WHO REMEMBERS? The UK Nostalgia Podcast
Join "amateur" historians Andrew and Liam (thrice bronze medalists in 'The South Yorkshire Rememberers Chalice') as they travel back in time like Nicholas Lyndhurst in Goodnight Sweetheart and try to remember things from the past.
Do you remember Woolworths? Do you remember when Marathons changed their name to Snickers? Do you remember Del Boy falling through the bar? If so then come and remember with us. If not then stick around and we will probably remember it for you. You literally can't lose so why not hit the play button as hard as Paul Sykes hit that shark?
WHO REMEMBERS? The UK Nostalgia Podcast
Who Remembers........Foods We Used To Eat As Children?
Remember that first bite of a Finders Crispy Pancake? The distinctive blue salt packet in your Salt 'n' Shake crisps? That strange concoction called Sunny D that parents feared would send children bouncing off walls? We're diving deep into the forgotten flavours of British childhoods in this nostalgic feast of an episode.
Prompted by a listener request, we explore the foods that defined growing up in the UK during the 80s and 90s – from the trauma of school dinner horrors to the simple joy of a fish finger sandwich. The conversation ranges from extinct cereals like Start and Riceicles to the processed food marvels of Turkey Dinosaurs and potato shapes. We debate whether pancakes should ever be served with gravy (spoiler: yes!) and reminisce about the garishly coloured Panda Pops that were the highlight of every school disco.
Food memories connect us not just to our own past but to each other, creating shared cultural touchpoints that define a generation. Whether it's remembering the exact taste of Angel Delight, the disappointment of a Baked Bean Pizza, or the strange packaging of Mighty White bread, these foods shaped our palates and our childhood experiences. Some have disappeared forever, others have merely been rebranded, but all occupy a special place in our hearts.
What childhood food brings back your strongest memories? Drop us a message at whorememberspod@outlook.com and share your own food nostalgia – we'd love to hear which treats you miss the most and which school dinner experiences still haunt your dreams!
Hello and welcome to the UK Nostalgia Podcast. Who Remembers?
Speaker 2:This episode we're asking who remembers food that we used to eat as children.
Speaker 1:Mass-produced electrical cars and something called the internet. Stop shacking.
Speaker 2:Thanks, steve, but none of the locals got paddling. Yeah, that's for me. No bottle, this kit. I can't speak, you can't win anything with kits. Heck, no One of the superstar video games in the business Did you threaten to overrule me? If you're a fool, you can't get fooled again. Remember when it's the lowest formal conversation? Yes, so this is a listener's request, from none other. I think it's the first one we've done since the relaunch From Major Charles, the great Major Charles.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was going to say the late. Great, he's not the great, not late. Major Charles.
Speaker 2:No, not yet, but he's asked us to do and it was on our list anyway. Foods that you foods. I can't get anywhere, but we're going to do it a bit more broader. And we've actually got another email, didn't we? Today?
Speaker 1:you said that I've not seen yet no, it's not today, but I've seen it. We don't check emails often, if we're honest, um yeah, I've, I've come across it today. Um, assume things. A nightmare, nightmare innit, wow, what's that then? Bear with me, don't let you minimise it. So yeah, we got Chris Nicholls, we got an email asking us. Here's one for you guys. Who remembers Little Chef?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so this is tied into the thing. You don't remember it, do you?
Speaker 1:No, obviously I do. This is where, like the Beedon family, are screaming at the radio that I'm a moron again. I do remember Little Chef. I've driven past lots and lots of Little Chefs. I don't honestly know if I've ever been in one.
Speaker 2:I don't think I've ever been Little Chefs. To me is when I was driving to I don't know well, not me personally, but when I was younger and my dad driving to like Chapel, St Leonard's or wherever we go in Ingle Mills, and they always used to be.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so there's one just off the A57 there isn't there. I presume that's one you're thinking of. It's not a Little Chef. I don't even know if Little Chef's a thing now.
Speaker 2:It's not. I've just looked it was no, it found it in 58, but yeah, defunct seven years ago, January 2018.
Speaker 1:And and. On the other side of the road there's a Starbucks. I don't know if that was a Little Chef or not, I'm not sure. But yeah, I mean, who remembers Little Chefs? You're not going to believe this, Chris. We kind of don't. I mean, it's becoming so apparent the more we get into this that we actually don't remember very much, Don't?
Speaker 2:say that that's not a good thing to say to you know people tuning in for facts.
Speaker 1:I know, but we're going to remember loads of other stuff, aren't we?
Speaker 2:We're just saying BBC Radio 4 have produced a 25-minute documentary on the history of Little Chef.
Speaker 1:so so they remember it If anyone wants to, so they remember it, yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, you know, I don't know if he's going to get?
Speaker 1:I certainly know of it. I can picture a logo. How are you going to get 25 minutes bit of bacon, some toast? I'm guessing I see them as a breakfast place, although now I'm thinking about it maybe it's not. It's not, is it? It's an all-day diner, I think.
