Childhood Treats

[Daisy]

Yesterday OH came back from a supermarket shop with everything on the list, plus a bag full of Chocolate Custard doughnuts. I didn't know quite what to expect - were they chocolate doughnuts with custard filling, or ordinary doughnuts with chocolate (chips) and custard? Neither, they were filled with a chocolate gunge instead of vanilla flavoured custard gunge, and were very acceptable. But it reminded me of Birds flavoured custard powder. Does anyone else remember it? The orange flavour with bananas was my favourite!

What other childhood treats do you remember that don't seem to be around any more?

[Plantaholic]

Yum, yum, love doughnuts, haven't had one for years

[Enfys]

Me neither, but now I want one

i used to to love wagon wheels, but they're not the same any more, so much smaller for a start

[Clover]

Me neither, but now I want one

i used to to love wagon wheels, but they're not the same any more, so much smaller for a start

Sadly that applies to most things these days Enfys. Those Wagon Wheels were yummy.
I used to love acid drop Spangles.

[Mimi]

OH used to enjoy Wagon Wheels but he says that apart from the fact that theyseem to be half the size they used to be , they don't taste as nice. He claims they have changed the filling . I never liked them at all, I thought the chocolate tasted more like cooking chocolate.
When I was a girl one of the things I would buy with my pocket money was a quarter of alphabet letters. (Pink, yellow and white hard shaped sweets) or a sweet necklace and watch .
Do you remember Jamboree bags, the name was changed to Lucky bags. As a child I thought they were something exciting to have but now through the eyes of a much older woman I can see that they were a total waste of money. They were all bag, very few sweets and a rubbish plastic toy that no one wanted.

[Gemini]

Kit Kats don't taste the same either

Mimi, I remember Lucky Bags. They cost threpence!

As a child we used to have a pudding called Cremola Rice. I loved it!

[Oma]

I still buy Rainbow drops , in fact I have just bought some this morning , I loved Spangles , Waggon wheels are not the same Mimi the filling isn't as much or taste the same , Kitkat,s are just full of sugar now and Sasp tablets Victory V tablets don't taste as nice .

[Enfys]

We used to buy Horlicks tablets, 4 a penny. I can remember handing over a farthing and getting 1

[Oma]

My niece is a single mum and Max is starting comp in September , he's such a good boy she surprised him with a new i phone the other day , he went out and bought her some Sasp tablets to say thank you , they the sugar coated ones and she said they not so nice but is eating them as she doesn't want to upset him 😊

[Plantaholic]

Sherbet and sherbet dabs. Barrett's sherbet fountains. As Iwas a war baby it was some time before we had sweets, we used to chew liquorice roots and oxo cubes

[ZIZI]

Mimi my dear dad used to love Wagon Wheels, yes they are smaller and they do taste different but it is not the filling it is the chocolate that has changed.

I remember loving the comics you could get where you would cut out the clothes and tab them onto to the paper dollies. Do you remember that on Sundays you couldn't buy certain things? One of the hints that were forbidden was comics (and of course my lot were Sally Anne so very strict about Sundays in those days). When we were staying with my grandparents in Twickenham on a leave visit (I was born in the house) I went on a Sunday to the local shop and chose one of those dress up comics and I remember the shop keeper putting it in a brown paper bag and telling me in a whispering voice not to open the bag until I got home or he would be in trouble!! How things have changed.

[Grauntie Mag]

Honeycomb! or rather the sugar version bought in sweet shops. Liquorice pipes, and how I loved the comics with the paper doll and tab clothes. I used to design my own too.

[Mimi]

Zizi mum used to send me to the shop with money wrapped up in a note with strict instructions that I was to make sure I gave the note to the lady in the shop and not he man .
When I gave her the note , she would read it , go to the back of the shop and return with a package wrapped up in newspaper and I know on pain of death that I was not supposed to look at what was inside.
I did once see mum unwrap it when she thought I wasn't looking but it was a few years until I fully understood what 'Dr Whites' were !

[Daisy]

How funny that most of the memories are related to sweets and chocolate bars! My parents had a grocery/sweet/veg shop so I saw all this from the other side of the counter! I don't actually like sweets so they were never a temptation, but I did love those comics with cut out clothes to dress onto paper dollies. GM - I used to design my own as well, and I always gave my dollies curly hair like George in the Famous Five books!

Mimi - my mum would always be given 'that' note, and the stock of Dr Whites was kept upstairs in our box room which served as an extra sitting room. It was quite some time before I found out that sanitary towels weren't something you used after washing your hands!!

Zizi - I remember the Shop Act coming into force and it was such a nightmare about what you could and couldn't sell on a Sunday that my dad decided not to open at all on Sundays! One of the things it became illegal to sell on Sundays was the Bible. I think you could sell newspapers though.

What are Sasp tablets? I've never heard of them.

[Gemini]

I loved barley sugar sticks. Beautiful golden twists, that were so sweet!
I remember Horlicks tablets, and really liked them. I haven't heard of Sasp tablets.

Can you imagine these days making any form of tablet as sweets for children to eat?!!