I have just had the most delicious snack

My mum used to let me have a saucer full of condensed milk to eat with a spoon for a special treat! And i had suger mixed with butter for sore throats. It almist made feeling ill worth it!

We used to have hundreds and thousands in our sandwiches for parties, coloured sugar really, with crusts cut off, and toast and dripping was a favorite teatime treat.

Finely shredded Brussels sprouts and marmite sandwich.

Salad cream sandwiches when my Mum was hard up....yum!

Honey-in-the-comb squashed onto doorsteps of white bread and butter, with the waxy bits lingering on the teeth. Grandad kept bees and there was always honey.

Oh the memories, this has brought me! All of these wonderful things that are considered so bad for you now! (I suppose all the junk food is so much better!) Eating condensed milk out of the tin until I felt sick and still couldn't stop was just one of them! I was reading these out loud to the OH, who ate a banana and jam sandwich for lunch today!

Sugar sandwiches, loads of butter. Yum.

Liked rolled oats mixed with sugar and cocoa powder, eaten dry. Wouldn't eat it now, sounds revolting!!

Maybe a sugar sandwich for my late night snack?

Condensed milk sandwiches every time !! Also, used to love the radio-malt my Mum used to shovel down me. No wonder I am Slimming World's worse member now !! My son used to have peanut butter mixed with Marmite on toast !!

Oh yes to Connie onnie sandwiches and weetabix with jam on for supper. I do little yorkshire puds these days( pop overs) as my oven never seems to get big puds fluffy enough and we did have them on their own with sugar. So hungry now.

Orange and sugar cube ??

Beetroot and salad cream sandwiches!

Ooh yes remember the orange and sugar cube, also Yorkshire pud and golden syrup. Fav was Golden Syrup and bread and butter. Nowaday I have managed to pass on the bread and butter bit but frequently dip into the tin of GS with a spoon. It has to be brought out to me in France regularly.

An orange with a hole bored in it then a sugar cube pushed in the hole and sucked the juice through the sugar. I also remember being sent to the greengrocers for a bottle of vinegar from the barrel and for a quarter pound of mushroom stalks which got stewed in a bit of milk, thickened with cornflour, seasoned and served up on toast---didn't know there were whole mushrooms for years.

Maggiemaybe: my mum, coincidently also called Maggiemay, told me vinegar dried your blood. She used to send me to the green grocers to have a bottled filled with vinegar, and warned not to drink it on the way home, or expect the fore mentioned dire consequences. The shop always smelt of cooking beetroot, a smell that always takes me back to those times.
She also warned that sugar sandwiches gave you worms, but I loved them!

I stopped buying peanut butter when I realised that I ate more off the spoon than on my bread! Unfortunately DGD loves it so it has found its way back into the cupboard

Oh yes! you don't want to worry about old.

I found some sugared almonds from two Christmases ago which were faded. They were delicious!

GM used to make strawberry jam and banana sandwiches. GD would fry (in a clean pan) jelly babies until they were just tacky.

Condensed milk sandwiches yum. When I was a teenager you could get it in tubes, like toothpaste. Just squirt into mouth.

No: leftover Yorkshire puddings should be eaten with a spoon of golden syrup.

Mucky fat sandwiches , banana with c&o crisps both yummy used to rhubarb dipped in sugar . Holicks powder eaten like sherbet ??

Went through a teenage phase of putting vinegar on my Sunday dinner instead of my mum's lumpy gravy. Loved it and can taste it now, but my dad made me eat it in the other room so he couldn't see me.
Gooseberries, cookers & rhubarb sticks dipped in a bag of sugar, all scrumped from a local derelict garden.
We were 7 children and I seem to remember living on chips cooked in lard most days, with faggots & peas and stew occasionally. We regularly fought over the 2 end crusts from a loaf of bread, nowadays kids turn up their noses. My mum insisted we always had butter, she thought my aunty who mixed hers with margarine was a bit mean.

It had to be bacon fat for me. But bacon was properly cured then and only fat came out it not the thick white goo you get today

A typical winter breakfast, when I was a child, was bread fried in beef dripping. I was like a bean pole and disappeared if I stood sideways, father used to say it would put a bit of fat on my ribs.

We used to dip raw rhubarb stalks in sugar. Lovely, sweet ad crunchy