Food from your childhood....

Cleat Eastwood

That feeling of riding to the shops with your mates and stocking up with the essentials....sweeets.


Does anyone remember:

Golden Cup

Texan Bar

Cresta Drinks

Fish and Chips (teh crisp snack think in a newspaper bag)

United Bars. 3 blocks of pure joy

and

Trios, whatever happened to them?


and when your mum called you in for tea..

Vesta currys with the crispy noodles?

Flasheart

Nope

Grew up in Oz. None of those ring any bells. I like sweets though

Cleat Eastwood

What did they have in oz though? What sweets do you remember

andy162

Mmmmm Texan bars...

Mmmmmmmmmm United bars...

Toffo's but not the fruit flavoured ones.

Pacers & Spangles too.


Mouse...strawberry flavoured chemical laden dire desertness!

Smiths crisps with the little blue salt bag in them.

Bazooka Joe bubble gum.

Cabanna bars, coconut, chocolate things.

"king size" Mars bars...Freehub would've loved those bad boys!

Quattro fizzy pop...banned apparently.

Original Tour de France theme ( not strictly speaking "food" but liked it as a kid, listening to new version as I type, its on telly at mo!)

Mr Freeze ice pops...foot long for 5p.

Ben6899

Hubba Bubba bubblegum

"10p try me" cans of pop

Pacers

Trios

Fruit Salad chews

Splottboy

The "original" Milky Way's.
Sherbert Pips, Lemon Drops, that were always covered in pocket fluff.
Marathon bars, NOT bloody Snickers!
Space Ships full of sherbert.

Bazooka Joe chewing gums.
Pink Panther bars...sickly pink chocolate.
Dairy Maid choccy covered toffess.
Aztec bars, like a Mars and Milky Way mixed togther.

Little cakes with Lemon Curd inside, covered in my Grans home-made custard...MMMM...
Sherbert Dabs, with a licourice "straw".
Real licourice roots. Tastes like rotten wood !
Pontefract Cakes...threw one across the room to an old girlfriend messing about, and it went straight down her throat almost choking her...

Ands

Tutti Frutti
Cola Cubes
Rancheros
Angel Delight

For some reason, I remember my grandma's kitchen vividly. She was always baking rock buns and saffron buns, even though they never appealed to me as a child. I can remember all the crockery in her kitchen, the wallpaper, the furniture, and the delicious smell of her kitchen, even though it was back in the 1970s.

Flasheart

Sweets in Oz are called Lollies (just so you know)

Ones that come to mind:

Minties (chewey mint sweets)
White Knight bar (chewey mint in chocolate)
Cobbers (hard caramel in chocolate)
Wagon Wheels
Violet Crumble (sort of like a crunchie)
Musk Sticks
Bullets (licorice pellets in chocolate)

Flasheart

Splottboy wrote:

Pontefract Cakes...threw one across the room to an old girlfriend messing about, and it went straight down her throat almost choking her...

Did you fish it out? :shock:

shockedsoshocked

Jolly Ranchers
Wham Bars

Splottboy

Flasheart; Well, it was late at night and I was just about to take her home.

We were both worried, as she said she could feel it.

By the time we got to her house she seemed to a bit better and wouldn't got to A+E.

Few days later, she had MORE than a Pontefract Cake to choke on...lol !

Flasheart

hehehee :twisted:

Mad Roadie

+1 for Texans - but does any one remember 'Nutty' bars?

I loved them

Cleat Eastwood

Pink Panther bars always used to give me a headache for some reason.

Fruit Salad chews would always melt in your pocket and ittook ages to get the wrapper off.

Cobber is a great name for a sweet. Why didnt we have them here.

And grans kitchens are full of magic.

+1 for liquorice bullets.

hopper1

Splottboy wrote:

The "original" Milky Way's.
Sherbert Pips, Lemon Drops, that were always covered in pocket fluff.
Marathon bars, NOT bloody Snickers!
Space Ships full of sherbert.

