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General => The Shed => Topic started by: macmac on August 12, 2009, 20:18:56
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Just watched an old Smith's crisps ad on u tube and it got me thinking about things that are no more (trying to forget the tomatoes i've just binned with the blight).
Does anyone remember Instant whip?'can't stand Angel Delight but loved raspberry Instant Whip,Spangles ?lovely little squares with a dimple in the middle,my dad once bought me loads of different packets when i was getting over tonsillitus and Birdseye Rissoles mmm they were savoury things with pearl barley. Any other memories? :)
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Yep I remember all of those.
I used to love Aztec bars.No longer around.Also five boys hmmm lovely. :)
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Betula I remember Aztec bars but please put my mind at rest on the second item you mention!
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Take a look
http://www.sterlingtimes.org/sweets.htm
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Old English Spangles were my favourite... a rare treat... :)
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Betual thanks, I don't remember that one at all!
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What happened to Dad's Cookies and Kunzel Cakes?
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cola spangles,yum
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Years ago my mum worked at Kunzles and they had a staff shop.You could buy all the misshapes.their cup cakes were to die for ;D
http://www.bringbackshowboats.co.uk/index.php/about/
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MyOH has just said Corona lemonade so sharp it made your eyes water ::)
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never liked Spangles - as you sucked them they got really sharp edges and they cut your tongue
Bazooka Joes anyone? what were they all about?
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Rhubarb Thrasher here you are!
http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=5047
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Can you still get Cresta?
Why would you? :-X
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Can you still get Cresta?
Why would you? :-X
Quite but we do still have a Cresta bear,it's a big white stuffed polar bear type thing that the OH got as a store manager,strange the things you hang on to ::)
by the way I do have a life but the OH is watching the footie :)
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PAN YAN PICKLE
;D ;D ;D ;D
Duke
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He he it's frothy man! Used to get a bottle at the chip shop after swimming club on a Friday night - we loved it
Loved spangles too
This has really got me thinking, I must be able to come up with something................ :)
Lushy x
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Cup of bovril or was it Oxo after swimming in the outdoor pool near the rubbish dump in Barrowell Green. Sherbert dips. Showing my age now. ??? ???
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Curly Wurly!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycSq4CnFm8M (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycSq4CnFm8M)
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Blimey, 3p, what a bargain, I had one yesterday but it was a bit more than that, I buy them in a pack of 5 - yum ;D
Lushy x
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Whatever happened to beech nut chewing gum? I am sure that there were opal mints, like opal fruits but a chewy mint square.
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Cup of bovril or was it Oxo after swimming in the outdoor pool near the rubbish dump in Barrowell Green. Sherbert dips. Showing my age now. ??? ???
Don't mention bovril!! I used to love the stuff as a kid until I had a cup followed by a cup of limeade. The combination was not good!!!!
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someone made me a Bovril and cheese sandwich once, it was wonderful (at the time, so i thought)
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What happened to Trebor mints? used to eat them by the barrow load.
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We used to sing a rude song about trebor mints at school - well, not that rude by todays standards ;D ;D
Lushy x
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I remember that song too, Lushy!
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;D ;D ;D
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proper pork scratchings fro the pub whatever happened to them? hate those crappy things they tend to sell now >:(
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I guess they went the way of golden wonder crisps
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I was having this conversation with my OH the other day; growing up in London, on the tube platforms there were always chocolate machines with strangely sized chocolate bars in them, Dairy Crunch was always one type and some Nestle bars that I can't remember the name of. We used to play a game that we had to run off the train at some point of the journey, get a choc bar from the machine and get back in before the train went, often with your mates holding the doors open for you if you left it a bit late! Can't do it now of course with the modern trains.....sigh!
Also, does anyone remember Mint Cracknell? It splintered and shattered in your mouth and used to cut your tongue and lips if you weren't careful! :o
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Used to love Mint Cracknell ;D What about Pacers, green and white striped chewy sweets, similar to opal fruits (if I remember rightly) or Bar Six - similar to a kit kat, but had 6 shorter, chunkier fingers and made by cadbury.
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I remember pacers... I loved those as well as spangles.
