Ever ask for something incredibly old fashioned and obsolete in a shop?

Redneck Reject71

Wibbs wrote: »

Oh god yeah. Though these days I'd nearly always go online. Lamp oil is probably the most recent olde style thing I've asked for in a shop. I've a few 100 year old plus kerosene lamps. Great in power cuts, but nice for ambient light of a winters eve. Add heat to a room too.

My grandfather's house still had those lamps mounted on the walls, they were great. Lit a room, helped heat it, could light your cigar off them. Also no suggesting your that old heh.But they were so beautiful and simple.

Lady Haywire

I still have oil lamps here but kerosene is hard to find. They are a godsend when the power goes out! Have hooks on the ceiling & two of them light the whole room.
Mum has been looking for a cassette player in shops the past while, I reckon I have to go online for her :pac:

(She has hundreds of cassettes as she's been buying them since the 60's)

Cienciano

Remember before extension power strips when you didn't have many things that plugged in you just had a few double adapters in a drawer? I was half way through asking for a "double ad......" and just thought it sounded completely outdated and perverted so just settled for a power strip. Which somehow doesn't sound as bad but it's actually worse innuendo wise

Wibbs

Redneck Reject71 wrote: »

My grandfather's house still had those lamps mounted on the walls, they were great. Lit a room, helped heat it, could light your cigar off them. Also no suggesting your that old heh.But they were so beautiful and simple.

Also the cause of the majority of house fires in the 19th century.

Lady Haywire wrote: »

I still have oil lamps here but kerosene is hard to find.

Yeah. I did get some in B&Q a few years back. Didn't burn so clean though. I used to get it from an old fashioned place that appeared to stock everything and Men in Brown Coats to guide you to whatever you wanted. Sadly closed a few years ago.

They are a godsend when the power goes out! Have hooks on the ceiling & two of them light the whole room.

They do. With the antique ones you have to have the flame propagator thingies, which often go missing. With them they burn extremely bright white light(and serious heat).

Capt'n Midnight

JustAThought wrote: »

Not to turn this into a food therad, but I went looking for twopenny teeth there a while back

https://i.imgur.com/s4eZrhu.jpg , rounding.

looksee

lucalux wrote: »

Used to see it stocked in Tesco too, but I'm pretty sure most health food stores/holland & barrett type places stock it, might be worth a try?

I asked in H&B and they said no, but I checked online and apparently they call it Garbanzo flour, and they want €5.38 for 500g. Asian Market in Dublin are €1.95 for a kilo, but they charge €5.35 for delivery. I will keep hunting. Or I could grind some chickpeas myself!

looksee

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Ah feck ya, you're after reminding me of biscuits I used to get at my Nan's back in the day. Can't remember the name of them, and Google is not helping.

They came in a red packet (iirc), they were about twice to three times the size (width and depth) as your normal biscuits, like they were puffed up or something.

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Were they Bath Olivers?

Edit, actually I am remembering the biscuits I think you are talking about. They were pale and kind of crispy but a soft crispiness. They had a kind of 'seam' round the thickness of the outer edge, they were thicker than water biscuits.

whisky_galore

Wibbs wrote: »

Also the cause of the majority of house fires in the 19th century.

And chest conditions. With those oil heaters that used be all the rage up to 50 years ago must have been many cases of carbon monoxide poisoning from poorly set lamps and heaters.

Redneck Reject71

whisky_galore wrote: »

And chest conditions. With those oil heaters that used be all the rage up to 50 years ago must have been many cases of carbon monoxide poisoning from poorly set lamps and heaters.

I do remember the walls where the lamps were,was coated in black,heh.

Fly Fishing by J.R. Hartley!

Esel

Bottle of Paregoric in a chemist.

Grab All Association

2017 went to Harvey’s VW in Thurles, Barlos Ford in Thurles and Templemore motorworks looking for a manual 2.0> petrol car and they only had diesels or hybrid petrols in the range. Fecking farmers

I know it’s not a shop but a 1.4ltr petrol and above is something that’s rare outside of Dublin. Had to go to Dublin to buy my Octavia RS. They must take baths in diesels for sexual pleasure as every salesperson stinks of the horrible fecking stuff. Rant over.

hgfj

Originally Posted by Gunmonkey View Post
Went into a chemist looking for rubbing alcohol.

mickuhaha wrote: »

They stopped selling it as people would buy it to drink. I used to use it for wooden torch's it gave a nice flame colour.

Went looking for rubbing alcohol last week and the pharmacist suggested Surgical Spirit BP. He said it was the same thing really.

Notdeco

cajonlardo wrote: »

Never bought anything but there was a shop on Bray main street that was stuck in a time warp.
It was like something straight out of a Stephen King novel.

It was called Ledwidges and sold hardware.
It finally closed in 2014.

Why I thought of it in connection with this thread was because it still had Rabbit snares in the window. He'd sell you cement by the pound.

That was a great shop. Think it closed because he died and none of the family wanted to run it.

