Vesta Meals
Gez Watson
Let's face it, Vesta Meals rocked! And it stinks that you can't get them
anymore.
My favourite was the chicken/beef curry, but the chow mein with the
crispy noodles which never quite cooked evenly was a close second.
And before anyone says they were as bad as Pot Noodles, at least the
Vesta's had real meat in them!
Hmmm, real meat...
I suppose you're all going to tell me you hated them now, aren't you?
--
GW
Grimly Curmudgeon
drugs began to take hold. I remember Gez Watson <nos...@I.said.NOSPAM!>
saying something like:
>And before anyone says they were as bad as Pot Noodles, at least the
>Vesta's had real meat in them!
>
>Hmmm, real meat...
Real Soya, more like.
--
Dave
SE6a
Paul D
I liked them too! They are still made, but it appears to be only for the
export market. However, you can get them here using websites aimed at
British expats, for example:
http://www.britishcornershop.co.uk/shop.asp?action=search&uid={20CBA8F3-665E-4972-BA21-9083FB4E6CC3}
paul....@gmail.com
Bob Shoggoth
"JAF" <anarchSP...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 01:09:17 +0100, Gez Watson <nos...@I.said.NOSPAM!>
> wrote:
>
>>Let's face it, Vesta Meals rocked! And it stinks that you can't get them
>>anymore.
>
Wasn't fond of the Currys but liked the Chow Mein and the Chicken Supreme!
;-)
Adam H
> >anymore.
>
Harsh, but true!
Adam
mogga
wrote:
>OK, just place your food snobbery to one side for a moment.
Sure I seen them in Morrisons. I'll check next time I go in.
My dad used to eat the beef curry one for his Saturday lunch every
week when I was a kid. If we were really good mum would cook us the
chow mein one with those crispy noodle things.
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Peter
<giant...@virgin.net> wrote:
>Wasn't fond of the Currys but liked the Chow Mein and the Chicken Supreme!
Whilst in Sainsbury's yesterday, I happened to notice a cook-in sauce
for Chicken supreme (from, IIRC, Homepride). Wouldn't that give a
similar result for very little more effort? (Especially if, instead of
chicken, you were to use something like Quorn, which comes frozen in
packets of suitably-sized pieces?)
Peter.
Ivan
At one-time one could buy the crispy noodles as a separate item, however
they're no longer available, the only equivalent I've managed to find is a
flavourless pasty white product produced by a company called Blue Dragon,
which IMO are nowhere near as nice.
Rope
> Let's face it, Vesta Meals rocked! And it stinks that you can't get them
> anymore.
Oh yes you can - for some odd reason SWMBO had a yearning for a Vesta
Rissotto a few weeks ago, so bought one from Morrisons.
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Jones
> soft, especially the carrots.
NO! It was the peas..... the peas.... they never, ever became soft....
I remember the peas..... :(
bof
<anarchSP...@ntlworld.com> writes
>soft, especially the carrots.
If Vestas were posh food it'd be called 'al dente' and considered a
'good thing'.
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Linz
> OK, just place your food snobbery to one side for a moment.
>
> Let's face it, Vesta Meals rocked! And it stinks that you can't get
> them anymore.
Prawn paella, followed closely by the chow mein with crispy noodles. Mum and
I used to fight over them, I think we''d happily have eaten a whole meal
each rather than shared.
Linz
> On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 01:09:17 +0100, Gez Watson <nos...@I.said.NOSPAM!>
> wrote:
>
>> them anymore.
>
I'm sorry, I rarely disagree with you on anything, but in this case you are
totally, completely WRONG. Heretic.
Eiron
I have never eaten one. Does that make me a Vestal Virgin?
Mine's the green parka....
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sxb
news:9o3sf21nqguhqdsug...@4ax.com:
Do you also like prawn cocktail, chicken Kiev and fondu? :-D
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Gez Watson <nos...@I.said.NOSPAM!> wrote:
>And before anyone says they were as bad as Pot Noodles, at least the
>Vesta's had real meat in them!
"Chopped and reformed meat", wasn't it? Probably where BSE came from.
