Products you miss

[tyred]

12v bulbs. They're obviously no longer manufactured judging by the amount of cars going around with missing lights.

 

[Andy in Germany]

On the street, not online, model shops.

We have one of those near here: the owner laments the fact he can't stock 'proper' stuff like glue and detail parts because no-one locally would buy them

 

[classic33]

We have one of those near here: the owner laments the fact he can't stock 'proper' stuff like glue and detail parts because no-one locally would buy them

Nearest "old fashioned" in Birstall closed some years ago. Leaving Crosssgates as my nearest.

With postage restrictions, you'd think there'd be a need for them.

 

[roadrash]

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[classic33]

Super Mouse chocolate bars

 

[classic33]

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The deposit available on the larger glass bottles, now it's all plastic.

 

[Freds Dad]

Chocolate cigarettes

 

[NorthernDave]

Cadbury's Fuse

Quatro - the finest canned soft drink you could briefly buy in the mid-80's:


And I can't remember who made it, but there used to be a mixed fruit flavour squash / cordial that was bright blue, pretty much exactly the same colour as screenwash*. It tasted blooming lovely.
I thought it was Kia-Ora, but Google seems to think not...

* - this may well be the reason you can no longer buy it...

 

[Freds Dad]

Milk Tray Bar

 

[LarryDuff]

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I loved the Aztec bar.

 

[Crackle]

Mattessons Liver Sausage. I virtually lived on it once.

 

[Drago]

Mattessons Liver Sausage. I virtually lived on it once.

What, you ate lots of it, or you found a giant one and pitched a tent on It?

 

[Salty seadog]

Y fronts. A man simply can't get a decent pair of polyester Y fronts these days.

Surely you can't miss those. Just stretch the elastic on your daily mail back page trousers and look down.

Bam ... Straight back to the eighties.

 

[Crackle]

What, you ate lots of it, or you found a giant one and pitched a tent on It?

Giant Liver Sausage; that was just a dream

 

[classic33]

Mattessons Liver Sausage. I virtually lived on it once.

Potato Mix?