Nostalgia Bites! Childhood Snacks, School Canteen Favourites & Lost Classics

In this episode of The Big 6-Oh, we take a delicious trip down memory lane, reminiscing about the iconic foods, lollies, and treats we loved as kids. From Polly Waffles and Sunnyboys to devon sandwiches and Sunday roasts, we relive the tastes that shaped our childhoods. 

We also chat about the long-lost brands, quirky TV ads, and the school canteen favorites that made lunchtime the best part of the day. Get ready for a fun, nostalgic chat that will have you craving a trip to the corner milk bar!

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Transcript

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This episode of The Big Six-O brought to you by Louis Carr Real Estate, helping people in the Hills District find their dream home since 1992. Ready to buy, sell or rent? Check out louiscarr.com.au for all your property needs. If you're old enough to remember when phones had cords and the only thing that went viral was a cold, then you're in the right place. Welcome to The Big Six-O with Kayleigh Harris and Guy Rawlison.

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Because who better to discuss life's second act than two people who still think mature is a type of cheese?

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Welcome to the Big 6-0, if you've stumbled onto us for the first time. Joining me for this deliciously nostalgic episode is my co-host, friend and culinary guru, Kayleigh Harris. How are you, Kayleigh? I don't know about culinary guru, the only thing is I love food. Does that count me as a culinary guru? Tick. There you go.

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Kayleigh, you know, I of course go way back to days there at Eppingworth Public School where lunch boxes and treasures like Vegemite sandwiches, the occasional treat from the canteen was gold. Yep. And today we're dishing up a bit of a feast of childhood memories from the 60s and 70s. Food that we probably got dished up as kids, right? And hasn't it changed so much? And I guess our...

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of food and awareness of food has changed so much in the last 30-40 years. When you look at some of the canteen food and we'll get into that a bit later, it was Builders Health Food and you look at it now and think oh my gosh did we really ingest that? I know exactly what you're talking about I've got a written on my list and we'll bring it up later. So when you were growing up I mean there were a lot of foods that we had and that I'm sure listeners would be able to relate to.

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But the one thing that I want to kick us off with is, and I didn't know why it was called this, but we always used to get dished up bubble and squeak. Well, bubble and squeak, it's funny you should say that. That was a thing. We didn't get it at our house, but I would go to friends' houses and their parents would dish it up. And I would think that was the bee's knees. I was like, what is this stuff? And I'd go home to mum and go, mum, can we have this bubble and squeak? Oh no, that's rubbish. And then she'd serve us tripe.

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Well there's a lot to be said about tripe I never had it but plainly you did. Oh my gosh my mum used to do tripe and for those who don't know what it is it's the lining of a cow stomach it's white like a slice of white sort of meat and she would do just to make it taste better she'd do it in a white onion gravy. I'm salivating. Tripe with water and it was so good until I found out what it was. Oh no. I loved it it's like mum tripe

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Because you know, mum and dad were young parents and didn't have any money. So we are. I remember we lived on, you know, chicken legs, chicken drumsticks, five different ways with meat, with mint. Yeah. How many ways can you serve mince up sausages and things like that? It was. And even back then, I think lamb was quite cheap. Yeah. I never dreamed of chicken and mince. Back in my day, my mum reckoned.

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that if you crumbed anything, people would eat it. Oh yeah. And that was the rule in our house that you had to try it first before you said you didn't like it. And it was okay because she would crumb everything. But I remember one night she served up what I hadn't, I can't even really describe it, but basically it was lamb's tongues. Okay, yep. And she'd crumb it. And I thought, oh, the fact that she said- Did you know what it was?

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No, no idea. No idea. Tasted fine until I found out what it was and then couldn't look at it. Oh well speaking of that, my dad used to love eating, um, they used to be able to buy lamb's brains in a tin and he would heat, heat it up and then put it on toast. Oh no, really? In a tin? Yeah it came in a tin right but back then how many foods came in a tin? I'm thinking pex paste.

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Oh yeah, yeah. Mind you, I still like Pex paste. Oh, is it the deviled ham one? Yes. I love that stuff on toast. I know. My kids look at me like I'm a three heads when I bring that home. They go, what is that rubbish? And you can still get it. You can still get it. Highly processed, really bad for you. But when we were growing up, it's just, you'd go shopping, you know, at the, at the supermarket on a Saturday and there'd be a tin of Pex paste in there and a tin of Spam. And all those. Oh, Spam. Cut up the Spam into slices and fry it.

