of meat
• Rabbit.......I still remember the taste.........very nice. But I cant imagine eating it now.
• Bread and dripping. For Saturday lunch this was a norm'.
• Bullocks heart.............I understand this is now an expensive delicacy but back then it was a very cheap thing that only poor people ate.
• Sterilized milk..........I recall enjoying that but came to hate it later. It had a lid you had to prize of...it was just so sickly.
• Coni-oni butties...............that was bread with condensed milk on. Again, I never enjoyed them but.......needs must and all that.

 

[derrick]

Bread and dripping, I remember eating that with plenty of salt for flavoring. But then i am a couple of years younger and bought up in London.

 

[jefmcg]

Sweetbreads, brains, tongue and tripe.

Tripe was soo disgusting. I wasn't a fussy eater, and mum once asked me how she should serve tripe at dinner: in white sauce, or italian style in tomato and garlic sauce. I said Italian, because - I explained to her - if I piled a lot of tomato on each piece of tripe and swallowed it quickly, I could hardly taste it. We never had tripe again.

 

[Dave7]

Sweetbreads, brains, tongue and tripe.

Tripe was soo disgusting. I wasn't a fussy eater, and mum once asked me how she should serve tripe at dinner: in white sauce, or italian style in tomato and garlic sauce. I said Italian, because - I explained to her - if I piled a lot of tomato on each piece of tripe and swallowed it quickly, I could hardly taste it. We never had tripe again.

Strange but we never had tripe. I recall it as a cheap meal but don't recall every eating it. Even now just the site of it turns my stomach.

 

[Spinney]

I remember dripping - from the sunday roast. Rabbit's OK.
I'm glad to say I've never been faced with a sheep's head on the table!

 

[TheDoctor]

Spam fritters. I feckin' loved them when I was small.
Had one again in about 1987.
I can still taste the grease now...

 

[ianrauk]

Another one for bread and dripping and as a treat, bread, dripping and the jelly from the bottom of the dripping bowl.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Spam fritters. I feckin' loved them when I was small.
Had one again in about 1987.
I can still taste the grease now...

.... still love sliced fried Spam ..... but in batter ..... that's certainly more grease than a man can handle .....

 

[accountantpete]

There was a curry house in Swansea that did smashing curries with rice and 2 poppadums all for 60p - although the meat did taste a bit different.

 

[User169]

Findus crispy pancakes - not sure if they make them any more. They always sounded much better in Italian: "Sofficini".

On the OP's list, rabbit is great, although now typically more expensive than chicken. I quite like brawn (head cheese!), especially the vinegary version. Ox heart I see a lot in the supermarket, although I wouldn't really know what to do with it.

 

[stephec]

.... still love sliced fried Spam ..... but in batter ..... that's certainly more grease than a man can handle .....

Fried spam and fried egg on toast, what a butty.

 

[NorthernDave]

Bread n dripping - a staple of my 70's youth.
'Posh' dripping with the fat and dark jelly in separate layers, or the cheaper 'mucky' dripping, with it all mixed in - and even tastier for it!

Or the seafood delicacies offered by 'the crab man' from his (unrefrigerated) wicker basket in the pub of a Saturday evening. Cockles, mussels, winkles, or the rubbery delight of room temperature 'crab' sticks...

Or savoury duck - which was certainly savoury, but unclear if it actually contained any duck...

 

[Fab Foodie]

Fried spam and fried egg on toast, what a butty.

Food of Champions!

 

[jefmcg]

Strange but we never had tripe. I recall it as a cheap meal but don't recall every eating it. Even now just the site of it turns my stomach.

We weren't that poor, it was the last vestige of the English/Irish peasant cuisine of my grandmother. It was a rare week we didn't have steak. Ozzie style, so a big t-bone.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Findus crispy pancakes - not sure if they make them any more. They always sounded much better in Italian: "Sofficini".

On the OP's list, rabbit is great, although now typically more expensive than chicken. I quite like brawn (head cheese!), especially the vinegary version. Ox heart I see a lot in the supermarket, although I wouldn't really know what to do with it.

First food factory I ever visited was the Findus Crispy Pancake site in Humberstone Road Grimsby. The site has long gone ... as for the Crispy Pancakes .... no idea.