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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Yeah we all remember things like the Milky Bar Kid and taping the Top 40 on a Sunday night.

But what about those bits of nostalgia most people will have forgotten about?

Give us a reminder so that we all think “oh gawd, blimey, yeah I’d forgotten about that!”

For starters, who remembers Hedgehog flavoured crisps? Which, if I recall correctly, caused some controversy at the time as they didn’t actually contain any hedgehog.

What else though, Fabsters, can you pull from the distant recesses of your mind?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When all your milk and pop came in little glass bottles by a man not asda.

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By *affeine DuskMan
over a year ago

Caerphilly

'Member when we touched tips, BanDerks?

Of course you don't, you fucking tease

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

When snooker commentators had to describe the colours for those watching on black and white TV

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By *inister_SpinsterWoman
over a year ago

Manchester(ish).

When Lucozade had a cellophane wrapper.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Coconut Revels.

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By *ld StrumpetWoman
over a year ago

Telford

Telephone boxes everywhere that took 2p and 10ps. I don't even know if they do public call boxes any more let alone my nearest one.

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
over a year ago

Leeds

Lucozade was the medicine for ever illness. Unless you needed antibiotics then it was that nasty yellow stuff.

The mr

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When all your milk and pop came in little glass bottles by a man not asda. "

Plastic covers for milk bottle tops to stop the birds pecking through the foil and getting at the top layer of cream on the milk.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Little milk bottles with a straw given at School

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By *vilsluggMan
over a year ago

GH


"When all your milk and pop came in little glass bottles by a man not asda. "

Still can do by mine, plenty of milkmen (or is that milk persons nowadays) around.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"'Member when we touched tips, BanDerks?

Of course you don't, you fucking tease "

Only because of the Robypnol ..

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By *ilBWoman
over a year ago

West Midlands

"Fizzy jerks" were like crack for me as a nipper

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Penny sweets, near on impossible to get penny sweets anywhere. I mean physically paying a penny per sweet, not just buying a bag of haribo

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By *unx2019Couple
over a year ago

Moray

Pick and mix from Woolworths and those LPs used to get from there that used to have all the top 10 on them but by unknown artists

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By *odgerMooreMan
over a year ago

Nowhere


""Fizzy jerks" were like crack for me as a nipper"

Is this the same as ‘ the vinegar strokes?’

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By *itvclaireTV/TS
over a year ago

Birmingham

Chewing gum machines outside shops. Literally bolted to the wall. Even if the shop was closed you could still buy gum.

Fry's Five Centres

Phone locks. Someone I went to school with had one after he ran up a massive bill playing some phone based adventure game.

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By *odgerMooreMan
over a year ago

Nowhere


"Pick and mix from Woolworths and those LPs used to get from there that used to have all the top 10 on them but by unknown artists "

In Liverpool they were mix and Nick actually!!

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

Cigarette machines that dispensed 1 cigarette with two matches in a little tube type thingy.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A machine that you could buy single stamps from.

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By *izzy.Woman
over a year ago

Stoke area

Green shield stamps.

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By *rtyIanMan
over a year ago

Gateway to the Beacons

Go karts (bogies) pram wheels plank of wood, death traps

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Snow days!

The boilers at school couldn't cope, so used to break down and we'd get sent home!

Cue getting anything we could lay our hands on to go sledging at the local park! Anything from metal tea trays (if you were posh) to a piece of cardboard or a bin bag to speed down that hill!

It would be like a sheet of glass by midday!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Round red cards in football

The Mongoose cricket bat

Having to change channels to play on the PlayStation

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By *ffanotdykeCouple
over a year ago

Telford

When I could walk round Woolworths without constantly having some teenage mother running her battle buggy into my arse as I shuffle along.

Have Woolworths changed thier name as I cant seem to find them.

When the man at the garage came out and put the petrol in the tank.

When I didn't have to spend 75% of my time looking for public toilets.

