Comments on The Bruising Adventures of Girl Clumsy: Frozen in Time

Two words. Bacon slurpee.

2010-07-06T23:16:28.330+10:00

Two words. Bacon slurpee.

I went through a very big slurpee/frozen coke kick...

2010-07-05T13:56:35.020+10:00

I went through a very big slurpee/frozen coke kick whilst heavily pregnant in the height of summer. I'm sure that wasn't the best choice I could make, but dang it was tasty.

Crusty bread rolls, buttered and filled with Smiths chips will always make me think of high school.

Now I feel old. 2,3 and 4 for a cent lollies.. 2...

2010-07-05T13:16:09.402+10:00

Now I feel old. 2,3 and 4 for a cent lollies.. 20 cent in those day (with careful selections) would give you a bag of lollies that rival the $3 bags now.

When ever I get to a swimming pool and the chlorine levels make you eyes hurt just looking at it, I feel the need to have a White Knight chocolate/mint bar. And if cash was limited, A Choo Choo bar....

As far as Slurpy's are concerned, I get very afraid when I see them made with taurine added (for energy). It just begs for vodka... Scarey!!

Frozen Mars Bars. As in actual Mars Bars, put in t...

2010-07-05T12:58:49.996+10:00

Frozen Mars Bars. As in actual Mars Bars, put in the freezer. Used to spend many a high school lunch hour gnawing on one. It's all fun and games until the root canal.

hey Nat, what memories you have brought back.. As...

2010-07-05T12:38:27.776+10:00

hey Nat, what memories you have brought back.. As a child in Engaland farthings were a nuisance to everyone as like 1 and 2 cent pieces became here, but to me they were agonizing moments standing in the sweet shop trying to choose which lolly to choose. Hard ones lasted longer so they usually topped the list. A really good day was when I was given a penny and could choose 4. Heaven.

Young and lovely Mater

1c lollies at The Shop. My fondest for chocolate ...

2010-07-05T12:16:23.518+10:00

1c lollies at The Shop. My fondest for chocolate started at a very early age, in the days before one and two cent coins were taken out of circulation, when $1 could buy me a little white paper bag filled with 100 choc drops. What a treat! How I loved those little rounds of chocolatey goodness - only the brown ones though, not white because everybody knows that white chocolate is not really chocolate.

GC - yep, the ice-cream sandwich. Proving the rule...

2010-07-05T11:19:35.400+10:00

GC - yep, the ice-cream sandwich. Proving the rule that every food is improved infinitely if sandwiched.

I remember the good old days of primary school whe...

2010-07-05T11:17:20.778+10:00

I remember the good old days of primary school where we had a shop just a short walk up from us, and I'd go with my friend who we had named the 'Slurpee queen' (becasue she had them almost every afternoon) and we'd get every single new and exciting colour there. And yes, they had handles! It was great fun. We'd put green on the bottom, blue, then pink, then purple, then brown, then with the pink we'd put a little 'Cherry' on top. The fun old days ... Where have they gone. -Rose

Albion - Monaco bars were the ones with biscuit ou...

2010-07-05T11:01:45.149+10:00

Albion - Monaco bars were the ones with biscuit outside the ice-cream, yeah?

I'm not real good with actual ice-creams. I always preferred ice pops, the water-based ones. My favourites are still Calippos. Although I did make exceptions for the Bubble O'Bill. Bubblegum nose for the win!

Monaco Bars have just been brought back - huzzah! ...

2010-07-05T10:40:50.038+10:00

Monaco Bars have just been brought back - huzzah!

My parents used to own/run a sort-of ice-cream van in Sydney when I was a kid. Not a soft-serve jobby, this was a VW van with the side cut out (to make a counter) which was pretty much a convenience store on wheels - chips, packet ice blocks, drinks... heck, you could even buy your smokes at these things. I remember many of my childhood summer days riding around in the back of this thing, oggling at all the sugary goodness and trying to sneak the odd handful of raspberry bullets or red frogs... Monaco Bars were always seen as the pinnacle of ice-cream goodness. It would be the prize of all prizes to be given one of them to savour.

Barnes - the man behind the counter told me it was...

2010-07-05T10:25:35.382+10:00

Barnes - the man behind the counter told me it was a brand new machine. I suspect this could be the slow, zombie-like shuffle of progress. Hold onto your handles while you can!

