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General Category => Old Products => Topic started by: chocoboo on January 14, 2006, 04:53:11 pm

Title: Fruit Polos
Post by: chocoboo on January 14, 2006, 04:53:11 pm

Can you still get these?  I loved the strawberry flavour ones but not seen them round here for ages.

Title: Fruit Polos
Post by: oldspice on January 14, 2006, 06:01:31 pm

No. I'm sure they've gone. I liked the lime ones and the blackcurrant ones.

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Post by: loulou on January 14, 2006, 06:43:31 pm

I had  a packet of these last summer, bought from a newsagent in Newcastle. Not sure if they are still about .

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Post by: goldencup on January 14, 2006, 07:35:50 pm

I bought some in the summer too and I remember thinking I hadn't seen them for ages.  Will look out for them.

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Post by: loulou on January 14, 2006, 10:59:23 pm

I think they are probably still out there. We just don't look that often.

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Post by: chocolate chick on January 16, 2006, 09:19:18 am

I think they are still around as well. I haven't heard them being discontinued. 

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Post by: Cherry_Ripe on January 16, 2006, 10:52:07 am

Whenever I had these they would all be stuck together.

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Post by: chocolate chick on January 16, 2006, 12:20:59 pm

Same here. I always end up with sticky fingers and the need to clean my teeth

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Post by: Forth Bridges on January 21, 2006, 12:04:00 pm

I got them in my college vending machine but, we only get a limted stock as usly the machince buggers up adn yuoget 3 packets of polos from the price of 1

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Post by: loulou on January 21, 2006, 02:52:40 pm

Fruit polos are really nice.

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Post by: oldspice on January 21, 2006, 03:55:38 pm

i saw them in our local Post Office/general store today. Mind you, they could have been there since 1972 knowing that place. They still sell fold-flat rain hoods.

Title: Fruit Polos
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on January 23, 2006, 09:24:00 am

 My local Post Office shop is exactly the same! Even the shop assistant (who was an old lady in the 70s) is still working there.  

Title: Fruit Polos
Post by: chocolate chick on January 23, 2006, 09:59:58 am

I saw Fruit Polo's over the weekend. 

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Post by: smurfboy on January 23, 2006, 01:18:22 pm

Quote from: Cherry_Ripe

 My local Post Office shop is exactly the same! Even the shop assistant (who was an old lady in the 70s) is still working there.  

At the one closest to my work you can still buy toy water pistols and the like for £1. They also have a delightful accessory rack called 'Jewlz' with all manner of costume jewellery and hair accessories, with colour coded price stickers - 99p, £1.99 or for those days when you can't help splashing out. £2.99!

Title: Fruit Polos
Post by: loulou on January 23, 2006, 09:08:18 pm

Ok smurfy what did you buy? Not the dress up kit again.

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Post by: smurfboy on January 23, 2006, 09:28:44 pm

It was Superman Lou, I couldn't resist!

I got you the Supergirl one to match...

Title: Fruit Polos
Post by: loulou on January 24, 2006, 02:04:06 am

Shall i wear it?

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Post by: oldspice on January 24, 2006, 07:07:00 am

Do you remember those flat cardbaord dollies you could cut out and stand up and you got clothes for them that you had to cut out and fix by tucking a little tab round the back of the doll?

Am I making sense? All the Post Offices and little odd shops sold them. Goldencup??

Bounty?

Title: Fruit Polos
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on January 24, 2006, 08:18:21 am

Oldspice I remember those cardboard dolls. Cut-out ones could also be found in girls annuals such as Bunty!

One of my favourite buys from the Post Office shop were the little coloured purses with patterns made from beads.

And of course, I collected smelly rubbers and found many at corner shops and the like!

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Post by: goldencup on January 24, 2006, 10:15:37 am

Yes I remember them and strangely they were the only kind of dolls I ever played with - I found the conventional kind very boring.  I even had a cardboard Sindy wardrobe that all her cardboard cut-out clothes hung up in!  I was also quite fan of Blue Peter style dolls house furniture - generally made of matchboxes and split pins!

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Post by: Cherry_Ripe on January 24, 2006, 11:49:19 am

Remember those little tubs of mousse eg. Lovely? Well get a box and cut out a circle and drop the empty tub in. Hey presto, you have a sink for your Sindy house. Cherry_Ripe38741.5085763889

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Post by: chocolate chick on January 24, 2006, 04:10:09 pm

I remember the paper dolls. 

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Post by: loulou on January 24, 2006, 05:18:26 pm

      

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Post by: oldspice on January 24, 2006, 05:47:42 pm

Is Bunty still going? We had a girl at school called Bunty. Poor girl.

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Post by: loulou on January 24, 2006, 06:20:18 pm

  No I think Bunty isn't around anymore but I can point you in the direction of  a Bounty.

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Post by: oldspice on January 24, 2006, 09:20:52 pm

Yes, and not too far away I think.

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Post by: goldencup on January 25, 2006, 07:41:49 am

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Post by: oldspice on January 25, 2006, 06:00:23 pm

wicked innit?