Childhood & Sentimental memories

LOOYATES

Oh what are you like i had forgotton about that, it was like rise and shine that was similar, remember strawberry sweetheart? it was thick pudding like angel delight only it has pieces in, oh and nutty bars? fudge bars with peanuts on deevine!!!!! ah the good old days when golfball chewies were the size of golfballs!!!!

Newgirl_2

Oh, what a fab thread...let me see...

- long-forgotten food and sweets: pacers
Dundee biscuits - no-one ever remembers these but I do!
Nutty bars
Grandad making grilled cheese and having it with bread for lunch
milk roll bread - round, ridged so you could slice it
Grandma's hot pot and broth - and her fab pea soup
Mellow birds coffee
Ringos crisps - not the same when they changed
Boiled onions or cauliflower cheese with bread and butter
Caramac bars
Chocolate sponge pudding with pink custard
Little boxes of packet soup - which no-one else remembers, who knows what they were called...?

- Only having a black and white telly and Grandparents watching snooker ( and having to listen to Grandad call out what was happening on the snooker cos Grandma went blind)

- Sneaking down the garden an eating peas straight from the pod

- Always having a tortoise as a pet

- Sleeping at grandma's on a saturday night and sleeping on the camp bed - and always having to have a certain sheet and blanket cos I liked the pattern!

- Spending all my pocket money on collecting scented ink cartridges and scented erasers

- Pfennings powders when you had a temperature or cold

- Grandad putting TCP on for EVERYTHING

- Getting a Lucky Bag on a Saturday

- Coke in glass bottles (the first time around) and collecting tokens to get some glasses.

- Getting our first duvets from the pot fair - before that, waffle blankets and flanelette sheets

- Mum buying nylon covers for her old three piece suite

- making toast on a fork over the gas ring or fire

- Playing with a tennis ball in the leg off a pair of tights - you stood with your back the garage wall and bounce it to either side/over your head/between your legs (and annoyed the neighbours)

- Going to the chippy on a Friday night and getting three chips on a fork for free while we waited... or taking your own bowl to get pea-wet - chips and peas! (well they used to charge for trays!)

- Soap and sugar on your knee when you fell - grated green fairy soap with sugar, on a piece of white cotton, held on with a plaster - drew all the dirt and grit out and made your scrape go all slimy - :eek:

- electronic game for the telly which only had tennis and squash - brilliant at the time

- A doll my Grandma made, from fabric scraps, it had two head-ends and different outfits, you flipped it over and the skirt hid the other dolly.

- Telly that didn't go on all day and Suzy the test card

- Half day closing in our town

- A perfume from Avon - Ariadne I think

- The debate when Culture Club had their first single - was Boy George a boy?

- Picking chickweed and dandilions for my rabbit

- Mum drinking Lift lemon tea - yuck

- Going out 'for days' rather than holiday - many a happy day spent on Ainsdale beach near Southport



Oh, I could go on for hours...

Newgirl

borderlakland

NewGirl I'd forgotton the uproar/debates about boy george, my dad was disturbed to say the least.
i also remember getting duvets for the 1st time we felt soo posh.

one smell that always takes me back is savlon cream.at school our infant teacher called it magic cream. any knock,bump graze etc and you would go to her for some magic cream.it worked everytime.it still works for my kids and my neices.(no need for accident books then)

no shops open on a sunday or on bank holiday(no one to my knowledge starved:rotfl: )

going to the cinema during school hols and having a short film(winnie the pooh or similar) before the main disney film.Mum disowning me and sis for howling all the way through a lassie film.

opening xmas pressies from a pillow case all huddled up together in mum and dads bed.

pounds_and_pensive

I think the little boxes of soup were Chef Square Shaped Soup. The line on the commercial was a kind of tongue-twister that went something like 'Chef Square Shaped Soups Show How A Good Soup Should Taste'. I'd forgotten about it until just reading about them, but how sad is it that I can dredge THAT up from my memory. No wonder I can never remember anything useful

madoldbat

Just found this thread and wasted a very happy 30 mins reading and remembering.
Friday night smoked haddok oached in milk Oh! the smell.I still dont eat fish.
Tined beans all kinds,tinned carrots,tinned peas yuk!
Beans on toast for tea yuk!
Braised sausage in thin onion gravy not saying what sausages resembled yuk!
Braides liver all grey yuk!
Bread butter/marg and golden syrup yuk double yuk!
Warm milk with sugar and bread broken into lumps this was called Pobs yuk,yuk and yuk!
Now for the nice
Beef stew and dumplings mmmmmmmmm
white bread and raw onion sandwich
Seabrook cheese and onion crisps,Astec bars,chocolate worlygigs,kayli,spanish (hard licorice to dip in kayli)
Grans 20 min cake,apple pie,rubarb pie porridge with sugar and milk.
School dinners,school milk,cabbage,coliflower,sprouts,swead.
At Auntys house salad, pickled onions fresh fruit salad.
Flying saucers,lucky bags.
Walking to school 1p to spend on either a corrot,apple or peanuts.

Took me years to find out veg tasted nice fresh or frozen,still dont eat tinned veg.I make sure all my meat is the correct colour and sauce and gravy is thicker than water.Had so little fresh fruit and veg any chance it came my way it was wolfed down.
Mum worked full time so meals were quick,cheap and easy as poss for the late 60s.

