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My most least liked product of my childhood would have to be IZAL TOILET PAPER.....

The cod liver oil that my mother made me drink when I was sick. What made matters worse was that I was allergic to seafood, and this just made me sicker. Her idea, though, was that it was just "cleaning me out."

Camphorated oil

Camomile lotion

Now....if only my mother had realised I was allergic to detergent, it would have saved her a fortune in buying the pink gunk that she used to have smear on me periodically and I might have been able to have a bike.

Iain

lobscouse! the way my mother made it looked like dog puke, and tasted like it looked.....ketchup helped

I'll go too with cod liver oil (with malt extract in uk)hated the stuff but typical of post war free NHS products. Virol on the other hand anyone remember that?

Remember the malt and cod-liver oil stuff, but not the virol.

School milk was shit, because where I went it wasn't kept refrigerated. So on a hot day...you can imagine the rest...

Regards

Skoob.

Virol...that rings a bell....but I can't remember what it was.

Virol - thick sticky malt extract with vitamins

from the days when you drank Lucozade only when you were ill rather than disgustingly healthy as they do today.

Don't mention bastard Lucozade.

When I was about 11 years old. I contracted Yellow Jaundice.

No fats whatsoever for six to eight weeks.

All I had was cress and tomato sandwiches (with no butter) and bastard Lucozade.

Couldn't even have a proper cup of tea.

Regards

Skoob.

Memories.........

Yes I DO remember Virol....browny stuff....didn't mind that as much as cod-liver oil....which was served to us 'mixed' in with our NH orange juice each morning in the Infants...mixed, I jest, it floated on top.....mocking us.

Virol...I'd long fogotten it's name Lynton. Thanks!

Now Lucozade I didn't mind because we didn't get it very often. That was the one good thing about being ill...that and..if you had to stay in bed...you could bang on the floor and our mam would come running upstairs to see what I wanted....whilst I reclined reading my comics...

I bought some Lucozade when I was in UK last year...but it just doesn't taste the same as I remember.

I don't know what they've done to the litlte 'cherry lips' and other sweets they've tried to 'bring back'...but they just haven't got the recipe right. Hmm! Parma Violets...I loved them.


Lady G.

Max Bygraves

Dave King...missing a finger (or two)

He always ended his programme with, what I think is a super phrase:

"May your god go with you!"

Lady G.

Dave Allen, surely?

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Dave King...missing a finger (or two)

He always ended his programme with, what I think is a super phrase:

"May your god go with you!"

Lady G.

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Christmas Day..

A bottle of Blue Nun..

Or a bottle AND a blue nun.

Better a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!

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Christmas Day..

A bottle of Blue Nun..

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Sunday dinners before I got married....mam cooked (and still does) every vegetable she could get her hands on...

Dad'd make us shandies...

If we had company we'd bring the table from the small kitchen, into the living room. Mam doesn't have a dining room.

LG

Sorry this should be on Nostalgia Thread....I'll copy and paste.

Dave King was the Corona man in the advert - remember that one??
and all those bloody Singalongamax albums
Max Bygraves - 'Out of Town' ah those were the days


Sodding Ronco products did anyone ever use them?

Give us some examples please...Ronco products...??

The Ronco Buttoneer - Sort of sewed buttons on with plastic things

The Ronco Miracle vac and crumb sweeper thing that had a revolving plastic paddle that swept up lego like skoob clears bars

Ronco records popular tracks on an LP lots of them so many in fact that they faded them out 30 secs before the end and pissed everyone off


K-Tel Records too bit better ah the Rubettes, Showaddywaddy etc. (of course I was quite old at the time)

apparently all that tat is now highly collectable

Stone axe

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Stone axe

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Showing your age Jimbo

100% Wool clothing.