The No1 penny sweet AKA pick n mix

[Kippaxpete]

Chocolate tools. My fave being the adjustable spanner.

I thought that was the title of an, ahem, specialist interest magazine.

 

[Kippaxpete]

Bit of a deviation from the thread but does anyone remember a strange fizzy drink available in the 70's called Cresta? Looking back, it was probably concocted using a particularly unhealthy combination of harmful chemicals. TV commercials for it featured a polar bear wearing sunglasses whose catchphrase was 'It's frothy man'.

 

[Kippaxpete]

Bit of a deviation from the thread but does anyone remember a strange fizzy drink available in the 70's called Cresta? Looking back, it was probably concocted using a particularly unhealthy combination of harmful chemicals. TV commercials for it featured a polar bear wearing sunglasses whose catchphrase was 'It's frothy man'.

I've definitely got too much time on my hands.

 

[urban genie]

Bit of a deviation from the thread but does anyone remember a strange fizzy drink available in the 70's called Cresta? Looking back, it was probably concocted using a particularly unhealthy combination of harmful chemicals. TV commercials for it featured a polar bear wearing sunglasses whose catchphrase was 'It's frothy man'.

 

[Maintainin]

I've definitely got too much time on my hands.

The R Whites Lemonade 'Secret drinker' one is another culprit!

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I recall you.could get 4 black jacks or fruit salads for an old penny (I used to get 2 of each)
And then decimilisation came in and it was 2 for 1p.
Never felt so ripped off (as an 8 year old kid) in my life

 

[Kippaxpete]

A man after my own heart. Perhaps the greatest band to grace God's own earth.

 

[Kippaxpete]

The R Whites Lemonade 'Secret drinker' one is another culprit!

Interesting fact. Elvis Costello's dad, Ross McManus, composed and sang 'I'm A Secret Lemonade Drinker' in that very TV ad for R White's.

 

[tregyblue61]

I recall you.could get 4 black jacks or fruit salads for an old penny (I used to get 2 of each)
And then decimilisation came in and it was 2 for 1p.
Never felt so ripped off (as an 8 year old kid) in my life

I was the same with chocolate logs - used to be 2 for an old penny which meant 480 to the £. Along comes decimal, it's still 2 for a penny but only 200 to the new pound. Robbing bastards!

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

Without going all monty python/4 Yorkshire men. I never had sweets as a kid or pop. We were to skint. When I was about 8 I used to walk home from school with a lad who would call at his dad's business and get money off his grandma. We'd then go to the sweet shop and he would buy a selection of all those listed. Never gave me one.
I had a new friend when I was 9

Is that why you don't buy beer?