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!

The free gift from the cereal box, we squabbled vehemently over these every time!

I got a small green plastic diver. If you put baking powder in it, it would zoom through your bath.

I miss those simple times!

I had a red one of those!

I was allowed to help iron, this was the tea towels and pillowcases.
I used to ask to crumble the Oxo cubes.
I had school lunches but if we had a school trip we took a packed lunch and I was able to choose a couple of special items, I remember selecting a twin pack of Mr Kipling fruit pies once. Core memories.

It’s a lovely thread isn’t it x

If we'd ran out of cereal for breakfast, my dad gave us cubed white bread in hot milk sprinkled with sugar. We thought it was a huge treat.

We had Friday sweets. 10p for each of us (1970) bought a packet of Polos (2p) and Mojos and other chewy sweets for 1/2 p each. You bought them individually rather than in a big bag like now.

A bag of crisps with school packed lunch.Usually just sandwiches and an apple so crisps were a real treat.

Going to the library.
Getting something from a vending machine after swimming.
Going to the shop to choose a comic.
Little Chef!
Reading the Argos catalogue.

My mother had a 'Freemans' catalogue and was an agent. Seemed very exciting when this huge thing arrived at the door, the new summer and winter editions! Especially the winter one which had pages and pages of toys. The stuff used to come in huge navy-blue plastic sacks and there was lots of running to the Post Office to return clothes that didn't suit...

Eating out which was a very rare treat. Usually the Bernie inn on my grandmothers birthday or perhaps the little chef or happy eater in the summer on a day trip. McDonald’s too was a huge treat again in school holidays as we had one of the first in the country, before happy meals so we would share a small bag of chips between 3 of us plus a small burger each, it’s why kids were slimmer!

Anyone remember the 80s TV ad for Angel Delight - it had skinny women in bikinis around a pool and because it was so 'deliciously light' their glasses of the stuff floated up in the air?

This led to my friend getting covered in Angel Delight as he held his glass up in the air and let go, with predictable results (we were about 5).

Ah those days when ads could blatantly lie 😆

I searched for it for years and I’m sure they don’t make it anymore. You can get choc sauce that goes hard but it’s in a disappointingly non-volcanic shaped bottle!

Oh I loved angel delight. When my kids were little I used to put it into ice lolly moulds for creamy strawberry ice lollies 🙂

That would be a treat for me now. I'm a bit of a plane enthusiast and wouldn't say no to a snowball. 😀

It's still sold here in Australia 😊

You can make your own with melted chocolate and coconut oil 😊

I did this for my dad 😂 and yes the change was for lollies

Heat ! And having a clear TV picture

We had to switch our TV on for about ten minutes before the picture appeared. Bit like an oven really. Did the valves have to heat up on old sets? This was a colour TV from the mid 70s, very likely second hand (TVs cost a FORTUNE until about the early 90s).

WHY IS NO ONE MENTIONING THE POSTER WHO LIKED CHOPPING LIVER?!

When I was little, once a year, we all used to get in the car and do the big Christmas shop… at Asda.

I don’t understand what’s funny about this! That’s still a treat! A Christmas shop is a Christmas shop! 😂

@Missohnoyoubetterdont it just seems funny to me now that I got so excited going to Asda - I can’t stand the place these days!

I think I was 15 when I had my first one. A cheeseburger. .. and I couldn't even finish it.😂