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The last time I saw a packet of OMO was in March when I was in South Africa - OMO is still going strong all over Africa, as are some other now defunct brands .
This museum looks fascinating, and I will certainly be visiting it. Thanks for the info DG.

herschelian | Homepage | 01.10.06 - 10:18 a.m. | #

Have put this museum on my to see list. Thank you.

michael | 01.10.06 - 10:51 a.m. | #

Ditto. Must see. Thanks DG - what a gem.

Jag | Homepage | 01.10.06 - 11:27 a.m. | #

Sounds great, must take a visit, thanks...

Frankie Roberto | Homepage | 01.10.06 - 11:36 a.m. | #

Blancmange! You're dead right - haven't seen it in years, but it used to be compulsory (in the shape of a rabbit) at childhood birthday parties. Chocolate blancmange rabbit on lime jelly for grass. Oh, we knew how to live! Is it not available any more?

Thanks for drawing our attention to this place setting up in London. I've been aware of this man and his collection for several years via the odd TV appearance, but it'll be on my list of things to do in London now. Cheers.

Chig | Homepage | 01.10.06 - 2:49 p.m. | #

Amazing find - well done.
I'm wondering if Robert is related to Geoff Opie who has V&A connections?

drD | Homepage | 01.10.06 - 3:37 p.m. | #

PS - You can still get Brasso - good for removing scratches from ipods.

drD | 01.10.06 - 4:51 p.m. | #

drD, you're right about Brasso still being around. I doubt that it will ever go out of business as it has a solid, never-changing base of customers -- the US military. They use it to make all those brass belt buckles and uniform doo-dads nice and shiny.

officeworld.com link

David Crawford | 01.10.06 - 5:07 p.m. | #

Well I went there this afternoon. What a curious and interesting little place it is. Took an hour and half to get round - and since we were the only visitors there for the whole time the curator kept on joining us and asking for feedback and explaining things etc. Well worth the 15 quid family ticket - very educational/informative and a lot of fun too. He asked me where I had found out about it - and I told him about Diamond Geezer website, and he looked it up to verify it on his Internet terminal!

Jag | Homepage | 01.10.06 - 6:38 p.m. | #

Had some lovely chocolate blancmange round at my mums today. It is still available, but difficult to find.

Good old fashioned blancmange with its thick creamy texture should not be confused with the vastly inferior jelly like "table cream" that some supermarkets offer.

Sadly blancmange seems to have fallen into that black hole of products that shops have stopped stocking because "nobody buys it anymore". And why don't people don't buy it? - "because shops don't stock it anymore..."

Dave | 01.10.06 - 8:54 p.m. | #

Omo is still going strong in France as far as I know.

stroppycow | Homepage | 01.10.06 - 9:18 p.m. | #

Another London museum gem....the Theatre Museum in Covent Garden due to close in Jan 2007 due to lack of funding.
Not everyone's cup of tea but if you dont mind underground cavernous replicas of Drury Lane paraphenalia you are there

City Slicker | Homepage | 01.10.06 - 10:30 p.m. | #

The Theatre Museum was a previous I-SPY recommendation, back in July.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.10.06 - 10:34 p.m. | #

Blancmange is still available in supermarkets - I bought some just a few weeks ago in Tesco!

There's an interesting museum in Craven Arms, Shropshire called Land of Lost Content that's a collection of all sorts of things that most people would have recognised during the 40s and upwards until about the 70s. Even my daughter enjoyed it and she isn't easily impressed.

Sharon J | Homepage | 01.10.06 - 10:55 p.m. | #

It was on my list of places to see before we left London but I never got round to seeing it. It sounds very interesting.
There is a similar tiny museum of brands in Eastbourne. Can't think of the name of it at the moment. something like "the old curiousity shop"

Jon Allen | Homepage | 02.10.06 - 2:48 a.m. | #

I don't know about Hooch. I don't think I ever knew about Hooch. But I have a tin of treacle in my cupboard right now: Lyle's Black Treacle, with the dead lion on the front, and the legend, "Out of The Strong Came Forth Sweetness"...

pilgrim | Homepage | 02.10.06 - 3:10 a.m. | #

Maybe most people just make blancmange? My mum does, just cocoa powder, cornflower, sugar and milk and a bit of heat. Or add bits of stale cake as croutons.

Her kitchen cupboards probably could be a similar museum ... we finally got her to chuck out a bottle of rosehip syrup that was predecimal and might have been pre-war.

Debster | 02.10.06 - 10:48 a.m. | #

Omo still lives here in Australia (omomatic is here too - for those new fangled front loading washing machines) in powder and liquid forms.

http://www.omo.com/

Damengineer | 03.10.06 - 7:45 a.m. | #

And why cant you buy Surf (or is it Tide?) washing powder any more?

Debster | 03.10.06 - 12:56 p.m. | #

Omo soap powder is still for sale in shops in Turkey.I was there last month.
The museum looks fun and I shall pay a vist asap.

John | Homepage | 08.10.06 - 11:36 a.m. | #











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