What is your earliest memory?

[Treetotal]

Anyone else have Minadex which I think was a children's tonic...we always had Indian Brandy for tummy ache??
Also cod-liver oil and malt that was kind of thick and syrupy.
Carol

[GillyJ]

Yes Minadex was a favourite - a greeny colour - lovely!

[Treetotal]

Yeah...that's the one...you are the first person I know who remembers it....my sister doesn't recall having it.
Carol

[jaybelnz]

Yep - cod liver oil - UGH!   But I loved my big spoonful of malt every morning!  😄

[Rena]

I was always jealous of my cousin whose mother gave him Fennings Cooling Powder when he was poorly.  I probably just fancied the way it was wrapped in the paper.

I think one of the worst things to take than the teaspoon of cod liver oil, was when our mother came home from the Co-operative shop with a replacement for the oil.  It was a large bar of cod liver oil chocolate, which clung to your tongue for ages despite swilling your mouth out with water.

"Virol" was the name of the malt we used to love.   It seemed to vanish from the shops when our children were tots but my husband spotted it in a chemist one day and as it had been one of his favourite treats as a child he couldn't wait to get home to share the joy with our (then) young teenagers.  Three spoons dipped into the jar, then there was one voice ooh-ing and ah-ing at the beautiful taste but from two other mouths were argh wails of disgust and accusations that somebody who loved them could poison them. 

[jaybelnz]

I also remember chocolate that was a laxative - but can't remember the name of it - not that I would want it - it was totally gross!!  🙈👎

[Aulus]

The earliest 2 memories I can definitely date are from the same day when I was three and a half.  In the first I was with my dad in a hospital to collect my mum and new born brother, and was given a large doll (perhaps to limit jealousy issues?).

Very similar for me.  Must be the trauma of having a little brother.

I remember sitting on a park bench with my grandfather on a small park area outside the hospital waiting for my father to bring out my mother and new-born brother.
Then - presumably a few months later - I remember sitting on the edge of the pram, between the handles looking up at my mother pushing the pram, while my brother was lain inside the pram.

My brother is 2½ years younger than me, so I must have been under three.

[Redroger]

Frankly I had never heard of Minadex until now. What was it for and what have I missed?