You can't call them "Fags" any more.. Now they're Fads.. or .... ummm never mind, better not get banned... My favourite was Jaffas at the flicks. You could hear them all night.. roll.. roll.. clunk... roll.. roll.. clunk... And when we used to go swimming at Birrong Baths when it opened, we'd get caramel coated popcorn in a cylindrical packet that had three big rounds of the stuff...
Happywanderer said
01:54 AM Jul 25, 2012
Yes John, I've had a few., Especially potato top pies or the large sausage rolls. Only disappointment about that bakery, in the sweet items they don't use real cream but some thick glug of mock cream. I don't mind mock cream at all but theirs is like a wet block of concrete.
Rip and Rosie said
02:14 AM Jul 25, 2012
Oy oy, we used to get a pastry horn filled with apple and fresh cream.........................omg to die for, just remembering
Happywanderer said
02:35 AM Jul 25, 2012
Still get them at the Biggenden Bakery Rosie. Cream only, no apple.
Cruising Granny said
05:06 AM Jul 25, 2012
I'm chewing on licorice stick as I read and write. The best licorice for the price is from Sam's Warehouse or the Overflow shop. 500 g for about $3 - and it really works. I mean, REALLY works. Then there's dark chocolate. When I got back to SA I had a craving for Fruchocs. Now you interstaters probably have no idea what I'm talking about. They're diced dried apricots and peaches rolled into balls and rolled into milk chocolate. They seem to be exclusive to SA. Then it was Jaffas for a while. Licorice is the constant but I have to ration myself or I can get into trouble. It's 150 metre walk to the amenities block. As for vanilla slices I have appointed my self as the chief vanilla slice tasters on behalf of grey nomads everywhere. Anything yeast bun makes my mouth water, and I have to force myself to resist cream buns with any cream, especially real cream.
BohemianGypsy said
03:38 PM Jul 25, 2012
rockylizard wrote:
johnq wrote:
Anyone could have had all of my sweets for a sausage roll, salted peanuts or the like. I hated those birthday parties where the mum was a sugarholic and the boys' preference for savouries was neglected.
Soft, gelatine based jubes or limited licorice maybe.
Gday...
Now ya talkin' ..... still my favourite savoury treat ... SAUSAGE ROLL ... fresh from a proper bakery, not the ones in cellophane or mass-produced and delivered to the shop.
Having now thought about a proper bakery .... all time favourite of ALL food was the vanilla slice.
Cheers - John
But not just any vanilla slice John but the French vanilla slice!!!!! Now ya talking!!!
Michelle
Dougwe said
06:29 PM Jul 25, 2012
Yum Michelle. When you make some let me know. I might just be in the area.
johnq said
07:22 PM Jul 25, 2012
Just remembered one of the few sweets I enjoyed, condensed milk. I know, not a lolly, but it what a substitute.
rockylizard said
08:00 PM Jul 25, 2012
johnq wrote:
Just remembered one of the few sweets I enjoyed, condensed milk. I know, not a lolly, but it what a substitute.
Gday...
Ah yeah ..... I 'member ! used to LOVE eatin' it by the teaspoon ful ....
However, me mum used to make home-made icecream using condensed milk ...... not matter how hard I tried I could not like it
I loved the old Hav-a-heart choc-coated icecream on a stick.
Cheers - John
BohemianGypsy said
09:18 PM Jul 25, 2012
Dougwe wrote:
Yum Michelle. When you make some let me know. I might just be in the area.
They are the best aren't they Doug? Ok I will let you know lol but you will have to beat my hubby to them because he fangs all the sweet treats I make. I don't make chocolate iced custard puffs anymore because he ate the whole plateful in the fridge while I was out and left none for the girls or anything lol. I have never let him live it down in over 20 years and I refuse to make them at all lol that will teach him and he should be the side of a house but he so isn't!!!
Michelle
Beth54 said
10:08 PM Jul 25, 2012
Choc top ice creams at the pictures. Banana fritters and ice cream at the drive-in. Cream buns from the tuckshop at high school.
Bee stings. Vanilla slice, which used to be a custard slice when I was a kid. (Qld thing, I think) Coffee roll/finger bun with lashings of real butter.
Travel Bug is correct...pies from the Fernvale bakery. (Q)
Real hamburgers! Best hamburgers at the log cabin truck stop south of Gympie. If you ask for a hamburger with the lot, be prepared, you'll have trouble getting your mouth around it! NO, not me, brother-in-law. Wish I'd taken a photo!
