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

Hi looneycat, Thankyou very much for the website. Were you a member of the Tufty club? Tinga& Tucka, Pinky&Perky Flowerpot men, Pelham Puppets, Topo Gigio (the little mouse)

Hi Sibford

This is the website that ewif was looking at. Hope it's okay...

http://www.chocolatereview.co.uk/data.asp

Chocolate cigarettes!

Can you believe there was ever such a product!

Hi Guru, Thankyou very much for the website. You're a You mentioned chocolate cigarettes I remember them. There was also white candy cigarettes with red at the ends, sold in little packets of ten.

Hi Sibford. Yes I was in the Tufty club!

I remember those sweet cigarettes. Didn't they do cards in the packets?

Hi looneycat, I was in the Tufty club too!! Small world,isn't it! Yes they did have little cards in the sweet cigarette boxes, I can remember some had nature pictures, best wishes Sibford x

I'll tell you what you don't see anymore, well, in cinemas anyway .............Choc Ices and Salted Peanuts. I don't want a waste-paper basket full of styrofoam or a Cocoa Cola for a couple of quid.

Jimmy Hill

Massive red telephone boxes

Kurt Waldheim

Mel B

Holiday On Ice

Guilt.
Responsibility.
Khaki shorts.

police boxes I can remember passing one every day on my way to school

Footballs that look like footballs

So true - brown and leathery. And tennis balls used to be white (turned grey rather quickly, though). funny - I think they introduced the yellow balls to accommodate colour TV. Now they're making the previously coloured balls black and white (to accommodate colour TV?)

And I can see Jimmy Hill any time I look at my Wedding Album. There was a picture of him on the wall behind us when we cut the cake!

Daps - The 50's equivelant of the trainer shoe. Daps were once worn by boys undertaking formal physical humiliation at school. Metamorphasised into trainers, they are now the badge of the chav.

so, equestrian, "chav"...are you from Newcastle?
Pit

I saw Vladimir Zhironovsky on the news earlier - hadn't seen him for years.

*Zhirinovsky

Hopscotch squares chalked onto the pavement

Christmas Lecture on BBC

Golfish prizes at funfairs

Pierre-Yves Gerbeau

The English-style Santa

Lindy Layton

Border Eggs.

Now I feel I have to explain because I've never found anyone else who has heard of them. Not even Google. They were simply Cadbury's Creme Eggs with a choccy filling. Made by Cadbury's and wrapped in a tartan foil.

Perhaps they can still be bought in Scotland then (deep fried in batter?). Actually I can get deep fried battered Mars Bars in the chippy 50 yards from my front door here in Softy Southworld. Never had one though.

PP

Radio Rentals.
Does anyone rent their TV anymore?

Has anyone mentioned Horlick's tablets, Spangles or Cremola Foam?