Whatever happened to people saying By The cringe and while I'm on the subject why don't you get free soldiers or cowboys in your cornflakes anymore .
Re freebies in the cornflake packets. I got a strip of plastic not dissimilar to a cable tie, there were serrations all along the length which when you ran your thumbnail along then you could clearly hear Churchill saying "some turkey some neck" Other quotes were available but that was the one I got. This was about 1971-73. Anyone else remember these by jingo.
---Oh put a sock in it Yeah I agree - By the cringe was just a catch phrase in the Likely lads - at least I hadn't heard it before that.
shredded wheat used to have stories on the packet but it always seemed to be the same one ,I seem to remember a bloke getting caught by the coppers in a railway yard and he was saying 'its a fair cop guv "
We used to tip a whole packet of Rice Crispies out into bowls, just to get the plastic thing. Nobody fancied eating them after our grubby mitts had been in them...