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Post by althea on Jan 26, 2021 3:48:58 GMT
I remember Libby's corned beef. I think my nan had some tucked away under her bed, along with some tinned peaches.
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Post by ARENA on Jan 26, 2021 8:27:32 GMT
Do you remember They not only made you slim but made you beautiful too ! My mum , who had a very healthy appetite, used to have her usual meal and finished off with a couple of Energen rolls to take care of the weight.
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Post by jonjel2 on Jan 28, 2021 16:43:38 GMT
Ice patterns on the insides of the windows and the smell of the fire being lit every morning, then rushing down to get dressed in front of it.
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Post by ARENA on Jan 31, 2021 12:31:00 GMT
Mum and I used to go to the cinema, we'd share a box of poppets, she'd have all the soft centres and pass the nuts and toffees to me. She'd give them a squeeze, if they didn't give they were nuts or toffee
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Post by goodlookingone on Jan 31, 2021 18:00:16 GMT
I remember when People went to Cinema's. I particularly remember seeing "Bambi", whilst eating crisps from a bag.. One taken during the darkness seemed to need LOTS of chewing... I asked mum for help ... It seems I was chewing the little blue wrak of salt.
Chrisps wouldn't be the same without Smiths "little blue bag" in the packet.
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Post by ARENA on Jun 9, 2021 14:25:47 GMT
Just spent a nostalgic afternoon watching
No doubt about it we have lived through the greatest years of dance. I spent my youth watching musicals in the cinema and it was magic.
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Post by althea on Jun 10, 2021 16:43:51 GMT
I was only young when I watched Fred Astaire and Judy Garland doing the We're a Couple of Swells routine, in Easter Parade, but I can remember it clearly now and I know all of the words.
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Post by toots on Jun 11, 2021 17:31:16 GMT
Radio Malt was an early to mid-20th century brand of malt extract preparation that followed the Minadex trend. Produced by British Drug Houses, it contained vitamin A, aneurine hydrochloride, riboflavin, and calciferol. The contents were sickly sweet, with a consistency between molasses and treacle. Oh, Arena, you mentioned Minadex - the bane of my childhood. I only had to walk into the doctor's surgery and he would give me a bottle of Minadex. It was thick and olive green IIRC. I hated it. Just seen this. I must have had pints of the stuff, I actually liked it however the taste is ingrained in my memory as I can taste it now
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Post by ARENA on Jun 14, 2021 7:15:58 GMT
and powdered eggs
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Post by themanwhoknewnothing on Jun 14, 2021 8:07:22 GMT
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Post by themanwhoknewnothing on Jun 14, 2021 8:08:36 GMT
Can't remember how they tasted.Not very nice I reckon.
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Post by jonjel2 on Jun 14, 2021 11:45:40 GMT
The powdered egg made acceptable omelettes I think. Seem to remember it was imported from the USA?
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Post by rwthless on Dec 13, 2021 22:30:24 GMT
Our school cook used to make brilliant rice pudding/ When I asked her secret she said National Dried Milk. She didn't cook it until it was solid the way my mother did.
I also remember Minadex. Not very nice, but nothing like as horrible as Scott's Emulsion. It tasted fishy and I hated it. One wet spring our lambs were dying of a Vitamin K deficiency and I told my parents there was Vitamin K in Scott's Emulsion. They didn't believe me until I told them to read the label on the back. We had to sacrifice our vitamin supplements to the lambs. I'd have preferred Brimstone and treacle.
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Post by clioseward on Dec 22, 2021 8:29:03 GMT
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Post by ARENA on Apr 3, 2022 9:58:22 GMT
Oh yeah, we could bust a few moves back in the day!
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