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Any one remeber the great Zoom ice-lolly of the seventies by Lyons Maid? Or how about the Strawberry and Vanilla ice-lolly caled Fab. Remember Jubilee lollies or the Space 1999 ones? If you were a boy and you wanted to be a man, then you would opt for the Cider Quench a real mans ice-lolly, ...
For those that grew up in the UK and Ireland a strange change took place in every kids lunch box in the late eighties and early nineties. The Marathon bar was renamed to Snickers. Why Snickers? Why would anyone choose a name that rhymed with knickers? Apparently it was named after a horse owned by a ...
Back in the seventies 1975 be be factual, amongst the well known sweets like drumsticks, gobstoppers and rhubarb and custard one pence chews a new amazing sweet or candy was released upon all school kids - Space Dust. This stuff was something quite different as it changed colour while it explodes on your tongue. The ...
Collecting match box labels was another hobby in the seventies. I Don't know why, but I had a phase as a kid of a bizarre need to collect match boxes. Most kids would be keener on what you could do with the matches - not me. It seems that the fact that there were so ...
Talk about politaclly and morrally incorrect. In the 70s if you could teach kids the wrongness of smoking from an early age, then rot their teeth at the same time! today they are known as candy sticks, which keeps everyone happy and means the red tip is no longer needed on the end of the ...
In the '90s there was a movement within America that equated clarity with purity. Pepsi decided to jump on this trend and create a colorless decaffeinated soda. Pepsi hoped that people would notice a colorless soda above other darker sodas and think that it's more pure due to it's colorless appearance and assume it would ...
Remember Sherbet Fountains? In all the years i had Sherbet Fountains, i don't think i ever once managed to use the liquorice straw as a straw. Every Friday as a treat from our nan, we were given crisps, a penguin and a Sherbet Fountains. What a treat. Basically it is sherbet powder in a yellow paper cylinder ...
Soccer cards came in all forms over the years but as we are looking and a more nostalgic point of view then I'm afraid we won't be discussing Pannini stickers and Match Attax today. That's another days blog. Today we are talking older Topp's cards and Football A&BC Gum cards - they were the ones that ...
Liptons Supermarkets seemed to rise and fall overnight. During the Gateway, Spar, Somerfields and Safeways growth in towns and villages Liptons Supermarket came and then went. Yet it has a good backbone as it was created at the end of the 19th century by Sir Thomas Lipton in Glasgow, Scotland. His enterprise soon flourished and ...
Water beakers made the water taste horrible!. There were always just one or two special gold beakers that every kid squabbled over and the rest were stuck with metallic blue or red. In those days 8 sat at a square table and the chairs were so small, (I guess that's because we were that small) two ...
