Childhood & Sentimental memories

Fozz

I love this thread, brings back lots of memories!

My Mum used to cook everything from scratch, the best meals were meat and potato pie, hash, cheese and onions (boiled onions I think). We always had the Yorkshire pudding before the main course with gravy. The worst thing was tripe and onions, I never ate this (nor did Dad), but Mum loved it. Mum always gave me and my friends ice-cream with blackcurrant jam as a treat, I also loved mashed banana with sugar and top of the milk.

Dad always had his porridge with salt and a separate bowl of milk, he'd get a spoonful of porridge then dip it in the milk! He also got from somewhere a lovelyspice mix which he'd sprinkle onto bacon, never seen it since!
Used to go to the local bakers every Saturday morning with Dad, when we got home we'd fight over the crust from the still-warm loaf.

I got sweets every day on my way home from school (my teeth are full of fillings!!), I remember Spangles, coconut tobacco,flying saucers with sherbert in, sweet cigarettes, liquorice pipes. The only crisps were plain with the little bag of salt or cheese and onion, other favourites were Cheese and Marmite Puffs and Potato Puffs from the school tuckshop.

I also remember spending hours making outfits for my Sindy Doll, as the bought clothes were too expensive.

Elliesmum

This is a brilliant thread:

The pop man....yeah all the kids LOVED the pop man. I remember being shouted at to not lose the tops, 'cos you didn't get your deposit back on the bottles if the tops were missing!

Sugar sandwiches - I really cringe at this now, wouldn't dream of giving my 4 year old these, but for us it was a real treat from Dad and we couldn't tell Mum :rotfl:

Jam and crisp sandwiches - don't ask. Use to go on Scout camps (Dad was a leader) and this was the stable diet of all scouts, leaders and camp followers.

Top of the milk on your cornflakes - Mum used to go mad with us as we had 3 pints delivered everyday and my 2 brothers and I used to open a bottle each for the *top* so we always had loads of opened bottles of milk in the fridge.

Buying food on account - Mum had accounts with the baker, the butcher and the green grocer. She would give us a list of which we would cycle upto the village on our bikes and collect the shopping from the various shops and then cycle home again. Mum would then settle up at the end of the month

EM xx

sonee2405

Boomdocker wrote: »

Strangely I remember the sweets most and crisps too!

Somebody already mentioned Piglets, loved them and Puffs (similar to the pigs just a light puff that just melted on the tongue) Original Space Raiders (mmmm, pickled onion). Salt 'n Shake. Fish 'n Chips.
Pacers (like minty opal fruits)
Opal Fruits
Spangles (but not the toffee one, always seemed to get 2 in every pack, yuk!)
White chocolate skulls that when you bit them had pink/red stuff in the middle
Swizzlers Dipping Sherbet with the licourice
Mo-Jo's
Black Jacks & fruit Salad
Sweet Peanuts
Chocolate Limes
Cola Cubes
Pips
Blackcurrant & Licourice
Dib-Dabs
Midget Gems
Wine Gums
Licourice Comforts
White Chocolate Mice, Fish and Chips
Pink Shrimps
Foam Bananas
Foam Mushrooms

jawbreakers!- there used to be 3 in a pack and they were enormous-differnet flavours aswell .I remember the fiery flavoured we used to stick them in our mouths and then when it got to fiery to cope with we used to wash the jawbreaker under the tap and suck on them again.:rolleyes:
I also remember waking up early while my parents had a lie in to watch heidi and worzul gummidge and supergran:D I loved those programs must have been about 5 years old(im 26) and can also remember button moon and vaguely another program called lauras back garden, also loved watching the art program by tony hart and getting all excited over the chronicles of narnia but having to hide behind the sofa when aslan the lion used to appear.There was soemthing else aswell called mr mageeka on itv and another program about a witch who used to go to school on bbc1 but can't remember the name at all.
Any girls remember the "wake up daddy breakfast ready" ad with the little girl pushing a red&yellow breakfast trolley/kitchen thing around i always wnated one of those and when i finally did then ... well dad was a night shift worker but i used to wake him up every morning with a few cold beans on a yellow saucer.:D
bit older and i remember the yoyo craze with the coca cola and 7up logos -you were trendy at school if you had one also remember owning my first ever pack of colour changing feltips and boasting about them in class 4:eek: and off course the colour changing t shirts which c&a first had which were pink but if you blew on them they changed to orange i had the t shirt with a pair of joe bloggs jeans which were the kind that either had a green bit on the bum or a red(mine were red):o

scuzz

I've thought of another one:

