Off Topic How thinks have changed.

Class.

 

Or Narkies

 

Junk mail - leaflets and god knows what else being posted through your letterbox - when did this all start, en masse? Maybe the early to mid 1990s?

 

the pop lorry coming round on a Saturday morning, we used to get 3 bottles of pop on a Saturday to last the week and it was gone by sunday.
dandelion and burdock, cream soda and limeade.

 

Cream soda every time

 

Being able to watch television without the sound of yelling screaming whooping audiences. Especially when the camera shows a bored looking audience with their mouths closed, so we know the producers have edited in some noise or are using ''canned'' screaming. Canned laughter has always been bad enough

 

When I was a kid and too young to go to the matches on a Saturday, out would come the Cream Soda, mum would cut a thick slice of ice cream off a Walls block into the glass with the soda and a long spoon, could make it last for ages, lasted longer than Grandstand, I can taste it now, can you still buy Ice Cream Soda?.

 

We used to blitz it in a blender with ice cream, then it was like a tangy milkshake, it was probably minging but your taste buds change as you get older I believe.

 

We used to buy a tub of ice cream from the Louis ice cream van on Sunday's and then used to scoop some into a large glass and pour lemonade on top: lovely..

 

Too right they do.
Somethings I enjoyed as a kid would make me puke now.

 

I know, I used to hate olives, I quite like them now, starting to like sea food a lot more as well.

 

Can you remember the ginger ale in those ceramic brown and beige pots?

 

Was it Sykes's or Villa?

 

you brought back memories of my short trip down the street to my granda's house were I was always guaranteed a ginger beer from one of these bottles, and also often used to get a stick of rhubarb with a bowl of sugar to dip it in..

 

Aye class mate and if i remember you used to get money back off them bottles. We used to have rhubarb growing wild in the garden and when money was short, which it often was, my mother always made rhubarb pie. But as kids we used to snap a stalk off and dip it in sugar. Imagine asking todays kids to do that?

 

I still like rhubarb pie mind..

 

Prefer rhubarb crumble myself, i still liker the sugary top

 

Anyone have a party line on their phone back in the day? Where you shared your line with someone in your street?

Bloody hell, my son reckons a party line is a number you ring up to have a good time!

 

Dammit you 2!!! I'm going to have to go and get some rhubarb now and make a crumble and a pie!

I love rhubarb!!!