27-07-2017 12:09
@caseyb1993 @schnapps @ukbobboy and anyone else with an infantile sense of humour
So here it is, the super bumper fun TV adverts from childhood thread (blame Casey she started it with Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles .... the only thing you can really do with a Rowntree's Fruit Pastille is .... you know the rest!)
Nobody likes watching ads these days they just lack the smile, childish elegance of our rose-tinted youth (ie everything was naff but we thought it was fab at the time).
So regardless of age, share your favourite TV ads from your yoof. The funnier, wittier, or sing-along-addictive the better.
I've got SOOOO many to choose from, but here's a couple of my favourites to kick things off.
The Smash mashed potato alien robots from
And my all time favourite PG Tips chimp ad (I LOOOVE a good monkey ad), Mr Shifter the removal chimp ... All together now .... "Cooeeeeee Mr Shifter...."
30-07-2017 21:17
@caseyb1993 @Andy @schnapps @SeeMoreDigital
Casey
If you want to see the devil's invention then take a look as this:
There is nothing on this Earth that is more of an abomination that a tin of spam, and I had to eat this nauseating substance as school dinners in the 60s.
Try to feed a kid this nowadays and you could be done for "Child Cruelty or Endangerment".
YUK
Believe it or not, it's well liked in Hawaii.
UK Bob
PS. I've not seen this stuff on sale since, I believe, the 70s or 80s.
30-07-2017 21:23
@ukbobboy My mum likes this stuff battered and fried as a fritter. She buys it in Poundland but I have seen it in Morrisons as well.
I've never tried it and never will. 😄
Same with corned beef.
30-07-2017 21:41 - edited 30-07-2017 21:43
Casey
Don't try them, Spam's nothing like corn beef, it is in fact an amalgamations of the left over and recovered bits from butchered pigs, i.e. pork, that has been squashed and held together by fat. Therefore, when it is battered and fried it makes a very unhealthy meat/pork substitute.
I can understand why some people like it, after all they grew up eating it for school dinners, in my case I just could not stand the stuff.
I am guessing here but I believe Spam was invented during the second world war to keep the nation fed during times of food shortages and just like some other food stuff, like brown sauce, it was a mishmash of leftover odds and ends.
However, a lot of people actually ended up liking the stuff, I personally think it's time has long past.
UK Bob
30-07-2017 21:51
@Andy @caseyb1993 @schnapps @SeeMoreDigital
Guys
Check this out, this has got to me my favourite blast from the past:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SAbJjktk7E
I still enjoy a plate from time to time.
UK Bob
30-07-2017 22:30
@ukbobboy wrote:
Guys
Check this out, this has got to me my favourite blast from the past:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SAbJjktk7E
I still enjoy a plate from time to time.
UK Bob
@ukbobboy If you check out the very first post in this thread you'll see we have finally found something we completely agree on, had to happen sooner or later! 🙂
30-07-2017 22:43
Oh Andy
You've got me, I completely missed your posting of the "Smash" advert and yes, our taste were bound to coincide, after all we're both Now TV forum members and customers.
In fact, I was thinking about you when I made my post, I should've known you'd remember first.
Good on ya'
UK Bob
30-07-2017 23:14 - edited 30-07-2017 23:20
You know what you need with all that yummy food (apart from spam of course) from back in the day, is the perfect desert to finish it off.
Can i tempt anybody in a piece of Birds Eye Arctic Roll
30-07-2017 23:31
In our house we only had Walls Vienetta on especially occasions or has a treat for being good
Normally for us it was either Arctic Roll, some favoured jelly with vanilla ice cream or a home made trifle