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Old 01-01-2017, 00:53
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Are there things that you considered a real treat when you were young which make you laugh when you think back now?

For me, my best example would be when my dad would treat me to a baguette from Greggs back in 1999 and I was 13 at the time. I had the dilemma of having to pick between grated cheese and salad or tuna/mayo and salad. Either way, it was a huge treat for me back then! And if he said I could have one of their sausage rolls to go with it then I felt like I was in heaven....

Anyone else got any funny examples they would like to share?
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Old 01-01-2017, 00:57
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We used to have the milk man and the bread man. The bread man came round once a week and you could buy mars bars off him! Mars bars bought off the bread man were much better than the mars bars out of the shop
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Old 01-01-2017, 00:57
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a Vesta ready meal..........
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Old 01-01-2017, 00:59
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Getting the walnut off the Walnut Whip or getting a sip of some branded juice. Those were things for "adults" when I was wee!
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Old 01-01-2017, 01:07
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When Mum did the main shop, she wouldn't buy as snacks like chocolate and sweets (she might get crisps now and again) as stuff like that would be brought by us kids out our own pocket money. So when I would accompany Mum with the shop, I would have to stand mouthwateringly in front of the stand by the till with the chocolate bars. Mum relented one or two times and got me a Marathon (now called Snickers). I could have walked out the shop on air!
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Old 01-01-2017, 01:14
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a day off school which meant i got to watch crown court [which they should bring back, it would never date], followed by house party, a latter day loose women that was cake, crafts and homely gossip.

if i went to the doctor in the morning i would get a copy of a [hideous, but i was about 12] daily inspirational quotes and stories book that i cannot recall the name of, was written by some vicar i think, that`s going to irritate.

reading my father`s reader digests.

edit: the friendship book of francis gay. what the fudge kind of odd kid was i
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Old 01-01-2017, 01:21
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15p Netto bubblegum.
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Old 01-01-2017, 01:22
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Sports biscuits.

Tangy toms.
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Old 01-01-2017, 01:42
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a day off school which meant i got to watch crown court [which they should bring back, it would never date], followed by house party, a latter day loose women that was cake, crafts and homely gossip.

if i went to the doctor in the morning i would get a copy of a [hideous, but i was about 12] daily inspirational quotes and stories book that i cannot recall the name of, was written by some vicar i think, that`s going to irritate.

reading my father`s reader digests.

edit: the friendship book of francis gay. what the fudge kind of odd kid was i
I remember Crown Court. There was another type of mid-day drama too which opened with a kind of dark Manor House in the opening credits, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was. I used to watch them eating Chucky Eggs that my mum would make me, which was two boiled eggs chopped up in a bowl with a bit of butter and salt and some toast soldiers. God bless the 70's
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Old 01-01-2017, 01:44
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I remember Crown Court. There was another type of mid-day drama too which opened with a kind of dark Manor House in the opening credits, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was. I used to watch them eating Chucky Eggs that my mum would make me, which was two boiled eggs chopped up in a bowl with a bit of butter and salt and some toast soldiers. God bless the 70's
the Cedar Tree?
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Old 01-01-2017, 01:44
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Fizzy drinks.

When I was small we only had them at Christmas.
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Old 01-01-2017, 01:45
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I remember that. Didn't the Mitfords feature?
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Old 01-01-2017, 01:45
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I remember crown court, back when itv's afternoon out put was wonderfully dull.....

Laying in my room watching crown court, take the highroad, sons and daughters, country practice.
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Old 01-01-2017, 01:49
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Might be, I'll have a look. I just remember a night time shot of a dark stately home type building during the opening sequence.
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Old 01-01-2017, 01:54
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I remember that. Didn't the Mitfords feature?
Don't remember that!
I just remember that it was set in a big house and one of the main characters was the same actor as in The Pallisers.
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Old 01-01-2017, 02:04
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Going to the Chinese for a sit in meal, looking at the fish tank and getting fruit juice for my starter.

I wouldn't laugh at that now - I'd be peeved to have a drink passed off as a course but back then I thought it terribly sophisticated.



Picking the Creamola Foam flavour during the Big Shop. I was allowed one tin so I took very long time picking the flavour as it was Very Serious Business and you didn't want Creamola remorse all week.



Prawn Cocktail



Chocolate yoghurt - I hankered after them so much but they were "too dear" so I peeled off and swapped the price labels with the cheap supermarket own "Yellow Pack" yoghurts and told Mum they were on offer. The lady at the till was as sharp as a tack and knew the price wasn't right, Mum put them back, twigged what I'd done and gave me a right eating on the way home.