Ubbquittious

Grab All Association wrote: »

2017 went to Harvey’s VW in Thurles, Barlos Ford in Thurles and Templemore motorworks looking for a manual 2.0> petrol car and they only had diesels or hybrid petrols in the range. Fecking farmers

I know it’s not a shop but a 1.4ltr petrol and above is something that’s rare outside of Dublin. Had to go to Dublin to buy my Octavia RS. They must take baths in diesels for sexual pleasure as every salesperson stinks of the horrible fecking stuff. Rant over.

Tis getting to the point where it's just better to bite the bullet and buy a fecking TVR

Widdershins

Redneck Reject71 wrote: »

I do remember the walls where the lamps were,was coated in black,heh.

I use bio lamp oil for this reason. Again its only easily found on the internet

Fr_Dougal

Went into the local hardware shop looking for a slash hook. I’d been in before, but this time I was coming home from work in a suit.

The owner stopped in his tracks, stared at me and said no, another customers draw dropped. You’d swear I was going to murder someone. Felt so bad I actually explained to them that it was ok, I had a back garden full of brambles. Sigh of relief from them when they knew it wasn’t for gang warfare, customer started laughing.

endacl

I ordered a set of gut strings for a vihuela some years back. Probably doesn’t count, as the shop specialised in old and obsolete musical instruments and accessories.

saabsaab

Asked for a grease gun in a DIY store. The young lad had no idea so I tried to explain that its used on the grease nipples to pump the grease in. he nearly broke out laughing!

EmmetSpiceland

Redneck Reject71 wrote: »

Anytime I'm in a shop or pub, at some point I ask if they carry nasal snuff. Most of the time I get a blank or confused looked and then a no.Seems only Cahill's in Limerick carries it, but I hate going into the city, it's too loco.

If you’re ever in Dublin “Mulligan’s”, on Poolbeg Street, has it. Not my cup of tea at all.

tabby aspreme

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I don't think so. I'm no rusk specialist, but they don't look the same. These biscuits, although big, were quite light and airy. I could be mistaken, but I'll know the second I see the packaging, and nothing with rusk is coming back with that.

Edit: Searching a bit more, they might be but they were round, and nothing matching that in an image search. Could have been cheap, knock off Liga...

I remember those biscuits, they were like a cross between a cream cracker and puff pastry, butter and strawberry jam made them edible.

Speedsie

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

If you’re ever in Dublin “Mulligan’s”, on Poolbeg Street, has it. Not my cup of tea at all.

As does Barry's on South King St and O'Brien's on Leeson St.... McChrystal's Snuff both in original and menthol varieties. I went through a stage of using it about 20 years ago.

I've a number of oil lamps as well, and a dwindling supply of Aladdin mantels.

Speedsie

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

If you’re ever in Dublin “Mulligan’s”, on Poolbeg Street, has it. Not my cup of tea at all.

As does Barry's on South King St and O'Brien's on Leeson St.... McChrystal's Snuff both in original and menthol varieties. I went through a stage of using it about 20 years ago.

I've a number of oil lamps as well, and a dwindling supply of Aladdin mantels.

Archeron

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Ah feck ya, you're after reminding me of biscuits I used to get at my Nan's back in the day. Can't remember the name of them, and Google is not helping.

They came in a red packet (iirc), they were about twice to three times the size (width and depth) as your normal biscuits, like they were puffed up or something.



If we're thinking of the same thing, only Barratts have decent versions of them now:



I spent a good 40 minutes one day walking shop to shop to try and find blank CD's! Eventually found the last packet in Dunnes (10 for €20!).

Farleys rusks maybe? They were liga like food and lovely

petrolcan

blackcard wrote: »

Stripy paint and a square circle are hard to get too

Try finding a sky hook or a spirit level bubble!

Mam of 4

petrolcan wrote: »

Try finding a sky hook or a spirit level bubble!

Or a skirting ladder !

dreamers75

long weight.

.....it was heading that way

Dodge

looksee wrote: »

I've been looking for Gram flour for ages, its not particularly 'old fashioned', I could buy it in Tesco till about a year or so ago. Been in all the local Asian shops - blank looks. Chickpea flour? 'Oh yes, no we don't have any. I could have some for you by next week', but it never seems to come in.

I could give in and buy it online I suppose.

Don’t know where you are but the Asian shop on the Fonthill Road near Liffey Valley sells it. We got some last week

byte

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Ah feck ya, you're after reminding me of biscuits I used to get at my Nan's back in the day. Can't remember the name of them, and Google is not helping.

They came in a red packet (iirc), they were about twice to three times the size (width and depth) as your normal biscuits, like they were puffed up or something.

Butter Puffs? Might have been Jacob's?

wexfordman2

partyguinness wrote: »

I spent ages looking for YR sauce in England.

I had no idea it was an Irish product. I just assumed it was English. Same with Liga although I think it is Dutch- a staple growing up with young sisters but unheard of over here.

Hah,.when I first went to the UK in the very early 90's I went in to a corner shop for cigs and a packet of crsips. Went up to the nice Indian lady behind the counter and asked for 20 b&h and a packet of cheese and onion tayto (pointing to the walkers crisps) . Took me a while to figure out her confusion had nothing to do with a language barrier, and that crisps were not commonly called tayto in the UK.