Daft crazes remembered.....

[Mosaic]

Chicken in a basket - what the blazes was that all about?
Does anywhere still serve 'inna basket' meals?

[Zeuhl]

Not as bad as Soup In A Basket.

What ever happened to Gonks?

[sandyRoe]

Hula hoops. In the late 50s early 60s, I think.
That chicken in the basket wasn't as bad as the soup in a basket they used to serve locally.

[Mosaic]

Sandy, do you mean hula hoops as big hoops or the tinned sort ie easy-to-spear spaghetti?
I'm guessing you mean the big hoops....

[Zeuhl]

Could be a useful weapon in the current battle against child obesity

[Mosaic]

Crochet bikinis.
Do not get this bikini wet. It sags.

[sandyRoe]

They were cane hoops. Both the soup in th basket and the hula hoops would help in the fight against child obesity, I agree.

[Mosaic]

How did they get the soup to stay in the basket?

[DrFilth]

monte franks (think they were called ) hot dogs inside a bread roll

[sandyRoe]

That's why it never really took off. The idea was full of holes.

[Khandro]

Whatever happened to string vests?

[Mosaic]

Oh Franfurters.....The hot dog stalls outside Lewis's on Market Street in Manchester.....delicous smell, but dysentry in a bun.....

[Mosaic]

Gonks, string vests.....and Party Susans...the wheel-shaped plastic container in which to put little appetisers like cheese and pineapple on cocktial sticks, and twiglets.

[DrFilth]

monte franks were like these

http://journeytoberli...eback-of-the-ketwurst

[Zeuhl]

Chicken in the Basket was great.

Back in the 70s I worked behind the bar of a Working Men's Club in Merseyside and if food orders were slow one of us would be given a Chicken in the Basket and walk all around the large Concert Lounge as though we we trying to find the customer who ordered it and enough to waft the aroma all around the room.

Within 5 minutes there were 20 people in a queue at the Food Bar.

[sandyRoe]

Fondeau sets. If thats the right spelling

[Mosaic]

Dr Filth-- there was a guy sold these in a snackbar on New Hall Lane, Preston, in the 80's. i never realised it had a repeatable name - we called it the steel w**ly.

[Mosaic]

Sandy- like this?
http://www.ebay.co.uk...3D3775928236569936514
We were given one - it had long forks with little plastic 'jewels' on the handles.

[Mosaic]

Oh yes Leyandtiger.....Those framed prints for the chimney breast:
http://www.vladimirtretchikoff.com/

[sandyRoe]

I think I might have the match of that in the attic somewhere.