I ain't seen that in...yonks!

[joybee]

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Hi Steve - there are three or four threads on the Soda Stream on here ( Just enter soda stream in Search to find 'em) One of the best is a discussion on flavours -

https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/t...ht=soda+stream

There are also loads of mentions of Pink Panther bars - some pics too - in Defunct Sweets. This time use Search in the thread itself ( top right of each Thread Page above the first post on the page) to easily find all references

[steveffisher]

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Pantherpink reminded me of Soda Streams. They're still around. I saw some machines the other day, and they're still frighteningly expensive. Pink also reminded me of the Pink Panther candy bars, which I will now go out to investigate whether they're still made. I can taste that strawberry candy right now. *Drool!*

[Trickyvee]

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I was lucky enough not to need them but do you remember the awful NHS glasses kids were given back in the 70's? The boys always had the black rimmed ones and the girls had either the blue or pink rimmed ones. No wonder there was such a stigma attached to wearing specs back then. I remember a friend of mine had to have some glasses and his parents forked out the cash for some gold wire framed ones which were much more flattering. I don't think he got taunted with all the 'four eyes' insults that the poor NHS wearers did. Every other spectacle wearing kid in my school though had to wear the freebie ones.
Ironically it would appear that they are deemed retro now cos this place has them for sale
http://www.retrospecs.co.uk/catalogu...=1&s_id=2&pg=2

It's true, on all my school photos all the kids with glasses have the same horrible NHS frames. On a similar note, you don't see many kids with one of the lenses clouded to fix a lazy these days. Neither do you see many people with one built up shoe. A woman on my estate didn't even have the shoe. She had a metal thing attached to her normal shoe. I suppose there are some great medical procedures in place to fix such things now.

[Trickyvee]

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Yay at last!!! proof, and I promise they did have metal lids you prised off with a bottle opener being sold as from the 70's

I remember all of these bottles. When I was little, fresh milk came in the middle bottle and UHT milk came in the tall bottle on the left. Where I am from we used to call the UHT milk 'puro' milk.

[Richard1978]

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The height of sophistication!

I was talking about this picture recently, there was also one of an African woman tinted green.

[glam_racket]

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The height of sophistication!

[pantherpink]

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Wow! Dial a Disc lol! I vaguely remember that, but no doubt was banned from using it as I would have run up a fortune on the bill.

Soda stream was shockingly bad. I can still remember how horrible the fizzy orange tasted. yuk.

Round here, don't know whether all areas did it, but when the milk bottles changed to the short stubby ones, they started filling them with orange juice too. It was nice juice actually.

[Richard1978]

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Thanks for that!

[Heather74]

[Richard1978]

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Quosh is one of those products that seemed to vanish overnight. I remember the bottles were a strange shape, a bit like the schlur ones.

There was also a range of Quosh in small cartons, advertised by an alien who drank them by sticking the straw in his ear!

[Richard1978]

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I remember my local Co-op having sterilised milk in bottles like that, & wondering why they had a solid metal lid rather than foil.

[Heather74]

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Actually does anyone else remember the Glass milk bottles, with the long narrow necks, and metal lids you needed a opener for??? I cant find a picture of one to post

Sure you're not 74 Heather? They sound really old, I only remember them with foil tops although I do remember long narrow necks.

Yay at last!!! proof, and I promise they did have metal lids you prised off with a bottle opener being sold as from the 70's

[Teejay]

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My toilet still has one and it's an indoor loo in a flat lol!

I had one when I lived in a council block on Old Kent Road!! Southwark Council had to replace the cistern though as it had a very high asbestos content... oh how I miss the squalor...

[Teejay]

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I had a soda stream for xmas when they came out, I think mine had two free flavours with it, one was tonic water and the other was orange I think, the tonic was still almost full when it got made redundant about a year later

Get busy with the fizzy.....

[Teejay]

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Watney's Party Seven - I was too young to drink this but I do remember always seeing them the night after my parent's entertained - always a number of triangles cut desperately into the metal in order to get the beer out quicker!

Dial-a-Disc - before the Internet and MTV, the nearest we had to choosing music to be played to us without having the music ourselves was to dial something like 151(?) and listen to the tinny, quiet and crackling rendition over the 'phone. I can't believe that myself and my friends found it exciting

Aaaaaah!! Dial-a-Disc. I used to do that too, the number was 160!! Wasn't it something to do with Woolworths? It was **** really wasn't it?