sweet dreams and strange names

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Can anyone remember the Aztec chocolate bar or Spannish wood that you chewed forever and odd brand names like akdo i think duraglit dont know if some of these are still around taylors pop sorry taylors just come to mind there used to be a pop that was delivered to your door that began with a c but not carona or carters think cresto or something simlar i think arond in the 70s.

[Fynger 841]

can still get 'chewing wood ' ( Liquorice root )

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Just thought lung healers later changed to lun jeelers because misleading to customers i remember these were a orange cough drop and our neighbour on wilford grove sucked them all the time is nick name was howdy man because thats the way he addressed people he was a dark west indian guy we found it funny that he always had a bright orange mouth

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Fynger thats the stuff it lasts forever but surprisingly tastes like wood horrible really.

[tomlinson 879]

Yes, liquorice wood, or Spanish root we called it. I tasted some a while back and it was rotten. Did anyone else eat pitch? I seem to remember eating the chips of it from large blocks used for road mending. I hope to be resurfaced soon.

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do you have a chip on your hard shoulder tomlinson

[carni 10,094]

Tomlinson #5

Yup i remember eating the Pitch, we used to get it from Parks Corner when the church was being built, There used to be big pieces on the pathway to the old building where The Brownies was held and we would pull a chunk of and chew it. Don't fancy it now though. Lol

[katyjay 5,091]

re#1, I remember Acdo, small box of soap powder, I think.

[fch782c 144]

Can anyone remember the Aztec chocolate bar or Spannish wood that you chewed forever and odd brand names like akdo i think duraglit dont know if some of these are still around taylors pop sorry taylors just come to mind there used to be a pop that was delivered to your door that began with a c but not carona or carters think cresto or something simlar i think arond in the 70s.

Could the soft drink to which you refer be called Cresta. The advert featured a polar bear drinking a bottle of pop and saying "Its frothy man"

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Thanks fch782c spot on mate doing my head in trying to remember it tasted crap but they seemed to shift it but not for long

[tomlinson 879]

do you have a chip on your hard shoulder tomlinson

Kerb your humour sir! I refuse to go down the path of silly jokes! (Rats -No, I think I'll ptich in)!

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tar for that what a sauce (tar tar). tar ra fa now.

[Bilbraborn 1,594]

Oxydol soap powder and Omo soap powder. Ola washing up liquid. Can you still get ezy squezy washing up liquid?

I know there used to be Gerrards soap. We all know why there isn't any more.

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Barnips and imps

[denshaw 2,872]

Alpine was another pop firm that delivered, there was a Polish guy worked there Mr Dropusabottlapopov.

[Merthyr Imp 729]

Top Cat, the cat food - which when it was introduced caused the BBC to rename the cartoon series of the same name Boss Cat so as not be seen as advertising it.

[Fynger 841]

can still get 'imps'....they're in a plastic box now tho

[FLY2 10,108]

What about Zubes ? They were a type of cough sweet.

[loppylugs 8,429]

"Tizer". The appetizer. Remember it in the corner store early 1950s. Not sure who made it, could have been Redgate. Funny yellow/orange color. Not very appetizing.

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Tizer i think they still make that i think it now comes under the Barrs label with Iron bru

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Midland counties ice cream raspberry ripple on a stick lubly jubly banana on a stick they where really nice

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palma violets tasted like perfume

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Binghams or Sutherlands potted dog

[Bilbraborn 1,594]

Mitson's chocolate. Made in a large house on Sherwin Road Lenton 'til old man Mitson died.

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home made toffee apples and bonfire toffee .