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Opal Fruits were made to make your mouth water............well known fact !
Didn't they just change their name to something else for marketing purposes and probably declined as a result as nobody knew what they were any more Spangles were great sweets ............lots of different flavours I always imagine Danny Baker droning on for hours about spangles and snake belts.......... ![]() |
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Olive oil on my bread
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They did, they changed them to 'Starburst' for some inexplicable reason. They will always be Opal Fruits though, same as Nestle's will always rhyme with 'trestles' not be 'nes-lay' and Jif cleaner will forever be Jif not 'cif'. As I suspect is the case for 99.9% of people which makes you wonder why on earth they bothered changing them as everyone still calls them by their original name anyway
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Thanks for trying planets but they really did look like Munchies/Mintola in shape and presentation. Only difference was the colour of the packaging and the fruit centre.
Gah I hate it when I remember something and I'm the only one who does, I'm so alone in this I feel like Miles Bennell in Invasion of the body snatchers ! ( being slightly melodramatic ) |
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Sitting in the boot of my dad's Hillman Hunter estate car and waving at the drivers in the car behind.
Eating crisps in the car and reading my Famous Five books whilst dad was in the pub. Staying at my cousins' house and having a Midnight Feast. Salmon sandwiches for tea on a Sunday evening. Lunch in Littlewoods café with mum in the school holidays. |
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going to the sheep dog trials.
riding atop the straw bales on the truck, so high you had to lie flat to get under the overhead cables. the packing shed roller coaster, made from box rollers that we went down on in lettuce boxes riding the horses up to the field tackless and hatless. |
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Rose's Lime Marmalade
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the Cedar Tree?
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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 |
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I remember The Cedar Tree used to love that but we went on holiday when it was the last episode and I never got to see the end.
just for fun i googled and here it is for you!! first half second half Happy Christmas ![]() ![]()
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Fry's chocolate bars (especially the five centres).
For those of you mentioning Vesta meals Home bargains still sells them (cannot remember which varieties though). I have often thought of getting one just for that early 80's feeling of nostalgia.
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Strawberry flavored Angel Delight.........
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Strawberry flavored Angel Delight.........
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Ours was the mint flavoured one, and hot chocolate blancmange.
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We couldn't afford fish and chips in the mid 1970s so my dad used to ask for the batters left over from the fish frying and our treat was that in thick buttered bread on a Friday night, could you imagine asking for that now lol.
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When visiting "English Nan" she would make English Chips (as opposed to Frittes) with little black bits of burnt fat. We used to love those chips and on going back home would ask Mother for English Frittes
Also a +1 for Fry's English Delight and Something called "Bar 5"?? English Nan worked for Cadbury's in Birmingham and she would have these big brown bags of misshapes for us Woolworths used to do a caramac coated biscuit and I used to love those |
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A Kit-Kat (two fingered kind) or if I was really lucky an Aero.
Also, fresh milk. Mum used to always get the skimmed kind or, even worse, Marvel powdered variety so it was a real treat to have cornflakes with "proper" milk when I went to my Nan's (who understood the needs and wants of an eight year old boy) |
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Rose's Lime Marmalade
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Pringles crisps are another example for me. Dad considered them far too expensive for general purposes, but we tended to have some over the Christmas period most years, and that was a big thing for me at the time.
Also, whenever dad bought some blank videos and let me have one that was a big deal as well, as it meant I could store some of my favourite kids' tv or Formula 1 races.
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In the 1950s, we used to be provided with a bottle of milk at school mid-morning. The bottles were glass, delivered in a metal crate and sealed with a foil cap which we ceremonially pierced with a waxed paper straw. During the winter, when the cows were fed on a diet of root vegetables, the milk turned orange from the swedes. Our special treat was that on days deemed "important" by the adults, we were given orange juice instead of milk. The downside of being at school in the 1950s was that we had to play football with real footballs - leather and tied up with a lace. They were better to kick than the silly modern plastic things, but would fill with water when it rained, and then became like canon balls to kick - if the teacher couldn't see, we'd use our heel in that case...
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I loved being sick as a kid and getting the glass bottled lucozade
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I loved being sick as a kid and getting the glass bottled lucozade
![]() But forgive me I did not know that Lucozade was given to children in the 1940's - you learn something new every day Sorcha!
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So did I.
But forgive me I did not know that Lucozade was given to children in the 1940's - you learn something new every day Sorcha! ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Hedge porn
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