Oh the times, they are a changing....

[s-side hoop]

"3 and in" and "World Cup".

Also football tennis or "squares" as it was more popularly known, everyone took one of those concrete squares on the road in a housing estate that was defined by the black tar lines that seperated each slab of concrete, the tar was also great for picking and bursting the bubbles in the summer!

[Wolfie]

Also football tennis or "squares" as it was more popularly known, everyone took one of those concrete squares on the road in a housing estate that was defined by the black tar lines that seperated each slab of concrete, the tar was also great for picking and bursting the bubbles in the summer!

Squares was great crack ....... and improved skill!!!

"Kick / Tip the Can" - there's still people hiding up trees in housing estates since 1982. They're like vietnam vets that refuse to believe the war is over.

[endabob1]

Anyone remember the finger puppet things you got with the Kimberley, Mikado & Coconunt Creams Characters on them...
I seem to recall the dog eating the Kimberley one and the other 2 being a bit "less manly"

[strangeirish]

Cowboys and Indians.
Putting cardboard or Icepop sticks on your bike so it would hit the spokes and make noise as you rode around...

[strangeirish]

"Kick / Tip the Can" - there's still people hiding up trees in housing estates since 1982. They're like vietnam vets that refuse to believe the war is over.
LMAO...Too funny.:D

[BohsPartisan]

Anyone remember them giving away "Yo Yo's" with Coke and Fanta written on them!! :D



Yes, and I still have mine! Its a coke one!

[gustavo]

Chomp bars for 10p
Canada Dry

[red bellied]

Is club shandy still around?

[Jerry The Saint]

From Wiki

Wispa took the UK market by storm after its launch, but the product was
discontinued some years later when Cadbury's cited production problems with
its innovative production technique (thought to be bars breaking on the
production line);

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

Careless, Wispa. :rolleyes:

[ollie]

Liked wispa and wispa gold.

Is club shandy still around?
it is. Club Rock Shandy to be exact.


apple drops
They're still around as are curly wurys.saw them in a few shops.



Canada Dry

Still around also. Damn nice too i might add.


Whats gone:

Match of the Day Magazine
JR Ice lollies(yum)
Sports Stadium
Cork beating kerry every year!
Cork doing the double
City at Bishopstown(thank god)
Dr.Martens boots being cool
Lucky charms cereal
Tamogotchies(Spell?)
Garry Kelly signed Hi Tec football boots

[red bellied]

Rock Shandy is a mix of lemon and orange. Club Shandy was a lemonade or orange with alcohol. (about .2%)

[joeSoap]

Can anyone remember 'Banjo' bars........used to love'em....??

[joeSoap]

Or 'Texan' bars??

[DmanDmythDledge]

Those wristbands. Disappered fairly fast.

[BohsPartisan]

Or 'Texan' bars??

Yes! I remember one year there was a competition on the wrappers and the prize was a trip to the superbowl. Can't remember what they were like though.

[Paddyfield]

Whatever happened to white dog$hit? It's all brown stuff now.

On a more serious note...

90 Minutes magazine
Gobstoppers
Sherbet
Dublin City FC
BiBi Baskin
Honda 50's
Dublin Dons FC
088 mobiles
Pat Dolan
Irish Soccer magazine
CB radios
Pint of Snakebite
Cureheads
Perms

.

[pineapple stu]

088 mobiles
Was there ever an 089 mobile?

088 got turned off a few years ago.

[superfrank]

Was there ever an 089 mobile?
No. But there bringing out 084 ones soon enough.

Paddyfield, afaik snakebite's are banned now.

[BohsPartisan]

088 got switched off because it was an analogue network.

[pineapple stu]

Just found this from last January - TescoMobile (http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2007/01/07/story19957.asp) to take the 089 slot! :eek:

Digiweb (http://www.rte.ie/business/2007/0405/digiweb.html) has gotten the 088.

Can't find any info on 084 though.

[Conor H]

"3 and in" and "World Cup".

We had a game of 5 down recently.Brought back alot of memories....even if it was only 4 years agao when we played it every single day of the summer.

There used to be street Leagues in my are back in the day to.You'd get a couple of hundred up there every week.Ran 2 nights a week for a month and was a massive social event.It's gone now...:(

[jebus]

Remember Barcode Battlers? They sucked! :p

[stann]

Heres one - A quarter of cola cubes, rhubarb and custard, apple drops etc. etc.

Sure this has been posted before but:
www.aquarterof.co.uk
Fill your boots!

Also no longer with us, or are they?:
40-40
Knockadolly, or however you spell it
Smash mash
Angel Delight
Green snot
Ire! :D

[ollie]

woppa bars-green and red
fives- the crisps that were 5p

[strangeirish]

CB radios
.

