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Barchullona said:
Get away. Still don't come across many sweet shops with most of those in though. Was in one in Helmsley a few weeks ago and they had quite a few of them. The flying saucers, to me, used to be like chewing thin cardboard. Used to love fruit salads and blackjacks.
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They've made a bit of a come-back, as have old fashioned sweet shops and it's much easier to get hold of these things than it was ten years ago. Though I saw a Sherbet Fountain in my local supermarket at the weekend and it was a plastic tube and didn't have a liqourice sticking out the top. A pale imitation.
 
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originallambrettaman said:
They've made a bit of a come-back, as have old fashioned sweet shops and it's much easier to get hold of these things than it was ten years ago. Though I saw a Sherbet Fountain in my local supermarket at the weekend and it was a plastic tube and didn't have a liqourice sticking out the top. A pale imitation.
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Another thing which was a favourite when young.
 
Whatever happened to the smokers set I used to get every Christmas?

Big chocolate cigars, liquorice pipes with red sprinkles stuck on top of the bowl, coconut loose baccy, and sweet cigarettes in a proper packet. Also chocolate cigarettes with foreign labels round them made of rice paper.


Haven't seen them for years.

Oh, the innocent pleasures of youth.
 
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Ernie Shackleton said:
Whatever happened to the smokers set I used to get every Christmas?

Big chocolate cigars, liquorice pipes with red sprinkles stuck on top of the bowl, coconut loose baccy, and sweet cigarettes in a proper packet. Also chocolate cigarettes with foreign labels round them made of rice paper.


Haven't seen them for years.

Oh, the innocent pleasures of youth.
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The new versions have a chocolate bong, sweet joints made from marzipan skunk...and a licourice crack pipe
 
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Barchullona said:
Get away. Still don't come across many sweet shops with most of those in though. Was in one in Helmsley a few weeks ago and they had quite a few of them. The flying saucers, to me, used to be like chewing thin cardboard. Used to love fruit salads and blackjacks.
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Just what I used to think with flying saucers, but it was worth the disappointment of the outer part to get to the sherbet inside.
 
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Ernie Shackleton said:
Whatever happened to the smokers set I used to get every Christmas?

Big chocolate cigars, liquorice pipes with red sprinkles stuck on top of the bowl, coconut loose baccy, and sweet cigarettes in a proper packet. Also chocolate cigarettes with foreign labels round them made of rice paper.


Haven't seen them for years.

Oh, the innocent pleasures of youth.
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It' s hard to believe now ain't it.
 
LeftSaidFred said:
I’ve definitely seen baggage handling equipment made in Hull at Heathrow, I assume Fenners, so possible.
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Wasn’t it Fenamec rather than Fenners, who made baggage handling stuff. I went for an interview there when i got hoofed out on the scrap heap, after my apprenticeship finished. Obviously failed miserably in the interview....
 
Not everyone's cup of tea but I have made, what I consider, a purchase of the year up to now, Carole Kings Tapestry, 50p, from a charity shop. A CD sleeve with the words and although some of the songs are not to my liking there is enough to have played it constantly on my computer. A few of the songs stand out for me but I blame it all on that show I went to see not so long back at The New Theatre, Beautiful when it dawn on me, belatedly, very belatedly, how brilliant her song writing was, helped by her husband, and then ex-husband Gerry Goffin.
 
C'mon ref said:
Not everyone's cup of tea but I have made, what I consider, a purchase of the year up to now, Carole Kings Tapestry, 50p, from a charity shop. A CD sleeve with the words and although some of the songs are not to my liking there is enough to have played it constantly on my computer. A few of the songs stand out for me but I blame it all on that show I went to see not so long back at The New Theatre, Beautiful when it dawn on me, belatedly, very belatedly, how brilliant her song writing was, helped by her husband, and then ex-husband Gerry Goffin.
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Good choice.

Where you lead, I will follow. Anywhere that you tell me to.
 
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