-- Richard
Guy King
from Gez Watson <nos...@I.said.NOSPAM!> contains these words:
> OK, just place your food snobbery to one side for a moment.
Don't need snobbery to find Vestas foul. Just some tastebuds.
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Simon T
"Gez Watson" <nos...@I.said.NOSPAM!> wrote in message
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My local Asda sell them.
S.T.
Linz
> No matter what it said on the packet they *all* tasted the same (of
> slightly salted soya 'meat substitute', marinated in cup-a-soup).
> .
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Linz
> The message <9o3sf21nqguhqdsug...@4ax.com>
> from Gez Watson <nos...@I.said.NOSPAM!> contains these words:
>
>> OK, just place your food snobbery to one side for a moment.
>
> Don't need snobbery to find Vestas foul. Just some tastebuds.
I'll say the same to you as I said to JAF. I don't often disagree with you,
but you're WRONG.
Oxymel of Squill
"Gez Watson" <nos...@I.said.NOSPAM!> wrote in message
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> OK, just place your food snobbery to one side for a moment.
>
> Let's face it, Vesta Meals rocked! And it stinks that you can't get them
> anymore.
>
Bob Shoggoth
"Huge" <Hu...@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote in message
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> On 2006-09-06, sxb <sxbs...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Gez Watson <nos...@I.said.NOSPAM!> wrote in
>> news:9o3sf21nqguhqdsug...@4ax.com:
>>
>>> OK, just place your food snobbery to one side for a moment.
>>>
>>> Let's face it, Vesta Meals rocked! And it stinks that you can't get
>> them
>>> anymore.
>>>
>>> My favourite was the chicken/beef curry, but the chow mein with the
>>> crispy noodles which never quite cooked evenly was a close second.
>>>
>>> And before anyone says they were as bad as Pot Noodles, at least the
>>> Vesta's had real meat in them!
>>>
>>> Hmmm, real meat...
>>>
>>> I suppose you're all going to tell me you hated them now, aren't you?
>>
>> Do you also like prawn cocktail, chicken Kiev and fondu? :-D
I bloody do! Not the bastardised versions you see all over the place, but
a good proper Kiev is an absolute joy! I like all sorts of fondues, from
raclette to chocolate taking in bourgignon on the way.....marvellous
things....and you can't beat a good fresh, homemade prawn coctail....
>
> Dunno about the OP, but I do, yes. Such snobby posturing is one
> of the reasons I unsubscribed from uk.f&d.
Funny. I did the same about 3 years ago :-)
Edward Cowling London UK
<nos...@I.said.NOSPAM!> writes
>
>And before anyone says they were as bad as Pot Noodles, at least the
>Vesta's had real meat in them!
>
stink funny for days :-)
I thought you could still find them in some shops ?
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Dan
"Huge" <Hu...@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote in message
> On 2006-09-06, JAF <anarchSP...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, right - if one goes without.
>
> They serve two anorexic dwarves if they've already had something
> to eat and you put the ready meal in a large wholemeal bap and have
> a side order of chips with it.
>
>
> --
> "Other people are not your property."
> [email me at huge [at] huge [dot] org [dot] uk]
i just checked a "serves one" packet that the wife has stashed, theres 585
calories in a single portion. That's a heck of a lot of energy for not much
food.
Enzo Matrix
> OK, just place your food snobbery to one side for a moment.
>
> Let's face it, Vesta Meals rocked! And it stinks that you can't get
> them anymore.
You can still get a beef curry and the chow mein. But not my favourite -
paella!
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steeler
"Paul D" <Pa...@whiskey.com> wrote in message
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> Gez Watson wrote:
>> OK, just place your food snobbery to one side for a moment.
>>
>> Let's face it, Vesta Meals rocked! And it stinks that you can't get
>> them anymore.
>>
>> crispy noodles which never quite cooked evenly was a close second.
>>
>> Vesta's had real meat in them!
>>
>>
>> I suppose you're all going to tell me you hated them now, aren't you?