Ah! those were the days

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet

Conductors on buses

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By *acktopervMan
over a year ago

Stourport-On-Severn

Driving into a petrol station and a man would come out of a kiosk and fill your tank up, take your money, go back to the kiosk and then bring your change.

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By *ilBWoman
over a year ago

West Midlands

I'm having to google this...is it weird? Am I gonna regret it?

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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago

Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands

Life in general before mobile phones and the internet.

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By *an hjCouple
over a year ago

Stowmarket


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Telephone boxes everywhere that took 2p and 10ps. I don't even know if they do public call boxes any more let alone my nearest one."

That's pretty modern stuff, four huge pennies, with a button A & B to push.

Proper dial too.

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By *an hjCouple
over a year ago

Stowmarket

When gallons -not litres -! went round quicker at the pumps than the price.

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By *.T.Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

1/2 penny sweets and 1/2 penny coins.

£1 notes.

Porn mags in bushes.

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By *.T.Man
over a year ago

Glasgow


"When gallons -not litres -! went round quicker at the pumps than the price."

36p a litre was deemed expensive and you chose either 4* or unleaded.

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By *oofy321Man
over a year ago

moon base zero

Cigarette vending machines outside newsagents

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By *ockyjohnMan
over a year ago

North West

5 Pints - powdered milk like Marvel.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lucky bags

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Life in general before mobile phones and the internet."

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Listening to dick Barton special agent on the radio

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Having the Friday night film broken up with the news in between it.

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By *antricSeeker60Man
over a year ago

Durham

Spin the bottle snogging game as teenager.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Anyone remember Blakeys?

Metal things you put in the soles / heels of your shoes to prolong their life from wear and tear.

Except as kids we used to put them on our shoes to create sparks when you dragged them along the road when riding your bike.

Just us? Did anyone else do that?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When my mother put a lock on the phone.

We use to tap the receiver port buttons.

Tap it three times for number three etc.

Ten times for nought.

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By *ildGroverMan
over a year ago

rathfarnham

Before M&Ms there were Treets.

One of the few 80s sweets not to make a return.

Apparently because the recipe has been lost

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By *ildGroverMan
over a year ago

rathfarnham


"Anyone remember Blakeys?

Metal things you put in the soles / heels of your shoes to prolong their life from wear and tear.

Except as kids we used to put them on our shoes to create sparks when you dragged them along the road when riding your bike.

Just us? Did anyone else do that? "

When I was a kid lads used to wear George Webb shoes and got metal toe caps or heels to do that. Weren't called Blakey's this side of the Irish sea afaik

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lime green bike handle bar grips.

And matching brake lever covers.

On cow horns.

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By *ubbles88555Woman
over a year ago

Inverness

Opal fruits

Buying tapes

Original transformers cartoon

Bucky O'hare

Bogglins

Refreshers that where full of sherbert and much bigger than they are now

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By *oofy321Man
over a year ago

moon base zero

10p mix up costing 10p

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By *ubbles88555Woman
over a year ago

Inverness


"10p mix up costing 10p"

And having 10 sweets inside

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Cigarette vending machines outside newsagents "

And in pubs n nightclubs

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"10p mix up costing 10p

And having 10 sweets inside "

You can tell you’re a young ‘un. In my day Mojo chews were 2 for 1/2p!

That’s something that will bamboozle the kids too, yes, we had a half penny coin!

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By *ubbles88555Woman
over a year ago

Inverness


"10p mix up costing 10p

And having 10 sweets inside

You can tell you’re a young ‘un. In my day Mojo chews were 2 for 1/2p!

That’s something that will bamboozle the kids too, yes, we had a half penny coin! "

I remember having a half penny when I was a kid but they weren't in circulation I don't think lol

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By *heRazorsEdgeMan
over a year ago

Wales/ All over UK

Wagon Wheels and Curly Wurlys being absolutely massive

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"10p mix up costing 10p

And having 10 sweets inside

You can tell you’re a young ‘un. In my day Mojo chews were 2 for 1/2p!

That’s something that will bamboozle the kids too, yes, we had a half penny coin!

