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About time imo

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2ln31g8gvo

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 🤢

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

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.

Don’t think the picture attached

Oh Lord, it's so bloody damning

Eau de pot noodle is new to me.

it’s unwashed genitals, is it?

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

Another of my Mum's staples was jelly made up with lightly whipped evaporated milk, which made it all bubbly.

In our house that was called "chiffon". I think the inspo was originally from a women's magazine.

And ice lollies - cider apple lollies, anyone?

We used to get those individual chocolate or strawberry mousses. The bottom of the pot in one make had a Disney(?) character embossed into it. I think you were to use it as a mould with plaster of Paris then paint them.

Pop for

Red cola for the win!

🤢

Chicken and mushroom pot noodle was the only one I liked, please don't ruin that for me.

I'm sure I remember Tip Top though! And Nova bars. No-one ever remember Nova bars to the point that I'm convinced they were specific to my primary school...

Yes, did it begin with P?

Panda drinks? We used to get those at the seaside.

Bon Accord or Corona ?

And Kellogg’s Rise and Shine - the colour was about the only thing it had in common with orange juice.

There was a type of pop you could get in the early 70s, usually from a fish and chip shop, which was like American soda. Can't recall the name but I remember the adverts with a polar bear standing on a slab of ice and saying 'It's frothy, man'. It was horrible stuff. Anyone else remember it?

Thank you Rhannion, I've been wracking my brain since yesterday trying to remember to remember the name of the van - it was the Bon Accord man!

We didn't have money to spare so we were only occasionally allowed a big bottle of ginger from the van to share. There were four of us kids so much discussion about what to get.

Cresta!

Loving the memories of puddings. We were only very rarely allowed them because our weirdo parents decided that sugar was evil and banned it from the house, except for once a year or so. There used to be a little box in the pantry which held our treats, a translucent one with a red lid. One weekend my dad lit a bonfire in the garden and the box went onto it and, nearly 60 years later, I can still see it flying through the flames and burning. Never forgotten that.

Cresta!

That was the stuff!

I remember that. It was the sort of vibrant colour you'd associate with a nuclear accident.

Loved just semolina- but jam if pushed - and school custard and jam roll poly ..,,,

Yes I think it was Bon Accord. The shops usually stocked Barrs drinks, they famous for Irn Bru but made all the colours/flavours really. The bottles were currency at 10p each. I remember there were some workers doing some grounds work in the local woods and they had a portacabin to take lunch in. When they left they gave their huge stash or Barrs bottles to one of us kids, like £7 worth - untold riches in 1984 Fife I can tell you that!

We are still an Angel Delight household. We buy it in bulk when back in the homeland. Always worried airport security will think the packets are a ruse for drug smuggling.

It’s frothy man said by a cartoon polar bear!

when I got back to my desk and saw I'd been quoted twice on this thread I was like 'oh no what ill advised nonsense have I said and been pulled up on now' and it was just us reminiscing about fizzy juice! The relief was quite something.