General Chat

Yes Lynn, so many sweets, I used to love dolly mixtures as well, but when I bought them for my kids (in their 30's now) they would be in little packs and cost a lot, whereas we had 2 ounces, or quarters of sweets in a white bag, taken from a glass jar on the shelf - ladled out with a silver scoop into the tray on the scales......how I used to watch that needle, to make sure I got my money's worth...... btw, you with lard.....reminds me when my Sis and I were reminiscing about my Mum, and how she used to spread the butter thick on her bread, so that she left teeth marks in it....

sally all the sweets you said are in this sweetshop, its heaven got some satin pillows here in the sweetie dish from my last visit do you remember the old anglo bubbly individually wrapped in a pink yellow and blue wrapper ? got some of that too xxLynnxx

lol Gwyneth......lard hoarder, whatever next.... I used to love sweetshops, my favourites were prickly pears, especially the red ones....there was something called spearmint pips, and satin cushions, frozen Jubbly, that was packs of frozen orange juice.....fruit salads, broken rock, flying saucers (with sherbet in)....pineapple cubes - a bit like prickly pears, but sweet....fishermans friend, licourice sticks, sweet cigarettes.....I used to spend my pocket money on sweets and a Bunty comic on a Saturday.......

used to use it all the time Gwyn, but started to use oil a couple of years ago yes i remember the shortage a while back, had to go into town to get it local shop couldnt get any in my daughter turns green when she sees me doing toast, in case im going to put lard on it, silly girl !!!! xxLynnxx

Lynn I remember when people on these boards were talking of a lard shortage. Was it you hoarding secret supplies? I'll give it miss thanks, I never buy lard so I don't think I'll get some in for sandwiches, lol Gwyn

sally this sweetie shop by me is fantastic they sell everything you can remember from your childhood, my favourite being spanish gold, coconut peices coated in sugar used to be in a red and gold packet when i was a child they also do a brilliant range of sugar free sweets i could spend my whole housekeeping in there but do limit myself to only the occasional visit xxLynnxx

Didn't know they still did the trays, this would have been late 50's, so it is still popular then.......can't eat sweets or anything like that, I'm too worried about getting diabetis like my Mum.....

sally not dripping just ordinary everyday lard on a sarnie or toast with a little salt or sauce and yes i do remember the horlicks sweets yukkky hate the smell of it and there is an old fashioned sweet shop not far from me and they sell the trays of walkers toffee all flavours with a hammer, treacle being my favourite choccy spread sandwiches remember them well i had one yesterday !!! xxLynnxx

I remember having chocolate spread sarnies and treacle ones and condensed milk ones too, as well as the obligatory Jam ones. Hubby used to have sugar sarnies for his tea this was in the 1940,/50,s

Moonchild you can stilll buy trays of toffee in are market Valxxx

Lynn - by lard, you don't mean dripping do you?.....bread and dripping or toast and dripping was what we would have on a Monday tea......the hard fat left off from cooking the roast meat on a Sunday.....with salt on the top.... Haven't had it for years.....

I don't like Ovaltine Lynn - the Ovaltine works was in Abbots Langley, a stones throw from Hemel - and I remember listening to the wireless as a little un, and them singing 'We are the Ovaltinies, little girls and boys...etc. I don't like it, but......I do love Horlicks tablets - you could get them in a packet and I thought they were great. Don't like the drink though. Do you remember getting trays of treacle toffee and ordinary toffee, with a little hammer in, so that you could crack it. The black treacle toffee used to play havoc with my Dad's false teeth, but he loved it - we used to have it as a treat from Watford Market on a Saturday......

Gwyn, never heard of it ? give it a try, its delicious xxLynnxx

Lard?????? I can't believe you have that in sandwiches. I've never heard of that. Gwyn

regually have lard and salt on toast, and lard and brown sauce much to the disgust of my daughter xxLynnxx

Yes, Howie, condensed milk ones, sugar ones.....we used to make fudge with condensed milk too......its a wonder my teeth are still nice.....

My dad was in the army a band when he had evening practise my bother and i would go with him at the end one of the men on guard duty would bring a bucket of coco with evaporated milk in it it was so sweet we loved it, We had suger butties any one have lard and salt use to love that as well Valxxx

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I remember being told that brown sauce sandwiches were very good, so went into the larder and found a bottle of what I thought was brown sauce, made the sandwich and ate it. It was anchovy essence !!!!! Cant stand anchovies now brenda

yes Ruth i love liver sandwiches its got to be lambs liver with hp fruity sauce on xxLynnxx