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Things in living memory which seem very anachronistic now
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I'm in my early 30s and we never had this growing up. My mother in law absolutely loves it, but then it has no texture so it's right up her street!
The ingredients of say Asda's beef paste don't look too bad, maybe I'll try it one day.
D6130
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My recollection was that Shippams were more famous for a large variety of fish - and seafood - paste. They were quite a big employer in Chichester at one time.I'm in my early 30s and we never had this growing up. My mother in law absolutely loves it, but then it has no texture so it's right up her street!
The ingredients of say Asda's beef paste don't look too bad, maybe I'll try it one day.
75A
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They certainly were, I lived in Bognor in the 60's and sometimes when we visited Chi, there was a certain smell!
Peter Mugridge
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These? ( Second and fourth images in the screenshot below from a Google Images search. )
No, it was more modern than that
GusB
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It was the sort of thing my dad had for his sandwiches, but I don't think I've had any since I was a kid. Sainsbury's carry a couple of own-brand varieties as well as Princes', which i believe now owns the Shippam's brand. I wouldn't be surprised if they're all made in the same place.
The mush factory.
Same place they make pate and smooth pickle.
It's just a giant squishing machine
Sun Chariot
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I remember eating Shippams fish paste.
The waft in Chichester's air these days, sadly, is more of class B hash...
Steddenm
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What about the Invacar?
Image shows a baby blue coloured 1980s car with a ramp as a door which were provided by the disability benefits agency for those with a disability pre-Motability. Image taken from Wikipedia and linked to same image.
Nowadays with Motability you get to choose a car, even though recently, more high-end cars have been removed from their lists.
Image shows a baby blue coloured 1980s car with a ramp as a door which were provided by the disability benefits agency for those with a disability pre-Motability. Image taken from Wikipedia and linked to same image.
Nowadays with Motability you get to choose a car, even though recently, more high-end cars have been removed from their lists.
PG
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What are the granny shelves and what else is on them!?
GusB
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Already covered in the thread, along with an image, albeit from a different angle, of the same vehicle (post #1944).What about the Invacar?
Image shows a baby blue coloured 1980s car with a ramp as a door which were provided by the disability benefits agency for those with a disability pre-Motability. Image taken from Wikipedia and linked to same image.
Nowadays with Motability you get to choose a car, even though recently, more high-end cars have been removed from their lists.
Low down in the shelving hierarchy near the tinned mince, the Camp coffee and the last bottle of gravy browning. As distinct from eyeline shelves for more youthful straight-backed average height customers wherein dwells overpackaged premium muesli products.
Ashley Hill
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Pubs selling cheap Guinness on St Patricks Day. I have not seen this for years locally, does it still occur anywhere?
GusB
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The last time I checked the weather forecast (Met Office YouTube channel) it was certainly presented by a human, so I'm not sure why think that they're anachronistic. "Weather" or not that will change in the future remains to be seen, of course.
When it was just one day?
This year with the actual day falling on a Tuesday, I’ve seen posters for ‘St Patrick’s Weekend’ and even ‘St Patrick’s Season’.
Yeah I just usually search the weather.
THC
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You can blame the Americans for that. In Ireland the celebrations were up until very recently generally low-key and kept to one day, not least as St Patrick's Day falls squarely in the middle of Lent. In the best pragmatic tradition of Catholics everywhere (if not Catholicism itself), we had/took the day off Lenten observance before returning to fast/deny ourselves on 18 March and thereafter.
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Replaced by “The camera AIs”?
A whole tranche of indoor board games have at least waned in multigenerational popularity if not already qualified as being anachronistic. Some have already featured but a couple which a friend happened to mention in conversation - Trivial Pursuits and Mastermind (a game involving pegs of different colours and nothing to do with the TV quiz programme).
WTT Gremlin
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Which was never even remotely true...
Physically buying concert tickets (usually for the big names of the day) from your local record shop (remember them?).
These days if you want to see a 'big name' in concert you have to book online and the ticket price usually includes a hefty booking fee for the agency selling them.
You then have to wait for said tickets to arrive via the post.
These days if you want to see a 'big name' in concert you have to book online and the ticket price usually includes a hefty booking fee for the agency selling them.
You then have to wait for said tickets to arrive via the post.
Well - it was hard for the camera to lie, however easy it was for it only to tell a partial truth. The developer could always lie….
Most ticket agencies email the tickets these days.
Cross City
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You word this as if we're not at a time when records are by far the most popular way to consume physical media.
Even small towns have record shops, and they've been booming for the past decade.
I must admit, the resurgence in vinyl took me by surprise. A few years ago I inherited my Dad's collection of vinyl records from the 60s. It continually amazes me that 60 years later people are still going to their local record shop and buying a vinyl LP, exactly as my Dad did all those decades ago. I ought to get them valued at some point to be honest, there are some Beatles one in their original sleeves which may be worth a bit to collectors.