Shops and Food

[Heather Halstead]

I always think about the places we shopped and food we ate(that I usually didn't like)

My fondest shopping memories are the big Sunday Markets, Top Shop, Peterborough Mall, Boots and the news stands for sweets

Does anyone remember those yummy sticky candies called Snap Crackles I think, and Hedgehog crisps?

[Lisa Gies Watson -91]

What about Walls Ice Cream??? So good! I loved the penny candy shops, the markets and Cornish Pasties. (In leiu of fish and chips!) And I collected Smash Hits magazines with a VENGEANCE!

[Heather Halstead]

i actually have no fond memories of ice cream there, i thought it was gross. Didn't it come in a thin box and the sliced it and there was no chocolate chip?
But I remember smash hits! my mom barely shopped on base, so I remember thinking I would die without kool-aid, oreos and chocolate chip cookies. I heard they have all of those things now, and tons of american telly!

[Lisa Gies Watson -91]

That's right... we only had four television channels.... And the phone calls that cost by the minute! And the ice cream generally wasn't all that great...except for Walls. They drove around in real ice cream trucks and had things like the Cornetto (kind of like a Drumstick). I remember it being really creamy. Who knows? I'd probably go back and have one and find that it's crap!
I remember that I used to go to the British payphones and plop in nickels instead of 20p coins... same size...and call the states! LOL! I probably called you that way!

[Sean Corrigan -90]

I remember Walls.....they were the good ones.....the cornetto was good. lol Got to love Armed Forces Radio and TV services lol On our cable service here in Alaska, they have a military pentagon channel that does all the little news stories in the military......my wife found the channel and was watching it and I came in and said what is that.........like I went back in time lol so I told her about life with Armed Forces radio/tv lol

Im guessing Smash Hits was a girly teen mag.....wasnt one of the ones I was interested in back then....lol

[Lisa Gies Watson -91]

Smash Hits was a MUSIC magazine! =-)

[Sean Corrigan -90]

Nope......wasnt into those mags at the time.........lol

[Heather Halstead]

yes but it had pics of the cute boys too, and all the madonna stuff.
We were in the height of the Like a Virgin days. Lol. I have photos to prove it!!!!!!

[Sean Corrigan -90]

Nope......wasnt into those mags...lol

[Heather Halstead]

HAHAHA!!

I remember my parents locked the phone with some rotary lock, they were so mean. It was because I was calling you and the girls.
But a cute english boy taught me how to dial the phone without the dials!!!!! I would hit the disconnect button for each number (6 times for 6, 5 times for 5 etc).
And remember they didn't itemize phone calls. Our phone bill was still JACKED, but it was locked, so my parents blamed themselves. lol. My phone number was 61321. I remember how confused i was at first that I needed a different code from every town to call my house.

[Renee Lovato Eger -'91]

I miss the Lindt chocolate bars with cognac in them. I've seen the Lindt chocolate bars here, but not with cognac. The other chocolate liqueres (sp?) just aren't the same...

[Erica Miller 90]

OMG, the best ice cream was the soft serve with the Cadburry Flake stuck in the side!!! FISH & CHIPS!!! Bangers, fried bread, tomatoes for breakfast...
I MISS markest, especially Cambridge...20 min drive from Mildenhall!! The Mexican resturant in Lakenheath village had the best tacos I've ever had. I really miss sausage rolls too. Who can drive an hour away to Epping, hop on the train & be in London in another hour? I want to go back!!!!!

[Sean Corrigan -90]

I hear ya......I still crave cadbury flakes.....very hard to find them now unless you order them. One of my fave meals was a ploughmans lunch....and secretly then with a pint of beer, although at 16 you could have a shandy....beer and 7up mix. Ahh the fun times......I have always wanted to get back there.....someday....