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Can we go back to talking about blancmange - even that is more palatable.

Eau de pot noodle is new to me.

it’s unwashed genitals, is it?

Oh Lord, it's so bloody damning

Don’t think the picture attached

Yes, did it begin with P? You got 10p (it can't have been that much, surely) back for your empties. We used to spend our time looking for empties but there never were any. I first heard the ginger term at college, that was more of an education than my course.

The frozen concentrated orange juice my mum would make baked bananas with. Sliced lengthways bananas put in a buttered dish, covered with desiccated coconut and brown sugar and the concentrated orange juice then baked. Or you could just have a bowl of sugar, cut out the middle man.

Reminds me of this glorious bit of graffiti I saw scrawled on the back of a toilet door in Manchester

And the advert music for Gino Ginelli!

I remember when we got a small chest freezer and filled it with those mousses that came in a long plastic bag (about 6 tubs), the frozen orange juice concentrate and crispy pancakes.

Memories of watching the Love Boat (for some reason, even as a small child, I hated the doctor character in it) and eating tinned fruit salad with Tip Top poured over making it slightly curdle.

There’s also something that I can’t find anywhere on the internet - up north we used to have *’cream boys/girls’ that delivered pots of cream to the door like a niche, milky version of the Pop Man.

Definitely not a fever dream brought on by overconsumption of Terry’s Pyramints as my mother remembers it too but I can’t find anywhere evidence online!

*I now slightly regret bringing that term up in connection with the polycule 🤢

I think poopy was the only one with a penis in the cule.

they’ll be missing him.

I think there was even a bloody glacé cherry on top.

I still think of this as a mark of sophistication. I love glacé cherries.

Apparently Sophie Molly smells of pot noodle, according to one renegade member of the polycule.

I'm not sure what flavour though

Dream Topping is still available. Made up with a slightly reduced amount of milk, it's a good way of making synthetic cream for cream buns.

Yeah it's basically a whipped cream substitute

Bird's dream topping was the top layer of those DIY trifle in a box kits. Then you'd sprinkle multi-coloured hundreds and thousands on top. I really fancy a bowl now.

Dream topping! I can't remember what it was for. Was it a topping? Was it a dessert?

The things that made those so aspiration were the adverts. The swirly delivery and effortless little soft peak in a beautiful glass dish with a stem. A stem!

Dead sophisticated. I think there was even a bloody glacé cherry on top.

Doesn't get more glam.

We had jelly whipped up with evaporated milk also - known as fluffy jelly. I haven't had it, or even thought about it, in decades. I do remember the advent of Angel Delight and Dream Topping being very much welcomed - such an improvement on all the home made rice puddings, bread and butter puddings, suet dumplings, fruit crumbles and anything else that could be eaten with custard we'd had previously (not really in hindsight!)

Coke and lemonade floats are still on the menu of Jimmy's (Ben Lora cafe in Benderloch, A&B), very popular too.

we had the fizzy juice lorry in Fife back in the day. the name escapes me, but you could get red cola, cream soda. We never got it because we were poor, but it used to drive up our street once a week. We called it fizzy juice my da and the glesca lot called it ginger.

There was something similar where my grandparents lived - they generally used to get your standard corona orangeade, but every now and then used to get raspberryade which sounds weird but was really nice.

I'm also a fan of a lemonade sparkle, although for added decadence (and risk of cavities and diabetes) using one instead of the lolly in a sherbert dibdab gave it an extra kick.

We had the Maine lemonade man, I think brown lemonade was peculiar to Ireland, I liked the (very lurid green) limeade.

You could get HB ice cream in Northern Ireland in the 70s but my mum would never let us have it - she used to work in a lab at the City Hospital where they tested food for bacteria and she said HB failed every time!

Ah the disappointment when offered lemonade and being given squash instead!

I used to have it with lemonade

Did you also encounter the Maine mineral man? They were like milkmen but for lemonade and I was always fascinated by the minerals with the crazy fluorescent colours. My Mam went on an anti-E numbers kick in the 80s so we had to avoid them 😭

I also remember loving the cardboard blocks of HB banana ice cream that our Southern relatives used to give us when we visited. It was so much nicer than Dale Farm which seemed to be the only ice cream you could buy in NI in those days.

That’s a trip down memory lane! ☺️

I remember Pan Drop mints were not available in NI in the 1970s. They were my gran’s favourite. When we used to visit we would bring a case full of them for her to keep her going,

I have a real craving for Cremola Foam and diluting “fresh” orange juice now having caught up with the thread.

Ribena in our house. I think we were posh or summat 😂