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To those of you who look back with nostalgia at sitting outside pubs in the 70s, you'll probably enjoy some of this thread.

Vesta mealls. They were vile ,but dad used to buy them from the cash and carry. You were lucky if you got two prawns in the paella.
Fizz boms, yes I remeber them well.
I love tinned mandarins ,with evap. I'm going to get some and make a trifle( with ahmed jelly, I'm veggie
didn'thvae french bread pizza, used to like those ham and cheese escalopes, now what were they called?

Treats from my gran:
A scoop of ice cream in my glass of lemonade
Raspberries with squirty cream zapped in the middle of it
Rhubarb sticks dipped in sugar

Treats from my mum:
Pancakes smothered in lemon curd
Iceberg sundaes from Mark Toney (vanilla ice ream with mint and chocolate sauces, 1 of those spiral wafers with chocolate in the middle and an after eight in the top!)
Angel Delight

evaporated milk, usually on tinned peaches or tinned mandarin segments.

Fizz bombs - used to make your tongue a vivid colour

Vesta meals (we thought we were sophisticated eating paella)!

Frozen french bread pizza's (exotic)

They still sell screwballs here. I always had a cider lolly.Oysters looked pretty though.
Remember when pies in the chippy had a proper crust? Now they are flabby microwaved offerings.

Choc cigarettes were delicious. My brother once had a Dunhill Junior smokers kit, complete with choc pipe and coconut "shag".

If we were well behaved during shopping "in town" we also used to get the choice of a flake cake or a Belgian bun to take home for tea. Flake cake was choc sponge square with jam in the middle, coated with chocolate and a mini flake on the top. Belgian bun always had lemon curd filling in the folds.

Did anyone have a "screwball" as a treat on the beach/seaside? We lived on the coast so most Sundays meant walking the dog down to the beach. If it was hot and the ice cream man was there were were allowed one of three things:

A "99" - vanilla cornet with flake and raspberry sauce
A Zoom lolly
A screwball - plastic cone with chewing gum in bottom, whipped ice cream on top with sauce.

But we were never allowed an "Oyster" because they were too expensive. I had my first one when I was 33, my dh bought me one after listening to me wittering probably and it was most disappointing!

Jamaica rum chocolate. Dad always gave me a bit of his.
Cheese and onion cobs, that shattered when you bit into them.
Heinz oxtail soup on a cold night.
Wrapping my pyjamas around my hot water bottle to warm them up.
Lying in the back of our estate car,with a quilt over us, watching the lights at Blackpool.
Whistle sweets after a trip to the dentist ( they were sugar free).
Egg and cress on tiny bridge roll " boats" with a cheese slice for a sail,only served at the best birthday parties.

Fish 'n' Chips crisps, lime Crusha, chocolate cigarettes and Panda Pops

Sainsbos sell caraway seeds in the spices section.

I,m all misty eyed with the fumes nostalgia .

Happy days!

I remember the smell - warm beer & cigarettes, and the laughter coming from the swing doors.

My gran also used to run a pub, and while she worked, and babysat us my cousins and I would sit in the yard around a beer keg with crates for chairs, eating chicken and chips in a basket.

Then we'd collect the bottle tops and play games, running around in the dark like feral kids.

Yes, mostly on a Saturday afternoon.
I,d wedge meself on a corner and people watch, used to get given bits of change by drunkards customers coming in and out .
Bloody hell, it was different world back then.

pathan was that sat outside whilst your parents were in the pub?

I remember my DB and I sitting in the car in the pub carpark drinking coke in a glass bottle with a straw, and having a packet of Hedgehog crisps.

I think we just used to mess about in the drivers seat and play with the buttons.

Such was life in the 70's..

Glad it wasn't just me! We loved going to the pub on a Saturday night with mum and dad, we used to sit outside and watch the bats in the woods. People would be horrified by that now but it was great!

Thought of another great we loved - tongue sandwiches

Ahhh. Englishgirl, my childhood was spent on the pub steps, with cockles and mussels and a bottle of panda!.

Accident I do!!! and also frozen orange juice concentrate. Rose hip syrop, it's no good, I've got to hit the hay.
Grandad gave us Rhubarb and a bag of sugar, Mandy the terrier uses to perster me for some.

Fondant fancies... Well theres another story. Personally hated them but each to his own. Lemon Puffs, can't get decent ones now.Prefer a Garibaldi .
Seed cake anyone? What ever happened to caraway seeds. I've even tried the polish shops but they elude me.

sugar sandwiches, spicy tomato snaps and potted meat sandwiches, blancmange and home made coconut cake.

sometimes my mum used to give us small raw rhubarb sticks which we used to dip in the sugar bowl and then eat

I didn't realise you could get flavoured crisps until 1973 as my mum only bought ready salted

does anyone remember the concentrated orange juice that the health visitor gave us? lush

Ooh yes. Cockles and mussels in vinegar sitting outside the pub with a panda pop! There used to be loads of kids at the pub on a weekend, does that still happen?

We used to go to Wimpy on a Saturday afternoon and have a Knickerbocker Glory, I would look forward to it all week! Favourite treats at home were either Fondant fancies and Viennese whirls or home made butterfly cakes and rock cakes.

Agree that cupcakes are rubbish - much prefer a slice of Victoria sandwich or a fairy cake.

Remember blue smarties? Arctic roll was a very special treat indeed. Much nicer than Vianetta.
Pickled egg anyone? My 6 year old loves 'em. They always giggle when she asks for one at the chippy.And cockles, caustic, gritty, and unctuous at the same time.

Arctic roll for special occasions.

On Friday after school my mum would give us (me and two brothers) 10p. We would buy three tubes of smarties and bring her back the change.

Thanks Globaldisaster, I will go and look forthwith!

You can still get thousand Island dressing, it's called seafood sauce.I love it even though it's not trendy, but I'm very anti Jamie Oliver and all that bollocks.
I love prawn cocktails, I'm not ashamed to admit it.
Berni Inns were where my family went for a treat.