This was my Friday evening treat! After I had watched Rentaghost followed by John Craven's Newsround and when Crackerjack with Stu Francis (ooh, I could crush a grape!) had just started, my gran used to bring me in my Vesta beef curry. It looked like a tray full of string and cardboard with some chopped up rubber, but tasted divine. I can still taste the monosodium glutomate to this day! I finished just in time for that quiz show with Angela Rippon (can't remember what it was called). This was pre Neighbours days remember! Life was so simple back then! P.S Morph and Chas were cool! Vesta prawn curries (now discontinued but you can still get the beef one) were what started my lifelong love of curry. I would save all the prawns till last.
Do You Remember Vesta curries?
Do You Remember Vesta curries?
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wise_haystack
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I saw Vesta Curries (Beef Curry and Beef Risotto) in the Pound Shop in Stafford's Guildhall shopping centre on Saturday!
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globe
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Can't forget the sultanas in the Vesta curries!
Beth
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mick1
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it was beef itilianne(or some wierd spelling) still crave it today
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FAHREN451HEIT
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I have lived in the states for 21 yrs now and have been trying to find someone who sells these! My absolute favourites were the beef risotto and paella ones. I would always eat it with bread and butter, heaping spoonfuls onto the bread. Oh, it was sheer dehydrated chemically processed delight!
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Paul-b4
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Once upon a time Vesta meals were most people's only experience of "continental" food. In those days Indian and Chinese restaurants were still novel and a bit exotic; we didn't realise that there was more than one type of curry (or even rice for that matter.) Pasta usually came out of a tin (as did beef burgers), nobody had the faintest clue what a "baguette" was and as for things like "pain au chocolat" or even croissants, well, nobody had even heard of them.
I still like the odd Vesta from time to time - sure, they are about as authentic as a £14 note, but they actually taste ok in their own right and they certainly bring back memories...
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rafiqa
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I grew up eating actual curries so I have never tried Vesta, but in the 80's, most people generally did not eat Indian food and barely knew what it was. My mum (an English woman who learned to cook Indian food from my Father) cooked the most fantastic Indian, Delhi-style food I have ever eaten - I still yearn for it now, my Mum is no longer with us - Dal, Spinach with lamb in it, Pullao (rice with bony chunks of lamb and whole spices, cooked in what is known as 'yakni' - lamb broth stock) and lovely chappatis, I have never eaten better Indian food in any Indian restaurant or otherwise, and never will. I was spoiled in that way, very lucky!!
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sphynxboy
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i buy my vesta meals in maidstone,kent for only 99p great when your a bit skint ...not tried the chicken supreme or the chow mein yet.
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sphynxboy
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i buy vesta curries erc from a poundsaver in kent there only 99p
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Kateb
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I think the chowmwin is the best of the range with the crispy noodles, tastes totally synthetic but very moorish.
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hampton2731
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Where can I find Vesta Beef Curries in Plymouth, England?
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Chez F
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I used to love Vesta meals but alas since they took all the E numbers out they don't taste half as good. Also they have bunged a load of soya in them now to pad them out but it kinda spoils the meal but they're still available in corner shops.
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