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Old 01-01-2017, 03:47
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Mint Munchies, these cost more than the the standard red packet
Oh my god, yes! I think they were called Mintola when I was little. Dark green pack. I used to eat these and watch Dynasty or was it Dallas feeling very posh and grown up. I would wear my special nightie and matching dressing gown for the event.

Oh, and if I was very lucky I'd be allowed to mix Refreshers in cream soda in a 70s/80s champagne glass and pretend I was Sue Ellen. Strangely Mum and Dad weren't a bit concerned that I appeared to see a fictional alco as a role model.
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Old 01-01-2017, 03:52
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Oh my god, yes! I think they were called Mintola when I was little. Dark green pack. I used to eat these and watch Dynasty or was it Dallas feeling very posh and grown up. I would wear my special nightie and matching dressing gown for the event.

Oh, and if I was very lucky I'd be allowed to mix Refreshers in cream soda in a 70s/80s champagne glass and pretend I was Sue Ellen. Strangely Mum and Dad weren't a bit concerned that I appeared to see a fictional alco as a role model.
*passes gin again*
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Old 01-01-2017, 03:57
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Oh my god, yes! I think they were called Mintola when I was little. Dark green pack. I used to eat these and watch Dynasty or was it Dallas feeling very posh and grown up. I would wear my special nightie and matching dressing gown for the event.

Oh, and if I was very lucky I'd be allowed to mix Refreshers in cream soda in a 70s/80s champagne glass and pretend I was Sue Ellen. Strangely Mum and Dad weren't a bit concerned that I appeared to see a fictional alco as a role model.
Refreshers would defintely be my 2nd favourite sweet of all time (after Black Jacks).
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Old 01-01-2017, 04:13
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*passes gin again*
Getting to be a habit...
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Old 01-01-2017, 04:16
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Refreshers would defintely be my 2nd favourite sweet of all time (after Black Jacks).
Oh black jacks, yes! Youth club tuck shop sold black jacks and fruit salad sweets - if you were looking a slow dance at the disco with a boy you made do with fruit salads but if not you got the black jacks and to hell with the purple lips and tongue.
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Old 01-01-2017, 05:05
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I remember Crown Court. There was another type of mid-day drama too which opened with a kind of dark Manor House in the opening credits, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was. I used to watch them eating Chucky Eggs that my mum would make me, which was two boiled eggs chopped up in a bowl with a bit of butter and salt and some toast soldiers. God bless the 70's
i`ve been in and out of google looking for possibilities but no bells are ringing, do you have any more clues? [i love these puzzles ].

oh the cedar tree ♥

and the marriage guidance one though i think a lot of that was over my head then - was maureen lipman in that?

i used to get the typewriter out and try to teach myself "touch typing", i got quite fast but i never did find the effing apostrophe.
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Old 01-01-2017, 07:33
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Once a year treat - buying school uniform in Leeds then going to John Lewis cafe for afternoon tea.
Carnation milk on tinned oranges for Sunday tea.
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Old 01-01-2017, 07:51
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I remember crown court, back when itv's afternoon out put was wonderfully dull.....

Laying in my room watching crown court, take the highroad, sons and daughters, country practice.
♥ ♥ ♥

never got into sons and daughters and i kept calling it sons and lovers @self.

i liked the sullivans, though i`d left school, i think i may have been up the duff then.

we used to get a can of drink and a book from tesco, there were no ring pulls then and you had to make two holes in the top to drink it.
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Old 01-01-2017, 08:32
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i`ve been in and out of google looking for possibilities but no bells are ringing, do you have any more clues? [i love these puzzles ]
I'm afraid not. I can see it, but it really is just a vague, single image of this bloody house.
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Old 01-01-2017, 08:38
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I'm afraid not. I can see it, but it really is just a vague, single image of this bloody house.
it wasn't the 'armchair thrillers' was it? I remember that from the same era as crown court

as for special 70's treats, it has to be 'pobs'

white bread torn up and covered with hot milk and sugar

the thought makes me want to vomit now
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Old 01-01-2017, 08:42
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A wimpy burger was a rare treat when we went onto town. Also screwball ice cream I think they were called? They had a chewing gum at the bottom of the container. We weren't allowed proper chewing gum back then so it was a small victory .
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Old 01-01-2017, 09:27
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A packet of Scampi Fries brought home from the pub by my Dad! 😂
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Old 01-01-2017, 09:29
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They weren't random.
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Old 01-01-2017, 09:36
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it wasn't the 'armchair thrillers' was it? I remember that from the same era as crown court

as for special 70's treats, it has to be 'pobs'

white bread torn up and covered with hot milk and sugar

the thought makes me want to vomit now
It might be.

My friend used to always be eating pobs when I went round to his house as a kid, I thought the idea was pretty revolting.
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Old 01-01-2017, 09:43
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Being given a penny to have a ride on the mechanical horse in the local department store, it was huge and looked really realistic and if I didn't have a penny I'd just like to touch it's face and imagine.

