What products do you miss?

TravellingAbuela

Those of you who have a longing for the sweeties of your younger days might be interested in looking at this site. http://www.oldestsweetshop.co.uk/. It's the oldest sweet shop in England at Pateley Bridge. We spend a lot of time in the area in summer (have a caravan over there) and I can spend ages in that shop drooling over all the sweets and making my final choices. I feel 8 years old again!!! Where did the intervening years go?!

rosiepup2000

I also loved the flavoured cheese triangles, my favourite was the tomato, too.


And Milky Lunches! I discovered them on a holiday to Cornwall, I think, could never find them anywhere in the shops when I got home. Lovely and creamy and chewy.


I remember having something called 'Spanish Rice' when I was a child in the late 60's/early 70's, came in a tin, my mum would buy me it when we went to Macfisheries in Feltham. Might have been made by Libby's?? I remember it being so tasty and yummy (we had very plain food at home at that time, anything with spice in it was a bit exotic!)


I can also remember from about the same time paprika flavour potato curls, not exactly crisps. No idea what they were called.

THIRZAH

NoahsPennilessMummy wrote: »

Woodleigh green apple shampoo
Abbey crunch biscuits
Top deck cider shandy
Ovaltine chocolate bar
Lime barrel chocolate...think it was in a Terry's box?

I think the lime chocolates were in Milk Tray.

At least Newberry Fruits have reappeared although only in a few shops .

Cannyquine

You can still buy Highland toffee in the shops. Like everything else it's shrunk in size
Flypapers can also be got in some supermarkets & ironmongery shops.

marmitepotato

SpecialBrew wrote: »

I remember my mum buying a packet of Spangles to share between the three of us on the way home from primary school sometimes, and sometimes she'd buy us a Traffic Light lollipop each instead - lollies that were a mix of red, yellow and green, with more of one colour and less of another being exposed as you sucked them smaller. There seemed to be a jar of these on every sweetshop/corner shop counter for years, and then they just disappeared without me even noticing. Another thing we used to get very occasionally were plastic fruits that looked a lot like a Jif lemon but came in other varieties too (I mostly remember the plastic blackcurrant), full of sherbert in the corresponding fruit flavour. 'Weekend' chocolates were nice too, mostly nougat as I recall, but they were not the sort of thing we saw often in our house (once, maybe twice) and were more like the kind of things we'd drool over the adverts for in the odd magazine that made it's way into the place.

I remember an Apple Shampoo too, but I don't think it was Woodleigh Green - it came in a clear plastic bottle shaped like an elongated teardrop (similar to Vosene - or how Vosene looked at the time. I don't think I've seen that for a while either). It was a deep reddish-orange colour and you couldn't just smell the apple in it, you could practically smell the crunch too. I loved the smell of that stuff.

As I got a bit older (ten or so), my mum would send me to the chemist's on the corner of the street sometimes with some money, a handwritten note and strict instructions that I was not to read it out loud but to give it to the assistant instead. It said 'A packet of Dr White's No.2' I doubt anyone misses these - I can remember having to use them myself for a couple of years, complete with sanitary belt, before stick-on towels came out.

Other items in the chemist's included sachets of Linco Beer shampoo, and Shaders and Toners, which were sachets of 'temporary' hair colouring that were popular with us in my teens because you were supposed to be able to colour your hair on a Friday night and the stuff would come out when you washed your hair ready for school on Monday when the weekend was over. Only often it didn't In the chemist's window, they always had the cellophane-wrapped glass bottles of Lucozade (it was still being marketed as a boost for convalescents and invalids then), plus Energen Rolls for slimmers - supposed to be a bread substitute with something daft like 10 calories each in them - as well as 'diet chocolates' called Ayds, which not surprisingly vanished overnight in the early eighties.

By then, on hot sunny days I was occasionally enjoying a soft drink called Quattro, not unlike Lilt, but better, and sometimes on an evening I was able to partake of a drink called CherryB, which was in the same sized bottles as Babycham but looked like something a Vampire would drink.

Something else that sticks in my mind from that era was one of the first laundry soap liquids (as opposed to powder). It was called Wisk, and came in a big red plastic bottle with a yellow lid. My mum raved about that stuff for months before the novelty wore off.

An honourable mention has to go to my Pippa doll. I'm far too old to miss that kind of thing, but Pippa was still better than Barbie or Sindy any day of the week

What a lovely post SpecialBrew, I remember all of the above, you must have been born in the same era as me! I had Pippa and Sindy, but loved Sindy more, loved her striped red, white and blue top with jeans and boat shoes. As I recall, her head fell off and my lovely Dad drove all the way to Canterbury (where the Pedigree factory was) to get her a new one. Ah, happy days!

snoozer

SpecialBrew, the red apple shampoo was Alberto VO5. I used it at uni back in the day.

SpecialBrew_2

snoozer wrote: »

SpecialBrew, the red apple shampoo was Alberto VO5. I used it at uni back in the day.

You're right, it was. Mmmm... it smelt absolutely divine That one's definitely much-missed here.

Emmala

My mum and dad have my Sindy house at their house for my daughter to play with.....does anyone remember the heart tokens on the Sindy boxes? You collected them and could 'buy' outfits etc with them. I had the Princess Di wedding dress for one of my Sindy's, and my mum knitted her a bikini!!!


I remember buying penny sweets....chocolate mice...pink ones were bigger and were 2p, the smaller white and brown chocolate ones were a penny....

monnagran

Eenymeeny and sophsnan: Sorry my loves but it wasn't SEAL or KLEAR. They came much later. While writing that sentence it suddenly came to me that it was called DUAL. When they stopped making it there was a near riot, especially from church cleaners who used it to make their tiled floors shine.

dinasnan: you can still get the pink Gerolene, it does come in tubes but you have to be careful to get the 'ointment' and not the 'cream'.

Gingervamp: Eucryl was made in Southampton, still is for all I know. My aunt was secretary to the Company Secretary and my mother worked there before she was married. I also worked there in vacations as a sort of office girl. The Big Boss was always a favourite of mine. He had no children so we were his substitutes and he spoiled us outrageously. Naturally, the toothpowder came to us free and I hated it. It fell off the brush all too easily.

Camelot: We always had Tunis Cake at Christmas and I continued the tradition with my children. We didn't have a dog at the time so I used to find the cake pushed down the sides of the sofa. The chocolate was delicious though.

SpecialBrew: Oh my goodness. How I remember Energen rolls. They made crispbread too. It was like eating polystyrene.

My mother got married in June 1938 and she wore a perfume called JUNE. When I was older and had pocket money I used to save up and get her a tiny bottle of it for her birthday. It was lovely. Can't remember who made it though.

I do remember the sweets you have all mentioned, but I grew up during the war when sweets were only obtainable after several hours of queueing. (Stand by with the violins please). If we had a penny to spend we used to buy an Oxo cube on the way to school and eat that. In the absence of chewing gum the boys used to buy strips of coloured wax and chew that. I tried it. Once! It was a red letter day if the grocer had some Ovaltine tablets - they were heavenly.

x

johanne

just thought of something:


GREEN cream soda from the "lemonade man" who gave you money back if you returned the bottles..... used clear cream soda to make ice cream floats for my daughter last summer and it just wasn't the same