Things that used to exist and now don't...

[Retromatic]

Birds Ice Magic (Ice Cream Topping, 80's)

And one I can't remember the name of, it was a desert from the early 90's - like a custard type thing you microwaved and had a separate sachet of crunch topping. Anyone remember the name?

 

[Mobius 1]

Birds Ice Magic (Ice Cream Topping, 80's)

that reminds me of an ice cream topping, which was a sauce (the chocolate sauce went hard on contact with the cold ice cream)

and came in a plastic bottle shaped like a small ice cream.

anyone know what this is?

 

[Minxy]

Ice Magic wasn't it? It was great so long as you shook the bottle hard first otherwise you got all that horrible clear solidifying agent come out on its own.

 

[Liampope]

^^ That would be Birds Ice Magic! Lol

 

[Smigly]

I think treat have brought something like that out. I was in asda the other day looking at ice cream sauces and I remember one of the bottles saying something about the sauce going hard on the ice cream.

 

[darkgen]

A tube of fruit sweets entitled "RADS" which appeared briefly in the mid 80's. Hard fruit case with soft sour syrup centre. A summary search suggests I've imagined this entity as I can find no reference to them whatsoever!

 

[Vampire]

C & A are still operating on the continent, there was one in Brugge when we went in November

There was one in Paris when I was there a while back, my GF dragged me in there.

I remember a chocolate bar called a "LOGGER" in the early 80's, they were lovely despite the slightly comical name.

 

[Smigly]

Fini-booms!!!! How many days I used to walk to primary school eating them.

 

[EyepodI]

The clown test screen on bbc when nothing was being broadcast when I got up as a kid in the morning!!

It's still there on the BBC HD channel on a loop with other stuff when nothing is being broadcast.

Spoiler

 

[Keltyx]

Turbo buttons on PC cases.

Those cheap polystyrene aeroplanes you could get painted to look like spitfires with little plastic propellers you stuck on the front.

 

[Mobius 1]

Those cheap polystyrene aeroplanes you could get painted to look like spitfires with little plastic propellers you stuck on the front.

i can confirm, that you can still get these


awesome childhood memories of losing them down the park in a tree, and climbing the tree to get them out


edit: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Box-Flying-Gilder-Plane-Kits/dp/B002WNSVHC

 

[arc@css]

I've never seen green tomato sauce before. Must have missed that one.

 

[gillywibble]

Slavery

I loved these when I was a kid.

 

[Nexus]

Birds Ice Magic (Ice Cream Topping, 80's)

The Birds brand may be gone, but the same product is still available in supermarkets from Silver Spoon.

 

[Smigly]

I've never seen green tomato sauce before. Must have missed that one.

Heinz did it as a limited edition product many moons ago. It was bizarre. I think everyone expected it to taste different because of the colour but it was exactly the same. I know people who wouldn't eat it just because of the colour. It was amazing though.

 

[Guerrilla]

TAB Clear, oh the novelty.

And the seemingly even more rare Schweppes Black cola.

 

[bignev72]

I think they still sell Um Bungo becauee they were drinking it on the lastest episode of Peep Show.

They sell Um Bongo in Waitrose.

I had some recently. It was disgusting

Totally not how I remember it.

 

[b3n]

Lucozade and Oasis... In glass bottles!

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

Being able to join an AOL chat room as an adult and make small talk with the children there, pretending to also be a child. Boy, some of them had potty mouths but we fixed that, didn't we Mr Stick? Yes, we fixed those potty mouths.

Also Chewits.

 

[Col_M]

Texas Homecare - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Homecare

The building is still there in Plymouth but no idea what it houses now, I think it was a Telewest call centre at some point.