Thinking of food what was your favourite food and drink when you were at school .And can you still buy LICORICE WOOD and a little biscuit called ICE GEMS. Thanks

My school dinner ladies used to make wonderfull pizza.
Just plain old cheese n tomamto but they were so doughy & soft n moist.
I reckon I had pizza chips beans & beetroot every day from age 13 :D

Not mention chocolate sponge & brown custard :P {whimpers at the memory}...:P :P :P

Originally posted by Alan52
......... can you still buy LICORICE WOOD and a little biscuit called ICE GEMS. Thanks

Liquorice Wood - £1.77 for 15 (http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/liquorice-wood-p-111.html)

Jacobs Iced Gems (http://www.ekmpowershop2.com/ekmps/shops/s_h_o_p/index.asp?function=DISPLAYPRODUCT&productid=60) are in Waitrose and others @£1.20/110g.

I still buy iced gems, if I'm feeling like some chocs.They are not so bad as there isn't many calories in them.
What about rabbit and cow heel gravy on Yorkshire Puds, Oh! yes thats why I need the iced gems!

When I was a kid my mum used to serve up Cow Heel and Shin for breakfast on winter Sunday mornings.

It was fantastic! All served up with crusty bread - I saw cow heel on the market the other day and I was SO tempted!

Joe

My husband hates cow heel, but he loves braised steak and yorkshire puds, and he hasn't guessed in forty years that he's been having it.

Hi Mary

My Mom used to cook cow heel regually and pigs trotter. Somethings I never got to like, and udder !

hazel

We use to have our yorkshire with gravy first, then have it again with the meal, then again cold with jam for a sweet.

I once made some small individual ones for a group of people when i worked in a kitcken in the US, they wanted to know why i put a BREAD ROLL in with their food, too many people to explain it to, seniors hard of hearing, shouted it out to the first few, then gave up.:rant:

They call Yorkshire Pudding Popovers in Massachusetts. Same recipe, same procedure (dont open the oven door ), but they make 'em too small.

One of my favourite snacks was 2 squares of Yorkshire pudding with a slice of beef from the Sunday joint in the middle.
called pudding sandwich.

hazel

We seem to be taking over this thread with cow heel, but I do remember udder,I've never smelt anyhing like it, I couldn't eat that to save my life.

Something else my mum used to do, and that was to buy a stone of mussels for my dad's tea, does anyone still do mussels like that?

Originally posted by Applegrim
We seem to be taking over this thread with cow heel, but I do remember udder,I've never smelt anyhing like it, I couldn't eat that to save my life.


Pull the udder one :P I think you may find that meat and fish don't smell if they are fresh, and if you go into either a butchers or fishmongers and they smell, walk out and find some place else to shop.

I do agree about Udder though, it's awfuk stuff. :gag:

MY MOM DAD AND NAN USED TO GET TRIPE,SHEEPS BRAINS AND SWEET MEAT FROM THE TRIPE MAN WHO USED TO COME AROUND THE ARBOURTHORNE COOK IT UP AND PASS IT AROUND NO THANKS

My favorite drink was Vimto / Dandelion and urdock and i recall buying Potatoe Puffs at school. And huge chocolate buiscuits.

Didn't rate schools dinners especially when they tried to disguise turnip in the potatoe.

Isn't Dandilion & Burdock still sold ? how about Tizer ? both my favorites, then there was a black currant drink too.

Way back when, all that stuff like Udder, Tripe, Bag,(what the hell was that?) Chitterlings, Sheeps brains, Sweetbreads, were much sought after 'cause you couldn't get much else, only your rations. It was all Offal, but now we're all sleek and fat and can afford to live on the best, we tend to look down on that kind of thing. Incidentally, Sheeps brains and Sweetbreads are considered Gourmet fodder now. Personally, I think Chitterlings are the worst 'cause when your cooking 'em up they chuck up a bit (if you'll pardon the expression), but with plenty of seasoning and hot sauce they're not bad at all. Enjoy!