Mum used to take us into town...Brisbane city...on rare occasions. Lunch was pie, peas, and mashed potato at Coles Cafateria. What luxury!
-- Edited by Beth54 on Wednesday 25th of July 2012 10:10:32 PM
Ellice said
12:46 AM Jul 26, 2012
WOW, Ok Its got to be Licorice All Sorts, Red Frogs,Sherbert,Candy Fags, musk sticks and BoiledLollies and Jellies at Xmas..
Dougwe said
01:57 AM Jul 26, 2012
BohemianGypsy wrote:
Dougwe wrote:
Yum Michelle. When you make some let me know. I might just be in the area.
They are the best aren't they Doug? Ok I will let you know lol but you will have to beat my hubby to them because he fangs all the sweet treats I make. I don't make chocolate iced custard puffs anymore because he ate the whole plateful in the fridge while I was out and left none for the girls or anything lol. I have never let him live it down in over 20 years and I refuse to make them at all lol that will teach him and he should be the side of a house but he so isn't!!!
Michelle
I am willing to share. Just don't let wombat or dazren near them, they will guts them all for sure.
Rip and Rosie said
05:01 AM Jul 26, 2012
When we were little, if we were out in our very best dresses, mum would only give us popcorn, so we wouldn't get sticky.
I can remember my very first ice cream in a cone- because I had envied every kid I ever saw with one until I built up enough courage to ask (such great manners) my dad.
I remember that ice cream to this day.
Hate popcorn.
Rosie
rockylizard said
05:37 AM Jul 26, 2012
Gday...
Now ya got me memories churnin' ..... I woz a QLD country billy and we used to travel a fair bit by train. I still love train journeys but I really miss the 'refreshment stops' at the railway station cafes.
It meant we had pie, peas, mash and gravy with a servin' of bread and butter custard as pudding (no dessert in my day). Cheap, fillin' and tasty.
When we moved to Melbourne I used to go to Spencer Street Station for lunch when I worked in the city in the 1960s and 70s - pie, peas, mash and gravy with bread and butter custard for pudding. Made me feel like a kid all over agen ... and still cheap, fillin' and tasty
Now they have torn the whole lot down and built the atrocity called Southern Cross Station
My childhood memory of rail journeys is of very large square white bread sanyas with the thinnest cut ham imaginable. You could see through the ham. QRail had pies at some stops (major centres and at the 'right' time) but they were very dehydrated and no peas.
Beth54 said
03:23 PM Jul 26, 2012
We always had puddin' too. Mum's baked rice puddin', bread & butter puddin' will live in my memory forever. Even their grandkids still talk about Nana's puddin's.
When I was quite little we often journeyed west on the train. I don't remember the food, but apparently I was fascinated with the loo.
BohemianGypsy said
04:35 PM Jul 26, 2012
Rice pudding is my all time favourite dessert. My nan used to cook it for me whenever I came which was often lol and when I am going to visit Mum she cooks it for me as well. I cook it sometimes but the memories of childhood rice pudding are unforgettable!!
Michelle
Rip and Rosie said
12:21 AM Jul 27, 2012
As a child I loved that wonderful smell when you open a fresh packet of Smiths Crisps............. live one of Pavlov's dogs, I salivate at the thought.
We used to get 2/- to go to the Saturday Matinee. That would get us into the pictures and buy an ice cream, bottle of coke and packet of chips (crisps). On the way home, we'd take the coke bottles back to the shop for the 2d deposit, pool it with the other kids in our street and all get a taxi home.
Now THAT was value for money!
barina said
02:12 AM Jul 27, 2012
Rip and Rosie wrote:
As a child I loved that wonderful smell when you open a fresh packet of Smiths Crisps............. live one of Pavlov's dogs, I salivate at the thought.
We used to get 2/- to go to the Saturday Matinee. That would get us into the pictures and buy an ice cream, bottle of coke and packet of chips (crisps). On the way home, we'd take the coke bottles back to the shop for the 2d deposit, pool it with the other kids in our street and all get a taxi home.
Now THAT was value for money!
Funny...I used to get 1/6p and that went like this...3p each way on the tram, 6p to get in the movies, 6p for choo choo bar and whateverelse we could get....would have been early 60's
Beth54 said
02:34 AM Jul 27, 2012
We lived in the bush...bush in those days, not now...so we only got to the shops when Dad (Mum had no licence) took the family on Saturday mornings. I don't remember what our pocket money was, but I know we had an ice cream cone, and maybe a spin on the chocolate wheel. Yes, taught us gambling from a young age.
