Didi you have a pop man?

[elgard]

Reminiscing with the wife about childhood we got on to treats we use to have and i mentioned the pop man that would come round on a Friday evening, She also had a pop man.
Basically a guy selling pop just like a milk man.
There are only about 15 miles difference to where i grew up and my wife,I'm not saying this was the same guy but was wondering if this was a national treat.

The popman was the one thing we used to look forward to all week,
Ah the simplicity of childhood.

[Ariel Badger]

We not only had a pop man from a firm called Alpine we had a beer man curtsey of Davenports Brewery.beer
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[Kwaks]

Alpine, and corona.

Cream Soda and ice cream
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[Redoko]

What the fcuk?

This was obviously before my time but I guess pedophiles have a bigger leash back then.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

R Whites when I lived in London, then Corona after moving to Northampton. Weird green Cream Soda from the Northampton van, not nice clear stuff.
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[IanAl]

We had the corona pop man, 10p back on the bottles and fizzy cherry and fizzy lime every Christmas and it was delivered in a plastic crate, Gosh that took me right back
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[oldpink]

Alpine where I stay in Scotland
I kept the bottles as they were brilliant for home brew
Oh Ice cream and Cream soda Nom Nom Nom
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[dodgydog]

Corona bloke, also remember going to the offy and getting a jug of ale for my dad.


Dog

PS

his favourite saying.

here's 2/6d go to the offy, take your time and run both ways.
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[Skudd]

We were too posh to have the Popman, but my Grandad from the council estate did. I remember green cream soda. There was also the Vidman who brought videos to the house in a van.

There was also a mobile shop that went around my Grandad's estate too.


I do remember ASDA having a large cage with bog roll in that you pulled from the bottom to get your pack. If you were lucky you would pull the pack out that would make all the other packs fall to the bottom of the cage.

Oh and when you went shopping your mother went down the "Special" aisle for the lady things while you and yor Dad carried on shopping.
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[Raffles]

Back in the 1980's I used to walk out with a girl from Barnsley in South Yorkshire. The local pop company were Bearsall Brothers and they had a local delivery service. My prospective father-in-law's favourite joke at the time was that the local pop man had AIDS. He had lemonades, orangeades, limeades, pineappleades..........
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[LordShaftesbu...]

Aye, there was a man came round to my gran's to drop off Barr's lemon n lime and dandelion n Burdock.

[Suntan Sid]

My mate had a cat called Didi, if that helps!
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[Ichy]

We also had a chip coach. Basically a coach that was converted into a chip shop. It used to turn up on Saturday just after Batman had finished on TV. 100 kids all running to be first in the queue*, Happy days.






A queue is when people used to have manners and wait their turn. Not like the ignorant bastards that exist today
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[IanAl]

We had a man in a van with videos too. God I'd forgotten all about these things
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[oldpink]

I used to be a video man
not exactly legal as 90% of the movies were bootleg copies
used to make a fortune with the Scandinavian variety in the local pub's
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[Shaft]

In my day, vitually everything came to your door.

As well as a drinks wagon, the milkman came in his electric float, bringing not just milk (gold top, silver top and the dreaded sterillised) but also orange juice and sometimes cheese, depending on the dairy.

We had a fruit and veg truck, the coalman came once a week and carried half hundredweight sacks up many flights of stairs, two on each shoulder and there were ice cream sellers, not just in vans with jingle bells, but also on trikes (foot powered) with a refrigerated box on the front.

Then there was the rag and bone man (still with a horse and cart, not a tipper back Transit, like now) a bloke who cycled around with knife sharpening gear, the insurance man (we called ours the onion man, on account of his beret that made him look like a French onion seller) the chap from the LEB, in his smart black uniform, complete with peaked cap, who came to empty your meter and also the rent man.

If you bought stuff on tick, they would often collect from your door as well, which let everyone know you had stuff on the drip and was to be avoided, it's only recently that buying stuff you couldn't afford became acceptable.

Basically, the customer was King and good service was everything, so they came to you, no trouble at all.
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[panrider_uk]

My uncle worked the local pop factory - Bromley's

The factory was right next to his house - handy for when we visited

Mark
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[sebastianw]

Yes, Corona man who also delivered Hooper Struve lemonade.

Used to take the empties up to the Blue Bowl in Priddy and get them filled with cider for sixpence at the back door. Is that for your dad? yes sir......... and then drink it on the way home

[Blau Zedong]

Used to have him come to by grandparents from time to time. Various colours of carbonated sugar'd water were on offer, Dandelion & Burdock, Orangeade etc. Just like Sodastream / Kenwood Cascade they all tasted pretty much the same. The bottles were probably more exciting than the contents.
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[chris-red]

Pfft you may have had strange men deliver everything to your door but grew up with I internet porn and Play Stations.
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[WannaBeDude]

We still have veg men, blokes selling ' spastic' food from their allotments, in the pub, i prefer the golden virginia man. man.
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