Dirty dirty…

[wolfracesonic]

I feel like I’m going to need a shower afterwards….

[HTP99]

Ooh yeahh, loved those when I was a student, didn't even know they were still available.

I loved watching the crispy noodles cooking and curling up in a pan of oil, stinking out the kitchen!!

[craigjm]

In the 70s and early 80s that was most people’s introduction to Chinese and Indian food

[dapprman]

It is one of those memories best left rose tinted, as I rediscovered a few years back.

[craigjm]

dapprman said:

It is one of those memories best left rose tinted, as I rediscovered a few years back.

Yep same with brains faggots and fray bentos pies

[HTP99]

dapprman said:

It is one of those memories best left rose tinted, as I rediscovered a few years back.

Lol, yep I certainly won't be running out to get one, TBH they have probably faffed about with the recipe too to make it less unhealthy, thus making it taste worse!

[soad]

Are you having both?

[Sheets Tabuer]

My dad used to live off Vesta meals, they used to do one from each country IIRC, spain, italy etc.

[craigjm]

Sheets Tabuer said:

My dad used to live off Vesta meals, they used to do one from each country IIRC, spain, italy etc.

Yep

[Colonel Cupcake]

That Chicken Supreme was fantastic and the Beef Risotto comes a close second.

I've managed to replicate both but there is nothing like the originals.

[dickymint]

craigjm said:

dapprman said:

It is one of those memories best left rose tinted, as I rediscovered a few years back.

Yep same with brains faggots and fray bentos pies

Wash your mouth out with soap

[craigjm]

dickymint said:

craigjm said:

dapprman said:

It is one of those memories best left rose tinted, as I rediscovered a few years back.

Yep same with brains faggots and fray bentos pies

Wash your mouth out with soap

What? don’t make me go and buy one to test my theory I had one about 10 years ago with tinned potatoes and tinned peas just for nostalgia and erm well yeah I can’t imagine they have got better

[dickymint]

craigjm said:

dickymint said:

craigjm said:

dapprman said:

It is one of those memories best left rose tinted, as I rediscovered a few years back.

Yep same with brains faggots and fray bentos pies

Wash your mouth out with soap

What? don’t make me go and buy one to test my theory I had one about 10 years ago with tinned potatoes and tinned peas just for nostalgia and erm well yeah I can’t imagine they have got better

A pound to a pinch of salt you didn’t pre-heat the oven properly

[craigjm]

dickymint said:

craigjm said:

dickymint said:

craigjm said:

dapprman said:

It is one of those memories best left rose tinted, as I rediscovered a few years back.

Yep same with brains faggots and fray bentos pies

Wash your mouth out with soap

What? don’t make me go and buy one to test my theory I had one about 10 years ago with tinned potatoes and tinned peas just for nostalgia and erm well yeah I can’t imagine they have got better

A pound to a pinch of salt you didn’t pre-heat the oven properly

Hush now if I end up buying one to test that theory I’m hunting you down for a torture session with a blowtorch and a pair of pliars

[BigMon]

One of those things I've always fancied trying but never have and, just like Pot Noodles, I bet they are a pale imitation of what they were in the 80's now all the e-numbers and salt have been taken out.

[wolfracesonic]

BigMon said:

One of those things I've always fancied trying but never have and, just like Pot Noodles, I bet they are a pale imitation of what they were in the 80's now all the e-numbers and salt have been taken out.

^You could be right the soft noodles and Soylent green part was ok but the crispy noodles? They can FRO. I distinctly remember them in the 70s and 80s literally exploding in the frying pan, expanding into fluffy yellow strips of scrumptiousness, the size of Cheesy Wotsits they were: but now? A pale imitation, more chewy than fluffy, more dejection than delirium. Jack Reacher was right in his critique of them, ‘Never Go Back’.

[Mobile Chicane]

craigjm said:

dickymint said:

craigjm said:

dapprman said:

It is one of those memories best left rose tinted, as I rediscovered a few years back.

Yep same with brains faggots and fray bentos pies

Wash your mouth out with soap

What? don’t make me go and buy one to test my theory I had one about 10 years ago with tinned potatoes and tinned peas just for nostalgia and erm well yeah I can’t imagine they have got better

I could murder a Fray Bentos pie after weeks of poncy food.

The fillings these days are shiite, but the pastry. Oh! The pastry! In all its delicious flaky layers of di-mono-hydrate fatty tri-glyceride glory...

[carlo996]

Chicken Supreme...mmmmmm

[Mobile Chicane]

craigjm said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

My dad used to live off Vesta meals, they used to do one from each country IIRC, spain, italy etc.

Yep

How did you prepare these? Is the main element boil-in-the-bag, or was it something dried that you just added water to?

I do (vaguely) remember these in shops, but my parents never bought them. If it didn't have potatoes in, it wasn't appearing on the dinner table.

[Super Sonic]

Anyone tried the Christmas dinner in a can? Or the whole chicken in a can?
Me neither!