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

Another one for fruit.

When my gran made chips
Angel delight
Delice desserts

I meant, we had yoghurt as a treat, not mocking pp!

Pure orange juice and corner yoghurts

Oh yes strawberries too. Massive treat from the allotment about twice a year 😁. I buy them weekly in summer now 🤷🏼‍♀️

Neopolitan ice cream, the one with the 3 flavours in stripes.

Yes orange juice as a starter!

Fizzy pop we would get one bottle of alderwicks at christmas. The pop man would come to some houses every week with several bottles I was fascinated. It was only water the rest of the year.

Angel delight / instant whip
Biscuits

Panda Pip, a Christmas treat.

Also fresh orange juice. Christmas and special occasions only.
My absolute biggest treat was to be allowed a ‘party tea’in front of the tv - basically sandwiches but cut corner to corner so they were fancy, a handful of crisps, maybe a biscuit and a pot of green jelly for ‘afters’.

When mulled fruit corners came around they were like the most luxurious treat ever, we’d have one each on a Saturday. I still think of them as being very fancy.

Everything! No wonder is was so skinny and perhaps no wonder why I’m so fat now

Salad!

Ground coffee, fresh cream, orange juice, wine. We only had these once a year, at Christmas.

Grapes & lucozade were only bought when we were ill.

Angel delight.
My mom would put whipped cream hair on it and chocolate button eyes.
May go make some up actually.

Viennetta (which actually tastes like shit!)

We used to do the shopping on Friday nights and get a big pot of strawberry yoghurt that was our weekly treat. It tasted better than any yoghurt I've had since

Melon only had it on a birthday.

How fucked up is it that Lucozade was something you had when you were ill? Lol (100% sugar!)

Coke and crisps . Only on high days and holidays

But ... but ... Coke and crisps aren't "normal food" are they? They ARE treats?

You're lucky, you PPs whose parents actually bought the pure orange juice. I thought pure orange juice was something you got only in tiny glasses at breakfast when staying in hotels. (And I used to live in t'shoebox in t'middle of t'road ...)

Lucozade- Not just ill, you actually brought it to people who were in hospital and it was sold in pharmacies like some kind of medically approved recovery drink 🤣

We were only allowed pure orange juice of we were ill but pretty much had unlimited access to squash.
A treat for us was "subway" nights. My mum bought baguettes and we made our own subway sandwiches.

Yogurt, seemed really exotic in the early 70s.

Remember going to some friends for lunch & we were served sandwiches with a bowl of crisps to share, I was so impressed, have just scoffed some posh crisps to myself with a couple of glasses of wine before dinner, that just seems ‘routine’ now .

Orange juice, by the thimble full as a ‘starter’.

Grapes.

Pineapples only came in tins, you almost never saw a fresh one, and they were way out of most people's budget.

Fresh salmon. Not a chance - tinned salmon for us, and probably only on high days and holidays.

Nesquik.
Those little variety boxes of cereal.
Artic roll.
Angel Delight.
We also used to have bacon and egg on Christmas morning.