Sure others have found once started on remembering they like me could do another full post.Oh! dear I remember.........................................

johanne

I think i might be the baby here as i was born in 1985! But this thread is fab and reminded me of:

-Bunty magazine and being allowed to "progress" to smash hits when i was old enough

-Artic roll and Cheese pie for dinner in school

-Milk and biscuits or a slice of apple in infant school and then when i was top year juniors any spare milk from the infants was sent to our class at the end of the day and the teacher would give the "best behaved kids" that day the milk!

-My mum pickling her own pickled onions

-the lemonade man and his GREEN cream soda!! Modern clear stuff just doesnt taste the same... and it was 10p back for each bottle u returned in my day

- The cake my nan used to make which we had EVERY saturday.. was suppposed to be sponge but it was soooo stodgy and heavy and about and inch/inch and a half high, lobsided and a funny orange colour.. but we loved it anyway! We had it every week until she got too frail a few years ago to bake herself when she would buy (or get us to on our way to hers) a sponge cake and jam tarts for my little bro..!! It was never the same though as the orange stodgy cake and i DO miss my saturday afternoon tea and cake!

- Nan and grandad taking us to sainsburys with them if we stayed over (which i thought was really posh as we shopped in the Kwiky! :rotfl: ) and her buying us these little bottle of BANANA flavoured lemonade and cherryade too.. used to love them but not seem them since!

- Banana butties before bed when i stayed at nans "too help us sleep"

- Nan also used to buy this icecream type thing from sainsburys or M&S but it wasnt icecream it was more like cream or dream topping?! I THINK it was called "softwhip" and came in a white tub with orange and blue writing on. Had that with our tinned fruit for afters and ive NEVER found it in the shops since

- Animal Bars and opal fruits... NOT 99cal dairy milks and starburst like they are called now :rolleyes: Oh and 10p mixes.. with about 20 sweets in!

-Going to woolworths with my other nanna and buying pic and mix as a treat always ensuring we had coconut mushrooms.. but not for us for nanna cos she loved them and would always pinch them all! Oooh and in that pick and mix you used to get chocolate in little foil cake cases in bright colours!

- Mojos, fruit salads and black jacks all costing a penny each!

- Getting a box of "mishapes" chocolates every week as a "treat" for being good when we went shopping in the kwik save. Bought a bag of these recently and its just not the same as the lovely purple box they used to come in and i think i was posh for having a "whole box of chocolates just for me!"

- Having a commadore 64 and thinking it was sooo cool! Oh and a sega mega drive!

- Grot bag, poddington peas and the shoe people on the tv!

- Making "dens" with my friends out of chairs and a sheet and playing out for hours in the street in the summer holidays inventing our own games and practising "survival" with my first BEST mate Danny... always remember building a little fire in a drinks can to make a stove to cook on and us having "rations" we nicked from our mums kitchens etc. Remember striping our faces with camoflague paint and crawling through the grass together spying on people and making "booby traps" and "camp gadgets" etc and thinking it was really cool he had a penknife we used on twigs and string etc..... All the girls thought i was weird for wanting to get dirty and stuff with him but i loved every minute. Hes now a marine so i guess it was all good practise!!:D :rotfl: (Oh and im a scout leader! )


- Danny being the only kid allowed to play with me for 2 weeks when i got chicken pox cos his mum wanted him to catch it and "get it over with" He never did! :rotfl:

- being told we were having "s**t with the dirt picked out" if we badgered people with "whats for tea?" also heard the "there and back to see how far is it" and "its not fair" was always followed by "and neithers john barnes bum!" Very PC!! lol

- Sausage and Chips every saturday night from the chippy except on a birthday when the birthday girl (was only me and sis at the time) got a "meal" as in sweet and sour or something which was always a treat!!! Wed all sit and eat it while watching Noel Edmunds house party.

- Making sugar mice and coconut ice in school for mothers day presents for our mums! Bet jamie oliver wouldnt allow that now!

- Clackers - so dangerous on your fingers! I think i was banned from having them?!

- Nafnaf clothing as someone said! I had a cerise pink nafnaf jumper mum bought me from the charity shop and i thought i was sooo cool!

- Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles first time round!

- Them big clips you wore in your head like a crocdile clip with fake "feather" type things attached that made the clip like a big pom pom!


Oh i hope my little one in my tummy gets to have half as much fun as i did as a kid... the world seems to have lost all innocence now and kids dont get to be kids for long enough!!!

Winsome_2

Newgirl wrote: »

Little boxes of packet soup - which no-one else remembers, who knows what they were called...?

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I remember those! weren't they made by Cross and Blackwell?

Iguana

'Bread and pullit' and 'Bread and scratchit' when you ask what was for tea!

Taking bottles back to the shop for the depsoit!

Iguana

johanne wrote: »

I think i might be the baby here as i was born in 1985! But this thread is fab and reminded me of:

-Bunty magazine and being allowed to "progress" to smash hits when i was old enough
-My mum pickling her own pickled onions

- Animal Bars and opal fruits... NOT 99cal dairy milks and starburst like they are called now :rolleyes: Oh and 10p mixes.. with about 20 sweets in!

Clackers - so dangerous on your fingers! I think i was banned from having them?!

Oh i hope my little one in my tummy gets to have half as much fun as i did as a kid... the world seems to have lost all innocence now and kids dont get to be kids for long enough!!!

My nan's pickled onions!
Clackers, mine came form the Sun!
Bunty - with the cut out paper doll on the back of the comic!

susank

Brown sugar sandwiches! - not much wonder I have a mouth full of fillings to-day!!