Vesta Meals

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?

 

Real Soya, more like.

 

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}

 

They were shite.

 

IMO, no matter how long they were cooked for the vegetables never went quite
soft, especially the carrots.

 

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.

 

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.

 

NO! It was the peas..... the peas.... they never, ever became soft....
I remember the peas.....

 

Cabbage Risotto?

 

If Vestas were posh food it'd be called 'al dente' and considered a
'good thing'.

 

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.

 

I'm sorry, I rarely disagree with you on anything, but in this case you are
totally, completely WRONG. Heretic.

 

I have never eaten one. Does that make me a Vestal Virgin?
Mine's the green parka....

 

I remember the first time I was nostalgic.

*sigh*

Smid

 

You can still find them in some stores. Saisburys in London appear to
stock them.

 

Do you also like prawn cocktail, chicken Kiev and fondu? :-D

 

Pah!
No matter what it said on the packet they *all* tasted the same (of slightly
salted soya 'meat substitute', marinated in cup-a-soup).
..

 

That's another thing - "Serves Two".

Yeah, right - if one goes without.

 

"Chopped and reformed meat", wasn't it? Probably where BSE came from.

-- Richard

 

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Don't need snobbery to find Vestas foul. Just some tastebuds.