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I found a multipack of brannigans beef and mustard in the shop at lunch time, along with lemon and scampi nik naks. Obviously i bought both and, overwrought with anticipation, tore into them like a feret at a trouser leg once back at my desk.
The brannigans failed to leave me feeling like I'd snorted a line of wasabi and the nik naks didn't smell bad enough to raise a single eyebrow in the office.
I'm distraught and no longer sure i can bring myself to eat the remaining bags. (A dilemma I'm sure I'll eventually resolve.)
Please comfort me with tales of similar disappointment produced by things which are pale imitation of their former selves.
I tried watching Benny Hill. WTF. How did anyone ever think that was entertaining?
If the smell of your scampi and lemon Nik-Naks failed to raise an eyebrow try loudly referring to them as fanny flavour.
Fry's Turkish Delight.
Sadly, they are not full of eastern promise anymore. Although my definition of "eastern promise" has changed over the years.
Sprouts - they actually taste really good.
fanny flavour
I imagine less for the impropriety and more for the wonder of exactly where you've been.
Watching telly with my son who was maybe 3 at the time, re-runs of an original Thunderbirds episode.
"Lady Penelope looks like she's got strings?"
"That's because she's a puppet."
*a few minutes pass and he's clearly thinking*
"Are *all* the Thunderbirds puppets?"
I had to admit that they were and there was his belief in the Thundebirds destroyed.
He didn't really watch it when it was on again after that 🙁
“Are *all* the Thunderbirds puppets?”
Just wait till he accidentally puts on bbc parliament instead of cbbc.
The A Team
Yep ... I see your A Team and raise you...... Star Wars
The pink bits on the maps of my childhood turned out to be us being the bastards.
Most sweets would pull my fillings out like fly paper but I did try a sherbet flying saucer a while back and that's top of the fun food chain.
I remember watching one episode of a tv series each week and having to sit through the adverts.
Cadbury whisper bars.
And in fact anything made by Cadbury.
Just rtastes of cheapest possible chocolate now.
turns out he didn't fix it for children's dreams to come true at all.
Just rtastes of cheapest possible chocolate now.
The odd thing is, i like cheap chocolate, I'd take the crap you get in a [s]advent calendar[/s] non denominational date recording device over good chocolate any day but even i find Cadbury stuff rubbish.
Are kinder eggs still the mutts nuts?
Dangerbrain - your quest for the hit once delivered by the Brannigans, similar to snorting a line of chilli powder will inevitably lead you here. They make your teeth water....
turns out he didn’t fix it for children’s dreams to come true at all.
Dunno about that.
He fixed it for me to milk a cow blindfolded.
Two words:
Wagon
Wheels
Binners - Are they cleared for import into God's own county or is there a risk of incarceration?
Dear Jim,
Please can you fix it for me to appear on It's a Knockout.
From Tthew.
Most I'll advised letter I wrote in my childhood.
Foodwise I think you're allowed to import anything into the land of the Tandoori Munchie Box. 😀
Foodwise I think you’re allowed to import anything into the land of the Tandoori Munchie Box.
But why would you want to? 😉
You've just reached another of life's milestone, your taste buds are dying. Soon it will just be soup for you.
The day i could wolf down a brannigans beef and mustard without crying with pain was the day I felt i became a man.
It happens to us all.
Go get your slippers.
Sorry - just realised you mean cross-border. I was over there yesterday seeing Scuttler, of this parish. HI think he described it as 'Lancashire and Yorkshire... 2 county's divided by bloody awful traffic'. I might try and smuggle some through customs when I'm over there again on Saturday 😀
I may take a look for them then and bring back a few pallets, I've reason to be on the rainy side of the hill tomorrow and Sunday (poor planning/paying of attention to item locations on ebay).
You’ve just reached another of life’s milestone, your taste buds are dying. Soon it will just be soup for you.
Strange you should say that - my tastebuds have only just recovered from eating a pack of super sour thingies i got from aldi the other week, as ever they didn't taste especially sour, my tongue did however seem to suffer some sort of chemical burns.
Blue Rasberryade no longer induces a hallucinatory trip, nor is your entire digestive tract stained purple for weeks.
the nik naks didn’t smell bad enough to raise a single eyebrow in the office.
Good, they were bloody revolting.
fanny flavour
Less popular on the other side of the Atlantic, I'd expect.
Theakstons Old Peculiar doesn't taste like it did in the 90s. (Its still good, just a bit more "usual" than it was).
The pink bits on the maps of my childhood turned out to be us being the bastards.
👍🤣💪👌🍆
they were bloody revolting
You're wrong, they rank up along side pickled onion monster munch, frazzles & salt and vinegar chip sticks as some of the greatest non pork snack fatty salt sticks ever produced (honourable mention to the pub only scampi fries and cheese moments)
Scraps.
Theakstons Old Peculiar
Does it still smell the same the day after?
Known as "Theakston's Finest Eggy" round these parts.
You’re wrong, they rank up along side
They rank alright.
Are kinder eggs still the mutts nuts
**** yes. The chocolate still tastes the same, if that's your bag, and whilst there's still a range of toys from fantastic to alright, I (er, the kids) recently got a functioning glider in one! A miracle of packaging and design!
