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Well I for one cannot wait to read your memoirs when you turn 50 GC
The memoirs of a 50 year-old unable to recall anything other than stuff like the colour of Zoom Lollies and the theme tune to Terrahawks?
Are you quite mad, woman?
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
Clinically insane GC
– and I have a piece of paper that says so…. (it actually says ‘permit to live in Singapore’ but they don’t fool me! ).
Anyone remember ‘skydivers’ Ok they’re crisps too (made by KP?) but they were my fav. Beef flavour.mmmmmmmmm
The finest crisps KP ever produced were ‘WigWams’…………little triangle-shaped dealies, in a nondescript ‘spicy’ flavour, as I recall.
They, along with "Rock’n’Rollers" and the family of "Bones", "Fangs" and "Claws" are sorely missed in today’s snack market. "Forty Niners" were ok, but you only ever got about seven in a packet – their inovative wheel-and-spoke configuration not nearly making up for the shocking lack of quantity.
Super Crunchies
Get your 10p piece
Get your BMX a bike
Take the corner to your local shop
And tell the man you like –
Super crunchies, ???????????????
Super crunchies, ???????????????
Super crunchies, they only cost 10p
So a bag of super crunchies is the one for me!Fortunately I don’t remember the tune or I don’t think I’d ever get it out of my head
Anyone remember ‘skydivers’ Ok they’re crisps too (made by KP?) but they were my fav. Beef flavour.mmmmmmmmm
Crikey, I’d forgotten about those completely! I favoured the salt ‘n’ vinegar variety.
Anyone remember Piglets? Baked piglet shaped crisps (quel surprise) available in a revolting bacon ‘n’ bean flavour, and foisted – exclusively, it seems – upon junior school children with challenged palates in Oldham alongside the similarly icky Potato Puffs and Toffy (sic) Pops for yonks. Small wonder I took a packed lunch.
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
Oh yeah, Toffee Popppets are luvverly. Toffy Pops, however, were sick and wrong – soggy shortcake biscuit with some very dubious, chemical-tasting toffee and chocolate layer thereupon. I’m feeling a tad nauseous simply recalling them to mind.
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
I don’t remember those GC
I am now having a nice cuppa with some Cadbury Milk Buttons – we only get these here at Christmas time (for some strange reason) so I am making myself sick eating packets of them
Highland Toffee bars, when I was going to primary school, would nearly pull your lower teeth out, but at least they lasted, as the amount of pocket money me & my pals had, would be just about enough to gather together the price of a packet of 10 Richmond, and a highland Toffee bar each.
Why Richmond, because them and Gold bond were the cheapest, but at least the Richmond lasted longer, two pulls from a Gold Bond and it is time to stub it out.
As old as the hills and still going strong. They’re great.
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/jesmona-bla … p-483.html
I remember the day sweets came off the ration. I bought 2ozs of Sherbet Lemons. Still love em.
As old as the hills and still going strong. They’re great.
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/jesmona-bla … p-483.html
I remember the day sweets came off the ration. I bought 2ozs of Lemon Sherbets..Still love em.
Welcome Cosmo. I have enjoyed reading these posts , including your last one twice
Sherbert lemons are one of my favs, they will never go out of ‘fashion.’ That website is brilliant!! Have ordered all sorts of stuff I love sherbert lemons! Not that I remember rationing or anything (well only when Ma said ‘noooooooo more’)
Stroodles were different as they were small dried apple pieces covered in chocolate and they came in an apple shaped pack made by Cadbury’s.
So now we know JTS was brought up on stroodles
and why he was different
They called him the dried apple kidflatcapgamble.. they came in an apple shaped pack
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