What products do you miss?

ERICS_MUM

not food this time ! I was planning some decorating earlier and I remembered my Grandad buying wallpaper in the early 1960's and having to trim off the edges with scissors where the pattern wasn't printed the full width.

madtrekker

kerri_gt wrote: »

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=254810666

Found frozen mousses, I'm think the ones you are thinking of were Lyons Maid?

Yes, that's the type of thing. I can't remember the brand I'm afraid. Can't believe people still eat that crap.... look what's in them!

madtrekker

burtha wrote: »

we carnt get mighty imps anymore , think they must have been finished .

Our local chemist had these in last week but said there's a problem with the factory or something so they've been told that's it until mid-summer 2014.

room512

Bernard Matthew's hamwiches - I used to love them even though I am sure they were really bad for me!

madtrekker

go_cat wrote: »

When you got free toys actually in cereal packets before H & S kicked in..

Yes and in my early childhood the toy was actually buried inside the plastic bag with the cornflakes / rice krispies and it was pot luck whose bowl it would fall into at breakfast time. Very exciting! Around the late 1980s I think, they started putting the toy in the box itself squashed underneath the plastic bag.

Toys I remember include plastic boats / submarines (a Kellogg's promotion). They had a little compartment that you would fill with baking powder then put them in water and the chemical reaction would make bubbles so they self-propelled a little.

Then there were the bike reflector thingies that you clipped onto the spokes of your bike. I remember the Kellogg's cornflakes Cockerel, Tony the Tiger (Frosties) and the monkey from Coco Pops on my bike.

I also had some temporary tattoo / transfers from Rice Krispies once, with the Snap Crackle and Pop characters on.

I also have vague memories of little plastic wartime aeroplanes that you had to build - popping out the component parts from a flat frame, dinosaur hologram cards and magic trick cards from Rice Krispies.

In a way I'm glad that branded cereals don't do this anymore as I'm very MSE and buy own-brands and my kids would just moan!

kerri_gt

On the subject of cereal toys, I remember spokey dokeys - they were similar to abacus beads I that you clipped to the spokes of your bike wheels and they moved up and down creating a clattering sound when you pedaled....now those I don't miss lol.

littleredhen

Bovril quavers and mint cracknells ( not together):rotfl:

kerri_gt

Sweet peanuts, not the ones you can get now in pound shops but the ones that were creamy with bit of peanut in the middle

thistledome

I love this thread.

Sorry Eric's Mum, didn't see your reply to my post earlier. Yes, Robinson Crusoe was the one with the good music. For anyone who wants to hear it again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7FXPEZh-9Q

I used to love those orange machines you mentioned, the ones with plastic oranges floating round in the centre and they had the orange cascading down the sides of the tank, to make it even more alluring.

However, I've only just noticed this thread is called "Products" you miss......I just miss the 70's in general

So to get back OT:

Glees
Lucky bags
Rossi's pyramid shaped Raspberry Rocket lollies
Funny Faces Ice Cream Lollies
Large pieces of frozen fish that were wrapped in transparent plastic, they had a fish-shaped label in blue or pink depending on whether they were Cod or Haddock.
Frozen boil in the bag Chicken Espagnole with rice.
Screwballs from the Ice Cream Van
Linco-Beer shampoo in plastic barrels. I used to see the adverts for this in my sister's Jackie mag and desperately wanted to buy it but had no money.
Zing - pop in a glass bottle.
Peardrax & Cydrax

Magazines & Comics I read:
Twinkle
Bunty
Mandy
Jackie of course
Oh Boy! with Greig and Steve (swoon)
Blue Jeans (not so good)
Patches (ditto)

and there were several comics that were all song lyrics. Long before Smash Hits, they were printed on comic-type paper and had red, black and green illustrations and song lyrics of the latest hits. Can't remember the names of any of them.

Does anyone else remember the large chocolate bars that had a yellow coloured paper wrapper and each square of the chocolate had a different filling? There was a picture of a rose on the wrapper along with a picture of the chocolate bar and I think they were foreign. We used to buy them in a local cheap shop, never saw them in a normal shop.

Did anyone else save the little coupons in Bazooka Joe's bubble gum, but never send them off for anything? I was always saving up for something (telescope, X-ray specs,) but never actually managed to get enough without losing them.

The Green Shield Stamp catalogue. That and the Player's No.6 cigarette coupon book. Would spend hours choosing things I'd like from these. Never got anything though.

Movie Maker Board game. Was bought for me one xmas and I loved it but it got lost over the years. Is now a collector's item and I can't afford one.

Peach scented bubble bath that came in a plastic bottle with a plastic peach as the bottle-top (could have been an apricot). May have been Avon. Another thing I coveted but never got.

missflirtuk

room512 wrote: »

Bernard Matthew's hamwiches - I used to love them even though I am sure they were really bad for me!

I have seen this in Jack Fultons and Iceland recently x