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  • ivyleaf
    ivyleaf Posts: 6,431 Forumite
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    edited 4 September 2016 at 6:47PM
    I loved Kunzle Cakes too.

    London cheesecakes still readily available from local bakers round here! Gypsy Tarts too.

    In the early 70s I wore a lovely perfume called Kiku. I wonder if I'd still like it now? I can't remember who made it - possibly Yardley.

    ETA Just checked, it was by Faberge.
  • I have tried and tried to make Gypsey tart for Himself, but he says it is never quite the same as the one he remembers from school.

    I had never heard of it, but he lived in Kent and I understand it is well known as a delicacy there. He wouldn't be able to eat it now because of all the sugar .

    Candlelightx
  • THIRZAH
    THIRZAH Posts: 1,465 Forumite
    I bought a Gypsy tart when we were in Kent earlier this year-it was very very sweet.
  • Slinky
    Slinky Posts: 11,011 Forumite
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    SailorSam wrote: »
    Creosote, to paint the fence.


    Dad used to paint our fence with a mixture of creosote and used engine oil. Smelled pretty evil but it worked, and certainly the local yoofs used to steer clear of getting near the back of the fence as it was so dark it looked like it would stain clothes badly.


    You can now get a product called Creocote which whilst thinner than creosote is pretty good - it smells very similar. Way better than a lot of the water based stains.
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  • monnagran
    monnagran Posts: 5,284 Forumite
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    When my ex was supposed to be looking after our 2yearold son,(a rare occurrence) he decided in his wisdom to creosote the fence.
    When he returned, said son had creosoted the car.

    x
    I believe that friends are quiet angels
    Who lift us to our feet when our wings
    Have trouble remembering how to fly.
  • missbiggles1
    missbiggles1 Posts: 17,481 Forumite
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    edited 4 September 2016 at 9:55PM
    Primrose wrote: »
    Pan Yam pickle, the commercial recipe for which I gather has sadly disappeared into the ether!

    It's actually Pan Yan and the recipe's on the jar (although not the quantities).

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-539489/Relish-lovers-longer-pickle-lost-recipe-comes-light.html

    There are also domestic recipes like this.

    http://www.food.com/recipe/a-british-classic-pan-yan-pickle-246663
  • gilly1964
    gilly1964 Posts: 1,107 Forumite
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    From when I worked in the local sweet shop/newsagent


    Fuse
    Spyro
    Cabana
    Texan
    Nutty Bars
    Tiffin Bars
    Mini Eggs sold loose

    Disco 45
    NME
    Jackie (reading it on my paper round and only ever buying it if I wanted the free gift, it was delivered to the last house in Arundel Grove and was the last house on my round so loads of time to read it)

    The TV I remember
    Seaside Special
    CHiPS
    Dukes of Hazzard
    Wrestling with Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks
    Bonanza, High Chapparal
    Sunday afternoon western
    The Good Old Days
    Black & White Minstrel Show

    Other foods
    5 Pints, powdered milk
    Five Alive
    Some pudding that you mixed and put in a Pyrex dish with a topping baked in the oven and when it came out the top had gone syrupy and sunk and the bottom was now on top as a sponge
    Cucumber spread
    Pease pudding
    Fruity sauce
    Supermousse
    London cheesecake
    Funny feet and funny face ice lollies


    The seafood man coming into the club,pot of prawns, cockles, mussels etc

    Sunday meat raffle

    Dinner being at lunch time
    And what is now dinner being tea

    The pools man
    Provident cheques
    The insurance man
    Milk man

    Waking up to ice on the inside of the wIndows, with pretty patterns made by the net curtains
  • Back in the late 1970s there was a slimming diet food called Ayds !!! went off the market in the 1980s though !

    I loved those chocolate covered honeycomb bars, can't remember what they were called or who made them possibly Hussicks but I know they were around 4d, and delicious Palm Toffee bars that yanked out your teeth for 3d.

    I liked the banana split ones, 6d for Saturday morning pictures, a 3d toffee bar and life was just bliss in the 1950s. Saturday afternoons were spent in the local large department store (Chiesmans in Lewisham) where around 30 + kids would gather around 4.45 pm to hopefully get a chance to watch the TV's sets displaying for the chaps and little boys the sports results, then if the nice manager was on he would let the children watch the children's tv programmes, if the miserable bloke was on he would walk around smirking and switching the sets off to howls of dismay from the kids. it was a different world in those days as few folk had TVs in their homes at all, and the wireless was king with Journey into Space and The Man in Black whose voice put the fear of God into you I remember listening to the Carol Levis Discoveries show and thinking he had such a wonderful voice and when I actually saw a photo of him in my Mums Radio Times he was short fat and bald bless him he definitely had a voice for radio, certainly no oil painting .
    The radio was where we had a ventriloquist and his dummy on a comedy show !!! I used to think when I was small that Archie Andrews was a really naughty little boy :):): didn't know he was made of wood for years :) I still listen to the wireless and Radio Four is my favourite station :)
  • Serendipitious
    Serendipitious Posts: 6,453 Forumite
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    edited 5 September 2016 at 12:13AM
    I remember Ayds - they were individually wrapped toffee/fudge flavoured cubes that were meant to fill you up. Daft idea really, encouraging a sweet tooth, but we all bought them in our early 20s.

    PLJ was more sensible, a very sharp lemon juice that you drank as an appetite suppressant.

    And then we'd all eat our Vesta curries with a clear conscience.
    (I bought one a few years ago to revisit the past and was horrified by how awful it was!)
    “All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”




  • 5 Alive, powdered milk, loose/individual cream eggs, and pudding cake are all still available in Canada.

    Does anyone remember a comic that had Lady Penelope from the Thunderbirds in it?
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