Do you remember ?

[Ithoriel]

From Highlanders crisps. I believe you can actually still get those (but I think they've admitted they were just bacon flavouring). Highlandes were great crisps, any flavour.

On the porcine front, how about Swan (was it Swan?) chopped ham & pork, with the Executioner opening the tin...

The ones I had were from a small place in Cornwall and had the authenticity of the flavour attested to by a real live didakoi ... purportedly. I imagine the fledgling enterprise sank like Tawa's lead baboon

[Techno]

  NO I AM NOT NEARLY AS OLD AS TECHNO !!!!!!! 

No...You're not, Mark.....You can have that one.

Flying Saucers ?......Filled with sherbet .....Though I think I've seen those in shops that sell 'old fashioned' sweets.

OOOOH !......And how about tins of fizzy 'pop' which didn't have a handy ring pull.
(If I remember correctly.....That was one of the earliest blood letting accidents I had.....By stabbing at the top of the can with an old fashioned can opener.....I slipped, and made a right mess of my thumb !)

Things don't change....

Cheers - Phil

[Ithoriel]

Had sherbet flying saucers just before Christmas ... turns out nostalgia is flippin' expensive!!

[Orcs]

Was that the one with the polar bear shouting "Rrrrrrrrrimskikoirsikov!" ?
"

Yep and here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9fDhWEJBD0

[Wulf]

Had sherbet flying saucers just before Christmas ... turns out nostalgia is flippin' expensive!!

They're in our local pound shop, couple of dozen in a plastic box...

[Techno]

But what did they cost, when we were nippers ?.....Anyone remember ?.....I certainly can't.....Oodles for a 'thruppeny bit ?'

Cheers - Phil

[Ithoriel]

My recollection was the school "tuck shop" sold them at 6 for 1d. Being right at the school gate they had a captive market so possibly you could get them cheaper elsewhere.

[Roy]

Childhood memories... [sweets don't feature, so, now, off-topic]

2-Star Petrol.
4-Star Petrol.

Talbot Alpine car.

Bob Carolgees and Spit the Dog.
Rod Hull and Emu.
Matthew Corbett with Sooty, Sweep and Sue.

Sunday afternoon wrestling on ITV.

Being completely satisfied if I got to go out for an afternoon, on a weekend, up the Yorkshire Moors and splashing about in a very shallow stream bed, just off the side of the road. Moor grass, heather, sheep and other cars with people there too, all of us just getting on together - children playing with each other happily - until it got to around five o'clock then we all went home. 

Eagerly awaiting for the A-Team to come on the TV. Thinking Mr. T (as B.A. Baracus) was brilliant, and laughing at Mad Murdoch's antics. Loving to watch the bit were B.A. built a heavily armoured vehicle out of bits of scrap, all to the sound of the theme tune.

Harvest Festival.

[Tawa]

Cadbury's Wildlife Bars anyone?

[skywalker]

My childhood memories:

Thunderbirds being shown on TV for the first time

Action Man

Tudor Crisps

Texan Bars

Highland Toffee, sold in long strips

Alpine Pop it was sold from a van that went round the streets

OMG..............I AM OLD 

[Wulf]

Who made the shoes with the animal print soles? Clark's was it?

[Wulf]

Thunderbirds being shown on TV for the first time

3 brand new episodes will soon be available, lovingly recreated just like the original, but on DVD, using audio recordings from the original cast released at the time on vinyl. Kickstarted and made in the original studios...

[Orcs]

No ray its not off thread - just reminicing



I can remember getting very cross when I was told that my Action Man was a "Doll !!"

NO ITS NOT ITS AN ACTION MAN!!!!!!

[Steve J]

We always said white dog poo came from poodles. No idea why, we just did!

[Ithoriel]

Being completely satisfied if I got to go out for an afternoon, on a weekend, up the Yorkshire Moors and splashing about in a very shallow stream bed, just off the side of the road. Moor grass, heather, sheep and other cars with people there too, all of us just getting on together - children playing with each other happily - until it got to around five o'clock then we all went home. 

Ah yes, I remember it well! </Maurice_Chevalier>