What products do you miss?

This_Year

I remember having Rancheros (a bacon flavour puffy corn snack) but whenever I've mentioned it people tell me I mean Frazzles.

No I mean Rancheros... and having just googled it, they still make them! Just need to move to Ireland.
http://www.insertcrisps.com/2012/03/rancheros-bamf-and-its-1979.html

Frazzles were nice too but different again.

Lemonade and Coca-Cola were a treat for Christmas and Birthdays, definitely not an every day drink. We had weak orange squash to drink most of the time _pale_ heartily dislike artificial orange flavour at the best of times let alone over-diluted!

We were always bought 2 oz of sweets to share, I always thought my friends were so lucky buying "a quarter" to have all to themselves!

My mother would buy clothes from Brian Mills catalogue, and Young Idea (I think that's what it was called!) - which was Ladybird clothes.

I remember taking pack lunch to school and eating my sandwiches made from thick-cut home made bread while my friends ate sandwiches made from sliced bread - I envied them their thin sarnies! :rotfl:

candlelight_2013

Oh VALLI memories, thank you for clarifying that.

Candlelightx

bubbs

We were allowed 3 bottles of pop a week between 4 of use, the alpin man delivered it on a friday, so there were 4 glasses lined up and each one had the exact amount in, needless to say 3 bottles did not last long:rotfl:

Valli

candlelight_2013 wrote: »

Oh VALLI memories, thank you for clarifying that.

Candlelightx

You're welcome. I remember that too.

I COULD NOT ABIDE Bar 6 - and you always got one in your selection box. I always ate it last!And selection boxes were only ever filled with cadbury choc. Other brands were NOT available :rotfl:

As for all the old Jamaica memories, allthough you can get it now it isn't moulded the same, it used to be in a 'scroll' pattern, and thinner than it is now.

Terry's Waifa (PLAIN) :cool:

Tiffany_Aching

Oh! I had forgotten the cider lollies - you could get shandy ones, too. We used to suck all the colour/flavour out and would be left with just white ice!

We used to be sent down to the Wavy-Line on Saturdays with a few pennies to buy a treat and I always chose the flavoured Toffos - there was banana and strawberry flavour, and I think there may have been another one? We used to eat half the pack on the way home and save the other to suck whilst watching Worzel Gummage! We made that one pack last ages!

At Christmas we didn't have half the treats that I seem to have to buy now - a Tunis cake and tin of Quality Street were Christmas must haves. I loved the peanut cracknel sweets in the Quality Street and was so disappointed when they discontinued those.

I'm pleased that someone further up the thread mentioned Pacers - I didn't know that was what they were called and I often say to my DH about how I used to love the minty Opal Fruits and he thought I was making it up! I also loved Tooti-Frooties and Tooti-Minties. I've seen Tootie-Frooties for sale still, but not the mint ones

candlelight_2013

I remember selection boxes to be larger than they are now, and they were boxes, made out of a hard card type material, not just paper and light card we see now.

Candlelightx

Justamum

LV_Sue wrote: »

Orange Smarties were always 'Mum's Smarties', then later 'Grandma's Smarties' in this house. My children and grandchildren grew up thinking that children weren't allowed to eat the orange ones.:D:D
Now though anyone can have them, they don't even taste of orange any more.

When I was young we used to have a tin of Quality Street every Christmas. My mum was the only one allowed to eat the green triangles so I never tasted one until I was an adult.

The orange smarties do taste of orange - I looked at the ingredients recently and orange oil is listed as one of the ingredients, and my daughters have just confirmed that they DO taste of orange.

*zippy*

ERICS_MUM wrote: »

Cider ice lollies from the ice cream van on a hot Sunday afternoon.

We used to have a ice cream van outside the school gate, the most popular item was a cider lolly with a squirt of ice cream along one side and syrup and sprinkles all for 15p, lovely

Eenymeeny

I remember now, it was Dual which came out first. So called because it 'cleaned and shined in one go' I also remember my mother thinking that it was brilliant. Seal, later called Klear, was like a coating you mopped on after cleaning the floor which left a shine. (We had those awful grey matt tiles in our works kitchen which were terrible to clean. Our cleaner used to ban people admittance until the shine had dried!)
Anyone remember Protein 21 shampoo which claimed to 'really mend split ends' I had long hair at the time and it used to leave your hair really soft and shiny. Maybe it was withdrawn when they introduced the Sales Description Act!
Inecto Hint Of A Tint was another tempory colour shampoo available in gold, copper and silver I think.
Those perfumes in Woolies! I remember Californian Poppy and Broadway and Coty L'Aimant. I also loved Lemon Grass soap from Boots. (Those were the days when a flannel and a couple of soaps were deemd a reasonable present to give to your friends on their birthdays!)
Back to chocolate. I remember a Medley Bar, rather like Fry's Cream but with a different flavour in each square. Michael Medwin was in the advert singing 'do yourself a favour, have a Medley'
Ooh! and banana ice lollies, they were my favouite.
Thanks for renewing all of those memories folks....

wierddumpling

2 more I remember, coffee walnut whips and wagon wheels when they were huge and had jam right to the edge of the biscuit.


I'm so glad I got to enjoy the joy of penny sweets walking home from school on a Friday afternoon.