Whatever happened to.....

[R.E.T.N.U.B]

Choice of crisps. When I was a kid you had a load of brands in the shop like KP, smiths, seabrook, walkers, phi leas fogg, and then a load of cheap but sometimes nice ones. Now everybody has been bought out by walkers and there is no variety in flavours. You'd get 5 different cheese and onion crisps, all of which were quite different tasting and had varying amounts of flavour, but now cheese and onion is just cheese and onion, a uniform flavour because it's the same stuff from the same manufacturer but shaped differently and packaged differently to create the illusion of choice.

When I was a kid you had one feckin brand and one feckin flavour, Smiths with a blue bag of salt !

 

[R.E.T.N.U.B]

What happened to;
All the Yates Wine Lodges , The Charlotte St one
The Mardi
The Beachcomber
The Pink Parrot and all the other even dodgier ones
My Youth
The Empire
O'connors
The Pep.
The Royal Tiger
The Croc
The Somali Social Club
The Noahs Ark
The Peg
The Dove

Pubs in general
Pubs with Bowling greens
Public Transport ( buses/trains ) that was there when you needed it and didn't disappear at 5.00 Christmas eve or new years eve.

The Hotsy Totsy club ?

 

[peteblue]

.....all the sherbet in flying saucers.......

 

[malfosse]

Really though, WHAT?

Rag and bone men that give you goldfish? You on glue mate?

They used to give you Goldfish or baloons for any scrap, clothes etc you took to them. Kids used to take all their parents pots pans old clothes.

 

[heatmeiser]

They used to give you Goldfish or baloons for any scrap, clothes etc you took to them. Kids used to take all their parents pots pans old clothes.

 

[malfosse]

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue464/rag-bone_man.html

 

[malfosse]

Our parents weren't too pleased haha

 

[The Esk]

What ever happened, seriously what did happen to the 2 Sq. clocks in the corners, binned by the Philistines in charge no doubt... would've loved one of those, don't know where I would put it but i want one.

The Littlewoods clocks? Apparently the club still has them although they are in a pretty bad state of repair........

 

[mrb85]

Spanish Gold.

 

[mrb85]

Green cream soda from the lemonade man, getting the bottle back to your nan's and then your grandad putting a scoop of ice cream in a glass of it....

Magic.

 

[tonyhorne]

whatever happened to free stuff in your crisps?

And in brekky cereals. Surprisingly good quality plastic figures as I remember........

 

[R.E.T.N.U.B]

Am sure it has already been mentioned and possibly has its own thread but just in case.... White dog poo ! Not the dark brown slushy stuff they dump nowadays !

 

[mrb85]

Leather ballaclavas.
Open milk floats.
Garden fences disappearing on November 4th.
Immigration controls.
Scouse Kopites.
Sober females.

 

[mrb85]

-Water being standard at a restaurant

and a bread roll.

 

[mrb85]

Brawn from the butchers.
Used to love it melted over my chips

Needed it to be very thin slices though. You can still buy brawn but its always thick stuff.