Remember Saturday mornings at lukes lane estate when the pop lorry came round. We used to get a bottle of pop each, I had dandelion n Burdick, my little sis got cream soda, (she got lot more cream than soda when she got older lol) and my brother had sasperella. Where have all the good times gone eh, happy memories
That's the stuff, a blast from the past that. My dad & me put some home brew in some empties & a couple of them exploded.
I remember Villa pop, dandelion and Burdock was my fave- ****ing weird combo name that it is. Then taking the empties back to the local newsagent for some cash to spend on kets, primarily. Captive market or what. The meaning of 2 ounces or a quarter was different back then. Kets wasn't an abbreviation of ketamine, either!
Liked the Grotto in the summer but the Kittiwakes used to **** in your beer, beer mats were compulsory
Villas Sasp was nectar. Only bettered by the chemist on Gateshead high street who used to make his own. Don't know what he put in it mind
Metric was the worst thing that ever happened to British mental arithmetic. We didn't need everything with a nought on the end of it to calculate it in our heads. Three pounds of apples was 48 ounces (3x16 =48 and every 8 year-old knew it because every kid was interested in apples). But it didn't stop there - as senior quality inspector with a multi-national before I retired, I had a young trainee who would work out his measurements and then ask me to check them for him. He'd read them out, and if my head didn't match with what his calculator said, he'd re-calculate it. What we are finding now is that lazy minds produce inaccurate fingers. The Japs have it right. In their schools, you're not allowed to use a calculator until you're nine years old. You learn to use your head first, and then incorporate modern technology. I tell you, this country is f*cked. Our future is third world at best. And metric is very largely responsible for it. It's easier - yes. But that's precisely what's wrong with it. We don't need to think any more - and very rarely do.
He has spent a lot of time north of the boarder. Bet he drank meths when he fancied a different flavour please log in to view this image
Them bottles were purrrfect for home brew. Big bottles though and you had to drink the lot to avoid mixing yeast in the dregs
