Sweet nostalgia. If you know, you know.
On the way to school. 2 for 1 cent.
- Caramel swirls.
- Freckles
- Milk bottles
- Black Cats
- Redskins
- Musk sticks
- Pineapples.
- Mint leaves.
- Green/Red frogs
- Bananas
- Clangers
- Fantails
- Jaffas
- Aniseed rings
Morning break
- Warm Milk. Small glass bottle with gold or red foil bottle-tops (often used as tiny frisbees to flick at girls). Milk was delivered in crates that were left outside the classrooms. Sometimes it curdled.
School lunch.
- Lunch orders written on large white paper bag first thing.
- Paper bags arrive in large wire basket carried by the ‘lunch monitor’.
- Devon and tomato sauce sandwich (wrapped in baking paper).
- Vegemite and butter sandwich (wrapped ditto).
- Space Food Stick (or perhaps a Jupiter Bar)
- An apple.
- A Sunny Boy or a Glug or a Razz
- Jam donught.
- Chocolate Moove.
Have I forgotten anything?

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