Forgotten/defunct Brands You Have Loved.....

[Brovion]

Esso Blue Paraffin!

Sung (in northern accent): "They asked me how I knew,
It was Esso BLOOOOOOOOOOO"
I of course replied,
With lower grades one buys,
Smoke gets in your eyes."

Spoken: "And that means smut." *wipes finger on wall and shows sooty deposit to camera* "This smut could be in your 'ome. But Esso Blue's British Standard, it's a non-smoker!"

Chanted: "Bom bom bom bom - Esso Blue!"


From the days before central heating when we had paraffin heaters (that you wouldn't use in a garage nowadays), open fires and REALLY expensive fan heaters that you could only use for about 5 minutes each day to melt the frost off your underpants. Ah memories!

 

[dougdeep]

Acid Drop Spangles.

 

[Bakesy]

Texan bar.................

 

[Robbie G]

Jolly Ranchers - sweets

Ah, how i miss those

 

[Ned]

What was the fizzy drink that had the slogan "It's frothy man"?

Sorry but stubbs has it wrong the drink was Cresta with the polar bear logo. Thus the Polar bear saying "It's frothy man".


Cresta was still available 12 years ago but not so sure now.

 

[Dover]

Blue Cresta was in the pound shop on London Road last week.

I never completed Football 78. I also remeber collecting football cards, which had a vile peice of chewing gum with them that no one took. They seemed to stop when the sticker collections came out.

The best collection for me though was saving Cadbury's wrappers and getting enough for an "Airlines of the World" display book.

 

[BUTTERBALL]

Sorry but stubbs has it wrong the drink was Cresta with the polar bear logo. Thus the Polar bear saying "It's frothy man".


Cresta was still available 12 years ago but not so sure now.

Used to love Cresta.

It did make a comeback but plastic bottles and poor marketing did not see it hit the heights of the TV advertised original stuff. I think you can still get it.