Originally posted by owdlad

I do agree about Udder though, it's awfuk stuff. :gag:

:o O W D L A D ! :o

My Mam used to serve up this revolting tripe & onion in milk. Never eaten any of the other offal although I do like Liver & onions. AND I'm sure Owdlads was a typo error- although I agree

Bag,(what the hell was that?)


Isn't it the cow's stomach?

Used to love sweet tobbaco - Jamaica Gold I think it was called.
You can get similar from an online sweet shop but it's not quite the same.

Ken still buys chicklings and bag frm Crystal Peaks Market.
he eats it raw with vinegar.
I don't

hazel

I remember we used to have tinned sausages at my Gran's - not hotdogs though - but proper meaty sausages. I think they were made by Walls.
You undid the tin and they slid out in a tin-shaped wedge of lard. Marvellous, healthy start to the day!

A bloke I worked with in the steeworks used to eat Weston.

I don't know if you can still buy it in Sheffield but he used to gollop it down regularly for his snap on the night shift.


Happy nights!

Hazel, are the Chitterlings and Bag ready for eating, or do you have to scrub and wash them first?

we use to have rabbit sometimes on a Sunday , mom use to take it in the coal house and skin it so we couldn't see it, was lovely ! but i couldn't eat it now :gag:

Hi Poppins, yes I agree with you I couldn't eat most of these things now, I wonder if it's that we're not as hungry now, after all I was glad of anything back then,or is it that we now understand exactly where it's come from? I couldn't eat black pudding to save my life now but I know I have in the past.

Originally posted by poppins
Isn't Dandilion & Burdock still sold ? how about Tizer ? both my favorites, then there was a black currant drink too. dandelion and burdock is still sold in some supermarkets so is tizer and the blackcurrant drink do you mean vimto ? just finished a bottle off of the diluted type .

You can still get bag and chitterlings in the Fish market from a stall just to the left of the steps down from the Castle market.

You don't need to cook it or mess with it, just wash it under the cold tap, smoother it with salt and vinegar then enjoy.

I don't know where you can get udder from nowadays, last time I saw it was years ago in Dewsbury market and they called it Elder. If anyone knows can they tell us please, I would love to try it again.

Originally posted by Applegrim
Something else my mum used to do, and that was to buy a stone of mussels for my dad's tea, does anyone still do mussels like that? love em,but the price nowadays wouldnt allow me to buy that sort of weight, shame really as they were realy tasty

Does anyone remember All Sauce, it was the best sauce ever and you cant get it anymore, I was gutted! I remember iced gems and yes they still sell them, what about the crisps called Piglets, like little pigs that were bacon flavour (ironically). What about those rainbow drops, do they still sell them? I used to love sherbet dips and those dib dabs with 2 flavours of sherbet.

I've put a couple of pounds on since the beginning of this thread, I get hungry just reading it.

The chicklings are suposed to be ready to eat but Ken squeezes them flat first and something oozes out then washes them.
He buys mussels to and boils them until they open,
And as for Black Pudding I have never eaten it since working at The Blolod Transfusion Service where I collected blood from the public

hazel

my fav food when i was of school age was finny haddock,cowheel,chitterlins & bag,pigs feet & corned beef!!---in the sweets line its got to be golden (cant remember the rest of the name!)tabacco,fiveboys chocolate,blackjacks,choc smokers outfits and spice pigs!!aaah what memories!--i feel quite peckish now!!:lol:

Black Pudding is good, I have it fried with bacon and eggs. Somebody once told me, when they worked for Davies in Sheffield, that they had to mix the pigs blood standing over a big vat, both arms in some sort of slings, and kind of whirling them around. I guess they have a machine for it now.
Still as long as it's done clean and made up into those big black t***ds, bon appetit.