Do they still do those sweets in the shape of prawns? didn't know they were called but thought the choice of shape was very random.
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I remember the chocolate machines on the tube stations Deb. I used to like the neapolitan one with the 3 different layers of chocolate. I would die for a palm toffee bar, 3d they were
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Dairy crunch and bar six two of my favourites(really) that I'd forgotten.
On the subject of Bovril,when I've got the kettle on down the lottie many people decline the offer of tea, coffee, hot chocolate but when I mention Bovril they're queing up. :)
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Tin Shed, Dad's Cookies were our favourite, :P I often tell the other half about them but she says she's never heard of them, sent a tingle down my neck that did.
Fry's chocolate cream
Black jacks & Fruit salads
Sherbot lemons
Army & navy
Bomboms
Cola cubes
Pear drops
Chocolate bananas
Nut crunch
Sweet peanuts
Butterkisk
Toffee strip
What about the broken biscuits, was they in woolies. :-\
And did anyone used to have the Alpine lorry and come round with about ten different flavoured drinks.
;D ;D ;D
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no wonder we have so few teeth ;D
we had the alpine lorries, used to buy it for my kids :o
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OH is from York...
What about the broken biscuits,
there's omly so many Rowntree mis-shapes and broken biscuits you can take... :-X
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Spanish wood [ liquorice root ] ' black stick but yellow inside, :o
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I know a place you can still get that Flossy... :)
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Noooooo, where, where saddad,? ;D
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I also like the flying saucers but you can still get them ;D
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we had the alpine lorries, used to buy it for my kids :o
I'm not a lover of soft drinks, but I wish Alpine still existed, (they did do a nice pineapple concoction); I loathe buying stuff in plastic bottles. :( Even glass bottles of Irn Bru & Schweppes tonics are hard to come buy these days. :(
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I know a place you can still get that Flossy... :)
Me too !
Noooooo, where, where saddad,? ;D
Norwich Market, herb and spice type deli stall
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Horlicks Tablets anyone? Used to have a pack of them every saturday morning after swimming and before the library!
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What about Pacers, green and white striped chewy sweets, similar to opal fruits
I remember pacers & loved them. :D
In the early to mid '80s there were two 'bars', similar in length to a Curly Wurly, made of an Opal Fruit type substance. One was minty with green and white diagonal stripes, the other fruity with multicoloured stripes... I can't for the life of me remember what they were called. :(
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OMG, Spanish Wood and it's in Norwich, thanks saddad and tonybloke,
-- used to chew on that [ wonder what it did to our teeth ] along with 'flying saucers '
and with all the other 1/2d and 1d goodies, amazing what you could get with 3d, ;D
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OMG sweet peanuts tonybloke, my favourites, and proper creamline toffees - yum. ;D ;D
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sherbot fountains. highland toffee, davenports beer at home
JTW ::)
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sherbot fountains. highland toffee, davenports beer at home
JTW ::)
I know the parent company went to the wall years ago, but Highland Toffee is still on sale in my 'corner' shop. :o Maybe I should scrutinise the sell by dates? ;)
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Noooooo, where, where saddad,?
Herbal Health... AKA Fitzpatricks.. Rawtenstall Lancashire. My home town... often "featured" as the last Temperance Bar in Britain... :)
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Alpines drinks did my teeth no good we used to get 10 bottles a week when i was a kid we got a soda stream but alpines pop was much better.
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Tiger nuts and Birds topping...(we called it birds dropping) but not together of course ;D. Birds Eye ice cream sponge, probably an early version of Arctic roll.
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My eldest son's favourite sweetshop ;D :o
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/?source=affwin
Does anyone remember superwhip, found in the frozen section, was like a slimmers version of cream and was in a tub like vitalite butter/margarine/spread?
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Went to the National Sweet Pea Show in Lynford, Hampshire last year and in the town is the most fantastic old fashioned sweet shop. I could have spent hours in there just looking. Large screw top jars full of all sorts of goodies, for example old fashioned humbugs, and all sorts of other sweets such as sherbet and liquorice tubes to suck it through, flying saucers, liquoice sticks, proper peanut brittle. The sweet pea show was superb but the sweet shop was by far the best bit of the day.