Speaker 2:It's an all-day diner. Yeah, I think to be honest, if you'd have said they were still going.
Speaker 1:I'd have said, yeah, yeah, yeah, we remember them. We don't remember eating in them.
Speaker 2:No, but thanks for the suggestion Everyone does Tell us what you could get.
Speaker 1:What was good about a little chef?
Speaker 2:They were around for ages, weren't they?
Speaker 2:Yeah, why is it not going anymore? What's happened? Is it woke? What went wrong? Is it something to do with? Yeah, so what we're going to do is go through foods that we used to eat as kids, and stuff is basically what the major has asked for, and I think there were replies straight away, so we may as well get straight on it, I suppose. Is um, opal fruits is the first thing that I think we've got a reply about someone saying, oh, you've got to mention opal fruits and um, but they're just starburst, aren't they? Aren't they exactly the same ingredients?
Speaker 1:They've rebadged it. You fool. Yeah, they're just completely rebranded. Yeah, they I mean a couple of things on your list that that is the case with them. They've just become something else. But, yeah, opal Fruits. You kind of can't sort of sign for Opal Fruits because they still exist.
Speaker 2:They're just called starburst as far as I'm aware, they're absolutely identical yeah, I mean, I'm just looking like, um, apparently the the last year they returned, uh, as opal fruits in some shops. But yeah, um, that was just like a one-off thing. But yeah, I don't know people staying here like, yes, opal fruits are back and I'm having one. What I mean, did you? Let me say? He's just. He says they've rebranded in like quotation marks as if they're completely different, but they are exactly the same, yeah once you take them out of the wrapper.
Speaker 1:You don't eat them in the wrapper. Once you take them out of the wrapper, it's just the same sweet.
Speaker 2:Same shit, but I thought we'd start talking realistically about school dinners. Did you have school dinner? Were you a packed lunch boy?
Speaker 1:So this is actually one of my big things in life now. I don't like onion, I don't eat onion. It's a huge problem when I go out to eat because I have to think about it.
Speaker 2:Hang on. But you've said before that people who eat onion are weirdos. You do this quite a few things. Think where, if it's like a matter of taste, you can't see the other side. You'll say stuff like I don't know, like yeah, but they're just idiots, aren't they in onion?
Speaker 1:like obviously I'm not sure if that's fair. I would like to like onion. Yeah, I don't have, I understand like it's a major staple. It's a start point because I don't like it. I just don't get it. It's a really strong unpleasant taste to me. I don't like the texture, but this is but not hot onions yeah, I found a bit bit odder, but same with tomatoes.
Speaker 1:when I first started at school uh, charnock, so clueless I. I was like a mixture of school dinners and packed lunch. But one day they had cheese croquettes and I thought, oh, that sounds nice, I'll go for them. Full of big chunks of onion. It was awful. I had a bite and I thought I can't eat that. It just made me feel sick. There was a nurse there at the time, I think Nurse Morris or something. I used to know her name because she was kind of an enemy.
Speaker 2:Nurse.
Speaker 1:Morris or something. I used to know her name because it was like kind of an enemy Nurse Morris, eh. But she made me eat these things, like as I was sort of retching and trying not to be sick. Why? Why? Because she said that's your dinner, You've asked for that, you need to eat it.
Speaker 2:That's how it works, though, isn't it?
Speaker 1:I can still picture in my mind like these chunks of, like this glistening horrible onion sticking out of this cheese thing and me just just trying to eat it, but sort of half being sick, half spitting it out and yeah, I mean we were kind of on the edge of corporal punishment.
Speaker 1:So she wasn't sort of striking me, I wasn't, I wasn't struck, but I was kind of bullied into eating these things that it just repulsed me like I could not eat onion. Eat onion after that. I still can't to this day. I kind of wish I did, because I think they're in so many things. But yeah, and I think from that day forward for a long, long time I played it safe and I went at lunch. I were always packed lunch.
Speaker 2:I were always packed lunch. I don't know if that were a budget option for my mum and dad, I really don't know, but always. I really don't know, but always packed lunch. And if I remember, this can't be right, but it was Mighty White bread. Do you remember Mighty White bread?
Speaker 1:Mighty White, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, with the kid on the front.
Speaker 1:Did you ever have the who remembers? Do you remember who remembers? Milk Loaf? Did you ever have like the round bread?
Speaker 2:Milk Loaf. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Milk Loaf. Yeah, that were very nice, sweeter than normal bread actually. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I think Mother's Pride were quite big as well. I don't think that exists anymore, mighty.
Speaker 1:White doesn't exist, does it Mighty White? Yeah, I do remember Mighty White. That was a staple, yeah.
Speaker 2:But I think I had Mighty White, probably cheese, knowing me because I don't like ham, and there's not really much else is there? Like my mum's not going to be like doing fucking chicken t for them, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:United. Funny actually. She talked to my niece yesterday and she she was telling us my brother asked for cheese and tomato sauce sandwiches yeah and what.
