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'bout now Wrote:

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> Bovril is indeed alive and well being dished up in

> Football grounds up and down the country,

> generally in the thinnest of plastic cups and

> ALWAYS at 97 C.

>


Yep, I can confirm this. Last cup I had was too hot to drink so I took the lid off to try and cool it down. Proceeded to spill half of it down the front of my nice white t-shirt. Was called bovril breasts for the remainder of the day.


Back on topic - I used to love Dream Topping and butterscotch Angel Delight. Mmmmm

Sherwick Wrote:

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> I remember something called space dust in school

> (in the late 70s) - it kind of crackled on your

> tongue..


I remember that too. Am sure it wasn't healthy but was great fun. And Wham bars that were chewy bars with what tasted like chunks of space dust in them.

Wham bars are still readily available at most corner shops.

Liquorice torpedos.

Pear drops.

Anacede balls


What I also miss that I'm not that young to remember is when sweets were withdrawn from a large glass jar with a metal trowel, measured in imperial weight and placed in brown paper bag. Nowadays they are savagely scooped from a plastic tub by a knuckle dragging mouthbreather who along with the state of their hands would make even Nigella gasp and on my last trip to the 'mini mart' the cashier had human flesh between his teeth!

Lemonade Sparkle ice lollys (always preferably to Mini Milk, in my opinion).


10p - bargain! We would never have even considered asking for a Cornetto, it was a Sparkle or a Mini Milk or nothing. None of your poncy expensive lollies.


Mind you, it always really annoyed me that on the very rare occasions my dad would splash out and buy me a proper cornet, it would make you really thirsty, but you weren't allowed to have a drink as well. It was always "you can have a drink OR an ice cream". Of course, you'd go for the ice cream, because you were ten, and not yet capable of thinking these things through sufficiently. Nowadays, splendidly, I can buy myself a Cornetto and follow it up with a can of beer, and nobody bats an eyelid! Being an adult is great.

PinkyB Wrote:

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> Lemonade Sparkle ice lollys (always preferably to

> Mini Milk, in my opinion).

>

> 10p - bargain! We would never have even considered

> asking for a Cornetto, it was a Sparkle or a Mini

> Milk or nothing. None of your poncy expensive

> lollies.

>

> Mind you, it always really annoyed me that on the

> very rare occasions my dad would splash out and

> buy me a proper cornet, it would make you really

> thirsty, but you weren't allowed to have a drink

> as well. It was always "you can have a drink OR an

> ice cream". Of course, you'd go for the ice cream,

> because you were ten, and not yet capable of

> thinking these things through sufficiently.

> Nowadays, splendidly, I can buy myself a Cornetto

> and follow it up with a can of beer, and nobody

> bats an eyelid! Being an adult is great.


Yeah, but I bet you don't eat your bloody dinner after it, do you.

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Who remembers "Ice Magic"? A chocolatey sauce you

> squeezed onto your ice-cream, at which point it

> set solid.

>

> http://www.childofthe1980s.com/2009/03/18/birds-ic

> e-magic/


I remember it. Mum used to carefully ration how much we were allowed to have, used to get a ticking off it we were too greedy. Was yummy though.

I remember Mr Freeze ice poles, ClareC, I used to have a four-a-day habit when I was in secondary school. The brown one (ostensibly coke, I think) was by far the best flavour. The blue ones (raspberry?) were good as well, they turned your tongue blue. A bit like Slush Puppies. You can still get them (Mr Freezes), but they're about 20p now.

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