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Feel free to post anything remotely old fashioned or even historical in here


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Crazy times .. Ive creams were so cheap and PCs were so expensive !


Our first PC was built to order with all the best parts .. £2,900 !!

That was about 1985 !!








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Youtube video

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Beehive Bedlam and Tomb Raider.

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Come then, how do you post images?

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only if you had daughters

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Come then, how do you post images?

It’s just one click using the FREE TapaTalk app


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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

only if you had daughters

Our friend’s daughter beat their phone lock !!

She used to press the two buttons that the phone lay across ..

Press them once for 1 , three times for 3 and so on !!

No idea how she discovered that as it was before the internet or mobiles


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yeah it bypassed the actual pricing of the phone call too. I remember the operator coming on the line with me once demanding i stop it immediately

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Originally Posted by parmnion

Come then, how do you post images?

Man here’s not even trying to do that, especially not with some of the blasts from the past that are coming from me. Good-old words will have to do.

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Kunzle Cakes

Real Kunzle cakes had smooth chocolate shells




So … each cake was individually wrapped in cellophane, they were sold in a six pack in the sixties and early seventies and individually in a a display pack of 24. They became relatively expensive compared to other cakes and were moved to a 4 pack mid seventies but volumes declined and they were discontinued in the late seventies. Waitrose expressed interest in the 90's and they made them under license for a year sold individually from their in store bakery fixture."





Comments


Ricki Wilkins
Oh how I yearn for Kunzle cakes. In 1976 I had terrible flu complicated by being pregnant. My mother in law fed me Kunzle cakes and weak tea. Now I hate weak tea but have never forgotten the yummy cakes. Please will someone make them again?!!
Smiffyguai
Some of them had diamond shaped jellied sweets on top.
KAY charles
I also wish someone would bring back kunzle cakes again as they were delicious.
Maggie Young-Cass
How well I remember how delicious these things were!!! Surely some enterprising company can acquire the recipe for these. I mean the original recipe, not a copy for DIY Kunzle cakes! Whoever made a replica of the original would be on to a real winner - Bring Back The Kunzle Cake.
Chris Grove
I loved Kunzle cakes in the 60s. The shell was very thick and my mum would take my brother Paul and I for afternoon tea in Leytonstone to a store called Bearmans. Someone must bring them back they were delicious. I would love to see a picture if one.
Carole
I also loved these cakes which my Father used to bring for a special treat.
Llinos Brawls
I'm sure that they had mousse as a filling not sponge? Whatever, somebody PLEASE bring them back. Sooo delicious xx
Vanessa Ascot
A special treat cake why can't they be made again ? I'm sure it was mouse inside as well not sponge they were very special
Roger D
We had a grocers shop in Walkden and my Dad used to sell Kunzle Cakes. We, as his children, used to eat all his profits (he kept telling us).
Janice Rayner
My Dad used to buy us one every Thursday after shopping in Hodgson and Hepworth. They did indeed have like a smooth mousse like filling. Never tasted anything the same again.
Sandra A
Kunzile cakes wow what memories of childhood treats Sunday tea with malt loaf and tinned fruit with Evie milk with bread and butter if we were really lucky a kunzile cake to finish off good days.
Elizabeth Russell
I was born in 1961 and distinctly remember Kunzle cakes. They had sponge AND a mousse type cream filling. They were scrumptious. They must have been made into the 70’s as I don’t think I would have remembered them so clearly.
Deborah N
Unbelievable been talking about these with the missus. Thought they were Cadburys at first! So pleased to find them at 52 thought I might be going mad! Kunzel cakes! Had totally forgotten flooding back soon as I saw it!
Michael
I was 15 and worked in my holidays at The George Hotel in Reading possibly in 1958 I was a porter and regularly sent across the road to Marks and Spencer's to buy Kunzle cakes and fruit cake slabs for afternoon teas! They were very popular with the guests .
Belinda C
Have just so enjoyed reading this thread about kunzel cakes - I had a sudden memory of them the other evening and text my twin sister to ask her if she remembered them too and she sent me your photo and thread - seeing those yummy cakes - the pink one was my fave and she liked the chocolate button one - happy memories of weekend tea times! Thanks for sharing Belinda
Martyn P
I’m sure you are aware, Lyons Cakes bought the Kunzle brand in 1968 from Scribbans-Kemp. I joined Lyons Cakes van sales division in Feb 1980, just as production of the Showboats was coming to an end. The reason Lyons stopped making them was because they became too expensive, and were only sold in small amounts, which could not justify production. If I remember correctly they were hand decorated, which would account for their higher that normal price. I recall the last pack I sold was circa: £1. I only got to try the odd packet, but I do recall they were a cake that could not be matched by any other cake on the market at the time.


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Split the kipper

Knife game played by lads as young as 9 yrs old !!


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i used to play that with pals when i was young

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Originally Posted by bitontheslide

i used to play that with pals when i was young

Same here at about the age of 11 I’d say - we all did in the sixties .

Crazy to think that hundreds of thousands ( maybe more ) of young lads / teenagers were walking around with a 5” blade / knife on them more or less everywhere ( sheath knives) .

Nobody was ever stupid when throwing the knives either ..



We were watching some guys fishing a few months ago and some young lads went past ( ages about 12 years old ) one had an air pistol or whatever they have these days and he shot his mate in the backside from about 3 yards away .. he was in agony





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