Perhaps it is a Brisbane thing but we still have c...

2010-07-05T10:20:27.503+10:00

Perhaps it is a Brisbane thing but we still have coke slurpee machines down here WITH HANDLES. Hows that, art, culture & sluprees with handles.

So hang on Jasper - Canberra has all the porn and ...

2010-07-05T10:00:23.723+10:00

So hang on Jasper - Canberra has all the porn and fireworks you can handle, but no slurpees? Well, the non-sleazy variety, at any rate.

And OH how GOOD were Vice Versas? I loved those. I was also quite partial to Take 5 bars with the malt balls in them.

I was just having a food nostalgia conversation la...

2010-07-05T09:32:55.114+10:00

I was just having a food nostalgia conversation last night with some friends! The most popular topics were Vice Versas and Burger Man.

But on frozen drinks - can I just point out that there are no 7-11s in Canberra, and frozen Coke machines are as hard to locate there as anywhere, so until moving to Melbourne in March I'd not had a frozen beverage in nigh on five years? That's deprivation, right there.

Samboy Salt and Vinegar FTW. Yeah, can't beat ...

2010-07-05T08:03:57.783+10:00

Samboy Salt and Vinegar FTW. Yeah, can't beat the Frozen Coke.

Nuh-thing compares
Nuh-THING compares
to yooooooou.

I'm so glad other people remember Circle K! No...

2010-07-05T06:44:37.937+10:00

I'm so glad other people remember Circle K! Not sure whatever happened to them.

Dan - experimenting with Slurpee combos is an important part of growing up. It's like the kid version of mixing a cocktail. My favourite is still the rather plain 50/50 combo of Frozen Coke and Frozen Raspberry Fanta.

Doc - SAMBOY CHIPS FTW. Did you know they're back on shelves here now? I hate tomatoes and tomato sauce, but I love tomato chip flavouring!

And question for you - every time I smell bleach I think of swimming lessons or public/school pools. It's a memory trigger - do you get the same?

Circle K FTW! As Spiderbait once put it Ah went d...

2010-07-05T05:26:02.195+10:00

Circle K FTW! As Spiderbait once put it

Ah went down to the Circle K
Saw Kieran on the way
Got myself a sausage roll
Cost too much and it was cold

OK, so it wasn't when they were in their most eloquent songwriting period, but the sentiment remains.

Childhood junk food combos - I have a very evocative memory of the canteen at the local council swimming pool where we'd go for lessons and school carnivals. Something about the way the piquancy of the chlorine combined with the sharpness of tomato sauce flavoured Samboy chips that really brought out the best in them. Burger Rings worked almost as well.

Al and I used to do a slurpee run almost every day...

2010-07-05T00:32:36.413+10:00

Al and I used to do a slurpee run almost every day during one particular summer. We knew the 7-11 guy by name (pronounced Ian but with some weird asian spelling) and he would get very excited when a new flavour would come in. He'd have various recipes that he'd share. (2 parts cherry 1 part coke tastes just like Cherry Ripe)

Ah halcyon days. I believe he went on to become a diving instructor or a pro skater or something equally as awesome.

Ah, yes Anonymous! You raise a good point. The Ci...

2010-07-04T23:10:42.753+10:00

Ah, yes Anonymous!

You raise a good point. The Cineplex chain use "Rainbow Smash" machines. Reasonably good flavours (although the cola and raspberry aren't quite up there with Frozen Coke brand), but good sizes and well-priced.

I can still remember when the baker came door-to-d...

2010-07-04T23:08:49.894+10:00

I can still remember when the baker came door-to-door in Brisbane (late 60s, I guess). Every so often, he would give the kids a free cream bun each. That was always very special.
Cheers, Tony.

The Best Frozen Cokes are at the Cineplex and Vict...

2010-07-04T23:06:33.268+10:00

The Best Frozen Cokes are at the Cineplex and Victoria Point...and they have handles!

Hey Stu - I reckon we should BOTH probably get som...

2010-07-04T23:05:43.861+10:00

Hey Stu - I reckon we should BOTH probably get some sleep, huh?!?!?

;)

I'm just kind of jealous you had a Circle K ne...

2010-07-04T23:00:42.950+10:00

I'm just kind of jealous you had a Circle K near you as a child. There's always strange things afoot at those places.