Things we ate as a kid

My little girl came in from the garden chomping on something crunchy, as I hadn't given her any food I asked her to show me what it was, a yummy swishy snail, she would have finished it off if I hadn't stopped her!! She still isn't a fussy eater so turned out well

 

i didnt like faggots or brawn
i liked fruitsalads n black jacks n milk bottles n milk lunch bars n cod balls n sweet shrimps n cigarettes . loads more i cant remember at the mo.

i used to work on birds eye production line making those in my college holidays , bless u , if only youd known

 

Findus crispy pancakes now you are talking

 

Curry flavoured

 

oh yeh chewing tobacco coconunt . yet i never smoked .

 

Bag of chippy scraps , all the bits of batter and chips that were to small to go into a real portion, 10p I think it was, yum

 

We used to get coconuts too as a treat , bought one for the children recently and I excitedly smashed it open to get the milk out and eat all the white , it's was dissapointing, didn't taste like a bounty bar or anything

 

winkles n shrimps i caught

 

These we used to get them from the machines at the railway stations

 

spanish gold eating tabaco sweets, hedge hogs , moon dust, milk teeth ,white mice , winter mixtures sweets ,texan bars , danties , bubble gum , ie bubblies , owen nw

 

I used to love that coconut tobacco

 

I'm just glad you corrected the title, it was doing my head in.

 

jamboree bags

 

I loved jamboree bags as a kid, but the toys in them were crap

 

Does anyone remember the rockets you could buy that you put a cap in the end ?

 

Barneyrubble didn't that chocolate from the railway machines taste superb

 

When I was growing up we used to dream of owning a slug as a family pet.

A slug was seen as the Rolls Royce of gastropod moluscs'....none of this naff shell malarky....

 

Cigarette sweets - the most improbably sweet to ever make a comeback:

 

I know a kid who owned a pet bat,but he only used to play out after dark.

 

A Nestle's Crunch from a vending machine on the Underground did have a certain taste. I think it was asbestos brake dust...