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Lint used to be in a roll too. We used to use it to make a new face-flannel for Dad at Christmas, also we kept a piece to put round the base of the Christmas tree like snow.
rosie.
 
We made papier maché puppet heads at school. I made a sheep so he had cottonwool, wool. I also remember something they put on Christmas trees called angel hair or fairy hair it looked like mist or snow. At school e put cotton wool to look like drifted snow in the window pane corners. Ah yes, absorbent lint Rosie..
I hated tugging cotton wool too Carolina, it went through my teeth, if you know that expression like chalk on a blackboard when it breaks and squeaks.
 
I can't stand wooden lollipop sticks. Just seeing someone licking one puts my teeth on edge, and if the bite, goodness me. Merry Christmas to everyone. Anne xxx
 
Me neither Anne or eating from a wooden spoon.....shudder! I did like eating cake mixture though I was allowed to lick the spoon. Nan had a lickable wooden spoon, it was worn down and was smooth and I could bare it.
 
I hadn't see those rolls of cotton wool for years. I was watching an old episode of"Foyle's War" yesterday
and the story took place in a commandeered Manor House which was turned into a hospital. There on the shelves were several rolls of cotton wool wrapped in the blue paper. I never like the feel of that stuff.
 
And most of all at Christmastime I miss my Batgers Chinese Figs in their little round wooden boxes and all covered in sugar. Yummy!

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Hi all iv'e had a great Christmas but the one thing that i have missed is my favourite tipple Booths Gin. I can't believe it has faded away out of site never to be seen again. What is this country coming to?booths gin.jpg
 
Zoobs (are good for your tubes) little black Imps & Fiery Jack! If you forgot to wash your hands after using Fiery jack & went to the loo, omg what pain!! ( for the guys that is.)
 
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Zoobs (are good for your tubes) little black Imps & Fiery Jack! If you forgot to wash your hands after using Fiery jack & went to the loo, omg what pain!! ( for the guys that is.)
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My wife, who is from Yorkshire, calls it "Firey Jack" - I'm sure that my (Brummie) Mom and my Auntie used to call it "Black Jack" - but it must be the same stuff......agree about caution required when making a visit!
 
Hi smudger
The zoobs came in a little small round tin and they was little round balls of cough sweets INA white pounder all over them
Imps was little tiny bits of a liquidice a small minute size you would have to wet your finger tips with your tongue to lift them out
Of the tiny little square tin they sold them in and by golly they was red hot hotter than any pepper you can ever buy to eat
We used to buy ours from Mr wet tons the sweet shop on Lichfield red area doors from old franchise the fruit and veg shop and old
Man Robinson's fruit and veg shop for a tanner and yes you are correct you had to wash your hands afterwards and as you also said you had to runtoth
 
Gosh!....all these blasts from the past....when I have more time...I will start at the beginning to see how much I remember we have lost.......while we are on the subject....does anyone remember plush nougats? Who made them.....can you still get them?
I know some places still produce old fashioned sweeties,but I have looked and no trace of the above.....actually,,,,cant remember what was so "plush" about them!
 
Not heard of Plush Nougat, but loved nougat (and still do).

This one I do remember : Chiclets chewing gum. They came in a nice slim packet and the tray used to slide out so you could offer them to friends in a very sophisticated way! Viv.

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My gran loved nougal with peanuts in. Pink and white side by side. Mum said the proper name was noogar but we always said Nuggit and Nestles and Michelin. We did say poo fay though!
 
Nico, you reminded me about our old pouffe!! Mom had it from a jumble sale, it was leather filled horsehair with woodwool. It had a cord round the middle to drag it by, it was lop-sided, and the stuffing leaked out. We pretended it was a horse, but it came in handy when we had visitors. Nowadays children seem to expect a proper chair when visiting whereas we had to sit on the floor or little stool to "make-do".
rosie.
 
Rosie, as one of five I was always lying on the floor. My Dad had the pouffe for his feet. Every few years he would get the old singer sewing machine out and re-cover it. Anne
 
We bought one from Morrocco for mum and dad and it took 2 double eiderdowns and was still flat.
Our old pouffé was my parents wedding present from Gran. I used to play circuses on it balancing like a ball till I came off and got no sympathy. I used to roll around on it when it was upended. Yes I sat on the floor I still do with the children but get stuck getting up.
 
Does anyone remember a drink called Green Godess I mentioned to my son that his grandma liked it, we searched the internet but couldn't get a definitive answer to what it was, I thought it was some sort of cocktail but a number of hits said it was absinthe, but I can't imagine my mom liking absinthe.
 
I found something on a New Zealand forum which said Green Goddess was also a wine aperitif in the 50's which was sold in a glass woman shaped bottle. I don't remember it but I was a bit young then.
 
I think it was an "Alcoholic mint cordial", in the sixty's it was a Military young mans Saturday night bet between friends, to see who could drink right through the bar drinks menu first without falling over, I never made it past Green Goddess without being ill. paul
 
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Wasn't the Green Goddess another name for Absinthe which is now illegal and has been replaced by the horrible and harmless Pernod?
 
Phil
Technically I gather it is not now illegal in the uk, but, although there seems some argument about this, as I understand it the product is not the same as that that got the bad reputation, and has been modified to make it safer. I'm not clear exactly what the changes were, but suspect that the wormwood, which was the effective ingredient, has either been replaced or modified in soem way.
 
On a school trip to France on our last night in Paris, I went out with other 5th & 6th formers and one of the accompanying masters to a local cafe which was my first experience of drinking lager rather than English beer. The master ordered absinthe which was served in a small measure accompanied by a large jug of water. He said it was his first experience of it and would not let us try it.

Years later on a trip to our twin city of Lyon I was at a reception in the Pernod Club and wondered what I was drinking as it just seemed like cloudy lemonade to me. I soon found out that it wasn't!
 
We have some of ours and 78's (hard ones Interesting to see which of our artists were copied by French ones and vice versa but I am told by the French that the French pinched more off us and made hits out of them. I like the old sleeve too.
My son in law in the music industry says the best sound it still on vinyl.
 
It was liquorice root Smudger, it used to leave a yellow mouth, I think most chemists sold it, we used to get ours from Timothy Whites on the corner of Phillips Street and Newtown Row. This was in the days of sweet rationing, ugh the very thought of chewing it now.
 
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