1970s Old stuff

[pinkcolette]

Anyone remember any obsolete products of the 70s? Ones you hated / loved...

[tartanwiz]

Loved: Old Jamaica, Amazin bars, Juica Jims. Hated: Cresta (it's frothy, man), clackers.

[Jenny Tools]

Jubbly ice lollies

[Mortartube]

Liked "Funny Feet" and "Speckles" Ice lollies. Ice breaker chocolate and Golden Wonder Baked Bean flavour crisps. Also liked coconut tobacco and a finger of fudge. Hated Texan Bars and any time saving gadgets by Ronco/K-Tel i.e "Buttoneer".

[brawburd]

hated bry-nylon sheets!

[kags]

bath cubes - remember them? They were probably sandalwood scented, they would fizz a bit in the bath then sink to the bottom of the bath in a gooeey mess - you had to stay in the bath about 3 hours for them to dissolve. And you only had a bath once a week, in a freezing cold bathroom, so you could do without gooey water.

[BenDToy]

Creamola Foam, Quattro (canned drink), Breaker Malt Liquer, Russchian, Top of the Pops LPs. Must be hundreds more but these will do for starters.

[jmcglinchey]

The Ronco Vacuum Record Cleaner - was neither a vacuum nor cleaned your records

[jmcglinchey]

The Ronco Bottle Chopper - Cut the tops off bottles and converted them into glasses whilst gaving the user , a smile like the Jokers

[jmcglinchey]

Action magazine - the comic equivalent of the Video nasty

[jmcglinchey]

Letraset landscapes of the moon , forests,tec and you rubbed on figures and objects from a sheet where ever you decided they'd be best placed .

[Jenny Tools]

kags you had bathroom! blimey you was spoilt, we had ta make do wit tin bath in back yard. Cracking the ice in winter was bad enough but come summer we had ta share water with the pit pony. Ah the good old day hey.

[kags]

Juts remembered Old English flavour Spangles. The original ones were fruit flavour, very refreshing, then for some reason they brought out these aniseed & liquorice flavoured ones. Yuck.

[jills]

OOh Kags...good memory re the Spangles!! I actually LIKED the Old English flavoured ones. Also loved the original Ringos...cheese and onion. They re-vamped them and they were completely diff. texture and flavour...Bleuhhh!!!

[FTVS]

The Stylophone as promoted by Rolf Harris - how i wanted one of those! and what about "slime"? that was disgusting. Also can you still get "Shaker-Makers"?

[kags]

Ringos!! I had forgotten about them. And Shaker Maker was rubbish - you got these lovely jelly-like figures which shrunk to hideous wizzened little monstrosties. And the paint never worked properly. I wanted a stylophone, but my parents decided to surprise me on Christmas morning with a Bontempi organ instead. It probably cost double, but I was not impressed. I never got that Stylophone, and it has left me mentally scarred........

[kags]

Pilsbury Doughnut mixture - this was revolutionary, you HAD to be there in the 70s to understand just what an innovation in home cooking this was. My memory is of them dripping in oil, or it probably WAS cow's dripping. And remember the potato chipping machine? You needed arms like Geoff Capes to make it work.

[littleoldme]

Does anyone remember Mint Cracknel? Time blurs the memory, but I remember it being a long, flattish chocolate bar (like an elongated After Eight mint) filled with what can only be described as peppermint-flavoured shards of glass. Other sweets just rot your teeth - this one could shred your face. I do hope someone else remembers it - normally when I mention the stuff, I get looked at like I'm a bit odd. ...and Old English Spangles were just plain wrong!

[kags]

I remember Mink Cracknel, like little daggers the mint bits were - they would embed themselves in the roof of your mouth!

[Mortartube]

I remember mint cracknel, the minty bits stuck in your teeth. I've still got a stylophone, but only the standard cheapo white one, not the deluxe double stylus one.

[Hellion]

Jackie Magazine - I learnt everything I ever needed to know from Jackie (which I now discover was named after childrens author Jaqueline Wilson). Aztec Bars, Buying clothes in 'Van Allen', '2001''Biba' and 'Chelsea Girl' (renamed Top Shop) Birds Eye lemon mousse in an individual pack, Sachets of powder that made up a 'fresh' orange drink (can't remember it's name)Bazooka bubble gum. By the way you can still buy Russchian and Jubbly's (now called sun lolly's, much smaller - though maybe I've grown- and not cherry flavour) in Tesco's.