Every christmas from Boxing Day onwards, we'd have toast for breakfast. NOthing odd there, but on it we'd have both the dripping and jelly from the turkey - yum. I still do this now. Everyone always thinks its sounds nasty, but I dare you to try it

natzini

sonee2405 wrote: »

I also remember waking up early while my parents had a lie in to watch heidi and worzul gummidge and supergran:D I loved those programs must have been about 5 years old(im 26) and can also remember button moon and vaguely another program called lauras back garden, also loved watching the art program by tony hart and getting all excited over the chronicles of narnia but having to hide behind the sofa when aslan the lion used to appear.There was soemthing else aswell called mr mageeka on itv and another program about a witch who used to go to school on bbc1 but can't remember the name at all.

OH and I watched Supergran last night, we have it on DVD! We are collecting all our old faves on DVD-we watched Roland Rat the other day but it was quite dissapointing We love all the old 80s progs though, they were the best!

sonee2405 wrote: »

Any girls remember the "wake up daddy breakfast ready" ad with the little girl pushing a red&yellow breakfast trolley/kitchen thing around i always wnated one of those and when i finally did then ... well dad was a night shift worker but i used to wake him up every morning with a few cold beans on a yellow saucer.:D

Haha, my parents bought me an 'A La Carte Kitchen', but when I opened it, they asked me to promise that I wouldn't serve them cold beans and Swiss Roll, haha! I used to wake them up with it though!

sonee2405 wrote: »

bit older and i remember the yoyo craze with the coca cola and 7up logos -you were trendy at school if you had one also remember owning my first ever pack of colour changing feltips and boasting about them in class 4:eek: and off course the colour changing t shirts which c&a first had which were pink but if you blew on them they changed to orange i had the t shirt with a pair of joe bloggs jeans which were the kind that either had a green bit on the bum or a red(mine were red):o

Ah yeah, the Fido Dido stuff was soooo trendy, as were the Global Hypercolour tshirts! I loved wearing them with cycling shorts... oh the shame!

natzini

OH and I found potato puffs at the Cash and Carry when I went to get the Guide sweets last year-they didn't last long!! I am craving some now, but we've a 'years supply' (yeah right, wouldn't last a day with my Guides!) of Hula Hoops to get through first though!!

Found a fab website by the way, https://www.doyouremember.co.uk

stefejb

natzini wrote: »

Ah yeah, the Fido Dido stuff was soooo trendy, as were the Global Hypercolour tshirts! I loved wearing them with cycling shorts... oh the shame!

eeeeew - yes - I remember those - they changed colour where you were most sweaty - lovely. I have a thing aobut not wearing anything that I remember from first time around so I'm a bit stuck at the moment with all the 80's stuff around. There were loads of "Frankie Says .... " t-shirts at reading Festival this year - made me feel really old. Glad to see though that shoulder pads have yet to make a comeback. A t-shirt, blouse and jacket combo could result in serious shoulder pad build up back in the day

balmaiden

Saturday mornings, no school, back to bed with a slab of white bread, stork margerine and marmite, reading my comic "June and schoolfriend" Bliss!!

We never had any toys or presents other than at Christmas, but if Mum new of a jumble sale in the area she would go to buy books for us kids how we loved them and I still have most of them which my children have read and now they are ready for the Grandchildren.

What simple pleasures.

BusyGirl

I remembered one more thing...
my Grandad used to grow loads of fruit and veg in his garden and one year he grew some courgettes and gave them to my mum. She didn't know what to do with it as it was a bit 'exotic' for her so she chopped it up and boiled it! It just tasted like mush...but I still ate it!

DebtphobicDeirdre

just to add my bit to this fascinating post some of my memories are:-

Going with my Mum while she had her weekly shampoo and set and wathing all the ladies being "done"

Arguing with my brother on Saturday morning about whether we had Swapshop or Tiswas on the TV.

My Gran allowing me to have Lux soapflakes added to the bathwater for a bubblebath at her house when I stayed over and then her always putting the fire on after to stop me getting a chill with my wet hair.

Spending absolutely ages choosing which quater of sweets I was going to choose with my 10p spending money.