What products can you remember that have disappeared?

[birchesgreen]

Going back to 'Ginger beer' can you still buy Canada Dry in the UK?

Yes i'm sure i've seen it recently.

Snifter of Taboo or Mirage, anyone? Maybe a bit too early in the day.

Taboo and Mirage are still around, might even see some adverts for them before xmas.

To be honest 90% of the stuff listed in this thread seems to be still around.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

To be honest 90% of the stuff listed in this thread seems to be still around.

Maybe not quite 90% but you do have a point. Quite a few items that are still around certainly don't seem to be widely available in all the major supermarkets anymore.

 

[S&CLER]

Sorting out my LPs yesterday made me remember Permostat, the spray that claimed to suppress static electricity on the disc surface and thus make dust less likely to adhere to the groove; I still have my Watts Dust Bug on my LP turntable, but haven't seen them advertised for ages; and it's a long time since polythene-lined LP inner sleeves to replace low-quality paper sleeves were available in WH Smith's and other high street stationers. You could still get them by mail order, fortunately, a few years ago when I bought a pack of 500.

 

[birchesgreen]

One thing i haven't seen for years is the little plastic insert you had to put into 7" singles that just had a hole in the middle so you could play them, what were they called?

 

[najaB]

One thing i haven't seen for years is the little plastic insert you had to put into 7" singles that just had a hole in the middle so you could play them, what were they called?

Don't know if they had a specific name, I just called them EP adaptors.

 

[BanburyBlue]

Can you still get Planters Dry Roasted peanuts?

 

[JRT]

There were also (inedbile) fake cardboard cigarettes where you blew and some powder (smoke) came out the end. Despite buying all the fake tobacco items mentioned, I have never felt tempted to sample the real thing.

It may not be allowed now, but in my final year of primary school, somebody turned up with sections of a normal lung and a smoker's lung.

(Vaguely) remember the fake cigarettes.
Liquorice pipes? Similar to the liquorice all-sorts, not sure if part of the same family?

 

[najaB]

Can you still get Planters Dry Roasted peanuts?

Yes. Despite his much-publicised death, pretty much all of Mr Peanut's products are still very much in production.

 

[JRT]

Don't know if they had a specific name, I just called them EP adaptors.

Singles had a bigger hole in the middle, so they could be used in juke boxes. Ex juke box singles were often sold off cheap, minus the hole, necessitating the adaptor.

 

[Busaholic]

Singles had a bigger hole in the middle, so they could be used in juke boxes. Ex juke box singles were often sold off cheap, minus the hole, necessitating the adaptor.

U.S. singles were all of the large hole in middle type. I still remember a place in Charing Cross Road that some time around 1963 imported thousands of rock, R and B and soul singles, but all I could afford was a Little Richard on Specialty! Still got it somewhere, as far as I know.

 

[yorksrob]

I still have an EP adaptor.


Something you no longer see in homes very often, Pilot lights.

 

[adrock1976]

Unsure if this has disappeared completely, but I remember Bio-Tex prewash powder when I was younger.

It was good for shifting stains from garments, and also brightening up cotton or linen whites.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Unsure if this has disappeared completely, but I remember Bio-Tex prewash powder when I was younger.

Might still be manufactured outside of the UK but believe that the previous British distributor went out of business a couple of years or so ago.

New distributor was going to take over, a business called DCS Group based in Banbury.

 

[david1212]

The latching style of 2-pin electrical connectors for garden tools used by Black & Decker and I think Flymo 30 ish years ago.

A clone of the cable socket but not the tool plug is available on Amazon & eBay. B&Q stock a pair. However from the reviews the at least the B&Q version doesn't mate properly.

B&Q clone

My strimmer sounds bad and is vibrating so I need a new one for next year but want to use the same extension lead as it is also for the mower.

 

[BanburyBlue]

Yes. Despite his much-publicised death, pretty much all of Mr Peanut's products are still very much in production.

