General Chat

Gordon Moore's toothpaste that made your gums pinker.

Anyone remember Drene shampoo, or Stayblonde? Mum always rinsed my white hair with vinegar and water to keep the shine.

hi everyone
i also remember the esso blue advert
does anyone remember the crisps with the salt packet in
i think they may have bought them back
when i was a kid mum used to take me to baldwins a herbalist shop in walworth road london still there now to get sarsperella from there pumps great stuff
dorothy teresa

OR, was Blue Nun the 70's favourite. Certainly in the restaurants that I worked in.
Julia in Derbyshire

Wasn't THE wine of the 70's Mateus Rose???

Linda :o) XxX

Zubes, Zubes are good for your Tubes.

Vesta paella was briill, could eat one right now. Probably overladen with salt.

Oh Yeah, Duraglit.

Fennings Little Healers. For the lungs?

Pinot Grigio - oops, sorry, wrong generation.

Well we have travelled a long way from the Germolene query, but it is a fascinating thread.

My Mother gave me a whiff of sal volatile or a sip of brandy each month! She carried a tiny aspirin bottle of brandy in her handbag, and I still have it!!

I remember Surprise Peas, and Vesta curries ........... regular parts of meals at uni and in digs!

Hi all,
Sharron, I knew that joke re. surprise peas, and was wondering if i should say it.!!!
Thanks to you ........ ha ha ha :.>)

Julia, yes the Vesta curry was also a treat (beef) especially. I could not even look at it now.!

Sharron,

In my button box is a key ring "Blee Dooler" - the little man from the Esso Blue advert. His head was like a flame with sticking up hair. That keyring must be about 45 or 50 years old!

Elisabeth

Jokes from school.
There was a time when you collected gifts with things,washing powder would give you a plastic flower with each packet, so.........


What do you get from Surprise Peas?

Yes,you guessed it,wet legs.

What has four bums and is blue?
Bum,bum,bum,bum Esso Blue.(The tune in the advertisement.)

Hi Sue and Julia
Surprise peas !!! Yes I remember them
As for Vesta meals I saw one on the shelf at Tesco just last week, it was the chow mein one. I had it for dinner when hubby was at work.................. wish I hadn't bothered it wasn't very nice. Especially compared to frozen or ready made meals we can get now. But it did take me back to when I was first married in the early 1970's.

Linda :o) XxX

Sue, hello, yes I remember both of these. I used to use the Surprise Peas.
Also, the Vesta Dried Curries, and their Paela. It used to be a Saturday night treat for us, after the kids had gone to bed, and we could not go out.
But then, there was something to watch on the Telly on a Saturday, if you stopped in.
Take Care
Julia in Derbyshire

Anyone remember Surprise Peas, dried peas in a packet which you just added water to.??!!!
And Vesta dried curries.?

You are right about there being Pink and Blue parrafin Rita. When I had a saturday job in a hairdressers one of my jobs was to go to the garage and buy the paraffin to heat the shop. Oh how I hated carrying that leathal can !!!! I had forgotten all about that until you reminded me.
I actually have a paraffin heater in my garage, it is one you can put a pot or kettle on the top of to heat through. We had it for the greenhouse in the winter, but we don't struggle to keep plants going now, just buy new each spring.

Linda :o) Xxx

I remember almost all things mentioned here! Threw out my last parrafin stove last year. I had cooked on it when in rooms and it was all I had apart from an electric ring.

Goodness Rita not that old !! Most of the names you mention I knew too and I hope that I'm not so old in remembering them.

Whose house always smelt of parrafin before the days of central heating ? It is something I remember of my grandmother. And being told never to go near as I would be burnt. Health and safety?????

Linda :o) XxX

Good Morning All
Madmeg, please forgive the spelling of Indian Barndy, or, Indian Brandee. It was from a childhood memory. I just wish we could get it nowadays.
So, even as a child I had stomach problems, that still persist today, but in a more adult versions.
How I remember my mother dosing me with this, a teaspoon in warm water, and soon going off to sleep. On waking, the pain had gone. Nowadays, it takes Morphine, to gain something like the same effect.
Have a good day everyone
Julia in Derbyshire

We used to be given Indian Brandee for monthly pains . it really seemed to work. I've since tried to find out what was in it but with no success. We used to buy it from the herbal shop.


Dad always took Carter's Little Liver Pills, said they kept him "regular"

I used to be given Calf's Foot Jelly ... I loved it, would have eaten the whole jar if I'd been allowed to!

Gripe Water contained a significant amount of alcohol ....... my daughter (born 1874) loved it as a baby. Now, she uses a herbal version, still called Gripe Water but bought from a naturpath.


I have Brasso and Silvo under the sink ......... now sold in plastic containers not metal.



When I had a cough, mum used to cut the top off a turnip, hollow it out, and put brown sugar in the hollow. She then left it for 24 hours, then would give me a teaspoonful of syrupy liquid that formed.

If Dad had a sore throat, cough or thought he was coming down with a cold, he would get the largest onion he could find, and eat it raw.


ah, memories!



We now have people bring us Rinstead Pastilles from England, the only things that I haven't found a substitute for over here.




sylvia

Before the days of sheer protective gloves we would use Rozalex barrier cream.

What about Zubes. We all had Zube tins in primary to keep our crayons in.