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To ask what one extinct thing you would bring back from your childhood?

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PansyPotter84 · 05/06/2025 18:00

By “thing” - I don’t mean people. I’m sure there are people from our childhoods that we would all want to bring back more than any “thing” in the world.

The thing that I would bring back would be tinned Spaghetti Hoops with Hotdogs in Smokey-Bacon Sauce by Heinz.

Best thing ever in the 90s IMHO!

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PopperBo · 09/08/2025 23:47

Mars Delights and/or Wispa Mint

TheTwitcher11 · 09/08/2025 21:42

PansyPotter84 · 05/06/2025 18:00

By “thing” - I don’t mean people. I’m sure there are people from our childhoods that we would all want to bring back more than any “thing” in the world.

The thing that I would bring back would be tinned Spaghetti Hoops with Hotdogs in Smokey-Bacon Sauce by Heinz.

Best thing ever in the 90s IMHO!

Ace of Base ‘I saw the sign’
Slush Puppies
Double Dip sherbet and Nerds sweets
Sunny Delight orange juice
Marbles, Pogs and Tamagotchi’s
Impulse body spray (Spice Girls edition)
Tammy Girl, C&A and BHS

MinnieCauldwell · 09/08/2025 21:34

Original recipe coca cola. In a bottle not a can.
Sunset bars
Proper cadburys chocolate, they used to say a glass and a half of milk in every bar.

Londonrach1 · 09/08/2025 21:16

Proper penny sweets....you could get some 2 for a penny...sweets tasted nice too ..

TENSsion · 09/08/2025 21:15

Vice versas

CagneyNYPD1 · 07/08/2025 09:09

Lucozade. Proper, full sugar stuff in the glass bottle wrapped in orange cellophane.

Everytime I am poorly, I miss being given a bottle of proper Lucozade to keep next to my bed.

Jellycatspyjamas · 07/08/2025 09:03

Glenthebattleostrich · 07/08/2025 08:59

Especially on public transport. I'm currently listening to a conversation about someone's vagina on speaker phone, a tiktok video and a drunk person singing. Yes before 9am.

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I was recently on a 6 hour train journey, a woman across the seat from me spent the whole journey phoning family and friends to tell them, in great detail, about the bowel operation she had had the previous day. I could probably perform the surgery myself such was the level of detail. Longest 6 hours of my life.

Glenthebattleostrich · 07/08/2025 08:59

IDareSay · 05/06/2025 18:02

Good manners

Especially on public transport. I'm currently listening to a conversation about someone's vagina on speaker phone, a tiktok video and a drunk person singing. Yes before 9am.

Dangermoo · 07/08/2025 08:58

Jellycatspyjamas · 07/08/2025 08:56

Mine has fixed hot plates. I give them a wipe with kitchen paper while still warm, to get rid of any melted cheese before it solidifies and sticks, and then use a hot soapy cloth to give it a good clean when cooled down. No one’s died yet so I’m thinking it’s clean enough.

My sister has one with removable hot plates that go in the dishwasher, I’ll be investing in one when this one dies.

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Oh, thanks for that advice ❤️

Jellycatspyjamas · 07/08/2025 08:56

Dangermoo · 07/08/2025 08:48

I used mine last night for a cheese toastie. How the heck do you clean them! Great but not practical.

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Mine has fixed hot plates. I give them a wipe with kitchen paper while still warm, to get rid of any melted cheese before it solidifies and sticks, and then use a hot soapy cloth to give it a good clean when cooled down. No one’s died yet so I’m thinking it’s clean enough.

My sister has one with removable hot plates that go in the dishwasher, I’ll be investing in one when this one dies.

Dangermoo · 07/08/2025 08:48

Lindajonesjustcantlivemylife · 06/08/2025 15:26

Loved a breville toasty I'm sure we had one when I was a kid.

I used mine last night for a cheese toastie. How the heck do you clean them! Great but not practical.

Dangermoo · 07/08/2025 08:46

coronafiona · 06/08/2025 19:13

Wham bars

Oh I loved those! I've bought one of those boxes of 80s sweets, from Amazon. Wham bars are included. I would recommend them, as gifts to those of us, who miss days gone by.

coronafiona · 06/08/2025 19:13

Wham bars

Lindajonesjustcantlivemylife · 06/08/2025 15:26

Loved a breville toasty I'm sure we had one when I was a kid.

Dangermoo · 06/08/2025 15:23

Jellycatspyjamas · 06/08/2025 15:18

It’s a breville one I bought on Amazon, best £30 I’ve spent in ages.

It's just cleaning them, that's a pain

Jellycatspyjamas · 06/08/2025 15:18

It’s a breville one I bought on Amazon, best £30 I’ve spent in ages.

Dangermoo · 06/08/2025 14:52

KimberleyClark · 06/08/2025 14:33

Do you mean the Breville one? Still have mine and still use it.

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Bloody hell...yes!

KimberleyClark · 06/08/2025 14:33

Dangermoo · 06/08/2025 10:05

When I moved house recently, the owners had left me one of those old fashioned toastie makers. Does anyone know if they still make them? It took me back yo the good old days.

Do you mean the Breville one? Still have mine and still use it.

Jellycatspyjamas · 06/08/2025 11:12

Dangermoo · 06/08/2025 10:05

When I moved house recently, the owners had left me one of those old fashioned toastie makers. Does anyone know if they still make them? It took me back yo the good old days.

Yes, I bought one on Amazon a few months back - my children too will have fond memories of sealed toasted sandwiches filled with beans or cheese the temperature of molten lava. And the scars to show for it.

liveforsummer · 06/08/2025 11:05

You used to be able to get big tubs of the yogurt that came in a fruit corner. Called muller thick and creamy in a bluey/purple pot. It was so nice, I can still taste it in my head. The yogurt in the corners isn’t the same any more either. Fruit - all fruit actually tasting of something. It’s all so bland now in comparison

Dangermoo · 06/08/2025 10:55

GRCP · 06/08/2025 10:32

Sara Lee chocolate gateaux.

I still remember the box. Thank goodness, Manor House cake, is still made.

GRCP · 06/08/2025 10:32

Sara Lee chocolate gateaux.

Dangermoo · 06/08/2025 10:05

When I moved house recently, the owners had left me one of those old fashioned toastie makers. Does anyone know if they still make them? It took me back yo the good old days.

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PansyPotter84 · 06/08/2025 10:03

Menobaby79 · 05/08/2025 08:29

Licko chocolate or Choc Lick! I used to love buying this from the shop on the way to school, so good. 😋😋😋

This still exists too. Saw it in an olde worlde type sweet shop about a year ago.

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PansyPotter84 · 06/08/2025 09:59

Reliablesource · 02/08/2025 14:15

Am absolutely gutted that I never, ever knew of those. They would have been my perfect biscuit!

I have also spent years telling people that we used to get (green) mint custard with chocolate sponge for school dinner sometimes (early 80s). No one I know remembers or believes this, including my siblings! I randomly listened to a podcast about school dinners a few months ago and someone actually mentioned the mint custard and finally I felt vindicated! 😂

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Green mint custard!

I’d totally forgotten about this until you mentioned it!

Yes! We got this at school with slabs
of chocolate sponge too!

About 30 years ago!

It really did exist! Promise!

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