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Married to Night Train
Mineral water. Who'd have thought that a bottle filled with water would over take water...... From.... A .... Tap.

We collect recycling from some houses where we wonder if the mains have been turned off, as they get through a dozen 2lt bottles a week.

Still, there are some where they get through that much cheap cider, so maybe the water is better.
 

Pat "5mph"

A kilogrammicaly challenged woman
Moderator
I remember the days when you had to go the chemist, to buy .....
.... olive oil :eek:

And I remember the first baker in the Aberdeen area to bake croissants and French bread.

Hey - I can even remember garlic starting to become a "normal" everyday ingredient.

[As in ...
  • Week 1 - Dad, "That's nice!" Mum, "It's a new recipe I found."
  • Week 2 - Dad, "Now that really is good! I like this recipe." Mum, "I thought it sounded good - glad you like it so much."
  • and so on, until Week 7 - Dad, "So what's in the recipe that makes it taste so good?" Mum, "Garlic and ...." Dad, "I'm not eating that smelly muck ..."
Bless him - he did become much more adventurous in food, but his first steps were SLOW!]


I remember 27 years ago, when I first came to live in Scotland: the supermarket had nothing to eat that wasn't tinned :eek:
There was only cheddar cheese on offer :eek:
You could only get bread good just for for making toast xx(
 

Christopher

Über Member
Fresh pasta in the supermarket - decent bread too (I was a child in 1970s America and remember how both items just could not be bought at the time)
Friends (the camming device for climbing) - you now have a reasonable chance of not cratering when falling off a flared crack climb
LED lights
Fleeces - remember what we had to put up with before?
Waterproof tents that don't weigh 350 pounds
 

Mad Doug Biker

Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
I remember 27 years ago, when I first came to live in Scotland: the supermarket had nothing to eat that wasn't tinned :eek:
There was only cheddar cheese on offer :eek:
You could only get bread good just for for making toast xx(

To be fair though, you were in Pound Stretcher at the time! :laugh:
 

vernon

Harder than Ronnie Pickering
Good thread Tim. THE INTERNET FFS!

I remember when the Internet was text only.
 

vernon

Harder than Ronnie Pickering
Out of topic,but what we should realise is............Laptops are getting smaller,Mobile are becoming bigger:wacko:

Akin to a similar phenomenon predicted by Nicolas Negroponte that wired communication devices become unwired and unwired devices become wired - look at TVs and phones
 
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