>
> export market. However, you can get them here using websites aimed at
> British expats, for example:
>
> http://www.britishcornershop.co.uk/shop.asp?action=search&uid={20CBA8F3-665E-4972-BA21-9083FB4E6CC3}
You must be down south. All the supermarkets oop north still sell them.
Bill Davy
"Enzo Matrix" <enz...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Agreed, paella was best.
And what of those wonderful double ended tines with curry and rice? Sort of
metallic Cornish pasty.
Bob Shoggoth
>> OK, just place your food snobbery to one side for a moment.
>>
>> Let's face it, Vesta Meals rocked! And it stinks that you can't get
>> them anymore.
>
> You can still get a beef curry and the chow mein. But not my favourite -
> paella!
I'd forgotten about the paella one! Very nice!
sxb
@apophis.demon.co.uk:
> On 2006-09-06, sxb <sxbs...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Do you also like prawn cocktail, chicken Kiev and fondu? :-D
>
> Dunno about the OP, but I do, yes. Such snobby posturing is one
> of the reasons I unsubscribed from uk.f&d.
Nought snobby about me! I love chicken Kiev and prawn cocktail! :-)
Never had fondu though.
Oh yes, I'm a big fan of Angel Delight and Baked Alaska.
john
"Adam H" <adam.t...@REMOVEntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>> >Let's face it, Vesta Meals rocked! And it stinks that you can't get them
>> >anymore.
>>
>
> Harsh, but true!
>
> Adam
>
>
the beef curry was OK....
Mike Swift
<nos...@I.said.NOSPAM!> writes
>OK, just place your food snobbery to one side for a moment.
>
>anymore.
>
>crispy noodles which never quite cooked evenly was a close second.
>
>And before anyone says they were as bad as Pot Noodles, at least the
>Vesta's had real meat in them!
>
>Hmmm, real meat...
>
>I suppose you're all going to tell me you hated them now, aren't you?
What really made me laugh was the claim that they would feed 4. 4 mice
maybe, still not bad for a supper after the pub though.
Mike
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Charlie Don't Surf
> Let's face it, Vesta Meals rocked! And it stinks that you can't get them
> anymore.
> I suppose you're all going to tell me you hated them now, aren't you?
The paella(sp?) was luvverly.
It kept me alive on Dartmoor one weekend, back in seventywhatnot.
Charlie Don't Surf
>> Let's face it, Vesta Meals rocked! And it stinks that you can't get
>> them anymore.
>
> Prawn paella
You an' me sista.
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>"Paul D" <Pa...@whiskey.com> wrote in message
>news:S5pLg.14271$r61....@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>> export market. However, you can get them here using websites aimed at
>> British expats, for example:
>>
>> http://www.britishcornershop.co.uk/shop.asp?action=search&uid={20CBA8F3-665E-4972-BA21-9083FB4E6CC3}
>
>You must be down south. All the supermarkets oop north still sell them.
Congestion on the motorways means that nowhere up north has received new
food deliveries since the 1970s, I'm afraid. You're just working
through left-overs.
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Adrian Tupper
> OK, just place your food snobbery to one side for a moment.
>
> Let's face it, Vesta Meals rocked! And it stinks that you can't get
them
> anymore.
>
> My favourite was the chicken/beef curry, but the chow mein with the
> crispy noodles which never quite cooked evenly was a close second.
>
> And before anyone says they were as bad as Pot Noodles, at least the
> Vesta's had real meat in them!
>
> Hmmm, real meat...
>
> I suppose you're all going to tell me you hated them now, aren't you?
>
I loved them as a child. I also liked the Chinese one (was it chow
mein? I can't remember), especially the crispy noodles and the sachet of
soy sauce for them!
Then I went veggie for a while and moved on to Beanfeast, which was also
good as an alternative to Vesta for when I went backpacking.
Pot Noodle was not as good IMO. But then again Pot Noodle is done
almost before you've put the kettle back on its stand. Vesta meals took
ages....
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Adrian Tupper
news:fatsf2pulice4fln4...@4ax.com:
> On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 06:19:50 GMT, "Bob Shoggoth"
> <giant...@virgin.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Wasn't fond of the Currys but liked the Chow Mein and the Chicken
>>Supreme!
