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Jubilee, three cornerd frozen drinks
Vantas, a sweet sickly pink drink out a glass machine
Buttermilk Dainties, big penny caramels that did in your teeth.
Lucky Totties, sort of cinammon with a toy inside.
Spangles, in all flavours, brilliant square shiny sweets with a dimple.
Cadburys Stroudles, chocolate covered pieces of apple.
Yogurt Mivvie, Lyons Ice cream with yogurt.
Cadburys Milk Tray chocolate bar, 6 individual chocolates in a bar.
Wagon Wheels biscuits when they were massive.
Ayton Sandwich biscuits, Scottish biscuits with half chocolate covering.
Sherbet and sugarolly, or liquorice to dip or dook in it..
I also remember the rag and bone man, the Corona van, and in the Cotswolds we even had our milk delivered by horse and cart in the 1970s.
I even remember ad free BBC!
We also had coal delivered by horse and cart once a fortnight into our little back yard coal bunker.
The rag and bone man used to freak me out! I used to think he looked some kind of child catcher type person, going about the street shouting out something completely incomprehensible.
Anybody, anybody remember Pink Panther Chocolate bars - a bit like milky bars (the milky bars are on me) except strawberry flavoured?
Also Moon Dust? Sherberty type stuff that exploded in your mouth?
Fudge bars (a finger of fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat)
Spam. Lard.
Curry and rice all together in a tin.
Steak and kidney pie in a tin.
Party seven beer.
Prawn cocktail being the ultimate fancy starter.
We also had coal delivered by horse and cart once a fortnight into our little back yard coal bunker.
The rag and bone man used to freak me out! I used to think he looked some kind of child catcher type person, going about the street shouting out something completely incomprehensible.
Anybody, anybody remember Pink Panther Chocolate bars - a bit like milky bars (the milky bars are on me) except strawberry flavoured?
Also Moon Dust? Sherberty type stuff that exploded in your mouth?
Fudge bars (a finger of fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat)
Spam. Lard.
Curry and rice all together in a tin.
Steak and kidney pie in a tin.
Party seven beer.
Prawn cocktail being the ultimate fancy starter.
I remember them.
What about Bazooka Joe Bubblegum, with a little cartoon and a tattoo?
Sherbet Dib-Dabs and Sherbert Fountains?
A lot of the other stuff you can still get here... you've been in the US too long, you need a weekend trip to a Tescos.
I remember Quattro, but there was also Squirt.
Golden Cup before Cadbury's made their Caramel
Stopping at the newsagents on my way to school every other Tuesday to pick up Smash Hits
Bubble Yum bubblegum
Canned chili from M&S
Only 3 TV channels
We had a Rag & Bone man too!
Roller boots
Ra ra skirts
Deely boppers
Legwarmers
Playing Elastics, British Bulldog and Block 1-2-3 at school
Swap Shop was fantastic but there was also TISWAS
Blackjacks, fruit salads, and what were those spaceship things filled with sherbert?
Square crisps
Salt & Shake crisps
I remember we got either Chinese takeaway or KFC on our way home from my piano lesson each week. Other than that, it was meat & two veg with roast potatoes for dinner.
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