Where are they now?

[HLaB]

What familiar brands do you remember from your youth that are no longer around or around enough to be visible? For me it's:

• Duckhams oil
• Pan Am airlines
• Tizer drink
• Radion washing powder
• Compaq computers
• Commodore computers
• Amstrad electrical equipment
• Panda Cola
• Michael Barrymore - yeah I know he aint a brand, but he was huge a while back.

Without going through 6 pages I think Compaq merged with, or were bought over by HP and Michael Barrymore decided to withdraw from the media after all the scandal with the bloke dying in his pool; I don't know about the rest.

 

[Hover Fly]

Think the rum one had a pic of a ship on it.

Very very nice.

Old Jamaica, which finished with a few others abouy 1995 but returned recently.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Old Jamaica, which finished with a few others abouy 1995 but returned recently.

1995?

I must have been eating out of date bars circa 1999 then!

IIRC, the Firkin was normal chocolate, but had white chocolate on the top half of the blocks. I can't remember if it had anything else in it.

 

[Arch]

1995?

I must have been eating out of date bars circa 1999 then!

IIRC, the Firkin was normal chocolate, but had white chocolate on the top half of the blocks. I can't remember if it had anything else in it.

Are you sure it was Firkin? I remember it, but not the name.

I'm also thinking of Tiffin, that had raisins and biscuit in I think, but I don't think that had the white chocolate...

 

[slowmotion]

Luncheon Vouchers
X ray machines in shoe shops so you could see your foot bones in the shoes... an insanely dangerous radiation hazard to the shop staff.

Oh dear, I really am a tad old

Edit: Sorry, I saw those two disappear, not appear.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Think the rum one had a pic of a ship on it.

Very very nice.

Spot on!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Are you sure it was Firkin? I remember it, but not the name.

I'm also thinking of Tiffin, that had raisins and biscuit in I think, but I don't think that had the white chocolate...

It might have been a Tiffin actually now that you say, but one of them certainly had white chocolate tips to the blocks and I thought it was a Firkin ( possible corruption of Tiffin in my mind, although you are saying it was yet something else).

Hmmmmm, I'll have to think about it.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Looks like it was a Top Deck, but I remember the blocks being properly formed like a Cadbury's bar instead of them being rounded like in the pictures:

http://www.cadbury.com.au/Products/Blocks-of-Chocolate/Top-Deck-Block.aspx

 

[Arch]

Looks like it was a Top Deck, but I remember the blocks being properly formed like a Cadbury's bar instead of them being rounded like in the pictures:

http://www.cadbury.com.au/Products/Blocks-of-Chocolate/Top-Deck-Block.aspx

Yes! Top Deck is the one I remember....

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Yes! Top Deck is the one I remember....

Now seeing them, I now remember others too, such as the Black Forest one. Seems some are still going too.

 

[TheDoctor]

Black Forest is still available in NZ. Cadburys milk chocolate with cherry flavour jelly bits in.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Black Forest is still available in NZ. Cadburys milk chocolate with cherry flavour jelly bits in.

Which is all very interesting and all, thanks, but (and I might be wrong) I have a sneaking suspicion that it might just be a bit of a long (and at times wet) walk with the dog* to the nearest corner shop selling them, but thanks for the headsup anyway.

Besides, what if the shop is closed when I arrive?



* - She's only ickle and has 3 legs, so she might get a bit tired after a few miles and I'd have to carry her....

 

[TheDoctor]

I appreciate it's a long way away, but I saw some when I was there, so I thought I'd mention it.
NZ could really do with exporting Hokey-Pokey ice cream. I'd buy it by the bucketful.

 

[Maz]

one for the S Yorks/N Derbys brigade - I really miss Redgates toy shop - I went back and took some photos last year - the building's very tatty and abandoned, most sad.

Yeah - that was a great toy shop - top of the Moor/Furnival Gate!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Borders!

I loved that shop on Buchannan Street. Waterstones on Suchiehall Street has never quite been the same somehow.