General Chat

Um.........was just thinking and realised one of my favourite things as a kid was a condensed milk sandwich! Very sticky, sweet and messy.......more so than honey in sandwiches but yummy. Then my grandfather (Pop) used to make put two rich tea biscuits together with butter between them and I used to love them. You have to squeeze the biscuits together till the butter oozes out of the little holes in the biscuits!!! Not exactly healthy eating! Sue

Hi Deb Hope you are well? Not so much taste but smell Brian took me to Ruislip Lido when i was pregnant with Tia ( i was 37) the last time i went i was about 11 and the smell was still the same.

Hiyah Deb for me it has to be Plum Pie my darlin Gran made a lovely one. June xx

Brenda from Wales: Did you ever soak licorice root/licorice sticks(the black stuff) in water over night to make drinks for next day's picnic/playing out?? Witch Hazel

Hays, you really must have my genes somehow, I am a real telly addict like you, and love lucozade, and many more similarities! Oh except for the smelly cheese!! lol

TIZER!!!! when i was poorly my dad would buy it for me ....don't think its around anymore!!???xxxxxxxxxxxxx I can still smell it.xxx (Mum,I live on Lucozade..!)xxxxxxxxxx

My mums soda bread, apple pies, warm coke, smiths crisps with the little blue salt sachet and yellow snow!!! Yellow snow oh my rainy days. Anne

Rice Pudding with the brown skin on the top...My Mum always made one on sunday's Bacon & Onion Suet rolly polly boiled in a cloth.....Made by my Nan, Ummmmmm.... Not had it for years but can still remember the taste, it was my favourite.

Real Lucozade when ever I was poorly, magic cure that! 'Cold cocoa' - just a big spoonful of drinking chocolate powder, a spoon of sugar, and cold milk (altho no fridge!) Mum's homemade toffee or coconut ice or coconut pyramids! Always blame Mum for my sweet tooth, she had one and thought she was doing good for us by baking us sweet things, when sugar came off rations it was a big treat.

marmite - I always had marmite sandwiches when I was off school poorly Gwynne

Brenda, yes I remember the licorice root. We used to call it 'Sticky Lice' for some reason, and was one of the selections on the penny tray at the sweet shop. My Dad asked for cherries for his 5th birthday (1942). I don't know how they managed to get them with the war going on but they did! He spent most of the war in Hollyhead, Wales with my GG Aunty Norah, who I had the pleasure to meet. I have a photo of my son sitting on her knee, she was his GGG Aunt! Deb

Sterilized milk ,or paralised as my OH used to call it. Mum used to have two pints of that plus 3 pints ordinary milk every day. She would water the sterilized milk so to make it go further.as we were a big family,.Horrible stuff,only just palatable in Camp coffee cos it dampened down the chicory taste. Better taste was Liquorice wood especially if you got a sweet bit,and Trebor Fruit salads and my favourites Black Jacks. Shirley

Kaz Sorry but I still drink Sterilized milk, can only get it from one milk man round here. Kim

Pear drops, Cough candy Victory Vs Dandelion and burdock

Although I haven't had any since my childhood, Wall's Peach Melba ice cream, which I remember to be quite tart. There was always a fight EVERY Sunday when my Nan sent us to the shop after our tea to get the ice cream. My Aunty (18 months younger than me) always insisted that it was her turn to choose the flavour (did I metion that she was very spoilt?). She liked Raspberry Ripple, which was too sweet for me. Funny thing is I still don't care too much for sweet things. Deb

Cream soda!!! My dad used to put icecream in it.................it fizzed everywhere!!!! OH memories!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sterilised milk!!! eeeeeeyuch! Still makes me feel sick My grandparents always had it - on yer cornflakes aaaaaaargh! Kaz :o))))

Nesquick strawberry milk shake powder. My Gran always got some in for me.

Sarsparilla monkey nuts flying saucers cockles and winkles.

Army & Navy sweets, also a glass of Dandelion & Burdock, used to asked for 2 penith worth (old pence!) I can still smell them. Kim