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Post by marob on Dec 2, 2021 21:55:58 GMT
Yeah, my local Kwik Save became a Somerfields, and gradually everything inside was branded with Co-Op, but they kept the Somerfields signage outside. Then it was a Tesco and now it’s a Home Bargains.
All these years later I still call it Kwik Save 🤦🏻♂️
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 2, 2021 22:01:35 GMT
Co-Op did buy Sumerfields, as terrible as Sumerfields is, I would say the exact opposite for the Co-Op, I would put them on par with Waitrose and M&S.
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Post by tmesis on Dec 3, 2021 0:12:17 GMT
A few random things remembered from my childhood (I'm quite old)...
Butter being sold in the grocer's shop 'loose,' ie. cut individually from a big slab and then wrapped in greaseproof paper (it never seemed to be refrigerated!)
Surprise peas - a strange hybrid that weren't quite like frozen in taste but not like dried either
All beer was real ale (but not so called) because that's all there was since it was pre keg beer (Double Diamond, Watney's Red Barrel et al) and no lager whatsoever was sold in my parent's pub or any in the vicinity.
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Post by crowblack on Dec 4, 2021 15:27:09 GMT
Getting chicken feet to play with from the butcher's as a treat. When you pulled the tendons the claws 'grasped'.
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Post by peggysue on Dec 4, 2021 19:03:17 GMT
All beer was real ale (but not so called) because that's all there was since it was pre keg beer (Double Diamond, Watney's Red Barrel et al) and no lager whatsoever was sold in my parent's pub or any in the vicinity. I remember Double Diamond as it was the beer my dad used to drink. I also remember the advert for it - “Double Diamond works wonders, works wonders, works wonders. Double Diamond works wonders so drink some today.” Showing my age now 😁 |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2021 18:08:20 GMT
Prompted by a mention in the Musicals section...
Buying Radio Times and TV Times to find out what would be on television and radio, and eagerly looking through them to see if there was anything interesting coming up in the week ahead. Then for some reason the government decided that this uncompetitive situation necessarily meant poor quality so they made it a free-for-all, and we ended up with no TV listings magazines but an awful lot of cheap celebrity gossip rags with a token page or two of listings somewhere in the middle.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 5, 2021 21:40:23 GMT
Oh wasn’t that proper strange, you had to buy 2 magazines to find out what was coming up on the box, if I recall the Radio Times for BBC and TV Times for ITV/Channel 4 and later Channel 5, those were the days when there was only 4 channels until Channel 5 came along.
Incidentally we all know there is a watershed time of 9pm, which after that time more indecent stuff can be shown like Gordon Ramsey lol. As I said 9pm is the start time, it do we know what time it ends?
It has no actual end time.
Because it was 9pm until end of service. In those days those 4 television stations used to finish at about midnight, but now as television is 24/7 there is no end time.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 31, 2021 22:06:30 GMT
Just wondering if anyone remembers or actually used Luncheon Vouchers? I never had them, but do remember seeing the green and white sticker on the shop doors, especially cafes and sandwich bars
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Post by alece10 on Dec 31, 2021 22:43:39 GMT
Just wondering if anyone remembers or actually used Luncheon Vouchers? I never had them, but do remember seeing the green and white sticker on the shop doors, especially cafes and sandwich bars Yes we had them with a company I worked for years ago. We used to get 50p a day so it was £2.50 a week which, even in those days, could buy you bugger all! Apparently there was some kind of threshold and if you went over it you had to pay tax on the vouchers. So that's why we got so little so that we weren't taxed on them. |
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