Chew bar with sherbet crystals and a fizz that took the roof off.
A ten-pence chew bar with a raspberry flavour that does not exist anywhere in nature and sherbet pieces embedded in it.
It came in a purple wrapper with a cartoon on it and stuck to your teeth with genuine determination. Dentists have opinions.
Still made in Scotland, still the same, still ferociously sweet.
Cost back then
5p
Goes for now
About 20p
Keep going
Carbonated sugar crystals that crackled and fizzed, accompanied by an urban legend about a child who drank cola afterwards.
The freezer centre was a whole shop of frozen food, and going there meant a chest freezer in the garage.
Sony's superior video format lost the war to VHS, leaving a small number of very smug and very stranded households.
A cassette player with headphones and no speaker, which sounded absurd until everybody had one.