Speaker 1:Somebody sort of talked to him one day and he'd not got any sandwiches. So they found my mum and sort of said you know, he's not coming to school with food, is everything alright? And she said, well, yeah, I do make him sandwiches. So they'd watched him and they'd found like a bush, on the way to school. He'd thrown like there are about a hundred cheese and tomato sauce sandwiches under this bush like all rotting away because he didn't like cheese and tomato sauce sandwiches. But that's what he asked for. Why did he ask for that? Well, I don't know. I don't think he knew there was other options available.
Speaker 2:You know what I always remember. Once I used to think this was really funny as a kid. My mum would say what do you want for tea? You're like we want crisps, now, what do you want for tea? And I once said can I have a poo sandwich? And I found that really funny. And I said it all the time can I have a poo sandwich? And once she put as a sandwich because yeah, I've finally done your poo sandwich. And I started crying terrible, yeah, it's quite well played. Yeah, about 26 now, I was still like really young, but I always remember giving it mate. It's like a proper, like haunting memory. Now, though, like a poo sandwich, um, and yeah, the thing is with school dinners as well. I didn't. I don't think I ever had them really but I dabbled in later school life.
Speaker 1:I didn't think it's a little bit like now because the my two daughters they they sort of opt in and out depending on what's available. I think when they get it right it's very good yeah, but they don't always get it right and I think if you just go for it every day, you get a lot of sort of quite poor meals.
Speaker 2:But I think I don't know if it was same at your school, but I remember like horrible plastic, horrible bowls.
Speaker 1:Well, do you like that sort of Like what you get in prison? Yeah, yeah, yeah, a divider sort of thing, don't you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, slopping it and like, by the way, that's another thing. This is completely tangent. But why did? I? Don't know if it's your school again, but same. But why did all the shit roll with like tracing paper in primary school Shit roll shit roll with like tracing paper in primary school.
Speaker 1:Shit roll, that's toilet paper bug roll.
Speaker 2:Yeah, shit roll. You must have heard it called shit roll. This is another spoons into the verse probably in top of St Leonard's. Yeah, but not anywhere else yeah, but yeah, bug roll like grease proof paper.
Speaker 1:I just assume a really cheap option?
Speaker 2:I don't know they were horrible, absolutely horrible to wipe your backside on. But Jamie Oliver, I think, ruined school dinners. I think that's widely accepted, isn't it? Remember, when they were kids, the big turkey.
Speaker 1:Twizzlers thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he said you can't be having that, it's not paka and all this sort of stuff. And then there were kids, sorry parents giving their kids shit food. I'm not having this, he says, we're not eating this. I'll give him shit through the school gate. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1:Yeah, giving them like takeaways through gates and stuff, weren't they?
Speaker 2:Yeah, because all he wanted to do was make them like less fat.
Speaker 1:He was sort of saying, yeah, let's just make it slightly better food. But parents took it as Because they were outraged when things like he's what? He's giving them broccoli. He's giving them broccoli.
Speaker 2:He don't like broccoli, he likes McDonald's.
Speaker 1:Taking takeaways.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and he got hammered for it. You can't tell my kid what he can and can't eat.
Speaker 1:I remember obviously you know as well one of my mates, Furness, but obviously you know as well one of my mates, furness but he used to get a lot of stick for his packed lunch because obviously everybody had really crappy cheese sandwiches or just a club biscuit and a couple of slices of white bread maybe a trio.
Speaker 2:That's another one that's not exist anymore, just like butting in there. Yeah, they don't exist anymore.
Speaker 1:Trio he liked Mark's and Spencer's smoked sandwich sandwiches. They'd sometimes have them. They liked roasted chicken drumsticks, but they had to be sort of done and packaged in a certain way like they were really like fussy about it, so like all the rest of us were just like having our like foil wrapped, badly made sandwiches and he was getting out like almost like it wasn't this but like a tablecloth and like you know, mr Bean, yeah, putting it in, yeah, caviar and stuff like that yeah, did you have a milk?
Speaker 2:by the way, were you a milk? Like I take it, you weren't a milk monitor. I've never been a milk monitor, but no, I weren't a milk monitor.
Speaker 1:What was a milk?
Speaker 2:monitor. What does that mean? A monitor like monitoring.
Speaker 1:I think it's the biggest thing in America. I think they sort of had some power in America to make sure everybody got the milk. But I do remember what would it be. Would it be nursery or would it be sort of year one. But I remember we used to get a milk carton, have that and then have a little nap for 20 minutes.
Speaker 2:Oh, really we used to have it in a glass thing, but I don't think I had it because I think when oh no, we got a carton, but everyone had a carton of milk and then a nap. Is that pre or post? Thatcher, the Milk Snatcher.
