Why mess with our childhood memories?

[corydoras]

yes but a tenth of the size and probably containing real juice which is tasteless ,you may get cancer or colitis from the old stuff but you could taste the flavour ,hovis is a bland bread now everything is "good" in it

Originally Hovis was a process. Any baker could buy Hovis flour, the Hovis recipe and Hovis baking tins and bake his own "Hovis" bread. Edited March 14, 2011 by corydoras

[corydoras]

coal tar soap is now coal tar fragrance

carbolic soap is short on the ground too

is it? or just carbolic fragrenced?

http://carbolicsoap.com/bcarbolic-rangeb-c-230.html

 

i'v emailed them to enquire if its real after all a 70 grams bar is hardly traditional

 

thats the trouble with everything there is no punishment for lying today ,if something is "traditional" "original" etc and nothing of the sort IE everything including the weight and wrapper should be made as it was in the beginning the manufacturer should be whipped to an inch of their lives and then his children forced into cleaning chimneys

back to my army and navy it states original liquorice flavour i have clearly proved it wasn't liquorice flavoured originally but nothing is done ,i feel an email is due! (shakes fist in the air)

Coal-tar soap cannot contain any coal-tar products, if it did you would need a prescription from the doctor. Never liked the stuff. We were often washed with it on 'bath nights'. It dried out my skin and made it all red.

 

The carbolic soap advertised on the link above does contain phenol.

[chesters1]

Originally Hovis was a process. Any baker could buy Hovis flour, the Hovis recipe and Hovis baking tins and bake his own "Hovis" bread.

i guess in the "good" old days the ingredients besides the flour could vary whereas today there's few ingredients at all ,the traditional uncut version is far different to the hovis sliced which tastes far better

i loved both the carbolic which in my household tended to be used in the mouth when caught swearing or telling tall tales but i loved the coal tar version both had little effect except in the eyes

i didn't spot the ingredient list on the soap site

hmmm the sweets were called parabolic

http://www.sweetshopmemories.co.uk/p34982/...0g/c0-7218-7218

Edited March 14, 2011 by chesters1

[corydoras]

i guess in the "good" old days the ingredients besides the flour could vary whereas today there's few ingredients at all ,the traditional uncut version is far different to the hovis sliced which tastes far better

i loved both the carbolic which in my household tended to be used in the mouth when caught swearing or telling tall tales but i loved the coal tar version both had little effect except in the eyes

i didn't spot the ingredient list on the soap site

hmmm the sweets were called parabolic

http://www.sweetshopmemories.co.uk/p34982/...0g/c0-7218-7218

http://carbolicsoap.com/grade-carbolic-soap-200g-p-1494.html

[chesters1]

http://carbolicsoap.com/grade-carbolic-soap-200g-p-1494.html

DOH i looked at the 70gr and washing ones but not that one

modern version though i doubt our victorians made it from vegetable oils ,i want real horse and cows in my soap.hmmm just reminded myself of the tannery or glue works in gorgie road edinbugh on the way to school ,pooooo

Edited March 15, 2011 by chesters1