what did your mom make for summertime treats?

[grasswire]

Root beer floats?

Kool-Aid?

Finger Jell-O?

Tell us all about it. It's okay if Grandma or Dad made the treats.

Memories are made of this.

[DarkTirade]

1. Nothing.

If I wanted treats I had to go to the neighbor's house.

[Chan790]

4. Me too.

Growing up the neighbor was like 1/2 a mile away...but the neighbor kids who were like 4 years older than me started giving me beer when I was like 14. Drinking was lame and boring and old by the time I got to college.

Lesson: The correct drinking age is not only not 21, it's not 18 either...it's like 12-14. You'll never want to drink heavily again by the time you can drive let alone vote or rent a car or whatever else you can do at 18 or 21.

[Eurobabe]

36. Abandoned children unite!

:patriot:

[DarkTirade]

39. Heh, not abandoned...

just my parents were too busy struggling to put regular food on the table to worry about fancy extra stuff most of the time.

[Midlodemocrat]

37. Oh, wow. That post made me very sad.

I'm sorry. :hug:

[DarkTirade]

40. Eh, I didn't have a bad childhood...

just a rather uneventful one. I didn't have all the shiny new things that most of the other kids had, which was a bit frustrating, but I had a lot more freedom in many ways than they did.

[Radical Activist]

53. screaming tirades and badgering

were my usual treats.

[DarkTirade]

57. Screaming what now?

:P

[Lil Missy]

2. Popsicles

[MrsBrady]

3. real fruit popsicles ....

the the old school tupperware popsicle makers

like these
http://blujay.com/item/Vintage-Tupperware-Popsicle-maker-lot-of-2-sets-Will-make-12-popsicles-3080000-1872018

[lost-in-nj]

5. frozen Kool-aid

and Coke

in the ice cube trays

lost

[democracyindanger]

11. Same, except it was Coke, 7-up and orange juice

[Inspired]

44. Me too but she put cherries in it so there was a nice treat inside the cube.

[Left Is Write]

6. Ice cream cones

[femmocrat]

7. Freshly brewed ice tea and the world's best orange-ade.

We never had "pop"... just icy pitchers of home-made drinks.

I never had a Coke until I was around 7 or 8 (at a wedding). Made me soooo sick, I never had another one.

[grasswire]

16. how was the orangeade made?

With simple syrup? Or what?

[femmocrat]

19. Oh no.... with fresh lemons and oranges.

I don't know exactly how she made it, but it was so refreshing. She would have used sugar, not a syrup.

[grasswire]

25. simple syrup is sugar dissolved in boiling water.

It's a cooking term. I've been looking for a good orangeade recipe for a long time.

[Flying Dream Blues]

8. Banana pudding, strawberry shortcake and homemade peach ice cream. Yum! nt

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

9. Dad made peach ice cream with the old wooden bucket/rock salt

Yummers!

[Lavender Brown]

10. Lots of things...

We had popsicle molds to make homemade pops, that was probably my favorite thing. :)

[just a girl]

12. Dad made honey graham crackers with chocolate icing in the middle

.. and hid them around the house. We had to go on a treasure hunt to find them.

[Whoa_Nelly]

13. Roll a juicy ange around until it becomes squishy juicy

cut an X in the top area, stick a peppermint (or other) candy stick in it and mmmmmmmmmmmmmm...OJ through a candy straw!


My mom was never a cook, so this was one of the treats she shared with us that she had as a child in the '20s.

[supernova]

14. Lime sherbet and ginger ale floats

Vanilla ice cream covered with creme de menthe.

Home-made Kool-Ade popsicles.

Cold watermelon and canteloupes

Home-made peach ice cream (and sometimes strawberry ice cream) and sometimes the whole mess is piled on fresh peach or blackberry cobbler. :9 :9

[sarge43]

15. Verner's ginger ale and vanilla ice cream floats

Ah, to young again in Michigan.

[AccessGranted]

17. Kool-Aid Pops

They were good on a hot summer day.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

18. gin and tonics

with a percoset chaser

[ikojo]

20. Nothing...she worked outside the home..too busy

earning too little to raise too many kids (seven).

[Doug.Goodall]

32. Same here, My Mom worked and during the summer I was pretty much on my own

Treats were confined to what ever was in the kitchen when I went looking

[MorningGlow]

21. Mom? Nothing memorable--maybe we had a stash of popsicles

The only thing we had to drink was orange Kool-Aid because that was the only flavor my brother liked. :eyes: I was over the moon on the rare occasions my mom actually made cherry Kool-Aid.

My aunt and uncle lived nextdoor, and because my uncle LOOOOOVED desserts, I'd have dinner at home and then scoot over there for goodies like lemon meringue pie and ice cream. My aunt made me rootbeer floats once or twice. They were pretty good. :9

Funny thing--I distinctly remember eating dinner at a friend's house once when I was 5 or 6 years old, and I boggled that they had DESSERT! (We never had dessert at our house.) I even remember what it was, too--different flavors of pudding (chocolate, vanilla, butterscotch) layered with cool whip in a parfait glass. I was so excited I gobbled it up and was done long before anyone else. Weird, the shit you remember 35 years later...

[Ptah]

22. TupperWare Popsicles! Kool-aid and a freezer!

[grasswire]

27. is that your family?

That looks like a happy gang. :-)

[Ptah]

38. circa 1958

[harmonicon]

23. I think all of the basics have already been covered here...

home-made popsicles, lemon aide, floats, etc. of note was an "orange bouncer", which is just a milkshake made with orange juice. There was a similar concoction in popsicle form.

