Lucky Bags were an important part of the kidscape back in the Sixties. Like a penny mix, Lucky bags were what pocket-money was made for.
I can remember that they were usually plain paper, maybe light blue and always A4 or a similar size. For the life of me though, I can't recall what was in them!
Anyone got any idea?
Usually a piece of cheap plastic tat, pop gun, toy plane, snake etc, some hard inedible sweets like cachous only nasty and a lollypop or card of some kind.
ReplyDeleteSo you're not a fan? and whats a Cachous? Do you think they were less popular than I think they were?
ReplyDeleteOh yes, loved them. They wouldnt work today as kids dont appreciate the simple things. The closest analogue we have today would be mcdonalds happy meals with a little plastic toy. A cachou is one of those hard, pastel coloured sweets, usually heart shaped that look inviting but are usually impossible to crush, tasteless and generally nasty!
ReplyDeleteThey were great. There was a mix of small hard sweets (cachous), perhaps a toffee in paper, slightly past its sell by date and a plastic toy. The same sort of toys as might be found in the better Xmas crackers.
ReplyDeleteThink they were 3d or 6d. Later more expensive ones were produced at the end of the 1960s, with larger toys.
Glad you liked them too Andy and Bill. I remember the sweets being delicious. Peanuts coated in sugar or am I dreaming? This word cachou has got me stumped as both of you have used it. It passed me by. So are Love Hearts cachous?
ReplyDeleteThey were revived in about '95, 96...they had a small comic, a plastic ruler set in transparent 'gem' colours or a yo-yo or something, a sheet of stickers or a pack of collector cards or similar and a bagged toy, Panosh figures of aliens, wrestlers, Ninjas etc...small plastic flats of sailing ships, the larger Guardsmen from Christmas Crackers etc. The company that made them also made cheap snacks...cheese puffs, cardboard crisps etc...
ReplyDeleteI Can't remember the name of the company, but they operated out of franchises and I helped clear up after a fire at one in Mychette...we were shovelling the damp, blackened melted rubber guys into a skip all day...but ended-up with a van load of snacks!
Both 99p Stores and Poundland have experimented with them in the last year or so.
You can add 'Sobres' to the list, that's the Spanish version!