h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

ah compo chocolate - Tiffin we used to get. And those fabby boiled sweets that filled the tin (4 bars of chocolate and a load of boiled sweets wrapped in waxed paper)

Cresta.

It's frothy man!

PP

Rimsky-Korsakov!

waxy compo









compo

it's all babies-heads and sausages-and-beans from here on in, isn't it?

snake and pygmy

biscuits AB

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what was that "paté" stuff they used to give you to spread on those things?

chicken paste

beef paste

chicken + beef paste

same texture, same taste, different label

it's all coming back to me now!
(I never ate that - being mostly veggie back then and, mostly, in receipt of arctic rations. Yum yum. Porrige with apricot flakes right out of the bag)

menu B had the chicken curry and rice

webbing mug with rice, milk powder and sugar, add boiling water and let stand while you eat main, rice pudd for afters

I used to swap all my curry & so on for the porridge - not much provision for veggies back then. What they get now looks - on paper - so much better, if I wasn't too old I'd sign right on up again!

the boil in the bag is better, just need good gloves as its best to rip open the pouch and eat straight out of the bag, the grease don't bubble into the water like it did with the tins so you don't get oil slicks in the tea

Massive choice of music, equally varied clothes, brilliant summers and my first motor bike, a Honda C90

I was 5 when the 70's started so I have vague memories of the foodstuffs from the period. I do remember Angel Delight, and Nesquick was also a favourite. My mum used to cook something called a Cabin Casserole which was my first introduction to curry. Kentucky Fried Chicken on a Friday evening after doing the shopping in Dorking, then a quick drive home to catch The Water Margin.

Fab lollies, Funny Faces, family block from the Ice Cream van- Tonibell. I remember going to McDonalds in Kensington, which was considered the height of luxury!! How times change.