Before the Eu....

[Brian Marwood]

As a child packing all your spending money (usually garnered from grandparents) into one of those plastic capsules you wore round your neck attached to a string. We called them "tam tam's" although to this day I have no idea why.

Ha yes, I had a Barcelona one. They were waterproof so you could wear them in the sea.

 

[Corcaigh_the_Cat]

Our quality and range of food and drink has improved, no doubt about that.

 

[theredrooster]

As a child packing all your spending money (usually garnered from grandparents) into one of those plastic capsules you wore round your neck attached to a string. We called them "tam tam's" although to this day I have no idea why.

Yes, remember those. A perfect "look I've got cash on me" call sign. Ideal for attracting the local tea leaf to just yank it off your neck, nearly choking you in the process!

 

[Norman_Conquest]

Our quality and range of food and drink has improved, no doubt about that.

What was wrong with having sausage egg and chips on a Monday, egg, chips and sausage on a Tuesday and chips eggs and sausage on a Wednesday.

 

[buffaloboro]

Our quality and range of food and drink has improved, no doubt about that.

Not really sure what the EU has to do with that? Just general globalisation but you're 100% correct
Blue nun anyone?

 

[Norman_Conquest]

Not really sure what the EU has to do with that? Just general globalisation but you're 100% correct
Blue nun anyone?

It is all about borders being open and trying new food.

I always remember my mum asking what meals I'd had in Spain. When I told her I'd had a Chinese one night she went into one saying 'you had a mucky barsteward meal of them dirty gits in a dirty country like Spain.'

My mum never really travelled much.

 

[Ironops]

I remember having one of the old paper 2 year passports and not being allowed in to Czechoslovakia as it was then called

 

[Ingleby_Flash]

People coming back from Spain with leather jackets and ‘cheap’ Spanish gold jewellery.