1. Hot chips after swimming
Hot chips with tomato sauce. A day at the beach. #melbourne #williamstown
There's something particularly intoxicating about the chlorine-y scent of an indoor pool that just makes me crave hot chips drowning in tomato sauce. Anyone else?
2. Red cordial at your friend's place
3. Anything from a cake stall
One of the (many) things I love about polling day is coming back to our kids’ primary school. Especially when the cake stall is on point!!! #ausvotes19
There was nothing worse than forgetting your gold coin on cake stall day. Top tier purchases were toffees, chocolate crackles and butterfly cupcakes.
4. A Women's Weekly Birthday cake
5. A Wendy's Iceberg
This is my favourite Summer drink from Wendy's, it's a Blue Iceberg!
I don't know why Macca's hasn't started selling their own version of Icebergs, which were just blue or red slushies topped with a dollop of soft serve. Iconic.
6. Ginger beer
treating myself to a cool, refreshing, bundaberg ginger beer :)
Let's face it: As kids, we didn't drink ginger beer for the taste, we drank it for the name. The novelty of drinking "beer" didn't wear off 'til at least your teens.
7. Pizza Hut buffet
The Pizza Hut dessert buffet was a magical wonderland as a kid.
A moment's silence please, for the Pizza Hut buffet. If we didn't lose it to time, we would have lost it to COVID eventually, I guess. This was the place for your primary school birthday parties and if you and your mates didn't make a super sundae with all the toppings (sweet and savoury) and dare each other to eat it, then what was even the point of going?
8. A cola Chupa Chup
9. Mini cereal boxes
Why is there something SO JOYFUL about a mini box of cereal 😂
Saved for special occasions like school holidays or road trips, there was something so thrilling about eating cereal that came from a tiny box.
10. Wizz Fizz
Wizz Fizz... Like a weird, fizzy, Australian Fun Dip... Minus the stick... Instead you get a mini shovel. #Australia
In hindsight, Wizz Fizz is kinda gross, but as kids we were mainlining that stuff right down our throats and absolutely thriving.
11. Fish fingers
Because I am a grownup I am having fish fingers for my dinner.
When your mum served up fish fingers and tomato sauce for dinner, it felt like a special treat. Now it just tastes like depression or being a broke uni student.
12. Frankfurters dipped in tomato sauce
13. A devon sandwich
Nature perfect food: a Devon and sauce sandwich
Speaking of mystery meat, there was something just so damn tasty about devon and t-sauce lunchbox sambos. Honestly, I'd still enjoy one now, but I might hesitate for just half a second, wondering wtf I'm actually eating.
14. Bakers Delight finger buns
15. Macca's breakfast before a trip
Ohh yeah! Maccas breakfast 👍
Of course, as adults, we all still froth for a Macca's breakfast, especially after a big night. But nothing will compare to the joy and excitement that came when you had it as a child, either at the airport or at the beginning of a family road trip.
16. And then anything you get from a country bakery on that road trip
Went for a drive and got a pie, vanilla slice and neenish tart in Kyneton. Fun adventures are fun!
Nothing, nothing beats a country bakery. From sausage rolls and meat pies to Neenish tarts and towering vanilla slices, it was always the thing that got you most excited on a road trip.
17. Rissoles and frozen veg
Thyme beef rissoles with veges
Another classic meal that always hit the spot, there was something about a dinner of Mum's rissoles with a side of broccoli and carrots that just really hit the spot.
18. And finally, musk sticks
