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#1571683 14-Jun-2016 14:26

FineWine: You used to be able to get an icecream popsicle with real strawberry fruit mash coating, absolutely yum. Can not remember name or who made them.

keewee01:The strawberry TOPPA! I remember those. Loved em! Made by TipTop.

Yep that's the one. Tip Top Strawberry Toppa, yummy yummy in my tummy

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#1571690 14-Jun-2016 14:29

frankv:

Actual L&P, as opposed to the sickly sweet substitute available nowadays. And "Te Aroha & Lemon".

That might explain it. I used to like L&P but when I came back from living in the UK for 20+ years I found I hated it.

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#1571733 14-Jun-2016 15:08

Still made by the fish and chip shop at Opononi.

jmh:

Good old fashioned take-aways where there was was real meat in the burger and the chips were cooked in proper fat (tallow?). If you spread it out over a plate you would have meat, salad and potato - sounds pretty healthy to me. Now it's all plastic food.

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#1571737 14-Jun-2016 15:10

Dirty Dog cactus lemondade (energy drink). Great for staying awake while driving.

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#1571741 14-Jun-2016 15:18

Anything from Colgate, Unilever, Proctor & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson that used to be made here but is now made in Thailand, India or Brasil (or wherever troops can quell uprisings by angry exploited workers).

This includes pretty much anything in the bathroom, laundry or kitchen.

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#1571748 14-Jun-2016 15:31

Rochdale Cider

Blue Nun

Black Tower

Lion Brown

Rheineck

Leopard Lager

Joseph Kuhtz

I'm not sure I actually miss any of these - but they're certainly nostalgic names from my misspent youth.

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#1571764 14-Jun-2016 15:55

DYC Yeastex (spread, not brewing nutrient)

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#1571779 14-Jun-2016 16:02

lapimate:

DYC Yeastex (spread, not brewing nutrient)

Eww - sounds nasty - how was it 'spread' - by intimate contact?

Maybe good we can't seem to get it any longer.

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#1571784 14-Jun-2016 16:10

Heards Banana Bikes and REAL Jet planes that tasted out of this word! Orange squash gums too! Ohhh and Porky Bits

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#1571791 14-Jun-2016 16:21

eracode:

Rochdale Cider

Blue Nun

Black Tower

Lion Brown

Rheineck

Leopard Lager

Joseph Kuhtz

I'm not sure I actually miss any of these - but they're certainly nostalgic names from my misspent youth.

I think (but not sure) you can still get Lion Brown and Rheineck?

My first 'Buy a dozen, get drunk and throw up' at 15 yrs old was Rheineck. No issues at all buying it (in Newmarket I think) after school.

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#1571797 14-Jun-2016 16:33

trig42:

I think (but not sure) you can still get Lion Brown and Rheineck?

Both are still available

http://www.lk.co.nz/beer/new-zealand/beer-lion-brown/9414774144050.html

http://www.liquorland.co.nz/Rheineck-12-Pack-Cans-330ml-P109908.aspx

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#1571802 14-Jun-2016 16:41

When I was at Ohakea Airbase in the 70's we used to go to Service Station at Sanson (5 mins away) after the base bar's closed on a weekend and all quite drunk, we would have THE BEST BURGERS EVER. All REAL and FRESH produce including the meat and bun. Soaked all that booze right up. No Mac's or KFC or what ever international fast food back then. Today it is all far too processed and tasteless.

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#1571808 14-Jun-2016 16:48

Bluemoon ice-cream from the Hawks Bay way..

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#1571866 14-Jun-2016 18:54

Allens Alien Lollies (pretty sure it was Allens). Man they were delicious!

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#1571869 14-Jun-2016 18:57

andrew027:

@xpd: 1c lollies.... $1 got you a massive bag. Today you're lucky to get 2 lollies....

I remember when lollies were sold separately in open boxes on the dairy counter, and wine gums were four for a cent. One summer my brother and I found a dollar note on the beach and went to the closest dairy and bought $1.00 worth - and stood there watching the poor (more than slightly annoyed) shop keeper count out 400 wine gums.

@FineWine: You used to be able to get an icecream popsicle with real strawberry fruit mash coating, absolutely yum. Can not remember name or who made them.

Sounds like the Splice.

Heh, I remember going to the dairy on the main street of Greymouth in either 1987 or 1988 and asking for "coins", the poor lass had no idea what I was talking about. When I referred to them as "1c lollies" she knew exactly what I meant. So, I bought $2 worth (with an old purple $2 note!) and she had to sit there and count them out.

You can still buy them today - though not quite for that bargain price - at The Old Lolly Shop in Takapuna:

http://oldlollyshop.co.nz/

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