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Title: 70's scrapbook
Post by: on April 24, 2008, 07:34:24 pm
A work colleague brought this in today. It is another Robert Opie book.
There was 2 pages of photos of crisps from that era (heaven!) and 2 pages of chocolate bars!

I discovered bars I never knew existed.

Oldspice, GC - Cadbury Rumba? Cadbury Welcome? Cadbury Oranges and Lemons? Swisskit? Jameson's Fruit and Nut log?

Plain Choice - like Milk Tray bar with dark choc!

Plain choc Toffee crisp, Milk and Plain Aero (combined) Flake Plain, Flake Dipped, Crunchie Peppermint

They had pics of Golden Cup (5p!) and Prize Bars, Fry's Five centres, Marathons (2.5p!) Tiffin, etc, etc.

Ah! The nostalgia!
Title: 70's scrapbook
Post by: goldencup on April 24, 2008, 08:40:55 pm
Oooh I have to see that book!  Cadbury Rumba and Welcome sound vaguely familiar.  But Swisskit - oh yes - I'd risk it for a Swisskit!  Plain Choice has been mentioned many times and I definitely remember the plain Toffee Crisp, in a blue wrapper.  Was the Golden Cup the oval shaped one or the one in squares? 
Title: 70's scrapbook
Post by: on April 24, 2008, 09:02:11 pm
I think it was in a shape/wrapper that I hadn't recalled before. 5p! Hell, I remember taking out a personal loan to buy the big one!
Title: 70's scrapbook
Post by: on April 24, 2008, 09:04:00 pm
The%201970s%20Scrapbook
http://www.amazon.co.uk/1970s-Scrapbook-Robert-Opie/dp/0954795407/ref=sr_1_1/203-2798834-7771906?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209063784&sr=8-1
Title: 70's scrapbook
Post by: on April 24, 2008, 09:09:11 pm
The groceries pages show a toilet cleaner called "Sanipan" and that old washing powder "Omo".
You couldn't get away with these nowadays!
Title: 70's scrapbook
Post by: oldspice on April 24, 2008, 10:00:26 pm
Rumba had definitely been mentioned on the Forum before and I remember it - just - although it wasn't around for long. I have mentioned Plain Choice AND Peppermint Crunchie - with a green mint honeycomb. That wasn't around for long either.
 

The 1960s/1950s scrapbook is also good - with celebrated bars such as Caramac Miunt Fudge Bar and small Cadbury bars filled with pineapple cream or tangerine cream.

 

I am surprised you haven't heard of Omo Paulham. You can still get it abroad - in Europe.

 

Makes me feel really old to hear Paulham talking about bars of my youth. Goldencup and I must be the grannies of the forum!

 

 
Title: 70's scrapbook
Post by: goldencup on April 24, 2008, 10:03:03 pm
Hey I'm not a granny yet!   I know what you mean though.  I have to admit that I remember those Golden Cups being 5p in the school tuck shop but they were VERY small - similar to a Freddo.
Title: 70's scrapbook
Post by: on April 25, 2008, 09:22:26 pm
GC, age is all a state of mind. What state is yours in?