Where, please where can you get Planters?

 

[najaB]

Where, please where can you get Planters?

I shall need to check but I'm about 90% sure I've seen them in Tesco recently.

Edit: Thinking about it some more (and having checked the Tesco website) I'm now pretty sure that I misremembered and that I saw them in a supermarket outside the UK. Sorry about that.

 

[BanburyBlue]

I shall need to check but I'm about 90% sure I've seen them in Tesco recently.

In our Tesco‘s all you can get is KP. Very nice, but I’d love some Planters.

 

[najaB]

In our Tesco‘s all you can get is KP. Very nice, but I’d love some Planters.

Sorry, as per my edit (which I was making as you posted this), I saw them recently but it was outside the UK. For some reason Kraft seems to have withdrawn the Planter's brand from the UK market.

For what it's worth, they are available on Amazon but the prices are... a little high.

 

[BanburyBlue]

Sorry, as per my edit (which I was making as you posted this), I saw them recently but it was outside the UK. For some reason Kraft seems to have withdrawn the Planter's brand from the UK market.

For what it's worth, they are available on Amazon but the prices are... a little high.

Thanks. sad face sad face.

 

[swt_passenger]

The latching style of 2-pin electrical connectors for garden tools used by Black & Decker and I think Flymo 30 ish years ago.

A clone of the cable socket but not the tool plug is available on Amazon & eBay. B&Q stock a pair. However from the reviews the at least the B&Q version doesn't mate properly.

B&Q clone

My strimmer sounds bad and is vibrating so I need a new one for next year but want to use the same extension lead as it is also for the mower.

I’ve used the B&Q one successfully, but about 3 years ago now, same reason I wanted the new strimmer to use the same extension lead as a few other items, in my case a grass rake and a hedge trimmer. It’s all lasted very well, I think the hedge trimmer over 30 years now…

 

[najaB]

A clone of the cable socket but not the tool plug is available on Amazon & eBay. B&Q stock a pair. However from the reviews the at least the B&Q version doesn't mate properly.

If B&Q sell a set that's both plug and socket then buy two and replace the plug end on both the strimmer and the mower? (Assuming that the socket end goes on the extension).

 

[Paul Jones 88]

Powerful smartphones with buttons as opposed to touch screens.

 

[najaB]

Powerful smartphones with buttons as opposed to touch screens.

Such as? None are coming to mind.

Closest thing i can think of was Blackberry (and clones) with physical keyboards. Don't know if they're classed as Smartphones though.

Edit: The earlier models were not, but from 2013 onwards (Blackberry OS/Android) they would have been.

 

[LOL The Irony]

Closest thing i can think of was Blackberry (and clones) with physical keyboards. Don't know if they're classed as Smartphones though.

Edit: The earlier models were not, but from 2013 onwards (Blackberry OS/Android) they would have been.

BlackBerrys were smartphones.

 

[Paul Jones 88]

Nokia Communicator
Nokia N Series
Nokia E Series
Hewlett Packard Phone
All smartphones with physical buttons.
Blackberrys

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Blackberrys

Still available apparently at places like M&S Food and Waitrose.

 

[adrock1976]

Around twenty years ago, I remember there being the Amstrad Emailer for sale in the Tesco superstore. If I remember right, it was a telephone and keyboard integrated into one thing (Amstrad liked to integrate various things into one item).

 

[najaB]

BlackBerrys were smartphones.

The early models were featurephones. It's only really from 2013 onwards that they became true smartphones.

 

[Non Multi]

Pagers (first generation Blackberry was actually a fancy pager)
Dial up modems
Personal Organisers/PDAs
Phonecards

 

[Busaholic]

Not so much a product, but Carter Paterson lorries and vans, as ubiquitous once as DPD vans are now: also dark green GPO (Telephone) vans, always looked classier than the red GPO (Royal Mail) vans to my young eyes, that considered the colour red was the sole birthright of every London Transport public service vehicle, particularly buses.