What products do you miss?

Frogletina

ERICS_MUM wrote: »

Sunday morning "wireless". Uncle Mac with childrens favourites - I'm a Pink Tooth Brush, The Runaway Train, Nelly the Elephant, How Much Is That Doggy In The Window etc.

I had a 78 record of Uncle Mac - that is until my eldest daughter stood on it one day after I'd left it on a chair! I finally forgave her...

Valli

http://retrodundee.blogspot.co.uk/2010_07_01_archive.html

this will get you all even MORE nostalgic!

(scroll though the blog)

Chris25

Valli wrote: »

http://retrodundee.blogspot.co.uk/2010_07_01_archive.html

this will get you all even MORE nostalgic!

(scroll though the blog)

ooh, yes, some I'd forgotten about on there. thanks Valli, will take a better read of it a bit later.

another one I used to love was coffee Aero - don't think it was that popular though.

candlelight_2013

Thank you Valli I can remember Aztec and boxes of Weekend chocolates, but I didn't like those. I don't remember the Sky Bar though. Will go through it later, but very interesting.

Candlelight x

Valli

it's not my blog btw - I just googled it.

Am I correct in thinking that Weekend chocolate had 'candies' in too? ie non-chocolate chocs...

and some sort of a vivid lime one on a chocolate base drizzled with plain chocolate?

bubbs

meritaten wrote: »

Jackie - do you remember how you didn't need to actually go to town? you had 'pedlars'! some guy would knock on the door and offer to sell you almost anything? Brushes? Polish? Ribbons and Lace? Bakers would often send the 'boys' out on the bikes to sell loaves or pies. or later on in the day they offered 'cakes'! we even had a 'fish and chip' van come round two nights a week! dunno why - our village had two fish and chip shops!
I can remember sending a friend into one to ask for 'scrumps'. (the bits of batter fished out when the fish was cooked). and of course mum heard about it and I got into trouble. cos I knew this chippy owner gave them away for free. and mum saw that as begging. but they were gorgeous! he even doused them in salt and vinegar!

I live in the outskirts of a large town, we still have vans but now they are chinese and my oh my best chinese takeaway ever:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

candlelight_2013

Sorry Chris if I went off on a tangent, but this thread has brought so memories back, not just about products we can no longer find.

Will try to keep on track lol

Candlelight x

candlelight_2013

Yes Valli, I think that was the reason I didn't like them.

Candlelight x

TravellingAbuela

Someone a few pages back mentioned they missed New Berry Fruits. Just to let you know I saw some in Poundstretcher this morning - £1.99 a box. I was ALMOST tempted!

SpecialBrew_2

candlelight_2013 wrote: »

I desperately wanted a bedside cabinet as a child, so Mum asked for an orange box from the greengrocer. Dad used wallpaper to cover it and Mum made a curtain for the front of it. Because the orange box had 2 compartments I had a shelf half way down, and believe me I was so thrilled with it. If I explained this to my grandchildren I know they wouldn't understand.

I had a 'shelving unit' against the wall that ran parallel to my bed, made from an arrangement of three orange boxes stacked together. I think we must have seen the idea in a library book or magazine (this was around 1978) because me and my sisters were inspired by that kind of thing a lot (who else remembers the 'Golden Hands' publications? My mum bought these for a bit and the books were always round the library, but they seemed to recycle the same old ideas after a while).

The house was full of our fabulous creations (AKA 'junk'!) and I think it used to drive my mum a bit demented at times, but she still weeps with laughter if anybody mentions the slippers my sister cobbled together from instructions in a 'Make Anything With Newspaper' book that made her look like she had two giant sardine tins stuck to her feet. The shelving units weren't a bad idea though. Either my sister's didn't last or they got fed up with them because they weren't around for long, but I had mine for years and still remember it with fondness.

I can't say my mum's creative streak was always good news - she had her moments too. I can remember (with horror!) bri-nylon, which not only seemed to be everywhere but must have been really cheap too, because my mum made everything with it for a while, even sheets. They made every night really sweaty, and every morning a matter of peeling yourself slowly away from the bedding while running the risk of fabric burn.

Then there was her seventies crochet phase - crochet sideboard mats (we were definitely not a sideboard mat kind of family!), crochet dresses and a jumper that mysteriously got longer every time I wore it, until it was the perfect length when sweater dresses came into fashion. For about a fortnight anyway, after which my mum would turn it under every week and pin it up with safety pins. I don't know what happened to it, but I imagine it still growing triffid-like in a landfill site somewhere, ready to burst from beneath the ground and fill an unwary world with Seventies Crochet Terror