favourite childhood treat

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BORIS

Monday, August 9, 2010 2:17 AM

My absolute fave was "Fairy Bread"
slices of bread spread thinly with butter or margarine and then covered in hundreds and thousands....YUMO! still one of my favourite along with homemade toffees we used to buy at fetes (also decorated with hundreds and thousands)and lamingtons (sponge squares dipped in chocolate and coconut)
What are yours?

OPTIMUS1998

Monday, August 9, 2010 2:43 AM

my mom only made 'em once, or twice, but i can still taste 'em 20+ years later....

"banana fritters"
basically chunks of banana, covered in a sweet batter(kinda like elephant ear batter, or the same stuff the cover candy bars, oreos and the like in at the fair), deep fried and dusted with powdered sugar.

delish

http://www.teamcoco.com

I was a Lima loser for 29 years before "glee" introduced us to the term. -ME

BRIGLAD

Monday, August 9, 2010 2:53 AM

Peanut butter cookies with a Hershey kiss in the middle. My mom only made them around Christmas time and I do so miss them (She passed on in '92)

CHRISISALL

Monday, August 9, 2010 2:57 AM

http://www.oldtimecandy.com/space-food-sticks.htm

I ate these by the truckload!

The laughing Chrisisall

BORIS

Monday, August 9, 2010 3:21 AM

These all sound good. I also ate a tonne of spacefood sticks as a kid...I still get them occasionally but they seem smaller (maybe coz I'm bigger) and don't taste quite the same. But they're still good.
Actually alot of stuff doesn't taste as good as it used to...I have a hell of a time finding decent white chocolate in Australia. Most of what we have here has too much vegetable oil and not enough cocoa butter.

FREMDFIRMA

Monday, August 9, 2010 5:56 AM

THIS.

http://oldtimecandy.com/expand/brachs-holiday-mix.htm
http://oldtimecandy.com/expand/brachs-gloria-mix.htm

Seriously, if I find it in a store, I take ALL of it, and one time this happened, that was actually several CASES.

-Frem

LWAVES

Monday, August 9, 2010 12:50 PM

My Grandma used to bake quite a bit after she and Grandad retired to the seaside. There were lots of things she did that I liked but my faves were a cherry and walnut cake and even more so was a cherry and sultana flapjack. She could always get the butter content just right so that the flapjack was soft but not too chewy or heavy on the stomach.
Hmmmm.

My fave sweets back in the 70's/80's were called Pacers. They were a mint flavoured Opal Fruit/Starburst chewy sweet that had green and white stripes on them.
After that it would be Scotch Mints which I could only ever find in one location (near my grandparents bungalow in Skegness). They were larger than gobstoppers but like mint imperials. You started with a hard shell, then a slightly softer, crumblier layer finishing with a very chewy centre. It took about half an hour to eat one and your jaw certainly knew it!!

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BORIS

Monday, August 9, 2010 2:37 PM

my favourite lollies (sweets/candies) were: jaffas, spheres with Crisp red orange flavoured shells encasing milk chocolate centres; and rectangular fruit bon bons in paper wrappers. hard on the outside chewy on the inside. Miss those. we used to get bags of individually wrapped chocholate covered Sicilian Nougat pieces whenever friends/relatives travelled back from the "old country"...my Aunty Mary god love her still sends me a bag every now and then along with "pasta di mandole" (Almond paste) biscuits.

IREMISST

Monday, August 9, 2010 2:40 PM

I wasn't allowed Cokes or candy as a kid, but my grandma made a Amish cheese custard pie that I could never get enough of!

BORIS

Monday, August 9, 2010 2:55 PM

Yum to any thing with custard in it. we weren't allowed many bought sweets when I was a kid in the 70's only every now and again as treats. Then when they started putting lots of chemical additives in so many things I wasn't allowed them at all as my mum cottoned on to the fact that colours etc made me extremely hyper and insane. I didn't really like fizzy drinks until I was older. I never drink coke as I'm not supposed to have any caffeine. I have also used coke at times to unblock drains, clean tarnished metal, and to do crazy effects on leather before I stain it...so there's no way I'm putting that stuff into myself!

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