What was a "treat" in your house growing up that

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Actually was just a normal food or drink? Mine was pure orange juice my parents only bought it at Christmas

A bottle of Tizer on the table just on Sunday’s.

goingtotown, Tizer! That takes me back! Tizer, THE appetizer

My aunt you Florrie would give us a nip of sherry as a treat, even when we were under 10. Mind you, my DH said his grandma bought him a bottle of sherry for Christmas when he was about 8

Vienetta after roast dinner on a Sunday

Angel Delight

Cycling to local small town with my dad to buy a Cadbury's whole nut bar, which was often shared while watching a video we'd picked at video shop.

A glass of piemontello fizzy wine and a bowl of crisps on a Saturday night when we were allowed to stay up and watch something like The Ruth Rendell Mysteries or Colombo

Happy memories

Almonds ans cashews were only dpe Xmas day although we did take peanuts amd raisins to school in our pack ups.

Not food, I thought it was a great treat to choose a film from blockbusters at the weekend.

Oh actually a scoop of icecream in a glass of irn bru was lovely!

Whitebait, any sort of nuts other than peanuts, and sparkling water.

Fruit, bizarrely we had an endless supply of lemonade, crisps and sweets but fruit was a treat.
I remember my mum buying a load of fruit the week before Christmas and we weren't allowed to touch it until after Christmas Day. I don't ever remember eating it, probs by Boxing Day we were too busy tucking into our selection boxes to bother with the satsumas

Also we very rarely had desserts, but if they were having friends over for drinks, my mum would buy cheesecake or some kind of gateau. If I was good and kept out of the way upstairs through the evening, I could have a slice next day, it was a rare treat and I really looked forward to it.

Come with ice cream in the glass

Coke

Vienetta, which I don't even like now!

In the 1940s/50s:

being given 2 old pence to go to the sweet shop to buy eight chews.

Roast dinner with capon chicken - twice a year at Christmas and Easter.

Going to the Lyons Corner House (upstairs posh restaurant) for our birthdays. That was the only time we ate out.

Smith's Crisps with the salt in a twist of blue paper.

A bar of Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate (not today's crap)

I love this thread I was a child in the seventies and we only ever had real butter at Christmas, with awful margarine for the rest of the year. My mum used to call it 'best butter '
Fizzy drinks were also a Christmas treat!

Ice cream, we only ever had it occasionally on a Sunday after egg and cress sandwiches.
I started baking cakes when I was about eleven so a piece of homemade victoria sponge was a treat as well which meant we didn't get ice cream if I'd made a cake.
Crisps, biscuits or any snack really we were fed meals three times a day but nothing outside of meals but a glass of water and later a cup of tea.

So many things already listed. I actually think it was better as I drink way too much Pepsi now and eat sweet treats as an everyday thing. Feel that I need to go back to them being a treat!

Although to be fair proper traditional puddings were everyday food in my family whereas now they are a treat, need to swap that back round as at least they were homemade!

I still drink lucozade when ill however (and only when ill) and have no intention of stopping 😂

My Nan bringing over a bar of Galaxy chocolate on a Friday night. My other Nan having pink fondant cakes from M&S as a Easter Sunday afternoon treat.

Coke in a bottle with a paper straw and a bag of crisps from a pub or the bar at Pontins in the summer holidays.

Schler apple juice at Xmas.

Double egg and chips and a coke float in the Wimpy as a treat if my Mum had housekeeping money spare

Rossi ice cream 99 at Southend on Bank Holidays. Walls Funny Feet ice cream or a bag of Galaxy counters or a Lion bar from our corner shop.

#childofthe70s

Dried apricots. Parents were asset rich but cash poor so the apicots were precio abought from a shop, not grown in the garden. And back thenhey were really really dried,not like the soft plump things you get these days. They were very hard, and you had to suck them for hours before you got flavour from them and they became even remotely chewable! Closest thing to actual sweets we got until I was about 9!

Viennetta
Lucozade with (cellophane wrapper) - only if you were very ill.
Red salmon sandwiches - Sunday night tea treat.
A Mars bar sliced into pieces and shared between 3 people.
Nuts in their. shells - Christmas only.
Roast chicken - Christmas only.

Pringles were a massive treat. My granny would always have an open packet on the go and it was a great treat to be allowed one or two.

White toast, choc stead abs hundreds and thousands

Variety pack cereals - only ever when we were on holiday.
Vienetta or ice cream with ice magic on a Sunday.
Milk roll or crackerbread with vitalite and bramble jelly - always for breakfast at my grandparents' house.
Sunday tea sandwiches - egg and cress or tinned salmon with vinegar.
Happy days

Satsumas at Christmas.
Tinned fruit
Instant whip and Angel delight
Coco cola ( although we had pop from the pop man every week)
Fray bentos pie

Tinned pears with tinned cream : /