What felt like a treat as a kid...

[ClassicStripe]

But now seems like it really wasn't?
Me and DSis used to absolutely love getting to use our mum's bath water once she got out. It seemed even more of a treat as she didn't have bubble bath (?!)

A Chinese takeaway. Omg that was a real treat and not one we saw very often at all. Birthdays I think.

Oh also Mcdonalds birthday parties! They were epic!

For those mentioning viennettas, you might like this thread

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4439188-Improving-on-perfection-Viennetta-related

I love the mint one!

Going in a private car (not a cab). The middle back seat especially.

I'm only late 30s but grew up in London.

My mum was always buying stuff from the health food shop, so treats were always sunflower seeds, dried apples (all spongy, weird texture), sesame snaps, sesame sticks. My kids would think I'd gone mad if I tried to pass them off as treats.

edit: she's also 'let me' eat the raw cauliflower stalk whenever she was making cauliflower cheese.

Stopping at a Little Chef on a long journey and having jubilee pancakes. The burning hot cherry sauce and the freezing cold ice cream with the puffy pancake was pudding perfection. Then a lolly if you’d scoffed it all.

@Desecratedcoconut Are you one of my siblings? 😂

Fresh fruit when it wasn't in season or generally not available in the UK. Grapes and pineapples were a very rare treat.

Sweets on a Friday with pocket money. Sweets would last over the weekend and then you looked forward to the following Friday.

Cashew nuts only bought at Christmas.

I never had a fizzy drink until I was 15!

Chippy tea

@flowerchild2000

"I'm so sad they don't make it any more! I always saw the commercials as a kid and never got any. I've heard it wasn't even that good. I still want some though. The marketing really got us"

We had it for Boxing Day dessert. It's just been upstaged by the likes of Ben & Jerry's.

I've just remembered Battenburg!

My dad used to have it on his birthday! I used to hate it and I can't recall anyone else but him eating it!

Pears soap reminds me of my grandmother. Every year she would come to us for Christmas and bring us a present of something she'd found in her house. One year my gift was a very dusty bar of Pears soap.

Getting fizzy drinks delivered by the milkman at Christmas. Only at Christmas.

Oven chips.

A take away, even fast food, was seen as a treat in my childhood so the KFC connection would only have increased its glamour!

A big treat to me was knowing that childhood wont last for ever.
Counting down began when i was old enough to know what family i had and running away at 14 And never seeing them again.

caringcarer - It was actually a rich aunt of mine that used liquid soap too. We never had it at my house!

What a lovely thread!
its incredible what we thought were treats compared to now, and my mum thought treats then were amazing compared to her childhood.
i remember her buying a jar of dried herbs and tentatively sprinkling them on a salad made with a green pepper! A chopped salad in a bowl too, not one of those slices of stuff laid on a plate like granny made.
yes to an orange squash and crisps in the car while parents sat in the pub. 5 of us squashed in the back of a mini cooper estate. What seatbelts? Britvic orange was a real grown up treat.
an m and s pork pie, to be had as a picnic on long car journeys. Stopping at that service station that goes across the motorway just to stand on the bridge. It really should be listed.
we never had liquid soap. Granny made..Soap bits collected in two circles of thin thin sponge sewn together and decorated so as not to be wasted. Drought stopper out of old tights stuffed with rags, or newspaper. Rugs made out of coal sacks washed and any old rags or bits of wool. Newspaper cut into squares on a string in the loo ( that didn’t have a light and was outside and was the scariest thing ever!) Omg! Oh sorry, these are not treats..treat was..vienetta, battenburg, a color Telly! Tweed perfume for mum, Charlie for me, a soap on a rope shaped like a bluebell that I never dared use.
dreaming of the year 2000 when we would have rocket packs and spaceships.
the first time I used a Walkman - in a wood listening to ultravox Vienna. Astounding.
stopping reminiscing now!

Magic painting books. Grey print on pages and with water they turn a different colour.

Magic painting books were amazing.

When we moved into a house with a shower in the 80’s we were the cleanest children alive in the world at that time. Showering at that time was a huge treat!

also, choc ices.

Oh they were! We weren’t allowed them as mum believed we had to do our own drawing.😀

Going swimming.

They still have these now - I buy them for dd4 but never knew about them before I had her!