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
Not mention chocolate sponge & brown custard :P {whimpers at the memory}...:P :P :P

mmm chocolate sponge with the chocolate sauce mixing with the custard and making chocolatey custard goop delicious

Originally posted by Alan52
a little biscuit called ICE GEMS.

yummy yumm, I used to pick off the "iced" and leave the biscuit :P

and wattsy, I love dandelion and burdock, its the best fizzy drink around, and I love school dinners too..especially cheese flan with soggy chips and tinned tomato chunks YUM!

jillybabes, they still do rianbow drops and they're soo nice :), dip dabs to but not in any nice flavours

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Does anyone remember Frizzets?
I think that's what they were called.
It was a powder, you mixed into a batter and cooked in the frying pan like pancakes.
This was in the late 40s early 50s when food was still scarce.
I think the ingredients were ,flour, powdered eggs and seasoning seem to recollect a onion, sage flavour.
My mother worked at nights at The Royal Infirmary in the canteen. She would bring home the leftovers for the hungry horde. We considered it a real treat

You got to me with the Frizzets, it was the ingredients I remember,especially the sage and onion, sometime they did them at Pyebank School (but dont let Jamie Oliver know that).
My favorite school dinner was the fishcakes with white sauce, and I think peas. I know some will be horrified at that but the thing was nobody else liked 'em so you got seconds dead easy.
And sometimes thirds.

Black pudding fans - try Roney's butchers shop at Hunter's Bar.

And before you ask, no, I don't work there!

They have the stuff shaped like a bowling ball, made somewhere near Bakewell, I think.

And they carve slices off with a knife.

It tastes absolutely amazing.

An excellent starter (first course) for a meal that I can recommend is black dag, about the size of a 50p coin with apple sauce on top.

Do three or four per person.

Put on a baking tray and cook in a medium over for 20 minutes or so.

May sound a bit weird, but it works and it's really tasty.

I used to love school jam roly poly. The ones in supermarkets just don't taste the same:(

Black Dag and Mucky Pudding served with a side dish of bread `n` wipe. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.........


Translation:
Black dag - covered earlier in the thread.
Mucky Pudding - good old yorky pud but with sage n onion added to batter mix
Bread n Wipe - whatever had been in fryin pan (bacon / liver / saus black dag etc.) then dip your bread in to mop up residual juices eat and then commit to the `weshin up bowl`.


Never forget me old gran advisin on bread n drippin for Sunday tea. Specially when drippin was off beef or pork joint at dinner - her take on healthy eating - " It'll do thee gud - grease thee lungs!"

`Whats for supper gran?`
`A run round table and a kick at cellar door!`

WHEN I WAS AT SCHOOL WE USE TO GO SWIMMING DOWN CITY ROAD ? AND THERE USED TO BE A LITTLE PIE SHOP NEAR THE BATHS HOT PORK PIES AND SOME SLOPPY PEAS YUM I MISS ALL THAT.

Things I remember from school are potato puffs still the best crisps ever.Chocolate teacakes and the cheese and onion pie that one of the dinner ladies who lived nearby used to make for me for years after I left Pye Bank school.
Remember eating udder soaked in Hendersons and Sunday tea with onion and cucumber steeped in vinegar.

When I was a wee lad coming home from primary school i'd always get some white chocolate mice from the fruit shop which used to be on Mansfield rd.

my dad was a drummer at the old park gardeners club,he used to fetch me ,a bottle of orangegillo and bags of nibbets,anyone remember these?:)

Originally posted by pauline
my dad was a drummer at the old park gardeners club,he used to fetch me ,a bottle of orangegillo and bags of nibbets,anyone remember these?:) yes i do remember nibbets and also orangillo i think there was also the lemon flavour one as well lemonillo they were really nice and came in a small chunky type of bottle

Coming out of Corporation Street baths one day, must've been sometime in 1945, about six of us put to and bought a loaf and a packet of Rennies and shared them out. Well there was nothing else to buy, no coupons to buy anything with, no money really. Kids using up energy and nothing to replace it. Sounds funny now. Anybody remember the old standby cocoa and sugar, licked out of a piece of paper?

