Flashback (Take Me Bak Ome)

[caddyman]

Nostalgia just isn’t what it used to be. I know that’s an old joke, but it also has the ring of truth. I don’t think we have much choice in what triggers feelings of nostalgia once the old photographs have been put away and the old records boxed up. After that it is hard to predict what will trigger the memory.

So we take our nostalgia where we can get it.

This morning I received from beloved a text message with a reported sighting of a chalky crumble¹ on the pavement by Boots on the lane down to the tube station. By, I was taken back. I haven’t seen a chalky crumble (or more importantly had to avoid one) for well over 25 years; probably closer to 30 years, now I think on it. There were parts of the Donnington and Donnington Wood areas of Telford where they were all-pervasive during the 1970s when I was in my teens, but something changed and I had assumed that they were all but extinct.

But no: a sighting in Whetstone. It’s even odder when you consider that Whetstone is a rather more upmarket area than that part of Telford ever was or will be. Maybe there is a strange retro thing going on around here?

Told you that nostalgia isn’t what it was.

¹Oh, come on. Everyone knows what a chalky crumble is, even if only by repute.

Comments

[oldnick.livejournal.com]

Could this have something to do with changes in the composition of proprietary pet foods?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Entirely possible.

Someone is feeding their pooch from 30-year old cans...

[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

Chalky Crumble?
Sounds like a naff pudding at junior school.

That or a 1930s music-hall entertainer.

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

And what a thing to be texting my boy about first thing in the morning! But I was so excited...will have to see if it is still there on the way home.

[nattydreadi.livejournal.com]

I didn't know of them *as* chalky crumble, but as you mention it, I knew what you were talking about.

Oddly, we had the selfsame conversation in work a few days ago, about how you didn't see it any more.

I assume someone is feeding their dog tablescraps or something that doesn't cost £843 a can.

[fredlums.livejournal.com]

As an avid listen (well for 15 minutes on the way home) to the Chris Evans show on Radio 2 - a few weeks ago this very conversation was taking place and the change is indeed due to a change in the ingredients of dog food. What valuable things one learns on the way home from work (or not as the case may be)

[evil-chalkie.livejournal.com]

Oi Grandad! Who are you calling crumbly! :p

teehee