Asaw Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 What were Monkey Nuts (not rabbit droppings)? Do they still make Tizer if so were cab you get it from?. Flying Sorcers? Have you found it difficult to get Chestnuts these days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 (edited) It seems you can still get Tizer and flying saucers, also monkey nuts. In Lincolnshire we can usually get chestnuts in the autumn, though they are often imported from Italy. Edited February 15, 2018 by hillsbro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snooker147 Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 Asaw were you watching the back in time programme last night? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ontarian1981 Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 What were Monkey Nuts (not rabbit droppings)? Do they still make Tizer if so were cab you get it from?. Flying Sorcers? Have you found it difficult to get Chestnuts these days? Take great care how you use the word Monkey, unless you are actually talking about the animal itself. A recent thread on the forum concerning a piece of apparel that used the M word brought out all the PCs and SJWs in South Yorkshire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asaw Posted February 15, 2018 Author Share Posted February 15, 2018 What were Monkey Nuts (not rabbit droppings)? Do they still make Tizer if so were cab you get it from?. Flying Sorcers? Have you found it difficult to get Chestnuts these days? Correction Tiger nuts Yes I did watch the program . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrapper Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 granelli,s shop will probabley stock them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 (edited) Correction Tiger nuts...The "Nut Bar" in the Moor Market still sells tiger nuts. They aren't actually nuts - they are the tubers of a type of sedge. I planted some that I bought from the Nut Bar and grew them. Edited February 15, 2018 by hillsbro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatrajah Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 (edited) You can still get Tizer but it is not the same stuff as we used to buy in the 50s & 60s. Today's Tizer has a sweetness & blandness that the old Tizer did not have. The 50s/60s tizer had a slightly bitter edge to it as it contained hop bitters. As far as I am aware, Tizer is readily available in Tesco etc. By the way, weren't there such things as milk nuts in the 50s? Edited February 15, 2018 by fatrajah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 ...By the way, weren't there such things as milk nuts in the 50s?The juice of tiger nuts is sometimes called "milk", and in the 1950s Kenyons (of 'KP' fame) used to sell twopenny packets of nuts, including what they called "milky tiger nuts". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melthebell Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 Do you know, when I were a lad you could get a tram down into t'town, buy three new suits an' an ovvercoat, four pair o' good boots, go an' see Frank Randall at t'Palace Theatre, get blind drunk, 'ave some steak an' chips, bunch o' bananas an' three stone o' monkey nuts an' still 'ave change out of a farthing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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