What were you impressed with as a child that your DGC would laugh it now ?

*dinner plate.

When shops introduced plastic carrier bags my mum thought they were the best thing ever! Up until then brown paper carriers were the norm: if they got damp it was a race to get home before the bottom gave way and the handles were string that might as well have been cheesewire, they effectively cut off the circulation to your fingers.

When I was nine, in 1974, we were in Lichfield with my grandmother and we went to a Chinese restaurant. It was the first time I had ever eaten Chinese food and I thought it was terribly exotic. My dad advised that Sweet and Sour Pork was a good introduction to Chinese food, so that is what I had on an ordinary dinner plus with a fork. Everyone else was the same - one dish on a plate. It was hugely inauthentic, but to us at the time seemed as if we were experiencing a true taste of the Far East.

I remember getting a house where we had a new pink bath. We still visited my gran in Wales - who had no indoor plumbing

In 6th form, we were taken to the computer factory " Ferranti"
which occupied a full floor of a redundant cotton mill. Valves were as big as milk bottles. people were walking around with large reels of magnetic tape clutched to their chests. It only did as much as a desk top calculator (remember those ?). Even GGC don't believe me
I developed a dislike of Horlicks as we were given horlicks tablets to replace our school milk which was withdrawn after the radiation leak at Windscale/ Sellafield. All the milk in a large area of the NW Lancashire and Cumberland had to be thrown away as it was contaminated, for a long time. Not many people believe me.

A plumbed in bath with hot water pouring out of a tap. In fact I was in trouble because I used all the hot water. It seemed sheer luxury.

Adelaide66

The first washing up liquid in a squeèzy plastic bottle. It was appropriately called Squeezy,

Another thing my mother was given by one of the ‘travellers’ who came into the shop she worked in!
Tree Top orange and passion fruit squash was another.

We went to see relatives mid week (can’t remember why). I was told to get the milk from the fridge and there was a partly eaten roast chicken. Can you imagine having a chicken mid week?? We were very lucky if we got a chicken on a Sunday it was a real treat. They were well off.

Sir Edmund Hillary conquering Everest.
I was very impressed when a man from Pitcairn island tracked down our family and told us that one of our ancestors was a mutineer.
Obviously rebelliousness runs in the family 😂

My friend's family had a silver cover in which their jars of jam sat. They used a spoon in their jam. In our house we stuck the knife in. Very posh!

Going to stay with my god parents and visiting his big store, and going up in the LIFT! wow

I remember being shown a colur photo by a neighbour. My dad's camera took black and white pictures. I was given an instamatic camera for passing the 11+ and he ended upborrowing it a lot!

Our first car with automatic windows, such a novelty!!

The first washing up liquid in a squeèzy plastic bottle. It was appropriately called Squeezy,

Discovering my cousin was a Lancaster bomber pilot in WW11 and was awarded the DSM for getting his crew back safely after being hit by the Germans. I thought he could walk on water. Next would be family getting a record player and of course the modern records of the day.

Jane43

My friend’s brother had a friend from America who came to stay with the family, he gave my friend a 3D viewer and some slides I think it was called a View Master. My friend and I were very impressed.

I had one of those, it had pictures of zoo animals. I was so excited but it was actually pretty boring in the end.

SparklyGrandma

Ski yoghurts! Did I remember right that there was a pear yoghurt in their range and a mandarin one?

And BOAC shoulder bags.

There was a spicy apple one with sultanas too, it must have been around 1970.

I remember seeing the very first broadcast from ITV and there were advertisments between the programmes!

Remember the fluffy (white on the pictures on hoardings) cat that ate cat food by dipping his one front paw into the opened tin?

And Shipham's meat paste adds, where "shiphams for tea, for tea, for tea" was sung by dancing jars of their paste to The Blue Danube?

The year before the advent of ITV I was invited to a school-friend's home to play after school (I was eight I think) and their house had central heating in every room. All doors inside stood wide open in the MIDDLE OF WINTER!

I just could not believe it!

Saturday morning children’s cinema. A crowd of us would go if it was someone’s birthday. There was usually a cartoon followed by a singalong with a red circle bouncing along the words on the screen. Then a film, maybe a western?
Not an adult in sight.

Being servedChicken in a Basket in a pub.
Only restaurants served meals prior to that.
I thought we were sooo posh.

a date as a teenager going on the back of my Mod boyfriend's scooter, much adorned with mirrors... to watch a film. We sat on the back row where they had double seats..

Skydancer

Not me - but I can remember my Mum coming back from a visit to someone and being extremely impressed by their battery-operated bread knife. (Do they still exist!).

Yes Skydancer - do you mean the electric carving knife which can also be used as a bread knife. I still have mine. Now that I am on my own I don’t use it now

Sitting cross-legged on the floor, in a very crowded sitting room watching a 9inch b and w tv screen showing the Queen's coronation .I wasn't allowed to MOVE, let alone speak.

Alie2Oxon I was chatting with the family about not knowing what a pizza was just the other day! I re.ember my amazement watching an Italian spin the dough and my dad, who liked any "different" foods asking him about the dough and the technique!

Years later my son worked spinning dough to fund his first motorbike!

My parents were devastated when I bought a pair of jeans TopGunner!