Memories of Childhood

(22-01-2019 19:07 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Wouldn't touch that stuff with a barge pole-which one said to resemble frogs spawn?
Incidentally I am thinking of doing a childhood thread spin off for just images -what do you think? The reason is that a lot of what I posted has probably been missed or not seen so maybe a dedicated thread spin off might be better?

Go for it. It was me who mentioned the frog spawn.....disgusting...as if putting a blob of jam in the middle would make it more palatable....ugh.

Sorry that should have read "which one was said to resemble frogspawn?"
I liked your piece about things we could do back then-you could say we LIVED unlike today's kids who have it all but don't know what to do with it!

(22-01-2019 19:13 )Carl_HoneyLover Wrote:  

(22-01-2019 19:07 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Wouldn't touch that stuff with a barge pole-which one said to resemble frogs spawn?
Incidentally I am thinking of doing a childhood thread spin off for just images -what do you think? The reason is that a lot of what I posted has probably been missed or not seen so maybe a dedicated thread spin off might be better?

Go for it. It was me who mentioned the frog spawn.....disgusting...as if putting a blob of jam in the middle would make it more palatable....ugh.

Totally agree mate go for it!! The mods might even create a sub forum called the Forum memory bank just for this stuff!!
These are way too precious to be allowed to just disappear - they need to be preserved forever...

(22-01-2019 19:20 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Sorry that should have read "which one was said to resemble frogspawn?"
I liked your piece about things we could do back then-you could say we LIVED unlike today's kids who have it all but don't know what to do with it!

That was the hideous sago...just reading the very word brings it all back...

i don't know what was worse - semolina or suet!! i was never keen on bread and butter pudding either!! or spotted dick when i think about it

I know what was worse sweets and drinks wise we had as kids:
Fresca(it's frothy man!), TAB(fizzy lemonade) and Top Deck Shandy-full of sugar.
Sweets we had: Supermousse-a poor man's version of Milky War, Pink Panther bar(pink naturally) Icebreaker-mint,

Texan bar("bite through the milk chocolate and chew real slow. Everybody knows a Texan bar takes a time to chewin' TEXAN, sure is a mighty chew!")

A friend of mine and myself went off on a binge one day eating god knows what, chocolate, crisps, sweets and then also had some Fresca which was pretty ghastly-that evening we were both violently sick-we never did that combination again!

Others Double Agents-awful fruit combination sweets but the wrapper had secret codes on them, Fry's Five centres chocolate bar(5 different flavours-lemon, lime, strawberry, mint and one other that escapes me) Ice cream like Funny Faces, Funny Feet, SkyRay(3 flavoured lolly), Callyppo-like a giant ice pop, Pink Elephants-now these were like ordinary choc ices but had strawberry ice cream in them-and NO-ONE seems to remember them!!

If I said Grondar, grondar, rangdo would you know what I was referring to?
No well perhaps you didn't watch this great show for the family called The Adventure Game which was on BBC2.
It was a series of alien characters that would take human form and guide three refugee 'visitors' to their planet Arg through a series of fiendishly difficult puzzles to solve. If you made it to the end you went on a leaderboard. In later series they introduced an invisible vortex game and if it hit you, you were sent out into space! If you won, you got to return home. Believe it or not in the first series one of the creatures was played by newsreader Moira Stuart. Incase you've not realised names like Gnoard and Rangdo were all anagrams of the word DRAGON.

Rowntree's Nutty Bars...loved them. Smiths Crisps and I seem to recall a fizzy drink called Top Deck. Think it was Lemonade Shandy...felt so risky drinking that as an 8 year old knowing that it has beer in it!

Certainly was lemonade shandy- Smith's crisps, Salt n Shake and Golden Wonder were the market leader. Corona fizzy drinks bottles could be returned to the shop and they gave you money back-recycling even back then. I had someone at school going around shouting NUTTY! but of course there was WISPA, DOUBLE DECKER(later removing the sultanas), STAR BAR mentioned somewhere and After Eight Mints-a great favourite at Christmas still in our house.

Did you ever have that perry stuff BABYCHAM? We had it every Christmas, probably the only alcohol I had, but my sister had the eggnog stuff they did.

(22-01-2019 21:32 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Certainly was lemonade shandy- Smith's crisps, Salt n Shake and Golden Wonder were the market leader. Corona fizzy drinks bottles could be returned to the shop and they gave you money back-recycling even back then. I had someone at school going around shouting NUTTY! but of course there was WISPA, DOUBLE DECKER(later removing the sultanas), STAR BAR mentioned somewhere and After Eight Mints-a great favourite at Christmas still in our house.

Did you ever have that perry stuff BABYCHAM? We had it every Christmas, probably the only alcohol I had, but my sister had the eggnog stuff they did.

Oh yeah Babycham always suddenly appeared in our house during the run up to Christmas along with another drink which came in small bottles called Snowball. I was allowed to try one on Christmas Eve 1976 so I’d havd been 11 years old.

YUK....hated it the moment it hit my taste buds.

Talking of Christmas, another regular feature would be the Terry’s Chocolate Orange which in those days were bigger than what you see today. Silly arse decided one year to eat the whole thing in one session...sick as a dog afterwards...