We used to eat a stick of rhubarb, with the sugar in a piece of newspaper.
I seem to remember 'Savoury Ducks or Halfpenny Ducks'
These were sold at the butchers .I think they were savoury patties made like sage and onion stuffing ,no meat, maybe someone could enlighten me

Originally posted by sweetdexter

I seem to remember 'Savoury Ducks or Halfpenny Ducks'
These were sold at the butchers .I think they were savoury patties made like sage and onion stuffing ,no meat, maybe someone could enlighten me

They should have had a bit of meat in them (or at least a bit of liver waved over the top of them!)

Savoury ducks are also know as Faggots please find the recipe below
from "Everything in the larder" by David Mabey ISBN 0563360240

1 pint Tepid Water
3 oz Breadcrumb
1 Tbl malt vinegar
1 tsp dried sage
1 tsp dried mixed herbs
1 egg beaten
1 lb Pigs liver or (mixture of liver & lights)
8 oz Belly pork
2 Onions
Salt & Pepper to taste

Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 4, 350°F (180°C).
Mince the pig's liver (and lights, if using), belly pork and onions, put into a bowl and add the breadcrumbs, beaten egg, herbs and seasoning. Mix well with a fork. Divide the mixture into little balls, each weighing about 2 oz (50 g).
Put the faggots into a greased baking tin so that each touches its neighbour. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes or until nicely browned on top. Remove from the oven and leave to cool, then cover the dish with aluminium foil or clingfilm and store in a cool place. Eat within 3 days.

cgksheff I do not remember them as being so sophisticated.
I am thinking just after the war late 40s,would they still have all those ingredients in them.
We only gave the lights to the cat

I agree with you. Hence my suggestion that you might just wave a bit of liver at it!
Ours just included what meat stock was available.

big chocolate dindee biscuits for a penny from the school tuck shop can you still get them any where?and school cheese pie

sorry dundee biscuits

Yes we had cocoa and sugar in a piece of newspaper.
I thought it delicious, also rhubarb and sugar which grew in the garden, we ate it while still green.
Dried prunes in blue sugar paper bags too
I suppose they were our sweets as we didn't get anything else.

hazel

Thank you very much to the people that replied to my query regarding Lowedges Sheffield. I asked if anyone had any information on Lowedges as there doesnt seem to be much info on the Internet of very much interest!

If anyone has any photos of Lowedges or the surrounding areas of the south of Sheffield I would love to see them, and I am sure everyone else would love to also?!

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:help:

:D

:thumbsup:

shefflasfema x

:thumbsup: What about "Bacon Bones", a soup or Stew, then suck on the bones afterwards!

Floral Gums and Cherry Lips

my favourite as a kid
Dad used to buy us Traffic light lollies on pay day (friday) and ice cream man special was a Screwball!

Frizzets ... Yeh, I remember them .. used to have them on Sunday mornings with the bacon and egg

Cherry Lips, yeh, tasted like aftershave in gellatine!

Anybody remember frozen Jubbly's?

I remember one playtime at Pyebank School, must've been around '43 or so, this kid produced a lemon that his brother had brought back from the Middle or Far East or somewhere. Anyhow, none of us kids had seen a lemon, or had forgotten, so we took it at face value so to speak. Actually it was about the size of a walnut, and as hard. It could've been anything. It must've been at the bottom of his brother's kit bag for months. I dont think I saw a real good looking lemon until after the war, then I had to be told what it was. Just kidding.

What Texas said reminded me of banana's or what we called bananas,
Around 45-6 as a nipper we spent our playtime an the banks of the Don around the Wednesday ground.
We used to pick and chew this plant we called banana.
It had an aniseed taste .God knows what we were eating.
In retrospect it could have been Fennel.
Does anyone know if it grows wild in the old sod

AAAHHHH the memories...school lunches i loved em, was the only decent meal we got all day and we only got them if mi dad was on t'dole. Otherwise it was home for a boiled egg. Chocolate dundee biscuits were 3d at school.
Best memory is after swimming at Attercliffe baths, had to walk home to Darnall and stopped at a bread shop near t'aquadoc and bought a slice o bread and drippin wi a bit o jelly on it. Cost a penny. If you only a ha penny, she'd sell half a slice but NO jelly stuff.
A pennoth of scraps from t'chippy wi vinigar.