Ha Ha...Although, they are alive and well amongst the truckers here in the US.
"Breaker 1-9, can I git a copy gud buddy, c'mon. Gimme a 10-20 on smokey":D

[nui-harp]

Just found this from last January - TescoMobile (http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2007/01/07/story19957.asp) to take the 089 slot! :eek:

Digiweb (http://www.rte.ie/business/2007/0405/digiweb.html) has gotten the 088.

Can't find any info on 084 though.

There is an 083 network no??

[noby]

the Ale revolution is in full swing

I was generalising a bit, based on pub drinks.


Angel delight? Stann do you actually go into shops? I see it everywhere (even in my dreams).

[BohsPartisan]

Angel delight? Stann do you actually go into shops? I see it everywhere (even in my dreams).

Sure you're not thinking of Dream Topping? :D

Speaking of which - Trifle from the 80's - Chivers Jelly, those sponge bits, Birds Custard, Dream Topping and hundreds and thousands.

What about that instant mashed potato much, smash? Can you still get that. Used to love the add when I was a kid though with the cr@ppy robots.

[BohsPartisan]

check out anything from shepherd neame & wychwood,

Know where I'd get these? Also has anyone seen Westmalle Dubbel over here? Its a dark Belgian Trappist beer. Theres a restaurant I get it in in Amsterdam when I'm there but its the only place I've seen it.

[Schumi]

Whatever happened to white dog$hit? It's all brown stuff now.
Heard somewhere that that was because manufacturers packed dog food with ash to increase the weight, lost any lingering respect for Albert Reynolds when I heard that! It must be illegal now I suppose.

[Ash]

Heard somewhere that that was because manufacturers packed dog food with ash to increase the weight, lost any lingering respect for Albert Reynolds when I heard that! It must be illegal now I suppose.

I deny all allegations that I was packed into dog food :o

[pineapple stu]

There is an 083 network no??
Yeah, it's three.

[Roadend]

Sunkist. Drink it in the sun, sunkist is the one.

[citizenerased]

cavan cola...canada dry 45% extra free

[dublinred]

Milltown

[Wolfie]

"Milk Mate" - it was an added flavouring to your milk. Chocolate added to Milk. Not very appealing now but seemed like a good idea to a 10 year old. Surely the next step in food revolution was to market "Cheesy Peas".

Bonfires in Neighbours Back Gardens - Some Oul fella's on the housing estate were obsessed with this. They were only happy when old tyres, bits of hedges, household items, family members were stacked up and set alight.

A local "Andrex" warehouse burned down close to a neighbours house. Police suspected Arse'in. ;)

Coat please.

[Roadend]

Bags of milk given out in Primary school?

[BohsPartisan]

cavan cola...

No loss that.

[John83]

Heard somewhere that that was because manufacturers packed dog food with ash to increase the weight, lost any lingering respect for Albert Reynolds when I heard that! It must be illegal now I suppose.
Next time you're in a supermarket, read the ingredients of a couple of tins of the stuff. Ash is a major ingredient.

[carrickharp]

cavan cola

Some tack that you could feel your teeth rot while drinking it (while eating cheese and onion crisps in the pub after mass on a Sunday morning)!

[Roadend]

Would Cavan cola be anything like the Homestead 29p bottles of cola or the Shannon minerals bottle of "kola"

[ollie]

Would Cavan cola be anything like the Homestead 29p bottles of cola or the Shannon minerals bottle of "kola"

or like score 25p bottles of cola

[Spudd]

Is that Sunny delight drink still about?

[BohsPartisan]

or like score 25p bottles of cola

Worse than all those. It tasted like Raspberryade and strong cold tea mixed together.

[stann]

Angel delight? Stann do you actually go into shops? I see it everywhere (even in my dreams).I don't, to be honest, haven't set foot in one since I started getting all my provisions delivered in those delightful Fortnum & Mason's hampers. :)

But...
Sure you're not thinking of Dream Topping?Yes I was, sorry. :o

And...
What about that instant mashed potato much, smash?Oi, I said that already! :D

Back to the list: Can you still get Um Bongo now?
'Twas quite popular in the Congo I believe.

[Ash]

What about that instant mashed potato much, smash?

Smash is still on sale. Saw it in a shop yesterday!

[sligoman]

What about those chewing gums, Hollywood I think they were called? Or Lipton Ice Tea? Haven't seen them in a good while.

[carrickharp]

Would Cavan cola be anything like the Homestead 29p bottles of cola or the Shannon minerals bottle of "kola"
Some info here about it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavan_Cola).

[Roadend]

Some info here about it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavan_Cola).

Ahh, so that's where mugshot went........

[razor]

Bought my 3 year old her first Mr Freeze the other week, she loved it.
Hadn't seen them in ages.