Speaker 1:I don't know what year that would have been. I mean, I suppose if she snatched the milk it's probably pre-milk snatching.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she must have sn. I remember, I'm sure I remember sort of half the class or whatever getting milk and the other.
Speaker 1:I remember the guy I think it's a rare thing you could have an orange juice like if there's some kind of yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah allergy I do remember his name, I'm not gonna say his name absolute spiggy swat going here with my milk monitor.
Speaker 2:um, I think he's a doctor now, fairness to him but um, he used to go around and he used to say you're not on the list, and you're not on the list, and you're not on the list, you are. And he'd give you milk out like he was some sort of fucking.
Speaker 1:No, you're not going to lose your milk. You're not going to lose your milk, yeah yeah, but like. I don't know who had them. Yeah, but I don't remember that Everybody got milk in my class.
Speaker 2:I think, yeah, communism at your class, Fucking pure capitalism in Woodseed School where I went. So if we go through these sort of snacks that I've written down here, we don't want to go mad on all of them, but we'll start with the first meal of the day, Liam cereals. So I've got written down here three serials that I don't think exist anymore.
Speaker 1:Start, do you remember Start? Yeah, I don't know if I've mixed that up with something else. I seem to think of something as like an athletics sort of box, was it that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. I saw these as like some sort of I don't know, like they were the fitness ones that you should have. They were good for you.
Speaker 1:They clearly weren't, but yeah, that's what I remember them does. They would definitely like you sort of somebody breaking through like a finish line or something on the box or something, something like that I'm not sure yeah, that that was, uh, that only actually don't do anymore 2018 um suitable for vegetarians.
Speaker 2:So you know they've got it all covered golden grahams, which I used to have all the time Golden Grahams.
Speaker 1:That just makes me think. What's Thomas Simpson with when he's going? Crispy Grahams, there's golden crispy Grahams. He's sort of mumbling to himself something like that Do you remember Golden Grahams?
Speaker 2:I remember all of them. I don't know if I've ever had them. Oh, they were good. And then the like just sugar.
Speaker 1:that were eight riceicles any connection to rice krispies, or were they a completely separate thing? They weren't like a sugared version of that, were they?
Speaker 2:I'm going to have a look now. Why not get? You can buy them and eat fucking hell. Guess how much a box of riceicles is on ebay £12, £79. Wow, that's incredible.
Speaker 1:I don't even know if they still do these. Do you remember Golden Charms?
Speaker 2:it was similar. Oh yeah, lucky Charms.
Speaker 1:Lucky Charms with the leprechaun of course you like that with the leprechaun. Yeah, they had like little marshmallow bits in them. I didn't really like them. I just thought that's a good idea very good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they were similar to another Kellogg's product Rice Krispies but they had Frosted Sugar Coat and I just remember them tasting the sugar. I never actually liked them that much. Did you have the the cereal?
Speaker 1:the multi-pack cereals. Do you know the sort of like you've got?
Speaker 2:eight, still get them. Yeah, I like that. I used to love that. I don't know what were your favourite cereal, would you say as a kid.
Speaker 1:Oh, Coco Pops were the number one. I think Wheat O's for me, yeah, Wheat O's were all right. Actually I don't mind them.
Speaker 2:Remember the advert.
Speaker 1:Wheat O's go round and round. No, I believe you, but no, I don't remember it. Honeynut Loops were a good one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a bit too sweet for me, those in the morning.
Speaker 1:Basically I liked all of them except the ones that you had to add your own sugar to. So Corn Flakes and Rice Krispies were fine if you could kind of add enough sugar to them to make them quite unhealthy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, wheatabix is very similar to that Wheatabix. I think it's a bit boring.
Speaker 1:Lob 15 boring, lob 15 pounds of sugar on it and you're in for a taste sensation.
Speaker 2:A couple of bottles of golden syrup. Yeah, love it on there. I uh. Shreddies were another one for me. Hunger strikes yeah shreddies were a good one for me, um, but the main meals, like what used to be, is, I don't know, like. Did you have set meals every every day, like my mom was always like all right, it's wednesday, it's pancake day, or do you know what I mean? Thursday it's.
Speaker 1:You're having bird's eye potato waffles today, or whatever it'd be no, I don't think necessarily every day was a set day, but I think there was like a say a a 10 meal rotation that would just go around in a circle of so. It'd be like, I don't know, this day you're having rice and chicken nuggets, next day you can have fish finger sandwich, like they were just a loop of the same meals Fish finger- sandwiches, yeah. I don't have them. You weren't the same every day I used to?
Speaker 2:love them. You used to love them.
Speaker 1:Well, I've sort of mentioned to you when you sent me some stuff earlier I think, because my kids now are 12 and 9, so I think you get to kind of relive some of these specials as kids grow up because I have fish finger sandwiches sometimes. Now there was a period of time where I wouldn't have had them, but now I get them in for the kids and I think, oh, do you know what I fancy fish finger sandwiches.