We lived near a CP with a pool where we spent a lot of time. But we often had to walk along the highway and pick up soft drink bottles to make enough money for a swim. If we were lucky enough to find a large coke bottle, that was worth sixpence! Another way to raise funds for swimming was to go down the paddock and cut out suckers. We had to do a certain amount of time on the job, to earn enough for the swim.
As a '54 model, this must have been around the mid sixties because I get a bit confused as to whether we were in pence or cents.
Remember the song? On the fourteenth of February, 1966!
rockylizard said
02:41 AM Jul 27, 2012
Gday...
Yep ... did the collectin' soft drink bottles too .... good source of spendin' money .... another thing me brudder and me did woz goin' round door to door and collectin' old newspapers and bring them home in our billy cart ... then we would flatten em all out, roll em into a huge big single roll and take em to the butcher and the fish n chip shop and got paid some coins.
AH the days of bein' a buddin' capitalist
And it is not really of topic ..... coz we used the money to buy our favourite lollies
Cheers - John
Dougwe said
02:48 AM Jul 27, 2012
Baked worm pudding, yummo. (see if anyone knows that one)
Your post a bit further up rockylizard reminded me of the Coles Cafe and Myer cafe. Mum would take me there when in Melbourne.
Beth54 said
02:53 AM Jul 27, 2012
Dougwe wrote:
Baked worm pudding, yummo. (see if anyone knows that one)
Your post a bit further up rockylizard reminded me of the Coles Cafe and Myer cafe. Mum would take me there when in Melbourne.
Vermicelli pudding!
neilnruth said
05:16 AM Jul 27, 2012
Lollies: aniseed slate sticks
Rip and Rosie said
03:39 PM Jul 27, 2012
neilnruth wrote:
Lollies: aniseed slate sticks
loved ém..............suck them into a point
Beth54 said
03:53 PM Jul 27, 2012
I have no idea what an aniseed slate stick is, but the ONLY lolly I really hate, is aniseed. When I was young, someone tried to slip Ouzo into my Coke. As if I wouldn't know! One little sip and down the drain it went!
-- Edited by Beth54 on Friday 27th of July 2012 03:55:43 PM
Dougwe said
07:54 PM Jul 27, 2012
If I had a prize Beth you would win it.
Beth54 said
10:51 PM Jul 27, 2012
Dougwe wrote:
If I had a prize Beth you would win it.
Pet-els said
04:15 AM Jul 29, 2012
Rip and Rosie wrote:
no................trade it all in for tuppence worth of hot chips with vinegar, wrapped in newspaper on a colder winter evening, catching the bus home.
My favourite was Jaffas at the flicks. You could hear them all night.. roll.. roll.. clunk... roll.. roll.. clunk... And when we used to go swimming at Birrong Baths when it opened, we'd get caramel coated popcorn in a cylindrical packet that had three big rounds of the stuff...
Only disappointment about that bakery, in the sweet items they don't use real cream but some thick glug of mock cream. I don't mind mock cream at all but theirs is like a wet block of concrete.
When I got back to SA I had a craving for Fruchocs. Now you interstaters probably have no idea what I'm talking about. They're diced dried apricots and peaches rolled into balls and rolled into milk chocolate. They seem to be exclusive to SA.
Then it was Jaffas for a while. Licorice is the constant but I have to ration myself or I can get into trouble. It's 150 metre walk to the amenities block.
As for vanilla slices I have appointed my self as the chief vanilla slice tasters on behalf of grey nomads everywhere. Anything yeast bun makes my mouth water, and I have to force myself to resist cream buns with any cream, especially real cream.
But not just any vanilla slice John but the French vanilla slice!!!!! Now ya talking!!!
Michelle
Gday...
Ah yeah ..... I 'member ! used to LOVE eatin' it by the teaspoon ful ....
However, me mum used to make home-made icecream using condensed milk ...... not matter how hard I tried I could not like it
I loved the old Hav-a-heart choc-coated icecream on a stick.
Cheers - John
They are the best aren't they Doug? Ok I will let you know lol but you will have to beat my hubby to them because he fangs all the sweet treats I make. I don't make chocolate iced custard puffs anymore because he ate the whole plateful in the fridge while I was out and left none for the girls or anything lol. I have never let him live it down in over 20 years and I refuse to make them at all lol that will teach him and he should be the side of a house but he so isn't!!!
Michelle
Choc top ice creams at the pictures. Banana fritters and ice cream at the drive-in. Cream buns from the tuckshop at high school.
