This thread is for those odd memories that you have whereby you are convinced that they are correct, but no one else seems to remember.
This started because my wife had bought a tube of Polo mints and I mentioned the fact that you never seem to see Trebor mints any more. To which my wife replied, “huh?”
I’m not talking about Extra Strong Mints, but Trebor made tubes of mints that were like Polos (same size and packet) but without the hole. I actually preferred them; partly because of the taste, but also because they seemed to be better value as they didn’t have a bit missing in the middle. (Given my Scottish ancestry, I am apparent prone to make these thrifty observations that comes across as some sort of racial stereotype).
Now, having had a search around the Interweb, I have found a picture:
I’m assuming that these are no longer manufactured (and presumably haven’t been for a while).
Edit: I have just looked up mints on the Tesco website and discovered that a tube of Polos now retails for £1, FFS! I can remember when they went up to 5p and someone was flabbergasted that it was “one bob in real money” for a tube of mints.
I’m not Scottish but seeing a Freddo at 45p makes me recoil in horror
Another memory on this theme - I recall my favourite ice cream which was a waffle taco shell with lines of vanilla ice cream and caramel then covered at the top in hazelnut and chocolate. I think it was called a Winner Taco but I usually get blank looks back.
I remember Trebor mints from schooldays. Not a smoker myself, but almost all the kids that smoked or shared a ‘ciggie’ on school grounds normally had a half eaten roll of mints in their pocket ready to pop onto their tongue to disguise the odour from the teachers… Many a detention or caning has been prevented by the humble mint in a roll :0)
I swear half the TV shows I watched when very young fall into this category. I’ve occasionally tried looking them up on the internet but whether through my faulty 40-year-ago memory or the fact they weren’t even well known at the time, I’ve always drawn blanks.
One had stop-motion plastecine dinosaurs, a bit like Wallace and Gromit but decades before they were a thing. I remember it seeming like it took place on a desert island and the main one wore a wooly hat or something like that, but that’s all I’ve got lol.
Another one was some sort of time-travelling adventure thing with a stop-motion Mark Twain of all people, but again that’s about all I have.
We had the usual tubs of chocs in the office at Christmas time, i tore my way through the blue wrapped chocs., telling people these 1s minded me of a cabana choc bar!
I always liked Jelly Babies. There always seemed to be a scramble for the black ones. I always remember my uncle stopping off at a newsagent for midget gems if we were going up to Anfield. They just didn’t have the texture of jelly babies.
Oddly enough, one thing my son always asks me to bring back if I am in Britain is Fruit Pastilles.
I don’t recall it, but apparently it was shown on the BBC in the early 70s. There seemed to be a Western on every night then. I was convinced that the United States consisted of rattle snakes interspersed with quicksand.
edit: was the huge amount of quicksand in Westerns what gave you the idea for your user name?
I am sure “One fine day” which Carole King covered and whose version I remember fondly as an opening theme to a tv show (likely American) happened, but the internet doesn’t seem to throw up any fondly loved Tv shows with that song as a theme.
