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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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WonderingWanda · 05/06/2025 19:08

Pat Sharp's Funhouse.
That mythical dark green tropical fruit squash....which I convinced was Quosh but can find no actual photos of and wonder if it's real or the Mandela effect.

Iamthemoom · 05/06/2025 19:07

Mint Cracknell and my first cat!

Lobsterteapot · 05/06/2025 19:07

Kids telly on at teatime and Saturday morning shows like going live

curtaintwitcher78 · 05/06/2025 19:05

Dial phones. I just spent a fortune on bits and adaptors to get one to work on our VOIP network. I even had to tinker with one device just so the phone goes "bring-bring" instead of a long "rrrriiiing" I had missed my dial phone so much. I'm happy now, bit I wish it wasn't such an effort.

c3pu · 05/06/2025 19:04

RubberyChicken · 05/06/2025 19:01

I believe they still drink it in the Congo

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Way down deep in the middle of the jungle...

BashfulClam · 05/06/2025 19:04

BellaTheDarkOverlord · 05/06/2025 18:17

Did you mean Awesome Oinks? I saw them in my local shop the other day. A pinky purple packet with a pig on the front?

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No they were called piglets and were 3D pig shaped.

LindorDoubleChoc · 05/06/2025 19:04

YABU.

There is a Chat topic!

I would bring back people having simple, basic comprehension skills.

phlebasconsidered · 05/06/2025 19:03

I second Trio biscuits! Also, old fashioned flavour Spangles, mince beef crispy pancakes, the old Disco crisps that gave you a salt attack, the old chicken and mushroom fray bentos pie, toat toppers (mind your mouth!) and the boil in the bag spag bol. Pure nostalgia from drunk snacks late 80s, pre microwave etc. Absolutely no one would eat the now, apart from maybe the Trio biscuits.

I would also bring back buses. As a teen i got buses to pubs/ the town and back, up to 11pm, even in our village. I'd get a bus into town at 4pm, stay out partying, get the last bus at 10.50. Now- fuck all. It's me being a taxi for my teens because public transport to villages is dead. They'll never get that sick on a bus feeling and see a bus station full of pussed people at 10.30.

ExquisiteSocialSkills · 05/06/2025 19:02

BestZebbie · 05/06/2025 18:55

Jinx!

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God I was thinking about these yesterday! And Applause. And Nutty bars.

RubberyChicken · 05/06/2025 19:01

c3pu · 05/06/2025 18:03

Um bongo

I believe they still drink it in the Congo

LakieLady · 05/06/2025 19:01

Hedgesgalore · 05/06/2025 18:28

I'd quite like a trim phone, my parents had a cream one. I loved the sound it made.

My friend had one.

She also had a parrot. She would often run downstairs to answer the phone, only to find it was the parrot, doing his perfect trimphone impersonation.

cava14una · 05/06/2025 18:59

Duncan's chocolate candies.

WaneyEdge · 05/06/2025 18:58

Full sugar drinks - no artificial sweeteners or Stevia.

Topics - why did Mars discontinue these 😣.

Danepak bacon grills - nothing similar exists now.

Vicliz24 · 05/06/2025 18:58

TwoTabbyCatsLife · 05/06/2025 18:47

Especially Old English spangles!

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Yes ! Old English Spangles is

marshmallowpuff · 05/06/2025 18:57

Dangermoo · 05/06/2025 18:03

Cabana chocolate bar and the Pipkins.

I came here to say the Cabana bar too!

Cadbury’s Animals the way they used to be in the 80s — in the animal shapes with proper ridgy thick chocolate on.

Definitely agree with proper old-fashioned chocolate — before they started chucking palm oil and so on in it and made it all horrible.

Andoutcomethewolves · 05/06/2025 18:56

OldSchoolCasualty · 05/06/2025 18:51

Toffos, Frosties and Wonkas Fizzy Jerks!
I was dying for a Fuse when I was pregnant and discovered they didn't make them anymore! I was devestated,
They do still make Ovaltine though, I've got some in the cupboard.

If you like Ovaltine get down to Poundland 🤣 they have loads of pudding flavours like jam roly poly and they're surprisingly nice

BestZebbie · 05/06/2025 18:55

Mayflyoff · 05/06/2025 18:54

Pyramint. Unless I imagined them.

Jinx!

BestZebbie · 05/06/2025 18:55

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!

The thylacine was officially listed as extinct in 1986, so I guess that.

Also Pyramints.

Mayflyoff · 05/06/2025 18:54

Pyramint. Unless I imagined them.

Andoutcomethewolves · 05/06/2025 18:53

Not sure if this counts but my dog and the chariot my dad built for her to drag me and my cousin around all the country roads (don't worry, she loved it!)

Also agree with Secret bars.

TomatoSandwiches · 05/06/2025 18:53

Pluto would still be a planet if I had my way.

ExercicenformedeZ · 05/06/2025 18:52

Beryls · 05/06/2025 18:14

I've changed my mind as much as I love the ritz crackers with cheese in the middle I think I'd want to bring back the high street, all the good clothes shops we had! I used to love shopping in town in the 90s now you just have to trail round various soulless retail parks or travel to a massive indoor shopping centre.

I feel like in the 90s you could get everything you needed from the high street/town centre. Now they're just charity and vape shops, even B&M and home bargains have abandoned it for retail parks now.

I agree, I can't be bothered shopping in person any more. I do adore Vinted, though. I think it has a better selection of really good Y2k stuff than Ebay does.

Words · 05/06/2025 18:52

Normal weather rather than searing heat and monsoon like down pours

ExercicenformedeZ · 05/06/2025 18:51

Oh, and one extinct thing that I would bring back not from childhood, but from last week: the laugh react on Mumsnet. It was great and it annoyed me that it had to be got rid of.

OldSchoolCasualty · 05/06/2025 18:51

Toffos, Frosties and Wonkas Fizzy Jerks!
I was dying for a Fuse when I was pregnant and discovered they didn't make them anymore! I was devestated,
They do still make Ovaltine though, I've got some in the cupboard.