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Expensive for what they are too. I've switched to Doriano crackers which are excellent.
Have you tried them? http://reviews.sainsburys.co.uk/8076-en_gb/6321730-P/doria-doriano-italian-crackers-240g-reviews/reviews.htm |
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Good to see them back. Used to enjoy them with a mug of Hornyman's tea, while reading my weekly Reveille.
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Haha, that sounds like my Grandma Kenny.
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lol, Reveille was great for pin ups. Actually I wouldn't touch Hornymans. It had a foul taste, but it was the only brand I could think of off the top of my head that isn't still going.
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Apparently it still is, in Spain.
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Yes, Reveille and T1tbits.
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Yes, I devoured them both, plus the more espensive but explicit Parade, when I could get hold of a discarded or leant copy.
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Both were at my gran's when I went for tea as a lad on a Saturday afternoon (Not "parade" though
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We used to get the "Weekly News". I loved the illustrated strip, Black Bob, about the black and white collie.
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Yes, I remember that one too. They were dreadful weren't they, but in a lighthearted sense.
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Black Bob was the name of a fictional Border Collie from Selkirk in the Scottish Borders. Black Bob originally appeared as a text story in The Dandy in issue 280, dated 25 November 1944. Following this he appeared as a picture strip in The Weekly News in 1946, which continued until 1967. His 'owner' was Andrew Glen, a bearded shepherd. Black Bob follows his owner's nephew who is playing truant and tries to bring him back to school.
Drawn by Jack Prout, the popular sheepdog appeared regularly in The Dandy from his 1944 debut until issue 2122, dated 24 July 1982. Eight Black Bob books were published at infrequent intervals in 1950, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961 and 1965. He returned in the 2013 Dandy Annual drawn by Steve Bright in Prout's style. Jack Prout was born on 14 December 1900 and joined the Scottish publishing firm of D. C. Thomson as a staff artist on 21 June 1937. He retired on 30 June 1968 although his strips were reprinted in the Dandy until 1982. Shortly before his retirement, Prout acquired a black and white Border Collie. Staff at D. C. Thomson's presented the artist with a spoof "dog licence", allowing the animal to keep the artist as a pet. The document was "signed" with Black Bob's pawprint. Jack Prout died on 27 September 1978. Black Bob was parodied in a strip in Viz comic entitled "Black Bag, the Faithful Border Bin Liner". |
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I used to have a black n white border collie, a real sheepdog, from Loch Maben...he was about 6 when I got him...he was so well trained he wouldn't go into the kitchen...he would just sit there, and you couldn't get him to go in the kitchen...the farmer got rid of him because he didn't have the stamina to be a working dog, due to a dodgy pancreas...what a dog...
 He was ok as long as you didn't feed him starch based foods. |
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You never forget your pets, Vel, they stay forever in the memory.
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Yass, Kenny...I have had 3 border collies...but the most amazing dog was our family dog, a mongrel. You couldn't take it for a walk without people stopping to ask what it was. Never saw a dog with a better temperament either. It was reddish brown and white with a long coarse coat...the hairs split at the ends. Its hair used to grow over its eyes so it had to be cut quite often. Quite a big dog, bigger than a border collie...perfectly symmetrical white markings...and a big pink nose. A beautiful critter.
Don't know what the parents were...Irish wolfhound, labrador, old English sheepdog? She had a sister from the litter that was pure black and her mother was pure black...can't figure out were the red brown colour came from. When you washed its coat and brushed its hair, this dog looked like a million bucks. |
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Got this critter from a car boot sale for free...it was in a box with its sister, covered in fleas.
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When this dog was about 2 years old, I used to take it up to the grass rugby pitch near me and it used to run at full pelt, and leap like a lamb, about 4 feet in the air, out of sheer joy. Never saw anything like it.
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Hi Vel, I remember using a wagon wheel on my bike to get me home when the front wheel got buckled!, back in the days when Mr Weston made them, now they're so small they wouldn't get a feckin Dinky car home.
Border Collies best dogs in the world, I had one when I lived in Ireland. |
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Me mam used to work at the Wagon Wheel factory in Glasgow, Boxingthefox.
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 Did you get loads of freebies, or were they just to big to smuggle out, the foregoing is without prejudice.   |
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My dad worked for a short while in the Walls factory in Isleworth London, it was amazing the amount of goodies it was possible to conceal in a Crombie overcoat.
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It was before I was born, so no freebies...my uncle worked for Kraft, though, and there were plenty of cheesy freebies...I used to sit on the potty crapping out cheese triangle pyramids...had to give it up when I hit 40.
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I used to love Wall's Ice Cream. When it was really solid, not like the scoopy mush these days. Loved a Wall's Ice Cream wafer.
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Ice cream rectangle cones at the pictures.
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I remember them, and Jubblys which were very popular.
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My uncle used to make a home made jubbly for his ice cream van - used to sell out every day, even in winter.
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Jubblys were great for about 10 mins but soon turned to solid ice once the orange was sucked out ! A bit like that Ice Slush drink what they charge a fortune for at the Cinema.
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Vel
, Hi Kenny, the Isleworth factory was meat products, but I agree about the Ice cream, in London the milkman used to deliver loads of stuff as well as milk there was a chocolate drink called a micky I had only been in london a couple of days when a kid at school asked me if I liked mickys, he said he loved them, I was horrified as mickey is/was a Dublin term for your todger. I kept well away from him for a good few weeks until I realised what he meant. |
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Very good foxy. Sorry for late reply, been out with a chick.
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Good man Kenny,
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indian ?
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