[mopinko]

24. i made the treats.

in my house, if you cooked, you didn't have to clean the kitchen. i learned early. tollhouse cookies, betty crocker cake mixes, juice-sicles with toothpicks, rice krispie treats. sometimes my older sisters helped.
my mom was not too into treats. cookies at christmas, pies when stuff was in season, usually rhubarb or cherries, and did some canning. that would be the anti-summertime treat! so steamy that the windows were covered in drips.

[KitchenWitch]

26. Kool-aid popsicles!

:9

[LeftyMom]

28. She put a third ice cube in her breakfast screwdriver. nt

[Adsos Letter]

29. those frozen juice bars...made in a sort of ice tray contraption, with plastic ring handles.

:9

[NV Whino]

30. Watermelon and shoe soles

Shoe soles were basically deep-fried dough.

Strange, but good.

[WinkyDink]

31. Nothing. We had the Ice-Cream Man and a near-by drugstore for more ice-cream.

Other than that, it was watermelon, canteloupes, and honey-dews!

[Inspired]

46. Ah yes, the ice cream man!

We called him the jingle man because of the jingle of the bells on his vehicle.

[applegrove]

33. popsicles out of orange juice. Was the first thing I think I learned how to make. Yummy.

[Burma Jones]

34. Margaritas

[AwakeAtLast]

64. No fair! You got the cool Mom!

:D

[Eurobabe]

35. She didn't make jack

I made lemonade and kool-aid, I have the cavities to prove it! ;)

[My Good Babushka]

41. Funnel cakes

for dinner, sometimes.

[crim son]

42. Cool shrimp salad with almonds and peas,

Meringues filled with fresh fruit and whipped cream. Barbeque everything! I miss it all.

[carlyhippy]

43. popsicles made outta grape koolaid

we had this 6 pack popsicle maker....pour in the koolaid and stick the plastic stick/cover for your hand over the top, in the freezer, voila, koolaidsicles....it was all good.

[HEyHEY]

45. Me mow the lawn

[Blue Diadem]

47. I think she'd make Kool aid once in a while, or my older brother would.

She was always pretty busy taking care of my sister, so we kids did what we could if we had something like that in the house. My parents never kept anything junk food/sugary in the house so it was rare to have even kool aid. I think the only time I had a popsicle as a child was at another girl's house.

Sometimes as a family we'd go get a rootbeer in a frosted mug,(that was always a big deal to us kids..the frosted mugs) a rootbeer float, or an ice cream cone. That was usually on a really hot summer night.

[Lyric]

48. Frozen watermelon popsicles, frozen Koolaid popsicles,

and this HORRIBLE stuff that involved cooked, cold rice, cherry jello, and Cool Whip. I still have nightmares.

[AlCzervik]

49. we used to have these things called "slush mugs", you put soda or juice in them

and they kind of turned into slush.

[no name no slogan]

50. Sangria.

I had a strange childhood.

[YankeyMCC]

51. We called it an Orange Freeze

I'm still not entirely sure of the ingredients but Orange juice, ice, honey, and I'm not sure if she added some milk or cream too, whipped it up in a blender.

Good stuff.

Homemade Frapes too.

[Xipe Totec]

52. Orchata and Tepache

Orchata practically everyone's heard of.

Tepache is a slightly alcoholic beverage made by fermenting pineapple rinds with brown sugar.

[NewEnglandGirl]

54. Vanilla and Chocolate

pudding cake with graham crackers and bananas in it. It was good.:9 And my Dad worked nights and would bring me home milk shakes.

[yellowdogintexas]

55. Frozen Coke, or Frozen Sprite. My mom was the original Slushie Queen

she would stick the bottles in the freezer and if you timed it just right, the soda would still be liquid in the bottle but as soon as you popped the cap the drink would slush itself starting at the top of the bottle. If it got too cold it would start erupting out the top of the bottle. I love frozen Coke.

You can slush beer too almost. Super cold beer is wonderful on a sore throat

We also had fresh fruit cobblers a LOT because the fresh fruit was available: apples, plums, peaches, blackberries, cherries.

[grasswire]

59. I freeze ginger ale...

...in the bottle until it is slushy. Wow. It's so great.

[yellowdogintexas]

61. oh yes ginger ale is good that way too. First time I saw a Slushy I called my

mom and told her that her secret was out. LOL

[reyd reid reed]

56. Mine made a lot of Kool-Aid popsicles.

Remember those? With the Tupperware molds? And dill pickles (not together, though). My mom went through phases -- many of them bizarre (some day remind me to regale you with tales of beef liver gone wild).

My grandma would make us root beer floats when we visited. Root beer floats and strawberry-rhubarb pie and Mrs. Schram's double-deckers...and we'd play crazy 8s and then, when I got older, we'd play canasta.

[PBS Poll-435]

58. Margaritas

:evilgrin:

[ScreamingMeemie]

60. My mom? Make something? Treats?

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Of course, my dad didn't either, but he took us fun places in the summertime.

[Phillycat]

62. Who are all these people who had some kind of Florence Henderson mom

at home making them treats? My mom worked. I was on my own until night time since I was 5. On weekends, I tiptoed around so I wouldn't disturb her from her hangover.

Seriously, are you all from Pleasantville or something? :D I can't imagine the kind of childhoods you describe. I suppose that's why I've never really desired children...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

63. Root beer floats!

:7

[AwakeAtLast]

65. Jello poke cake

A white cake mix baked, then jello poured over it after you poke holes in it, then refrigerated.

We liked it!

[bif]

66. Vernor's pop and vanilla ice cream

Otherwise know as a Boston Cooler, even though it was invented in Detroit