Popular Nostalgia

Popular Nostalgia from the past decade. Memories of events and items from popular culture recorded in words and pictures on the internet. Share, remember and get wonderfully sentimental…

They always used to serve arctic roll for school dinners. I don’t know whether arctic roll was especially cheap for some reason, or whether someone just liked making it but I always enjoyed it and could never work out how it was made. Everyone always tried for seconds and thirds when arctic roll was involved. […]

Everyone was singing it -on school buses, in pubs and around town. England, normally too scared to hope, was allowing herself to get all excited about the 1996 European Championships. England flags were all over: on cars, buildings and boats. Girls made red and white tops and the boys wore England shirts. Everybody gathered round […]

Unfortunately for the lovely Craig, nobdy could ever take him seriously again as a singer after Avid Merrion recast him as a character in the series “Bo’ Selecta”. Mocked for his street lingo and general cool kid antics, Craig David soon became better known as his alter-ego

An excellent singer and perfect pin-up for teenage girls, Craig David was the poster boy for UK garage. His album sold loads and he became instantly famous for “7 days”, mainly because it was so liable to spoof versions and mockery at the method of seduction. Little goaty things and cornrows became de riguer for […]

Your Dad did it at a party, you copied. Mr Blobby did it. Most charity appeals did it on the ir music videos. The genesis walk has been recreated over fifty times on youtube at least. Who knows how many times the scourge has affected weddings, parties and social gatherings. Here for your comparison -the […]

Let’s get ready to rhumble! PJ & Duncan were the stars of Byker Grove -the cool kids. PJ was much cooler than Duncan, who was a bit soft. Duncan was the baby-faced nice one and PJ the fit, naughty one. Played by Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelley, the characters eventually grew up and out of […]

Those little mice and hamsters that lived in windmills and houses. I remember the little green plastic beds that had so many details, down to the mini-mattresses. You could collect all sorts of stuff for them, I even picked up some tiny minature tins of food to stock them up. Somehow, the mini animals were […]

Shag bands came in the form of jelly bracelets or nylon strips in varying colours. They were the must-have accessory of any 90′s child. They were cheap, they formed a currency in the playground and you could fit around 50 on one arm if you tried. Everyone wore them at school. Those daring enough would […]

O-Zone shot to #2 in the UK charts with Dragostea Din Tei in 2004. The cheesiest song and pop video ever. Sheer brilliance. I especially like the white jeans and tie dye top involved in this little ensemble. The tie dye took me back a few years. Does anyone know what inspired the braces? As […]

Donatello, Michaelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo -the heroes in a half shell. Their mentor Splinter is a mutated rat and Shredder and Brains their enemies. Owing to the controversy surrounding whether these cretins were Heroes or Ninjas I have left the title ambiguous for now. Now all together: Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles […]

Everyone was jealous of those hallow’d few who had a Soda Stream maker. Make you own lemonade! Amazing. My next door neighbour had one with a pump action. They’ve come quite some way since then. Inordinately expensive when compared with the price of just buying a bottle of lemonade from the shop, but infinitely more […]

In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else […]

They haven’t been seen in the wild for years, but this depleted species of chocolate bar is determined not to go the same way as the Opal Fruit and Wispa. Have you seen a Ruffle lately? If so, report the raspberry fondant and coconut rarity here. (Jameson’s still sell them).

I’m quite embarassed to admit that have actually seen Power Rangers: The Movie. I’ll put this down to the young age of my cousins at the time. Back in the day I too used to watch Power Rangers, but this was the original power rangers. I thought it was pretty cool when the green Power […]

In 2001, England beat Germany 5-1 at football in a real fairytale of a game. This match was another in the classic series of big games between the two European footballing giants. England had been second-best for over a decade in most encounters between these two teams, so when we had to go to Germany […]