What Food & Drink remind you of your childhood

mud · 26-04-2011 10:48PM

Little Acorn wrote: »

Can someone please help me remember a type of lollipop?
They were orange lollipops in this simple design : http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR6kKgZyokqd8149JFdiRwnvpJNrKt3oxaNEFWumK6tkWekBIkOGg&t=1
except that they were a darker orange, not see through, and very fizzy/tangy and had a picture on their clear outer wrapping.
Possibly a pic of a sun wearing sunglasses?

Weren't they just called fizzy lollies? A taste-bud explosion.

kfallon · 26-04-2011 10:49PM

£1 Burger Special in the Beefy King

lupalele · 26-04-2011 10:50PM

Ma Reilly crisps & Calypso's, loved them!

K-9 · 26-04-2011 11:03PM

Smak!

They were tins of minerals in the tuck shop, made in the North, a long, thin can rather than the normal ones. Cola and orange and Lemonade.

Maine bottled minerals, loads of different flavours, delivered by van and you returned the glass bottles. They've started doing the deliveries again and they do an amazing range of flavours, about 15 I'd say.

Arctic Roll.
Chewits.

Little Acorn · 26-04-2011 11:40PM

mud wrote: »

Weren't they just called fizzy lollies? A taste-bud explosion.

Thanks Mud, you are more than likely right, I just can't remember for sure. I just know that they looked [from my memory] something like this with red and black writing, and that they were yummy! :pac:

This a picture of the outside wrapper, just leaving the actual lolly colorless.

alie · 26-04-2011 11:47PM

I remember slicing eclairs in half to see if the heart was inside like the ad, so sad!!:P

Dudess · 27-04-2011 12:22AM

I did the exact same!

Soda Stream, fish fingers.

m@cc@ · 27-04-2011 12:26AM

Angel Delight, Creamola foam and semolina.

alie · 27-04-2011 08:46PM

Birds trifle
kojak lollies
golly bars
big times
spangles
pacers
black jacks
whistle pops
texan bars
flying saucers
caramac
foam shrimps
candy lipsticks

The Princess Bride · 27-04-2011 08:57PM

curly wurlys - still taste as good today as they did back then.
.....half the fat so you can eat twice as much!

macaroons and snowballs taste more artifical than before, and wibbly wobbly wonders taste better.

saywhatyousee · 27-04-2011 09:15PM

Does anyone remember when you would hear the chime of the ice cream van and you would run as fast as you could to your house and wreck your parents head for money!!:D:D

TFK · 27-04-2011 09:21PM

saywhatyousee wrote: »

Does anyone remember when you would hear the chime of the ice cream van and you would run as fast as you could to your house and wreck your parents head for money!!:D:D

My kids do that now! Now I understand how my mam felt LOL

aligator_am · 27-04-2011 09:21PM

Anyone remember when TK fizzy drinks were in glass bottles? and you'd get a few pence back if you returned the bottles to the shop

Mashed spuds with onions through it
Home made burgers (lol, "meal maker" was essential)
Rhubarb
He-Man jelly mould things, dunno the proper name but think I'm the only person in the world that remembers them!
Fizz bombs / Fizzy Fruits
Jawbreakers
Fruit salad / Blackjack sweets
Dib dabs + Sherbet fountains
Fishfingers (lol, I suspect everyone under the age of 20 has never eaten them, snooty feckers

)

TK cream soda
Cool pops, and if you were loaded you could get the giant ones for 50p
Supercans
Slurpies from 7-11, guaranteed brain freeze!
Slush puppies, do these still exist? reminds me of going to clara lara hahaha

slippy wicket · 27-04-2011 09:24PM

Those sausages that oozed cheese when you bit into them.
Afaik they had to be taken off the market as unsafe.

TFK · 27-04-2011 09:24PM

^^^^

I remember the He-man Jelly things!

My kids eat fish fingers, I showed them how to eat them properly, on bread with a slice of cheese and red sauce.......YUM

aligator_am · 27-04-2011 09:33PM

TFK wrote: »

^^^^

I remember the He-man Jelly things!

