Snacks from your youth that the PC Health and Safety Clean Eating Brigade now stamp down on

[mrs quoad]

I have just nurtured my inner farrage by making our toddler a snack from our 80s childhood, "mashed bananas with sugar and cream."

In the cold light of 2017 day, this seems marginally less morally bankrupt than his naptime hot toddy and cigar.

(Representations have also just been made for chocolate digestives, which have been crumbled over the top. Photos updated).

Which snacks - and I do mean specifically snacks, no Findus horsey pancakes here tyvm, unless your parents fed them to you as snacks - festooned your childhood, but these days look +/- fucked up?

 

[Sirena]

Butter and sugar on bread.

 

[Pickman's model]

Chips

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Bread and dripping

 

[mrs quoad]

Butter and sugar on bread.

On a similar theme, my Dutch wife has "hagelslag" memories.

When people had birthdays at school, everyone would have hagelslag on buttered bread.

These are mostly "chocolate" flavour, where "chocolate" = 0.2% cocoa solids flavoured chalky sugar.

Though they also come in aniseed.

Dutch food, mmmmmmmm.

Yeah.

 

[Pickman's model]

Bacon butties
Welsh rarebit
Scottish rarebit

 

[Geri]

My favourite was toast with lard on, liberally sprinkled with salt.

 

[Mumbles274]

Peeled apple. Bowl of sugar. Goodbye teeth

 

[High Voltage]

Hand on heart - I don't honestly remember having snacks between meals as a child, certainly not as a norm . . . what I do remember is "It'll spoil your (insert name of next upcoming meal)

 

[Thora]

Sugar on fruit was definitely more of a thing - strawberries and sugar, apples and sugar. Also bananas with chocolate buttons pushed into the middle and baked.

 

[AnnaKarpik]

Me too, no snacks. I can remember one person in our junior school would eat a bag of crisps every day at morning break; just one.

We had some fine meals though, especially during the school holidays; crisp sandwiches with extra salt, banana sandwiches made with rescued bits of almost-entirely-black bananas. Onion sandwiches.

 

[Orang Utan]

The only snacks we were allowed that I remember now were those little packs of Sunmaid raisins, which I'm pretty sure you can get now.
We called them treats, rather than snacks.

 

[mrs quoad]

The only snacks we were allowed that I remember now were those little packs of Sunmaid raisins, which I'm pretty sure you can get now.
We called them treats, rather than snacks.

We get them now. And keep the boxes for refilling, as they are extortionately priced as sold.

 

[The Boy]

Chocolate on bread. Ketchup sandwiches. Mayonnaise sandwiches. Bowl of instant mash and ketchup.

All of the above would be tolerated when we were on holidays in the French countryside, and only really because I'd spend about five hours a day cycling around empty roads burning the calories off.

 

[Pickman's model]

Lard

 

[Thimble Queen]

Butter and sugar on bread.

I used to have butter and sugar on hot chapatti

 

[Sirena]

I used to have butter and sugar on hot chapatti

It would probably be another 20 years before I heard the word chapatti for the first time...

 

[Orang Utan]

It would probably be another 20 years before I heard the word chapatti for the first time...

Eh?

 

[Thimble Queen]

It would probably be another 20 years before I heard the word chapatti for the first time...

Ugandan Asians tend to call them rotli. So that's what I first knew them as. Chapatti came later for me too

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Sugar on cereal.

 

[Pickman's model]

Sugar in cereal

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Peeled apple. Bowl of sugar. Goodbye teeth

It was raw rhubarb dipped in sugar for us. (((poor teeth)))

 

[Ax^]

without the e number's its just not the same

 

[fishfinger]

Raw bacon rind. Raw sausages.

 

[etnea]

Bone marrow on toast

 

[The Boy]

Bone marrow on toast

You'd get served that nowadays if you were snacking in a Michelin star establishment.

edit: sourdough toast, obvs

 

[harpo]

Biscuits from Kwik Save that were lurid purple or green. The cause of at least half an hour of manic running around.

 

[Cid]

You'd get served that nowadays if you were snacking in a Michelin star establishment.

edit: sourdough toast, obvs

I think he's got one. Or has had one. Bit more than a snack there though.

 

[Cid]

This one has three (well, wiki says 2 so the article it's from is probably wrong):

 

[Orang Utan]

I had some as a starter at Hawksmoor - yum