Vintage UK Food Product Adverts (Vol.1)

[@edwardowen4488]

I wish we could go back to those days when life was better and the TV programmes were unmissable and the ad's were better than much of what's on TV today

[@carolined668]

Yes me too 👍👍👍

[@carolined668]

Excellent ads👍👍👍

[@DoubleTroubles729]

Back to the 70’s…. I was a young teen, life was simple in every way, it was a happy decade.

[@ianwhitelaw3066]

❤❤❤

[@Vanex124]

Yess

[@stevedickson5853]

God I miss them Findus French bread pizzas, they were quite yummy.

[@carolined668]

God me too they were my favs totally shame we cant still get them!🙄😋👍

[@atae7185]

Happier more simple times!

[@george.mathieson2]

Great British tv ad classics.

[@markrigg7038]

Leslie Crowther in the stork ad, famous for "The price is right" tv show, Paxo the rooster booster I remember the cartoon version as well, great memories mate 👍

[@pupskin123]

It's scary how many of these I remember....😱 Great collection!

[@pupskin123]

Oh and I remember those hamwich things were incredibly salty...!

[@RetroSteveUK]

Judging by the advert, they look a bit soggy too.

[@pupskin123]

@@RetroSteveUK I recall they weren't too bad crisp wise, but just full of salt! Not one of my faves! 😁

[@davidjones6470]

Yay!!!!!! It's Friday time to go back in time with Steve

[@stevestocker8467]

More gems from my childhood! Thank your sir👌

[@davidbrown7379]

Findus French Bread Pizza! Paxo flying chicken 😂! I remember so many of these. Great selection Steve or, as Bernard Matthews might put it "Bootiful"

[@RetroSteveUK]

I was wondering if Bernard is still kicking about so I looked him up. Died in 2010 apparently. RIP 🪦

[@pupskin123]

Reaaallly bootiful! 😅

[@mpersad]

Goodness I loved Findus French bread pizzas! Really enjoyed this collection of ads, when did I get so nostalgic?😀

[@RetroSteveUK]

It's a condition. We all seem to get it from about the age of 35 to 40-ish. 🧓🏼

[@sarahlouise7163]

wish you could still get those heinz canned salads!

[@herbert9241]

I was just thinking - whatever became of tinned salad? Well, my first impression was - TINNED SALAD?? WHAT THE ... ???

[@rachel.mcgowan]

They were bogging .. I remember being served one of them at my aunt's and trying to eat as much as possible to be polite...the Open Golf tournament was on TV at the time.. strange what details you remember from about 35 years ago.

[@MrAronRobinson]

Oh my Word! Those Tefal toasted sandwich makers! Mum and Dad got one at the ‘Ideal Home Exhibition’ (along with an electric carving knife. Why not just use a carving knife?) and it had one huge flaw… which was that if you tried to make a cheese sandwich with it, the cheese would be roughly the same temperature as molten lava, and it burnt your palate and scolded your toungue so badly that you couldn’t taste anything for a few days after you ate it.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Funny that .. I just had a toasted cheese sandwich from a toasted sandwich maker yesterday! 😂 I let it stand for a while before taking a bite; you're right about the molten lava.

[@emilywhitfield2780]

Love these!!

[@thomascook578]

Yay, it's Friday, it's 5 o'clock, it Retro Steve time....another great video, I remember most as I was retail 87 to 08, seeing products that no longer exists, and new products that are now everyday

[@Matty112uk]

Oh my, I remember many of these. Convenience food was it seems much more of a big thing back in the 80's and 90's. I remember having quite a lot of Bernard Matthews turkey based products in the 80's and early 90's. They're still going, but funnily enough I've not had any for ages!

[@RetroSteveUK]

I usually find the ready roast items are quite tasty.

[@mgthestrange9098]

I still eat hamwich on a regular basis and they’re bloody lovely, ultimate guilty pleasure food! 😋

[@mgthestrange9098]

The scene at the end of the Tefal grill should’ve been the woman hurling the whole grill at her husband’s head.

