favourite childhood treat by boris

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favourite childhood treat

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Sunday, August 8, 2010 4:17 PM

My absolute fave was "Fairy Bread"
slices of bread spread thinly with butter or margarine and then covered in hundreds and thousands....YUMO! still one of my favourite along with homemade toffees we used to buy at fetes (also decorated with hundreds and thousands)and lamingtons (sponge squares dipped in chocolate and coconut)
What are yours?

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Sunday, August 8, 2010 4:43 PM

OPTIMUS1998

my mom only made 'em once, or twice, but i can still taste 'em 20+ years later....

"banana fritters"
basically chunks of banana, covered in a sweet batter(kinda like elephant ear batter, or the same stuff the cover candy bars, oreos and the like in at the fair), deep fried and dusted with powdered sugar.

delish

http://www.teamcoco.com

I was a Lima loser for 29 years before "glee" introduced us to the term. -ME

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Sunday, August 8, 2010 4:53 PM

BRIGLAD

Peanut butter cookies with a Hershey kiss in the middle. My mom only made them around Christmas time and I do so miss them (She passed on in '92)

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Sunday, August 8, 2010 4:57 PM

CHRISISALL

http://www.oldtimecandy.com/space-food-sticks.htm

I ate these by the truckload!

The laughing Chrisisall

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Sunday, August 8, 2010 5:21 PM

BORIS

These all sound good. I also ate a tonne of spacefood sticks as a kid...I still get them occasionally but they seem smaller (maybe coz I'm bigger) and don't taste quite the same. But they're still good.
Actually alot of stuff doesn't taste as good as it used to...I have a hell of a time finding decent white chocolate in Australia. Most of what we have here has too much vegetable oil and not enough cocoa butter.

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Sunday, August 8, 2010 7:56 PM

FREMDFIRMA

THIS.

http://oldtimecandy.com/expand/brachs-holiday-mix.htm
http://oldtimecandy.com/expand/brachs-gloria-mix.htm

Seriously, if I find it in a store, I take ALL of it, and one time this happened, that was actually several CASES.

-Frem

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Monday, August 9, 2010 2:50 AM

LWAVES

My Grandma used to bake quite a bit after she and Grandad retired to the seaside. There were lots of things she did that I liked but my faves were a cherry and walnut cake and even more so was a cherry and sultana flapjack. She could always get the butter content just right so that the flapjack was soft but not too chewy or heavy on the stomach.
Hmmmm.

My fave sweets back in the 70's/80's were called Pacers. They were a mint flavoured Opal Fruit/Starburst chewy sweet that had green and white stripes on them.
After that it would be Scotch Mints which I could only ever find in one location (near my grandparents bungalow in Skegness). They were larger than gobstoppers but like mint imperials. You started with a hard shell, then a slightly softer, crumblier layer finishing with a very chewy centre. It took about half an hour to eat one and your jaw certainly knew it!!

"The greatest invention ever is not the wheel. It's the second wheel." - Rich Hall

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Monday, August 9, 2010 4:37 AM

BORIS

my favourite lollies (sweets/candies) were: jaffas, spheres with Crisp red orange flavoured shells encasing milk chocolate centres; and rectangular fruit bon bons in paper wrappers. hard on the outside chewy on the inside. Miss those. we used to get bags of individually wrapped chocholate covered Sicilian Nougat pieces whenever friends/relatives travelled back from the "old country"...my Aunty Mary god love her still sends me a bag every now and then along with "pasta di mandole" (Almond paste) biscuits.

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Monday, August 9, 2010 4:40 AM

IREMISST

I wasn't allowed Cokes or candy as a kid, but my grandma made a Amish cheese custard pie that I could never get enough of!

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Monday, August 9, 2010 4:55 AM

BORIS

Yum to any thing with custard in it. we weren't allowed many bought sweets when I was a kid in the 70's only every now and again as treats. Then when they started putting lots of chemical additives in so many things I wasn't allowed them at all as my mum cottoned on to the fact that colours etc made me extremely hyper and insane. I didn't really like fizzy drinks until I was older. I never drink coke as I'm not supposed to have any caffeine. I have also used coke at times to unblock drains, clean tarnished metal, and to do crazy effects on leather before I stain it...so there's no way I'm putting that stuff into myself!

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Monday, August 9, 2010 7:57 AM

IREMISST

Fortunately, the human stomach acids neutralize lots of things... I use onions for rust stains, and I also eat lots of them and garlic, good for circulation...I have not seen any evidence that food coloring and fizzy stuff does anything positive. It's funny, but coffee does nothing to me but have some pure apple juice and you'll find me scrubbing the bathroom ceiling!

I am also the baking soda queen, I use it to clean everything!!! and it makes water ph balance. There has been some research about sodium bicarb and how it can inhibit cancer cell growth??