Also I loved the escalator in another shop nothing was as much fun as my granddad taking me up and down, up and down while my nan did the shopping.

And food was a milk shake nesquick strawberry flavour about once a month I was allowed one and could make it last an hour if I sipped slowly favouring each sip.
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Old 01-01-2017, 09:50
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A trip to the Big ASDA.

Tbf, it's still quite a novelty as it's not where I go for a regular shop.
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Old 01-01-2017, 09:57
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Mint Munchies, these cost more than the the standard red packet so not allowed them as often.
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A ride out in the car at weekends

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Being allowed to rummage through the skip in the school on the last day of the summer term and take whatever we wanted. Not just a quick look but actually climb right into the skip and dig or crawl your way to the bottom underneath all the old broken chairs, tables, bis of wood and everything else to have a really good loot. I got enough plastic wallets and graph paper to see me through the rest of my school days, several exercise books, a story book, some pens and markers that still actually wrote, a ring binder and I even found a bag at the bottom to carry it all home in. I swear that that was hands down the best day of school I ever had.
What were those fruit flavoured munchie shaped sweets called ?

I lived on the coast when I was younger and it would be the occasional treat in the spring or summer to go to a nearby town for an ice cream. It was once a prime holiday resort but had decayed a lot since the 50s. Seeing the closed fun fair and the towns decline was all part of the experience and summed up the feeling of living in britain in the 1970s.

I had to admire the cheek of the junior school staff to dump off all their unwanted junk on us kids and make it seem like a treat. Boy they should have been politicians with all the promises they made in september and then none of it happening that year.
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Old 01-01-2017, 10:01
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My nan would make us a cup of cocoa on a Sunday and the big treat was a brown paper bag of broken biscuits to share . The local grocer had large silver tins of biscuits , marrieta , lincoln cream , digestive etc . He sold them loose in ounces . When the tins were almost empty he sold the broken ones very cheaply !

At Christmas we each got a Club Milk in our stocking and it was a huge treat
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Old 01-01-2017, 10:04
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It's drinks I remember the most

Suki suncap from the milkman, it came in small bottles with a green foil lid, I bought one every Saturday with my paper round money, probably around 1963. No one I speak to remembers this drink.

Corona fizzy drinks we had only at Christmas, came from a little shop down the road that mum saved a few pennies each week in for Christmas goodies.

Ginger beer that mum used to make, we were seven kids in our family so was rationed out.

Sixpence worth of broken biscuits from Woolies, if you were lucky you got a few of those with the icing on.

I think years ago we had so little treats seemed so much more.

A whole Mars bar was savoured and eaten in thin slices to make it last as long as possible, hate the sickly things now.
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Old 01-01-2017, 10:21
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Twiglets - when I visited my grandparents, my grandad used to buy me a box of them (a bit like a Maltesers box - they were about the length of Matchmakers then!) as a treat. He refused to buy them any more when they reached 9p a box!

Mint choc chip ice cream - again, it was a 'grandparent' treat when we went to the local woods/park - there was a corner shop there that sold different flavours and that was always my favourite - still is but I don't eat ice cream very often!
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Old 01-01-2017, 10:27
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Ice cream in a bowl from the ice cream van on a Sunday afternoon,very rare we had it but when we did mmmmmmmm
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Old 01-01-2017, 13:35
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OMG this! Definitely for a treat only although it was later replaced by Venettia (sp?), I still like the both of them!

Refreshers would defintely be my 2nd favourite sweet of all time (after Black Jacks).
That was a great sweet, maybe my 1st favourite. with Toffo - especially the one with the different flavoured ones. Ohmy......

♥ ♥ ♥

never got into sons and daughters and i kept calling it sons and lovers @self.

i liked the sullivans, though i`d left school, i think i may have been up the duff then.
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I remember that used to be on ITV at 12.30 at the same time I used go home from school for lunch. Not so much a treat but a nice memory still.
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Old 01-01-2017, 14:11
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Candy Floss .............big pink beehive of sugar !

rare treat because you only got it when the fair came to town or on day trips to the seaside.............when you get Rock as well..........which was a solid bar of sugar

Mind, we made up for it all year round with sugar butties

Crikey, we ate a lot of sugar..............
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Old 01-01-2017, 14:19
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It's drinks I remember the most

Corona fizzy drinks we had only at Christmas, came from a little shop down the road that mum saved a few pennies each week in for Christmas goodies.
Yep, fizzy drinks were a treat. Am I mis-remembering here, or could you buy bottles of Corona drinks direct from the lorry? Was there a Corona lorry that would stop on the street, just like an ice cream van?
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Old 01-01-2017, 14:24
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a Vesta ready meal..........
Yes ! Me too.

There was a hierarchy with them too - the pinnacle was the Chinese one which had flat noodles which you fried in oil until they puffed up to make crispy noodles.

Having satsumas at Christmas.

Going to the local town for the Saturday market and stopping in a the tea rooms. My special treat was having a bowl of tomato soup (I am sure it was Heinz Cream of Tomato) accompanied by little buttered squares of brown sliced bread.
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