Bazooka Joe chewing gums.
Pink Panther bars...sickly pink chocolate.
Dairy Maid choccy covered toffess.
Aztec bars, like a Mars and Milky Way mixed togther.

Little cakes with Lemon Curd inside, covered in my Grans home-made custard...MMMM...
Sherbert Dabs, with a licourice "straw".
Real licourice roots. Tastes like rotten wood !
Pontefract Cakes...threw one across the room to an old girlfriend messing about, and it went straight down her throat almost choking her...

Splottboy wrote:

Few days later, she had MORE than a Pontefract Cake to choke on...lol !

Cheers fella.... That's twice on the trot, that I had to wipe coffee off the screen...

I used to love Cindercone and Coconut Ice.....

Mouths watering, now...

turkeytickler

Mad Roadie wrote:

+1 for Texans - but does any one remember 'Nutty' bars?

I loved them

Nutty bars... hell yes..... toffee inside, peanuts outside.... heaven...

this could be dangerous but.......

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/

turkeytickler

Look at this bad boy....
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/large-retro ... 51107.html

slowlanejane

metal mickey fizz bombs!

larfingravy

Creamola Foam
Cabana (Please bring them back!)
Texan bars
Marathon!!
Dairy Milk bars or was it Black Magic? Y'know those chocolate bars that had a different type of boxed sweet in it.
Weekend chocolate boxes.
Space Dust.
Sweet cigarettes and tobacco.

brin

+1 for Aztec bars...why oh why did they stop making them?

Caramac
Spanish Gold
Black Jacks/Fruit Salads
midget gems
Yo Yo biscuits
Bandits

Splottboy

They did bring Aztecs back, for a while.
Huge advertising, TV adverts etc.

Apparently they didn't sell well.

Mate told me he can get Bazooka Joes, but I checked their site, and he's been
all "Yoofed Up", Wicked, like, know wot I mean?!
I'd rather remember Joe as he was...
With the originals you could collect the inside wrapper thingys, and send away for toys.

Same with Action Man: Collect the stars on the boxes, and gat so many for a free Action Man, hence I had 3 from the HQ in Leicester.

finchy

Anyone remember the brief craze for hedgehog flavoured crisps? Late 80s it was.

Also Brannigans crisps - still around but not very easy to find.

shouldbeinbed

I got a box of 40 Texan bars from Costco a couple of christmasses back, limited re-issue of them.

I savoured them for a year as my special treat.

Loved United bars - Blue over Red

Trio biscuits. I remember them more for the advert than the choccy comestible tho.

markmod

Honey pudding
And
Space dust

pneumatic

Old English Spangles were foul; the Devil's toenails!

Pear Drops made me gag

Cola Cubes were ghastly

but I managed to work my way through the rest of the shop in small but determined steps

skyd0g

Anyone remember Birds Angel Delight?
...it seemed to be part of my staple diet for many years.

Buckled_Rims

johnfinch wrote:

Anyone remember the brief craze for hedgehog flavoured crisps? Late 80s it was.

Wasn't that Tudor crisps?

As for food, I used to love my Mum frying chips in lard - those were proper chips!

guinea

Spam Fritters

Bunneh

Apparently they're talking about getting rid of Curlywurlys! The yank company that took over Cadburys stated that some of the least popular would be going - how the hell can a curlywurly be the least popular? They're amazing.

Stewie Griffin

Alpine fizzy drinks delivered on a lorry because we couldn't afford coke & the like. Slush puppies. Ice poles. Sweets would be cola cubes.

I can remember my first fisherman friend from a mate as a joke.

Anonymous

Findus crispy pancakes and chips from the chip pan.

First home made curry in 1979, I liked it because it had sultanas in it. I was 8.

Wham bars.
Highland toffee bars.
Bottles of ginger, loved red Kola. Then get 2p for taking the bottle back.
10p mixups from the ice cream van.

Scottish up bringing.