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Old 01-01-2017, 19:44
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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..........
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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Old 01-01-2017, 20:30
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Olive oil on my bread
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Old 01-01-2017, 20:43
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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
I bet you got your snickers in a twist about marathon bars ?
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Old 01-01-2017, 20:48
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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 )
damn! it was worth a try i hate it when i can't remember things like this....i shall keep thinking!!
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Old 01-01-2017, 22:54
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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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Old 01-01-2017, 23:06
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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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Old 01-01-2017, 23:34
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Rose's Lime Marmalade
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Old 02-01-2017, 00:14
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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.
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Old 02-01-2017, 00:19
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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
My mum used to make this 'bread and milk' and the thought of it makes me want to vomit too now.
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Old 02-01-2017, 00:37
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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.
oh nooooooo....
just for fun i googled and here it is for you!!
first half
second half

Happy Christmas
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Old 02-01-2017, 00:59
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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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Old 02-01-2017, 01:31
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Strawberry flavored Angel Delight.........
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Old 02-01-2017, 01:56
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Strawberry flavored Angel Delight.........
Ours was the mint flavoured one, and hot chocolate blancmange.
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Old 02-01-2017, 02:18
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Ours was the mint flavoured one, and hot chocolate blancmange.
Only the strawberry flavoured one will do for me.
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Old 03-01-2017, 20:46
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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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Old 03-01-2017, 22:54
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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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Old 03-01-2017, 22:59
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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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Old 03-01-2017, 23:04
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Rose's Lime Marmalade
One great thing about Amazon Pantry is that I can now order jars of the stuff and it turns up at my door in Germany in just a day or two. I love the Lemon and Lime flavour
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Old Today, 00:31
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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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