On a Saturday evening for tea from 1993-1995, I loved having bacon flavour super noodles with two frozen breaded chicken burgers from Tesco that had a topping (on the burger but inside the breadcrumbs if that made sense) that was bits of ham in a creamy sauce. FIT! I’ve looked for them since and have never been able to find them. Even chicken kievs are ham and cheese, rather than the creamy sauce. Gutted.
Also have an embarrassing story about Virgin Cola. Late 90s, I was 16/17, dating my first proper boyfriend and we were sexually active. One Friday, I was really unwell with an ear infection. I’d been to the doctor and they’d prescribed antibiotics and I was also due my next pack of contraceptive pills so both were on the prescription. The medication wasn’t ready for me to collect from the chemist immediately and I felt like crap so instead of waiting, I’d gone home and planned to walk back round later that afternoon to collect them. For some reason, and unusually, my Dad was off work that day and he insisted (despite my vociferous objections) on driving round to collect them for me.
So he collects them, gets back home and quietly asks me to join him in the kitchen, where he proceeds to pass on the advice given by the pharmacist about the additional precautions I’ll need to take during sex whilst on these antibiotics. I sheepishly thanked him and hoped that would be that.
However, my Dad is a typical Scouser, so every weekend, for months afterwards, when arriving home from doing the supermarket shop, he’d take great delight in explaining to the household that Asda was out of x brand of cola, so he’d had to buy Virgin Cola…and what a shame it was that I couldn’t drink it….cringe!
Was Tab Coke (the clear one?) in the 90s or was that early 00s?