Things you have not had for years excluding sex
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I thougt that yanks were realistic and pragmatic not major wishful thinkers
Wishful thinking is asking the legislature for a raise!
PFGEN
GCM
It's back! And it's now called Krakatoa foam.
See Krakatoa Foam, the new Creamola foam! By Scottish Retro Sweets
Glaswegian junkies are snorting this stuff so get it while there's some left.
Iron Brew flavoured Creamola foam, I'm having some of that. Lot of childhood memories on that site; mint cracknel, Coulter's candy, Berwick cockles and Oddfellows. Time to bang in an order.
Chalkythedog
War Hero
Thanks.
A signaller
LE
I would not know the difference, as I only remember having one kind, and I don't know what one it was ,sweet or otherwise!
vvaannmmaann
LE
Marks and Spencer’s and Waitrose do them.But not all stores carry them.
Condottiere
LE
Golders Green / Temple Fortune deffo do!
Provost
LE
I can remember when Wall's/Lyons Maid ice cream could be bought paper wrapped in small block and cylinder shapes. The cylinder shaped ones could be put in a cone made to its shape or an oblong shaped cone for the small blocks (if that makes sense). Alternatively, the small blocks could be placed between two flat wafers (called a slider).
There used to be large papier mache versions of the cones stood outside sweet shops.
This must have been before Cornettos and before soft serve ice cream from machines became popular. (I understand that the then young food chemist, Margaret Thatcher had a hand in squirty ice cream).
In addition to Walls and Lyons Maid, you could get El Dorado, Neilson's and Midland Counties (all also owned by J. Lyons) ice cream, although these were not so universally available and the names eventually disappeared.
There used to be large papier mache versions of the cones stood outside sweet shops.
This must have been before Cornettos and before soft serve ice cream from machines became popular. (I understand that the then young food chemist, Margaret Thatcher had a hand in squirty ice cream).
In addition to Walls and Lyons Maid, you could get El Dorado, Neilson's and Midland Counties (all also owned by J. Lyons) ice cream, although these were not so universally available and the names eventually disappeared.
Heroin.
vvaannmmaann
LE
Sodium Thiopental. Or the "Good stuff" as my Doc calls it.
Wightsparker
LE
Certainly remember the paper-wrapped ice creams. You could get them in Woolworths, as well as the garishly-coloured fizzy drinks which you drank through a waxed straw.
I thought Lyons was the ice cream manufacturer and Lyons Maid was a type of ice lolly?
TamH70
MIA
That may have been the case originally, but I'm pretty sure that Lyons Maid spread out to be the name of the whole brand.
Wikipedia sort of agrees with me, I think.
Lyons Maid - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Provost
LE
It's what we used to obtain confessions from suspects, until someone decided that the same result could be obtained at a fraction of the cost by simply beating the crap out of prisoners.
Wightsparker
LE
That may have been the case originally, but I'm pretty sure that Lyons Maid spread out to be the name of the whole brand.
Wikipedia sort of agrees with me, I think.
Lyons Maid - Wikipedia
Yes, a check online shows that my memory was faulty! Apologies to those whose little grey cells are working properly!
Another thought about lollipops; didn't someone make lollies connected with the Dan Dare series? I seem to remember a bright green Mekon lolly!
You'll be yearning for a Tonibell Miniball next.
Provost
LE
That was another brand acquired by J. Lyons & Co. They started off as an Italian mum and dad outfit in Burnt Oak NW9 (in a shop very near to where Tesco started out).
(To all you budding entrepreneurs out there, get a shop in Burnt Oak.)
Bodenplatte
LE
Pobs.
Did anybody else have pobs ?
Sliced white bread buttered, then cut into cubes, place in bowl, sprinkle with sugar, then pour hot milk over.
Did anybody else have pobs ?
Sliced white bread buttered, then cut into cubes, place in bowl, sprinkle with sugar, then pour hot milk over.
Condottiere
LE
Growing up in a Polish household (in London in the sixties/seventies) your standard, anaemic, factory-produced, square cross-section, sliced white was not actually recognised as real bread when I was a kid.
It was only rendered palatable by toasting.
Edited to add: However there was a pretty amazing Greek Cypriot bakery not far away and their large round crusty white loaves (sometimes with sesame seeds embedded in the crust) were amazing. Haven't had one of them for ages.
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Provost
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I can smell the poverty from here.
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