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Random/unusual things you considered a 'treat' when you were a kid
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paulsh1
06-01-2017
When I was a kid and went to see my grandmother, as a treat she would pick an apple off her tree,peel it,stick it on a fork and dip it in sugar before giving it to me!

No wonder I've had so much trouble with my teeth!!!
Laurel1ne
06-01-2017
Originally Posted by paulsh1:
“When I was a kid and went to see my grandmother, as a treat she would pick an apple off her tree,peel it,stick it on a fork and dip it in sugar before giving it to me!

No wonder I've had so much trouble with my teeth!!!”

We did a similar thing with the Rhubarb patch at the bottom of the garden, a stick of Rhubarb and a bowl of sugar

Yes my dentist has built a 2nd home thanks to me
Laurel1ne
06-01-2017
Originally Posted by benjamini:
“Olive oil in our house was for entirely medicinal reasons, namely for earache no idea why!
Cremola foam was a huge treat. Later a tiny tin of Nescafé coffeee powder.”

The Talk Radio Host Iain Lee tells a funny story of how his mother warmed up olive oil to pour into his ear, but it was too hot when she poured it in
swingaleg
06-01-2017
Originally Posted by Laurel1ne:
“We did a similar thing with the Rhubarb patch at the bottom of the garden, a stick of Rhubarb and a bowl of sugar

Yes my dentist has built a 2nd home thanks to me ”

sugar butties !

pretty much every meal included a plate of bread and butter and for 'afters' we'd often just take a slice, dip the buttered side into the sugar bowl and eat it
Lamin_Ator
06-01-2017
Choc Dip
Crusty white rolls
Top of the milk
Tony Richards
06-01-2017
Oxo crisps and fig rolls at the swimming baths.

Lyons Maid ice cream (square block) with Sunday dessert and Tizer to drink.
Tellystar
06-01-2017
Being allowed to post letters
Choosing a cake off the bakers van, usually a meringue
Putting dusters over our slippers and sliding over lino
Picking the first blue bells from the woods near our home( not allowed now!)
benjamini
06-01-2017
Originally Posted by Laurel1ne:
“The Talk Radio Host Iain Lee tells a funny story of how his mother warmed up olive oil to pour into his ear, but it was too hot when she poured it in”

My mum did warm the oil but she also put warm salt in a hankie, tied it and we held it behind the sore ear
Keyser_Soze1
Yesterday, 00:40
Pork dripping sandwiches - no bloody way would I even attempt to look at one now let alone consume it - but then they tasted just great.
sqwerty505
Yesterday, 09:40
Originally Posted by Laurel1ne:
“When my school would go to the next-town's Municipal swimming pool for lessons. Püost swim while everyone was gathering for the coach to drop the next class off and pick us up the vending machine has this weird mint-bar. It was kind of like a honey-comb filling but made if mint and far more powdery then covered with a thin layer of chocolate

It cost about 50 centimes but was the best thing about weekly swimming lessons”

We would always have a vending machine drink after swimming, basically the same range of flavours but you could choose to have it flat or fizzy. I always had the blackcurrant, can still remember the taste and intense colour.

At high school, we had chips after swimming as it was later in the day - yum!
montyburns56
Yesterday, 20:02
In the 70s when we'd go shopping with my mum on a Friday we'd go to the local cafe and have a glass of lemonade and an Orange Club biscuit. Sheer luxury!
pie-eyed
Yesterday, 20:36
A pomegranate was a once a year treat. You only got them around November/December and I think they were quite expensive. My mother would say she didn't mind paying as long as I ate it all. I loved it. Somehow, nowadays they don't taste the same.
blueisthecolour
Yesterday, 21:19
For me a treat was whenever we went to a toy store - Toys R Us, Children's World, the toy department in John Lewis. I can't remember every being bought anything outside of birthdays and christmas but I remember just spending ages playing with display stuff.
Brandy211
Yesterday, 22:13
Sweet peanuts
Lemonade powder
A cider lolly
A Mr Whippy
Broken biscuits (the one with pink centre)
Caramel square biscuits
A bounty

A wimpy special grill
A portion of chips
An all milk instant coffee, not Camp!

sixpence for Saturday pictures
cah
Today, 00:26
Originally Posted by Croctacus:
“Fizzy drinks.

When I was small we only had them at Christmas.”

Same here ,we had a Crate of different Pops every year at Christmas and was really excited when they came
The only other time we really had Fizzy Pop was when we went on our 2 weeks summer Holiday to the Seaside ....also it was a treat if My Mum bought a Bottle of Orange off the Milkman at the weekend along with the usual daily bottles of Milk every now and then
grahamzxy
Today, 05:06
I used to have a weekly treat after school of cheesy Wotsits, green grapes and Strawberry Ski yogurt.....in the same bowl 😀

The other treat was Alpine pops (like Barr fizzy drinks)....I recall it was 3 different litre bottles for 90p in the early 80's...The colours were very vivid and the taste was so good.
annette kurten
Today, 05:56
powdered orange drink, i would still love it now i suspect.

[cointreau treatment notwithstanding]

edit: rise and shine it was called.

edit again: my mother`s plj was a favourite tipple too.
Tt88
Today, 12:12
We grew up in a modest family home in an area where all the homes were pretty similar. With dad's job he would rarely leave his workplace but if the delivery driver was off then he would do his job. If this clashed with the school holidays and I was good then I would go with him on deliveries in the hope of seeing big houses

There was one stand out delivery he made to a huge house that had its own lake with a rowing boat, and you had to stop at the gates and talk into a little box and wait for the gates to open. As a kid this was amazing and something that you only ever saw on TV!
killjoy
Today, 12:16
Quote:
“Pork dripping sandwiches - no bloody way would I even attempt to look at one now let alone consume it - but then they tasted just great.”


In my case it had to be beef dripping ~ as a special treat the bread was dipped in the hot fat round the joint rather than cold on bread.
Rekekah_Carter
Today, 13:14
Originally Posted by killjoy:
“In my case it had to be beef dripping ~ as a special treat the bread was dipped in the hot fat round the joint rather than cold on bread.”

Beef dripping for me too, but on toast, with a good sprinkle of salt. Delicious! I still love it now.
killjoy
Today, 13:43
Oh yes, you had to have the salt on it.
An Thropologist
Today, 13:58
Originally Posted by CollieWobbles:
“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.

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BIB I am suddenly reminded of how delighted me and my siblings, friends etc would be if we got a plaster! I even wangled one for a headache once.
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