FabSwingers.com forum: Things we bought in the 80/90s we cant buy anymore

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

Bit different this one....

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

Keypers. I had a snail one. I loved her.

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

Can think of lots of think we can buy but now they're miniature. Mars bars, Wham's, curly wurlys.

Used to be able to buy tab cola, virgin cola, can of quatro.

Salt n vinegar puffs.

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

Spira choc

Vice versa chocs

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

"Can think of lots of think we can buy but now they're miniature. Mars bars, Wham's, curly wurlys.

Used to be able to buy tab cola, virgin cola, can of quatro.

Salt n vinegar puffs.

A lot of the old sweets etc are back in the shops.

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

"Can think of lots of think we can buy but now they're miniature. Mars bars, Wham's, curly wurlys.

Used to be able to buy tab cola, virgin cola, can of quatro.

Salt n vinegar puffs.

A lot of the old sweets etc are back in the shops. "

They're back but a fraction of the size!

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

Fat wagon wheels

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

Uniteds

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

Cassette players

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

"Cassette players"

& eight track

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

Virgin vodka

Thunder bird

Decent 501’s

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

Neon clothes and leg warmers

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

"Can think of lots of think we can buy but now they're miniature. Mars bars, Wham's, curly wurlys.

Used to be able to buy tab cola, virgin cola, can of quatro.

Salt n vinegar puffs.

A lot of the old sweets etc are back in the shops.

They're back but a fraction of the size! "

Yeah! I thought my hands where just bigger now, but yeah they are smaller!

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

A pack of fags for under a fiver

Phone cards

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

"A pack of fags for under a fiver

Phone cards

I know loads of shops you can get a pack of fags for under a fiver. They're under the counter too

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

Melody maker

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

Global Hypercolour T-shirts

Ring Raiders

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

Those fake ray ban shades with day glo sides.

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By *ty31Man
over a year ago

NW London

Lads Mags

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

Zubaz pants

My god they were so fucking offensive

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

Smash Hits Magazine

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

"Can think of lots of think we can buy but now they're miniature. Mars bars, Wham's, curly wurlys.

Used to be able to buy tab cola, virgin cola, can of quatro.

Salt n vinegar puffs.

Curly Wurly's are still available. I had one the other day.

How about the half pence piece?

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By *ob_2017Man
over a year ago

the last place you look

The Marathon bar. Snickers were never the same once they changed the name.

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

funk records from the soviet union ... i sh*t ye not

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

....things with a cheque

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

"Can think of lots of think we can buy but now they're miniature. Mars bars, Wham's, curly wurlys.

Used to be able to buy tab cola, virgin cola, can of quatro.

Salt n vinegar puffs.

Curly Wurly's are still available. I had one the other day.

How about the half pence piece?"

Pound note

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

Betamax tapes

Sinclair C5

Talbot horizon

18-30’s holidays

Disco belts

Black n white tvs

Any mortgage from Abbey National

A Brand new Rover made in Britain

Mini metro

Music centres

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

7" singles

, Oh how I miss Saturdays with my mates in the record shops. Happy Times

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

"7" singles

, Oh how I miss Saturdays with my mates in the record shops. Happy Times

I used to collect all the flyers for raves. Fantasia. Obsession. Dreamscape etc. Still had them up until about 5 years ago.

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

"7" singles

, Oh how I miss Saturdays with my mates in the record shops. Happy Times

I used to collect all the flyers for raves. Fantasia. Obsession. Dreamscape etc. Still had them up until about 5 years ago."

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By *htcMan
over a year ago

Virgin cola

Drinks which had little eatable balls inside

Zap ice lollys

The main one is stuff actually made in Britain

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

Milk from the milk man.

Video cassettes

Half penny sweets

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

"Milk from the milk man.

Video cassettes

Half penny sweets "

Ah well. You can still but half penny sweet it's just they're 5p now.

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

Decent Doc martens

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

"Decent Doc martens "

I've got some oxeblood 8hole docs,only 5 year old £200 fucking hell !!

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By *tace 309TV/TS
over a year ago

durham

"Can think of lots of think we can buy but now they're miniature. Mars bars, Wham's, curly wurlys.

Used to be able to buy tab cola, virgin cola, can of quatro.

Salt n vinegar puffs.

A lot of the old sweets etc are back in the shops.

They're back but a fraction of the size! "
apparently its called shrinkflation

Eg .the yard of Jaffa,cakes is now only 28 inches long ( has now got 40 Jaffa,cakes in it compared to last years,48). These manufacturers are having a laugh at our expense .

