the nostalgia thread, i remember when...

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:23 pm

deejaypcp wrote:...in the old days really... a lot less good music and more expensive drugs.

I'm often amazed that the going price for a g of green has remained unchanged from when I was 15yo to now, 14 years later.

Put your inflation on top, and that's quite a saving!

Meanwhile $1 worth of mixed lollies looks nothing like it used to back then, although it's much quicker for the corner shop lady to put it together.

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:27 pm

if you even manage to find a corner shop that has lollies (besides your prepackaged stuff of course).

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:29 pm

True enough.

almax · Post by **almax** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:46 pm

Direkt wrote:
deejaypcp wrote:...in the old days really... a lot less good music and more expensive drugs.
I'm often amazed that the going price for a g of green has remained unchanged from when I was 15yo to now, 14 years later.

I remember grass and gold used to sell for the same amount by the ounce

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:50 pm

almax wrote:
Direkt wrote:
deejaypcp wrote:...in the old days really... a lot less good music and more expensive drugs.
I'm often amazed that the going price for a g of green has remained unchanged from when I was 15yo to now, 14 years later.
I remember grass and gold used to sell for the same amount by the ounce

Same here mang.

How the times have changed.

NakedAge · Post by **NakedAge** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:06 pm

hehe this is going to sound fucking, nerdy as nerd can get, but I remember staying home from school, pulling sickies, and, rugging up with the blanket on the couch and watching channel 2 (Abc) educational kids programs alllllll day and loving and learning heaps of silly shit that never came in handy anywhere except to piss people off, and, then at 5:00 Widget and Captain planet would come on, or Degrassi Juniour High.

Today on the radio they had a 'bringing your kids to work' segment, which was funny because when I got to work someone had brought their kid in and it made me think about when I used to go to my dads work, and how my aunty who also worked there had games on her computer and my cousin had put Mortal Kombat on it I think but it ran slower than a obese kid trying to run away from cake.

calstro · Post by **calstro** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 8:37 am

I remember when I was wasn't sweating!!!

Fents · Post by **Fents** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 8:52 am

sunnyboys. i've been flogging these the last few days. orange>rasberry>cola

Brain · Post by **Brain** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:08 pm

So, why is the cola sunnyboy called a glug?

Anyone?

Fents · Post by **Fents** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:12 pm

I always thought it was just a funny extension of the actual flavour - razz = rasberry, orange = explosion, cola = glug the king of all sunnyboys.

unless you know something i dont Brain.

Brain · Post by **Brain** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:24 pm

Fents wrote:I always thought it was just a funny extension of the actual flavour - razz = rasberry, orange = explosion, cola = glug the king of all sunnyboys.

unless you know something i dont Brain.

Nah, I don't know anything about anything.

Still confused though as to why cola and the word glug go together. I know that a glug is a gurgling sound as of liquid issuing from a bottle but why is that associated with cola?

Also, wasn't there a green sunnyboy once upon a time? If so, what was it called?

Questions like these, seemingly trivial yet important, are why the internet was invented.

Fents · Post by **Fents** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:36 pm

cant remember the green one and im 29!

i reckon the cola one contains more cordial/ice ratio and when u finally finish it you end up with more of that glug goodness at the end....the best bit.

almax · Post by **almax** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:40 pm

unless you suck it dry and its just ice

Brain · Post by **Brain** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:50 pm

Fents wrote:cant remember the green one and im 29!

i reckon the cola one contains more cordial/ice ratio and when u finally finish it you end up with more of that glug goodness at the end....the best bit.

You could be right about the cordial/ice ratio in a glug.

BTW I just googled 'green sunnyboy' and two separate accounts recall it as being called either a 'Zap' or a 'Zapp'. Then someone else weighed in with a 'Zap' being purple!

Sunnyboy controversy!

andy_hoffman · Post by **andy_hoffman** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:53 pm

I want them to bring back blue heaven BIG Ms! They were the shit! Used to get them for free at my mates joint when i was little cos his dad worked for big m.

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:02 pm

almax wrote:unless you suck it dry for ice

Dude!!!

almax · Post by **almax** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:11 pm

Direkt wrote:
almax wrote:unless you suck it dry for ice
Dude!!!

are you trying to get me back for that gay comment earlier in another thread?