>
> Whilst in Sainsbury's yesterday, I happened to notice a cook-in sauce
> for Chicken supreme (from, IIRC, Homepride). Wouldn't that give a
> similar result for very little more effort? (Especially if, instead of
> chicken, you were to use something like Quorn, which comes frozen in
> packets of suitably-sized pieces?)
>
> Peter.
Probably not. Homepride sauces are gloopy IME. A closer approximaton
would be those sachets you get with your Batchelors Super Noodles or
similar. Remember we're trying to get a certain taste here...
Adrian Tupper
news:fftsf291shqocv703...@4ax.com:
> On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 01:09:17 +0100, Gez Watson <nos...@I.said.NOSPAM!>
> wrote:
>
>>OK, just place your food snobbery to one side for a moment.
>>
>>Let's face it, Vesta Meals rocked! And it stinks that you can't get
them
>>anymore.
>>
>>My favourite was the chicken/beef curry, but the chow mein with the
>>crispy noodles which never quite cooked evenly was a close second.
>>
>>And before anyone says they were as bad as Pot Noodles, at least the
>>Vesta's had real meat in them!
>>
>>Hmmm, real meat...
>>
>>I suppose you're all going to tell me you hated them now, aren't you?
>
> Sure I seen them in Morrisons. I'll check next time I go in.
> My dad used to eat the beef curry one for his Saturday lunch every
> week when I was a kid. If we were really good mum would cook us the
> chow mein one with those crispy noodle things.
I've certainly bought packets of crispy noodles on occasions. I mean,
let's face it, that's why we liked Vesta meals...
Bob Shoggoth
"Adrian Tupper" <packadrian....@zetnetinsurance.co.uk> wrote in
message news:Xns9836D503D4BE...@194.247.47.119...
> Gez Watson <nos...@I.said.NOSPAM!> wrote in
> news:9o3sf21nqguhqdsug...@4ax.com:
>
>> OK, just place your food snobbery to one side for a moment.
>>
>> Let's face it, Vesta Meals rocked! And it stinks that you can't get
> them
>> anymore.
>>
>> My favourite was the chicken/beef curry, but the chow mein with the
>> crispy noodles which never quite cooked evenly was a close second.
>>
>> And before anyone says they were as bad as Pot Noodles, at least the
>> Vesta's had real meat in them!
>>
>> Hmmm, real meat...
>>
>> I suppose you're all going to tell me you hated them now, aren't you?
>>
>
> I loved them as a child. I also liked the Chinese one (was it chow
> mein? I can't remember), especially the crispy noodles and the sachet of
> soy sauce for them!
>
> Then I went veggie for a while and moved on to Beanfeast, which was also
> good as an alternative to Vesta for when I went backpacking.
Wow, I'd forgotten about Beanfeast.....they were pretty good as I recall...
>
> Pot Noodle was not as good IMO. But then again Pot Noodle is done
> almost before you've put the kettle back on its stand. Vesta meals took
> ages....
Never took to pot noodle, bt I'm deeply fond of ramen with is essentially
pot noodle but sloppy....
News
London UK <edw...@genghis0.demon.co.uk> writes
>farts stink funny for days :-)
>
>I thought you could still find them in some shops ?
>
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Owain
>> You must be down south. All the supermarkets oop north still sell them.
> Congestion on the motorways means that nowhere up north has received new
> food deliveries since the 1970s, I'm afraid. You're just working
> through left-overs.
Presumably the same applies in reverse, and the poor southerners are
running out of black pudding, Scottish salmon, and Pontefract cakes.
Owain
Andy Bonwick
Why the fuck would I want to eat factory farmed salmon or pontefract
cakes?
JNugent
No, we can get black pudding dahn 'ere in the Soft South (© Henry Root; 1979).
But we can't get proper green Cream Soda.
Jeremiah Harbottle
Don't sainsbury's still sell them? I'm sure I saw some the other day.
spi...@freenet.co.uk
And hollands pies...
