What did you/your family consider a treat growing up that really wasn’t?

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I’ve just randomly remembered that when I was younger me and my sister thought it was the most amazing treat to have our mum’s bath water after she was finished with it. She didn’t even use bubble bath so it was literally just lukewarm water but we absolutely loved it. This was in the early 90’s and we had regular hot warm bubble baths which makes it even stranger that we were so pleased by using mum’s old water!

Ah yes I can just taste the salt 😵🫣

Back in the 50's a Mars Bar shared with my sister on a Saturday.

Alkaseltzer! We never had anything fizzy at home. We visited our grandparents most Sundays. It was an hour's drive and my brother used to get travel sick. Grandma would give him a glass of water with an Alkaseltzer in. Me and my other brother were envious because it was fizzy. (Later on, my other brother used to pretend he felt sick too.)

We used to have ‘tip top’ cream from a tin on tinned fruit!

special coloured sugar, on white bread and butter
also lime marmalade,
both only available at my grandpa's

‘Doing the gears’
Fried bread at my nans

Was just going to post this. I loved the raspberry ripple with the syrup still slightly frozen and crunchy.

Dark Bournville chocolate. She would tell us to suck the piece not chew it, and let it melt to get all the flavour. I suspect it was to make it last longer as she didn't get it often.

Mum used to give us a drink of Andrews Liver Salts.
HoraceCope ; Mum had the coloured coffee sugar, but it was only brought out for guests. I loved the rainbow bubbles it left on top of the drink.

Yes agree with this. It depends very much on the decade you were born!

I used to drink it when I had a hangover. I thought it just settled your stomach and made your guts generally feel better. It never had laxative effects on me.

Why did people do this! We were all crammed into a tiny living room all year round and only used 'the parlour' at Christmas. My mum kept the ironing in it and that was about it. Ostensibly it was for entertaining 'important' visitors but we never had any of those.

I forgot Angel Delight!

We never had Angel Delight (we had the more luxurious Vienetta) but my neighbours did, usually following Findus crispy pancakes. It was always served in a glass and I thought it was very sophisticated. I called it mousse once which they found hilarious!

Sleeping on the floor! We temporarily only had 2 beds between 3 children so fought about who got to sleep on the floor.

Also doing the washing up, and checking if the chicken's laid any eggs in the morning.

On two occasions on the way home from camping with friends my Mum got me all excited by saying she had a surprise for me. The first time I came home to find my room had a new carpet but rather than the pink one i had asked for I had a disgusting yellow one that matched the landing and the stairs but crashed horribly with my pink room. The second time I had a new brass door knob! She had told our builder that i had been admiring the knobs on the new bathrooms he had just put in, not a clue where she got that idea, when what i really wanted was lock on my door.

Allowed to have tins of beans & sausages on holidays. And the little boxes of Kelloggs cereal.

A 'pull the sofa up to the fire' winter night.

God I wish I had a fire now! All these renovations and haulings-out of hearths and chimneys when it was dirt-cheap to heat your home with oil or gas, and now we can barely afford to turn those radiators on.

I must be older than you 2 TV chanels and even though we didn't live out in the sticks nothing like McDs or KFC existed then, maybe a Wimpy in the bigger town, 50s and 60s, the chippy was our only takeaway. I remember when the chippy started doing Chinese food in the 70s, my parents were appalled, 'not having that smelly muck in here!'.

Roses lime marmalade is still around, I love it second only to black cherry jam!

Dare I suggest that were families to go back to the days when children had less dominence in their homes a lot of the problems discussed on this site would be solved, especially now they have taken the entitled attitude into school, college and the workplace? Not suggesting that children should never have what they want, my mother used to buy liver for me but I was the only one who ate it, but certainly a reduction would help.

The closest we got was Instant Whip. It was cheaper. I loved the butterscotch flavour one.

As an ex teacher and now adolescent social I couldn’t agree more x

Yes fighting over who got to sleep on the camp bed at my nans lol

We did have Vienetta but that was years later. The Angel Delight never looked as good as on the box though. And I used to love Findus crispy pancakes!

Yes to Pizzaland - half a pizza and a jacket potato! I still have the pizza/potato combo now when I need comfort food.

Going on holiday and being allowed to bang the gong for to get guests down for dinner in the hotel. Starters were either a small glass of orange juice or half a grapefruit or soup.