Gone from the shelves...

[gemi_babe]

going on from the brand name post, I remembered a product I use to love as a kid, but cannot buy today as they have left the supermarket :(

chikadee's.... anyone remember these yummy chips (crisps for the english:p )

Are your favourite items gone but not forgotten? What were they?

[vsquizz]

Yep, it was a big fat paypacket, It had a staple through it and it was full of Real Money. I Really miss that! :)


Cheers

[jackiew]

has anyone else noticed that you can't buy small packets of cheese and onion crisps ( chips to you lot ) in a lot of places now - you can buy the 100g packet but not the 50g.

I wish that you buy individual packets of crisps smaller than 50g ... 50g is too much for one person but I find it really hard to either hang on to half a packet for another day or lob half in the bin. Standard size of a packet of crisps in uk is smaller ( 30g?).

Anyone heading UK-wards I recommend nice and spicy flavour "nik naks" - they are the best snack food ever. Now those I wish you had on the shelves here.

[gatiep]

Try the South African shop in your state for Nik Naks. The ones in Perth import them from South Africa.....my kids go ape about them!

[vsquizz]

What I miss is how easy it was to get an icecream at the corner shop or the servo. There was;

Choc Wedge
DrumStick
Twin Pole
Giant Sandwich
& a Little bucket of plain vanilla ice cream:D

I think I'm socially inadequate when I look in the freezer now:o , there's nothin in there I recognise and about 60 choices of what I don't recognise.:eek:

It used to be much simpler.

Cheers

[MarkV]

What I miss is how easy it was to get an icecream at the corner shop or the servo. There was;

Choc Wedge
DrumStick
Twin Pole
Giant Sandwich
& a Little bucket of plain vanilla ice cream:D

I think I'm socially inadequate when I look in the freezer now:o , there's nothin in there I recognise and about 60 choices of what I don't recognise.:eek:

It used to be much simpler.

Cheers
I totally agree with you Look at the types of bread for gods sake:eek:

[vsquizz]

I totally agree with you Look at the types of bread for gods sake:eek:Nope, don't do that, bought SWMBO a bread machine:) .

The toothpaste and bog roll shelves are pretty daunting too. Just how much consumer choice crap do we really need for something to scrub crud off our fangs and off our bums??

Cheers

[ozwinner]

Nope, don't do that, bought SWMBO a bread machine:) .

The toothpaste and bog roll shelves are pretty daunting too. Just how much consumer choice crap do we really need for something to ??

Cheers
If you dont want choice, go and live in Russia. :D :D
Over there you have only the one thing to scrub crud off your fangs, and off our bum.

Al :D

[Zed]

I remember the song :

"Chickadees, chicka, chicka-chickadees they're chicken flavoured and crunchy..... Chicka-deeeee's !

I like all the breads available now - thank what ever god you hold dear that we have a multiculutral society that bought all its breads overe here.... remember when we were kids and your choices were simple : Buttercup white or brown. boring as bat$hit!!!

[simon c]

nice and spicy flavour "nik naks"

mmmmmmm

[oges]

Got the Chikadee factory around the corner from me, not sure if this is the same place you are referring too. They have a shop in a shopping centre here but I havent been there in a few months so it might have closed.

[silentC]

When I go to the supermarket I get confused by all the ingredients. I don't know whether to wash my hair with it or eat it.

[vsquizz]

When I go to the supermarket I get confused by all the ingredients. I don't know whether to wash my hair with it or eat it.
or wipe ya butt

[craigb]

What about Choo Choo Bars?

These were aniseed flavoured lollies that were about 4" long and tasted great.

They came in a paper wrapper that had a graphic of a, guess what, choo choo train, on it.

They lasted for ages, and you got this seriously black tongue form eating them.

Don't know if you ever had them in WA.

[AlexS]

What about Choo Choo Bars?

These were aniseed flavoured lollies that were about 4" long and tasted great.

They came in a paper wrapper that had a graphic of a, guess what, choo choo train, on it.

They lasted for ages, and you got this seriously black tongue form eating them.

Don't know if you ever had them in WA.

Remember them well - they were the best thrippence worth in the lolly shop, and guaranteed to pull out any loose teeth.

[vsquizz]

What about Choo Choo Bars?

Don't know if you ever had them in WA.
Its Wait Awhile not wait forever. Naawww we was into Redskins. Thought I was gunna need a pair o pliers to pull the damm thing off the roof of my gob a couple a times.

Cheers

[craigb]

Remember them well - they were the best thrippence worth in the lolly shop, and guaranteed to pull out any loose teeth.

And Alex mate, you can't buy then today for love nor money.

I just wish I knew who used to be the manufacturer so I could ask for the receipe :D

[gemi_babe]

yeah redskins and milko's.... have seen redskins in the shops but not milko's

cobbers were good too :D

[silentC]

Choo-choo bars! I haven't thought of them since I was in short pants. My cousin and I used to nick softdrink bottles from the show ground and trade the empties in for a choo-choo bar each and a bag of mixed lollies - 3 for 2 cents - then we'd go and sit on a roof somewhere (can't remember that bit, just remember the roof) and eat them all.

Anyone else noticed that when you do get hold of something like that you remember from when you were a kid, it doesn't taste as good?

[gatiep]

We had candy sticks like the Choo-Choo bars in S. Africa, didn't have a name and had a liquorice flavour as well. Another was some black Niggerballs ( hope it's politically correct nowadays, anyway it was in the days we're talking about) that lasted forever and also made your toungue black. As kids we couldn't steal them out the pantry because the evidence used to show whenever you spoke for hours after sucking one.

:)

[Don Nethercott]

I remember the old penny gobstoppers. One penny for a huge (was it an inch diameter) round ball that kept you sucking all day - and I think it ended up with bubble gum in the middle.

Really miss the Milk Shakes - best gunk in the world for stopping leaks in the petrol tank - chew up a bit of this and stick it over the hole and it would never come off. I think it must react with the petrol.
Did this once but when I went to remove the patch a month or so later couldn't remove it even with a cold chisel - still there as far as I know.
Don

[Iain]

Remember the days of the drive in, if you had a good sort you bought maltesers, not so good she got a choo choo bar.
You could pick the blokes with the scrubbers at the interval, they were the ones with the black ring around their mouth :p
(Quote from an old Paul Hogan show)