4 a penny when I was a kid in the mid 50's. They were known as 'farthing chews'.englishangel wrote:Fruit Salad and Black Jacks were 2 a penny (old pennies) if you are over 40Vonny wrote:There's a similar one for the 90's - have also seen good ones for the 70's & 80's but can't find them at the moment.
How you know you experienced the 90's:
1) 10p Mr Frosty Ice Pops on long summer days!
2) Gordon the Gopher!
3) You could do or tried to do the Prodigy step. 'You're no good 4
me....'
4) You owned or longed for an Adidas three stripe tracksuit
5) You owned a compilation tape with TOP TUNES such as "Mr Vain","What
is love" and "Rhythm is a dancer" and 'How Bizarre, How Bizarre"
6) Girls thought Blue Mascara was cool!
7) Girls actually fancied Garry Barlow more than Robbie Williams
The Racoons! (nuff said)
9) You owned a pair of Nike Air Max, and wore them to death
10) Mr Motivator (What ever happened to him?)
11) Running on the spot dancing!
12) You wore leggings/cycling shorts with long t-shirts
13) You owned a Bennetton, NafNaf, sweater shop jumper or waistcoat
14) Girls owned scrunchies in an array of colours and tacky headbands
with their names written on in thick glitter
16) You bought Smash Hits for the song lyrics and the immense amount of
stickers that you would stick everywhere!
17) You had a pen pal
1 You could only watch the Simpson's on sky
19) On a Saturday afternoon you watched Catchphrase, Gladiators,
Generation, Game, Noels House Party and ! then Casualty
20) You taped the Pepsi Chartshow on radio one and tired in vain to
pause the tape before the annoying guy talked and ruined the whole
thing.
21) Cans of Coke were 25p
22) 10p Space Raiders Crisps
23) A grey Fruit of the Loom jumper was a must have
24) Sharkie & George were the crimebusters of the sea
25) Puffa jackets
26) You used the line "it's a free country" every day
27) The Sky Sports Blimp!
2 Impulse body spray for girls
29) Hooch Alcoholic Lemonade (where's it gone?!)
30) 'Don't forget your toothbrush', 'TFI' and Big Breakfast with Chris
Evans
31) You had at least one troll
32) You know the dance to Macarena and Saturday Nigh! t. You also tried
to scat like Scatman John! Bi bat ba ba da bo...
33) You watched Baywatch and longed for the day that Eddie & Sharni got
together!
34) You watched Byker Grove 'ha ha ha whatcha laughin at!' (thethemesong
ending), and saw PJ get shot in the eye with a paintball!
35) PJ and Duncan not Ant and Dec! Dodgy Pop Not Dodgy Presenting!
36) Shellsuits & bumbags!
37) You longed to live in Beverley Hills 90210
3 Home and Away was a prime time ITV programe watched by millions
39) You owned a Spice Girls album
40) Fruit salads and black jacks!
41) Strike it lucky on a sunday night with Michael Barrymore when he was
straight & married
42) Chain letters
43) You had fake ID
44) You remember Todd Landers in Neighbours
45) You religiously watched Saved by the Bell on a Saturday morning!
46) You more than likely lost/nearly lost a wobbly tooth on a wham bar!!
47) CK one (probably the fake one from the market)
4 Going Live, then Live and Kicking was the place to be on a Saturday
Morning - you know you remember the number 0181 811 8181
49) You knew every word to the theme tune from Fresh Prince of Bel Air
50) You collected Premier League Stickers and did swoops at playtime
51) Girls wore crappy lipstick such as - coffee shimmer, heather shimmer
and birthday suit!
52) You wore kickers and wallaby's with the tags hanging from them
53) You thought saying - "I know you are, you said you are but what am
I" to every cuss that that came your way!
54) "love got the world in motion" with the John Barnes Rap
55) when you used to run away from some thing and shout ' legiiiiiitt'
(WOOOOPS ! Showing my age again !!)
And at the same time I used to spend a lot of my holiday time on my Mum's friends dairy farm. Milk my 'favourite' Guernsey cow, (Mayflower XIII - the herd leader), into a cup in the milking shed and drink it warm. A meal in itself.