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exotic. I know. I mean II forgot about Pex paste. I used to love that devil and I didn't know you could still get it. You can still get it. Well you could up I think up until about a year ago because I remember bought it I bought it home and I think the Pex paste the devil's ham is like a ham spread the Pex paste is like an anchovy spread. Yes. Yes. And I you should see the looks I got from the kids at home when I brought that home and opened the tin and they got a whiff of it but you don't remember back in the 70s when

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um the whole ham thing was such a big thing we're talking about spam but that's when Hawaiian pizza and Hawaiian stuff came in and my mum used to make chicken Maryland like you said she'd crumb the chicken because you crumbed everything then she'd crumb a banana and she'd crumb a few pineapple slices and we'd have this whole Hawaiian feast and we thought we was so cool because we're having what the Hawaiian people eat. Ah look. Even though I'm sure they never did. We used to have this thing called Hawaiian chicken.

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And it'd be a barbecue chip, chuck or whatever, and then you'd just pull it all apart and put corn and a creamy sauce and pineapple. And it was like, yeah, that was exotic. Pineapple, pineapple was in everything back then. Of course, and today, I mean, those dissenters who say we shouldn't have pineapple and pizzas, I mean, gosh, where were they brought up? Of course it should be there. Well, it's funny, there's a whole world of people out there that think that pineapple is a joke fruit.

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It's not a real fruit, you know. And somebody tried to make it relevant by sticking it on pizza. Well, you know, I'm a fan and I don't think it's a joke fruit. But when I was a kid, before the inventive, the toasting makers and whatnot, did you ever have a Jaffa Lion? Yes, we had a, well, we actually, yes, we did. Yes, we did have a Jaffa Lion. The ones where you would close it properly, not like a sandwich press now where it just kind of sits. It was closed properly.

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and your bread would be completely sealed and have little lines on it and stuff like that and you could put all sorts of goodies in there. You couldn't make four at a time you'd be making one at a time and by the time it was you actually got it and it'd burn the roof of your mouth as well and oh no the the filling was always way too hot oh yeah and talking about cheese did you ever have a fondue like fondue? We did.

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I was going to ask you whether you had a fondue because I mean chocolate fondue is one thing but cheese fondue that just screams 1975 doesn't it? You could just dip anything into that cheese and again very hot you had to be careful you didn't burn the roof of your mouth off but. An artery city. Yeah oh I know. I know. I mean is that is cheese just one of the dairy products you say oh you can't get enough of this or is it like my gosh I'm having a heart attack because I'm now seven.

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And I've been to too many fondue. Exactly. I think cheese is, I guess it's a processed food, isn't it? I suppose. I don't know. Is it probably all the, speaking about processed food, what about we, if you go into a party, it was very special. If you had a slice of Devon with mashed potato in it and you'd roll it up and stick a toothpick through it. And that was a la carte baby. With a little pickled onion on top of it was very special.

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Oh, did anyone actually enjoy those? I don't know. I didn't mind them actually. I didn't mind. Who came up with the idea? Well someone came up with the idea of a pineapple with um with on the outside. Yeah there it is. I guess I mean and you'd stick toothpicks into the side of it with with some ham and maybe was it I forget what it was was it a cherry or something on the end of it and it was and people would pull it out and stick and they'd

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Anyway, I don't know. Yeah, like a little glazed cherry or something. Yes, that's what I'm thinking of. Yeah, yeah, disgusting. Look, pineapple's young sung hero of Australian culinary sort of history, isn't it, really, when you look at it? Oh, I think pineapple's fine if you eat it just as a fruit, but when you start sticking it into everything else, it just, I don't know if you can do that. Well, we did, and we grew up with it. I never knew, I probably had them, but when we'd go to...

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people's houses they used to always talk about pigs in a blanket. Oh yeah. And I know they were little sausages in pastry. Yes. But I never worked out why they were called pigs in a blanket because I mean it wasn't pork. Duh, it's pork. Was it pork? Yeah, sausage is pork. I thought they were little beef sausages. Yeah well no I think back then it was pork. I think it's why it was authentic pork sausages but the other one was

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wrapped up in bacon. Well. I know. That was very that was very swish. If you went to a party and they had devils on horseback you were and and the other one which I still make today and I love it. Debled eggs. Ah. You micked in all the right circles. Oh we were very well well one of my parents finally got some money. Um yeah we were we were very swish like that and my mum would do. Mum was really good at making things.

