To ask what one extinct thing you would bring back from your childhood?

[PansyPotter84]

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!

Yes ! Old English Spangles is

Full sugar drinks - no artificial sweeteners or Stevia.

Topics - why did Mars discontinue these 😣.

Danepak bacon grills - nothing similar exists now.

Duncan's chocolate candies.

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.

I believe they still drink it in the Congo

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

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.

YABU.

There is a Chat topic!

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

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

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

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.

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

Mint Cracknell and my first cat!

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.

The onken circle yoghurts with the little spaceman toy in the middle!

Ooh I’ve been without internet and didn’t know!!!!! 😢

Walters potato puffs
Aztec chocolate bar
Woolworths
BHS
C&A
Decent post natal care where mum was looked after and not expected to be superwoman

1. Time. Full or at least half days with having absolutely nothing to do.

1. The feeling that the world was becoming a better, fairer, more peaceful and more liberal world and the (ignorant) belief that climate change was not a severe threat.

Fanta orange and Cadbury chocolate.

Ecstasy. It's all cocaine, heroin and granny drugs these days.

Socialism

this

Proper chewy Double Deckers with a dense biscuit base. None of that rice crispy rubbish.

Coconut Boost

Scampi and lemon/real cheese nik naks

Hedgehog crisps

Quattro

Proper adverts that captured society as a whole and gave us a common conversation (Guinness, Tango, Um Bongo, Milk...)

Mint Wispas

I loved bacon grills...I used to make bacon grill sandwiches at Uni.

They sell it at Iceland