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mrsmopp Wed 24-Jul-13 16:40:58

Home pride flour graders grade every grain
Because graded grains make finer flour.

The graders were dressed in black and wore bowler hats like little businessmen. I had a salt and pepper set; they were very popular.

Ariadne Sat 03-Aug-13 11:03:31

My grandma swore by bile beans - they were black, weren't they? and Beecham's pills Ina little cylindrical box.

And we know exactly how they might slim you!

lujaha Sat 03-Aug-13 10:43:33

Do you remember little bile beans slim while you sleep !!
www.flickr.com/photos/castlekay/4368930120/ confused

mrsmopp Sat 03-Aug-13 10:08:54

lipsmackinthirstquenchinacetastinmotavatingoodbuzzincooltalkinhighwalkinfastlivinevergivincoolfizzin..Pepsi!

Or

I'd like to buy the world a Coke
And keep it company.

Joan Sat 03-Aug-13 03:05:32

I love this take on the old Hovis advert:-

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2AcJSkUw6M

For those not too familiar with Yorkshire dialect, snap = food, booits = boots and coit = coat.

The same exaggeration is used in the sketch "the Four Yorkshiremen", and it is really true - I've heard all such tales.

Oh, and here's an advert for an imaginary 'Yorkshire Airlines:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VLYpKGVBUg

ginny Fri 02-Aug-13 21:33:50

1001 cleans a big big carpet, for less than half a crown.

Do the shake and vac and put the freshness back.

Smarties, buy some for Lulu.

Nainbach Fri 02-Aug-13 20:27:20

Oh! and soap......Look your loveliest with Knights Castile.

Nainbach Fri 02-Aug-13 20:10:14

Thinking of drinking (I do sometimes) A Double Diamond works wonders, works wonders, works wonders. A Double Diamond works wonders so drink some today!

nonnanna Fri 02-Aug-13 08:11:06

Yes! Red doors on Watneys pubs - My cousin and I stood outside one in Kent many a time with the dog, waiting for my uncle to come out and finish our Sunday walk. Forgotten all about that - this is why I love Gransnet.

feetlebaum Thu 01-Aug-13 15:16:37

It was "What we want is Watneys" - and there was "Watneys, a draw,at home or away!"

Later it was the Watneys Red Revolution, with their, to quote Monty Python, "Watney's bleedin' Red Barrel" as they tried to shift their ghastly keg beer.
Their tied pubs had red doors... a sad decline of a once great brewery.

Sook Thu 01-Aug-13 14:14:25

Ooops sorry that should be jingle grin

Sook Thu 01-Aug-13 14:13:47

Thanks when tbh I was a bit unsure about the last line of the jungle. Seems that only us northern girls remember them so far.

whenim64 Thu 01-Aug-13 14:10:28

There was a young girl of Southend
Who had only twopence to spend,
So what could be nicer
Than a Pendleton’s Twicer?
Ice cream — with a lolly each end!

Sook Thu 01-Aug-13 14:06:39

They were yummy nonna and well worth tuppence.

nonnanna Thu 01-Aug-13 13:59:08

Wasn't it ' What you (they?) want is Watneys'?

nonnanna Thu 01-Aug-13 13:57:55

Thanks vegasmags Sounds delicious - and I remember a frozen Jubbly mmm.

vegasmags Thu 01-Aug-13 13:24:46

It was called a twicer because it had ice cream inside the lolly.

vegasmags Thu 01-Aug-13 13:22:31

A Pendleton's twicer was a yummy kind of ice lolly - almost as good as a frozen Jubbly, my personal favourite.

nonnanna Thu 01-Aug-13 13:02:17

This thread is a trip down memory lane. It's brilliant. Has anyone played the board game 'Logo'? It's a bit like this. What's a Pendleton's Twicer? Sounds like chewing gum you stick to the bedpost til tomorrow.

Sook Wed 31-Jul-13 21:12:20

There was a girl from Southend,

Who had only tuppence to spend,

What could be nicer, than a Pendletons' Twicer,

When you only have tuppence to spend.

PRINTMISS my lovely FiL was an Ovaltinee, he had a lovely spoon to commemorate his membership to the club, sadly it has been lost.

tammy1351 Wed 31-Jul-13 20:54:49

Murray mints Murray mints too good to hurry mints!!My god i'm getting old!!!

mrsmopp Wed 31-Jul-13 12:46:17

Captain Birds Eye!
Incidentally did you know that Clarence Birdseye was the inventor of frozen food? Ooh I'm a mine of information, I am!!

feetlebaum Tue 30-Jul-13 19:34:34

Damn you GransNet - no delete button!

feetlebaum Tue 30-Jul-13 19:33:50

They're mighty meaty, Matey!

Nicole?... Papa?...

Racing Drivers eat HP Baked Beans (must be one of the lamest ever!)

feetlebaum Tue 30-Jul-13 19:33:34

They're mighty meaty, Matey!

Nicole?... Papa?...

Racing Drivers eat HP Baked Beans (must be one of the lamest ever!)

mrsmopp Sun 28-Jul-13 08:30:48

And all because the lady loves Milk Tray.....