What are some things you miss because they just don’t make them anymore?

It’s a crisis, I tell you, buy some in!

Cadbury do Caramilk but it’s not the same :cry:

I like to make an apple and caramac cake at Halloween

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Hard toffee

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Amiga computers…I loved mine and it was way before it’s time, far superior to microsoft…

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Tyne Brand minced beef with onion.

I made many a tasty meal with it in my early married days.

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Cheese Nips.

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You can’t get them at all @Woody67? Gosh, they are my favorite night time snacks! Try Walmart, or your local grocery store! I would definitely miss them if I couldn’t find them!

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I thought they were discontinued. Hmm.

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Had forgotten about Tyne Brand

I learnt the other day that its getting harder to get your car jump started as many cars today have their batteries un accessible or drive hybrids etc.

Luckily work had an older car that was good for it.

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that looks yummy

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Funnily enough I actually miss DOS I resisted changing to Windows until it was impossible not to

I personally wasn’t a fan, my Commodore 128 was all I needed at the time until finally I bought an IBM PC with DOS 2.2 (I think it was), DOS just got better and better until DOS 6 (though there were duds)

Still use batch files as the quickest and easiest way of manipulating files and backup a computer so M$ DOS lives on.

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More or less the same story here Bruce. I resisted as long as I could, same with Betamax video recorders or now a smartphone… But eventually life gets too difficult to manage without microsoft, humax or a smartphone.

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The palm toffee was lovely

There was a petition doing the rounds a few months back - have no idea how many signatures they managed to get in the end.

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the 3 speed bike.

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Thank the Lord, somebody has posted an item that isn’t food…
Well done waimiha.
My mum had a bike just like the one in the picture, I wish I would have hung on to it. The Sturmey Archer 3 speeds were brilliant. I think mums was actually 4 speed.
Talk about re-cycling…I bought my present bike around 1980 from a second hand shop in the village. The bloke had done it up as a work bike (to go to work on) I could see there were little runners attached to the frame to support a derailer, it was a racing bike in disguise, so I gave him £11.50 for it and took it home. Stripped it down, painted the frame, added a five speed derailer, centre pull brakes, saddle, racing handlebars and new tyres and tubes…


We’ve done lots of miles together including a 300 mile coast to coast in 2000. I’ve always found that a five speed derailer is quite sufficient for my needs but now bikes come with more cogs than you can shake a stick at, and I bet riders today still only select around five on road work. Mountain biking and off road would require more gears probably, but I like cracking along on a good tarmac’d road (rare nowadays) with the wind in my face and bum in the air, and alone with my thoughts…Not bad value for £11.50…

Sorry I digress… :blush:

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Ah! Happy memories of riding one of these around London with my friends. Loved it to bits, I still think about trying to source one in good vintage condition for old times sake but…nah! Other fish to fry…

Oh, and mine did have pedals by the way :slightly_smiling_face: :+1:

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That looks brilliant and looking closely it resembles my bike. Judging by the place where the badge goes I do believe my bike is a raleigh too Chilli, it has exactly the same little frame attachments for the front light, rear brakes, pump, and derailer. The bloke who did mine up put ordinary pedals on and I couldn’t get them off to fit ones for shoes to clip in. But I did find some toe clips but you need to wear flat shoes otherwise you can’t get your foot out. Something I found out very early in my biking adventures…

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I do believe you’re right Foxy… the very same bike.
Old school five speed gear shifter on the frame away from the handle bars and as you say the underslung mount for the pump.
I’m well fussy about pedals, the first thing I’m going to do when I get my new mountain bike is change the stock ones. I used to love the traps, just slip the toes of your chosen footwear into them and off you go! :slightly_smiling_face:

Anyway, enjoying your bike is the main thing…as you know :wink::+1:

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