[Bangbang]

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 ?

[robert waddell]

Fry's 5 boys chocolate

[Sandy]

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...

[robert waddell]

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

[Brucklay]

Is the Fry's the dark chocolate bar with sweet centre - loved that - not seen one for a long time

[Bionic]

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

[Brucklay]

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

[robert waddell]

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

[doganjo]

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?

[Bangbang]

Where do you rub it in ? (OH asked me!) 

[Sandy]

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!! 

[Haylo-peapod]

Hmm, I'm feeling a tad old fashioned here. I've got both germolene AND Frys in the cupboard. 

[suziequeue]

Chemico

Pink creamy stuff

Used to come in big tubs. We used to use it to clean the baths at school.

[Rosemary]

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 and now those rubber corsets are called bodyshapers but still just move the fat around 

[suziequeue]

I'm sure many of these things are still in existence - they've just been re-branded and re-packaged.