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Linz
I don't think anyone can get proper green cream soda any more.
Kev Crocombe
<giant...@virgin.net> writes
>
>"JAF" <anarchSP...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>> On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 01:09:17 +0100, Gez Watson <nos...@I.said.NOSPAM!>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>anymore.
>>
>
>Wasn't fond of the Currys but liked the Chow Mein and the Chicken Supreme!
>
>
My Mum had special cutlery for eating them - sort of hybrid fork/spoon
affair with two prongs and thought she was pretty daring by adding a few
raisins to the curries. Those were the days...
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> In article <aMtLg.10256$Mh2....@newsfe6-win.ntli.net>, Bob Shoggoth
> <giant...@virgin.net> writes
>>
>> "JAF" <anarchSP...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
>> news:pupsf29riru80t6h8...@4ax.com...
>>> On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 01:09:17 +0100, Gez Watson
>>> <nos...@I.said.NOSPAM!> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Let's face it, Vesta Meals rocked! And it stinks that you can't
>>>> get them anymore.
>>>
>>> They were shite.
>>
>> Wasn't fond of the Currys but liked the Chow Mein and the Chicken
>> Supreme! ;-)
>>
>>
>
> My Mum had special cutlery for eating them - sort of hybrid fork/spoon
> affair with two prongs and thought she was pretty daring by adding a
> few raisins to the curries. Those were the days...
That'd be a spork...
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> My Mum had special cutlery for eating them - sort of hybrid fork/spoon
> affair with two prongs
You mean a spork?
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> That'd be a spork...
Or that rarer hybrid the foon.
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<spi...@freenet.co.uk> wrote in message > You mean a spork?
No, no..................a splade! I still have some which we eat all sorts
of squidgy food with!
Much better than a fork, and not as greedy-looking as a spoon!
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> Tony Cummins <t.cu...@compserv.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
>> "Andy Bonwick" <nos...@bonwick.me.uk> wrote in message
>> news:69fuf2p8ghbp4b49g...@4ax.com...
>>> On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:12:51 +0100, Owain
>>> <owain...@stirlingcity.coo.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Show Me On The Badger Where The Man Touched You wrote:
>>>>>> You must be down south. All the supermarkets oop north still sell
>>>>>> them.
>>>>> Congestion on the motorways means that nowhere up north has
>>>>> received new food deliveries since the 1970s, I'm afraid. You're
>>>>> just working through left-overs.
>>>>
>>>> Presumably the same applies in reverse, and the poor southerners are
>>>> running out of black pudding, Scottish salmon, and Pontefract cakes.
>>>>
>>> Why the fuck would I want to eat factory farmed salmon or pontefract
>>> cakes?
>> Scotland isn't a factory, it's a country
>
> indeed, people work in factories.
True, that god for the Barnett formula otherwise we'd be packing shelves for
minimum, like your good self no doubt.
Faith Myers
>> <spi...@freenet.co.uk> wrote in message >
> A splade? Cross between a knife (blade) and a spade allowing you to shovel
> it in?
(softish) food and shovel it in!!
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Kev Crocombe
writes
>Faith Myers <fa...@xenopus.co.uk> did eloquently scribble:
>
>> <spi...@freenet.co.uk> wrote in message > You mean a spork?
>
>> No, no..................a splade! I still have some which we eat all sorts
>> of squidgy food with!
>> Much better than a fork, and not as greedy-looking as a spoon!
>
>A splade? Cross between a knife (blade) and a spade allowing you to shovel
>it in?
>
Why can't it been a "foon"
L Jennings
> OK, just place your food snobbery to one side for a moment.
> anymore.
> crispy noodles which never quite cooked evenly was a close second.
> And before anyone says they were as bad as Pot Noodles, at least the
> Vesta's had real meat in them!
> Hmmm, real meat...
> I suppose you're all going to tell me you hated them now, aren't you?
> GW
You can get them (beef curries, chowmein etc) on Amazon except the paella ones, which I am jonesing for. I can't find them ANYWHERE. I'd even import them if I could.
L Jennings
> Ermmm... Asdas?
Errrrm... nope.