BB Bats.
Haven’t seen them for like 40 years but they were at the $5 and Under store last night.
I’m licking the nuts and raisins out of my teeth as I type. I got a couple of Chunky candy bars for myself and The Wife, from Rite-Aid.
Silly Putty. I saw some in a store display (not a toy store, oddly) a few weeks ago. I bought one for my daughter. It’s the same, exactly, as it was when I was a kid.
Unfortunately, newspaper ink is not the same, so you can’t spread it over a comic in the paper and get a transfer print.
Still, she had fun with it.
Re sandwich cookies: Carr’s Ginger Lemon Cremes.
Back on topic: Buckley’s Mixture. Imagine a flavour like mothballs dissolved in PineSol. (They apparently are in the midst of a voluntary recall because the seal on the bottle might fall inside and be swallowed. Considering the taste, you might choke and not notice. But it will clear your congestion!)
I can once again run faster and jump higher-PF Flyers are available.
I wore nothing else as a 50s/60s kid. I’ve often wondered if we actually believed that… I suspect so.
I mean, Jonny Quest did…
Chic-O-Sticks. Hard to find but still made.
They bring all of them out every year now around Halloween. I know because I’m partial to Boo Berry and I get a couple of boxes every year. Fruit Brutes and Yummy Mummy were re-introduced for Halloween more recently, but they still come out every year.
The subject of old candy made me think of Chupa-Chups–as a child in the late 1970s or early 1980s, you could buy one from a display (IIRC not unlike this) and they had a plastic “stick”, and with each one you bought you were given a little plastic propeller so that you could turn the stick into one of these when you finished the sucker. The Chupa-Chups are still available, but as best as I can tell, they no longer come with propellers.
They sell 'em in CostCo here. I have an unopened box sitting on the snack shelf even as I type.
There are knock-offs but they don’t work as well as the Victory traps do. They’re either riskier to set or harder to trigger, sometimes both at the same time.
JMS featured in the show because he thought it funny to consider the stuff would be around in 10 years, never mind 260. 241 to go.
I didn’t see FrankenBerry and Count Chocula this last Halloween. Granted, I wasn’t particularly looking.
Perfect timing to find this thread.
At the grocery store tonight I found “original New York Seltzer” I hadn’t seen this since the 1980s.
I bought the raspberry flavor.
Most places have Bon Ami if you look for it. I keep a supply.
Both of these still work great.
I still buy Necco wafers when I find them. The licorice ones are by far my favorites. Sweet flavored chalk! Can’t beat it.
I did, but they weren’t in the cereal aisle; they were on a standalone display sorta/kinda near the cereal aisle along the back of the store.
That’s where I saw Fruity Yummy Mummy, et al., a couple years ago. I think I’d have noticed if any of them had been brought back last year.
It might have been a regional thing; maybe they didn’t ship them to my part of the world.
I don’t know about the rest of the world, but I know what happend to “wine coolers” in my home state, because I was working in the liqour industry at the time–
Somebody came out with a wine cooler in a single-serve size cardboard box, called a “tetra-pack”, same as childrens fruit juice before “pop-tops”. Somebody else said “Children will drink it”, “They’re marketing it at Children”.
The market collapsed.
Wine coolers were, of course marketed at children. The kind of children who want to drink sophisticated Adult drinks. The kind who wouldn’t be caught dead drinking a childrens drink.
A quick follow-up was that alcohol levels in “Wine Coolers” were regulated down, because they were being marketed to young people. So (around here), if you wanted to market a sweet high-alcohol-content drink, you couldn’t call it a “wine cooler”. Not that it mattered. That branding was gone.
I’m not surprised. We used to use Prell when washing our hands after working on the car! :eek: Then we switched to Oxydol laundry detergent. Hey it was the 70s, all we had was Lava and that stuff never worked like it was supposed to!
Funny, until I read your post, my memory was that the slogan “A Little Dab’ll Do Ya!” belonged to Dippity-do.
By the way, Apparently, they still make… Dippity-do!
http://dippity-do.com/en/