Grandma's cupboard

When I were a little un, I remember that my Grandparents always had the same things in their food cupboards.

A Tin of Salmon.

Carnation milk

Tin of Peaches

Corona pop.

And they always seemed to have pickled onions on the work surface

Anyone else got fond memories of their trips to Grannies?

When my grandma died we went through her kitchen cupboards and found that most of the cans were a full decade past their best-before date. My dad takes after her - he's a hoarder as well.

The only real memory I have of my grandma's kitchen was when I was about 4 and my little cousin stuck a frozen pea up her nose. It was so firmly lodged in her right nostril that they had to take her to the doctor to have it removed.

I did that with playdough, i loved the smell

I guess it was a sign of what was to come, sniffing stuff and all that

EDIT: my Nan had one of those sausage dogs and it used to hate me so that was usualy in her cupboard when i went to vist.

Makes me laugh now, its name was 'Fritz'

My Grandma always had a bottle of Camp coffee mixture. I believe it was made from chicory and coffee and was horrible according to my parents!

Yeah, mine had Camp coffee too...

Sounds like a GBV Cocktail now though, dosent it?

camp?

guy in a kilt?

Im saying nothing

Look at the flag...

All Grandmas are hoarders. Its the "Just in case" syndrome. Mine used to have packet upon packet of Embassy cigarettes - just in case. Just in case of what, we never found out. But, whatever it was, it never happened in her lifetime.

I have so many memories I could fill the board with them. So I will only mention that she cropped the poodle puppies at the dining table in the kitchen niche.
And she had Tab (yet another kind of cola) in her cupboard/fridge.

Granddad!

This:

OH!! My grandma had strawberry Quik too!!

Oh dear, this reminds me of my parents' kitchen cupboard, not my grandparents'. Really feeling my age now.

Oh yeah, we had the Camp coffee too. Doesn't it still have the same picture on the label nowadays too?

Let's see, what else? ... Oh yes, those little glass jars of salmon spread. Bird's custard powder. Lemon curd. Piccalilli. Lots more stuff I can't remember just now. And HP Sauce. My first encounter with a foreign language - trying to read the French text on the side of the bottle.

Aaah Bisto!

Tiny teddy biscuits!!! hmm that´s about all i can remember

Oh and a tin of Quality Street. How could I forget that.

My grandma always had a can of Chock Full O' Nuts coffee:

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She also had a little Lucky Strike matchbox ashtray like the one on the upper left:

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In addition, she always seemed to have an endless supply of little sugar-coated gummy orange wedges and gummy mint leaves.

My grandma had a can of Budweiser in the very back of the fridge...it looked like it was from the 70's, if not earlier. I think my mom threw it out in the late 90's when my grandma died.

I always claimed she was an alcoholic, and just replaced the can every time...but only one in the fridge at a time to hold up appearances.

With my nan it was Mackeson. And it was a different bottle every time. Purely medicinal, she said.

As an aside: interesting that everyone including me is talking about their (one) gran although most of us have or had at least two.

Well my other Grandma lived with us for a long time so her cupboard was ours!

Oh, I love those orange wedges!!! Never had them in years, must go on the list for the next visit!

My other Grandma W. (as opposed to Granny D. who mutilated dogs) was never home long enough for us to look into her cupboards, she had a passion for traveling, but she did have a water-cooler and a stationary bicycle in the living room.
Grammy, my 3rd grandmother, had the most delightful, huge, down-home kitchen and I think I remember a 1960's Rubbermaid mixer in the cupboard, it must have been a heavy bastard because my Ma always had to lift it out for her.

Doesn't every family have one set of grandparents that they're closer to than the others? For me it was my mom's parents who followed my mom and dad when they moved out to California in the 60s and only lived 1/2 hour away from us. My other grandma (never knew that grandpa) lived in New York and only came out to visit once a year. She was much closer to my cousins and was the person they thought of as grandma.

Not necessarily. My paternal and maternal grandparents lived about 5 miles apart. Good thing too, otherwise my parents would never have met...
That's assuming you mean "closer" in the geographical sense.

Granny is my Ma's Ma, we visited her a lot, hence tons of memories.
Grandma W(h) is my Dad's Ma. Not to be confused with Grandma W(e) who is my Granny's Ma, she lived in Escanaba, I only remember visiting her once but my Ma tells lots of anecdotes about her and I always felt very close to her. She sent pictures of herself and the current cat every Christmas.
Grammy is my Ma's second husband's Ma who has cast out her son for being - well, what he is. We visited her and Grumpy a lot, too, she's still alive at 88.

And there was me thinking I'd finally found a thread I could understand

You started it! Wanna hear about Great-great-great Aunt Maude? She had Fresca in her cupboard.

Fresca! We used to always have tons of that in our cupboard.

Edit: For some reason that reminds me of an old friend's idea of the all-American meal: Bologna and American cheese on Wonder bread with a Twinkie and a Tab.

God I hated fresca as well as Tab not that my grandmother drank this stuff.

No, and that's a very untrue and wide sweeping statement

That's disgusting.

Candy. The nasty stuff was decades old I am sure, but she always had a fresh supply of the good stuff. First place I went upon arriving at Grandmommy and Papa's house (after giving them a hug of course). Second was back to the barn to see the animals and play on the tractors.