Getting the walnut off the Walnut Whip or getting a sip of some branded juice. Those were things for "adults" when I was wee!
Yes, a walnut whip was such a treat! So much so when I opened one as i stepped outside the shop the walnut fell off and I started crying. I wasn't usually a gurny child but this was a Walnut Whip!! The shopkeeper gave me another one. I'm mortified that my mum actually let me go back in to the shop to tell him my tale of woe like it was his problem I was so hamfisted with my treat.
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Old 01-01-2017, 02:27
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Fizzy drinks.
Any sweets, chocolate (Golden Cup, Fry's bars or Walnut Whip were the ultimate) or ice cream - Cornetto in particular.
Arctic Roll.
Staying up late.
Vesta curry.
Pattie and chips.
Watching Crown Court (when ill).

All had to be earned.
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Old 01-01-2017, 02:40
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Sunny Delight.

Cream cakes from Asda.

Eating a meal in a supermarket restaurant.

McDonald's/Burger King/KFC.




To think that now I'm free to do any of that any day I want.
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Old 01-01-2017, 02:46
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Fray Bentos pie.

I loved these but we very very rarely got them, I assumed because they were a treat. Oh, I think assumed wrong.

I recently got one and told the kids now these have a bad rep but, honestly, I used to love them - you'll like this...

The boy walked in, took one look, screwed up his face and asked if it was "food from wartimes". They actually are rotten. Mum was right not to buy them.
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Old 01-01-2017, 02:52
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When I used to stay at my grandparents at the weekend it was a big treat when grandad would go to coughlans and buy Cornish pasties for tea on the way home from the bookies.
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Old 01-01-2017, 02:54
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Fray Bentos pie.

I loved these but we very very rarely got them, I assumed because they were a treat. Oh, I think assumed wrong.

I recently got one and told the kids now these have a bad rep but, honestly, I used to love them - you'll like this...

The boy walked in, took one look, screwed up his face and asked if it was "food from wartimes". They actually are rotten. Mum was right not to buy them.
Which shop did you do the chocolate yoghurt thing at?
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Old 01-01-2017, 03:03
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Bananas were a real treat when I was a kid.
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Old 01-01-2017, 03:21
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On a cold bitter winter's day I use to help clean out the ash from the fireplace, fill it with paper/ kindling wood and then my Dad would let me strike a match to start the fire.
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Old 01-01-2017, 03:22
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Which shop did you do the chocolate yoghurt thing at?
Stewarts. Yellow pack was their value range. Not sure if Stewarts was just in N. Ireland though so it may not be familiar to many? We didn't have Tesco or Asda then, just Stewarts, Crazy Prices or Wellworth's. Long gone now.

I have to laugh because my very expensive chocolate yoghurts must have only cost about 24p.
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Old 01-01-2017, 03:25
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A Cornetto ice cream, they were so expensive even my parents only got one as a treat!

Any ice cream/lolly over 45-60p and any chocolate bar over 40p!

Being allowed an ice cream off the ice cream van

A Walnut Whip, which I would discard the walnut part on top instantly.

Mint Munchies, these cost more than the the standard red packet so not allowed them as often.

A ride out in the car at weekends

Calpol and those little bottle shaped squishy things that were put under your pillow if you had a blocked nose, well worth being ill for

Being allowed the more expensive cereal as it was on offer. Double the delight if it happened to have a free item in it.

Banana Angel Delight with bananas, the only pudding that was served in a fancy bowl, very posh

Being allowed the pick n' mix at Woolies

Toffeepops biscuits

mint Viscount biscuits

Warburtons milk roll bread, sounds trivial but this couldn't be bought anywhere around us so the only time we got it was when we went visiting my nan and relatives in Manchester. A real treat, we'd often eat it dry in the car on the way home!

Being allowed to rummage through the skip in the school on the last day of the summer term and take whatever we wanted. Not just a quick look but actually climb right into the skip and dig or crawl your way to the bottom underneath all the old broken chairs, tables, bis of wood and everything else to have a really good loot. I got enough plastic wallets and graph paper to see me through the rest of my school days, several exercise books, a story book, some pens and markers that still actually wrote, a ring binder and I even found a bag at the bottom to carry it all home in. I swear that that was hands down the best day of school I ever had.
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