Aitkens Bakery when at School for a bag of broken biscuits for 10p, you thought you had died and gone to heaven if you got a bag we the toffee shortcake cut off in it. Dinner was a small bradie and a half pint of milk.
Paddy's ice cream van, or the IRA bomber, depending on the news, for cones, ice cream sodas or 10p mix ups. I don't think I ever bought a proper bar of chocolate from him, that wasn't for the kids. My brother, who was working, used to buy a large tub and a flake, fecking show off, and crumbled the flake up and mixed it in the ice cream, this was long before McDonalds sold the same thing.
Byers and Billie Woods for Beanos, Dandies, Beezers, Chelsea Whoppers, Golden Cups, Sports Mixtures, Cola Kubes, Midget Gems, SPlicers, Whams, chocolate cups, chocolate fitbas, flumps, coo candy or any other shoite which had too much sugar and artificial flavourings in them but were staple part of my diet for years. Billie Wood owned the shop beside the Blue Coral Chipper on Balnagask Road and was a god fearing man. he used to cover all his stock up in thick clear plastic, so you could see it, but couldn't steal it.
The best times were when the meters were emptied and my Ma would give me a 50p, which was a fortune back then, unparalleled riches
