Seeing the ancient advert for Foxes Glacier Mints made me think of other things and adverts from my younger days.

Cresta fizzy Drinks
Texan Bar
Sweet Tabaco made from strings of coconut.
Proper Sherbert fountains - made of cardboard with a Liquorice tube (its now a straw)


What else can you lot remember.

The rest of my family watching all six hours of TV every evening because it had just been introduced.
The "road to Damascus" experience of first tasting a Cote d'Or praline chocolate.
The first topless scene I saw on a South African cinema screen.

(And sherbert fountains too. Damn it, the liquorice straw was the best part!)

My name....Sometimes.

Cadbury's choccy bars at 1d, 2d, 3d and 6d (For those of you too young...or not from the UK......1d is one 'old pence'.....There were 240 0f those to the pound...£1)

Sweet cigarettes ......Bet those don't exist anymore.

Fruit salad sweets, at a farthing....(There were 4 farthings to an old penny.)....(There were 'Black Jacks' at the same price.....But I can't STAND liquorice.....And I can't spell it either.)

Oat Crunchies.....(I loved them .......But apparently there was too much salt in those, to be healthy, nowadays)

Coca Cola in glass bottles.

Vinyl 7 inch singles at 6/8......A third of an old 240d £1.
Petrol at the same price....Per GALLON.

I could go on forever. 

Cheers - Phil

Hmmm, also the terror of hearing the drill starting up while in the dentist's chair; even in this age of efficient anaesthetics, the fear hasn't quite left me.
Wooden escalators.
People smoking in cinemas and restaurants.
Racially divided 'busses.
Being hit by teachers.
Having a concert interrupted for the MC to announce that the Apollo 13 crew had landed safely.

There seems to be a bit of a resurgence of those 'old style' sweets. I know of one shop in Rye, another in Canterbury and also at the Black Country Museum in Dudley. They stock sherbert dips, salad and liquorice chews, coconut tobacco and a whole host of others that it's difficult to choose. I loved them all.

I also remember being able to buy a piece of liquorice wood to chew for 2d but I think they had to withdraw it because the soggy fibres were a choking hazard.

Clackers -those bl**dy balls on pieces of string that used to send loads of kids to the local  A & E with bruised or broken wrists.

My all time favourite toy that I never got...A JOHNNY SEVEN multi-weapon toy! (Now I am making myself feel as old as Techno!) 

Apologies, But... White dog poo. [that's excrement that was white in colour, for those who never saw that stuff - I won't post a picture]

Magazines with the number of copies sold / average circulation stats printed for readers to see.

The Sun's Page 3 Girls. Tabloid newspaper that featured a woman showing her breasts, on page 3 of the paper - hence the name. [not that we got The Sun - The Northern Echo used to make the odd appearance, and we now get passed on to us a copy of the Darlington and Stockton Times (North Yorkshire version).

I know the bar staff in my local don't remember the Cresta ad - "Its Frothy Man", quoted when the beer has ab excessive head.

IanS

White dog poo !

Whether it's true, or an urban myth......

But I've 'heard' that you don't see that anymore, because dogs don't chew on as many knuckle bones....shin bones...whatever.
It was the calcium (?) in those, which turns the 'poo' white....Once it's been lying around for a while.

Quote from: Subedai on 18 February 2016, 11:56:38 AM

(Now I am making myself feel as old as Techno!) 

GO AWAY ! 

Cheers - Al Beback.

Quote from: Techno on 18 February 2016, 11:25:14 AM
Fruit salad sweets, at a farthing....(There were 4 farthings to an old penny.)....(There were 'Black Jacks' at the same price.....But I can't STAND liquorice.....And I can't spell it either.)

Cheers - Phil

Unfortunately I can remember Fruit Salad sweets and Black Jacks at a farthing each .  NO I AM NOT NEARLY AS OLD AS TECHNO !!!!!!!   You can still get both in Asda. 39p a pack or 5 for £1 (not sure they are very good at maths in Asda)

Buying 2 ounces of sweets from the jar
Pyramint

Quote from: ianrs54 on 18 February 2016, 12:23:34 PM
I know the bar staff in my local don't remember the Cresta ad - "Its Frothy Man", quoted when the beer has ab excessive head.

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

"I cannae get the matches to light"

more recently "No man is an island... unless his name is Madagascar"

White dog poo definitely existed in the 50s and 60s. Five Boys chocolate bar - it was my favourite, but not been around since the 60s. Opal Fruits will always be Opal Fruits and another of my favourites is Marathon. Coconut Ice - where did that go? The Mivvi ice lolly; the flat fronted post office van with the sliding doors and Muffin the Mule and Mr.Turnip Head on Whirligig - all gone!

Pretty much all of the above plus Chlorophyll chewing gum (it was green), Hedgehog flavoured crisps (suitable for vegetarians so possibly not much real hedgehog in there!) and toys in cereal packets.

I did like liquorice root, used to buy it from the grocers near my primary school.

At secondary school I discovered a passion for Japanese dried seaweed sheets and ate them as a snack. I was forbidden to take them in to exam rooms as it might put off other candidates.

Quote from: Subedai on 18 February 2016, 11:56:38 AM
There seems to be a bit of a resurgence of those 'old style' sweets. I know of one shop in Rye, another in Canterbury and also at the Black Country Museum in Dudley.

Try searching online, you'll find every sweet you ever heard of from a dozen sweet shops...

Quote from: Ithoriel on 18 February 2016, 01:52:18 PM
Hedgehog flavoured crisps (suitable for vegetarians so possibly not much real hedgehog in there!)

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...

Quote from: Wulf on 18 February 2016, 01:41:01 PM
Was that the one with the polar bear shouting "Rrrrrrrrrimskikoirsikov!" ?

That's the beast, in shades.....

IanS