My kids eat fish fingers, I showed them how to eat them properly, on bread with a slice of cheese and red sauce.......YUM

Hahaha, good on ye! I thought I was imagining the jellies, I think they made bravestar ones after a while, but could be wrong.

Ah yeah, good aul fishfingers, bang em on a bita bread with some red sauce and away ya go, this upcoming generation will learn a lot about the wonders of red sauce

TFK · 27-04-2011 09:38PM

aligator_am wrote: »

Hahaha, good on ye! I thought I was imagining the jellies, I think they made bravestar ones after a while, but could be wrong.

Ah yeah, good aul fishfingers, bang em on a bita bread with some red sauce and away ya go, this upcoming generation will learn a lot about the wonders of red sauce

Not sure about the bravestar ones but there were deffo He-man ones! You had to peel the backing off them.

Oh that reminds me, tattoo chewing gums! The gum was rotten but the tattoos were the business.

saywhatyousee · 27-04-2011 09:43PM

aligator_am wrote: »

Anyone remember when TK fizzy drinks were in glass bottles? and you'd get a few pence back if you returned the bottles to the shop

Mashed spuds with onions through it
Home made burgers (lol, "meal maker" was essential)
Rhubarb
He-Man jelly mould things, dunno the proper name but think I'm the only person in the world that remembers them!
Fizz bombs / Fizzy Fruits
Jawbreakers
Fruit salad / Blackjack sweets
Dib dabs + Sherbet fountains
Fishfingers (lol, I suspect everyone under the age of 20 has never eaten them, snooty feckers )

TK cream soda
Cool pops, and if you were loaded you could get the giant ones for 50p
Supercans
Slurpies from 7-11, guaranteed brain freeze!
Slush puppies, do these still exist? reminds me of going to clara lara hahaha

I loved slush puppys no trip to Dublin would be complete without visiting the ILac center for one

aligator_am · 27-04-2011 09:46PM

TFK wrote: »

Not sure about the bravestar ones but there were deffo He-man ones! You had to peel the backing off them.

Oh that reminds me, tattoo chewing gums! The gum was rotten but the tattoos were the business.

Jaysus yeah, I'd forgotten about those! had to run them under a tap I think to get them to stick

Anyone remember the american football things where you got a miniature helmet and chewing gum, lol me and me 2 brothers ended up following 3 different teams over them, the competition was nearly as bad as trying to fill up the pannini sticker album for world cup 1990

El Horseboxo · 27-04-2011 09:49PM

Food: quesadillas, carne asada, chile relleno, chorizo, tortillas, empanadas, huevos rancheros, guacamole, mole poblano, chiclets de motitas, rancheritos.

Drinks: horchata, champurrado, jarritos, tejuino

landsleaving · 27-04-2011 09:52PM

Care Bear Bars
Woppas
Pear Sparklers

If any food company would like to bring those back I'd be eternally grateful. Thanks

TFK · 27-04-2011 09:56PM

Were there icepops called porky pigs? pineapply flavour

kfallon · 27-04-2011 10:15PM

aligator_am wrote: »

Anyone remember the american football things where you got a miniature helmet and chewing gum, lol me and me 2 brothers ended up following 3 different teams over them, the competition was nearly as bad as trying to fill up the pannini sticker album for world cup 1990

Oh yeah I remember them, collected them all meself, ah the memories

alie · 28-04-2011 12:46AM

Chocolate mice and there was chewing gum in the shape of a record sleeve, and it had the song words on the pack

ArtSmart · 28-04-2011 12:48AM

gin, vodka and pretzels.

good times.

gesty · 28-04-2011 12:50AM

Roy the Rovers & Hubba Bubba

saywhatyousee · 28-04-2011 12:53AM

Poppets loved the mint ones do they still sell them?

alie · 28-04-2011 01:02AM

yes, saw them recently in centra

kowloon · 28-04-2011 03:07AM

egan2020 wrote: »

Soda Stream drinks.

How did I forget to mention these?
They sell them again. Used to love messing about with different mixes of stuff.
And someone always overfizzed and had the mix all over the kitchen.

kfallon · 28-04-2011 10:57AM

Anyone remember Pez!

http://www.geeks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Pez.jpg

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