AIBU to ask: What would you like to bring back?

[monstermunch1]

I'll start:

The video shop - ahh the days of a walk to the video shop, peruse the same old films, pick one, pick a choc bar (just one small bar) and home to the betamax machine!!
Channels 1 to 4 - So many less arguments when quite simply there was only ever one thing to watch!

The lurid green fizzy limeaid that the drinks machine in our local sports centre used to dispense in the 80s. Pretty sure the colourings, flavourings and sugar levels would be illegal now, but damn it tasted great!

Everyone watching the same big budget film on telly on the same night and then picking it over next day. Not just your own household - everyone! It was a sense of togetherness somehow.

(Having said that - i clearly remember what it's like to have a choice of only 4 channels on TV and no recording/pausing and would not actually want that again so ... )

And Flex conditioner.

And the brown packaging almondy Vidal Sassoon shampoo + cond please :)

Wonkalate chocolate bar.

Snowflake chocolate bar.

The Viennetta with the biscuit base.

Blockbusters.

Woolly mammoths.

I'd so love to see something that looks like an elephant with a hairy coat.

There must be something nostalgic about Sunday nights - I was just wondering what has happened to East 17 and wondered if they are rich from Stay Another Day royalties.

Can I add Fuse, Echo and Secret Bars? Heartbreak High and My So Called Life? Cavities Zester biscuits (I think that was what they were called, they had orange peel in)

As you can tell, I was a teen in the 90's.

I meant McVities, not cavities, but I would probably get cavities after eating all that!

@VerbenaGirl

The lurid green fizzy limeaid that the drinks machine in our local sports centre used to dispense in the 80s. Pretty sure the colourings, flavourings and sugar levels would be illegal now, but damn it tasted great!

Ohh yes I miss pre sugar tax fizzy drinks (and the old Smarties with E numbers!)

Fructis shampoo and conditioner for coloured hair; it smelled like what I imagine heaven to smell like. Also Superdrug cucumber body spritz.

And nothing will ever smell like Lynx Africa on a 16 year old boy at a school disco. (As long as you're a 16 year old girl / boy too)

I realise you can probably still buy all of these things but they won't be as cool on me as they once were.

My dignity please. I lost it under a pub garden bench on Friday night and would like it reinstated ASAP please

Other than that, proper sized Mars bars. All the chocolate bars these days have shrunk. I’m not talking about those duo bars of king sized types, just a standard bar. They’re half the size these days

@Laiste

And the brown packaging almondy Vidal Sassoon shampoo + cond please :)

Yes, that was lovely

Cadbury spira!

Video shops had a certain smell didn't they?!

Worcester sauce twiglets

Going into a bank and speaking to a cashier who would help you, rather than a machine, which is designed not to.

Wham bars like in the 80s, bigger, chewier and crazily sour.
Good telly on a Saturday night.
And not wishing to turn your thread into sobfest, but... My mum.

Original Lucozade with the orange wrapping
Cresta (it’s Frothy man!)
Vesta chicken supreme
Proper Angel Delight

Basically, bring back the 70s.

@BillyRaywasapreachersson ahhhhhhhhhhhh

@TheChosenTwo made me laugh!

@Laiste yes! sharing our TV experiences!

When weekends used to be about the Dawson's Creek and Sunset Beach omnibus. So nostalgic for that level of shite TV and the time to fully indulge in it!

@SmashingBlouson East 17 - the writer in the group is doing well - but look up the little one in the group, poor fella, not doing so well! (Memory is no good for names).

Burger King’s mushroom double Swiss.

Totally agree about full sized chocolate bars. I had a snickers the other day and it wasn’t much bigger than a fun size used to be.

@VerbenaGirl

The lurid green fizzy limeaid that the drinks machine in our local sports centre used to dispense in the 80s. Pretty sure the colourings, flavourings and sugar levels would be illegal now, but damn it tasted great!

Omg yes. That was so nice. And you could have it with loads of tiny ice cubes too

Flex conditioner, cabana bars, Metal Mickey fizz bombs and Ultima Sheerscent perfume