I remember having a half penny when I was a kid but they weren't in circulation I don't think lol "

Some of us are pre decimalisation. Threepenny bits and a sixpence

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By *sleWightCoupleCouple
over a year ago

Ryde

Texan bars.

Nougat wrapped in chocolate, and great for prising out those fillings!

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By *ubbles88555Woman
over a year ago

Inverness

Highland toffees

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Old sweet shops. Where you choose weight/£ of tubs and they are decanted into paper bags.

We used to go every weekend with mum.

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By *ubbles88555Woman
over a year ago

Inverness

Cola cubes and white mice

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You could hire a pineapple.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire


"10p mix up costing 10p

And having 10 sweets inside

You can tell you’re a young ‘un. In my day Mojo chews were 2 for 1/2p!

That’s something that will bamboozle the kids too, yes, we had a half penny coin!

I remember having a half penny when I was a kid but they weren't in circulation I don't think lol "
lol I remember having threepence as my pocket money

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By *ilkstressWoman
over a year ago

Drasnia

Candy cigarettes with a pinky/reddish tip. I loved sucking the end of one into a point.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Candy cigarettes with a pinky/reddish tip. I loved sucking the end of one into a point. "

Yes and you'd go round pretending you had a real cigarette

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Green Shield stamps…..legitimate currency

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By *empusMan
over a year ago

Poole


"Cigarette machines that dispensed 1 cigarette with two matches in a little tube type thingy. "

Used to be able to buy single cigarettes from my local shop, they would just take one out of an open pack on the shelf. Think they were 20p

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cars which had a choak (can't use the actual spelling!)

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By *ilkstressWoman
over a year ago

Drasnia


"Candy cigarettes with a pinky/reddish tip. I loved sucking the end of one into a point.

Yes and you'd go round pretending you had a real cigarette "

Yep, exactly!!! I was so cool back then with a candy cig hanging off my lower lip.

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By *ancelot1633Man
over a year ago

weybridge


"When Lucozade had a cellophane wrapper. "

And golf balls

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Candy cigarettes with a pinky/reddish tip. I loved sucking the end of one into a point.

Yes and you'd go round pretending you had a real cigarette

Yep, exactly!!! I was so cool back then with a candy cig hanging off my lower lip. "

Haha. Hope you didn't inhale

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Glass Clowns and glass fish ornaments

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dial up internet… slow speeds and the risk of getting cutoff if the phone rang

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hand written letters.

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By *unx2019Couple
over a year ago

Moray

Silver sixpence pocket money and airwair boots, had to be 18 holes too. Used to go to butchers to get ox blood to soak them in so they went supple and stayed red

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

Forgetting your PE kit and having to do PE in your knickers and vest

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Top of the Pops

Woolworths

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By *Mr-Man
over a year ago

Nearby

The miniature Dairy Milk vending machine

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

I can remember CB Radio & BT phone parties before the internet was how you met girls from other areas.

The phone parties at 40per min resulted in huge bills & parents installing phone locks. I rennet my mum going nuts at a £400 bill nearly all phone party numbers. But we figured out how to hack them by tapping out numbers on the handset . 10 years later in Australia and Indonesia it seemed every backpacker was tapping pay phones to call the uk for free

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Printer paper with the holes on the side that you could rip off

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By *asycouple1971Couple
over a year ago

midlands

Little sweets vending machines outside shops that you could put 2p in twist the dial and sweet would pop out.

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By *ickeyblueeyes7Man
over a year ago

newport

National anthem being played at midnight at the end of the programs on tv. Also the test card when no programs on

Spangles

Cars jacked up on bricks

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By *ansexualPandaMan
over a year ago

Near You


"When snooker commentators had to describe the colours for those watching on black and white TV "

For those of you watching in black and white, the pink ball is next to the green.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tab cola

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By *an hjCouple
over a year ago

Stowmarket

When sport commentators didn't waffle on with rubbish all the time. Just concentrated on the event , not what happened ten years ago.

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