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fancy out of not much. I mean when you make a deviled egg out of a boiled egg and and mix up all the yolk and stuff and put a bit of you know mayo in there and a bit of spring onion or whatever and it was very flash and I still make it my kids still love deviled eggs. There was something and I don't know what it was I don't think it was called anything. My mother used to get an egg, hard-boiled egg and mash it up and and used to put milk with it and like it was almost like a cereal like you'd almost have egg in it. Oh yeah. And there was like

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15 minutes of my life where I thought it was just the best thing ever. I don't even know if that's a real thing. And I don't know what you saw, whether that was ticking all the protein. Yeah. And yeah, I don't know. I don't want to burst your bubble, but I've never heard of that. No, no, I don't think there's any bubble to be burst. I just, I just thought to myself, what was I thinking back in the day? But also do you ever remember your folks talking about,

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Back in my day we used to have bread and dripping. Yes, bread and dripping, yeah. I'd never had... Dripping was a type of fat, right? Yeah, that's right. We always used to have like a ceramic tub in the, or like a porcelain sort of tub or something in the fridge. And it had all the fat that came off your chops or whatever you had that night. And it was kept in the fridge so as you could then put your chips in it, like when you fried up your chips or whatever the next day or whatever. And I thought, how healthy was that? Yeah.

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On one hand, you're putting in pineapple because you need fruit in your diet and go out and play in the sun and all those sorts of things. And the next thing, you've got a bowl of dripping and putting your fish and your chips and your chops and everything in that. And here kids, go for your lunch. And also back then, I guess maybe a little bit before our time, maybe it was more our parents' time, but awful was the thing. You know, I mentioned before about lamb's brains, but mum would often make ox tongue soup.

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And she'd bring home an ox tongue, which was probably a good foot long with, with the throat bit still attached. And we didn't have a pot that was big enough. So the tongue would be half it be hanging out the top with the lid on it. And there this tongue hanging out the side, and then she'd have to turn it around so the bottom part cooked and she would boil it. There was rupia though. It was really tough meat and she would boil it all day long on the stove. And I used to watch, look at this tongue on the stove boiling away.

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But also back then, you know, rabbit was a thing. Yes. You could go to the butcher and buy rabbit. Yes. And that was the thing. I remember my father saying, oh, try this. And I said, oh, what? And he said, oh, it tastes like chicken, because everything tastes like chicken, doesn't it? When it's cooked, particularly if it was crumbed in there. And I could distinctly remember the time, first time I had it. And it was a very distinctive taste. But you're right. You can't just go and buy rabbit at the butcher. So many things.

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I don't know whether you can you still buy lamb's brains and an awful at the butchers? Oh look I'm sure I'm sure you could if you asked your butcher if you've got a good relationship with your butcher and said can I get some lamb's brains I'm sure you know he could get them for you things like that and kidney, staking kidney I can't do the kidney part and liver a chopped liver all those sorts of things you know I but that's how our parents kind of made ends meet back in the

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didn't have a heap of money and but and you know lamb was cheap then not like it is now. The offals and brains and tongues is that a legacy of uh like a anglo-saxon sort of heritage? I mean what it was it is in no part of the animal that you couldn't eat? I don't think so I think you could eat everything right? I think so. Yeah I think I think it was probably just that whole you

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use it all up. You just, you got to use it all because otherwise it's a waste. And what about, do you still these days, pigs trotters? Yes. You can buy those from the butcher. Yeah. So yeah. But on the flip side of that, when it come to dessert, if you, if you like, you'd, you'd, you'd be going with your, your lamb's tongues and your, your, what is it? Your awful, your lamb's brains, your ox tongues. Did you ever have dessert? Yeah, our dessert. And it was a huge treat

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was ice cream with Milo. And if we're lucky to have a bit of sliced banana on it, even better, but that was a big deal. That was a big deal. And you couldn't have a lot of Milo otherwise, the tin had run out before we went shopping again. So you'd get like two teaspoons of Milo. And I thought that was the bee's knees or jelly. Jelly and ice cream was always popular. Yes, jelly. We occasionally got that. We had two staples in our place. We had what?