Speaker 2:Are they?
Speaker 1:as good as you remember. Yeah, I mean, I think if you buy the absolute budget ones, they're not very nice, you don't have to spend big, but if you spend a little bit more you're definitely in business.
Speaker 2:I used to cover them in salt and vinegar. Potato Smilies, by the way, I've been.
Speaker 1:My mum's in hospital again, can you?
Speaker 2:still get them. My mum's in hospital again. I want to say I've got to cook in these for me. She's in there. But I've gone through this list today and you've said the same as well. A lot of these are still going which I had no idea about.
Speaker 1:I think some might have come back, because potato smile or smiley faces I used to call them you can get them. I've bought them recently for the kids. Mccain still do them.
Speaker 2:I don't think they were that nice the modern ones are alright.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure I remember having them as a kid. I'm not sure I preferred something else on your list, which is the again potato letters to me.
Speaker 2:Alphabet potatoes, oh alphabet potatoes, yeah, and you have to spell words and stuff Like my mum would do as a joke, like I don't know, do your homework. She wouldn't do it Like massive. Imagine how you'd have to eat to spell that out. Andrew, do your homework.
Speaker 1:spell that out, Andrew. Do your own work. Tidy your room. It will take you two hours to eat this.
Speaker 2:Imagine how many you'd have if you were selling stuff like that out. Turkey dinosaurs, massive sort of thing, and obviously turkey Twizzlers.
Speaker 1:I presume you can still get both of them, but obviously being over the age of 15, I've not, I've not seen Twizzlers yeah, I would guess so Turkey dinosaurs definitely, I mean I would guess so Turkey dinosaurs definitely. I mean I've had a bad experience with a turkey dinosaur.
Speaker 2:I won't name where from, because we might get sponsored by them later. You never know do you?
Speaker 1:Yeah, the Scandinavian firm. But it had like a big chunk of bone or gristle or something in it. It was awful. So, yeah, I stopped eating them.
Speaker 2:I've just been in Paris and I had a chicken salad Caesar salad you think. Well, I'm fine, I'm in the middle of Paris, it's brilliant. Bones in it for a chicken salad.
Speaker 1:Yeah, chicken on the bone. Yeah, sometimes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know if that works with a salad, but other ones, obviously one of the biggest ones I like. I didn't do loads of research into this, but every time I put it into 1980s or 1990s food Finder's crispy pancakes.
Speaker 1:Which are also going Well. No, they're not. They're McCain crispy pancakes now, I believe, or they might even be Bird's Eye. They're a different brand. Anyway, they're not Finder's, maybe you can still find Finder's. But I've been getting these within the last couple of months for Aoife, my youngest. She loves just the cheese ones.
Speaker 2:They're not finders. I used to love these. On pancakes, by the way, I ask this a lot of people Do you have gravy on your pancakes ever Like your proper pancakes?
Speaker 1:Like as in a proper pancake day pancakes, mince, like mince and stuff on your pancakes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I sometimes say that to people and they go what it's a sweet.
Speaker 1:It's basically like a Yorkshire pudding mix.
Speaker 2:It's exactly, exactly. I'm glad we're on the same if anyone. Yeah, thank you for that, because there's so many times I'll say, like a pancake day, yeah, pancake gravy, a bit of potato, what, oh my God, what gravy.
Speaker 1:It's a sweet, it's the same as a fucking Yorkshire pudding man Day after Pancake Day we might have a bit of because obviously it's Ash Wednesday we might have a bit of stew, but maybe a rolled up pancake with it if there's some mixture left.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I'm glad you've said this Apparently. It's an Indian delicacy. They won't dream of not having it in India apparently.
Speaker 1:I'm guessing it's a slightly different mix, though, innit Like I don't know. I know there's sort of sweetened pancakes across the world, but the savoury ones that we have, yeah, I don't know. I'm trying to think what else. There's a. There's an Italian dish, I think. There's like a chicken and peppers and I don't put the onions in but tomato sauce and you out with rolled pancakes. They used to do it at the italian, uh, gliedustown end. All right, that's absolutely brilliant. That's that's like. It's a real savory chicken and tomato dish. That's lovely.
Speaker 2:That's got pancakes in it oh yeah, now we're talking really, yeah, love it. Another thing that I remember do you remember pot rice, not pot noodle pot rice?
Speaker 1:yeah, there was a time I'm I don't know if I had pot rice, but I certainly knew of it and the other thing and I think these are still going, that makes it's not quite the same, but we used to get like a box meal that there's one came with rice, one came with noodles, like a Chinese one, and with a oh, yeah, I do know what you mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do remember that yeah, I remember, know of them, pot rice for Golden Wonder and they basically just make pot noodles and then they sort of just disappeared and pot noodles I still have a pot noodle, I'd say about three times a year and I always regret it immediately after, if I'm honest.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I don't mind. One now and again Jodie has one with a couple of slices of white bread and makes noodle sandwiches, which is quite messy. But again, not often, maybe every couple of months.