It's not Terry's, it's a soft palm-oily shiteball made in the shape of a nectarine.
Proper grapefruit. Most places now only sell watered down pink or red.
I had a Terry's Chocolate Satsuma the other Christmas. Not only are they the size of a large marble these days, but the cheeky bastards have made one side of each segment concave so you're getting even less chocolate than it appears.
Huh?
Terrys Choc Oranges went from 175 g to 157 g overnight a few years back. I had both in my hands at the same time on the same shelf in local Morrisons. I even took them to info to check there wasn't some mistake. All are now 157 g. Cheeky beggars just to swap the numbers like that in the hope no one would notice.
Kit Kat. Had one today and noticed just how bloody small it was.....
Fosters lager. Used to be the teenage connoisseurs choice. Now it's piss and wind.
but I did try a sherbet flying saucer a while back and that’s top of the fun food chain.
Can’t argue with that, popping one into your mouth and feeling it dissolve away leaving the sherbet hasn’t lost its charm since I was a kid.
Note to self: must buy a bag of sherbet flying saucers on Saturday.
Fosters lager. Used to be the teenage connoisseurs choice
Did it really or were we more interested in the price and it tasting better than skol or carling? I'm pretty sure it was always horrid. That said i generally drank nitro keg bitter (owing to lack of availability of cask rather than preference) so i can't really talk.
These used to be dangerous! Now the flavour has been dumbed down for the modern taste for the insipid.
Walkers Worcester Sauce crisps, don't taste strong anymore. Pah, complete let down.
It was more Slalom Lager than Skol or Fosters when we were foraging for our first beers!
Malvern RiderIt’s not Terry’s, it’s a soft palm-oily shiteball made in the shape of a nectarine.
CougarSubscriber
I had a Terry’s Chocolate Satsuma the other Christmas. Not only are they the size of a large marble these days, but the cheeky bastards have made one side of each segment concave so you’re getting even less chocolate than it appears.
Yes, horrible texture and you no longer get the satisfying core in the middle, just a pathetic little spindle.
Proper grapefruit. Most places now only sell watered down pink or red.
Ha, so 70s! Grapefruit doused overnight in sugar to make it vaguely edible, with a glacé cherry on top. 😂
turns out he didn’t fix it for children’s dreams to come true at all.
Apart from one wee boy who got to milk a cow whilst blindfold
Turns out it was perchy, and he's already replied in this thread. Small world.
These used to be dangerous! Now the flavour has been dumbed down for the modern taste for the insipid.
Try using marmite as a dip with twiglets for a fuller flavour
Fosters has always been cooking lager, surely?
Can I also add the reborn Ringos to the list of crisp-related disappointments. A tasteless shadow of their former selves...
On the flip side, these bad boys still have enough salt and vinegar to turn your lips white!!
Blue Rasberryade no longer induces a hallucinatory trip, nor is your entire digestive tract stained purple for weeks.
However apparently Burger King have got you covered...
https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/burger-kings-black-frozen-drink-is-turning-poop-weird-colors#
These are still up to scratch too
Sorry, didnt mean to shout up there. My iPad has taken to defaulting to bold.
I'm still looking for somewhere that sell cans of Breaker - for the ultimate test I'm going to pour it into a glass and try to taste it. It will be nasty but I will not care
Ahh were you on the show too Perchy?
He fixed it for me to learn how to peel a bannana with my mouth while blindfolded too. It took bloody ages, and by the end of it the bannana was just mush and I got it all over my face. Tasted nice though. 😋
Too much? 😁
Can’t argue with that, popping one into your mouth and feeling it dissolve away leaving the sherbet hasn’t lost its charm since I was a kid.
Note to self: must buy a bag of sherbet flying saucers on Saturday.
Nah, they're just cardboard with sherbet inside. Might as well cut open the saucer, pour out the sherbet and ditch the cardboard part.
In which vein, sherbet fountains are now plastic! WTAF
In which vein, sherbet fountains are now plastic! WTAF
Do they still leak everywhere owing to being sealed only with a licorice stick and some careful folding?
I bought a Mars from Boots and the man on the till held it for a moment after scanning it, looked at me and said "they're not what they used to be, are they?"
I nodded in agreement and we went our separate ways to ponder the disappointments of life.
And we now have walnut-less whips...
...which is actually great for me who doesn't like nuts.
Not in the S&V squares/Brannigans level of kick, but these deliver a satisfying tongue-tingle.
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Also a bargain at 72p for 6 packs.
On the flip side, these bad boys still have enough salt and vinegar to turn your lips white!!
Yeah, but there's about 20 crisps in the pack.
These are still up to scratch too
See above.
In any case,
What happened to:
a) Nibbits Wheelz (onion and vinegar) and
b) Really Ruthless Crisps?
In a strange twist of fate I'm sat in the Moselle valley at the moment, had some early holidays here as kids and we were all excited by seeing the train going past all the time, now I'm just hoping the bloody train packs in soon and doesn't start too early tomorrow.
Fosters lager. Used to be the teenage connoisseurs choice.
Thunderbird "Wine" and Mad Dog were our go-tos for a cheap thrill as a teenager. Not missed 🤢