Memory Lane: Freebies in cereals?

igCorcaigh · 27-11-2018 09:57PM

DBB wrote: »

Or worse again... "Not available in the Republic of Ireland"

Enough my make my 7 yo self go Unionist, that was.

t1h9mgqsxopj0r · 27-11-2018 09:58PM

Does anyone remember the Sunny D’s and the basket ball? I never remember sending off for one or even collecting the bottles but there was always a Sunny D basket ball in my grandparents house or my house. I’m going to assume my jealous ass as a kid swipped them from the road when no one was looking but someone always had those basket balls and I never knew how they got them

igCorcaigh · 27-11-2018 10:00PM

Sunny D? Nah. We were a Kia Ora house.

cml387 · 27-11-2018 10:02PM

Zaph wrote: »

This would have been in the 70s, there were these little aeroplanes that came on a rectangular plastic frame. You detached all the parts from the frame and slotted them into each other to make things like a Spitfire or a Messerschmitt Me109. There were possibly some commercial planes too, but couldn't tell you which ones. Can't remember what they were in, but I'm guessing Kellogg's Corn Flakes or Rice Krispies because that's what we usually had when I was a kid.

There was a set of commercial jets that I got in the late 60's :eek:
There was even a cut out airport on the box.

Could have been Sugar Puffs, not quite sure.

t1h9mgqsxopj0r · 27-11-2018 10:02PM

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Sunny D? Nah. We were a Kia Ora house.

Those Sunny D’s would give you the sh...ts that last days

iamwhoiam · 27-11-2018 10:02PM

Way way back in the early 60's we collected a set of little dogs from Cornflakes . I still remember the excitement when I got the black poodle at last .

igCorcaigh · 27-11-2018 10:03PM

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Way way back in the early 60's we collected a set of little dogs from Cornflakes . I still remember the excitement when I got the black poodle at last .

Times have surely changed.

SEPT 23 1989 · 27-11-2018 10:03PM

Did Coca Cola give away yo yos during the yo yo craze that lit up when you used them or did I imagine it ?

igCorcaigh · 27-11-2018 10:04PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Did Coca Cola give away yo yos during the yo yo craze that lit up when you used them or did I imagine it ?

Yes they did indeed, and Fanta, 7up... all of the usual sugar peddlers actually.

Seve OB · 27-11-2018 10:09PM

I still have a few weetabix tapes up in the attic.
Nick kershaw
New kids on the block

skD13 · 27-11-2018 10:10PM

I remember the lenticular dinosaur cards in Corn Flakes. Complemented the larger framed Jesus we had on the wall that opened his eyes and bled when you moved. Yikes!

HATED when the free gifts on the UK comics were torn off. I longed to know what KP Skips tasted like for years. Oh my disappointment when.

igCorcaigh · 27-11-2018 10:13PM

Seve OB wrote: »

I still have a few weetabix tapes up in the attic.
Nick kershaw
New kids on the block

Do they get brought down every now and then after a session?

Bit of a Nic Kershaw fan at 12, t-shirt to prove it too.

igCorcaigh · 27-11-2018 10:14PM

skD13 wrote: »

I remember the lenticular dinosaur cards in Corn Flakes. Complemented the larger framed Jesus we had on the wall that opened his eyes and bled when you moved. Yikes!

HATED when the free gifts on the UK comics were torn off. I longed to know what KP Skips tastes like for years. Oh my disappointment when.

700 years.

tayto lover · 27-11-2018 10:17PM

I collected all the Robin Hood characters from Kellogg's Cornflakes packets in the early 1960's. Took me ages to get Maid Marion.

igCorcaigh · 27-11-2018 10:18PM

tayto lover wrote: »

I collected all the Robin Hood characters from Kellogg's Cornflakes packets in the early 1960's. Took me ages to get Maid Marion.

Now you get how Robin felt.

DanMurphy · 27-11-2018 10:18PM

I've still got a Robin Hood figure from Kellogs Cornflakes in the '60s

SEPT 23 1989 · 27-11-2018 10:19PM

We only had one flavour of Monster Munch available to us the UK seemed to have three

The injustice is burned in my memory

igCorcaigh · 27-11-2018 10:20PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

We only had one flavour of Monster Munch available to us the UK seemed to have three

The injustice is burned in my memory

Yes! We had a mythology about the pickled onion flavour that was deprived from us.

Greyfox · 27-11-2018 10:20PM

My feckn sister use to always rob the thing out of the cereal box long before the lucky person actually could fairly get the thing. You always wanted to get the full set but you never ever got the full set.

igCorcaigh · 27-11-2018 10:22PM

Greyfox wrote: »

My feckn sister use to always rob the thing out of the cereal box long before the lucky person actually could fairly get the thing. You always wanted to get the full set but you never ever got the full set.

Some families have them.
I hope she's in a workhouse.

AllForIt · 27-11-2018 10:24PM

Sometime in the 80's. Collect enough tokens on I think Kelloggs cornflakes you would get 3 packaged food items. I can only remember for certain what one of the was, which was a packet of orange powder than you would mix with water to make a fizzy orange drink.

I'm not sure what the other 2 were but If I were to guess one was a packed of noodles with a curry sauce and the third one possibly a powdered moose that was pink possibly strawberry or raspberry flavor, again something that needed to be mixed with milk or water.

Atoms for Peace · 27-11-2018 10:25PM

Now all we get is obesity and diabetes from eating our sugar coated brekie cereals.

igCorcaigh · 27-11-2018 10:26PM

AllForIt wrote: »

Sometime in the 80's. Collect enough tokens on I think Kelloggs cornflakes you would get 3 packaged food items. I can only remember for certain what one of the was, which was a packet of orange powder than you would mix with water to make a fizzy orange drink.

I'm not sure what the other 2 were but If I were to guess one was a packed of noodles with a curry sauce and the third one possibly a powdered moose that was pink possibly strawberry or raspberry flavor, again something that needed to be mixed with milk or water.

I think that's more precognition to '20s Britain.

igCorcaigh · 27-11-2018 10:27PM

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

Now all we get now is obesity and diabetes from eating our sugar coated brekie cereals.

Yup. The robbed generation.

Hal1 · 27-11-2018 10:27PM

Free toy inside!, free toy inside!

AllForIt · 27-11-2018 10:34PM

igCorcaigh wrote: »

I think that's more precognition to '20s Britain.

2020's?

igCorcaigh · 27-11-2018 10:39PM

AllForIt wrote: »

2020's?

The Brexit years.
Our children will look on this thread with such nostalgia.

odyssey06 · 27-11-2018 10:47PM

igCorcaigh wrote: »

The Brexit years.
Our children will look on this thread with such nostalgia.

I opened a packet of cornflakes and out popped a cheeky cockney lad. Anyone need a chimney cleaned?

igCorcaigh · 27-11-2018 11:03PM

Growing up in the early '80's was the best though. I lived in a working class estate, which was very cosmopolitan for its time. No scobes, but a free for all as kids.

Frosties for breakfast, fish fingers for dinner, state milk at school.

Pure nostalgia though, must have been hard for my parents. No nanny state then. Parenting was rough, my mum had no idea, having kids at 20.

PopePalpatine · 27-11-2018 11:07PM

I still remember the lightsabers that came with Kelloggs' products in 2005 when SW:RotS came out. 10-year-old me had no idea what a "Death Star" was when I first read its name on the back of some Coco Pops...I was wondering how this Asian guy called Obi-Wan was meant to fight Darth Vader on a fiery ball of gas.

Memory Lane: Freebies in cereals?

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