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Monk & Glass Custard
The company was Monkhouse & Glasscock Ltd., and one of the Monkhouse scions was named Robert who became famous as an entertainer - you don't see him any more, either.
If anyone else remembers Monk & Glass, please say so, as I have great difficulty in convincing my wife and many friends that there was ever such a brand. |
Would the entertainer be Bob Monkhouse, comedian and scriptwriter?
He died three or four years ago. |
It certainly was Bob Monkhouse. Sorry to be so long in replying - mainly due to the site being down - and one or two others have more or less confirmed it anyway.
Saw Bob Monkhouse perform live in the long since defunct Dolce Vita nightclub in Newcastle. He was very "blue", but very funny. I wasn't "discustard" !!! |
I remember Monk and Glass custard. Their posters had a monk with a erm glass (of custard) on them.
I too didn't like Bob Monkhouse at all - he was far too oily for my liking.
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Thinking about custard makes me think about Birds, the better known and still surviving (?) brand. There was a series of adverts in magazines under the rather clever heading of "Birds Songs at Eating Time" - I suppose one needs to be a certain age to understand the connection - whereby the alleged benefits of Birds Custard were put into rhyme.
But what I'm fairly certain in remembering is that more recently - say late 60s onwards, Birds introduced instant coffee, presumably to compete with Nescafe, et al. Does anyone else remember? Maybe Drapesy will produce another of his amazing adverts? If it did exist, is it still available? - Mrs Hoo and I don't drink coffee, so I never look at brands whilst out shopping.
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Thinking about custard makes me think about Birds, the better known and still surviving (?) brand. There was a series of adverts in magazines under the rather clever heading of "Birds Songs at Eating Time" - I suppose one needs to be a certain age to understand the connection - whereby the alleged benefits of Birds Custard were put into rhyme.
But what I'm fairly certain in remembering is that more recently - say late 60s onwards, Birds introduced instant coffee, presumably to compete with Nescafe, et al. Does anyone else remember? Maybe Drapesy will produce another of his amazing adverts? If it did exist, is it still available? - Mrs Hoo and I don't drink coffee, so I never look at brands whilst out shopping. |
It was "Mellow Birds" and it was that frothy weak stuff that you seemd to get in 60's cafe's where they made it with half steamed milk. I suppose it was not unpleasant but it was sure as sh1t not coffee.
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Uno Hoo
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It was "Mellow Birds" and it was that frothy weak stuff that you seemd to get in 60's cafe's where they made it with half steamed milk. I suppose it was not unpleasant but it was sure as sh1t not coffee.
Ah yes, it all comes "pouring" back.
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| Uno Hoo wrote: |
Thinking about custard makes me think about Birds, the better known and still surviving (?) brand. There was a series of adverts in magazines under the rather clever heading of "Birds Songs at Eating Time" - I suppose one needs to be a certain age to understand the connection - whereby the alleged benefits of Birds Custard were put into rhyme.
But what I'm fairly certain in remembering is that more recently - say late 60s onwards, Birds introduced instant coffee, presumably to compete with Nescafe, et al. Does anyone else remember? Maybe Drapesy will produce another of his amazing adverts? If it did exist, is it still available? - Mrs Hoo and I don't drink coffee, so I never look at brands whilst out shopping. |
there we go...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qevH6hUDjDw
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Basically I think Birds Ltd just had a powder making machine and they could flavour the powder with anything.
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| Basically I think Birds Ltd just had a powder making machine and they could flavour the powder with anything. |
Good theory, Reggie. I used to think the same about the soup served up in Chinese restaurants as part of the three-course "businessmens' lunches" for less than 10/- in pre-decimal days. It looked like wallpaper paste, so my theory was that each restaurant subscribed to a central supplier. The basic mix was stored in a former gasholder in Stockport and piped into subscribing kitchens, where the flavour of the day was added, e.g chicken, mushroom, etc. I use the term flavour guardedly, as no matter what the menu described it as, it always tasted like, well, wallpaper paste.
Cue for old joke:
Diner to Chinese waiter: "This chicken is rubbery!"
Waiter: "Grad you rike it, sir"
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| Basically I think Birds Ltd just had a powder making machine and they could flavour the powder with anything. |
Good theory, Reggie. I used to think the same about the soup served up in Chinese restaurants as part of the three-course "businessmens' lunches" for less than 10/- in pre-decimal days. It looked like wallpaper paste, so my theory was that each restaurant subscribed to a central supplier. The basic mix was stored in a former gasholder in Stockport and piped into subscribing kitchens, where the flavour of the day was added, e.g chicken, mushroom, etc. I use the term flavour guardedly, as no matter what the menu described it as, it always tasted like, well, wallpaper paste.
Cue for old joke:
Diner to Chinese waiter: "This chicken is rubbery!"
Waiter: "Grad you rike it, sir"
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Uno Hoo
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Dunno how that post has gone in twice. The joke's not worth repeating - even if the soup did!
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Have they gone Brnel? Their namesake Peter Jones Fine China have signs saying 'Closing after 25 years' too.
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Don't go that way as often as I once did - and concentrating more on the traffic of course
Seriously, it is one of those places which seems to have been there for ever, strange it is no more.
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| Johnny39 wrote: |
| Uno Hoo wrote: |
Monk & Glass Custard
The company was Monkhouse & Glasscock Ltd., and one of the Monkhouse scions was named Robert who became famous as an entertainer - you don't see him any more, either.
