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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. 

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  • Anonymous user
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    Love these still buy both the beef curry & the chow mein but they also did a beef madras but I cant find that anywhere can any one help
  • Anonymous user
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    Anyone know if I can buy the Vesta beef curry in the U.S. (West coast) or import it? My Mum made this as a treat when we were kids and this was my first introduction to "foreign food" lol! I can still remember the sultanas and that amazing aroma!
  • Anonymous user
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    Oooh! I just saw this online and I had to join in belatedly. I used to love Vesta meals back in the 1970s and 1980s. I loved the Beef Italienne with the spiral pasta and the creamy, cheesy sauce. YUM! I also liked the Chicken Chow Mein and the crispy noodles that you shallow fried in the pain and they curled up with the heat. I liked the beef curry, too. This was my first taste of 'foreign' food.
  • Anonymous user
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    I have had a love affair with Vesta Chow Mein since i was at school,I was introduced to chow mein when i was about nine yrs old and loved them ever since,i am now coming up 56 yrs old,but to be honest i have a lot of trouble getting hold of them these days,asda have stopped stocking them(for some unknown reason!!!) I used to buy them in bulk to last me a month or two,but alas they are becoming more & more illusive as time goes by!! Why!!! can anyone let me know which of the main supermarkets sell them now, i have tried sainsburys-morrisons-tesco-etc... and they all say that they dont carry them anymore,such a crying shame when there are obviously people out there who love them as much as i do.
    • Anonymous user
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      At Tesco's today and they are selling Vesta Chow Mein.
  • Anonymous user
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    in the vesta chowmein it comes with crispy noodles, does anyone know whee I can buy crispy noodles just on their own without having to buy the chowmein?
  • Anonymous user
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    I used to have a vesta curry now and then as it brough back memories of childhood. Sadly I have just tried the "new and improved recipie" beef curry. Only one word can describe it VILE! There are no meat chunks its bland and watery non fruity dish water. Why oh why do manufacturers do this? If it aint broken don't fix it! Wont be buying that again!
  • Anonymous user
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    Do doubt about it the chow mein was and still is the best rember how the crispy noodles used to make a crackling sond when put on the softnoodles and sprikeled with soy sauce,im going to buy some tomorrow.
  • sickthings
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    You can get them in Poundland now
  • Anonymous user
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    Has anyone ever commented on the fact that Vesta meals were originally made by 'Bachelor's Foods'? Hmmmm?
    • Anonymous user
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      I remember - a Unilever Co at the time ??
  • Anonymous user
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    Yes that was one of my favourites too!!! I also loved the Chow Mein with the Crispy noodles and can still buy it even here in Spain and also the Paella (nice) and the Beef Curry we can get here. My brothers fave was the Cop Suey. I remember when i had my first Chow Mein from a Cjhinese,it was completely different and i was dissapointed as the Vesta one was nicer.

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