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Uncle Joe's Mint balls... ;D
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Yes, katynewbie, I too loved Horlicks tablets. There came a moment when suddenly the whole mouth was filled with a delicious creamy taste - not quite toffee and not quite vanilla, but so thick and satisfying.
Horlicks drink just wasn't nearly as good.
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Wasn't that about the time they made you gag... bleaaaagh! :-\
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Most of the items mentioned were before my time ;D , but do remember all of Cornykev's sweets ;D.
I used to love the candy tabacco in pouches and candy cigarettes.
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/?source=affwin
You beat me to it ;)
Neil
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Tiger nuts and Birds topping...(we called it birds dropping) but not together of course ;D. Birds Eye ice cream sponge, probably an early version of Arctic roll.
Tiger nuts..I'd forgotten them,and yesterday talking to a lottie neighbour we remembered kali and a stick of spanish, it was an acidic flavoured sugar with a stick of black liquorice to use as a dipper if you used your finger it would be stained and if you had a scratch would sting :o'can't imagine what was in that ???
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Uncle Joe's Mint balls... ;D
we have the uncle joe's mintball factory..the smell's fantastic, good for clearing the sinuses ;D
still give me ulcers though :)
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We are only about 3 miles away from the Uncle Joes Mint Ball factory, I used to use them religiously for settling irratable bowel syndrome as the peppermint oil soothed it - sadly can't have them now as they would play havoc with my sugar/insulin levels.
Tiger nuts..I'd forgotten them,and yesterday talking to a lottie neighbour we remembered kali and a stick of spanish, it was an acidic flavoured sugar with a stick of black liquorice to use as a dipper if you used your finger it would be stained and if you had a scratch would sting :o'can't imagine what was in that ???
Sounds like you are talking about 'rainbow crystals' there macmac, you can still buy that at the newsagents here. What about cream soda? Similar to the white sherbet in sherbet fountains only pink in colour and tasted like perfume - seemed to be ok with smokey bacon crisps though if I remember rightly :o ;D
Also, burtons 'potato puffs'? plain, cheese and onion, beef and my favourite bacon and bean flavoured. The plain and cheese and onion and beef were still sold near me until about 2 years ago, not seen the bacon and bean since I was a little girl.
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Oh Duke - Pan Yan Pickle............. ;D ;D Also, OK Sauce - can't get this very easily "down South". What about:
Sherbert pips
Yellow lemonade powder which made your finger yellow
Tizer (with a rubber screw top)
Floral Gums (tasted of soap)
Sour Apple balls
twinkletoes
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Jubilee........not sure of the spelling.....a huge hunk of orange ice in a cardboard type triangular shaped package........heaven.
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Uncle Joe's Mint balls... ;D
Come on all now, all together (follow the little black ball)
UNCLE JOES MINT BALLS
KEEPS YOU ALL AGLOW
GIVE THEM TO YOUR GRANNY
AND WATCH THE BUGGER GO
AWAY WITH COUGHS AND SNIFFLES
KEEP A FEW IN HAND
SUCK EM AND SEE YOU'LL AGREE
THEY'RE THE BEST IN ALL THE LAND.
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Betula you mean a frozen Jubbly!
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rn3B7lU1jLg/SCIYiWdsYHI/AAAAAAAAAWU/s6fTzDy7zqE/s400/Walls%2BJubbly.jpg
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LOL ACE......funny ;D
That is it flighty ;D
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Jubbly - yep remember them......I used to like the Jungle Juice flavour though.
twinkletoes
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banana flavoured Nesquick, sorry Nesquik
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rileys cholate rolls
toffits
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Sharpe's toffees, especially the coffee and mint ones. They were taken over by another company but they were never the same.
Another lover of Spangles here. I also remember some sweets shaped like vegetables. They included potatoes and peas but I can't remember the other shapes.
I remember going into a Lyons tea shop in Eltham in the late 1940's and early 50's and having some lemon cake. The icing was delicious. Lyons cakes could also be purchased in local shops.
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How about GOB STOPPERS ;D ;D ;D, Buttered Brazils WOW!!
