I have been trying to remember all the sweet treat foods I used to have when I was a child. Now that I have reached my fiftieth year I worry that I won't be able to keep all this stuff in my head as well as I used to. So this is a good way to start getting it out of my head and into someone elses.
I live in Adelaide South Australia and remember the first type of icecream that mum served up came in the form of a block. The icecream was a rectangle of pink, white and brown, aka Neopolitan icecream. The block of icream was packaged in a waxy cardboard that had a card zipper down one side that zipped open to lay out flat so you could cut up the block. We all gathered around to marvel at such wonder - after all this was the 1960s. You have to remember that although we had a fridge, we did not have a freezer, so icecream was bought from the shop or deli wrapped up in newspaper to stop it melting until you got it home.
We never had any left over to worry about saving as it usually was eaten in one go. I have two brothers and a sister and we lived with my great aunt Ruby and various others, so this truly was a treat, not like now where you can pop down the shop for anything you desire at any time of the day or night.
I remember the day when Streets icecreams arrived in our suburb. I had to make three trips on my bike up to the deli in one day with instructions to come back with a Golden Gaytime and ice-block rockets. We felt pretty modern having all this to choose from.
Other lollies (called here in Australia) or sweets I remember are:
Cobbers - caramel squares dipped in milk chocolate
Freckles - flat drops of chocolate that have hundreds and thousands (sprinkles) on them
Wagon Wheels - large biscuits used to be made by Westons
Choo Choo bars - liquorice squares in a plastic blue wrapper
