Childhood & Sentimental memories

bommer

Was just sat here thinking - whilst eating my piece of bread with brown sauce on it. What do you rememeber about your childhood when old schooling.

For me it is just that a snack was a piece of bread with brown sauce/salad cream. A quick forage in the cupboard for a jelly cube. As the two packets of biscuits (ginger nuts and rich tea) went on Sundays with a cup of tea during songs of praise before tea of anything on toast. And the six pack of crisps lastest all week cause they were moms. but we got 10p a day for sweets!


What do you remembe!!

RugbyLisa

I remember tomato ketchup sandwiches,
bread and butter with every meal to fill us up,
baking days so that every week there were lots of cakes and it was each to their own! and once it was gone it was gone,
Mum shopping with a trolly on wheels
and the 'pop man' coming around and fighting over the cream soda!

Lx

bommer

Ah the pop man! my MIL still has him.

We were allowed two bottles per week. I also remember the co-op bread man comming and his big basket with lots of nice choccy biscuits which my mom always said no to - like clubs!

Libbyloo_2

I used to eat crisp and brown sauce sarnies lol perfect food when your a bit worse for wear on a sat night :rotfl: :rotfl:

Also I loved homemade scampi because my Dad was a fisherman we had this all the time much nicer than that packaged yuk which contains goodness knows what !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I use to fight my brother for the cream at the top of the milk bottle when we used to get it delivered
The one thing that takes me right back though is rhubarb coz my Granda grew loads I used to eat it raw dipped in sugar :eek: or my Nans rhubarb pie every time I eat or smell rhubard it remainds me of my Nan and Granda

bommer

Ah the old top of the milk we use to make butter with it!.

What about butter and sugar for a sore throat! None of this Calpol. We use to make my grandad eat the first gooseberries to see how sour they were as he hated sour things but he did it every time. Classic!

scuzz

Ah the good old days:rotfl:

Fish and chips every Saturday courtesy of my Great Auntie. We'd all go round to her flat and sit in the big bay window with cod and chips all round

Wandering up the garden with Grandad, who'd be armed with a pen knife, to cut me a piece of rhubarb, before raiding Nan's cupboard for sugar to dip it in

Mum treating me to a merangue (sp) snowman from the bakers in the village

Bread and butter piled high on the dinner table, and being moaned at as I wouldn't eat it:rotfl:

Mum & Dad attempting to get me to eat sprouts - they're fairy cabbages don't you know, and the fairies sent them special. Send them back the harsh reply!!!!

MRSMCAWBER

Oh my

Bommer - it wasnt just my dad with the butter and sugar then:rotfl: eughhhh -still it did stop sore throats n coughs..well you didnt dare cough near dad in case the butter and sugar came out....my dad used to put vinegar in his too!!!!! as if it wasnt vile enough:rotfl:

For me i remember mum + dad cooking everything from scratch...5lb of potatoes to mash and 5lb to roast with a sunday dinner was standard :eek: was 4 pints of custard with mums pudding... jam rolypoly, eves pudding etc... hmmmm wonder why i have so much weight to lose;)

Oh and dads stews that were stunning - but you never wanted to know what he had thrown in :rotfl:

I remember mum making the most gorgeous bread (she still does too)..and 1 of my brother wanting to know why he couldnt have "proper" bread for his sandwiches like the other kids...

Oh and i think the one that will always stick with me, is dad getting a ham hock on a tuesday, and me and him sitting at the table-i would be about 4 at the time..dad carving slices off and me and him sharing it...

Oh and the biggest memory would be my dad always being the first at the school gate, sat on the wall about half an hour before hometime waiting for me... he turned up first for every event:D ... dad wasnt well - he had his first stroke in his 20s and was one of the first people to have a replacement mitral valve in his heart...so mum worked and dad looked after us.. i was born in 71 and it was unusual back then, but i loved it and when they had school trips and wanted parents to help...i was the only one with a dad and all the kids wanted to be with him...and finally now you have started me down memory lane... we went to Whitby (i'd be 5)and when we were sat near the ruins for lunch dad got my sandwiches out and stunk us all out as he had packed me garlic sausage so the vampires wouldnt get me :rotfl: god he was a cracking dad..

Ok that enough rambling:o

Hardup_Hester

Sitting on the back step in the rain from 3:30 pm to 6pm till my parents got back from work. I could have got dry by sitting in the outside toilet, but the spiders were SO big, I'd rather get wet.

Having to eat bread & marge with every pudding, ie tinned fruit salad & bread.

bommer

My dad having bubble and squeak with brown sauce every monday with the left over sunday dinner.

MRSMCAWBER

Hardup Hester

My gran used to do that...tinned fruit with tinned cream and bread and butter eughhhhhhh.. i think that could be why i can't stand people dipping bread in soup, biscuits in tea or having bread to mop up gravy:eek: it makes my stomach spin

As for the bubble n squeak mmm i still love that...i can never decide which i prefer..brown or red sauce on it:rolleyes:

livinginhope

This thread has got me thinking back,I remember the bread and butter at dinner (well marg because we were poor )
Tuna sandwiches were a Sunday tea time treat when Songs of Praise was on,we were not religious,but my mum liked singing :rolleyes:
I don't remember much home cooking from my mum because she was always at work,but I do remember the introduction of ready meals and yoghurts,Vesta curries became a hot favourate with my dad and we used to have Dream topping on EVERYTHING!
When I got to about 10,I had to do all the cooking and cleaning,I remember making loads of quiches,when I mastered something we had it for weeks on end,so we got a little fed up of quiches :rotfl:
I can remember dad's greenhouse (homemade) absolute deathtrap :eek: everytime you went in a pane of glass would fall,but the amount of cucumbers and tomatoes we got (to go with the quiche :rotfl: )
I too remeber the Corona man,cherryade and cream soda mmmmmm!
LIH