Harvey's Duo Cans

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Produced in the early to mid-70s, these were ready meals in a double-ended can that had, for example, cooked rice in one end and curry in the other. A slight improvement on Vesta curries.

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Do You Remember Harvey's Duo Cans?

Mint on 2020-05-10 19:01:14

Yes my mum used to drag me up to Walthamstow market, and she would buy the curry one end and rice the other , lovely. Then should took me for pie n mash at Manzies . Well happy young boy .

ianB on 2014-11-05 19:15:25

The chicken curry was really good, I ate them every week, wish you could still get them. I agree that they were miles ahead of the Vesta curries although the Vesta Chicken Supreme was delicious, I loved it.

Val on 2013-02-01 06:41:12

I loved the spaghetti & meatballs... I was a little kid at the time and my Mum used to get me them.

Plado on 2012-12-27 19:50:40

They were streets ahead of Vesta, for one thing they weren't dried they were ready cooked and just needed re heating like soup. I had a harvey's duo-can every week chicken curry and rice and it was superb. I wouldn't go near a Vesta a the time, as it was disgusting and nothing like a proper curry.

Dave T on 2010-10-31 14:27:22

You may say they were an improvement on Vesta curries, but you can still buy Vesta curries... I rest my case!

Plado on 2023-10-19 18:37:08
Just because Vesta stayed in business only proves the poor taste of the buying public and the addiction to convenience food. I've been cooking Indian food since 1970 and Harvey's wasn't bad at all. Proper curry in a decent sauce and rice that was as good as the stuff available in the 1960s when you couldn't buy Basmati rice it was all American easy cook and patna long grain.