And that woz LUXURY

Indeed sweetdexter, Fennel does grow wild in old England, but usually near the coast, along cliffs etc. Then again it sometimes grows on waste ground, but it isn't wide spread. Talking Bananas though, can you remember, again in the austerity days of the late 40s, something that was sold occasionly as dried Bananas? It was like a brown strip, very sweet. We as kids sometimes got it in a shop at the back of Burngreave School.

wasn't Fred Funk the butchers at hillsborough well known for his black pudding, I'm sure I've heard people talk about how good it was, don't know if the butcher is still there. I'm going back a few years.

now I am going back in time.
does any one remember the ice Joysticks made by Walls or might have been Lyons , they were triangular about 1" x 6" really fruity, they were around in the mid to late 40's

Remember Lemfizz cubes? They were meant to be made into a drink with water, but everyone just ate them as a sweet.

Also, I used to buy "kali" (flavoured sugar?) from the sweet shop in Rawmarsh, but my Sheffield partner says that its "Rainbow Crystals". It was always called Kali where I lived and you bought a penny licorice to dip in it.

Its a wonder I had any teeth left.

I remember buying frozen Jubblies from the corner shop near western road school.
I think the shop was called Dales, they sold something we called fizz. It was a penny for a cone paper shape full and it was eaten by sticking in a wet finger.
This shop also sold coltfoot sticks and tiger nuts along with lots of sweets sold loose from big glass jars.
You got such a lot for sixpence.
Lemon sherbets made your mouth come out in ulcers they were so sharp.

Hi Texas I think the things you are talking about were carobs.
how about oxo as a hot drink? and yes dripping crusts were to die for.

On a visit back to Shefield one year i stopped in (then) Walshes for a meal, they sat me at a table with someone else ! didn't even ask, don't know if they still do that now.....another time i was eating out with a friend, the waitress just sat another couple down at our table.....seemed a strange thing to do .

We called it kali and we came from Attercliffe, so it is a Sheffield name and I loved dandelion and burdock. I still buy mussels here in Aussie and any other sort of shellfish I can get hold of.Strange all the foods we used to love as kids are now proclaimed bad for us. I think my husband would throw a fit if I served him any offal items. What I really miss here are pork pies nobody makes a good one:mad:

Originally posted by Jan39
now I am going back in time.
does any one remember the ice Joysticks made by Walls or might have been Lyons , they were triangular about 1" x 6" really fruity, they were around in the mid to late 40's

I remember those. They came in two sizes, one cost a penny and the other cost a hapenny. Don't remember who made them but we used to ride the bus to Graves Park for a hapenny each way. There used to be a shop right outside the park gates that sold them so we would usually buy one and walk home. Quite a walk because I lived in Heeley at that time. Thanks for the memory.

Oh! what good memories it all brings back, i use tolove those little shops on South Rd in Walkley, they had everthing you could want....... South rd was crowded with shoppers,prams.every one stopped to chit chat as we all knew each other. good times

Does anybody remember tiger nuts and is it still possible to buy them. Nobody here has heard of them.

Not seen Tiger nuts for years! If anyone finds them, please post the source on here.

I remember the small packets of KP tiger nuts, long and narrow, 2d a pack. They were cheaper than peanuts.

Hi Cgksheff. I tried that reciept, but could nt come at the pig's liver. ( grose ) I used pork mince. My son enjoyed them hot or cold. Next time I think I'll make it as a meat loaf.


Thanks Pete.

