There were probably loads of milk shake powders in the Sixties.
My fave was Nesquik.
I liked the chocolate and banana flavours best.
There was nothing quite like coming in from School, grabbing a tall glass, spooning in tons of the chocolaty powder and giving it a big stir.
Guzzling it was the best though! It was almost impossible to stop!
The tastiest bit was always at the end where some of the sugary mix was still undissolved. Talk about tasty!
For an extra cold drink I'd add a couple of ice cubes in summer and for that super creamy experience a scoop of vanilla ice cream would do the trick!
For some reason I never needed a straw at home but always expected one with my milk shakes in cafes and at the seaside. A tall vase-like glass, a straw and a frothy head!
Straw drinking is completely different to guzzling but still as hard to stop doing once youv'e started! You know you'd finished though when that loud bubbling slurping noise started.
The final delicious act was hoovering up every last drop with that straw and making as much noise as possible! ha ha.
I was ready for some serious playing out after that and then some kids TV like Daktari or Catweazle! Yay!
Were you a milk shaker readers? Are you still shaking?
Hi Woodsy, I used to drink nesquik all the time. I used to pour it onto my puffa puffa rice, ricicles & frosties. Never did me any harm - except for a head full of mercury fillings by the time I was 11.
ReplyDeleteHa ha, that' s a Great Memory steve and very funny. God, how I loved puffa puffs rice, they were just the best. Yep, why should chocolate ricicles be the only cereals with chocolate milk. Get it sprinkled on. Delicious!
DeleteMy favorite powder was Nestle Quik Strawberry.Second place went to Ovaltine Chocolate Malt Flavor. As for chocolate I preferred a syrup called Bosco.
ReplyDeleteMmmm, ovaltine. Not sure if it was a cold drink here Brian. May have just been a hot drink. Not sure. I loved the hot version. As for Bosco chocolate syrup, what a great name. It's Italian for woods I think. My name! Ha ha
DeleteDidn't have Nesquick when young, my Mum made her own (delicious) hot chocolate. Nowadays we do have it for the boys. And self on cold days. :)
ReplyDeleteAs to milk shakers, forget what it was called but Soda Stream did a rudimentary milk shake mixer (Milk Stream?) which did sterling service. It survived many a tour of duty in the tropical bar I had as a student in my parents' basement, but eventually became redundant when the glass beaker went to smithereens later in life.
Best -- Paul
love hot choccie too Paul. Alas modern British cafes ruin them with a mound of canned cream and marshmallows. Never heard of Milk Stream. Did it use gas cartridges too like Soda Stream?
DeleteThe new kings of milk flavouring here is crusha, which comes in bottles.
Just had a google, Woodsy, and it was indeed called a milkstream. No gas cylinders, just a rapidly rotating mixing stick. But it used the same syrups as a sodastream.
DeleteActually found a pic of it in a 1982 Argos catalogue here
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4035/4224796278_e15e2685df_o.jpg
and then it's lower right on page 135.
(no text search on that format, so I had to do it the old-fashioned way in finding the index in the back to look up the page numbers :)
Best -- Paul
Hi Woodsy,
DeleteWe had one shake in the US in the (70's or 80's) that I can't remember the name of, but when you mixed it it turned cold. I don't think it mixed with milk, that's what was surprising about it. Or if it did mix with milk it turned thick? It didn't last long, and I'm sure it was loaded with chemicals, but I liked it. It came in a triangle shaped plastic container, had it's own shaker jug, and i think had six in the pack. Several different flavors.
Maybe someone else can remember it?
Jim
Sacramento, CA.
not ringing any bells with me Jim. That may have have been a Stateside thing. have to admit thick chemical cold milk sounds a bit gross! ha ha The triangular plastic container must be very recognisable for fellow Americans.
DeleteI remember Nesquik, which I think is still on sale. (At least, it was a few years ago.) There was a little leprechaun figure called Mr. Nesquik who appeared on the packaging and in ads in the '60s, but he disappeared at some point and was replaced by the Nesquik Bunny.
ReplyDeleteThat leprechaun rings a bell kid! Lucky charms have one too I think. Wonder why they went for a bunny? This week i saw large straws full of milk shake powder in the shops. How do they work? You suck milk through the powder- filled straw? Why not just put the powder in the milk? Odd.
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