Blondie 1,392 Posted January 20, 2015 Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 Still never heard of them....... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
terence12 725 Posted January 20, 2015 Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 players 555 fags, never could keep em alight Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 Methinks you mean State Express 555 Terence. A brand that originated in 1893. Manufactered originally by the Ardath tobacco company (UK) but then bought out by the British American tobacco company.(BAT). I think they finished production of the brand in 2008. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 chitterlins ,tripe and breast of mutton On the odd occasion that I buy lamb or mutton I get it from the local farmer. That way I get a whole beast for the price of a couple of joints. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
terence12 725 Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 ah, compo, interesting, about 555 history, i ended up on No6 tipped after years of smoking Capstan full strength and woodbines, remember smoking Camel and Passing Cloud, oval fags, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,872 Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 When I was about 17 I started smoking silva thins, different coloured cigs and others, trying to look cool. When I look back at all the money I spent over 30 years of being a smoker it makes think what I could have bought. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 Terence 12: You were lucky! I couldn't afford No.6 and had to smoke No.10s....Cue the four Yorkshire men Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PeverilPeril 3,284 Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 Whips and Tops? Window breakers were banned first but then even turnips got the chop. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ivor Thirst 120 Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 We all still "spend a penny" but at least we don't have to make sure we always have a penny in the pocket....just in case.... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
don walker 122 Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 and every Friday night was syrup of figs night when I was very young,it was that or that bloody chewing gum , what was that called,, with in about 3/4 of an hour you were on the loo . there were 4 of us kids and we had to line up for a dose, there was no way of getting out of it , the old lady made sure of that Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 We all still "spend a penny" but at least we don't have to make sure we always have a penny in the pocket....just in case.... No - it has to be 20p pieces these days - in London at any rate. (Four shillings, no less - that's inflation for you.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gibbo 04 188 Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 Blimey Ivor, that bought back memories, I aint seen Spanish Gold for donkey's years!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 I can still remember the taste of that stuff. Very moreish. It's still available, but not called Spanish Gold anymore. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 #1917 And when you got older it was a pint or two of Shippo's 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tony1 118 Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 Spangles........ I loved them, they were threepence and had lots of different flavours, you could suck them for ages........... Spangles were the Sunday treat when dad went to pay the papers at Stones paper shop High Church Street in the 50's Real teeth rotters, though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tony1 118 Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 'Spitting Prohibited' sign on buses. Izal toilet paper 'OUCH' or cut up newspaper and magazine paper on the nail. Geometry sets A bit of kidney with a pork chop, now forbidden by faceless morons in Brussels. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 Can still buy kidney on it's own but NOT attached to the chops something to do with hygiene? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ivor Thirst 120 Posted January 23, 2015 Report Share Posted January 23, 2015 'Spitting Prohibited' sign on buses. Izal toilet paper 'OUCH' or cut up newspaper and magazine paper on the nail. Geometry sets A bit of kidney with a pork chop, now forbidden by faceless morons in Brussels. An interesting "Izal" article in the Independent. It is a discomfiting thing to learn that Izal loo roll is still available. Not as discomfiting as it used to be, in the days when this slightly abrasive product was routinely found in school toilets and public conveniences, the harsh price of spending a penny away from home. Today it is not – quite – so harsh. San Izal has been rebranded Izal, and the tissue seems less unforgiving than before. Make no mistake, this is not the sort of roll that the Andrex puppy would like to romp around with, but it is just a little less austere than before. The scent of disinfectant seems also to have disappeared, which is a bit of a shame for those who like their khazi karma nice and traditional. It is difficult to believe that, in a world of ultra-soft pastel-hued lavatorial opulence, such a throwback to the age of austerity will still be bought out of choice (it is not particularly cheap either). Some websites market it as a "novelty product". Nostalgia, surely, has its limits: there's no need to scrape the bottom of the barrel. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ivor Thirst 120 Posted January 23, 2015 Report Share Posted January 23, 2015 We used to use it for tracing paper and it was rumored Mrs Jones three doors up used to use it for grease proof paper, the food must had an interesting taste Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted January 23, 2015 Report Share Posted January 23, 2015 Was that because it was reused ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted January 23, 2015 Report Share Posted January 23, 2015 tony1 #1923. In the 1980s for a few years I worked in the W-ton City Center as a Butchers shop counter assistant. I can always remember that quite a few of our senior citizen customers would not have the Pork Chops without the Kidney attatched, if the kidney had come unattatched,they didn't want it. I never understood why, because they were paying the price of the weight of Pork as Kidney was cheaper. I had noticed that we never see this in shops any more, now i see why. It was forbidden. That explains it! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted January 23, 2015 Report Share Posted January 23, 2015 I remember a few years ago when the BSE scare was on the government banned ox tail. You could still get it if you asked the right butcher. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted January 23, 2015 Report Share Posted January 23, 2015 Probably the same with the Pork chop and Kidney. If you know your Local Butcher and he is obliging. Why Not. I would buy from our local Butcher if he thinks it's OK. I can't imagin he would risk a 60odd year family business just for one sale. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
darkazana 1,736 Posted January 23, 2015 Report Share Posted January 23, 2015 We had oxtail stew the other day....yummy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
darkazana 1,736 Posted January 23, 2015 Report Share Posted January 23, 2015 I asked our butcher about pork chop with kidneys last year, when I bought some tripe (yum yum) and he said it was purely lack of demand and very few people wanted it attached now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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