Speaker 2:Another one on the main meals and I remember having this and hating it, and it just sounds horrible. It's Heinz baked beans pizza. Can you remember them? Them boxers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, only when you sent that today, I thought oh God, yeah, I'd forgotten all about them.
Speaker 2:They were disgusting.
Speaker 1:They're not a million miles away from the sort of deep pan microwave pizzas you can get now, but for some reason they're in Chicago town. But they are actually quite nice yeah yeah, yeah, the baked bean pizzas just didn't quite work, did it.
Speaker 2:Oh, I remember like feeling sick Because we obviously came. We were growing up in the microwave era.
Speaker 1:I don't know how big they were in the 70s microwaves but it just became like yeah, but I would say we were pre-microwave, not everyone had a microwave.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, I agree, but I think we didn't get one until quite late on. Well, I think about 14, 15,. We might have got a microwave.
Speaker 1:And then after that a lazy bastard of a mum.
Speaker 2:Mum, I'd just be like, oh, I'll stick this in the microwave. And you're just like, no, get your knife and fork out Chip pan on, go Make me a poo sandwich. Yeah, another thing with snacks and stuff that I've got down here is remember the fish and chips crisps. I think you can still get these.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you kind of think the quite small little. I think the packet was done like newspaper almost.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I haven't seen them for ages. I used to love salt and vinegar. Ones of them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've. I wouldn't say I ate them a lot, but I do remember them. Yeah, absolutely. And obviously the next one on your list was dirt Again. We talked about this fairly recently. You put the Smiths yeah, the small salt, and shake. I knew them as dirt. Yeah, came in a little packet of salt that you had to, little blue packet of salt where you put it in yourself.
Speaker 2:Why was that?
Speaker 1:Give it a shake, just complete gimmick, weren't it? Because it would never, never quite worked. You got some that were salty, some that weren't like a nice idea, but you're better off just with ready salted really yeah, but yeah, I didn't used to like them.
Speaker 2:It's too much work. I like, I'm just like. I'm not. I'm not here to. I've got a bag of crisps for a reason, because it's an easy eat. I know it's almost like you're cooking in it, putting a bit of salt in there, putting this in here. What's next? Vinegar and a bag of crisps? No way, uh oh, sweets is obviously loads. Cola cubes are they still going? Yeah, definitely. Yeah, angel delight is still going, but I don't think it's anywhere near as popular or maybe just me because I'm older. It wasn't as not as popular as it as it used to be I mean actually we.
Speaker 1:we've tried the kids on that a couple of times and they've not been bothered. That was an absolute treat for us. I used to love it. Maverick balls I don't know what that is. Is that something that's changed me?
Speaker 2:No, no, no Maverick ball. No Maverick balls. They were like they were just chocolate balls. The reason they probably went bust is because I can't remember anything about them.
Speaker 1:What was the gimmick? What made it a Maverick bar? Any biscuit in there?
Speaker 2:Any caramel I can't remember now, give me a sec. Maverick Maverick bar, the Maverick bar, hang on, hang on, hang on Hang on.
Speaker 1:I'll mention your next one, so Marathon. You obviously became Snickers, so yeah I absolutely remember that.
Speaker 2:Do you know what's just coming up every time I put Maverick Bar in? I just want to dance the night away. It's them in a bar, the Mavericks. All right, I just want to dance the night away. That's not what you're remembering, though is it With senior readers who can play? Seniorita is an unused word, isn't it? I can't find anything about Maverick Balls. Let us know what Maverick Balls tastes like.
Speaker 1:I mean, this is not my phrase. By the way, On the last episode I mentioned, I tried to get a couple of phrases into common parlance, but this is not mine. But I love this. This is not my first rodeo. I think that's such a good phrase. Berlin Blade says that yeah, that might be where I've got it from. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, berlin Blade says that this is not my first rodeo. Brilliant, I'm going to start using it all the time. I think you mentioned marathons. By the way, do you know why they were called so? Snickers is actually older than marathons marathon bars and they started going in 1930. But they chose a different name for the uk launch because they thought snickers rhymed to or sounded too much like knickers, which obviously no one in america calls uh ladies underwear knickers. But so that's why they changed it. And then from that, in 1990, mars just decided that they wanted a universal name for it, so went back to its uh, original snickers. But yeah, we always use marathon bars. I never, was never that bothered so I didn't not.
Speaker 1:Don't care. They used to do them as marathon bars. I was never that bothered, so I don't care.
Speaker 2:They used to do it as like oh, I've this marathon bar and you'll be able to run like an Olympian. Do you know what I mean? Like it was just a fucking chocolate bar. It was just a Mars with peanuts in, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah, just a Mars with peanuts in. I weren't a big fan. I'm not a big fan of he loves Snickers, loves Bounties as well. Another thing that I don't like oh, no, calippos. Remember Calippos, calipso, calippos. I've spelt this wrong on here, but yeah, calippo.
