Do you ever wonder what happened to...

? seeing as we are the same era Brenda I remember them all!

Chicken in a Basket

cheese suffle

Fondue

Miracle Maid cooker!!

Now, prawn cocktails was my ultimate starter - think it still is and BFG was my dream dessert, I used to make my own....... hated it when I couldnt see it on the menu but the burger was lost on me.. think my main courses used to be chicken kiev lolol that was fancy!

Chicken Kiev was posh!!

Don't remember maryland Chicken.

Steak cut chips

I had chicken in a basket on honeymoon but Borneo is a long way to go for it Sherrie ☹️ It was delicious.

Jules the indians here still do Chicken Maryland.

I wish they would bring back Cremola Foam, I feel my kids are missing out on this teeth destroying sweet treat!!!

I'm a 60's child ?

I am 47 next birthday!

Ooh, I like a nice prawn cocktail starter, and chicken in a basket for that matter.

Anyone want to roll out watneys red barrel at their wedding reception??

Remember party six small barrels Peter??!

My Dad tried to open one with a screwdriver once & soaked my Mum & the kitchen ! ?

I recall party 7's and party 4's...all foul beer tbh.....

Possibly we should extend this thread to what your regular first regular alcoholic drink was....that might show how things have changed there too.....

Re food: anyone remember the minute steaks you used to get from the supermarkets.....sort of a woven cloth of beef...

Mine was Cinzano & Lemonade!!

As soon as I was pregnant with my first baby 24yrs ago I was as sick as a dog on it and haven't touched it since.

I dont know what half the stuff you're talking about is ? but i miss tab clear!!

Does anyone remember Space Dust??

It was like sherbert/candy and when you put it on your tongue it exploded!!

Yeah, I remember space dust.

What about soda streams? Can people even be bothered anymore?

Or Mad Dog 20/20, lime and kiwi yum yum.

Oooh I remember Soda Streams!

Why people just didn't buy a bottle of pop I'll never know.

Mr frosty? do they still make those, when you had to crush the ice?

Salt & Shake crisps with the little blue bag of salt in!

Think you can still get those Sherrie, along with dib dabs and wham bars. Ooh want one of those now.

Do you recall the Corona Lorry coming around every week???

It was Ben Shaws near us, bottle of very coloured orange pop, dandelion and burdock and the green one, can't remember the name.

He still does the rounds.

Another thing I find amusing is something from our youth that has long since disappeared from the UK....you then go abroad and find that it is still a common item in that foreign country...a classic example of this is OMO. Massive in the UK in the 70s and 80s before disappearing although still a big seller abroad...

We had Corona, I remember OMO washing Powder and also the Paraffin man , Esso Blue & Pink!

In "those" days, we had a weekly corona delivery, daily milk, separate weekly egg delivery man in van and separate daily bread delivery.

And of course, there was always the warm peanuts and cashews from Woolworths.....served from a scoop in to a white paper bag.

BTW, I am not "that" old, despite all the posts I have written....

And from the ice cream man, do you recall the Jubbly's <sp>....triangular shaped orange flavoured ice blocks?? Massive size too....

We still buy Junnlies! They seem so much smaller now though, maybe it's becuse our hands have grown!

What ever happened to Green Shield stamps then? Did anyone collect Embassy Cigarette coupons for gifts? I used to when I smoked about 30 years ago. When I think I gave myself bronchitis every winter just to get a pair of Dorma pillowcases! Do they still do No6 cigs? or Park Drive? When I started work at 15, I tried to be posh and smoked Consulate (Menthol Cool!) but they gave me a sore throat so I switched to No6.

I remember the Corona lorry with Cristavite pop which you used to blow bubbles into and make pink. I loved the orange jubbly triangles! Other things which were mega that are sadly no more - Spangles (although I think they did try and revive them at one point) Arrow Bars - long, thin strips of flavoured toffee. I had a very nasty accident with an arrow bar when I was little - I was playing on my Grandma's garden wall with an arrow bar in my mouth and I slipped and it went through the roof of my mouth God it hurt like hell and what made it worse was it as one of those frothy flavoured ones. Yuk!

My first regular alcholic drink was lager and blackcurrant. Ask for one of those in a pub and you get funny looks! In Yorkshire, it was always known as lager and black - wouldn't be considered politically correct to call it that now. What happened to Babycham with a cherry on a stick and snowballs? Steak Canadians, Trimphones, Sheepskin car covers, go faster stripes, vinyl roofs on cars - Ooo I miss vinyl roofs. I went out with a lad who had a Ford Capri with a burgundy vinyl roof - drop dead gorgeous - the car, not him!!

Theres no shortage of Fondue over here - the season has just started and theres about 30 different varieties in our supermarket (but then I guess thats no surprise in Switzerland!). Also Soda streams are still really quite popular here - every supermarket has a section for them...

Space dust - yup loved that - you can still get it though - so much so that they has a couple of episodes of come dine with me with it in the desserts a little while ago...

Love a good prawn cocktail. And scampi in a basket....mMMMmm!

My first alcoholic drink which got me drunk was MD20/20 - never touched it since! Although I do remember my nan always buying me a babycham when I was about 9 or 10 - am sure she didnt realise it was alcoholic!

Yeah, that's so true - I've seen Pepsodent toothpaste, OMO, Oxydol, etc abroad. Peter do you remember Barry in Heinz Beans? "What's a demonstration Barry? Barry..."

Oh, Im pretty sure Ive seen OMO washing powder here actually....and my favourite - those chocolate covered mashmallow cake things which here are called "Super Dickmans"! ?

Super Dickmans! ? I love that! You can still get those - they're called chocolate teacakes - used to be made by Burtons. Me and my brother used to woof them back whole in one go - yummy!

Me too!

Ooooo - do they still do those caramel wafer biscuit things....cant for the life of me remember what they were called - came in a proper folded foil wrapper in silver and red I think....they were yum....