We often had Rabbit on a Sunday, thought it was great....couldn't even look at it now :gag:

Cow Heel.
I remember buying half a cow heel from Fryers chip shop on Penistone Rd,and gnawing on this while waiting for the 49 bus home.
Needless to say it was always with a belly full of beer.
When I relate this to my wife and sons here in Canada, I dont think they believe me.
Looking back I can understand why.

I remember the dried things we ate, Peterdo called them 'Carobs" I think we called them 'Locust Beans'
Which I think they are,or at least the seed and pod of the Locust tree
We bought them from the greengrocers on Wordsworth Drive

Originally posted by poppins
We often had Rabbit on a Sunday, thought it was great....couldn't even look at it now :gag:

Yea, with seasoned puddings.. yummy !!

When I was flush, which wasn't very often, I would buy a tin Horlicks tablets from the drink shop. I haven't seen them in donkeys years

Hi Sweetdexter, yes you are right , dont know where I got carob from. Thanks :smile:

I bought some tiger nuts from the nut bar place in Castle Markets earlier this year, big bag of em :) (and I got them all to myself after my partner and son tried em :hihi: )

Banksia, so you also went to the drink shop at Heeley Green for your Horlicks tablets, if I remember right ,wern't they square? two separate square sections in a tin? Then they changed them to round tubes and they never tasted the same.

Originally posted by alysonpeach
Not seen Tiger nuts for years! If anyone finds them, please post the source on here.

I remember the small packets of KP tiger nuts, long and narrow, 2d a pack. They were cheaper than peanuts.

The nut bar in Castle Market will sell them, and the same company owns the nut bar in Meadowhell, so no doubt they sell them as well.

Mum used to make the best meat and potato pie, she would cook the steak and kidney in it for hours and then it would have a big thick crust served with mushy peas.

If you hadn't so far to come I'd make you one, a proper Desparate Dan cow pie, with Hendersons relish!

Originally posted by Applegrim
Banksia, so you also went to the drink shop at Heeley Green for your Horlicks tablets, if I remember right ,wern't they square? two separate square sections in a tin? Then they changed them to round tubes and they never tasted the same.

You are correct.... they did change to tubes and I agree, they didn't taste the same. Getting the tin was important, it was like getting something useful for free.
I remember begging free Oxo tins from the co-op. You felt you really had something worthwhile if you had one of those red boxes to put your "stuff" in ...... my how times have changed !

Originally posted by Applegrim
If you hadn't so far to come I'd make you one, a proper Desparate Dan cow pie, with Hendersons relish!

Better watch what you're saying Applegrim, remember I'LL be there soon !! :clap:

Well Banksia, you know where I live, you're welcome anytime, but I was hoping to put me posh frock on!

Shortbread biscuit and strawberry yoghurt...mmmm

Originally posted by Dannyj
:thumbsup: What about "Bacon Bones", a soup or Stew, then suck on the bones afterwards! Made some of this today always makes me remember my childhood .

Originally posted by alysonpeach
Not seen Tiger nuts for years! If anyone finds them, please post the source on here.

I remember the small packets of KP tiger nuts, long and narrow, 2d a pack. They were cheaper than peanuts. There is a shop but its in Mablethorpe on the sea front they sell all of the old type sweets talked about on here.

thai,you have reminded me of another "luxury" we used to have and don't have now and that's ox tail, I don't even know if it's still sold.

It's strange how our memories come back, but talking about all these foods we used to eat made me think of old sayings that my grandad used to call me if I'd done something wrong, or if I dropped a clanger, one was "pot herb" another was" balm pot"
I presume pot herb was a pot of herbs, and the other a pot in which we stored balm which is another word for yeast.I never ever heard my grandad swear,these were the worst I heard him say

Originally posted by thai
There is a shop but its in Mablethorpe on the sea front they sell all of the old type sweets talked about on here.

There is a a shop a lot closer than Mablethorpe, it's in Chesterfield and sells all manner of boiled sweets.;)

Applegrim, you can still buy oxtail from good butchers.

I am sitting at the opposite end of the world tonight. I blundered back into the Sheffield Forum by accident after a couple of year's absence.

