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1st March 2017
03:51pm GMT
We've established time and again how an Irish childhood is different from the others.
Combining teachers commanding you to 'téigh a chodladh' when they were sick of you, playing Red Rover at any given opportunity and praising a telly on wheels – it's quite a ride.
But what we're interested in, is the treats we used to get, used to buy for a penny (thems were the days) and sly from the press when no-one was watching.
This is our ode to them.
Manna from heaven.
Photo cred: Ocado
Which you can STILL BUY right here.
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Our teeth are blackening just thinking of it.
Baby biscuits?
Human biscuits.
Photo cred: It's All Dutch To Me
A dentist's nightmare.
Serve in a fancy glass or GTFO.
Photo cred: Live Journal
All those summers spent in Curracloe, stopping on the motorway for healthy treats.
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Gross, yet delicious.
Photo cred: Daily Mail UK
Somehow, this often tasted corked.
We thought that could only happen to wine.
Photo cred: 21food
The bag was always WAY TOO SMALL.
Photo cred: Penny Jellies
Teaching us to love coloured in food from an early age.
Fruit Salad, my eye.
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Literal balls of sugar.
Photo cred: We Luv Sugar
Sitting up at the pub with a pint of Cidona.
No one would ever know...
Remember this came in when the Euro did?
Photo cred: Planet Candy
♫ I love bad bitches that's my fuckin' problem ♫
Photo cred: Collecting Superman
Two ingredients: sugar, and cardboard.
Heaven.
Photo cred: Keep It Sweet
Truly the gift that kept on giving.
Plastic ham 'n' cheese – what more could you want?
It's like they were programmed to burst in your schoolbag.
Debatable as to whether it was made of real fish or not – considering they tasted like soft wood.
Photo cred: The Independent
Body of Christ.
#Ireland
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Sticky, sticky goodness.
Breakfast of champions.
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