Next year it will probably be only 24_inches .I think someone needs,to go back to school to see what a yard is actually . another is the topic bar( used to claim a hazelnut in every bite,)...now its find the hazelnut

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

"Fat wagon wheels "

There was a documentary on the other week that dispelled that much.

Apparently the size has never changed!! Maybe it was just us, being smaller?

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

"Decent Doc martens

I've got some oxeblood 8hole docs,only 5 year old £200 fucking hell !!"

Yep. But the made in England in the old lasts line went bump. And they were sturdier in the day

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

Moor menthol cigarettes (the long thin brown ones). They were the height of cool at one point where I used to live.

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

Ninja Death Stars and those butterfly knives

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

Those little Sony TVs

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

Sandwich spread, though I think they recently re-release it under another name.

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

"Sandwich spread, though I think they recently re-release it under another name. "

I e brought the ones in jars for years. I usually put it on toast though or French bread.

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

"Ninja Death Stars and those butterfly knives

We used to make our own with 3 Stanley blades and superglue

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

Time cycling shoes

Triludan forte, hayfever remedy that actually worked for me.

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

Oukley pilot sunglasses

WWP Razorback paintball gun spares.

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

"Keypers. I had a snail one. I loved her. "

My eldest daughter had the snail one.

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

Two tone trousers.

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

Decent 501’s

Good one, what the hell has happened to them?

A to Z map books. Well you probably still can get hold of them but really, what's the point?

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By *alking HeadMan
over a year ago

Bolton

"Milk from the milk man.

Video cassettes

Half penny sweets "

We get our milk delivered.

Charity shops usually have shelves full of video cassettes.

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

Decent 501’s

Good one, what the hell has happened to them?

A to Z map books. Well you probably still can get hold of them but really, what's the point?

Just in case you're driving somewhere with no phone signal or twatnav signal.

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By *alking HeadMan
over a year ago

Bolton

"Ninja Death Stars and those butterfly knives

We used to make our own with 3 Stanley blades and superglue

I made mine from 2.5mm plate steel. I would spend all day cutting them, then filing the edges so they were razor sharp. My dad wondered where his steel kept going. Summer holidays were great! We used to make chinese arrows and giant longbows as well. The longbows were over 6 feet and you had to lie on your back put your feet up and the bow would go across your feet. We never once "took anyones eye out"!

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

"Two tone trousers."
Youth identities. Sounds funny at first but everyone looks the same today pretty much. Youth culture has become a slave to the likes of Nike or Adidas. In the late 70's and 80's we dressed in a display of who or what movement we wanted to follow. We had an identity.

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By *laymates7Woman
over a year ago

Isle of Wight

"Moor menthol cigarettes (the long thin brown ones). They were the height of cool at one point where I used to live. "

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

Those global hyper technicolour t shirts (is that what they were called?) that changed colour with your body heat

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By *laymates7Woman
over a year ago

Isle of Wight

"Sandwich spread, though I think they recently re-release it under another name.

I e brought the ones in jars for years. I usually put it on toast though or French bread. "

You can still buy it. I have some in my fridge now. Yum

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

Here's one...Aids slimming low calorie chocolates, remember them?

Stopped production pretty much overnight in the early to mid 80's.

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By *uscious_lips30Woman
over a year ago

gloucestershire

"Keypers. I had a snail one. I loved her. "

I had the pony one, I’ve still got it

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By *arlomaleMan
over a year ago

darlington

Kappa tracksuits and troop trainers

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By *ormerWelshcouple2020Man
over a year ago

Stourbridge

Kaolin and Morphine

100 paracetamol

Colt 45

Breaker

Ansells Mild

Banks Mild

M&B Springfield Bitter

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

hedgehog crisps

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

Spangles

.. I loved spangles

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By *eady and Willing 9Man
over a year ago

Wherever the party is @

Single ciggerettes

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

leaded fuel

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By *VxrMan
over a year ago

Newton le Willows

"Those global hyper technicolour t shirts (is that what they were called?) that changed colour with your body heat "

Completely forgot about these. I was never allowed one as they were too expensive lol

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By *uit and bootsMan
over a year ago

Manchester

"Spangles

.. I loved spangles"

Hear hear

And Quatro the drink, amazing

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

"Spangles

.. I loved spangles"

Especially the milky coloured one

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By *rat32Couple
over a year ago

North Notts

The beano/dandy

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By *kmale201633Man
over a year ago

Southampton

Twisted Levi jeans...baggy...damn I was cool! (Couldn't have been less)

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By *oftandGentle2Couple
over a year ago

leeds

Spangles sweets.