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Mum sort of called Blumange. Blumange. Which essentially, I think. Was that jelly with milk? Well, I think she called it Blumange, but that wasn't what we got. We got junket. I don't even remember. Yeah, they are junket. Oh my gosh. Yes, I remember. Yeah, that was a staple in our house. Junket, you know, and the little junket tablets would find its way into it. That's right. Yeah. So there was that. And it was, if Mum had made something which involved rice, she would always make extra

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then you'd have rice, sugar and milk. Yeah is that what rice pudding is? Because I don't... Well it... no rice pudding is yeah that's what rice pudding is but this was just rice boiled rice with rice and milk and it would be like once again you remember that egg I told you about the milk I think there might have been something going on in our house. Yeah now I can't say I had ever had rice for dessert but... Yeah rice pudding was so good though wasn't it? But if you if you if you can... Just following on from the dessert theme that if you went out for the day

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we considered ourselves really lucky if we got a chocolate paddle pop because it was normally an icy pole, lemonade icy pole, right? That was the staple. That was the go-to because they were like five cents or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was a treat if it was a paddle pop type chocolate ice cream. And if it was your birthday, you got to have

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have a heart. Oh, I streets have a heart which was only thinking about that really expensive coming in at about 60 cents. Yeah, I remember because they got rid of those and they had magnums these days. But yeah, it was like that. You're right. There was Peters and there was streets essentially. And yeah, you had the icy pole. But then you had other ones you had.

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Lickety Splits, which was like the... Lickety Splits? Yeah, had two. And Bublo Bills. Bublo Bills. And the Lickety Splits had two sticks, so as you could actually split it in half. That's right. Yeah, two. I know. And Barney Banana. Like, there were so many different ice creams, but the line wasn't it? There's streets and peds, but it didn't matter. You just had your favorite and you went with it. And whether it was, you know, Bublo Bill or Barney Banana, and you know, years ago, they stopped making the vanilla paddle pops?

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Oh, did they? Yeah. I haven't had one for years. I still love the the

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Very generic sort of flavor. So. But dip, and your parents would buy like your basic tub of vanilla ice cream once a week or whatever, but it was really special if you got the Neapolitan. And then you'd fight with your siblings over who got the chocolate. And then that was the most popular. And then the strawberry was next and nobody wanted vanilla. Oh no. I see, see opposite like chocolate and vanilla. Yeah. Who wants the pink stuff? No. Oh, girls want the pink stuff. Really?

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Yes. Really? Oh sorry. And speaking of desserts, the interesting thing I noticed about desserts over the last few years is there's fads of desserts. So back in the, I guess it was the 80s, Black Forest Cake was a, remember that was a huge luxurious cake. We all thought we were very special if we made Black Forest Cake because it was this European thing. And then in the 90s, it became sticky date pudding. Oh yes. Everyone made sticky date pudding. Yes.

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still going. And now it's anything infused you know, I watch if you watch MasterChef or any of those programs the desserts are so um decadent and so incredible but it's interesting how food is is like clothing it's very depends on the time doesn't it? Yeah look there's a lot of reinvention going on I mean when you look at say fast foods I mean you can just take your pick

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way back when your fast food was either pie, a sausage roll or a hot dog, or you'd have fish and chips wrapped up in newspaper. That was about- Or a Chico roll. Yeah. I'd forgotten about the Chico roll and the girl on the motorbike in the fish and chip shop. Oh no. Yeah. So you didn't have a lot. And then all of a sudden Maccas came into being at some stage in the middle seventies and KFC and all that sort of thing. And I'm guessing you might still be able to remember the ditty that went with the whole Big Mac thing.

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that yeah yeah because people used to have to come to the counter and you would remember this because you worked at the same Maccas would come to the counter and say what is it come on let's two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions now how old is that how old is that is that mid-seventh late 70s mid to late 70s and i still cannot get that out of my head a piece of marketing genius isn't it isn't it brilliant that we still remember it guaranteed that most of our listeners

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would be across that and just be able to recite that without. Yeah. And if you came in and said that you got a free Big Mac or something, and I think the Macs at the time were probably only like a dollar 80 or something. Oh, they were. I mean, I got to when I was working there, and this isn't an advertisement from McDonald's at all. I got to be one of those first people that got to cook a quarter pounder. And I thought, wow, how special is this? But it's just the same deal as just put it on the thing.

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But there was a fast food outlet before Maccas, or just, it was five minutes of contest Maccas. It was called Harty's. And I remember there was one at- Harty's. And their jingle was, hurry on down to Harty's where the burgers are barbecued. Oh, I remember that. They had like two or three. And we went to Brookvale, and we got something from Brookvale, and dad said, I'm not going back there. Look how many chips you get for like,

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Back in the day you'd get like a whole lot of chips when you went to the fish and ship shop and of course they served these little shoestring chips and it was before its time so that would belly up very quickly. Wow. But and of course a Chinese restaurant was a super special treat if you ever went to a Chinese restaurant. Well the thing about the Chinese restaurant was there's one in every single town in Australia. Thank you to the Chinese immigrants that came to this country and brought their cuisine with them because there is one in every

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in the, you know, in this country. Yeah. It's, and we all got to, you know, have our honey chicken and sesame honey prawns and beef and black bean sauce. And yeah. And, and, and one of the great misnomers of my growing up, and this is, this is the early eighties in an area that, well, you and I sort of grew up in was there was a Chinese restaurant called the happy dragon.