Taggy's icecream and Graves Park. Dandelion and Burdock. Horlicks Tablets. Swizzlers. Real fish and chips. Bread and dripping (with jelly). The occasional pork pie. Fry's Five Boys. Rowntrees. Liquorice root. Liquorice allsorts and sometimes, roast chestnuts on a cold night's long walk downtown.

...and my mum's Yorkshire pud, or meat and potato pie cooked in the black oven by our fire. I dunno how she did it, looking back.

...and sometimes a trout for breakfast, because dad was a coarse fisherman (and our cellar full of flies) .... or maybe a kipper.

...and I remember Amy Morton (and her Polish airman husband, and their motorbike and sidecar) and Mr Staley, and if I close my eyes, I can still smell the print on his Beanos.

...and walking everywhere. And Sheffield being as big and important as the whole world. And more interesting.

...and sometimes I wish I could go back to Tillotson Road, just for five minutes.

Cheers.

My mum used to serve up tripe and onions - hated it, but then I hate most things with a slithery texture! She also used to do surprise stew - you were surprised if you found any meat in it. she used to do it in a huge cauldron and it lasted days. In the last couple of days, it used to taste much nicer, but later on we found out that dad used to doctor it! We used to have rabbit quite a bit (especially when Dad flattened one on the way home from work) and herring roe when the fishing boats were in (we lived on the east coast of Scotland). Oxtail, heart - casseroled or roasted (mmmmm!)and liver (cooked with baked beans, onions and gravy) turned up a lot too but we never had any of that bag business. Black pud, yes, and haggis too but not assorted bits of cows undercarriage - sounds revolting too me! We had bubble and squeak, corned beef hash (when I go home, mum still makes that for me) too.

Mum and Dad used to have dripping sandwiches but it wasn't until I moved to Sheffield that I tried it. One of the young kids went out for a dripping cake and I assumed that must be the local term for lardy cake, so I got him to bring me one too. Had a bit of a surprise, but loved it and now I am hooked.

We did not have many sweets, there simply wasn't the money with Dad being a fairly low rank in the RAF, mum not working and three little kids. Sometimes we were given a little cone of glucose, other times it was a cone of cocoa and sugar. Biggest treat of all was sugar sandwiches - we loved them. Mum told us later that she had a choice of buying sugar or jam and opted for sugar so that she could have some in her tea! Mum was the only person I have ever come across who could make a tube of smarties last three kids all week!

Occasionally we would have rice pud, semolina or sago and I still love that to this day. Mum went out berrying as well, so we had berries of one sort and another too.

I remember that funny fake tobacco stuff, I was about 10 by the time we had pocket money and I could buy things like that. Gobstoppers were a favourite too and back then they really did gobstop. It was a real piece of fun to see just how many sweets you could get for 2d pocket money. Best were sour apples, the last few eaten with bits of the bag!

I still remember though, the treat of sharing a penn'orth of chips, wrapped in real newspaper, with my mum, walking down the street, all tangy with vinegar and salt ........ heaven!

What about old english spangles mmmmmmmmmmmm

Does anybody remember All Sauce, it was the best ketchup ever, I was upset when they stopped making it.

I loved dandilion n burdock too but can anyone remember having a glass of sasparilla @ Rendevous sheffield lane top? mmm, i can still taste it!:

Me and my pals used to get sasparilla in pint pots from the shop on Abbeydale Road near the pictures. Sometimes we would get some in the water bottles of our bikesand ride out up to Fox House or some where. By that time it was flat and warm and tasted b- awful:gag:

I remember the Rendezvous in the 40's. used to buy
licorice sticks from the chemists nearby.

hi johnh oh i can remember jubblys - i used to get the on the corner of bellhouse road there was a little sweet shop with a corner door and in on the right was a freezer with loads of jubblys in - does anyone else remember that shop - its a house now

yes thats where i got the sticks from too!! they kept them in a big glass jar didnt they - it was greenstreets chemists

Indeed yes. A jar on the counter. This would be 1945->
I also remember the first packet of frozen peas from a grocers
on the end . Not the Coop opposite.

doweruk, do you remember all the shops on that parade? can you remember what the little papershop next to the co-op was called and can you remember mrs knights clothing shop?

