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[Olly]

I knew I was getting middleaged when I snapped at the checkout assistant 'WOULD you mind finishing serving me before you have a conversation with your friends?'

 

He went scarlet and I felt ever so mean! Like Mutrix says, though, when I used to work in a supermarket we'd have been hauled over the coals for having a conversation with the girl on the next till. (Boys, of course, didn't work on the checkouts.)

[Blackrocksrock]

I have never had the nerve to say that although I have wanted to so many times - they talk about going out and boyfriends and ignore their customers completely!.

[Mutrix Farmers]

I've made up my mind, next time it happens I'm going to tap on the desk and loudly ask them to concentrate on me as I'm paying their wages!!!!!!

[Alis girls]

I think I should be on the "grumpy thread" but the walnut whips I had in my yuff only had 1 nut (and it wasnt me ) and it was at the top and that was in the East Midlands, so either we were short changed in EM or your WW were of more superior quality to ours. OH is a Londoner I will ask him re his walnut whips i cant believe i am getting het up about a walnut whip - but eh I'm getting old

[clootie]

It's true, they did have a nut sunken at the bottom, I remember that too and there were coffee ones and they were bigger than they are now. You have every right to be het up, you've been short changed

[chick wiggle]

I remember them been bigger and the nut on the top and coffee flavour but I dont remember there been a nut at the bottom either. Maybe we were short changed up here too

[Alis girls]

I am penning an "outraged of London formerly East Midlands" to cadburys as we speak

[clootie]

I wouldn't, they didn't make them

 

PS

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut_Whip

[Valkyrie]

Rountrees fruit gums - yummm - I liked the red and green ones and the black ones, but red was nicest. No more Rountrees - they went years ago. My nan didn't send me any walnut whips so that must have been relatively recent (20 years or so dunno). My mum liked the WW's - probably because of the walnut - I always used to pick the nut off the top and give it to her. Sucked the choc off the bottom, but she didn't want that one! Can't think why - my spit was hers and dads (perhaps it's dad's bit she didn't like)

Rambling again - another sign of middle age and possibly dementia.

[clootie]

oooohhh noooo not Fruit Gums Kooj. My teeth are jumping just thinking about them.

[Valkyrie]

I used to stick the black ones onto my front teeth and pretend, well, you know how it goes. Then I had to share them when my brother came along bah!

[clootie]

Did you lick red smarties and use them as lipstick?

 

* did I say that out loud*

[Valkyrie]

Yes, second best were the orange ones but they were yukky tasting. Also brown ones for lipstick. I experimented.

[mostin]

I loooooooove this thread *holds sides to stop aching*

 

It had to turn to food eventually with omleteers around , and I'm starving now.

 

I'm 32 but feel middle aged most of the time as "Ooops, word censored!"ody has any manners or concern for other people anymore, so there's no hope for me in the future . I hate it with a passion if checkout people talk to their mates. Even when I was trained, 16 years ago, I would have got such a telling off if I had done that .

 

 

Wagon wheels have definitely got smaller, and although Cadburys creme eggs (which I don't eat anymore until they are free range) are bigger, the chocolate is thinner, so in my book that is worse. It used to take me half the morning to gnaw my way through to the gooey stuff , now, you're in in 10 seconds.

 

Or is that just the change in my gob .

 

 

 

I used to make lipstick out of smarties too

[clootie]

Yeah but did you hang cherries off your ears as earrings did ya, did ya?

 

 

*I still do*

[bigmommasally]

This thread is brilliant to come home to after a awful day at work. I had 3 pages to read through and I've been crying with laughter!

 

Used to do the lipstick thing with Smarties and the earrings with the cherry sweets- so did my brother

I also use to pretend the little palma violet sweets were tablets, force feed them to my teddy and then pretend he had overdosed - Worrying when I think about it now and I have no idea where I got the idea from

 

 

Did anyone ever have horlicks sweets from the chemist?

[Lesley]

Please does ANYONE remember Five Boys chocolate? It had the faces of, yep you've guessed it, five boys in the bar.

 

I'm beginning to think I imagined this stuff as no-one in my family has a clue what I'm on about and I'm the youngest Should I call for the men in white coats now?

 

I remember it.

 

 

The wrapper is a bit scary.

 

I remember it as well - we used to be allowed a bar out of the vending machine at Stratford train station when we went to visit my aunt.

 

We also had an extra walnut at the bottom of WWs - and it was proper fluff, not stuff that disintegrated on the tongue

[Alis girls]

Ok Clootie - i have tipexed out cadbury and inserted rowntree Palma violets - the kids get them in the multi bags I buy and no one likes them so i stuff myself on them yumeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[clootie]

Hoorah !! Thank you E !!

 

[Space Chick]

Horlicks sweets were fabulous

 

Koojie - you are mad! Orange smarties are the BEST

[mostin]

Yeah but did you hang cherries off your ears as earrings did ya, did ya?

 

 

*I still do*

 

I did

 

 

Forgot all about that until you posted that

[Valkyrie]

Orangey things are bleh - except for oranges proper - Terry's Chocolate Orange yuk - OH has them instead. He likes orangey things.

 

I must admit I howled out really loud with overdosing teddies!

I wasn't a dolly fan, so I used to give them tatoo(e?)s with a ballpoint and inject them with a compass point. I still have one with the arrows and hearts on her arms. Actually I also did a "W" for witch on her forehead after reading a story in one of my comics - I think it was Mandy.

 

Yes to cherries on the lugholes and licorice moustaches. And sweety cigarettes that had a pink end, and they used to do choccy ones in proper paper and looked so real - even the packet.

 

One of the boys who lived up the road sometimes walked home with me. One day he was walking ahead of us and he ran back and gave me a love heart with "my beau" on it and then ran off again. I had that blasted sweet for years and I wondered if it was OK to eat (bearing in mind it was covered with pencil shavings, dust and goodness knows what else). You know what? It was blooming horrible!

 

Actually I found him of Friends Reunited some weeks ago - nope I am not, wash those dirty minds!

[clootie]

.......and what about that disgusting sweet tobacco stuff, Spanish Gold I think it was called and maybe some of my Scottish cronies will remember those gawd awful frying pans or MB bars or chocolate tools. Never real chocolate, just that waxy kid on stuff.

[WarrensWorld]

or chocolate tools. Never real chocolate, just that waxy kid on stuff.

 

Thank you for reminding of that. I can still taste the vile stuff.... Indeed.

[clootie]

hehehehe just for you ...........