Gregor McMaster, Deputy Food Editor, Asda Magazine
1980s
‘I’m one of four kids and we ate fairly traditionally – cottage or steak pies, as well as the Scottish classic Mince & Tatties. But the highlight of the week was Sunday at a pizza restaurant, in an old bank building in Dundee. I have clear memories of how excited we all were when the pizza arrived at the table. Pizza is everywhere these days, but it was seen as really cool in the Eighties. We’d look on with great envy at Americans eating it in flms like Big and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.’
1990s
‘I have fond memories of breakfast at Little Chef – I loved their pancakes’
Richard Miller, Regional Gatekeeper, Birmingham Region
‘I’ve got so many fond food memories from the Nineties, from holidays in Wales with the customary breakfast stop-of at Little Chef on the way – I loved their pancakes – to school dinners with smiley-face
Jamie Owen, aged 11
‘Before I started school, Mum used to help me make milkshakes, but now she usually buys them in cartons. I also used to love little packets of Jammie Dodgers and Oreo biscuits, and I still do. As I’ve got older, the choice for lunchboxes has got better, and sandwich bread has got more interesting – I remember eating wraps for the frst time.’
‘The choice for lunchboxes has got better, and sandwich bread has got more interesting – I can remember eating wraps for the frst time’
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potatoes and chocolate ‘concrete’ slabs of cake with mint-green lumpy custard for dessert. I'm glad to see school meals are healthier now – they certainly weren’t in my day. ‘Getting sweets from Woolworths’ Pick ’n’ Mix was the highlight of our weekly outing to town. Teas at home included faggots, chips and peas, and my dad’s speciality was corned beef hash made into a castle, with a moat made from gravy!’
2000s
Jamie’s twin sister, Isobel
‘I remember going shopping with my mum and having a Babyccino [a small cup of frothed milk] from the cofee shop, which they’d give to Mum for free. Then when I started school, I had yogurt that came in raspberryshaped containers. They’d explode when you opened them and you’d get covered! We used to get sweeties on a Friday after school – I loved Wine Gums. My favourite foods are still pizza and homemade lasagne.’