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70s malt extract stuff

37 replies

SeventiesSeven · 07/12/2023 17:10

Anyone know what I mean? You’d get a spoonful in the morning, and something syrupy (orange?). Is it still around?

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WellThisIsFun1 · 07/12/2023 19:11

My mother tried to shovel it down me as well as Minadex.

Both utterly vile and I refused to take them. I'm still alive 🤷‍♀️

What was so healthful about malt anyway?

GoodOldEmmaNess · 07/12/2023 19:49

Didn't some dummies use to have a little 'reservoir' in which placating sugary liquid could be placed, so that babies and toddlers could suck themselves into early tooth decay?

I'm sure I remember that particular delivery mechanism for rosehip syrup. I'm also sure that it was sooooo massively sugary that any possible benefit from the rosehip was nuked by the sugar.

Soontobe60 · 07/12/2023 20:04

overwhelmed2023 · 07/12/2023 18:14

We had three tablespoons per day!! It was nearly nice but ultimately not quite a treat a bit like unprepped jelly squares or cinnamon sticks or glacé cherries 😃

Or a spoonful of condensed milk!

Lifeinlists · 07/12/2023 20:05

@GoodOldEmmaNess they were called dinky feeders according to my mum. She confessed that she gave them to me and my twin brother as it was the only way she could cope with 2 screaming babies with colic plus a toddler! The doctor came one day and saw them and tut tutted but saw the point when he'd been offered the chance to take us home with him.

My teeth are pretty good considering Grin

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 07/12/2023 20:43

Gymnopedie · 07/12/2023 18:22

Virol with a chaser of Minadex when I was little.

My DB as a kid was prescribed Minadex when he had a virus. Couple of days and he was bouncing around like Tigger and eating for Britain and DGM decided he probably didn't need any more.

Gherkingreen · 07/12/2023 20:54

I bought a huge jar of malt extract from Holland and Barratt to make malt loaf with and it took me right back to being a child in the 80s. Tastes amazing.

florentina1 · 08/12/2023 08:01

I loved rose hip syrup. At school they put it in the middle of rice pudding. We stirred it round to make all the rice pink.

Unexpecteddrivinginstructor · 08/12/2023 08:07

I do remember my mum always pushing me to have Horlicks. Can't have malt now due to the gluten.

GoodOldEmmaNess · 08/12/2023 14:26

Oh, yes, Horlicks for health. Amazing, looking back on it, that there were so many products that were extravagantly marketed as quasi-medicine but which actually had no health benefits at all. I guess it was becasue we weren't all that many years beyond a post-war era when it was genuinely hard to get enough calories into children, so anything high-energy (ie precisely the foods we are stern about now) could be represented as healthful.
I honestly thought that Lucozade cured a whole range of illnesses. Glucose was all it had (well, glucose plus excitingly crinkly yellow cellophane). Great if you are skinny, and faint from hunger. Pretty awful otherwise.

mathanxiety · 08/12/2023 14:53

Eugggghhh, Virol.

Gives me the heebiejeebies even thinking about it.

8lue8irds · 08/12/2023 15:06

I bloody love this brings back nice memories. I can get it from my local chemist. Happy days

OftheTwilighttheDarkness · 09/12/2023 19:44

My parents gave me virol and it rotted my teeth (i don't think they were particularly diligent with the teeth brushing).

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