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wow Banshee I remember the cream soda and I loved the burtons potato puff things,I was raised in yorkshire so the kali thing probably was a northern thing.like scraps with your chips I've no idea what they do with the bits of batter down here but they don't let you have them :(
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Anyone remember Lord Toffingham ice creams - I think it was choc on the outside and a layer of toffee in the middle?
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Lord Toffinghams - I'd swap a whole courgette for one of those ;D but you'd end up licking all the toffee off the lolly stick and the last taste in your mouth was the taste of the stick. I'm sure that's why I can't go near a lolly on a stick any more!
Now cream soda with a chunk of vanilla ice cream and a straw.......bliss for at least 10 minutes :)
Linda
PS - Have Burtons Potato Puffs really gone :'(
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Lord Toffinghams - I'd swap a whole courgette for one of those ;D but you'd end up licking all the toffee off the lolly stick and the last taste in your mouth was the taste of the stick. I'm sure that's why I can't go near a lolly on a stick any more!
Now cream soda with a chunk of vanilla ice cream and a straw.......bliss for at least 10 minutes :)
Linda
PS - Have Burtons Potato Puffs really gone :'(
Can't seem to find them around here :( Although that's probably a good thing as I could eat them packet after packet :o
What about United biscuits? I used to love those, especially the little 'honeycombe' pieces. Also Lucky Charms cereal, with the little marshmallow pieces. (I think these can still be purchased off the net, but with postage it comes to about £7.00 per pack - wouldn't last a day in our house.) Can you still get Funny Feet ice cream lollies? Not seen those for years.
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We have a fantastic sweet shop in Melton just opened up selling all the sweets you mention plus the sweets my grandad used to give me when up his allotment and Mum used to go mad at him.
Victory V's!!! Sad though cos 'they' changed the recipe to take out the meds (chloroform and ether) that made it sooooo nice
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opal mints - didnt they become pacers for a while
I used to love the junior smokers kit I'd get at christmas with the dessicated coconut (i think) tobacco, liquorice pipes, chocolate cigars and sweet cigaretters
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opal mints - didnt they become pacers for a while
I used to love the junior smokers kit I'd get at christmas with the dessicated coconut (i think) tobacco, liquorice pipes, chocolate cigars and sweet cigaretters
sweet tobacco another one to add to my list ,I remember the junior smokers kits not exactly p.c. these days.....the things we've lost ::)
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Does anyone remember Fresca ? It was one of the first zero calorie drink in a can and was grapefruit flavoured.
Duke :)
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Food without additives ;)
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Food without additives ;)
;D ;D ;D
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Ive just remembered "Imps". Tiny little black squares of liquorice that you could eat in class cos they were so small.
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Imps... they reminded me of the anasthetic we were given when we had teeth out....Nooooo :'(
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Jubbly's Betula, orange jubblys I used to live on them in the school holidays. :P :P :P ;D ;D ;D
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I loved Heenz Baked Beenz ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydXtCpYimN8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydXtCpYimN8)
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Ive just remembered "Imps". Tiny little black squares of liquorice that you could eat in class cos they were so small.
Anotherone to add to my list I used to love them :)
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Tizer (with a rubber screw top)
I remember that-the `tizer` man used to deliver to our village shop-funny how I remember stuff from the late 50s/early 60s better than I can recall what I did yesterday ???
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Tizer (with a rubber screw top)
I remember that-the `tizer` man used to deliver to our village shop-funny how I remember stuff from the late 50s/early 60s better than I can recall what I did yesterday ???
I so relate to that ,glass bottles that had a deposit lile lucozade
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The Lucozade used to be wrapped in orange cellophane too, I used to think it was so exciting, my nan used to have it and as kids we would fight over who got to unwrap it :)
Lushy x
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The Lucozade used to be wrapped in orange cellophane too, I used to think it was so exciting, my nan used to have it and as kids we would fight over who got to unwrap it :)
Lushy x
Do you know it was the only thing I could face if I was sick as a child .Now the grandchildren just have it as a fizzy drink.
