What did you use to love as a child that you can't see the attraction of now?

[GallicosCats]

I was looking back to when I was a teenager on a school trip to the Barbican to see, I forget, probably The Importance of being Ernest. And before it started a group of us had a grand old time riding the lifts. A friend of mine who used to bunk off lessons regularly would find it great fun to hide under the stage during assembly. Why??? It was dark, damp and full of creepy crawlies. She shakes her head and laughs at herself now.

I also tried a cough candy the other day (which I used to love on the rare occasions I had them). I couldn't finish it. Too much sugar in one go (probably just as well).

Anyone else want to share their remembered pleasures which turn out to be a bit meh, or 'WTF was all that about?' as an adult?

Big holiday hotels - all inclusive.

Flavoured sparkling water

Playing pretend. I try to do that with my dc now but it bores me to death.

Heinz tomatoes soup
Toast covered with ketchup (WTF)
Simon Le Bon
smoking

Bubblegum.. the smell makes me wretch now!
Rick Astley
Chesney Hawkes
Michael Jackson
I would have happily married any of them, now I feel I may have had a lucky escape 😁

Escalators
Bay City Rollers
Dairylea & ketchup sandwiches

Pets. My DD loves cats, so we have three, I could live without them. I imagined when I grew up I'd have a house full of cats.

Food wise, tinned mince with mash. Liver and onions, with mash and gravy. Ulster fry, unless they've changed the recipe.

Sunbathing and swimming.

Ricki Lake/Maury/Jerry Springer type shows seemed entertaining.
Now they make me cringe.

Worzel Gummage???? Seriously why was I obsessed grin]

My family !

Picking my nose

Horses, watching TV, sweet foods, The Rolling Stones.

Filofaxes
Penny sweet
Tunes / Halls / Soothers etc
Glittery nail polish
Flat Shoes that clopped as you walked

MacDonalds fries. I want them to taste as amazing as I remember but they’re just meh.

I’ve become very squeamish about spiders and insects and creepy crawlies as I’ve got older. I was much braver as a child.

Pixie boots

Really high/fast rides at the fair.

Heights generally.

Laurel and Hardy

minute steaks- was obsessed.
only eating blue sweets-amazing when blue Smarties came out.
black cord necklaces

Johnny depp and Orlando bloom when they were in pirates of the Caribbean.

For me it was Orlando Bloom as Legolas in Lord of the Rings.

Jumping/ diving into water from a height.

Fairgrounds.

Permed hair.

Jumpsuits.

H.R. Pufnstuf.

I bought the DVD box-set off eBay a few years ago. I couldn't take more than the first five minutes of the opening episode.

party rings
polly pocket toys (when they were genuinely tiny)
creme eggs
Casualty (tv)
Apple tango
Theatre (regional) designed for children, inc panto.

The original Mr Men books. I saved them all from my childhood to read to my kids.

Fuck me, they were boring. Same goes for Stig of The Dump.

Blue Peter
Wagon Wheels
The Double Deckers
Fruit Polos

Woodlice
Bubblegum cards
Free gifts from cereal boxes
Tents
Cycling

@RosiePozie I’ve just been playing the sims. Started playing when I was 11 which means I’ve been playing it for over half my life . I’ve never liked it on consoles though.

Oh and snow.

So exciting as a child. So fucking annoying and inconvenient now.

Going on swings.

Used to love going really high and making the chain raise up and then thump down.

Just sitting on it and moving millimetres makes my stomach feel funny.