Things that disappeared, without you realising?

[jennymanara]

What things have disappeared in society, and you did not notice until much later?
So when I was young in every shopping street you would see old women wearing coloured polyester macs and headscarves. And then one day I suddenly realised that I had not seen a woman wearing this kind of clothing for a long time.
The same with plastic rainhoods. You used to see these for sale in newsagents, and elderly women would wear them when caught unaware by the rain. Again disappeared.

Sending postcards when you're on holiday.

We have an ice cream van come around most days....it sends my dogs crazy, they howl when they hear his music.
We also have a chip van too

Vol-au-vents! Tried to find them for a retro buffet recently and you can't find them anywhere

Decent magazines.

The corona pop man who used to deliver bottles of fizzy pop door to door once a week. You got 10p back from your empty bottles the next week. So much more environmentally friendly.

Adam’s apples.

Football pools

Going to the village shop and putting stuff 'in the book' I didn't think I was that old but remember my parents doing this, I doubt many small shops offer such informal credit these days!

@mamaduckbone

Try the frozen pastry bit. groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Jus-Rol-Vol-Au-Vent-18-Medium/437100011

I think I've seen them in Iceland too.

@MissLadyM I never realised Angela Rippon created Victoria Plum! I was a big VP fan in the 80s.

I actually saw one today that I thought had disappeared - hitchhikers.

Used to live in London and there was always loads there. Moved to Yorkshire and never see them, then, this morning I saw one and it made me think of this thread.

Not sure if they really had disappeared or if I just don't see them because I've moved to a different area.

Are hitchhikers still a common thing?

Soda stream. I can’t remember seeing one for years.

I got a Sodastream for Christmas!

Just the other day, I realised that six-packs of fuzzy drinks are never held together with those bird-strangling plastic rings anymore. They come in boxes now. Not sure if six-pack rings were an American thing (I mostly grew up in the US), but they've definitely disappeared.

@mama

I’m sure I’ve seen vol au vonts in Iceland.

I had no idea about Angela Rippin and Victoria Plum books either! Wow

@mabel
I think we’ve become less trusting of each other as a society. The only ones I ever see are scruffy looking men at service stations, too much of a risk to pick them up.

Porn in hedge rows.

Baby on board signs

@mama
We used to be much more environmentally friendly years ago didn’t we. Fish and chips in newspaper, rather than those polystyrene boxes, fruit and veg in brown paper bags, every thing sold loose so you only bought what you needed, drinking water out of a glass from the tap rather than buying plastic bottles of water.

😂😂😂
I remember this. How come porn mags used to end up hedgerows?

Hitchhikers have almost totally gone. I see one about once or twice a year. It used to be common. I hitchhiked. I think people just became more afraid to pick up strangers and to hitchhike.

Ice cream in cardboard, rather than a plastic tub. Much more environmentally friendly, and it has gone.
Not necessarily. It’s incredibly difficult to recycle plastic/cardboard laminates, and you can’t put uncoated cardboard next to ice cream.

Lampshades with tassels around the bottom. They all used to have them, but no more.

Pretty sure the cardboard that was used in the past was uncoated.

scraps that girls collected and kept in old books.mostly pictures of angels,fairies,animals.used to swap them at school.Wish i'd kept them now.