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

Crisps

Viennetta

Choc ices

Angle delight

Mars bars cut into thin slices to share.

Oddly, I was allowed to have Honeypuffs for breakfast every day, and as much ketchup on everything as I liked.

Another one who was very excited when the Vienetta got wheeled out. How terribly fancy. I thought it was so decadent.

Orange juice too! (Xmas only)
Butter
Coco pops
Fizzy drinks (Xmas only)

Isn't this interesting though - none of us were fat back then! (I am now so im not being fatist!)

McDonald's! We probably went once every 2months!

How often do you go now then?!

Lol I didn't realise it was so common to slice up a mars bar back then! Fond memories...

A more recent one but did anyone used to love turkey twizzlers until Jamie Oliver got them banned? I still mourn for them

perpetually angry parent

🤣 mine too!

Remember fruit juice was served as a starter in resturants

Any soft fizzy drink

Orange juice for Christmas only
Baby Bell with bread and butter in your lunch box on your birthday
Yy to lucazade only when ill
Cocopops only ever when on holiday

I don't ever remember having orange juice. But we did have apple juice but we got it half diluted with water. No idea if it was because she was protecting our teeth or it was mega expensive

Ice cream with a spoonful of alpen on top. As a teen I might also get a cap full of cointreau on too (Not sure how to spell it)

My dad had grown up living next to a sweet shop and had multiple fillings so as and result we weren't allowed any sweets or any added sugar - so no sugar on cereal, no squash, only a minute amount in any puddings requiring sugar like custard or crumble or rice pudding. So you can imagine how utterly gross something like rhubarb crumble with custard was.

Perversely my mother would bribe me with a Flake for going to the offy with her because she was an alcoholic

Guess how fat I am now

We only ever had strawberries and cream on the day of the village fete, bought from a stall there. I buy them all the time now, but they don't taste so special anymore. I think I know why - we used to sprinkle sugar on them back then and it made the cream a bit crunchy. Now it feels totally wrong to add sugar.

My late MIL still regarded strawberries as a major luxury and would only have a few from a punnet to make them last.

Adding sugar to cereal was such a common place thing back then.
You wouldn’t dream of it now.

Coca cola

Growing up we always had a pudding after tea sometimes it was a chocolate bar from the corner shop.
I did have fruit mainly apples but salad was rare no wonder I was a chubby kid .
I remember taking a salad to school for lunch must of been age 11 or 12 and all the kids thought it was highly amusing this was late 80s .
We never got branded pop that was at Christmas only . I never remember my parents having alcohol in the house either that was at Christmas only when my mum would get merry on a glass of Liebfraumilch

Mars bars were put into the fridge and sliced. They were a lot bigger then.

Fizzy drinks. When Christmas rolled around and those couple of bottles of coke and lemonade appeared on top of the fridge, I got ever so excited. Sad times.

Oh and potato cakes on a Saturday again no wonder I was chubby

Yes- we were allowed a big heaped tablespoon of sugar on our cornflakes or rice krispies every day as if it was normal. But one Mars bar was sliced between five of us. The one doing the slicing got last choice, in the interests of fairness, so care was always taken to slice it evenly to the micrometre.

Variety packs of cereal. Massive treat for us. My mum only ever bought them fir the first week of the summer holidays and we had to figure it out amongst ourselves as to who was going to get the coco pops .

Seasonal fruit. Satsumas in December. Punnets of strawberries or paper bags of ripe peaches or cherries in the summer. It was so exciting when my granny would collect us from school with this.

Any kind of pudding. We only had dessert after a Sunday roast (which my mum did maybe once a month) or on very special occasions.

A BLT with mayo on a white roll 🙂

Butter! We had it at Christmas.