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

[Pickman's model]

Long pig

 

[Saul Goodman]

I used to take fish fingers from the freezer and suck them like an ice lolly

 

[DaveCinzano]

used to

 

[Pickman's model]

You still do, don't you, dc

 

[The Boy]

I used to take fish fingers from the freezer and suck them like an ice lolly

I do this with frozen oven chips. Makes the missus boke.

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Butter and sugar on bread.

That was what my dad fed us on when we were toddlers and mum was in hospital...
That and cheese on toast and beans on toast. But sugar on buttered bread...was ace and we were skinny little wiry kids who ran around all day outside.

 

[TikkiB]

Hundreds and thousands on bread and butter
Chicken or beef dripping on toast, but that was mainly for breakfast and I'm still partial

 

[Thimble Queen]

I used to love mithai when I was little esp coconut barfi, which i learned to make at school. I also loved jalebi. Jalebi - Wikipedia There's no way I couldn't eat a whole jalebi these days. I had some last week and it was so sweet!

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I think all of the above are already served by novelty Shoreditch restaurants.

 

[Thimble Queen]

I think all of the above are already served by novelty Shoreditch restaurants.

They can take their money grubbing hands off my mithai

 

[FridgeMagnet]

They can take their money grubbing hands off my mithai

I think you're okay there, they're not sufficiently ironic.

ETA: Mithai and jalebi are definitely sold on brick lane come to think of it but, you know, in actual shops not run by young men with lumberjack beards.

 

[crossthebreeze]

Raw rhubarb dipped in sugar (a good way to strip enamel from teeth)
Golden syrup sandwiches
My sister used to be partial to grated cheese mixed with sugar

 

[crossthebreeze]

Hundreds and thousands on bread and butter

Fairy bread! - that was more for kids parties and special occasions at my house

 

[Thimble Queen]

I think you're okay there, they're not sufficiently ironic.

Or the same mass appeal/nostalgia attached. I don't actually think mithai is meant to be for kids

 

[Thimble Queen]

Party rings and pink panther wafers. I thought pink panthers was something my family made up but I just Googled and there is an actual product that exists. I've not even seen the non-panther ones in the shops for ages...

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Party rings and pink panther wafers. I thought pink panthers was something my family made up but I just Googled and there is an actual product that exists. I've not even seen the non-panther ones in the shops for ages...

I love pink panther wafers - can demolish a pack in one go.

 

[Thimble Queen]

ETA: Mithai and jalebi are definitely sold on brick lane come to think of it but, you know, in actual shops not run by young men with lumberjack beards.

The Asian sweetmarts around there are ace. They got a lot of business from me in the 6 years I worked in the area

 

[toblerone3]

Not exactly this brand, but I definitely remember having sweet cigarettes in the early 1970s.

 

[toblerone3]

Semolina and melted butter.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Party rings and pink panther wafers

These are the favourite biscuits of a couple of people at work. In fact today I have been working with Party Ring Woman

 

[Thimble Queen]

These are the favourite biscuits of a couple of people at work. In fact today I have been working with Party Ring Woman

There sounds like there might be interesting stories attached to party ring woman

 

[clicker]

Salad cream sandwiches. Vinegar on bread. Golden syrup on toast. Definitely the apple and saucer of sugar... peeling off the rind of a sour green apple and dragging it through a hummock of Tate and Lyle's finest.

 

[mrs quoad]

Party rings and pink panther wafers. I thought pink panthers was something my family made up but I just Googled and there is an actual product that exists. I've not even seen the non-panther ones in the shops for ages...

I have a weird feeling that pink panther wafers are seen as a clean treat by erm... one of the clean eating factions.

Vegan?! Gluten free?! Can't remember. (Must google.)

Edit: vegan. And the company that made them has just gone into administration!

 

[DaveCinzano]

"You're hungry but can't wait till dinner and want something to snack on? Here, have a bowl of frozen peas."

 

[DaveCinzano]

I recall eating probably more dry cat food than I should have been as well - Go Cat, Friskies etc. Mmm, rabbit flavour!

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

I love pink panther wafers - can demolish a pack in one go.

Yup.
Me too. They're very easy to eat...
Still love them.

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

I recall eating probably more dry cat food than I should have been as well - Go Cat, Friskies etc. Mmm, rabbit flavour!

I ate dog biscuits.



And liked them.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

The Asian sweetmarts around there are ace. They got a lot of business from me in the 6 years I worked in the area

I can't even look in the windows without my teeth starting to ache

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I recall eating probably more dry cat food than I should have been as well - Go Cat, Friskies etc. Mmm, rabbit flavour!

Dog biscuits for me, along with being quite partial to doggy chocolates.

 

[crossthebreeze]

Not exactly this brand, but I definitely remember having sweet cigarettes in the early 1970s.

Think they were called candy or chocolate sticks when i was a kid - but the candy ones still had a red tip to look like a lit cigarette, and they were still in a box - so we all new they were cigarettes but not quite as blatent as those boxes.