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Things we bought in the 80/90s we cant buy anymore
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Can think of lots of think we can buy but now they're miniature. Mars bars, Wham's, curly wurlys.
Used to be able to buy tab cola, virgin cola, can of quatro.
Salt n vinegar puffs.
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A lot of the old sweets etc are back in the shops. |
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"Can think of lots of think we can buy but now they're miniature. Mars bars, Wham's, curly wurlys.
Used to be able to buy tab cola, virgin cola, can of quatro.
Salt n vinegar puffs.
A lot of the old sweets etc are back in the shops. "
They're back but a fraction of the size! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Can think of lots of think we can buy but now they're miniature. Mars bars, Wham's, curly wurlys.
Used to be able to buy tab cola, virgin cola, can of quatro.
Salt n vinegar puffs.
A lot of the old sweets etc are back in the shops.
They're back but a fraction of the size! "
Yeah! I thought my hands where just bigger now, but yeah they are smaller! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Can think of lots of think we can buy but now they're miniature. Mars bars, Wham's, curly wurlys.
Used to be able to buy tab cola, virgin cola, can of quatro.
Salt n vinegar puffs.
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Curly Wurly's are still available. I had one the other day.
How about the half pence piece? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Can think of lots of think we can buy but now they're miniature. Mars bars, Wham's, curly wurlys.
Used to be able to buy tab cola, virgin cola, can of quatro.
Salt n vinegar puffs.
Curly Wurly's are still available. I had one the other day.
How about the half pence piece?"
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"7" singles  , Oh how I miss Saturdays with my mates in the record shops. Happy Times  "
I used to collect all the flyers for raves. Fantasia. Obsession. Dreamscape etc. Still had them up until about 5 years ago. |
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"7" singles , Oh how I miss Saturdays with my mates in the record shops. Happy Times
I used to collect all the flyers for raves. Fantasia. Obsession. Dreamscape etc. Still had them up until about 5 years ago."
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"Can think of lots of think we can buy but now they're miniature. Mars bars, Wham's, curly wurlys.
Used to be able to buy tab cola, virgin cola, can of quatro.
Salt n vinegar puffs.
A lot of the old sweets etc are back in the shops.
They're back but a fraction of the size! "
apparently its called shrinkflation
Eg .the yard of Jaffa,cakes is now only 28 inches long ( has now got 40 Jaffa,cakes in it compared to last years,48). These manufacturers are having a laugh at our expense .
Next year it will probably be only 24_inches .I think someone needs,to go back to school to see what a yard is actually . another is the topic bar( used to claim a hazelnut in every bite,)...now its find the hazelnut |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Fat wagon wheels "
There was a documentary on the other week that dispelled that much.
Apparently the size has never changed!! Maybe it was just us, being smaller? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Decent Doc martens
I've got some oxeblood 8hole docs,only 5 year old £200 fucking hell !!"
Yep. But the made in England in the old lasts line went bump. And they were sturdier in the day |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Sandwich spread, though I think they recently re-release it under another name. "
I e brought the ones in jars for years. I usually put it on toast though or French bread. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Decent 501’s
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Good one, what the hell has happened to them?
A to Z map books. Well you probably still can get hold of them but really, what's the point?
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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Decent 501’s
Good one, what the hell has happened to them?
A to Z map books. Well you probably still can get hold of them but really, what's the point?
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Just in case you're driving somewhere with no phone signal or twatnav signal. |
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"Ninja Death Stars and those butterfly knives 
We used to make our own with 3 Stanley blades and superglue "
I made mine from 2.5mm plate steel. I would spend all day cutting them, then filing the edges so they were razor sharp. My dad wondered where his steel kept going. Summer holidays were great! We used to make chinese arrows and giant longbows as well. The longbows were over 6 feet and you had to lie on your back put your feet up and the bow would go across your feet. We never once "took anyones eye out"!
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Two tone trousers."
Youth identities. Sounds funny at first but everyone looks the same today pretty much. Youth culture has become a slave to the likes of Nike or Adidas. In the late 70's and 80's we dressed in a display of who or what movement we wanted to follow. We had an identity.
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"Sandwich spread, though I think they recently re-release it under another name.
