What products do you miss?

Justamum

TravellingAbuela wrote: »

Ever since the onset of this thread, I keep thinking back to the "good old days" way back when and another fond memory that has just come back to me is sitting round the radio listening to Radio Luxembourg!

I used to listen to that in bed. My parents aren't great radio listeners, but for my 10th birthday I got a small transistor radio and have loved listening to the radio ever since. I enjoyed Radio Luxembourg and also RTE from Ireland. I used to listen to Stuart Henry on Radio Luxembourg, but he got MS and eventually his wife came in to help, until she eventually virtually took over as his speech deteriorated.

mardatha

Oh wow that takes me back- I used to listen to him as well. Wonder if Radio Lux is still there?

candlelight_2013

Great post Jackie. How I so remember the cold lino, and in the winter the frost on the inside of the bedroom window. If you were lucky it might have melted by the time you went to bed that night, but if it had been really cold all day it would still be there. Of course we didn't have central heating just a paraffin heater on the landing which was supposed to take the chill off all the bedrooms and bathroom. It didn't !!!.

We did have real fires downstairs and at night time our PJs were warmed on the fire guard before we put them on, and Dad's slippers were always by the side of the fire for when he came home from work.

Candlelight x

candlelight_2013

Can I just say I am working in between these posts, please don't think I have nothing else to do, lol .

Candlelight x

DigForVictory

Imps. Tiny liquorice & menthol "sweets" that sorted out a ticklish throat in seconds.

mardatha

Funny thing is none of us seem to have suffered any ill effects from living without central heating. My dad was a miner and we always had a big fire on, but that was the only heating in the house - we didn't have paraffin.
Our house was on top of a hill and I remember my mum hanging up a blanket to stop the curtains blowing right in during gales. I always got told I'd get chilblains but I never did. I mind all mums standing at the vans with tartan legs though, from sitting too near the fire!
I loved Sherbet Lemons and coke in a glass bottle on fridays. The rag and bone man who played the cavalry charge on his bugle. The man with the grindstone who came to sharpen knives and scissors. Sounds like another world now but maybe things were dearer and better quality so people kept them longer.

LV_Sue

Justamum wrote: »

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.

Maybe I got so used to the artificial orange flavour that I can't taste the natural orange flavour now.

baconandcabbage

candlelight_2013 wrote: »

baconandcabbage - satin pillows?

Candlelightx

Thanks Candlelight That's them!

Eenymeeny

DigForVictory wrote: »

Imps. Tiny liquorice & menthol "sweets" that sorted out a ticklish throat in seconds.

You can still get Imps in the little tin. MY OH was eating them yesterday. After interrogation,;) he remembered that he bought them in the local hospital shop while visiting a sick friend. Maybe they're classed as a healthy snack?!
Mary Baker and Viota cake mixes, Royal lemon pie fillings and a kind of upside pud which had lemon or orange sauce in the bottom and sponge on top. I think that they were called Orange/Lemon Top funnily enough....
I remember being sent to the CO-OP chemists for Energen rolls which came in a big box. (Difficult to carry anything else once you'd got them) and Energen crispbread (my father called them cardboard) These were mainly reserved for Mum who was always 'slimming'
As I got older I used to take 2 of the cheese flavoured ones with a Dairylea triangle and boiled egg for lunch almost every day which worked out to about 200 calories if I remember rightly. When I was buying my own lunch I used to get Limmits; a meal replacement biscuit which came in coffee, orange and chocolate mint flavour.
At this time I must have been about eight and a half stone and horrified if I went up to eight stone twelve! Twiggy and Mary Quant have a lot to answer for....
Also remember Cambridge formula. A small brown loaf which came in a box and was very chewy, and wafer biscuits which were also a meal replacement. Never used sacherin, which was offered to Mums friends as a sugar replacement for their cup of tea. Thank God we're more enlightened now!

geri1965_2

JackieO wrote: »

candlelight & TA I think Keynsham was somewhere near Bristol.

It still is!

Loving this thread. When did rouge become blusher?

The thing I miss most is Mint Cracknell. Loved it, and hardly anyone I know can remember it - for years I thought I imagined it!