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:12 pm

almax wrote:
Direkt wrote:
almax wrote:unless you suck it dry for ice
Dude!!!

are you trying to get me back for that gay comment earlier in another thread?

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:25 pm

Got a raspberry Sunnyboy in my freezer at home. Along with a whole bunch of Fruit squeezey funny face thingo's. Peach & Pear flavour = memories of Prima's in primary school.

Fents · Post by **Fents** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:28 pm

those old frozen rasberry yoghurt in tubs they did at school go alright as well.

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:37 pm

they were ACES! I used to love apricot, with some thins s&v dipped in. You can still buy them at the supermarket I think, cost more than .45c now though

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:46 pm

andy_hoffman wrote:I want them to bring back blue heaven BIG Ms! They were the shit! Used to get them for free at my mates joint when i was little cos his dad worked for big m.

Rasberry big M was the BEST.... didn't last long though

andy_hoffman · Post by **andy_hoffman** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 4:07 pm

deviant wrote:
andy_hoffman wrote:I want them to bring back blue heaven BIG Ms! They were the shit! Used to get them for free at my mates joint when i was little cos his dad worked for big m.
Rasberry big M was the BEST.... didn't last long though

That's because it clearly wasn't the best! Blue heavens were around for a while. The choc berry one's were pretty sweet too!

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 4:16 pm

I have a problem with "blue heaven" as a flavour for milk. For anything actually.

At least with something raspberry or other fruit flavoured there's a slight possibility they're using real fruit. I have yet to see a blue heaven tree.

Fake natural flavours ftw

andy_hoffman · Post by **andy_hoffman** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 4:20 pm

Each to their own.

quick · Post by **quick** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 4:21 pm

mountain blast powerade ftw

NakedAge · Post by **NakedAge** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:48 pm

You know what I miss as far as flavoured milk goes, or atleast I havent been able to find personally for ages.

Its choclate mint milk. Its not Big M its another brand, in a brown bottle, not rush, but one of those brands. It was really rich and choclatey and minty, I miss that

Hatsudai · Post by **Hatsudai** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:58 pm

mixtress wrote:I have a problem with "blue heaven" as a flavour for milk. For anything actually.

At least with something raspberry or other fruit flavoured there's a slight possibility they're using real fruit. I have yet to see a blue heaven tree.

Fake natural flavours ftw

scriptcles.

Also lime Big M's what the fuck was up with that (at least they lasted about 5 minutes until they were pulled from the shelves)

aroes · Post by **aroes** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 3:50 pm

Needs more retro ice creams
Barney banana was rad, I know banana paddle pop is probably identical, but it doesn't have a monkey on the wrapper now does it
Used to cane the GI Joe ice creams from my cousin's milk bar in Preston too. Yum
Anyone rememeber Feast?? They were cool
And also the Crunchie ice creams, or do they still make those???
And the Bubble-o-Bills with the sub standard cowboy messages on the gumball. They were all like "Howdy Pardner" and "Nice Shot"
loltown

@ NA.....i think the mint choc milk you're on about was "Classic"....dunno if they're still around

NakedAge · Post by **NakedAge** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 5:34 pm

Aroes I think your absolutely right.

Also it might interest you to know that Vega Fm launched a petition to bring back the Barney Banana ice creams. I have no idea what they are and have never had one but I listen to Vega at work because it's all my cheap radio picks up. Anyways, they got the apropriate number of signatures and so now the manufacturers are bringing 4 samples into the studio (They may have allready) as a test run, and I think the Barney Banana is making a come back. Turns out the manufactorers didn't jerry how popular it was. I still don't know what it is. If they actually do make a full come back tho I might have to try one.

aroes · Post by **aroes** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 5:46 pm

-aroes- wrote: Barney banana was rad, I know BANANA PADDLE POP is probably identical,

almax · Post by **almax** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:52 pm

the best banana ice creams imo were the ones in the shape of a foot and they had a chocolate back.

NakedAge · Post by **NakedAge** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:07 pm

You know what, I got an Italian mum, and an Italian girlfriend, and the best thing happend the other day, ice cream related.

