Nurse Ratched
11:24 Thu Jul 6
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Hmm. In my opinion, the Internet peaked with the 'Cats that Look Like Hitler'. It's been downhill since then.
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WHU(Exeter)
11:10 Thu Jul 6
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It gets crazier when you discover some of the flavours they’ve dabbled with, to make the little fella relevant still over all the years. I wonder if Freddo also holds claim to being the only pineapple flavoured chocolate?
That must’ve been in his down under days still, where he had an offshot, Caramello Koala.
Isn’t the internet amazing?
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Nurse Ratched
10:59 Thu Jul 6
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FMOB
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WHU(Exeter)
10:58 Thu Jul 6
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Freddo is 93 years old.
And originally Australian.
Who’d have thought…
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Gary Strodders shank
10:30 Thu Jul 6
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In the early nineties I went out with a girl who drove an ex driving school (dual control) fiesta.
We had some fun in the back of that old jalopy.
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Side of Ham
10:15 Thu Jul 6
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Oxsaw, few years back I was on a break with the family in York and in their museum they had a Victorian street reenactment with a shop selling barley sugar. So I bought some with me getting about a quarter of a stick whilst my daughters nicked the rest…..wasn’t happy as it was one of the few things that tasted just as good as when I was a kid….
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WHU(Exeter)
9:52 Thu Jul 6
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No, earlier, a lot earlier.
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TonkaToy
9:51 Thu Jul 6
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1974?
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WHU(Exeter)
9:50 Thu Jul 6
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Jasnik, no, it was ‘Me Cheeta’.
I’ve got the hardback edition.
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Mike Oxsaw
9:47 Thu Jul 6
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Don't forget the barley sugar and the toffee/chocolate sticks in the jar on the counter of the chemist's shop. 3d.
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Eerie Descent
9:40 Thu Jul 6
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I opened this expecting to see that Lionel Ritchie had croaked it.
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Side of Ham
9:21 Thu Jul 6
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Boots the CHEMIST….Acid Drops
Spangles OLD ENGLISH
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Jasnik
9:17 Thu Jul 6
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WHU(Exeter) 8:50 Thu Jul 6
was the book called : Going Ape?
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Mike Oxsaw
8:52 Thu Jul 6
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At a guess, I'd say that thy are well past their "Best before" date.
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WHU(Exeter)
8:50 Thu Jul 6
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I’d have guessed around the same.
Years out though.
When I saw how old Freddos actually are, I had the same kind of feeling as I did quite a few years ago, when it was revealed that the original Cheeta from the Tarzan films was still alive, and was the officially oldest recorded chimpanzee in the world.
Not only that, he’d embraced painting in his old age.
And written a book, (which I bought)
When it was revealed as a hoax I felt marginalised and disenfranchised. Not to mention disengaged.
Anyway, Freddos…..
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Nurse Ratched
8:30 Thu Jul 6
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Pretty sure they were around when my kids were very little. I'll guess 28-30 years.
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WHU(Exeter)
8:14 Thu Jul 6
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WITHOUT GOOGLING…
how old do you think Freddos are?
You are in for a surprise.
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WHU(Exeter)
8:05 Thu Jul 6
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Whose Alburgh? Sounds like an extra on Last of the summer wine.
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zico
7:52 Thu Jul 6
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Just looked up Viscount and Taxi biscuits as they were always at Grans when we went around in the 70's and they still do them although not at supermarkets it seems. I do miss the Bleeding Heart Ice Cream dessert at the Berni Inn.
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Darlo Debs
7:47 Thu Jul 6
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Sorry predictive text
Aal
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Darlo Debs
7:46 Thu Jul 6
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Alburgh I was talking to my daughter the other day about potato puffs. They were so nice..
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