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@Ashley Hill beat me to it but I too came here to say Brannigans crisps. But also the smoked ham and pickle variety as well as the beef and mustard (the latter almost felt like they were melting your tongue!). They disappeared for about a decade, then were available in multipacks in the discount...

I only moved into my new house at the end of 2019, so I've nothing particularly ancient festering in the cupboards. However in the first Lockdown of 2020 I (like quite a few others) got into the habit of home baking, and as such I have a load of ingredients, spices, mixes etc which have been...

I see on a small number of services, there will now be another menu - "Brunch" in addition to the Deli / Dish / Dine which already exist. This appears to be pretty much the Deli menu, but offering both the breakfast and all-day offerings rather than one or the other dependent on the time of day...

Nice to bump into @185143 briefly this afternoon on platform 5 at York today after I had disembarked the delayed 1330 from Edinburgh. Sadly time did not permit a beer stop which was much needed in the warm sunshine!

I've had recent good experiences on LNER, both north and south between York and Dundee, on both occasions a Tuesday during the day. Served from the "Dish" Menu. (Off topic, but it's surely time for them to refresh the choices on there - they've been in place since the first week of January - not...

One of mine too - nicely tucked away from the madness of Micklegate. A bit further up that lane towards South Bank is another “hidden gem” - The Golden Ball.

I live a mile from York City Centre, so am spoilt for choice. I’m not out much more than a couple of times a month and as rail travel is often involved I have found York Tap has become my most visited watering hole - and probably doesn’t need any further introduction on this forum! My local pub...

I used to pick up a twin pack of genuine Canon PG540/CL541 cartridges for my MG3150 for about £23 delivered from a variety of eBay “shops” until a couple of years or so ago. Nowadays the best value I can find is in-store at ASDA - £38 for the same product (sweetened slightly by a 10% legacy...

Two more, which haven't been mentioned (that I can see from a brief skim back through the thread): Goombay Dance Band - Seven Tears Nizlopi - JCB Song (I think that may have been a UK Christmas Number One) On reflection, they probably haven't been mentioned because people were trying to forget...

I'd say some of the suggestions in the thread are starting to stray into the territory of "What hit single were bands / artists best known for" rather than the original topic of being "known only for one song". For example, Eternal had over 20 UK Chart hits, including 11 which made the top 10...

A couple of torrid ones from the 80’s: Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11 The Firm - Star Trekkin’

A few more (in the main, awful) contributions from me! Technohead - I Want To Be A Hippy Baltimora - Tarzan Boy Cutting Crew - I Just Died In Your Arms The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - Fire Bran Van 3000 - Drinking In L.A. Danny Wilson - Mary's Prayer The Mock Turtles - Can You Dig It Charles...

It was actually "OMC" who had a hit in the mid 90's with "How Bizarre" - which does definitely qualify for the thread. As you rightly say, OMD (or "Orchestral Maneouvres In The Dark - to give them their "Sunday name") had several well known hits. In fact they had a bit of a "second coming" in...

Cotton Eye Joe - Rednex I'll Be There For You - The Rembrandts (Theme From "Friends") Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies Uptown Top Rankin' - Althea & Donna Runaway Train - Soul Asylum Breakfast At Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something You're Gorgeous - Babybird Zoom - Fat Larry's Band (Yes I've...

Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride St Winifred’s School Girls Choir - There’s No One Quite Like Grandma Joe Dolces Music Theatre - Shaddapyaface (edit posted - at the same time as pdq above) Shamefully I have all of the above in my music collection!

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Without trying to go too far "off topic" - the following - all now consigned to the history books were chains I remember here, but cannot recall them in other parts of the country: Hillards Supermarkets (not sure if they existed outwith Yorkshire, but had branches in all of the "Ridings"). The...

I hadn’t considered that but it makes perfect sense. I never used the decaf so mine would have been destined for the bin! I’m not particularly fussy on the hospitality tray - I’ll grab a quick tea or coffee but won’t lose sleep over it as I’ll get something more to my taste when I head out - if...

For the record I am currently at Premier Inn Dundee East and there’s a sachet each of Kenco and Nescafé - assuming they are in a transition here! No decaf though which I’m sure used to be on the tray on previous visits. PG Tips teabags are offered as a side note. You have to ask at reception or...

Being involved in motorcycle racing at circuits across the U.K. - which tend to be several miles from civilisation - unless we're doing our own "in-house" catering, the options tend to be eating from a questionable "burger van" or in the on-site canteen style cafe, which usually doubles up as a...