What was daily life like in the 80s/90s/00s?

[FRUMPY]

There used to be about 5 or 6 different brands of lemonade - Halls, Schweppes etc - and they actually tasted ok, unlike today.

getting a case full of Slades soft drink where you exchanged empty bottles for filled bottles and chose whichever flavours you wanted - taste great as well

 

[FRUMPY]

We've still got one of the new ones. I use it all the time to make lemon squash

We've got one in the house and caravan - wife loves her soda water and we occasionally make soft drink out of it - its pretty good i reckon.

 

[Xtreme]

id like to inform you that arcades games have been no longer at the Rollerama for some time sadly

Wrll the last time I went there was in the lateish 90s lol. Have gone past it many times and wondered what its like these days.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

and then old mate would talk over the intro so you had to listen to him speak every time you heard the song.....

If they didn’t talk over the intro they cut in before the end . Or both!

 

[Smoooothy]

Since my post is game themed, the 90s was great for arcade game places like Time Zone (so much better than the 90% of prize machines that take up floor space today). Had quite a few Time Zone birthday parties - was amusing the amount of hangers on I had at school.... that would ditch me days later or once discovered they weren't invited would ditch me beforehand.

My fav Time Zone place was multi level, small yet large to me. Knox was massive!

omg yes!

time zone on hindley street in adelaide was a massive arcade. they used to do sunday morning lockins for 3 or 4 hours (think it started at 9am)

as 16 year olds we'd go out to a house party, stay up most of the night, catch the first train into the city, have breakfast and then go to a lockin

good times!

 

[Smoooothy]

Yeah Woodroffe was good, although my favourite was Halls (could have been because of the pretty rainbow-type picture on the bottle though).

halls!

do they even make that anymore?

 

[FRUMPY]

Riverport is one of the best soft drink makers these days - love their portello

 

[PT Bar None]

I wanna say "Loys" was one of the ye olde Aussie soft drinks that was home delivery and you did the bottle swap off the back of the truck they drove around?

Something like that

 

[Roobs321]

Up in QLD they seem to be really into Sarsaparilla, and Kirks has a long history here too, like their Pasito passionfruit.

I can't be sure but I think the Bundaberg brewed drinks range are more widely available here as well whereas down south you tend to see a smaller range of options.

QLD being so big (takes days to drive up the east coast), not to mention the climate, also means that traditionally there were some other regional soda brands.

 

[MatthewB]

South Road Timezone used to do lock ins where you'd pay $20, all games were on freeplay midnight to 0600hrs and we'd spend hours playing that.

we would either go there or Hindley st for the lock in

 

[MatthewB]

Woodroofe for the win

our baseball club was sponsored by Woodroofe in the 80's, drank so much Sno Top and Big Sars, Woodies lemonade is perfect when you arent feeling well

 

[Pistol Night]

our baseball club was sponsored by Woodroofe in the 80's, drank so much Sno Top and Big Sars, Woodies lemonade is perfect when you arent feeling well

Sno Top! **** yes. That was awesome

 

[Macca19]

getting a case full of Slades soft drink where you exchanged empty bottles for filled bottles and chose whichever flavours you wanted - taste great as well

Going to the local servo with my dad and working out what glass 1L bottles we wanted.

You just dont get that “this bottle has been sitting in the sun for 9 weeks” flavour anymore

 

[Macca19]

Halls Fruita was the king of soft drink.

 

[Macca19]

Me at 12yo looking at Snow Drop and Sno Top bottles

 

[MatthewB]

Halls Fruita was the king of soft drink.

i loved Fruita, shame they stopped making it

 

[kickazz]

Also played some card game called 500. My Mum taught me it but would not even know how to play it now.

Great game, used to play it a bit with friends.

 

[kickazz]

Playing 500 at lunchtime practically defined my working life during the 90's.

And dear lord was the cheating rife!

• Six Spades/C/D/H == I have the ace of Spades/C/D/H
• 6 No Trumps == I have multiple aces
• 6 Noeys == I have the bird
• Half a dozen S/C/D/Hearts == I have nothing but am hanging around to call closed misère next time round
• 7 Spades/C/D/H == I have the right bower
• Ahhh, 7 Spades/C/D/H == I have the left bower

Add to that I learned how to thumb the bird in a shuffle so I could deal it into the kitty every time.

We banned misere. Best decision ever.

 

[kickazz]

Is that similar to euchre? My grandma taught us that back in the day, I recall playing with the old blokes down the cricket club as a 10 year old. Don't think they were keen for me to participate early but once I took a few tricks I was accepted ha ha

Yep. Main difference is you deal out the entire deck.

 

[kickazz]

You would go to shops and buy the original milo bar. Compressed milo in a chocolate coating.
GOAT bar.

Bring it back ffs

this x10000000000000000000000000

 

[kickazz]

The probably use less shite like MSG on them these days.

One of those inexplicable fallacies in life why people are opposed to MSG. Causes mild headache if you are allergic, otherwise it tastes good and means you need less salt (which is bad for your heart) in the food. Indeed, modern foodies' obsession with 'umami' flavour - that's what MSG is, basically made from reducing down the umami flavours from mushrooms I think.

 

[Andre]

taste buds change as you get older as well - so not surprised you dont find things as enjoyable as you did when you were a kid (plus memories can be misleading to how good they really were or tasted)

you can be told how good/bad things are when you are a kid and you'll believe/agree with it - then you grow older and learn to think for yourself how things are better or worse than what you've always been told.

A lot of these of these 'go cheap' have been done since I was an adult. I'm sure there's some nostalgia attached to memories of foods as a kid, but there's no self-deception / rose coloured glasses on how for almost all packaged foods that have been around decades, that they aren't as good as they were. If I get decent biscuits, either made by the wife or bought at a small bakery or fair, then there are still one's out there that taste like they should. Just, unfortunately, not in stores these days.

 

[Andre]

Me at 12yo looking at Snow Drop and Sno Top bottles

Which one was the one that was incredibly sweet? Whichever one it was, I remember having a few years ago, and that was definitely a case of changing taste buds from when a kid.

 

[NaturalDisaster]

You would go to shops and buy the original milo bar. Compressed milo in a chocolate coating.
GOAT bar.

Bring it back ffs

Why did they get rid of them?

The milo bars they have now are disgusting.

 

[JyeDye]

Listen I know your not an idiot but I went on to make the commentary about the experience.

Ask those people in Salt Lake City about the shot and 80% would be able to close their eyes and describe Jordans movements and the feelings in the crowd etc

The people at LeBrons game would struggle to tell you if you took their phones off them

You are looking at people who spent $10k a ticket to a regular season match purely for that moment. Probably aren't even fans of the sport. These would be the equivalent of Jordan's shot and the most important shots of the last decade and I can't see a phone in sight...