City Bakeries Van

[skintobalinto]

Does anyone remember the City Bakeries Van coming round your area - Burtons XL ready salted crisps and empire biscuits - no wonder i'm under tall for my waist size!!!!!

[Fossil]

...how about the Alpine van. Massive bottles of Red cola and Limeade. Food colouring?
.....................didn’t do anything to me

[Pgcc93]

Food colouring?
.....................didn’t do anything to me

Of course it didn't.
Now for the last time will you come down off that wardrobe and go to bed like a normal boy.

On a more serious note: I witnessed a Mexican stand off between an Alpine Lorry and a Krystal Clear/ Garvies truck outside my house in the late 70's in a quiet suburb on the Southside. But the Ice cream Van came round and soon made it's presence felt. Us kids new that Convan (that was our nickname for the Icy, he never gave you the right change the swindling *unt) from then on he was the Daddy

[kirkyguy]

Mexican stand off that was great

can you remember how exciting it was when a new icey guy came on the scene everyone would be talking about it, and even making up things, that the new guy sold, that the usual guy didnt have.....The van the van the bee ee ell the van the van the bee ee ell would be the chant in our house when we heard one coming..Our parents must have been driven crazy there was about three vans in our area coming round at least 6 times a night, and we always chanted the van 5 young boys it must have been murder polis... How about any old pics of icey vans

[DickyHart]

No piccys Im afraid, but i remember some of the companies, there was Viking,marcetti.. my mind has just went blank, they used to race each other from stop to stop round our way, it was a deadly game of cat and mouse, they used to let each other tyres down and stuff. mental.

The alpine stuff was great three gallons of crap cola for about 30p.

[johnnyanglia]

The Ford Anglia club has an absolutely cracking Anglia ice cream. I dont know how to post pictures or i would have put one of it up. A google search would turn up a picture of it pretty quickly. There was also a guy called Bobby up at the Transport museum who had a 1950's Morris J type van he had converted into an ice cream van.

[Pgcc93]

Worst Ice Cream van to darken our street was The Walls Ice cream van. No Mr Whippy out of a machine just a wee individualy wrapped block of vanilla in a square'ish cone. As for selection of other goodies, you could get a bag of air courtesy of Golden Wonder. With either Salt & vinegar or cheese & onion printed on the packet.

[kirkyguy]

Jaconnellis had ice cream vans..i can remember the king of all ice cream vans,it was a guy called ALEX and he turned up with a doubler,thats right folks this van had two windows in it,it was the talk of the school for weeks and i think it had polyphonic ringtones as well

[Ronnie]

Ah, but did they sell tatty apple squares?

[Pgcc93]

Ah, but did they sell tatty apple squares?

Everything but!

[kirkyguy]

no one has ever heard of the mysterious tattie apple square ive asked loads of people.......

[Pgcc93]

no one has ever heard of the mysterious tattie apple square ive asked loads of people.......

Have to agree kirkyguy. I think this will be added to the Urban Myth Dept.

[Ronnie]

Could it be a tatty version of this, er, "fine art print"?

http://websell.pipex.com/alpha-cgi/shop ... /W701.html

[Pgcc93]

Does anyone remember the City Bakeries Van coming round your area - Burtons XL ready salted crisps

Purchased these yesterday minus the onion. Got them in a bakers shop in Carlisle though and there made by Golden Wonder now. You've got until JUN 04 to eat them Skinto !

[skintobalinto]

Thanks Pgcc93

A trip down amnesia lane, although I notice Burtons is missing from the packet, Have they bitten the dust or have they been swallowed (sorry) up by the other big crisp companies.

But Ready Salted ruled - just enough salt for taste, but not enough that you needed 6 cans of Irn Bru to quench your drooth.