The rice paper flying saucers, I loved those. Bought one of those hampers for my husbands Christmas a couple of years ago filled with 80’s sweeties and I ate his flying saucers. Still yummy.
OH! just remembered - the same Gran - used to let me have lemonade with a drop of port in it when l had a bad cold. Use to go back to school with bright rosy cheeks after drinking it. Medicinal!!!
And anybody have coke and ice cream??? That was my treat if I was really really good.
Shazzie xx
We used to do ice-cream and cream soda rather than coke. And also putting cocoa powder on ice-cream and letting it melt a bit so you could swirl it round and make chocolate ice-cream cause we normally only got vanilla. Of course it was from the wee corner shop and ‘home-made’ rather than mass produced so it actually did taste of vanilla and cream.
Strange how back then it was the supermarket bought one that was special cause of the different flavours and it was also more expensive. Now its the supermarket bought that is cheap and the wee corner shop still sells it but its now the special occasion one. They do rum and raisin and tutti frutti and other flavours as well now, its yummy.
JBK x
Mmmm yeah a coke float. Yum A
There use to be a pop called ‘Cream Soda’
Still is Spacejacket. You can get it in 3 litre bottle at the corner shop at home. For those poor wee children who never tried this nectar is was very creamy and vanilla-y in taste. Lovely!!
I also loved Dandelion and Burdock.
I may just have to pop into Asda tomorrow - they have both of them.
JBK x
Me too JBK x
I never liked Coke so didn’t want that in my ice cream floats but liked the ice cream and cream soda. I used to like limeade Corona, always a special treat at weekends only.
Now, you’ve got me thinking about ice lollies. The lemonade ones were better years ago. I’m sure strawberry splits were too. My favourite were funny faces and funny feet and the white ones with pictures of ghosts on them. Can’t remember what they were called but I bet someone can. I’m not so keen on today’s Magnums. I love chocolate but it’s too rich with ice cream (can’t believe I’m saying that). When it’s hot, I’d rather have something refreshing and fruity really. I miss the ice cream van, you don’t see many of them round our way any more.
Tracey x
Yes Tracey, limeade was lush!!! And the old fashioned cherryade.
THE ICE CREAM VAN I used to love the little bit of ice cream that used to be in a little paper wrapper and the man used to give us 2 wafers to put either side of them. Can’t remember what they were called.
Shazzie xx
I reckon it must have been. Can’t really remember but it was the first thing I cooked!!!
Shazzie xx
I was joking!!! Hehehe!! Well I had to take the wrapper off didn’t I? That was a lot at age 6.
Hubby just said yes it was called ice cream sandwich.
Shazzie xx
Anyone remember Lucky Bags? Sealed bag with a few knickknacks and sweets in, but you did not know what until you had bought and opened it. Sold in the sweetie shops. Mothers used to hate them because they were such a waste of pocket money, so once you were allowed to go to the sweetie shop on your own, they would be the first thing you would buy, of course, even ahead of Wagon Wheels. It was rumoured that somebody had a friend who had once got a Lucky Bag with a real diamond ring in. Alison
‘Fab 1’ lollies, anyone? (Hint - 1960s babies only.) Alison
In Norn Iron the ice cream sandwich was called a Slider. Don’t ask me why. And I recently saw that lucky bags were back only these were Peppa Pig ones. JBK x
Alison. I remember Lucky Bags. Brilliant memory.
Thanks Kelly. I reckon it depended what part of the world it was sold I suppose. It tasted nice though Hehehe!!
Shazzie xx
Hahaha Polar Bear. Baked Alaska was lush in the old days. Hey. That suits your avatar doesn’t it?
Shazziexx
When I was 15 I used to work in an ice cream van, a dream job. Hated when kids came up to the window with a few pennies for a mixer bag and stood for what seemed an hour humming and hawing over what to spend their precious pennies on, “2 bananas, a white mouse and 2 black jacks, no make it one black jack and 3 white mice, no make it one banana” and on and on changing their minds. I used to love double nougets, this as 2 pieces of wafer sandwiched with marshmallow with chocolate round their edge and a scoop of ice cream then topped with anothe wafer. Very calorific but delicious. There was also an oyster, this was a wafter shaped like an oyster, inside was a dollop of marshmallow and the end of the oyster was dipped in chocolate, with a scoop of ice cream inside. Linda x
Well, I’m more famous for dropped alaska than baked alaska… I dropped a baked alaska onto the over door (we stll ate it!) but I actually had to get a screw driver out to clean the oven door after that, it was one with a glass section so there was vanilla ice cream melted through the glass section, nightmare!
And Spacejacket, yes I remember the Corona man… and now I am inexplicable humming the R Whites tune, you know the “I’m a secret lemonade drinker”
…and that kind of led on to “watch out, watch out there’s a Humprey about!” I’m having a throwback to childhood lol!
Sonia x
[quote=“JellyBellyKelly”] In Norn Iron the ice cream sandwich was called a Slider. Don’t ask me why. And I recently saw that lucky bags were back only these were Peppa Pig ones. JBK x [/quote] I was just explaining to Mr H (who is English) about sliders last week. I had not even realized that they don’t have them over here. The ice cream was always on the pavement in about 2 seconds, I remember. Alison (ex Norn Irn)