What products do you miss?

nomi01

Not sure if these have already been mentioned, but i miss big red chewing gum and pyramints.

siegemode

I too had Pipper dolls, about 8 ! I used to collect all the petals off the doll and outfit packaging and use my brothers lego and lego car. Oh the lego arguments :rotfl:I knitted little blankets and made felt bedding and carpets. Everyone else had Sindy but I was loyal to Pipper. I was persuaded to give them to a young girl in the same close by mum who thought I was becoming too old to have them. I regretted it and twas a sad day but I know the young girl loved them.

Anyone else remember Snaps ? Bacon flavour were my favourite, a bit like quavers but better. I used to get 2 1/2p to buy a packet of crisps on the way to school but Snaps were 2p leaving me enough for 4 Blackjacks or two jelly snakes. The sweets were in a tray with lots of compartments and lots of choice, kept under a glass counter.

Scouring for Corona bottles to return for sweets or to get enough for a 4p bag of chips.

Also loved Cariba made by Scwepps and much nicer than Lilt.

Fresh fruit and veg straight from granddads garden and allotments. I used to love going down the land to help. Especially during Strawberry season
Not forgetting my nans brawn and pickled onions.

Loving this thread and all the memories, thanks for making me smile so much today.

vikki_louise

candlelight_2013 wrote: »

Angellore, thank you for the offer anyway. He shouldn't eat it , just a bit frustrating I have never been able to make it as he remembers it.

I know I couldn't eat it much too sweet for me.

Candlelight x

If you do decide to make it again then pm me and I will try and dig out our recipe, I think my mum has gypsy as well as butterscotch, both from school as the dinner lady was a family friend

vikki_louise

I had forgotten about polo holes until someone posted about them, they came in a giant plastic polo shaped container. Does anyone remember strawberries and cream polos? They came in a pack rather than as a tube and were really really nice.
I miss tangerine and beer shampoo from the bodyshop and tangerine bubbles (or satsuma ones, can't remember now). The bodyshop was so cool in the days before lush took over!
The sweets I've tried to find are Parkinson's thins, they were square and thin, boiled fruit flavoured. My nan likes them and only remember having them once and have tried tracking them down since desperate to find some before she passes away (she's too ill now to have one though). So many of the old sweets are now made but for some reason these never are.
I loved 'salad seasoning', in a tub like you get spices. It was so nice sprinkled onto salad or a jacket potato, they do sell something similar or the same name but it was horrid
I also miss hotdogs- not that you can't get them but from that innocent time when you didn't know what went into them!

vikki_louise

Another thing I keep hoping to come back is orange smarties. You used to be able to buy a tube of just orange (which were by far the loveliest). When I googled it I found a thing saying it was a beeno promotion and the orange ones had been stolen from the tubes and put white smarties in. Talking of smarties I loved them until they went 'healthy'. Poor kids never knowing a true blue Smartie. Mini smarties were cool, even better than giant smarties.

I also remember a chocolate bar, bit like an aero (puffed long segments rather than squares) and each segment was a different flavour. I googled it and they were made for a short time in the 70's, I wasn't around then so not sure what it was I had.

candlelight_2013

Dad was a toolmaker and worked in a factory, so was paid on a Thursday.

On his way home each Thursday night (Dad always walked we didn't have a car) he would call in at a sweet shop. He would purchase 5 shillings (25p) worth of chocolate and sweets. Within this would be a quarter pound box of Milk Tray for Mum, a couple of Mars Bars, 2 Frys cream bars and I think the rest must have been something like Spangles. Now these had to last all week, but the Mars Bars had to be cut into 3 because we were 3 girls and we couldn't have one each.

Now you can imagine 2 were able to have the end pieces, which had more chocolate on and the other had the middle bit. Now to stop any arguments (you can imagine) we had to take it in turns, and we never forgot which one of us should have the next end bit. I am sure children now wouldn't understand, but Mum and Dad didn't have much money although Dad had a trade and had served his apprenticeship.

Nostalgia is wonderful isn't it. I love all of your memories and I know a lot of it seems food related, but of course as children we didn't know much about running a home and what products were used, and food always features quite high with children.

Candlelight x

TravellingAbuela

This thread is bringing back so memories! When I was little we had a Co-op grocers and a Co-op butchers at the bottom of the road. We also had another grocer further down and he would deliver the "order" each week no charge. So day to day bits and pieces were bought at the Co-op (a lot of it still rationed) and the "order" was delivered on a Wednesday night. When Dennis came with the order he also brought a little cardboard box along too with bars of chocolate etc in and if we had been good (!!) mum would let me and my younger brother chose a bar each. It was no contest for me as I ALWAYS wanted a Fry's dark chocolate marzipan bar. Oh how I savoured every last bit of that bar!