Speaker 1:As in, like the ice lolly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so like a thing that you pushed up, you know, like in a tube.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm pretty sure you can still get these. I think I've seen them fairly recently.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean like there was all weird like hands for lollipops and stuff as well, weren't there. Do you remember that? Like the ice cream stuff?
Speaker 1:There was like a foot, some sort of foot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a fab bar still go in. I used to have them all the time, fab, yeah, I think so, and a feast.
Speaker 1:but a feast has got so small now it's absolutely pathetic. Oh, don't get me started the chocolate in the middle used to be like a good chunk of chocolate. It's honestly not much bigger than a stick now.
Speaker 2:So I don't have loads of chocolate, but what I do I have to get like a double Yorkie because it's just the same size as a normal Yorkie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you want to taste some chocolate, you have to buy a double Yorkie.
Speaker 2:these days, these days, these days, they throw you in jail just for doing an advertising campaign.
Speaker 1:They're not buying two.
Speaker 2:Yorkies. It's not for girls. Remember that it's an advertising campaign. It's not for girls. Yeah, that were Yorkie, weren't it? Yeah, yeah, yorkie On to drinks. Panda Pops has to be the most nostalgic. It reminds me of sort of School Disco or just any event that have like 20 panda pops on the side.
Speaker 1:Do you know what I mean? I've got a feeling. I've got a feeling that when we do our road show, not too many weeks, I think I could take you to a place that still sells panda pops, I think.
Speaker 2:They all had weird flavours, though didn't they Like blue strawberry? Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1:Yeah, none of them were quite right. Lemonade and the cola, they just weren't quite right. They were horrible.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they were like I don't know, yellow lettuce flavour panda pops. I've not tried that one. Green cola, I've just typed it in now, green cola, I remember even the normal ones, though you knew it were a budget option.
Speaker 1:If somebody brought you a Panda Pop, you sort of thought oh, they've got cheap drinks on, have they?
Speaker 2:I even prefer them.
Speaker 1:Remember them little cartons that you had to push a straw through the top of.
Speaker 2:Yes yes, I would sooner go that than Panda Pop technically. Yeah, I'm just looking now at Panda Pops, by the way, very popular at tuck shops and school discos, yeah, yeah. And they were very attractive to youngsters because of the colours. Raspberry, jelly and ice cream flavour Sounds fucking horrendous. Blue, raspberry, green cola, cherry lemonade.
Speaker 1:What if they started the blue raspberry trend? Because that's a big thing now, blue raspberry, is it? Oh yeah, loads of sweets now are flavoured sour blue raspberry, yeah.
Speaker 2:Tempe, they were back in the day. And just for comparison, coca-cola were 40p a can at those days and these were 10p Panda Pops. So you do the math.
Speaker 1:You can't imagine those prices now can you?
Speaker 2:Sunny D was another massive thing which I know is still going. I looked into this because they were a massive craze, weren't they? They were like sending everyone mad. Sonny D, can I?
Speaker 1:just shock you, I am in part responsible for Sonny D's rise and fall. I think I'd need to know this, go on. So I did market research for Sonny D.
Speaker 1:My mum knew someone who like organized oh really, before it ever come to the uk. They got like groups together for tasting panels and I went with people of all different ages there's probably about 20 of us in a room and we had to try these different versions of sunny d and give our sort of rankings of it sunny delight and and I remember at a time sort of like you kind of you're brought into this room, you're giving this free stuff. I think I got a five pound voucher for somewhere with it as well. So, yeah, you want to like it. So I remember sort of reviewing it all really highly and then sort of coming out my mom saying was it good? And me saying not really, it's far too sweet. But she said yeah, but you sort of marked everything really high and I said yeah, just little taste of it were lovely, but I wouldn't. I probably wouldn't drink a bottle of it because you're not a food reviewer I just had one bite.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 10 out of 10, that probably right next one we were going next, so sonny d was quite young and quite a little bit naive. I don't quite that's terrible for market research.
Speaker 2:That is terrible for market research, that they actually sort of pay. You're going to say it's good, aren't you?
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, I don't know whether, though, at that stage, it's like I prefer a flan. They just want it to sort of become big, so it's almost past the point of they're going to do it anyway. They just want enough people to back up their decision and get paid effectively. I don't know, but yeah, I remember it obviously came to England. I don't know if I ever bought it. If I did, I thought again it's a bit too sweet for me. I hated it.
Speaker 2:I tried it and I'm very anxious person, especially as a kid, and people like you say honestly you go hyperactive and stuff on it. So I'd never like, oh my God, I can't have that. It's going to be like taking fucking Class A drugs or something. You know what I mean. But then I had it and it was just horrible. You were only 5% orange. The rest were water, corn syrup and colouring, which is so un-alpha.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you could kind of tell, couldn't you? It tasted quite synthetic, it was almost too thick, yeah, it just didn't really work. Yeah, I don't know, Nice idea, but yeah not good. I don't know if it's still going in US of A. I don't know if they can still get it.
