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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Bangbang on March 24, 2012, 09:33:49 pm
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Posting ( inspired by robert waddell & Lill )
As a kid on cleaning duties I was given VIM ? to use.
don't know if it still exists - but I still remember my sore and very red hands.
Any other (nearly) forgotten products ?
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Fry's 5 boys chocolate :farmer:
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VIM is good for removing stains on lino!! No lino anymore either!!
That horrid toilet roll IZAL, do they still make Germalene? My dad used Brylcream but I think you can still get that too, Black dubbing (not sure if that correct) to polish the fire surround although I used black boot polish some times!!! I will have a think...???
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i am wondering about you sandy with this fixation for izal toilet paper and now this admition to being naked in wellies do you sing take me dancing naked in the rain at the same time ;) :farmer:
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Is the Fry's the dark chocolate bar with sweet centre - loved that - not seen one for a long time
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They do still make Germalene but its not the same pink colour that it used to be and I don't think its as good.
I remember VIM and IZAL. Bronco was similar.
How about OMO? I am not sure you can get it in the UK now but I have seen it abroad.
Sally
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Germaline - to combat oil if I remember - Dad used it a lot when rebuilding a landie - along with lost of Swarfiga - spelt wrong of course
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the Fry's chocolate was anticipation expectation and the pics of the wee boys face all happy when he started the bar and crying when it was finished
then there was cabana bars and mint cracknel
bruckly they made two types of the bar one with white fondant and the other with fruit flavoured fondant
OMO was used by women playing away it meant old man out and time to come in for a good time :farmer:
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You can still get lino (linoleum) One brand name is Marmoleum - I used it in the kitchen/family room of the house I built - it's still there 7 years later and looks as good as new (friends bought the house from me so i visit from time to time)
Can you still get Virol?
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Where do you rub it in ? (OH asked me!) ;D ;D :thumbsup:
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do you sing take me dancing naked in the rain at the same time
Thats spooky because it was well known thats what I did, think that was a hit at the time"""
Spangles were nice, the good old libberty bodice? garters and those rubber corsetts that people used to get slim...I was TOO young but I remember a lodger having one!! errrrrrrrrr, Those mens trousers that go up to your chest a bit like SImon Cowels!!
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Hmm, I'm feeling a tad old fashioned here. I've got both germolene AND Frys in the cupboard. ;D
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Chemico
Pink creamy stuff
Used to come in big tubs. We used to use it to clean the baths at school.
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You still get Fry's Cream, but there was also Fry's peppermint cream and Fry's Five Centre, which was the fruit one. Other sweets - Amazin' Raisin, Aztec. You used to get fruit spangles and Old English, which had more "adult" flavours like aniseed.
Germolene was for cuts and scrapes and stung like hell, if I remember correctly.
I had a liberty bodice ;D and now those rubber corsets are called bodyshapers but still just move the fat around ;D
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I'm sure many of these things are still in existence - they've just been re-branded and re-packaged.
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Puffa Puffa rice! I used to love this,I cannot even remember when they stopped making it!The best cereal by far :yum:
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Reckitt's blue bags? Burdall's gravy salt? Those great big bars of washing/household soap.(one was geen, one was whitish)
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That was a while ago,I can still smell that soap now ;D
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Shepherd boy sunflower bars. I don't think they still make them; haven't seen them for a few years. I liked them because they had only very few ingredients - as far as I remember, it was sultanas, sunflower seeds and orange juice...
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And those old perfumes some are making a come back, "Evening in Paris" in that little Blue bottle, then the good old "Old SPice" and "Brute"" As I teenager I absolutly loved Aqua Manda, it was in a Brown bottle (love brown) and smelt citrus!!!!
I also remember tights comming into fashion and buying them from Woolworths, american tan with pink pants attatched at the top, they kept falling down and ended up Norah Batty at the bottom.....
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Creamola Foam especially the lemon one :P
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Mansion floor and furniture polish.
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when i bruised or cut myself as a kid my grandma would rub horse liniment in, i dont know the brand. but it was awesome stuff. the only trouble was the smell, that plus tcp wasnt a good thing to be smelling of at my school.
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It was the turpentine and camphor that gave it it's distinctive smell ;D
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now im thinking about it, it would be a bath with coal tar soap first, then injuries dressed with the above, wow, that explains alot .
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Sandy,
I can recognise everything you are saying. I used to buy american tan tights with the pink knickers too, either from Woolworths or Caters. For those that don't remember, Caters was a big supermarket that has long since bitten the dust.
I loved Aqua Manda too and used to have the foam bath.
There is a bottle of Brut here that I discovered when we packed for the move. I don't know if that means I am a hoarder or bang on fashion ;D
Anyone remember jubbly's? They were the pyramid shaped flavoured ice lollies.
Sally
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Now I feel old as I remember most of these things, mum used Tide washing powder, VIV for the bath, bread was either plain or pan and if plain my brothers and I would fight over the ends which had thick crusts.
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I was going to put Jubblies but not sure of the spelling!!
Anyone remember jubbly's? They were the pyramid shaped flavoured ice lollies.
Sally
It was nice to mush them up and suck the bottom bits!!! I would love to smell some Aqua manda again..in those days I was soooooo innocent and would ONLY kiss a boy, nothing else ,but my mum went mad as i had written "FREE LOVE" in that girly bubble writting on my text books...I had no idea...I was chatting to my hubby last night as we watched an old Top of the pops and all the groups I used to love had a similar look to how my now hubby used to look, hippy with long blond hair and some stuff on his face.....The Family, Jethro Tull, Yes, forgot some of the others!!
I used to buy my Jewels at woolworth and pretend to be engaged ::)...they also sold broken biscuits and mixed broken bits of chocolate..yummmmmmmm COurse the Co Op divvy and Green shield stamps...we had a cafe and got a lot of stuff from "Fine Fayre" so had tons of stamps and got a lot for my first house!!!
A lot of stuff changes names but similar..there was a thread on here about how tastes of things have changed, I bought some kit kats the other day and piggy that I am would have normaly eaten the lot BUT, they were horrid, just like the cheap nasty choc you would get from a market stall...not nice b ut thankfuly that put me off eating them all!!!!
Food I liked then were things like Brains Frozen Fagoots, mum loved Vesta ready meals (not me) the good old fashioned dandelion and burdock and of course ginger beer!!