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Now the happy dragon was a smorgasbord where everything was essentially orange because it was so MSG So much MSG in the food that you probably glowed when you but you just had a belly full and play after Played up and it cost about six bucks to go in and just yeah, then an hour later. You're hungry again was the joke, right? Everyone used to go. Yeah now I'm hungry And like I said, I mean radiation poisoning and too much MSG from you know Chinese restaurant where you go as much as you want to six bucks

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pretty much on a par. But let's have a look, if we can go back to school and canteen, I know we touched on this in a much earlier podcast. And I did mention that there were some things here on the menu, like there was the Apollo Space Food Sticks and Space Food Sticks themselves and the Jupiter bars. And they're all health food bars, but there must have been about like six cups of sugar in all of them.

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Exactly and when we were at high school I went to a private girl school and it was billed as you know we've got a very healthy canteen and it was space food sticks summer rolls and Jupiter bars. Yeah. Like you said that's not health food but it was that's the way that it was sold to us that they were it was better than chips and and Cadbury chocolates I guess. Yeah and how interesting that you had space food sticks Jupiter and Apollo Health all something to do with space did that make it special? Yeah interesting. Yeah.

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And then of course. The moon landing. And they brought they brought back the space food sticks temporarily on the 50th anniversary of the of the moon landing too. They brought them back. Yeah. But highly processed food. Super processed. What? You're kidding me. Oh sorry. And look, you're talking about ice blocks and whatnot. It would be remiss of me not to mention Sonny Boyers. Oh my goodness. And Gloggs. And what was the other one? The red one was the.

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Oh my gosh. The Razz. That's it. Was it Razz? Yeah. Yeah. No one wanted a Razz did they? But then again I didn't think anyone wanted pink ice cream either. Well you didn't want a Razz because you'd have a red face and tongue for the red like your lips it'll be red for the next three hours after you've eaten it. Is that is that the equivalent like Pash-Rash for an eight-year-old? I think so. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey tell me something can you still buy toffee apples? I think you can at school

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I was never a really big fan of them but I think yeah I'm sure you could still get them somewhere. More teeth were lost I think on toffee apples. Oh definitely. Trying to bite into those things and then you know I'm sure there was a scheme. And just like toffees, remember toffees in a little paper skirt, a little paper thing and you'd have those at school and you could suck on them forever. Oh yeah. On the toffee and it was just really what what was it just sugar and. Oh.

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I don't know. I mean, every cake day store that you would have at school, if you had those at school, where there would just be a multitude of cakes and it used to be like two cents for this cake or whatever it was. Oh, it was heaven. I still, I love a cake store. I know. And then you'd wash it all down probably with a Mr. Juicy or a chocolate milk or something as well. Yeah. Remember when Move milk came in, I think that was in the 80s, it was the coolest thing ever, wasn't it? The ads were really cool. Oh, okay. For the Move chocolate milk and we all...

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chocolate milk was all of a sudden it was a thing, you know, because before that we used to mix in what was that stuff, um, apart from Milo there was something in an orange tin. There was a few, there was Activite, there was Ovaltine, there was Quik, Nestle's Quik, that's what I'm thinking of. Yeah. How bad is that for you? Oh, and whether it was the strawberry or the banana and you think, oh, you just mix it in. But yeah, those move ads were just like...

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They were every teenage boy's fantasy. I think some of those ads. I think so. All the chicks in bikinis and all that. That was an era wasn't it? And then there was all those like other little lolis. Like you'd have, I remember the bubble gums because you'd have the bubble gum with the football cards, but then you'd have big Charlie bubble gum and Metro bubble gum and Bellboy bubble gum, all these bubble gum and even WizFizz sherbets with the little spoon and the Pluto and Mickey's. Oh the WizFizz were great.

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I loved Wiz Fizz. That was the best thing. And you know, you'd go to the corner shop. And as we know, what was his name across the road from our school? Mr. Perry. Mr. Perry. Mr. Perry had a shop and they used to have all the different lollies and all the caramel butters and the freckles and the milk bottles and all that stuff. And you would go in, you could just go here. You would get, I think their lollies were like a quarter of a cent each. So you could get for two cents, you could get eight lollies. Yep. Yep. And a little white bag. And you thought you'd won the lottery.