Speaker 2:I think it's still going here. Like I say, it was just like massive for a little bit, weren't it? And then you remember another one there. Yeah, remember nerds.
Speaker 1:I used to love them, nerds yeah, so nerds have come back now as are they? Um, these are far better than actually the nerds we had. So they're. They're nerds, gummy clusters, so they're like a little jelly sweet with nerds stuck around them and they're actually even better than nerds. No, nerds were good, don't get me wrong, but these are better.
Speaker 2:Oh, I don't know if I don't know about that. Are refreshers still going? Don't know, not sure. Other one I used to like is it's not food really, but Hubba Bubba do you know the roll-up ones.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, you can still get that. You still get them as well. Yeah, yeah, absolutely Nice.
Speaker 2:Skittles are they still going?
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:Yep, I'm just, yeah, just listing foods.
Speaker 1:Chocolate. You still get that, Literally You're listening to two people.
Speaker 2:You're just listing foods.
Speaker 1:Well, that's the only one I remember, like the old school who remembers Mars Bars. Do you remember? I used to go to Quicksave at Clearedless Town End I presume they did them other places, but this is where we got them from and they were like a little. It was kind of like an ice cream slash mousse. It was like a frozen. It had like a hippo on the pack.
Speaker 2:Oh shit, oh shit, what were they called?
Speaker 1:I don't know if they were called hippos or something like that.
Speaker 2:Oh, I know exactly what you mean, oh God, what were they called?
Speaker 1:Can we try and do some live research?
Speaker 2:Hippomoose or something like that. Weren't that though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but that sounds like it could be that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was something like that. Moose, oh shit, what were it called?
Speaker 1:You were a hippopotamus hippopotamus, hippopotamus, I bet it was that, if it should if it wasn't I'm not, I probably should have been that, shouldn't it?
Speaker 2:yeah, it should have been that hippopotamus. I do remember, oh my god, yeah, I, oh, that's a proper memory that I'm like doing. Do you know what? The allergy? I think a moment like I'm not, I'm not happy about it so do you remember that?
Speaker 1:uh, shambusari hippopotamus 1987 advert. So yeah, hipp, yeah, you got it. Hippo Potter Moose, yeah.
Speaker 2:Remember Double Dips as well. Remember the dips Well yeah, they've moved on.
Speaker 1:now you can get triple and quadruple dips now.
Speaker 2:Right, I'm missing out.
Speaker 1:Dweebs, are they still going? I don't know if they can add resurgence, but no, I'm not sure. Do you know one that I love that? I don't know how old school they were, but obviously you know what minstrels are, yeah yeah. Well, they did a sweet called Vice Versa and it was a, so the brown shell ones had white chocolate in and the white shell ones had milk chocolate in. I thought they were absolutely delicious, and I've not seen them for well. I don't think they make them anymore.
Speaker 2:So that's it. Obviously there's loads, there's absolutely loads. Please do let us know yours. This has been. I thought the Working Men's Club one that we did was probably the most ooh remembers we've ever done. I think that's top the most ooh. That could easily be a Peter Kay stand-up set.
Speaker 1:If Peter Kay can get his hands on this. Yeah, it's gold, isn't?
Speaker 2:it for him.
Speaker 1:He's been criticised, hasn't he? For his latest one?
Speaker 2:Oh I saw that today. Yeah, yeah, he's been criticised because basically just doing what we've done, just like singing advert jingles and just like not making any jokes whatsoever, just going. Do you remember who remembers that? Do you remember this? That's what people like about him, isn't?
Speaker 1:it. I tours that are going to be fair. Not yet not yet.
Speaker 2:No, not, not yet anyway, but yeah, we will be back next time, though. Thank you to the major for that one. Um, the main reason we did that so quickly because he didn't ask us is because we've got a lot of people asking us stuff. But, as I've said, what three? You know what. You used to mention paris all the time. On last podcast that you've been to paris, I might start doing on this.
Speaker 2:So I've been to paris, so I've not. I've got back yesterday. I've not had any time to do any research. I don't know if we do loads of research, but we wanted just a quick ooh, remembers, didn't we?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we just wanted something we could do without any background.
Speaker 2:basically, yeah, so next week it'll be hard-hitting research, as usual that you come to expect from us. But for now, liam, I will see you next time. Oh, before we go, actually, I've just remembered one, but you definitely don't get any more. Go on Cigarette sweets, remember them. Thank you for listening to who Remembers. If you want to get in touch with us, you can find us at whorememberspod, at outlookcom. If you are a right-wing fascist, you can find us on Twitter at whorememberspod, or if you're a Woken, or you can find us on blue sky at who remembers pod. Once again, thank you for listening and we'll see you next time for more remembering.