Thread: Do do do you remember?

I was in multi cultural London well there were the English a few Celts and handful of others, food was as bad as Ireland outside 5 star unaffordable French restos until the curry houses spread with their late lager and burning Vindaloos to every town and village, an era before delivered Pizza or Tikka Masala , Baltis and Nans were heard of in Blighty.

In 70s I visited Irish Polish Russian Persian and Danish places with dad Thai and Vietnamese was unknown and suburbs had greasy Chinese or Fish Chip Burger take aways.
The only options for a date with a tablecloth and waiter were Chinese or Indian having lived in China and India the food bore no similarity and was either Sweet Sour missing cat with crispy noodles plus 6 lagers or Burning hot Cat/dog/horse curry with 5 lagers. The menus just said meat and teh Sylheti waiters dare not admit the source,

Slim pickings and fry up in a greasy spoon/Fred"s cafe deals was usually better, pub lunches were basic pickled egg and scotch egg medley until some marketing guru invented the Ploughman's, Carveries and the microwave layers of lasagne and endless chicken in the basket

Haut Cuisine blighty style where sardines on toast were sold in public!!!

A quirk of mine in the early 70s when it was cool to smoke. Sadly F&T closed in the 80s.

Spud guns



Spokey dokeys



Panini sticker albums



Atomic Fireballs

Originally Posted by Bogon

I think the computer is a Spectrum (Made by Sir Clive Sinclair)

It is the second generation Spectrum, following the ZX80, an 8-bit computer with a whopping 1K of RAM. I vaguely recall you could buy an additional 1K extension pack.

^ got a lot of kids into programming

Originally Posted by hallelujah

whats going on here ? a bottle cap tied to the shoes but does it serve a purpose?

Fighter jet gummies. The stealth bomber was special and not available in every pack. The Mig 27 was included too.

Originally Posted by Backspin

whats going on here ? a bottle cap tied to the shoes but does it serve a purpose?

https://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory/grolsch-caps-on-shoes

Originally Posted by Backspin

whats going on here ? a bottle cap tied to the shoes but does it serve a purpose?

It was a fashion accessory.
We used to put a penny in our loafers at the Mod and Soul dos.
Must more sophisticated imho.

Originally Posted by david44

Sweet Sour missing cat with crispy noodles plus 6 lagers or Burning hot Cat/dog/horse curry

It was in the 1970's that the dog/cat rescue centres put a ban on Asians adopting then later a price that made it economically unviable for them to fill a van with strays and head back to their takeaway for a mass slaughter.

My relationship with peas started young...



We used to prowl around the estate with a pea shooter in one hand and a box of dried peas in the other. Dark winter evenings were best because no-one closed their curtains... the look of shock when a salvo of peas hit the window!

It was all burning cow dung pies and knock and run up north.

Nothing more satisfying than a miserable old Dodger stamping out the flames on his door step only to walk a shoe full off dung onto his axminster carpet.

When your ball's seen better days:



But you've collected enough fake sponsors to get a new one.



Not just a Mitre...

... a Mitre Delta 1000 ya beauty!

Originally Posted by Troy

It is the second generation Spectrum, following the ZX80, an 8-bit computer with a whopping 1K of RAM. I vaguely recall you could buy an additional 1K extension pack.

I think so.

The last one I had was the 128k.

What a beast

^^

Forgot the gloves

Originally Posted by Headworx

My dad got a beater 69 chev that he got for parts for its chopped and tubed one. It had an inline 6 3 on the tree. I wanted to see what it was like but the linkage was fuct up. We chopped a hole in the cab and had 2 levers instead. So I still cant say I've ever driven a 3 on the tree

Party line phone on the kitchen wall.




State of the art photo viewer.





Fizzies. The things were awful.

^^I learned to drive in a 3 on the tree on a large property aged about 12. It wasn't just steering and brakes that had to be learned it was also a clutch and manual gearbox that didn't have syncro back to first, so double-declutching had to be mastered at the same time. A lot different to the cars of today that's for sure, an untrained chimp could jump in one and drive off smoothly on their first ever attempt these days.