Bee stings. Vanilla slice, which used to be a custard slice when I was a kid. (Qld thing, I think) Coffee roll/finger bun with lashings of real butter.
Travel Bug is correct...pies from the Fernvale bakery. (Q)
Real hamburgers! Best hamburgers at the log cabin truck stop south of Gympie. If you ask for a hamburger with the lot, be prepared, you'll have trouble getting your mouth around it! NO, not me, brother-in-law. Wish I'd taken a photo!
Mum used to take us into town...Brisbane city...on rare occasions. Lunch was pie, peas, and mashed potato at Coles Cafateria. What luxury!
-- Edited by Beth54 on Wednesday 25th of July 2012 10:10:32 PM
WOW, Ok Its got to be Licorice All Sorts, Red Frogs,Sherbert,Candy Fags, musk sticks and BoiledLollies and Jellies at Xmas..
I am willing to share. Just don't let wombat or dazren near them, they will guts them all for sure.
I can remember my very first ice cream in a cone- because I had envied every kid I ever saw with one until I built up enough courage to ask (such great manners) my dad.
I remember that ice cream to this day.
Hate popcorn.
Rosie
Gday...
Now ya got me memories churnin' ..... I woz a QLD country billy and we used to travel a fair bit by train. I still love train journeys but I really miss the 'refreshment stops' at the railway station cafes.
It meant we had pie, peas, mash and gravy with a servin' of bread and butter custard as pudding (no dessert in my day
). Cheap, fillin' and tasty. 
When we moved to Melbourne I used to go to Spencer Street Station for lunch when I worked in the city in the 1960s and 70s - pie, peas, mash and gravy with bread and butter custard for pudding. Made me feel like a kid all over agen ... and still cheap, fillin' and tasty
Now they have torn the whole lot down and built the atrocity called Southern Cross Station
Cheers - John
We always had puddin' too. Mum's baked rice puddin', bread & butter puddin' will live in my memory forever. Even their grandkids still talk about Nana's puddin's.
When I was quite little we often journeyed west on the train. I don't remember the food, but apparently I was fascinated with the loo.
Rice pudding is my all time favourite dessert. My nan used to cook it for me whenever I came which was often lol and when I am going to visit Mum she cooks it for me as well. I cook it sometimes but the memories of childhood rice pudding are unforgettable!!
Michelle
We used to get 2/- to go to the Saturday Matinee. That would get us into the pictures and buy an ice cream, bottle of coke and packet of chips (crisps). On the way home, we'd take the coke bottles back to the shop for the 2d deposit, pool it with the other kids in our street and all get a taxi home.
Now THAT was value for money!
Funny...I used to get 1/6p and that went like this...3p each way on the tram, 6p to get in the movies, 6p for choo choo bar and whateverelse we could get....would have been early 60's
We lived in the bush...bush in those days, not now...so we only got to the shops when Dad (Mum had no licence) took the family on Saturday mornings. I don't remember what our pocket money was, but I know we had an ice cream cone, and maybe a spin on the chocolate wheel. Yes, taught us gambling from a young age.
We lived near a CP with a pool where we spent a lot of time. But we often had to walk along the highway and pick up soft drink bottles to make enough money for a swim. If we were lucky enough to find a large coke bottle, that was worth sixpence! Another way to raise funds for swimming was to go down the paddock and cut out suckers. We had to do a certain amount of time on the job, to earn enough for the swim.
As a '54 model, this must have been around the mid sixties because I get a bit confused as to whether we were in pence or cents.
Remember the song? On the fourteenth of February, 1966!
Gday...
Yep ... did the collectin' soft drink bottles too .... good source of spendin' money .... another thing me brudder and me did woz goin' round door to door and collectin' old newspapers and bring them home in our billy cart ... then we would flatten em all out, roll em into a huge big single roll and take em to the butcher and the fish n chip shop and got paid some coins.
AH the days of bein' a buddin' capitalist
And it is not really of topic ..... coz we used the money to buy our favourite lollies
Cheers - John
Your post a bit further up rockylizard reminded me of the Coles Cafe and Myer cafe. Mum would take me there when in Melbourne.
Vermicelli pudding!
loved ém..............suck them into a point
I have no idea what an aniseed slate stick is, but the ONLY lolly I really hate, is aniseed.
When I was young, someone tried to slip Ouzo into my Coke. 
As if I wouldn't know! One little sip and down the drain it went!
-- Edited by Beth54 on Friday 27th of July 2012 03:55:43 PM
And the news print didn't worry us either.
PeterH