is that the ham that comes surrounded by jelly,

Indeed!

Old Oak Ham??????????? Give it it's proper title Ye Olde Oake Ham and by golly it is old isn't it.

brings back memories of Sunday tea, but only when we had visitors,

Must see if we have any pears in syrup.

With Carnation evapourated milk of course.

yuk  that stuff is vile   except when you heat it in its tin to make it more caramel and mix it with other puddings

I remember Nestle's evapourated milk, in a blue & white stripped can. Carnation was for Christmas only.

Was Nestles quite thick? I seem to remember some people spreading one of 'em on bread.

Wasn't the Nestle stuff Condensed milk (not evaporated). It was really thick and sweet. My Gramp used to have it in his tea!!!

My dad used to like condensed milk butties.   I actually quite like Carnation and tinned fruit.

Not sure , I know we used to pour it, not spread it, but it was thick, I don't think it's still available these days.

We always referred to the Nestle stuff as cream ....maybe my mum was just kidding me ...........it was blimmin lush though and always a moment of anticipation on Sundays .........mmmmmmmmmmmm would it be tinned pears, apricots, peaches, mandarins or perchance a fruit cocktail .......peaches and Nestle cream was my dessert of choice.

  I thought the name Ideal featured somewhere in the name.

Not my kosher cup of tea....but good on you GJ

Jeez!! and I thought I was bad eating yoghurts that were out of date by a couple of weeks

Joe it's a wonder you was'nt  bloody ill mate

Can remember using some of that to stick a tile back on a fire place when I was a kid
It never came off though, and as long as my parents never read this ....they'll never know
 
 

No wonder my Gramp's false teeth stayed put

I'll be over GJ's way in an hour or so, had I better check he's still alive and kicking?

He's probably eyeing up that tin of John West salmon, circa 1974, as we speak

That`s funny muf 

 This thread has made my Sunday morning..I can`t stop laughing 

I'm off to my 83 yr old aunt's who lives close by...betya she's got some tins in the back of her kitchen cupboard to rival GJ!

Poke about in her cupboards soops, and report back later

Have a good day

There's a man who has made a big business of collecting and selling on out of date food stuffs. Something to do with Best Before dates or Sell By dates. One of them is legal to still use, can't remember which. He had a huge warehouse full of the stuff, and made good money selling it on. Not sure who to though.  Think the news piece was on the One Show recently.

By a strange quirk of fate I was over your way.

Thought you might be...it was very busy, came home to hundreds of folk on the green who had been doing a walk to raise money for the meningitis trust, and a guy playing the trombone