Yet more design for the kitchen, this time courtesy of the late Andy Warhol, with this Campbell’s Soup Can apron and oven glove.
What you see is what you get, an apron with front pocket to keep you clean in the kitchen and an oven glove/mit for picking up your hot dishes. But unlike all the others on the market, these have an iconic pop art design that’s sure to impress the neighbours.
Both are available from Heals, with the apron retailing for £16 and the oven glove for £11.
Here at Retro To Go, we’re partial to a sweet or two – even better if they’re the ones we remember as children. And that’s exactly what A Quarter Of supply.
The company specialises in just about every sweet or chocolate bar you loved as a child. And in the rare event of not being able to get them, they’ll get someone to make a replica version. From Space Dust to Texan bars and Anglo Bubbly bubblegum, it’s all here – and more.
And if you can’t decide what to get, you can pick up this Wooden Box Of Nostalgia, which, as the name suggests, packs a cross section of schoolyard favourites into a rather smart wooden casket. Enough to keep you grazing for weeks. The large wooden box retails for £32,.47, but you can order just about anything online in even the smallest quantities from the website.
Remember the Squeezy Tomato? It was a plastic ketchup dispenser, beloved of old cafes and recently revived by Heinz. Well, if you’re looking for something to match up on your dining (or should that be diner) table, you could try these Diner Dirt Busters.
They might look like vintage squeezy novelties, but these are the complete opposite – they clear up your mess. Yes, both the burger and the muffin are mini vacuum cleaners, ideal if you have a spillage at the table (a dry one ideally).
They’re small enough not to get in the way and powered by just 2x AA batteries. If you want one, they retail for £9.99 each.
I always associate the Peanuts cartoon with Christmas rather than summer, but when the sun comes out, you’ll be glad you had this Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine to hand.
For Sno-Cone read Slush, Slushy or Slush Puppy – they’re all more or less the same idea. This little machine makes you something in that area, offering you a metal ice shaver, syrup bottle, package of unsweetened drink mix, paper cups, shovel scoop and instructions on how all that works together.
it should produce a cold icy drink when you need one. And when you don’t, it’s a quirky Snoopy toy that’s sure to get people talking.
Available at Fred Flare, it retails for $22 (around £11).
Personally, if feel I need a vitamin, I tend to go out and buy some. It’s not something that flashy packaging can convince me to do. But I could be in a minority – and packing them into Marvel Comics containers might well be tempting in new buyers.
To be fair, they’re aimed at children and cover everything from multivitamins and Omega 3 tablets through to fruit bars. There’s a good range of characters too, including all of Marvel’s big guns. I just wonder how many Marvel collectors have been tempted into buying a load of these?
Prices vary per product, with the multivitamins retailing for £2.89 per jar.
For once, I’m not recommending you buy an item from eBay – I’m recommending you buy it elsewhere.
I’ve just spotted this space age Pac-A-Pic picnic box on eBay – and it’s an item we own ourselves, having bought one in the past few weeks. It’s a really smart stacking picnic set in a great retro orange colour, British made and dating back to the 1970s. Each layer contains plastic boxes, a plastic glass and cutlery – the idea being that you can stack extra layers depending on the size of your family, with the whole unit held together by expandable cords.
Now here’s the good part. We’ve seen "as new" stock of these in Sue Ryder charity shops for £4 and £5, depending on the size of box you choose. The price of the one on eBay is £29 – with none of that money going to charity. I think you know where to go.
More on the Pic-A-Pac at the eBay website
