What do you remember?

[snow]

Feb 13, 2016 15:02:51 GMT calnorth said:

Brought to you by.....Dentists! Not sure when this stuff kicked off?

I had a bag of those yesterday lol Though I prefer the Black Country ones I'm nibbling on at this very moment 

[Bluefish]

Curly Wurlys are where it's at

[digicig]

Bluefish same post office had Curly Whirly's in the fridge too - a good cheaper alternative to me Texans

[calnorth]

I used to buy this stuff by the boxes load having got paid for paper round. Then later in life they started to lift the top of my back teeth off. Gets very spendy at the dentist....them again!

[digicig]

Never was one to get up early calnorth - had the choice of getting up for 6.30 6 days a week to do a paper round in sun, rain or snow for at most £3 a week, or just pootling round the local golf course, and diving through hedges, climbing down cliffs, and dangling over mine shafts to collect golf balls for a tenner for 100! No contest really (and yes i was a junior member so was entitled to be there too!)

This happily kept me in Texan's, Curly Whirly's, Mojo's, Black Jacks and sherbert Dipdabs - and my dentist in employment

[crump]

[calnorth]

Feb 13, 2016 16:34:57 GMT digicig said:

Never was one to get up early calnorth - had the choice of getting up for 6.30 6 days a week to do a paper round in sun, rain or snow for at most £3 a week, or just pootling round the local golf course, and diving through hedges, climbing down cliffs, and dangling over mine shafts to collect golf balls for a tenner for 100! No contest really (and yes i was a junior member so was entitled to be there too!)

This happily kept me in Texan's, Curly Whirly's, Mojo's, Black Jacks and sherbert Dipdabs - and my dentist in employment

yep digicig.....I got to the point of doing morning and evening p. rounds about 3 miles apart. On the Sats a 1/2 day job in wet fish shop 5 miles away. The latter did my skin good, but I really stunk on the bus when bike was busted.

I once hopped school and wrote a letter for the teacher, copying my mums signature. School inspector at the door 3 weeks later...why was I doing paper rounds at my age. oops! Signature was good.

Fruit Gums galore!

[Get Off My Cloud]

Couple of tasty things from the late 70's early 80's

[calnorth]

digicig..since you're here at the moment. Have u been offered/experienced in a culinary way donkey - er...umm "sausage"" yet?

[digicig]

Can't say i have calnorth - but i'm kinda limited by my innate survival instinct and lack of linguistic ability - so i may have unknowingly tried it but wouldn't know it

Not to keen on the Chicken feet - taste OK but too 'fussy' for me - like a lot of Chinese food tbh. Taste great but 'filleting' would be a skill the chefs could learn, not unduly alter the flavour and increase my overall enjoyment of the food - whatever it actually is

[Raffles]

yahoo2u2 & Bob ... Yep, I had a 'Bullworker' and before that the Charles Atlas 'instructions'... never had sand kicked in my face after that, cos I never went on the beach if the 'big boys' were there.




When none of us knew any better...



plus I was never alone with...



and when I felt cool, pretending to be James Bond, and down with the boys (and girls), the American 'soft pack'...




searching for pics I even found one of Sir Stanley Matthews advertising 'Craven A' fags


Never really had a 'sweet tooth', so 'Spangles' is the only one that stands out, and also... 



where if you wanted a choice, you either opened the little blue bag of salt or you didn't, none of the ridiculous range today.

[gill2009]

  Go to the corner shop for Granda's Woodbine...I'd get one of these as a reward...sooking it, it would last all day 


                                                                 



  ETA...it was called a called Penny Dainty

[Bob]

Feb 13, 2016 16:34:57 GMT digicig said:

Never was one to get up early calnorth - had the choice of getting up for 6.30 6 days a week to do a paper round in sun, rain or snow for at most £3 a week, or just pootling round the local golf course, and diving through hedges, climbing down cliffs, and dangling over mine shafts to collect golf balls for a tenner for 100! No contest really (and yes i was a junior member so was entitled to be there too!)

This happily kept me in Texan's, Curly Whirly's, Mojo's, Black Jacks and sherbert Dipdabs - and my dentist in employment

We was posh, on my paper round we had a "links" golf course, made loads finding the balls, used to get paid the same, but in 10s not 100s, and weekends scoring for the local CC made up some more pocket money. +1 Black Jacks & Sherbert DipDabs & Tigernuts -1 for Root Liquorice, I preferred the Red one

[Bob]

Raffles Did you ever try these:



They were about twice as long as a normal ciggie and I think they were 3d each instead of 1d for a single park drive

[Bob]

Feb 13, 2016 18:05:46 GMT gill2009 said:

  Go to the corner shop for Granda's Woodbine...I'd get one of these as a reward...sooking it, it would last all day 


                                                                 



  ETA...it was called a called Penny Dainty

Yes, remember those when I visited relatives in Greenock, Dad was in the Royal Signals so we were always moving around.