Puffs crisps

Milky Way (that’s not white inside)

1/2 pence sweets

(A can of pop, bar of choc and packet of crisps and STILL have change from a £1)

Yup!!! All good related! Lol

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

Eclipse clothing, for some reason it was the absolute height of fashion at my school from '94 to around '96. It was jeans, jackets and sweatshirts, mostly black with cartoon like pictures of druggies embroidered on.

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

"Bit different this one...."
A snickers with its proper name. A 5p Fredo. I’m too young to name anything else, and too tired to think about it

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

"Zubaz pants

My god they were so fucking offensive

FYI you can still buy these. They’re massively popular still in the states

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

Opal fruits, never sure what the name change was all about. Naf Co 54 coats were all the rage at my school but I never had one

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By *VxrMan
over a year ago

Newton le Willows

"Eclipse clothing, for some reason it was the absolute height of fashion at my school from '94 to around '96. It was jeans, jackets and sweatshirts, mostly black with cartoon like pictures of druggies embroidered on."

Ha, same at mine along with spliffy jeans

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By *illy2018TV/TS
over a year ago

Birmingham

Police officers.I blame Internet banking.

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

Reasonably priced fuel

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

Jazz aftershave.

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

Ha, same at mine along with spliffy jeans "

I remember Spliffy but anyone who wore it got ripped at my school as it was seen as knock off Eclipse by the popular crowd

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

"Reasonably priced fuel "
reasonably priced insurance

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

Ha, same at mine along with spliffy jeans

I remember Spliffy but anyone who wore it got ripped at my school as it was seen as knock off Eclipse by the popular crowd"

Don't see kappa much either too

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over a year ago

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

Ha, same at mine along with spliffy jeans

I remember Spliffy but anyone who wore it got ripped at my school as it was seen as knock off Eclipse by the popular crowd

Don't see kappa much either too"

It's come back with a vengeance, ever since Justin Beiber did that "Sorry" video a few years back I've seen a massive resurgence of girls wearing kappa and 90's style Adidas

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

Marathon choc bar opal fruits vhs

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By *edangel_2013Woman
over a year ago

southend

"Milk from the milk man.

Video cassettes

Half penny sweets "

Milk man still delivers our milk. In glass bottles too.

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

Tab Clear cola

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By *oman wantedCouple
over a year ago

Cheshire/Liverpool/Manchester

Secret bars

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

M&S did a choc bar that was like a combination of a mars bar and a bounty with glacé cherry pieces in it too - I can’t remember what it was called but it was fantastic and I wish they still made them

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

"7" singles

, Oh how I miss Saturdays with my mates in the record shops. Happy Times

Oh yes

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

Shell suits

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

Single cigarettes x

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By *entleman JayMan
over a year ago

Wakefield

Betamax video players!

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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago

the right frame of mind -London

TDK C60 cassettes

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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago

harrow

Rootbeer from Mac Donald’s

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By *agermeisterMan
over a year ago

Leeds

A Lambretta with an MOT for £300

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By *ifty grades of shadyCouple
over a year ago

Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight

"TDK C60 cassettes"
Used to use C46 ones, a good many albums fit on those without to much blank space at the ends. Still can get them though thanks to the internet.

Concert tickets from Record stores, for less than a tenner too. No booking fees either.

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

Happiness. That might just be because I'm older and wiser now

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

Taz bars, I know they are fredos now but Taz was so much cooler lol o and touch down bars!! I like my chocolate just incase you didn’t realise haha

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By *agermeisterMan
over a year ago

Leeds

Mansfield Bitter brewed in Mansfield

Confectionery by Terry's, Rowntree Mackintosh, Trebor, Maynards, Bassetts and Frys made in the UK

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By *r.BlondeMan
over a year ago

Chester/Wirral

"Taz bars, I know they are fredos now but Taz was so much cooler "
OMG I loved Taz bars

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

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

"Taz bars, I know they are fredos now but Taz was so much cooler

OMG I loved Taz bars

They are fredos to be fair lol

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By *punkyMcFuckKnuckleMan
over a year ago

Glasvegas/Kilmarnock

Nestle secret bars, Cadbury spiras and golden cup bars. F you modern life!

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

Puff crisps, God I loved them

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

"Puff crisps, God I loved them"
can't you still get them

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By *r.BlondeMan
over a year ago

Chester/Wirral

"Taz bars, I know they are fredos now but Taz was so much cooler

OMG I loved Taz bars

They are fredos to be fair lol"
Yeah but like you say the nostalgia wouldn't be the same. Taz is just cooler!