[@anjkovo2138]

Bootifull👍👍

[@Matt571]

I remember the Bernard Matthews adverts very well and I always used to wait to hear him say bootiful

[@sharnadixon-scott710]

The days before we all found it how filth his factories and farming methods were

[@thefrecklepuny]

These ads are just Bootiful!

[@stephenchecksfield632]

Fantastic video compilation retro steve 👌 i often wonder what happened to Kellogg's noodles you don't see them anymore granted there are supermarket brands noodles and batchelors super noodles 😊😊😊

[@PeterRapley-gv5vt]

On that Super Noodles advert, the music made me think of friends having a good old chin wag

[@ukar69]

Really shouldn't watch these ads while hungry.

[@RetroSteveUK]

🤣

[@kitty-alicefrench1199]

Ok, so granted this is going to sound strange, but does anyone know anything about the Young's Norwegian prawn advert? I love the tune in the advert, particularly the last second of synth/keyboard trill. Does anyone know what instrument it is, as.I would love to have a go on one! 😂

[@RetroSteveUK]

That'll definitely be some kind of electronic instrument setting on a keyboard. Basically, sit at an electronic piano/keyboard and try out all the sounds until you get one that sounds like that. Other than that, the song is some kind of Reggae cover version of Cliff Richard's Young Ones. Must have been made specifically for this advert.

[@kitty-alicefrench1199]

@@RetroSteveUK thank you so much for the info! I have a beginner's keyboard and occasionally have use of an a SQ1 synthesizer from the late 80s, so I'll keep trying to find it! I must be mad, wanting to play a song from a prawn advert! 🤣

[@RetroSteveUK]

@@kitty-alicefrench1199 It's like Demolition Man all over again! 😆

[@getstek]

Wonderful compilation. Any idea what the tune is on the end link section? Recall it well !

[@RetroSteveUK]

Not sure of its name. I just lifted it from that Heinz advert earlier in the video.

[@mrgoboto4309]

Quite a few i've not seen (or at least don't remember) before. Also unexpected music from what sounds like Jean-Jacques Perrey in the Heinz Tinned Salads ad.

[@RetroSteveUK]

THAT music .. living in my head rent free since I first heard it two weeks ago. Sounds a bit like the Thomas The Tank Engine theme, too.

[@leon-o4m7k]

a time when adverts didnt piss me off 🤣

[@alexgeorge501]

8:05 Such a "Medieval" Performace!

[@RIXRADvidz]

in our house, the margarine of choice was Parkay. the commercials were enough to get you to buy it, the tub of marg would say, ''butter'' and the person would taste it, declare it so rich and creamy just like butter, then the little tub would correct them by saying, ''Parkay'' and then a comic reaction, then came Squeeze Parkay, another time.

[@RetroSteveUK]

The only parkay I've ever heard of is the flooring. 😆 This might be your commercial ... kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpq4kIyKg7xopNU

[@anthony5868]

Do you have the following advert in your archives? Someone comes in from the kitchen to announce “we’re having …chicken” All hell breaks loose in the living room. Granny goes back over on her seat (I think) Two old ladies walking past the house hear the commotion and one says “I think they’re having chicken” It must be around 1978-1979. I don’t know if it is for chicken, or gravy, or paxo stuffing. My memory is very hazy.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Not likely to be in any compilations on this channel .. I have no recollection of that at all. If it ever turns up though, it will invariably end up on a food products collection.

[@anthony5868]

@ - Thanks for the reply. It’s weird no one can remember it except me and my brother. We used to howl at it. We were only 7 and 11 at the time.