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010 4:05 AM

BORIS

I hear what you're saying about stomach acids...ironic i'm so finnicky about coke considering the fact that as a child I ingested paperclips, paper, chewed up popsicle and lolly-pop sticks, biro ends , kleenex, and shredded balloons...none of which seemed to have a terrible effect on me.
we use bicarb for cleaning all sorts of things and as an antacid.

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010 5:35 PM

IREMISST

Paperclips??

Whew, you are "wired" differently, aren't ya?

Do you still have oral fixations?

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010 5:42 PM

BORIS

I do still put non food items in my mouth ocasionnally (marbles/wishing stones and yes the occasional paperclip) but have learned not to do it around others because it freaks them out (Don't know why coz I know plenty of people who practically eat their pens and pencils) I spit the items out rather than ingest them...They call it PICA, it's not uncommon in people who are "on the spectrum" I just like the feel of some things

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010 7:33 PM

IREMISST

I'm debating tonight- which is stranger; people brainz or cat brainz?

I guess it could be worse, you could be dragging home dead things... or licking yourself for hours...

For what it's worth, I can see why your parents worry, they must have one helluva sense of humor!

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010 7:47 PM

BORIS

ha ha My parents are Sicilian so they just assume its all part of the great drama of life thats produced to make them miserable. Plus they've learned I can look after myself and functionally deal with the consequences of all my quirks. Cat brains are way more mystifying and interesting than human brains. E.g I'm daily intrigued as to why my cat is obsessed with a plastic bathroom stool and any shoes left on the lounge room carpet. Also I regularly question why he has an aversion to anyone wearing shorts.

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Tuesday, August 17, 2010 8:45 AM

MSA

Being an odd child, my favorite treat was flank steak with bearnaise sauce:)

Because if you wear shorts your legs might touch grass...and that just feels wrong!

Also cats are attracted to any inanimate object that can be eaten and then regurgiated in unrecognizable lumps:)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Friday, August 20, 2010 4:12 AM

BORIS

nah...he just doesn't like the sight of bare legs. also he now has a predelection for only one pair of shoes: My Redback Work boots. He even comes over to me when I'm wearing them and asks for one. then he plays with it, cuddles it and tries to stick his head inside it before he falls asleep on it usually with his paws inside the boot opening. I will try to get some pics and post them.

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Friday, August 20, 2010 4:26 AM

WISHIMAY

Hey boris- where do you work that you use work boots?

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Friday, August 20, 2010 5:24 AM

BORIS

I am mainly a speech pathology student, but work in after school care/vacation care etc. and find boots are the best shoes for the job. Also I don't drive so I do a lot of trudging to get to places,sometimes on difficult terrain and amongst broken bottles etc (and occasionally snake, goanna and spider concealing long grass). Redbacks (named after a venomous spider) are elastic sided pull-on heavy duty Australian work boots with capped toes. They're hardier than sneakers and last ages. Before I started this studying lark I found them ideal footwear for walking and schoolaged care but they were particularly good for disabilities work i did where you had to get shoes on and off in a hurry (also good for protecting toes from wheelchair wheels backing onto them and shin kicking clients). I've also found them great for working in acute hospital settings during clinical placements for speech Pathology. I love my boots

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Friday, August 20, 2010 8:21 AM

MSA

Boris...welcome to the dark side:) ( special education) Just know that, at least here, being a SLP is the quickest way to get pregnant. I swear our SLP's areo ut on maternity constantly

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Friday, August 20, 2010 8:39 AM

KANEMAN

I always enjoyed stealing my fathers beer.

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Friday, August 20, 2010 9:42 AM

WISHIMAY

Oh, that explains it... You killed off all major brains cells reeeal early

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Friday, August 20, 2010 12:40 PM

WHOZIT

CANDY CORN!........GIMME!!

Those arn't boobs, they're lies! - Stewie Griffin

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Friday, August 20, 2010 6:11 PM

BORIS

R.E. Speech paths and pregnancy!!! I Know!!! those of baby making age always seem to be producing little sproglets or have at least 3 or 4 of them at home and want more. I'm 40 unattached and only planning to foster munchkins aged 4+ once I'm working and established. I definitely see my future life surrounded by kidlings developing away and exploring the world etc...but i'm not planning any babies. Two psychic friends of mine have said they see it, but i'm not inclined to agree.
As for the darkside...I know what you mean coz I've been working there a while even before this speech pathology thing, but special Ed's a shiny bejewelled kind of darkside most of the time despite the biting and the kicking and banshee screeches :-).

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Friday, August 20, 2010 11:45 PM

BORIS

so sad ya had to steal it...being Sicilian My dad used to give me a bit of his beer every time he had some. Nowadays I don't mind a crisp cold beer on a hot day.

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