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By *ucyandjonCouple
over a year ago

Corby

cabanna bars. and oh ive still got a working 8 track player and tapes

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

Does anyone else remember tab clear

Also tubes crisps

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

"Does anyone else remember tab clear

Also tubes crisps"

Tab? In the clear plastic can?

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

I think it was in a clear can it was a clear cola drink

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

Those stupid bracelet/cuff things that were like a straight rigid piece of material and you slapped it over your wrist to make it go round.

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

Anyone else remember those trolls they were about 5 or 6 inches tall with long bright hair

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

"Anyone else remember those trolls they were about 5 or 6 inches tall with long bright hair"

For some reason you still see those hanging off the bottom of some people's cars

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By *tace 309TV/TS
over a year ago

durham

Value for money

Not a hope in hell these days,

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

"Anyone else remember those trolls they were about 5 or 6 inches tall with long bright hair

For some reason you still see those hanging off the bottom of some people's cars

"
perhaps they are trying to relive their youth

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

"A pack of fags for under a fiver

Phone cards

Forgotten about BT phone cards, people used to collect them!

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

More to the point a phone box that actually has a coin telephone in it

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

"Puff crisps, God I loved themcan't you still get them "

I think the factory that made them burned down in the early 90s. If you see them let me know. I'll buy them in bulk lol

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

Cigarette coupons. My pals mum kitted out her whole kitchen because of them x

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By *est Wales WifeCouple
over a year ago

Near Carmarthen

An average house for £22k

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By *ifty grades of shadyCouple
over a year ago

Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight

Cresta, it's frothy man...

Watneys party seven beer

Double diamond ale.

Grifter bikes

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

Lawn Darts

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By *orksRockerMan
over a year ago

Bradford

Quatro

And an audi quatro too..

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

How do you bump threads?

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By *VxrMan
over a year ago

Newton le Willows

Those jeans with red & green patches on the backside. Either from the local market or Stolen from Ivor

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

Game cartridges, obviously you can still play the games through emulators or buy second hand consoles and cartridges, but you can't buy new ones! Remember blowing in them to make them work?

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

Gollywogs

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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago

harrow

"Game cartridges, obviously you can still play the games through emulators or buy second hand consoles and cartridges, but you can't buy new ones! Remember blowing in them to make them work? "

Try playing games on cassette tape

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

"Game cartridges, obviously you can still play the games through emulators or buy second hand consoles and cartridges, but you can't buy new ones! Remember blowing in them to make them work?

Try playing games on cassette tape "

I remember those too, playing Sabre Wulf on a ZX spectrum and Strykers Run on a BBC Acornsoft

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

Don’t know if you guys had them over here? but “TimTam” chocolate biscuits were UNREAL!!!

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

10 fags 99p bensons as well omg time machine please

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

A house

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

A brand new Ford Capri or Cortina

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

Does the Christmas Lorry still go around in yiur area. When i was a kid there was a float lorry with santa on the back throwing sweets at us.

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over a year ago

"Does the Christmas Lorry still go around in yiur area. When i was a kid there was a float lorry with santa on the back throwing sweets at us. "
if you think back they were all the local nonces

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By *estivalMan
over a year ago

borehamwood

"Spangles

.. I loved spangles

Hear hear

And Quatro the drink, amazing "

loved the quatro drink used to drink cans and cans of the stuff. think tropical rio is about the closet ya can get to it now

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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago

the right frame of mind -London

"TDK C60 cassettesUsed to use C46 ones, a good many albums fit on those without to much blank space at the ends. Still can get them though thanks to the internet.

Concert tickets from Record stores, for less than a tenner too. No booking fees either."

Don't you mean C90's -which could hold a complete album on each side? -I used to use the C60's for mix-tapes but never really heard of C45's meself.

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over a year ago

"Does the Christmas Lorry still go around in yiur area. When i was a kid there was a float lorry with santa on the back throwing sweets at us. if you think back they were all the local nonces "

Don't know I left home when I was 15 and moved away.

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

Cheap houses in all the now popular places ie London/ Seaside towns

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By *ormerWelshcouple2020Man
over a year ago

Stourbridge

I saw the Scorpions for £2.50. And Rush. And AC/DC in small venues too.

I think Blondie the first time round was £1.50.

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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago

the right frame of mind -London

"Cheap houses in all the now popular places ie London/ Seaside towns"

Yeah but I wouldn't like to buy them on the wages I was earing at the time -don't think my paper round could quite cover the moving costs let alone the deposit.

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