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And he'd have the patience of Methuselah because you would, you would, I want some teeth and a banana and a redskin. I don't think you're allowed to call them a redskin anymore. Well, the redskins were a little pricey because they were a little bit more. True. Yeah. So you'd have your milk bottle and your freckles and your snake and your this and that. And you just, it was a science. It was a science. Yeah. But also I remember something from that shop.

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And they were called SOS cough drops. And they looked like little Jappas. They were identical to Jappas. They came in a, I can see it. It was a red and blue box and it had like a, what do you call it? A life saver sort of thing. A life boy on the front. A life boy. Yeah. You could buy them as a, an eight year old over the, and they were hugely addictive, they were supposed to be for, but they tasted okay. Yes. But you would, I don't know what was in them. It's probably.

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like Becks and Vincents back in the day they became highly digged and yeah kids would be buying them and happy to sell them and our times have changed. Well back then too things like soothers and anticoil all the little lollies that you could get that were you know um builders getting rid of your sore throat or whatever and they were just I'm pretty sure they were just sugar. Pretty much pretty much it makes you feel better it's like if you were sick you'd always have a bit of Vegemite on dry toast. Yeah.

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That was a cure all as well. Yep, that's right. No butter or you have your dexal and or your enos and that would always, you know, that's almost like a kiss on a sore and that'll make it better. But I was talking to someone the other day about biscuits as well. And some of the biscuits that you just can't get anymore. And they were lamenting the fact that this particular one was called a lattice, a lattice biscuit. Oh, the lattice, I think you can get them. Well, this particular lady was complaining,

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but you're saying, oh, we used to make this particular dessert out of lattice biscuits, can't buy them anymore. Yeah, you'd put cream between them and you'd make like a sandwich or ice cream or something with those lattice things. I, I, yeah, maybe someone will know. But of course, I think the most famous politically inappropriate biscuit that you can't get anymore are gollywog biscuits. I'm sure they're rebranded as something else these days. Scallywags. Which sort of, you know.

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evokes the same sort of thing but you know I you know it was like koon cheese and cheese sticks and cheese sticks with a little metal thing how bad is that for you processed cheese and but it used to drive kids mad because they used to have those little metal they couldn't get them off and you couldn't get the damn things off to get to the processed cheese which wasn't doing you any good either yeah oh my gosh and sesame snaps I mean you can still get sesame snaps I love those oh you can

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But I only found out you can't get morning coffees anymore. You can't get butternut cookies anymore. You can't buy honey jumbles anymore. Are you sure? Yes. Oh my gosh. I've done my research. Since I bought biscuits, I don't tend to buy biscuits much anymore. No, no. We used to, you got your Tim Tams these days, but there was, I remember vividly is before Tim Tams.

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there was exactly the same biscuit. They used to come in a pack of like six individually wrapped in bright blue and gold and green and red things. And they were called Zach's. Zach, but they were Tim Tams. They were Tim Tams. Just a cheaper version. Well, because they only came in a pack of six, they were probably expensive. I think we probably had them once. I don't know, but I remember them because they were just aimed at kids. And once again, I don't think I'm imagining it.

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I can picture the rapper. Someone once again will probably reach out and say, Oh yeah, I remember these. In the same way they'll say, I remember happy snacks. I remember chickadees. I remember all those foods that we grew up with. You know something you can't get anymore? Lolligobble bliss bombs. Oh, do you remember those? Oh my gosh, you can't get those anymore. You sure? I think so.

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I'm gonna look. You go look for us, you go and do research. You're good at that stuff. I'm not gonna do research. I'm gonna leave you now. I'm gonna go down the supermarket or I'm gonna go and do the whole lollygobble bliss bomb thing. If you find any, promise me you'll buy me some. I'm gonna buy you some. I'm going. I'll see you later. Cheers. Bye. The views and opinions expressed on the Big Six O are personal and reflect those of the hosts and guests. They do not represent the views or positions of any affiliated organisations.

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or companies. This podcast is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only and should not be construed as professional advice. Please consult with a qualified professional for guidance on any personal matters.

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Oh, and before we go, let's give credit where credit is due. Kaylee Harris and I came up with all the genius content for this week's episode. Our producer, Nick Abood, well he keeps the lights on and makes sure we don't accidentally upload a cat video instead of a podcast. So thanks for keeping us on track, Nick. Nick?