I e brought the ones in jars for years. I usually put it on toast though or French bread. "
You can still buy it. I have some in my fridge now. Yum |
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By *VxrMan
over a year ago
Newton le Willows |
"Those global hyper technicolour t shirts (is that what they were called?) that changed colour with your body heat "
Completely forgot about these. I was never allowed one as they were too expensive lol |
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Eclipse clothing, for some reason it was the absolute height of fashion at my school from '94 to around '96. It was jeans, jackets and sweatshirts, mostly black with cartoon like pictures of druggies embroidered on. |
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By *VxrMan
over a year ago
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"Eclipse clothing, for some reason it was the absolute height of fashion at my school from '94 to around '96. It was jeans, jackets and sweatshirts, mostly black with cartoon like pictures of druggies embroidered on."
Ha, same at mine along with spliffy jeans |
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"Eclipse clothing, for some reason it was the absolute height of fashion at my school from '94 to around '96. It was jeans, jackets and sweatshirts, mostly black with cartoon like pictures of druggies embroidered on.
Ha, same at mine along with spliffy jeans "
I remember Spliffy but anyone who wore it got ripped at my school as it was seen as knock off Eclipse by the popular crowd |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Eclipse clothing, for some reason it was the absolute height of fashion at my school from '94 to around '96. It was jeans, jackets and sweatshirts, mostly black with cartoon like pictures of druggies embroidered on.
Ha, same at mine along with spliffy jeans
I remember Spliffy but anyone who wore it got ripped at my school as it was seen as knock off Eclipse by the popular crowd"
Don't see kappa much either too |
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"Eclipse clothing, for some reason it was the absolute height of fashion at my school from '94 to around '96. It was jeans, jackets and sweatshirts, mostly black with cartoon like pictures of druggies embroidered on.
Ha, same at mine along with spliffy jeans
I remember Spliffy but anyone who wore it got ripped at my school as it was seen as knock off Eclipse by the popular crowd
Don't see kappa much either too"
It's come back with a vengeance, ever since Justin Beiber did that "Sorry" video a few years back I've seen a massive resurgence of girls wearing kappa and 90's style Adidas |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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M&S did a choc bar that was like a combination of a mars bar and a bounty with glacé cherry pieces in it too - I can’t remember what it was called but it was fantastic and I wish they still made them |
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"TDK C60 cassettes"
Used to use C46 ones, a good many albums fit on those without to much blank space at the ends. Still can get them though thanks to the internet.
Concert tickets from Record stores, for less than a tenner too. No booking fees either. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Anyone else remember those trolls they were about 5 or 6 inches tall with long bright hair
For some reason you still see those hanging off the bottom of some people's cars  "
perhaps they are trying to relive their youth |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Puff crisps, God I loved themcan't you still get them "
I think the factory that made them burned down in the early 90s. If you see them let me know. I'll buy them in bulk lol |
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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago
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"Game cartridges, obviously you can still play the games through emulators or buy second hand consoles and cartridges, but you can't buy new ones! Remember blowing in them to make them work? "
Try playing games on cassette tape |
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"Game cartridges, obviously you can still play the games through emulators or buy second hand consoles and cartridges, but you can't buy new ones! Remember blowing in them to make them work?
Try playing games on cassette tape "
I remember those too, playing Sabre Wulf on a ZX spectrum and Strykers Run on a BBC Acornsoft  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Does the Christmas Lorry still go around in yiur area. When i was a kid there was a float lorry with santa on the back throwing sweets at us. "
if you think back they were all the local nonces
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By *estivalMan
over a year ago
borehamwood |
"Spangles
.. I loved spangles
Hear hear
And Quatro the drink, amazing "
loved the quatro drink used to drink cans and cans of the stuff. think tropical rio is about the closet ya can get to it now |
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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago
the right frame of mind -London |
"TDK C60 cassettesUsed to use C46 ones, a good many albums fit on those without to much blank space at the ends. Still can get them though thanks to the internet.
Concert tickets from Record stores, for less than a tenner too. No booking fees either."
Don't you mean C90's -which could hold a complete album on each side? -I used to use the C60's for mix-tapes but never really heard of C45's meself. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Does the Christmas Lorry still go around in yiur area. When i was a kid there was a float lorry with santa on the back throwing sweets at us. if you think back they were all the local nonces "
Don't know I left home when I was 15 and moved away. |
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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago
the right frame of mind -London |
"Cheap houses in all the now popular places ie London/ Seaside towns"
Yeah but I wouldn't like to buy them on the wages I was earing at the time -don't think my paper round could quite cover the moving costs let alone the deposit. |
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