[Food] Wagon Wheels

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

I’m sure they were twice the size when I was a nipper.

 

[Denis]

Yes they were enormous when I was a child! (In the1960’s )

 

[Simster]

Correct.

Mind you, the same applies to every single chocolate bar on offer. Never go to a pound shop and buy a pack of four. You'll think you have a bargain until you open the packaging. You haven't.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I’m sure they were twice the size when I was a nipper.

To be fair tho, you're hands would have been half the size

 

[martin tyler]

Not so much wagon wheel these days but more BMX wheel

 

[PeterT]

I remember getting a Wagon Wheel on the old East Terrace from the guy walking round the pitch with the tray in front of him. He must have been incredibly strong to carry them - it took several just to pass the Wagon Wheel back in the crowd to me, and then it used to last several ‘sittings’ over the course of a game and I couldn’t eat another thing for a long time, days I think, afterwards.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Of course they will have been available elsewhere - perhaps they still are - but I know I’ve only ever eaten these after purchasing them from the little refreshments stall next to the gents inside the West Stand at the Goldstone. The one where they would keep the burgers in warm water. Yes, warm water. Fine for hot dogs. Not for burgers.

 

[Brovion]

When Wagon Wheels first came out they were the size of actual wagon wheels (hence their name). We used to push them home from the sweetshop, or race them down the chalk pit.

I'm pretty sure that was the case, although I may be confusing them with something else.

 

[Weststander]

Of course they will have been available elsewhere - perhaps they still are - but I know I’ve only ever eaten these after purchasing them from the little refreshments stall next to the gents inside the West Stand at the Goldstone. The one where they would keep the burgers in warm water. Yes, warm water. Fine for hot dogs. Not for burgers.

Those tinned burgers, with onions in a white bap. I liked them on a cold winter day.

Unaware in the 70's of things like nutrition and E-numbers.


"the gents" .... a ground level gully, surrounded by a high brick wall to the Old Shoreham Road

 

[phoenix]

I’m sure they were twice the size when I was a nipper.

Your hands were half the size then But yes they are small (Wagon Wheels). Renamed Scalextric wheels now.

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

Correct.

Mind you, the same applies to every single chocolate bar on offer. Never go to a pound shop and buy a pack of four. You'll think you have a bargain until you open the packaging. You haven't.

Yep. There’s nothing of a curly wurly now unless it’s the morning after a nice Sunday roast.

 

[Notters]

When Wagon Wheels first came out they were the size of actual wagon wheels (hence their name). We used to push them home from the sweetshop, or race them down the chalk pit.

I'm pretty sure that was the case, although I may be confusing them with something else.

Sweetshop? Luxury! In my day there were called Wagon Wheels because they were wagon wheels. Riiiight chewy they were.

 

[carlzeiss]

Takes me back to the first time my Dad took me to the Goldstone Ground ( 1969 Walsall FA cup ) and bought me a Wagon Wheel from the East Stand tea hut .
Was horribly sick and avoided football stadium food until a couple of seasons in at the Amex before I took a chance with a pie .

 

[PeterT]

Takes me back to the first time my Dad took me to the Goldstone Ground ( 1969 Walsall FA cup ) and bought me a Wagon Wheel from the East Stand tea hut .
Was horribly sick and avoided football stadium food until a couple of seasons in at the Amex before I took a chance with a pie .

That’s a 45 year boycott, I think you can say you made your point!

 

[Bob!]

When Wagon Wheels first came out they were the size of actual wagon wheels (hence their name). We used to push them home from the sweetshop, or race them down the chalk pit.

I'm pretty sure that was the case, although I may be confusing them with something else.

Ahhh, racing down chalk pits.

I must've worn so many pairs of trousers out sliding down the Chalk pits on Highdown Hill !

 

[kojak]

this is bigger than both of us!

 

[bluenitsuj]

I’m sure they were twice the size when I was a nipper.

As was everything (apart from my belly which is actually twice the size)

 

[Theatre of Trees]

 

[Jeremiah]

Yes they were enormous when I was a child! (In the1960’s )

Yes. They had to legally be the size of an actual wagon wheel (7 foot in diameter or more). We never purchased them as we couldn't get them through our front door. Tis true.

 

[WATFORD zero]

It's all about perspective

They weren't big, you were little