The small things you miss from days gone by ...

prowla

Old Jamaica rum & raisin chocolate bars.

RandallFlagg

Proper Chinese takeaway sweet and sour sauce with strips of carrot and a chunk of pineapple in it that tasted spicy rather than the sweet sickly orange jelly you get these days

robgilmo

Bod.

Teetonetal

randella said:

The slow trickle of new music.  I dunno, streaming's great and all, but I remember getting one album and rinsing it instead of mindlessly flicking through billions upon billions of choices.

I'll never forget seeing Motorhead for the first time in that Young Ones episode, pretty much wore out the VHS tape

I suppose it's just what you grow up with.

I feel that way more about films. They used to be in the cinema, then a year later on vhs, then another couple of years before going on TV.  TV premier was a big deal!

Emp_Fab

The 'knocker-upper'.  Used to come down the street and get everyone up in the morning....

robgilmo

merlin said:

Sassafras said:

Proper cannabis resin.
I used to enjoy a relaxing smoke of red or gold Leb in the evening. All you can get now is that filthy skunk crap.

I remember my dealer having three or four kinds of different combustible loveliness. Rocky that was compressed pollen, red and/or yellow Leb, some grass, occasionally Thai sticks, sticky black that was charas, temple balls..... 

Those would have been the days, if I could remember them. 

Knowing now what I didn't know then, that Black stuff was Afghan, Rocky was mostly plant matter, temple balls should have had opium in them, Thai was seeded so not sensi and most other things was just slate. Thai was my most favourite smoke though.


I dont miss finding lead, plastic, ground up vinyl records and what ever else in solids though, although today we have grit weed, ground up glass!

SNAKEBITE

The pace of life.

Being so into a film that it affected the way you dressed and everything you did (Back to the Future).

Just being with your mates wondering what to do next.

Finding wank mags in a bin liner chucked in the bushes in the woods.

Not paying bills.

Hope.

robgilmo

robgilmo said:

merlin said:

Sassafras said:

Proper cannabis resin.
I used to enjoy a relaxing smoke of red or gold Leb in the evening. All you can get now is that filthy skunk crap.

I remember my dealer having three or four kinds of different combustible loveliness. Rocky that was compressed pollen, red and/or yellow Leb, some grass, occasionally Thai sticks, sticky black that was charas, temple balls..... 

Those would have been the days, if I could remember them. 

Knowing now what I didn't know then, that Black stuff was Afghan, Rocky was mostly plant matter, temple balls should have had opium in them, Thai was seeded so not sensi and most other things was just slate. Thai was my most favourite smoke though.

portobear_65

People riding bicycles in ordinary clothes,

You never see an old man sitting on a park bench peeling an apple with a pen knife these days, was a regular sight in my youth.

Sassafras

Hats.
Everyone wore hats. Proper hats, not stupid beanies indoors.

EricTheWeary

prowla said:

Old Jamaica rum & raisin chocolate bars.

They are reissuing that this year. 

rlw

merlin said:

The only STDs being gonorrhoea and syphilis. Oh, and crabs.  

I was going to say being able to have sex with a stranger without a condom because you knew she was on the pill.

boogieman

Seeing the Corona bottles reminds me of the most exotic thing a kid could hope for: cream soda with a lump of ice cream in. The fabled Ice Cream Float. Had to be Walls ice cream, cut from a block with the waxy cardboard wrapper and Corona cream soda to be pukka. 

merlin

Tiger nuts. 

Philly_Q

EricTheWeary said:

Although the real but very rare treat was this:

https://i.imgur.com/9k2TKyY.jpg

There was an advertising campaign that really worked!  We were desperate to try it.  The first time we actually did, I don't know if the bottle had been shaken or we'd poured too fast, but it went all over the place and we ended up with a glass of froth with about half an inch of liquid at the bottom.

I seem to remember that some years later they changed the recipe, kept the Cresta name but it was just an ordinary fizzy drink.

EricTheWeary

Philly_Q said:

EricTheWeary said:

Although the real but very rare treat was this:

https://i.imgur.com/9k2TKyY.jpg

There was an advertising campaign that really worked!  We were desperate to try it.  The first time we actually did, I don't know if the bottle had been shaken or we'd poured too fast, but it went all over the place and we ended up with a glass of froth with about half an inch of liquid at the bottom.

I seem to remember that some years later they changed the recipe, kept the Cresta name but it was just an ordinary fizzy drink.

I don't know how reliable my memory is on this but our family holidays were nearly always a caravan in Porthmadog and one year I befriended another lad (I was about 11) and they were in a holiday apartment and they had bottles of Cresta. It was like a glimpse into another world. Cresta was sickly and fizzy I think, I probably only had a few bottles ever and yes I think they used the brand for ordinary pop later on.It's frothy man...      

guitars4you

Family trip to the cinema and then a slap up meal at 'The Golden Egg'  - Recall there was a chain of them - Probably a pre version of Frankie and Benny's 

guitars4you

Looking at the Green Shields stamp catalogue and working out what you could get

robgilmo

Did anyone have a lemonade man? Like a milkman only delivering bottles of fizzy pop? We had one for a while when I was very young.

boogieman

robgilmo said:

Did anyone have a lemonade man? Like a milkman only delivering bottles of fizzy pop? We had one for a while when I was very young.

Already mentioned in previous posts. We had the Corona man where I lived.