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Reading through the posts it struck me that childhood back in the days before children seemed to have everything they asked for was a lot leaner, but far more enjoyable.My parents weren't particullarly hard up as my Dad was a chemist so had a reasonable wage but as children we just didn't have everything we wanted.We had birthday presents at our birthdays and Christmas presents at Christmas and that was it.Few sweets as it was rationing time ,also few toys as few toy shops around anyway.The country was recovering from WW2 and factories were making furniture,clothes and essential things ,so toys came way down the list of important things to buy.
I can remember longing for a toy post office and hoping that I would get it for christmas.I looked in our local sweet shop window for weeks just hoping that it wouldn't be sold out.Mum obviously knew as one afternoon it was gone and I was heartbroken (I did get it for Christmas as she had asked the lady to put it by for her)

That was my 'big present' I also had an annual,a jigsaw puzzle and a packet of coloured pencils.We didn't ask for much as we knew there was no point,we were given what our parents could find to buy and often it wasn't a great deal.But libraries were free so books were borrowed.I have seven grandchildren and when I see what they get for Christmas or birthdays I am quite shocked but its a different era today and children expect so much more.My eldest brother made me a dolls house from orange box wood once and painted and papered it and even made tiny table and two little benches and beds for it and I was so thrilled as a dolls house from the shop just was beyond my expectations.
My brothers had bikes but my Mum wasn't keen on me having one as she thought it a bit unladylike :)(I borrowed my friends to learn to ride on ) I managed to have one eventually when I was 16 and saved up and bought it myself from my wages.I used it to go to and from work everyday around 7 miles each way,but it saved me a fortune in rail fares.
Clothes were one set for 'sunday best ' for church and sunday school ,school uniform and old clothes as play clothes as school uniform had to be changed when you got home from school and hung up straight away.Jumpers and cardi's were knitted and often dresses were made from cut-down grown up dresses as material was in short supply.I can remember going to a jumble sale with my Mum and the scrum around the clothes counter as women searched for old dresses to remake into clothes for their children .Old jumpers were unpicked and re-knitted often .It was usuallu the actual materials that were in short supply so make-do-and-mend went on for a long time after the war, well into the mid 1950s.
Prbably where I get my frugal ways from as I too hate to waste anything if I can help it and will find a home or a re-use for almost anything :):)
Childhood memories are precious to us all as we will carry them through our lives, so whether its the memories of sweets or the smell of something it will trigger a memory in most of us I think
JackieO xxx

CurlyTop

patchwork_cat wrote: »

They were chocolate Olivers. You can still get them Huntley and Palmers do them - If Matti and Tissot is still around my Mum used to buy them there I think

Thanks PC. It was Huntleys and Jacobs my dad used to do the biscuit bus for. Oooh, will go on a search mission.....

CurlyTop

JackieO wrote: »

Reading through the posts it struck me that childhood back in the days before children seemed to have everything they asked for was a lot leaner, but far more enjoyable.My parents weren't particullarly hard up as my Dad was a chemist so had a reasonable wage but as children we just didn't have everything we wanted.We had birthday presents at our birthdays and Christmas presents at Christmas and that was it.Few sweets as it was rationing time ,also few toys as few toy shops around anyway.The country was recovering from WW2 and factories were making furniture,clothes and essential things ,so toys came way down the list of important things to buy.
I can remember longing for a toy post office and hoping that I would get it for christmas.I looked in our local sweet shop window for weeks just hoping that it wouldn't be sold out.Mum obviously knew as one afternoon it was gone and I was heartbroken (I did get it for Christmas as she had asked the lady to put it by for her)

That was my 'big present' I also had an annual,a jigsaw puzzle and a packet of coloured pencils.We didn't ask for much as we knew there was no point,we were given what our parents could find to buy and often it wasn't a great deal.But libraries were free so books were borrowed.I have seven grandchildren and when I see what they get for Christmas or birthdays I am quite shocked but its a different era today and children expect so much more.My eldest brother made me a dolls house from orange box wood once and painted and papered it and even made tiny table and two little benches and beds for it and I was so thrilled as a dolls house from the shop just was beyond my expectations.
My brothers had bikes but my Mum wasn't keen on me having one as she thought it a bit unladylike :)(I borrowed my friends to learn to ride on ) I managed to have one eventually when I was 16 and saved up and bought it myself from my wages.I used it to go to and from work everyday around 7 miles each way,but it saved me a fortune in rail fares.
Clothes were one set for 'sunday best ' for church and sunday school ,school uniform and old clothes as play clothes as school uniform had to be changed when you got home from school and hung up straight away.Jumpers and cardi's were knitted and often dresses were made from cut-down grown up dresses as material was in short supply.I can remember going to a jumble sale with my Mum and the scrum around the clothes counter as women searched for old dresses to remake into clothes for their children .Old jumpers were unpicked and re-knitted often .It was usuallu the actual materials that were in short supply so make-do-and-mend went on for a long time after the war, well into the mid 1950s.
Prbably where I get my frugal ways from as I too hate to waste anything if I can help it and will find a home or a re-use for almost anything :):)
Childhood memories are precious to us all as we will carry them through our lives, so whether its the memories of sweets or the smell of something it will trigger a memory in most of us I think
JackieO xxx

What a great post JackieO (as usual). I'm a little younger than you (the big 50 last year) but even I am flabbergasted at what my nieces and nephews receive. Like you, we had presents when it was birthdays and christmas and rarely any other occasion (may be if we had done well at school). Christmas was always one main present and we always got an annual, colouring book and pencils, tin of toffees with a picture of a dog or cat on the tin and a game.

I never felt we missed out. My dad worked and my mum was stayed at home. We'd come home from school and have a jam butty to keep us going before our tea. Sundays were roast dinners and tea was 'high tea' with sandwiches, jelly, ice cream (occasionally) and chocolate biscuits (like club or penguins). All of these are so everyday for young ones nowadays. My nieces find it amusing.