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My mother would never let us have Lucozade even when we were ill - she made us freshly squeezed orange juice and added some glucose powder - I felt really deprived :D
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Honeycomb? not the real thing I hasten to add, it was a sugary sticky block of stuff that had air bubbles in it, and gypsy tart for school dinners which went some way to making up for the gristle in the stew. :-X
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Was gypsy tart the Jam tart with coconut sprikled on it? Yum I loved that
Lushy x
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The gypsy tart we had at school didn't have jam or coconut. It was made with evaporated or condensed milk and muscovado sugar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy_tart
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Anyone remember the hard toffee that was in a half sea shell? It took HOURS to lick out.
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Anyone remember the hard toffee that was in a half sea shell? It took HOURS to lick out.
??? ??? ???
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You could always get this at the sea side and I think it was the left over toffee from making toffee aples in the day when toffee apples werent that awful red that they are now.
The toffee was in the 'well' of the scallop half shell.
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The gypsy tart we had at school didn't have jam or coconut. It was made with evaporated or condensed milk and muscovado sugar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy_tart
Thanks for the link Paulines7, that's the one and I lived in Kent in those days.
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Rhubard and Custards.... and the special variety of those you could get in the late 80's ;)
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Pineapple cubes the sugar so rough it made your mouth sore :-[
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Can i add sherbit lemons and spangles :)
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crisps where the salt was in a little blue paper wrap
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I used to like the yellow sherbert tubs with the licquorice straw sticking out, and those little sherbert sweets with messages on. Any I remember eating them and being very thin. I've put of several pounds now just hinking about them.
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Arrow bars - especially the banana split ones. :)
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Arrow bars - especially the banana split ones. :)
That was another one I'd forgotten,'used to suck it and stretch it oh the things you remember ::)
When the only type of pasta you could buy was very long wapped in blue paper and the only place you could get olive oil was in the chemist :)
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A party 7 :P
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ahhhh! those were the days.
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Welcome to A4A Earthmother... Could anybody open a party 7 without getting a beer shampoo? :-\
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I once saw an unopened Party 7 left on a doorstep with the empty milk bottles and the milkman left it there! It went from party to party unopened for ages, and even when raffled it got 'left behind by accident'. Was it really such an awful beer?
http://www.retrowow.co.uk/retro_britain/keg_bitter/watneys_red_barrel.html#party_seven
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Yuk Party Sevens always the last to go, impossible to open and tasted dire. We always seemed to find one stashed in the oven for some reason
Didn't courage or whitbread have an equivalent?
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and Tennant's Lager that used to have a picture of a dolly bird on the cans.........
(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p94/rhubarbthrasher/3193516775_1dda80e718.jpg)
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If you think the milk is bad, you should have tried this
(http://www.cannyscot.com/LongLifeCan150.jpg)
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Can't see nuffink ;D
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Ski yoghurt ,Vesta curries
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Vesta Chow Mein with those crispy noodles so full of salt and we had to add the sachet of soy sauce too! :o
Was I posh or not, oriental cookery in the 70's ;)
Linda
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The smell of plastic macs when you went into Woolies, and the sawdust on the floor.
And those machines at Railway stations that punched out letters on a metal strip.
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Vesta curries - now they were the height of sophistication - you were definitely cool when you had those ;D
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We met a chap from Doncaster whilst on holiday in Tunisia and he used to deliver the Vesta stuff loose in a big container. He told us that the stuff used to rot the drums. I used to love the Paella. No wonder Ive got a bad gut
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Watneys red barrel :P
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Yep I remember all of those.
I used to love Aztec bars.No longer around.Also five boys hmmm lovely. :)
Aztec............"a feast of a bar"....or so the advert said.We used to get these in Army ration packs at one stage.
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We used to sing a rude song about trebor mints at school - well, not that rude by todays standards ;D ;D
Lushy x
Something to do "lasting a bit longer" ;D
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Quiz time.....if you're interested of course.
In the advert jingle,what "Turns a snack in to a feast"
The "item" has been mentioned in this thread.
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Not the Aztec bar then... :-\
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No not the Aztec bar 8)
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Quiz time.....if you're interested of course.
In the advert jingle,what "Turns a snack in to a feast"
The "item" has been mentioned in this thread.
Hops and yeast..............
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Davenports! ;D
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Davenports it is ;D