Anyone remember lime spiders?

Rip and Rosie · Guru

Anyone remember lime spiders?

pauline · Guru

I do Rosie I do.............they were great !

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Coke Float - yummy!!!!!!!!

Cloak · Guru

On a hot day even better than beer.

Happywanderer · The Master

I certainly do remember them

Gerty Dancer · Guru

Oh Yesss! And creaming soda spiders, but best of all... ginger beer spiders! Yum!

jules47 · The Happy Helper

I want one - NOW!!!!!!!

GaryKelly · Guru

Pinball machines, Rockola jukeboxes and icecream sodas at the local milkbar. And a bunch of pushbikes outside with no chain locks.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Good memories there Gary. You didn't grow up in East Bentleigh, Melbourne as that all sounds familiar.

leevin · Senior Member

The rock n roll café in Petrie Town.
Step back in time.

kandagal · Guru

We used to call them Dolly Vardens. They were so good. Thursday nights used to be card nights & we played with my grandmother, 2 uncles & one cousin. As we lived only 2 doors from the café we would go up there with a jug & get so many scoops of ice cream & a couple of bottles of soft drink & make our own.

deconuts · Veteran Member

I sure do! in fact I use to make them just about every day during the summer in the family milkbar at Nelson Bay NSW. But I do enjoy a ginger beer one also.

Grams · Guru

We introduced our children to Spiders years ago. There is a gorgeous shop in Burra in SA that sells these in any flavour you want. They even did a Diet Coke one for us. yumm.

Duh · Guru

Spida's .....loved them.....sold at Milk Bar Cafe's on the beachfront of Scarborough Beach in WA, also other cafe's around Perth and the country. And of course the stainless steel container they were mixed in were often handed to the customers with a straw and spoon, some were decanted into long glasses.....see this vintage one for sale on Ebay, similar to ones used when I was a kid;

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/VINTAGE-GILCHRIST-NO-22-BEAUTY-MALT-MILK-SHAKE-MIXER-white-porcelain-bottom-/111019250432?pt=Small_Kitchen_Appliances_US&hash=item19d9435300

herbie · Guru

I recon the shop that has re opened in Holbrook would sell them or if not should start to. My favourite flavour was blue heaven.

The dog lady · Guru

Used to have Sarsparilla spiders, yummy, still like em

Rip and Rosie · Guru

herbie wrote:
.................................My favourite flavour was blue heaven.

Like this?

herbie · Guru

Rip and Rosie wrote:
herbie wrote:
.................................My favourite flavour was blue heaven.

Gee I can taste that now,

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Yum, Blue heaven. I loved Blue heaven milk shakes.

neilnruth · Guru

Bells Milk Bar in Broken Hill sell these - retro milk bar with laminated tables and chairs. Great spot.
Our grandchildren have recently been introduced to these by their other grandmother.
Yes, I prefer ginger beer ones. Yum.

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