[@jwb52z9]

So, were Super Noodles like Ramen? I've never understood canned/tinned spaghetti. Is it just me, or is the manor house in the Hamwich commercial the same one used in exterior shots in "To The Manor Born"? It's so interesting to see what Heinz has sold in different places. If you ask most Americans what Heinz makes, they'd say ketchup, various other forms of tomato products, and a specific kind of sauce for grilled meat and steaks. I wish Bird's Eye sold something other than frozen vegetables in the US also. I always wanted to try the Boboli pizza crusts, but my parents wouldn't do homemade pizza. That's one of the rare products sold in both the US and UK.

[@RetroSteveUK]

I only ever tried Super Noodles once. I always loved Pot Noodles so I thought Super Noodles would be the same. The packet I tried were slimy and lacking flavour. From memory, I think Super Noodles were similar to what you'd get now in a Chinese noodle restaurant.

[@El-Ritmo]

The Stork "Feel at Home" advert is edited in such a way that it looks like a cube of margarine is being added to that tea... 🤮 Heinz soup "look at the soup" guy is Gil from Frasier, and the "look at the ham" guy is Chen from Red Dwarf (or Nigel from EastEnders, if you want to get all "people will actually remember him from that 'cos he was in it loads" about it 😁) - that one's missing a chapter by the way, Steve: it just runs on from the Sydney Opera House one. I guess the Potato Edgers advert is before Toby Jones's acting career really took off. Gotta start somewhere, though, right? I'm quite confident that I've not seen a single one of these before, so this week is definitely less nostalgia and more historical interest for me but, as always, thanks for the upload.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Thanks for the chapter heads-up. I'll check that out.

[@ivanharriman2418]

God spaghetti on toast for tea my lad things he's hard done by if you haven't spent £20 on pizza for him from domino's

[@brutonstreettailor4570]

Its a pity that the few products you can still buy taste shite now, because of having all the sugar and/or salt removed. I have to add my own salt and sugar to spaghetti, for instance.

[@candythomson844]

Can you still get hamwich

[@RetroSteveUK]

Apparently so. Looks like Iceland sell them: www.iceland.co.uk/p/bernard-matthews-6-cheesy-hamwich-345g/58892.html

[@candythomson844]

@@RetroSteveUK thanks

[@sharonboult4042]

Yes they are in a blue bag but triangles 🔺️

[@herbert9241]

We were very poor and very numerous (six kids) but Ma always cooked from scratch, no packet meals. Made her own bread on a day-by-day basis, too. I'd hear the millionaire kids talking about tinned ravioli and such and it seemed like exotic cuisine to me. I was definitely one of the better physical, sporting specimens, though - if a decade or two shy of haute couture. Obviously it wasn't exotic, it was bang average muck.

[@thesocialmediascientistmbe]

That black boxer kid got a white eye...?

[@RetroSteveUK]

Yes, I noticed that too. I'm not sure if that would go down too well these days.

[@Sheffield_Steve]

Why do ads like "Cook in The Pot" make me think I'm going to hear Victor Lewis-Smith (RIP) ripping the p1ss out of it by saying "Mmmm, retch!" 🤮

[@sarahlouise7163]

omg black kid with a white eye?

[@RetroSteveUK]

Yeah, odd. I still haven't been able to work out if that's racist yet. 😬

[@janwong9437]

Omg Heinz salad in a tin 🤮

[@RetroSteveUK]

Yep! 😂 I guess they don't make this stuff anymore for good reason.

[@moonchild666]

Eat more cheese!

[@RetroSteveUK]

Indeed. That one got me wondering who actually funded that ad campaign.

[@thefrecklepuny]

@@RetroSteveUK The old Milk Marketing Board, maybe? We had similar ads for British lamb, beef, Golden Delicious apples, milk, etc.

[@RetroSteveUK]

@@thefrecklepuny I do remember a lot of generic 'Milk' adverts from back then. Don't really see that sort of thing now.

[@seansabhaois]

Great days, good times. Many of the brands are still around, but the actual products are long gone or morphed into low fat, low sugar, low caffeine etc. And always a Mexican sketch to round off the product selection. Viva el Komadante!! 🫡