I have just bought a vienetta and an arctic roll

[Heathcliff27]

Yes simple pleasures in life I know, but, standing there at the checkout I suddenly had the "it's beginning to look a lot like christmas" feeling.

Whats the christmas purchase that makes it for you?

cheese wrapped in bacon!

I was compelled to go and go and buy a icebergs this afternoon :o

Lol it changed vienetta to iceburgs though this time it tried to change it to brunettes :o

I was for a minute about icebergs! I thought you meant iceberg lettuce - very Christmassy!

In the 70s we used to have Harvey's Bristol cream and cheese footballs. Can you still get cheese footballs? Nostalgia on a plate!

Lol I too thought this was going to be a thread about 80s desserts

Pannetonne here. (Sp?) DH loves it. He's nearly got through one already, I might surprise him tonight and pick up another. and maybe a viennetta

Clementines and whole nuts. Takes me straight back to childhood - a bowl of each was left on the dining table with the nutcrackers.

Yy to pretzels, smelly cheese and posh pop/tonic in individual cans or glass bottles. And Cheeselets. Not obviously festive but I'm greedy and will eat them by the bucket load so only have as a Christmas treat.

I want to find some satsumas wrapped in purple tissue paper.

Adds vienetta to tomorrow's tesco shop...

Oh i saw wrapped satsumas cant remember where maybe morrisons ? Was orange paper though

YY for the full childhood Christmas experience, it would have to include silverskin pickled onions and whole nuts.

However, as DH and DMIL don't share this one, I have found that the digestive effects of eating them all by myself are best avoided!

I can't find pickled walnuts anywhere

Dd came in with cheesey footballs last night she got them in B n M but tescos do them too

I got pickled walnuts in Sainsbos, have opened them already

DD saw the first post and made me Google Vienettas

And buy her an Artic Roll (OK , Sainsburys own brand, pretendy Artic Roll)

Twiglets for me (but I;m going to give them a miss , I need to slowwwwly introduce wheat back to my innards. Not looking forward to that )

I got excited and bought cheesy footballs last Christmas. The dc nearly vomitted at the smell but I still thorght they were lush

I love Vienetta at Christmas we always had it as Kids growing up its not Christmas without it.......my inlaws judge me every year might get my own this year and it eat it in secret when we at our own house.

Sainsbos you say ? < runs out the door screeching walnuts >

I ate some more last night with many many cheese.