My mum, over the Christmas period went to this traditional Italian shop and got these traditonal Italian ice creams. Tartuffo's and shit. Now, it's unbelievably rare for her to get these, infact it's only been like 3 times in my whole life, starting from like, early last year. So, she found this Italian Ice Cream underground secret shop and I was wrapped because before I was only able to get these ice creams are weddings and reception events. I told my girlfriend, and, she runs off alllllll these names she knows of where you can buy these traditional Italian ice creams. Let me tell you, that women just got 1 step closer to a ring.

I was so happy because now I can have good Ice Cream

.

All those icecreams as a kid that we'd only get at weddings and shit, are now available to me and a whole new world of desert has opened up to me. It's like when your a kid and hear music you like and you don't know what it is then you grow up and find out its Techno or House or Trance or Breaks and you have no idea as a kid where to get it, but as a grown up, you have all this access to it and it's like "THE WORLDS MY OYSTER NOW BIATCHES!!!"

Right now, the world is my Casarta, my Tartuffo and my Forbidden Apple

Brain · Post by **Brain** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:00 am

almax wrote:the best banana ice creams imo were the ones in the shape of a foot and they had a chocolate back.

Were those the ones called 'funny feet'?

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:38 am

Bubble-o Bill's are still around. Don't think they have messages on the bubblegum anymore though.

Anyone remember that Triple Choc ice cream?

Had a solid chocolate inner, chocolate ice cream around that, and then a thin, hard chocolate casing (ala Choc Wedge) around it.

The. Biz. Ness.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:43 am

golden gaytime ftw

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:48 am

Remember the "cappucino" Golden Gaytime?

I do like a Golden Gaytime, despite the name.

almax · Post by **almax** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 12:23 pm

Brain wrote:
almax wrote:the best banana ice creams imo were the ones in the shape of a foot and they had a chocolate back.
Were those the ones called 'funny feet'?

YES! i had forgotten what they were called until then, thread/brain delivers!

NakedAge · Post by **NakedAge** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:47 pm

man, I havent mad a maxibon in years

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:49 pm

deviant wrote:golden gaytime ftw

fucking word.

still the greatest icecream on a stick of all time.

and, i love the fact that the name remains the same....world is too damn PC now...

Blaxter · Post by **Blaxter** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:58 pm

Used to get frozen flavoured milk in plastic bags that you ripped a corner off with your teeth, dunno what they were called though.

obliveus · Post by **obliveus** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:59 pm

deviant wrote:golden gaytime ftw

So good...

Shifty-Sly · Post by **Shifty-Sly** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 6:06 pm

Had a Bubble O Bill last week and still awesome and exactly how you remember

Direkt's right tho no cowboy message on the nose

So I just made up my own...... Brokeback Mountain Killed Cowboys

enigneyratorelknaw · Post by **enigneyratorelknaw** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:14 pm

I remember before they decided to put water into bottles for $, we would have home made slippery slides and sprinkler systems and we would laugh and spray each other with the hose on a hot day. Now water is a boom industry of which our good friends in the parliment make millions of dollars in taxes from. Ah water, if you see some put it away, one day it will be worth yuptillions

Fents · Post by **Fents** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:21 am

they are bringing maxibons and barney bannana's back im pretty sure. there was a petition on nova or vega or someshit about barneys.

Shifty-Sly · Post by **Shifty-Sly** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:32 am

Maxibons never left

I have a 4 pack in the freezer as I type

Fents · Post by **Fents** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:00 am

well there you go.

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:14 am

Blaxter wrote:Used to get frozen flavoured milk in plastic bags that you ripped a corner off with your teeth, dunno what they were called though.

Ducats, in Shepparton, used to make a version of these... Milky Freeze.

Awesome.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:07 pm

Fents wrote:they are bringing maxibons and barney bannana's back im pretty sure. there was a petition on nova or vega or someshit about barneys.

I used to love the maxibon's that where a gamble as to what flavor you would get.

edit: Maxibon "risk".... anyone else remember?

NakedAge · Post by **NakedAge** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:53 pm

wasnt there only 1 flavour?