Things we used to do

[Hyslop]

Always wanted a walk it talkie, like they had in Daktari.
Never got one so made my own from mecanno, it was a "bit rubbish" .

Daktari!!!Now thats a blast from the past

 

[Illaveago]

Daktari!!!Now thats a blast from the past

I can remember that. Clarence the cross eyed lion.

 

[Illaveago]

Getting home in the afternoon from school and watching Do Not Adjust Your Set on I T V with Denise Coffee, David Jason, and most of the future Monty Python cast.

 

[Rezillo]

Nestles tinned cream on desserts. I loved it.

 

[Dirk]

Watching 'Lunch Box' presented by Noel Gordon.

 

[mybike]

OK, so if we're talking ancient technology, I wonder if anyone else had a 286 and added a Rampage 286 card to use expanded memory. If memory serves, I added 1MB

I seem to remember using Lynx internet browser as well.

 

[Fubar]

We used to queue at the telephone box on the corner to phone relations - great way to meet your neighbours and catch up on gossip.

 

[Tim Hall]

Nestles tinned cream on desserts. I loved it.

Nestles was pronounced nessles back then. These days it's ness-lay. (And we didn't know about baby milk campaigns either)

 

[Illaveago]

Nestles tinned cream on desserts. I loved it.

Do you mean Ideal Milk? If it was I can remember a Nestles lorry shedding its load where I lived. I was with my friends helping the driver collect the over turned load of tins. He said that we could keep the damaged ones, so a few extra ones were hidden in the brambles. We had Ideal Milk for ages.

 

[Illaveago]

Watching 'Lunch Box' presented by Noel Gordon.

What ! Meg Richardson from Cross Roads?

 

[Illaveago]

Nestles was pronounced nessles back then. These days it's ness-lay. (And we didn't know about baby milk campaigns either)

We had Nestles factory in our town. We used to call it Nestles as in to snuggle up.

 

[Dirk]

What ! Meg Richardson from Cross Roads?

Indeed!
The show usually featured 'Jerry Allen and his Trio'.

 

[Illaveago]

Doing a Harry Worth ! Whilst on the way to school if we passed by a shop with a large window we would stand at either end and take it in turns to lift an arm and a leg. Simple things please simple minds!

 

[Rezillo]

Do you mean Ideal Milk? If it was I can remember a Nestles lorry shedding its load where I lived. I was with my friends helping the driver collect the over turned load of tins. He said that we could keep the damaged ones, so a few extra ones were hidden in the brambles. We had Ideal Milk for ages.

Ideal milk was evaporated milk- which you opened with one of those things that put a triangular hole in the top of the can. Tinned cream was sterilised cream - the heat treatment gave it a slight caramel flavour.

I bought some tinned cream a couple of weeks ago on a nostalgia trip but it was a real let down as it tasted of nothing at all - looks as if they altered the heat treatment process and got rid of most of the distinct flavour. We used raw milk at home and consequently I thought the pasteurised milk at school tasted disgusting. Tinned cream, though, we all preferred to fresh cream as it had a stronger flavour.

 

[Bazzer]

Ideal milk was evaporated milk- which you opened with one of those things that put a triangular hole in the top of the can. Tinned cream was sterilised cream - the heat treatment gave it a slight caramel flavour.

I bought some tinned cream a couple of weeks ago on a nostalgia trip but it was a real let down as it tasted of nothing at all - looks as if they altered the heat treatment process and got rid of most of the distinct flavour. We used raw milk at home and consequently I thought the pasteurised milk at school tasted disgusting. Tinned cream, though, we all preferred to fresh cream as it had a stronger flavour.

Loved raw milk. Took me ages to get used to pasteurised milk when I got married, as raw milk wasn't available from the local milkman where we moved to.
Used to have to have steralised milk at my grandma's. . Could never get my head around milk with a,crown top on the bottle. Although she would sometimes relent and let me have pasteurised, but that bottle had to be kept in a bucket of water because she didn't have a fridge.