What naff product from the past would you like to bring back?

Cols · June 2023

BluesLover said:

Raleigh chopper....
Oh, too late, you can buy them again £950!!!!!!

I’m puzzled as to who the target market is for this. Too expensive for kids, and Gen X grownups will look like twats riding around on one.

DuploLicks · June 2023

historyisjunk said:

crosstownvamp said:

historyisjunk said:

More sadistic than naff- Izal medicated toilet paper.

At my bloody prep school whenever we needed to trace a map in Geography, the teacher, who happened to be the headmaster, would go off to the loos and come back with sheets of Izal to use as tracing paper.

One of my first jobs was in the "industrial" bit of the civil service & we used to distribute bog paper that was possibly a grade down from Izal. It had "government property" stamped on every sheet- like someone would actually nick it.

Clearing out my grandad’s house we found several rolls with ‘Glasgow Council’ lovingly printed on it. I would be surprised if it was legally obtained

So people definitely were interested in lifting it. Whether the intention was practical, ideological or scatalogical… I’m not sure.

Kittyfrisk · June 2023

And the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory for kids...
Play hunt a gamma ray source with a geiger counter... I still want one

Gilbert-238 Atomic Energy Lab toy with real radioactive sample Geiger

Sassafras · June 2023

Cols said:

BluesLover said:

Raleigh chopper....
Oh, too late, you can buy them again £950!!!!!!

I’m puzzled as to who the target market is for this. Too expensive for kids, and Gen X grownups will look like twats riding around on one.

Since when's that ever stopped them?

crunchman · June 2023

Sassafras said:

Chemistry sets with potentially lethal chemicals.
Bloody nanny state!!!

How old are you?

I had a chemistry set in the early 80s, and that didn't have anything interesting in it.

Sassafras · June 2023

crunchman said:

Sassafras said:

Chemistry sets with potentially lethal chemicals.
Bloody nanny state!!!

How old are you?

I had a chemistry set in the early 80s, and that didn't have anything interesting in it.

Old enough to remember they had little test tubes filled with cyanide, plutonium and intensely corrosive acids.

Sassafras · June 2023

Asbestos.

Sassafras · June 2023

Philly_Q said:

bertie said:

the ronco buttoneer

we all need one in our lives

anyone's mum actually have one ? mine did, fine for buttons on outer garments like coats or jackets, anything next to the skin left you in welt marks

They were like the little plastic tags they use to attach size/price labels to clothes, weren't they?

We had a Ronco Super Saw. It was so shit it couldn't even cut Christmas cake.

I've had some Christmas cake that even a chainsaw would just bounce off.

Sporky · June 2023

You need an abrasive cutter for Christmas cake. Best to regard it as a putatively-edible paving slab.

LastMantra · June 2023

Guitar based music.

thecolourbox · June 2023

For those of us who were students in the 00s, the Pizza Hut "all you can eat" lunch buffet for £3.99 was absolute carby and cheesy trashy heaven. Absolute garbage pizza of course. But even better (and trashier) than that, was a starter they did at that time, sadly discontinued, called something like Crispy Cheesy Wraps. I imagine it was essentially the pizza base sauce and mozarella in baked rolled up tortillas but I've never quite been able to recreate it after several attempts to piece it together myself. I do quite enjoy "reverse hacking" foods like that though so I am sure I will try again at some point

axisus · June 2023

The Mrs and I used to love this pudding called Hot Chocolate crunch I think. It was powder, you added boiling water, stirred it with a spoon and it went thickish, then you poured a load if little biscuit crumb bits on top. I was lovely, I'd definitely still buy that!

DonnyMac · June 2023

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LastMantra · June 2023

DonnyMac said:

I had the rocket/jet bike one.

scrumhalf · June 2023

Cola Spangles.

Offset · June 2023

1953 The Amazing Magic Robot Merit JL Randall Ltd England - tomsk3000

bobblehat · June 2023

LastMantra said:

DonnyMac said:

I had the rocket/jet bike one.

I think this was my favourite Christmas present of all time. I had the original stunt bike and the rocket bike. My brother had the chopper.

Sporky · June 2023

scrumhalf said:

Cola Spangles.

Is that a stripper name?

hollywoodrox · June 2023

bobblehat said:

hollywoodrox said:

Flavoured Heinz custard in a tin there was banana I remember
Golden cup chocolate bar & soft caramel
Texan chocolate & nougat
Bar 6 , a beautiful cadburys Kit Kat

Those plastic yellow aeroplanes shaped like a Vulcan bomber that you launched with an elastic band they would fly for many minutes in wide circles

The ro top lane from the 70s a kind of toy kite/machine here’s a video the blokes not much cop with it though

https://youtu.be/5b-a5oIVC3Y

Christmas crackers where the body is covered in colorful crepe paper ,silver foil and a jolly paper picture . New ones look so drab

Thanks for the memory , I used to have one of those Roto Kites . Also had a Barnstormer Stunt Kite which were mindblowing at the time. My brother had a Peter Powell Stunt kite which apparently was technically superior but a pain in the arse to get going in anything less than a gale.

I remember both those kites , I had a barnstormer but was useless with twin line jobs but would stand hours with my single line kites

Kittyfrisk · June 2023

Offset said:

Still got one of those somewhere. The only problem is that things have changed & many of the answers are no longer accurate

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