Whelks, mussels, candy apples

[mustardman]

C'mon everybody who grew up in the east end of glasgow must remember this? Strange, to have a guy selling this in the height of summer with the sun blazing. Billy Connolly always said that "dugs wid bump intae ye, an make yer candy apple aw hairy"...that why i prefered a wee pin and whelks!

[The_Clincher]

Whelks, Mussels & Cany Appehhhhls...good one! Same guy used to come round our way (Drumchapel) with a megaphone in his car..."Get yer Starsky & Hutch Posters"....25p for a mugshot of Soul & Glaser..they adorned many a wall...i think that was prob his biggest seller

[evilmiss]

Ahh ha...

'Whelks, Mussels, Candy apples'. I haven't heard that in a few years. We used to say that a guy would follow the 'WMC' guy, shouting 'Aspirins, Sick Bags, Paracetamol'...

Those were the days...in saying that, I'm only 23...hmm.

[Seamey]

I remember the guys selling toffee apples when I was a kid.

Forgot all about it till I was in darkest Ruchill one afternoon and heard the cry of "Tawee Ayellls" and a man walking about with a poly bag.

Btw I take it that rag and bone men don't give out balloons any more?

Seamey

[Kirsty]

We had one we called him the "rag and bone man". When technology moved on we had the "Hulk" van which sold popcorn, candyfloss and slush puppies. That was until the local ice cream van made him bolt.