Originally posted by erino
doweruk, do you remember all the shops on that parade? can you remember what the little papershop next to the co-op was called and can you remember mrs knights clothing shop?

Wasn't there a Thorntons on the Parade ?

Originally posted by Alan52
Thinking of food what was your favourite food and drink when you were at school .And can you still buy LICORICE WOOD and a little biscuit called ICE GEMS. Thanks
This was called Spanish Wood or Arrow root after the Spanish Armada as they ran along the North Sea to escape Francis Drake they threw all their stuff over the side, including the licquorice in woody canes, which was used to make arrows.
When the canes were washed on the shore near Scarborough,
they were brought to Pontefract and have been grown there ever since.

We used to soak arrow root in water to make a disgusting drink called 'Spanish' :gag:

Originally posted by poppins
Wasn't there a Thorntons on the Parade ?

I cant remember thorntons - what sort of shop was that?

Originally posted by erino
I cant remember thorntons - what sort of shop was that?

Are you kidding us ?????

:loopy:

Originally posted by Banksia
Are you kidding us ?????

:loopy:

I am certain that they don't mean the "toffee people" I am talking 30 years and more ago, it was on my way to school and I think I would have remembered that!

Originally posted by erino
doweruk, do you remember all the shops on that parade? can you remember what the little papershop next to the co-op was called and can you remember mrs knights clothing shop?

erino: All I can recall was a greengrocers. You reminded me of the chemists name - where we got my medicine. The doctor's was on Hatfield House Lane, I think.

There was a Kenning's garage a little further into town. I should know more, passing most days for seven years on the way to school, catching the tram there (Millhouses or Woodseats) into town. I will ask my mother, she's 97.

Originally posted by dowkeruk
erino: All I can recall was a greengrocers. You reminded me of the chemists name - where we got my medicine. The doctor's was on Hatfield House Lane, I think.

There was a Kenning's garage a little further into town. I should know more, passing most days for seven years on the way to school, catching the tram there (Millhouses or Woodseats) into town. I will ask my mother, she's 97.

thanks doweruk - i can remember kennings then rendevous then greenstreets then barry williams fruit shop ( he had another directly across the road too) there was also a little bread shop i think - on the other side of the road was the supermarket and the little papershop next door but i rack my brains to think of the name, where williams fruit shop was is now a bookies.
can you remember dowerruk the shops down on hatfield house lane? brians sweet shop - it had the little twin doors in the middle of the shop that use dot trap you as you tried to get through cos the doors seemed really heavy!
I lived on hatfield house lane @ the top of fairthorn road - did you live on there?

erino: After my dad died on active service my mother and I lived with my grandmother on Barnsley Rd. just above the Capitol. Went along Hatfield House Lane to get my hair cut at Firth Park. Quite a good view across some of Sheffield. I went to Hartley Brook Junior and, regarding the theme of this thread, `flies graveyard' was a popular school dinner sweet.

does anyone remember the sweet shop next to the school where the arena is? i used to love going in there when i was about 5 or 6 the smell of the sweets for me was heaven i think we all used to refer to it as the tuck shop:)

Originally posted by erino
I cant remember thorntons - what sort of shop was that?

And i nearly got banned once for asking about Henderson Relish ! :rant:

Originally posted by poppins
And i nearly got banned once for asking about Henderson Relish ! :rant:

ha! now that was one serious mistake!!:thumbsup:

Originally posted by panda79
does anyone remember the sweet shop next to the school where the arena is? i used to love going in there when i was about 5 or 6 the smell of the sweets for me was heaven i think we all used to refer to it as the tuck shop:)

sorry panda, i cant recall the shop you are thinking about - will ask around!:)