What products that your family regularly bought growing up would you never buy today?

[Justin Passing]

Knights Castile was posh soap.

Broad beans.
The ones the Germans call Dicke Bonen.


What was the fizzy soft drink which came in a glass bottle with a long conical pimply upper section. Began witha C I think.
Not Lucozade.

 

[securespark]

Cresta?

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

And it has appeared in a great deal more products than just sandwich pastes.
Burgers, sausages, pies and hot dogs.

In some, yes and it's horrid - I avoid like the plague. It's especially disgusting, in chicken kievs, which I will not buy if it is MRM. For some reason it is prolific in kievs, though never in hunter's chicken. I managed to track down a pair of proper kievs last week, in Aldi, made from whole breast - loverly.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Very wasteful.

I don't give a f...

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I used to love the smell of coal tar soap.

Might but some later

Wright's coal tar soap?

It's not the same product as it used to be -it used to be a see through amber colour, now it's opaque and a different formula. I buy it from Home Bargains. I use it in the bath and as soon as the dog hears me pick it up, she comes running in - she loves the taste of it. She doesn't react like that to any other soaps.

 

[securespark]

I use liquid soap too, as I find it much easier to use with my CP.

I used to use coal tar soap and at school they sold Knights Castile.

The guy in the school shop refused to sell it to anyone who asked for Knights Castle....

I also used to buy Zest soap, don't know if that is still around.

And my Gran used to buy Imperial Leather soap and Gibbs SR toothpaste, initials I later saw on the back of a Nova...

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I use liquid soap too, as I find it much easier to use with my CP.

Bars of soap here, for the bath and shower, but liquid in a pump bottle, by the wash basins, for hand-washing.

 

[Mottie]

Snuff! My Grandad used to snort it like an addict.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

I don't know if you can still get this (as in the original product), but I used to love the smell of creosote when I was a boy. Mum used to treat the garage with it, happy days!

 

[crystal ball]

Cresta?

Tizer
Corona

 

[IT Minion]

Maps

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Maps

Yep, I used to buy detailed maps of areas I intended spending time in, now I just rely on the satnav, googlemaps on the phone. I still sometimes buy a road atlas, just for a general picture of the area.

I used to buy a lot of hobby magazines - car, electronics and computer mags. I never buy those now..

 

[IT Minion]

Well, I still do buy OS maps. I'm not sure I'll ever kick that habit.

 

[Odds]

I don't give a f...

Four-X ?
I loved those adverts!

 

[ReganAndCarter]

I had that for lunch throughout 1976. Can't eat it now.
Our cat wouldn't touch the salmon paste.

Tried it out on our tabby Reg. He loved it. Probably just a bit better than cat food. Maybe 8 out of 10 cats will enjoy it............................