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Just to expand on a couple of postings in a thread a few days ago, what do you miss from your youth, I don't mean being able to see you toes without your belly being in the way, or your boobs staying in the same place when you take your bra off..... but things like Aztec bars as leighbloke mentioned, or anything you particularly loved that now you're a grown- up, you don't feel you can indulge in (like Nesquick or Rainbow drops!) because it makes you look daft!!!:D:D

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Them little biscuit things with piped icing sugar on top, WTF were they called?????

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midget gems!!

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No they're like wine gums!! Iced Gems, thanks for the nudge!!

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oh you are right!! i liked those scented floral gums too yum!

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Were they called Parma Violets, they were something Violets, little purple ones that tasted like flowers?

Garibaldi biscuits.

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No they were gums, tiny litle ones, you can still get Parma violets though, and giant ones too!!

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Floral gums were like cherry lips - liked them too!!

and that coconut tobbacco (if in doubt double letters!!) stuff

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thats why we have children so we can still buy black jacks, penny sweets, flying saucers and flumps and share, one for you and two for mummy have you not played that game:rofl::thumbsup::thumbsup:

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Black Jacks = black tongue & loose filling!! ACE!!!!

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The coconut tobacco was called Spanish Gold.

What about chocolate tools, jamboree bags, sherbert pips, World Cup Willie lollies, Glees and Anglo Bubbly chewing gum packs with collectable cards in them. I remember the American Civil War cards were the first I collected in the early 60s. But I might be a bit older than you.

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I loved 'chewing tobacco' and bazzoka bubble gum. There is a shop in Herne Bay that sells all the old fashioned sweets. but sometimes, they just don't taste the same!

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space dust - exploding in your mouth :eek:

hubba bubba

10p mixes at the tuck shop at school

mint choc chip twin top from the ice cream man

wearing leg warmers and looking COOL :thumbsup:

being able to roller skate without falling over and breaking my ankle

thats a few off the top of my head

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I used to love the space dust :thumbup: If I remember right, it was bright orange.

Leg warmers were fab, I remember wearing mine with jeans and white court shoes :blink:

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What about toys?

Chad Valley Bowl-a-Strike, Johnny 7, Etch-a-Sketch, Spirograph and 3 colour torches.

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LOVED my spirograph

and was fantastic going out on my BMX (yes I was a bit of a tom boy)

and who could forget ATARI - PAC MAN and Space Invaders (bought a version of that for my pc but its not as good as I remember) and before that commodor 64, what a nightmare they were :rofl:

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The little pictures you held up to the light to see, they were given with the round packets of cheese triangles (Dairylea?)

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The 64 was the amount of kilobytes of RAM it had. I don't think I could use Photoshop on one of those. Mind you my first mac - a IIci I think - only had 5 megabytes.

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It's strange this nostalgia thing, I'm supposed to be working but little memories keep floating back over the mists of time.

When mum sent me shopping I used to have to quote her Co-op number which I can still remember now, 40 years on. If I came home without the saving stamps there was hell to pay.

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36206:D

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Yo Yo competitions at Saturday morning pictures.
Black and white Flash Gordon serial every week, I bought a DVD of it a few weeks ago at a car boot in Fuengirola. lol

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Oh yes, Saturday morning pictures - 6d to get in I think :p

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Just found a clip of Flash... I thought it was magic :rofl:

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:thumbsup:

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I've stiil got a whole bagful of silver sixpences. I use them as golf markers. Does anyone remember the Corona man?

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:thumbup: I do :p

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Yep, and bottles with the wired on top, shake like hell then flick the top off. lol
Even better a bottle of coke, put a sugar cube on the top and smack it in with your hand, empties the bottle in a nano second. ;-))

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Taking empty pop bottles back to the pub to get the deposit back.....we used to sneak into the yard, get the bottles then go in to get the deposit :sneaky:

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I bought a bottle of Tizer a little while back. It was bloody horrible. Tastes change I suppose.

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I used to have a Sindy doll and a tiny tears doll.

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My mum used to give me a bowl from the kitchen when the ice cream van came round, and he used to fill it with ice cream for us.

Also remember asking the ice cream man for a cup of coke with a blob of ice cream in.

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Weren't Sindy an inferior British copy of Barbie, like Tommy Gunn was of Action Man? Not calling you Pikey or anything. Oops I hope Lee Ryan's not reading the thread.

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I dont know the answer to that one, but I dont think I knew about Barbie when I was younger.

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Yup, we used to buy cream soda and lemonade, my little sister couldn't pronounce it and so her word, lemmolade became the 'family' name for it, my Mum got a very strange look when she asked for it!!
We also used to have an egg man, and a flower lady, who was a true Romany, and used to sell lovely plants door to door!

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Never mind Lee Ryan - Marco Pierre White is a very sexy man.

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Yep, and who remembers the rag and bone man.

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Have you read White Slave - it's brilliant.

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I will now!

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Rainbow drops, 1d for a bag, just loved them had a bag every day at lunch time and two on Saturday. Fruitsalad's and blackjacks 8 for 1d or 4 for 1/2d
can even remember 2 for a farthing:eek:. Mojo's, jublee's:thumbsup: (orange flav) had a shop near my school where you could buy a glass of fizzy pop (get me fizzy pop:o) for 1d. Love the Spanish Gold and monkey nuts oh and those little lollypops that were made of two coloured chalky stuff, you can still get them but they don't taste the same. Chocolate covered bananas and milk bottle the original ones that were covered in a fine white milky powder, my dad used to buy me a 1/4 every Sunday on the way to my aunts house. Think I had better stop now could go on for ever, oh those were the days my friend's 1953 - 1964 the best sweets ever:thumbsup:

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I can remember buying sweets at "four a penny" which is a farthing each, so that would add up as you are a few years older than me - ha ha!:)