http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood It's Time to Act. OCD Action provides support and information for people affected by Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Tue, 22 May 2012 17:26:04 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/search.php http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-53553 Wed, 11 May 2011 02:41:05 +0000 blueboy 53553@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>bazooka joe gum<br /> with little comic inside </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-53551 Wed, 11 May 2011 00:50:27 +0000 mattwords 53551@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>Still around but when I was wee could only get in scotland when on hols - wotsits, Irn Bru (I know its a drink), Tablet, Macaroon, Creamola Foam, tunnocks teacakes, snowballs...</p> <p>I also remember 1/2 pences, salt n shake crisps being 5p and getting 20 sweets for 10p </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-51055 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:12:56 +0000 Stanley20thCA 51055@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>TEXAN: Came back for a short - blinkandyoumissedit - while a couple of years back. Not as big as it used to be. </p> <p>Super stretchey, white nougat covered in chocolate coating. You could bite it, and then extend your arm to full length and it still kept going. I remember having to gather it in like so much spaghetti.</p> <p>WAGON WHEELS:Big, chocolate coated with Marshmellow and Biscuit.</p> <p>CRISPS:<br /> KP ROCK N ROLLERS, OUTER SPACERS, DISCOS (They're back), RINGOS, KUNG-FOO'S, FRAZZLES, VAMPIRE CLAWS, SKELETON BONES, DRACULA FANGS.</p> <p>Cheers! </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-48077 Sat, 11 Dec 2010 13:31:33 +0000 truddles 48077@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p><strong>Snake pudding!</strong> &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:-)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-43507 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:31:42 +0000 Anonymous 43507@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>LOL, I'd have gone mad if they'd tried to make me eat liver in school. I have the right to remain veggie!! &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_lol.gif&quot; title=&quot;:lol:&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-41638 Sat, 22 May 2010 22:21:17 +0000 jerama 41638@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>Crunch them so that they explode their flavoir all over your mouth</p> <p>J </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-41631 Sat, 22 May 2010 18:34:45 +0000 poppyfields 41631@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>Jo, i let mine melt in my mouth e v e r s o s l o w l y yummmmmmmm </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-41595 Fri, 21 May 2010 17:45:26 +0000 Anonymous 41595@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>Spike,<br /> How do like your flying saucers? Do you bite the top off and eat the sherbert first or do you eat them all at once? </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-41594 Fri, 21 May 2010 17:42:50 +0000 checkerspike 41594@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>Proper 10p mixes with Bananas, Shrimps, Coconut Mushrooms, Flying Saucers, Sugar Paper, Refreshers..... When you could actually get more then 10 sweets for 10p, and 1/2 pence coins existed.<br /> &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_biggrin.gif&quot; title=&quot;:D&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-41163 Sun, 09 May 2010 19:55:15 +0000 poppyfields 41163@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>oooooh yes i loved those, where did they go??? </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-41159 Sun, 09 May 2010 12:56:00 +0000 truddles 41159@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>Does anyone remember Aztec bars? </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-40492 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:07:11 +0000 poppyfields 40492@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>Eat a whole bag of white chocolate mice just the other night, my daughter bought me them for some charity fundraising. I felt sick as a dog afterwards but mmmmm weren't they heaven at the time hehehe &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_razz.gif&quot; title=&quot;:P&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-40481 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:38:21 +0000 Anonymous 40481@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>clumpies and fizzers for me. And white chocolate mice &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_biggrin.gif&quot; title=&quot;:D&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-40474 Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:17:49 +0000 poppyfields 40474@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>Sports mixtures were like soft fruity wine gums shaped like sports i guess, can't quite remmeber I do remember we used to get 5 of them for an old penny - crikey how old am I lol Gob stoppers oh yes filled up your mouth so you couldn't speak and made you slobber a bit! Was space dust the colourful granulated sherberty type stuff?? oooh takes me back - licquorice comforts, catherine wheels and dolly mixtures mmmmm </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-40117 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:31:03 +0000 truddles 40117@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>I don't remember sports mixtures though I liked flying saucers &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_biggrin.gif&quot; title=&quot;:D&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; Do you remember Gob stoppers and Space Dust? </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-40116 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:27:58 +0000 poppyfields 40116@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>Flying saucers and sports mixtures!!! </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-39457 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:52:17 +0000 mama 39457@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>Ah yes...Jam. Funny. There is a difference here between Jelly, Jam, and Preserves...and Jello is the brand name for Gellatin dessert...yes the wiggly stuf!! haha.<br /> I do eat eggs but not often as if they arent in with something else they are not my favorite food...I do not consider eggs an internal organ...although it does have a certain 'yucky' factor if I think about it. lol. </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-39456 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:51:44 +0000 truddles 39456@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>I saw Sherbet Fountains in the shop yesterday and it's no longer in paper covered cardboard tube with a piece of liquorice sticking out of the top. It's now in a plastic tube with a lid &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_sad.gif&quot; title=&quot;:(&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; Half the fun was biting the top off the Liquorice and sucking out the sherbet through the liquorice (without choking of course &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_lol.gif&quot; title=&quot;:lol:&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; ) </p> <p>Weren't they made by another British firm that disappeared - Trebor? </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-39326 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:56:47 +0000 truddles 39326@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>I always thought it strange that Americans had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches until I discovered it wasn't what we call jelly, that it was jam. Jelly over here is what I think you call jello (don't know how you spell it &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_confused.gif&quot; title=&quot;:?&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; ) - it's the wobbly dessert.</p> <p>Do you eat eggs? As they 'belong inside' so as to speak. </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-39325 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:41:12 +0000 mama 39325@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>I likely wouuld have starved if they tried to feed me liver at school. I think eating innards is yucky yucky ew ew ew. lol. I once had someone put chicken hearts in my soup...bout lost the whole bowl of stuff right there when I found out what it was..lol If it belongs on the 'inside' it dont go 'inside of me!'.<br /> I think practically every kid in America grows up eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch. Also macaroni and cheese because its inexpensive and fast. Otherwise my mother was the queen of cooking...she made amazing stews and my favorite...southern fried chicken...my mama is from the south, and she knows her cookin'! &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; <br /> Andrea </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-39324 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:23:15 +0000 truddles 39324@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>I love liver but not the way they did it at school - it was overcooked and was as tough as old boots &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_sad.gif&quot; title=&quot;:(&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> <p>I hate sprouts and cauliflower and used to be made to sit at the table until I'd eaten them, I was frequently late back to school as a result &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_sad.gif&quot; title=&quot;:(&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> <p>I also hate evaporated milk, we sometimes had it instead of custard and it spoilt the pudding that it was poured onto. But in those days you weren't given a choice, you either ate it or went with out your pudding, shame we weren't allowed to do the same with the first course. There was no getting out of eating that &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_sad.gif&quot; title=&quot;:(&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> <p>My mother made loads of cakes and puddings too. </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-39322 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:44:55 +0000 freddy 39322@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>I hate liver as it reminds me of horrible school dinners. When I was younger my mum always used to make lots of cakes and puddings, I used to love jam sponge which I used to cover with milk instead of custard or cream (don't ask!). </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-39299 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:57:47 +0000 aishah 39299@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>Black jacks and fruit salads mmmmmmm and coffee crumble from primary school. </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-39298 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:31:45 +0000 Nicola 39298@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>roo-bars were cool - used to buy them when I was 9 and wanted to be the pink ranger. </p> http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/topic/what-food-or-sweets-evoke-memories-of-your-childhood#post-39296 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:26:43 +0000 truddles 39296@http://www.ocdaction.org.uk/forums/ <p>What food or sweets evoke memories, good or bad of your childhood? </p>