If anyone else remembers Monk & Glass, please say so, as I have great difficulty in convincing my wife and many friends that there was ever such a brand. |
Would the entertainer be Bob Monkhouse, comedian and scriptwriter?
He died three or four years ago. |
Dead? hmm - I'd heard two different versions of that, to be honest.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC2vprpDtY0
(1.21 in if you dont want to listen to the whole thing)
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Carolynne
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Mending clothes and darning socks
False teeth
Knitting, finger knitting, crocheting, embroidery
Powdering your nose
Lipstick as blusher
Reel to reel tapes
Kids going out to play and only returning when they were hungry
Being able to mend your car if you broke down
Jackie magazine
Fried breakfast every morning
A home bar with "optics"
Home Brew
Old spice
Shelling peas
Making perfume from rose petals
Coke floats
Iodine on cuts
Electric clocks
Cups and saucers
Teapots
Everyone sitting at the table to eat
Answering the phone by saying your phone number
Little rubber hoses that were put on the taps in the kitchen (why?)
Gravy browning? for a fake tan.
Chip pans where you could lift the basket up carrying all the solidified lard!
Buying records in woolworths
Drowning kittens (not me I might add).
BBC computers
Telex messages
The Cambridge diet
Toning tables
Fish and chips served in newspaper
The district nurse
Tea dances at the astoria
Hand signals in cars (do you still get taught this in driving lessons?)
When kids ate dirt
A ventriloquist on the radio (so I'm told)
Hard backed blue passports
Having to book an international call
British Airways "Junior Jet Set Club".
Piano playing and sing songs in pubs
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Trojan
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| Basically I think Birds Ltd just had a powder making machine and they could flavour the powder with anything. |
Good theory, Reggie. I used to think the same about the soup served up in Chinese restaurants as part of the three-course "businessmens' lunches" for less than 10/- in pre-decimal days. It looked like wallpaper paste, so my theory was that each restaurant subscribed to a central supplier. The basic mix was stored in a former gasholder in Stockport and piped into subscribing kitchens, where the flavour of the day was added, e.g chicken, mushroom, etc. I use the term flavour guardedly, as no matter what the menu described it as, it always tasted like, well, wallpaper paste.
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Someone else remembers! It started off on Mondays as "chicken soup" and got darker as the week went on - presumably as the gravy etc from the previous days meals was added. I've often wondered if you can still get it. Every Chinese I went in used to do the three course business lunch and every Chinese served the wallpaper paste soup!
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Mending clothes and darning socks
False teeth
Knitting, finger knitting, crocheting, embroidery
Powdering your nose
Lipstick as blusher
Reel to reel tapes
Kids going out to play and only returning when they were hungry
Being able to mend your car if you broke down
Jackie magazine
Fried breakfast every morning
A home bar with "optics"
Home Brew
Old spice
Shelling peas
Making perfume from rose petals
Coke floats
Iodine on cuts
Electric clocks
Cups and saucers
Teapots
Everyone sitting at the table to eat
Answering the phone by saying your phone number
Little rubber hoses that were put on the taps in the kitchen (why?)
Gravy browning? for a fake tan.
Chip pans where you could lift the basket up carrying all the solidified lard!
Buying records in woolworths
Drowning kittens (not me I might add).
BBC computers
Telex messages
The Cambridge diet
Toning tables
Fish and chips served in newspaper
The district nurse
Tea dances at the astoria
Hand signals in cars (do you still get taught this in driving lessons?)
When kids ate dirt
A ventriloquist on the radio (so I'm told)
Hard backed blue passports
Having to book an international call
British Airways "Junior Jet Set Club".
Piano playing and sing songs in pubs
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Hi Carolynne. Those little tap hoses were called 'Tap Swirls'
fitted over the tap spout to control the water flow and stop
it spraying everyone! You could also direct the water by hand to
flush round the sink bowl. Excellent idea but modern taps
don't have longish down spouts,so the swirls won't fit over
the nozzle! Most taps nowadays have a built in filter to
control the flow.
The ventiloquist on Radio,and later on tele; (Failed,you could see his lips move!!!lol), was called Peter Brough and his dummy was
called Archie Andrews.They both appeared with Max Bygraves
(Who?) and various other artistes on radio.
I still shell peas for t'missus! They taste better than tinned or frozen!Morrisons sell pod peas in packs. a bit dear but worthit
(Like L'Oreal!)
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Brunel
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LS1
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Whatever happened to iglodine?
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BLAKEY
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The wonderful and "authentic" spoof broadsheet newspaper "The Rag Times", produced annually for the Leeds University Rag Week.
I wish I could once again see the 1953 copy which featured a genuine photo of Mount Preston with cars parked either side, and at the end was a cartoon pointed mountain summit with two cartoon mountaineers just reaching the summit with the aid of spikes etc. The article was headed "UNIVERSITY ASSAULT ON MOUNT PRESTON" - and followed close on the real news that the British expedition had just conquered Mount Everest - just brilliant 
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Bramleygal
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Sorry, but knitting is still going strong. I'm sad if it's died out in Leeds 'cos it's huge here in the US.
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AngryofMayfair
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Sunday Morning - Beeston - 1968
A cold wet January morning - does this still happen?
Plenty of Salvation Army presence in Melbourne but no early morning wake up calls from the band... 
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AngryofMayfair
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Cardiarms
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Orange street lights. Not all gone but disappearing fast. My back street is now brightly illuminated.
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