h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I just enjojed watching this, from You Tube and thought I'd share it (it's about items that are no longer available)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWDKHXhLluc

Two questions

1. Did you ever ride a Chopper bike? Jeez, weren't those things heavy to ride, I nearly bought one from my neighbour, until I tried riding it a few miles.

2. Can you name one, just one thing, that is no longer available?

I used to buy the 'Today' newspaper, back when I had money to spend on buying breakfast. I used to have two buttered rolls, a packet of Walkers Cheese & Onion crisps, and a cream doughnut, washed down with a cup of coffee, while I was reading Today. (yes, yes, I know not the most healthiest of breakfasts, but very enjoyable )

I'm sure I've got a Today phonecard somewhere around here, the cards you used to be able to use in a public phones, wonder if that's worth anything.

Emmily

1. I never rode a Chopper bike but knew plenty of boys who did

2. I used to use Phillips toothpaste which is no longer around.

One thing that is no longer available?

Smith's Bovril flavour crisps. The best potato-based snack known to man. Not available since I was about 14, sadly.

B

Are Smith's crisps still available? I hadn't noticed that Golden Wonder weren't, not very observant am I

Emmily

Nope, never owned or rode a chopper bike.


'Amazin bars' were a short lived chocolate and raisin treat, that vanished , much to my annoyance. Jingle went....."It's amazin what raisins can do"

Walkers Beef and Onion crisps!! According to their website, they still make them but has anyone actually seen them lately?? I live in Portugal and used to get folks to bring over multi-packs of them but no-one can find them anymore!!!

Ooh yes, Amazin Raisin bars which were rum flavour

Nice little film, but I'm surprised at some of the things on it. For example, Mercury run Ireland's 3rd mobile phone network, and Connex run Dublin's tram system. Are these different companies to the ones shown in the film?

And is Happy Eater really gone?

Happy Eater was absorbed by Little Chef some ten years ago.

B

One word.





Spangles

*Checks inside of mouth for scars caused by glasslike shards of spangle*

Ho yes, i remember them.

They brought back spangles for a while but realised that the poor sales didn't justify it! I always found them the hardest sweetie packets to get into. Were they sealed with superglue??

Pacers! Now there was a sweet! And in the perfect patriotic colours too! (If you were a Celtic fan!!!)

Spearmint Pacers were ace!

I used to like Country style bars, chocolate with raisins & biscuit pieces in, with a checked wrapper.

Bejam - the frozen food supermarket. Whatever happened to them? I remember as a small child being dragged around there every month much to my annoyance. I mean, how boring is a frozen food store when you are 6 years old?

My mother loved them - I think we even had a Bejam Microwave...

They've rebranded themselves as Iceland surely

I'm not sure the Metrohas entirely died out yet. I scrapped mine last year but I had a lift in one last week

As to something that's gone but not forgotten,

how about the next generation to the Chopper....

The Grifter

probably the first mountain bike I guess.

Reply to post 13

Mu Beta, totally agree with Bovril flavoured crisps, i lived on them, thats where my name came from.

Long live Bovril crisps

I used to have a chopper and my mate next door used to have a chipper(tiny version for tiny boys)

Treets!

M & M's aren't the same..

Ahhh... the Grifter. It was really the first BMX. I even remember the ads that showed kids racing over rough ground - and the instructions that came with the warning "Not suitable for riding over rough ground".

They could do that in those days

Space Hoppers.

And String Art.