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#1574604 15-Jun-2016 18:17

Seameal custard.

I ran out of it about two months after they pulled it, and I couldn't find any left in the local supermarkets.

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#1574616 15-Jun-2016 18:42

Spaceman drinks and those open apple pies in a foil tin with a circle of fake cream around the top.

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#1574728 15-Jun-2016 21:57

Not really a product, but the Auckland music scene in the 80s. First, Hello Sailor at the Gluepot and Th'Dudes at the Windsor. Later, DD Smash at the Esplanade, Dance Exponents at the Wynyard, the Mockers at the Globe. Penknife Glides at Auckland Uni, Screeming Meemees at Zanzibar, Blam Blam Blam at the Reverb Room, Car Crash Set at the Asylum, Netherworld Dancing Toys at Mainstreet, the Chills at the Rhumba Bar. So many bands on on the same night it was hard to figure out where to go.

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#1574730 15-Jun-2016 21:59

Paradiso

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#1574740 15-Jun-2016 23:15

andrew027:

tdgeek: Compost Tumbler.

You can still get those - I bought one about six months ago - Mitre 10 Jobmate compost tumbler - on sale for $80. Or if you prefer the one that tumbles the other way - Bunnings Tumbleweed compost tumbler.

Cheers, I hunted high and low a couple of years ago. How are you finding it? I have two of the rectangular plastic ones, that have 4 lids at the bottom for emptying/rotating, which I haven't done. Having said that they are like bottomless bins

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#1574741 15-Jun-2016 23:37

Caramel Rocky Road ice-creams.... why they didn't get rid of the strawberry one instead I don't know...

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#1574746 15-Jun-2016 23:51

Station wagons with bench seats in the front.

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#1574754 16-Jun-2016 00:13

Kiwifruta: Station wagons with bench seats in the front.

Smell of vinyl on a hot day in the closed up car, and keep your legs off the hot seat, ouch

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#1574769 16-Jun-2016 06:39

Paradisio Ice cream, I actually rang Tiptop and asked them if they would mind bringing it back for me, they said they would pass it on and thanked me for the call.

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#1574793 16-Jun-2016 07:32

Cherry Coke. Diet Coke with Lemon. Diet Coke with Raspberry, Pepsi Max Cease-fire Lime.

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#1574794 16-Jun-2016 07:36

Looking through this thread there is an alarming desire for sugary stuff. This is a huge concern and needs urgent attention. Time to alert Fair Go.

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#1574805 16-Jun-2016 07:57

@tdgeek:

andrew027:

tdgeek: Compost Tumbler.

You can still get those - I bought one about six months ago - Mitre 10 Jobmate compost tumbler - on sale for $80. Or if you prefer the one that tumbles the other way - Bunnings Tumbleweed compost tumbler.

Cheers, I hunted high and low a couple of years ago. How are you finding it? I have two of the rectangular plastic ones, that have 4 lids at the bottom for emptying/rotating, which I haven't done. Having said that they are like bottomless bins

We've found it very good. We've had it not quite six months and despite it not looking that big it takes all our kitchen vegetable scraps and maybe 25% of our garden waste. We add a powdered compost booster and a bit of water every now and then, and in the last month have been getting some very good "soil" out of it that has gone back into the garden. Giving it a spin every couple of days is much easier than having to stir it up with a fork and makes it easy to drain off "compost tea".

If I had a complaint it would be that having only one chamber you tend to get fresh scraps mixed in with with the well-composted material (although I'm sure that happens with all single chamber bins, which is why these exist) so I'm thinking of getting another one. I'd actually like one of these that Bunnings sell in Australia, but unfortunately not here.

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#1574986 16-Jun-2016 12:33

andrew027:

Not really a product, but the Auckland music scene in the 80s. First, Hello Sailor at the Gluepot and Th'Dudes at the Windsor. Later, DD Smash at the Esplanade, Dance Exponents at the Wynyard, the Mockers at the Globe. Penknife Glides at Auckland Uni, Screeming Meemees at Zanzibar, Blam Blam Blam at the Reverb Room, Car Crash Set at the Asylum, Netherworld Dancing Toys at Mainstreet, the Chills at the Rhumba Bar. So many bands on on the same night it was hard to figure out where to go.

And Dave McCartney and the Pink Flamingos :-)

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#1574987 16-Jun-2016 12:34

And Manhattens night club up on Dominion rd. The phones ....

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#1574998 16-Jun-2016 12:53

Dratsab:

quickymart: Oh and whatever happened to Eskimo Pies (with jam)? Haven't seen them for years!

They'd have to be renamed as Inuit pies if they were brought back...

Actually I think they should be called racially ambiguous pies, we really don't want to offend anyone.

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