What do you miss?

[Tinks]

There were also these yummy bbq flavoured chip sort of things and I've never been able to remember what they were called, they also came in a chicken flavour. They were more like a burger ring consistency.

Were they Toobs?

[young_mumma87]

Toobs are great! And they still taste like they use to! I swear milky way bars have gotten smaller??! Or maybe I just got bigger! And thank the lord curly wurlys and chomps have stayed the same! I do miss the "facts or jokes" that used to be on the packets of the curly wurlys.. I miss the days where u could buy "fags" the "fads" taste different and I miss the sherbets they where in a orange packet with the white bit in the middle

[Calluna]

Oh yeah! Sherbert bombs!

[sloane]

Were they Toobs?

Nah...they were more of the shape of a leaf/curl. I think the chicken ones were around for a bit longer than the bbq.

Toobs - yum, haven't had then since I was little!

[littlelara]

Does anyone remember when milkshakes were hard and chewy? Sherbies, too.
Ooh! Pink panther bars! I would make one last all day

[~Gee_Whizzy~]

Nah...they were more of the shape of a leaf/curl. I think the chicken ones were around for a bit longer than the

Ooo were they muncheros?? they were corn chips but a different shape?!

[sahbear]

Ooo were they muncheros?? they were corn chips but a different shape?!

Oh my gosh! I loved muncheros! Yum.

[sloane]

Ooo were they muncheros?? they were corn chips but a different shape?!

Hmmm...I'm not sure! I vaguely remember the name....they were around in the mid 80's, does that sound right? Gone by the late 80's I think! General enough?

[Rowellen]

I miss the family get togethers. My mum is from a large family. Between her & her siblings they have over 30 "grandkids" (me & all my cousins) all born within 14 years of each other. There were 5 of us born in the year I was born! We used to have a big christmas party a few weeks before christmas were we would all go to someone's house or they'd hire a hall and we all had a blast. One of the uncles would dress up as santa and give out a small present to each child. I really miss that. A couple of times, someone's tried to organise a reunion but with everyone scattered all over the world now, with work & families of their own, it's hard to get many together. And besides it's not the same now we're all grown up.

[CinderToriella]

I loved muncheros!!

And I loved potatoes and more , as a kid ha ha .. Those plastic potatoes in the packet you microwave , like a little potato bake ..""please sir can I have some more "

[sloane]

I think I've discovered what they were! I googled and found a similar thread to this one on whirlpool and someone mentioned them - chicken cackles and bbq cackles

[Miss.September]

Oh yeah! Sherbert bombs!

Sherbert bombs are still around. I just bought some off eBay.

I miss those giant gobstoppers. I see them from time to time but where we caught the bus for school there was a milk bar that sold then for $1. We'd still be sucking in them by the time we got off the bus at the other end of the day. School banned them during classes in the end.

[Khaleesi]

I miss the old warheads.
The ones they have nowadays just aren't the same.

[Trillian]

I think I've discovered what they were! I googled and found a similar thread to this one on whirlpool and someone mentioned them - chicken cackles and bbq cackles

I was just going to say were they chicken cackles! OMG I loved those too - only ever saw them sold at the school canteen, never in the shops. I loved them so much.

[misty]

Pocket rockets.
Being able to get 3 lollies for 2c at the corner store.
Shrinking chip packets in the oven and turning them into broaches.
Going to the markets and all the stalls actually being homemade things, without labels and packaging.
Real fudge (not this stuff you can buy or that most people make nowadays, but real traditional dissolves on your tongue fudge).

[black_rose]

So many awesome things already mentioned! Fads, pink panther and double choc yumm. At school we used to get smith chips in a gold packet that you could rub all over yourself for make up or put in the oven to shrink into shrinkies to trade with friends. The play ground at school was awesome it had a giant roller you had to all run on and a fort with three levels, but they are gone for safety reasons now so has the tree that we could sit up in.

[danita]

I also just remembered how much I miss choo choo bars and the old toffee apple lollies. Also calipo frost pineapple flavoured ice block things.

[Heaven]

Real playgrounds, with seesaw's.