What products do you miss?

JustKeepSwimming_2

welshbookworm wrote: »

Dark chocolate walnut whips.
Hedgehog crisps (no they didn't contain hedgehog!)

Mmm - dark chocolate walnut whips.

licklebabba wrote: »

Hi all, I miss beef flavour Potato Puffs (think Burtons made them) and Cabana bars.. oo yummy yum yum

Cabanas - my all time favourite& I wish they'd make a come back. Along with Texan bars, although I don't think my aged teeth could cope with them now

craigywv

cabanas I loved these, maybe could try and make own? they were very like a fifteen...........cherries ,coconut, condensed milk,then cover in choc ......................now theres an idea.......................saunters off to rummage in cupboards! will come bak later and let you know how they were.

Eliza_2

Another vote for O2. Hate fruity scented perfumes so this was lovely, really fresh and definitely non-fruity.

Also Tame, an early conditioner I think. It wasn't heavy or creamy, though white and used to leave my hair really shiny. Actually the texture was a lot like fabric conditioner is now.

Fab thread btw.

room512

missflirtuk wrote: »

I have seen this in Jack Fultons and Iceland recently x

I don't think Hamwich are made any more as they aren't on the Bernard Matthews website (they were just cheese and bacon grills with no chicken). I found some similar ones in Morrisons a while back made by tulip called cheese and bacon grills but I had to stop buying them as they were quite expensive and I was getting through packets of them! I put on over a stone in a month! I will have a look in Iceland though as we don't have a Jack Fultons near to us. Thanks for your help x

kerri_gt

Hamwich alert...

http://groceries.iceland.co.uk/value-cheese-hamwich-340g/p/47761

room512

kerri_gt wrote: »

Hamwich alert...

http://groceries.iceland.co.uk/value-cheese-hamwich-340g/p/47761

Ooooh you've made my day. Don't think my waistline will agree though!

aggypanthus

ivyleaf wrote: »

The original chocolate was a mix of milk and plain. It doesn't taste quite the same with the Bournville chocolate, but not too bad.

Fry's used to make a "Milk Sandwich" bar - 2 layers of milk choc with a layer of plain in between - and a "Plain Sandwich", 2 layers of plain choc with a layer of milk choc in between. Gorgeous.

Can you tell I like chocolate :rotfl:

Oh and when I lived in Scotland years ago I used to get Duncan's hazel nut chocolate. Much smoother than C@dbury's.

They still make duncans chocolate.

kerri_gt

Thinking about Impulse O2, there was another one we all used to use, I think it was called Free Spirit or something like that - had a turquoise colour on the can - anyone else remember it?

sophsnan

thistledome wrote: »

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.

I think the peach scented bubble bath was called pretty peach by avon used to have the whole set by courtsey of my godmother thought I was very grown up

castleton

If you remember Huddersfield West Yorkshire market hall ( the "bottom" market). Does anyone recall Doctor Dans Health Drink? I really loved this.