    {"id":31843,"date":"2022-11-22T05:39:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T10:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.whatjobs.com\/?p=31843"},"modified":"2022-11-22T05:39:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T10:39:06","slug":"one-pound-notes-fuse-bars-and-phones-with-keyboards-iconic-british-products-people-want-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/one-pound-notes-fuse-bars-and-phones-with-keyboards-iconic-british-products-people-want-back\/","title":{"rendered":"One pound notes, Fuse Bars and phones with keyboards: Iconic British products people want back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We have all heard the saying that all good things come to an end, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But nothing can take their place if you&#8217;re referring to a product you used to love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can&#8217;t do much to bring any of them back, but we can reminisce the memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/news\/weird-amazon-products-from-a-whole-alligator-to-27-pounds-of-mac-and-cheese\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">READ MORE: WEIRD AMAZON PRODUCTS FROM A WHOLE ALLIGATOR TO 27 POUNDS OF MAC AND CHEESE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cadbury&#8217;s Fuse Bar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Cadbury is a British multinational confectionery company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the second-largest confectionery brand in the world after Mars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2006, it decided to discontinue its iconic Fuse Bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Living up to its name, the chocolate bar is 70 percent chocolate with a mix of nuts, crisp cereal raisins, and fudge pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Customers loved it so much so that once it was even promoted to the Miniature Heroes selection box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cadbury teased us in 2015 on Halloween when it brought the Fuse Bar back as a limited edition over the holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The one-pound note<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1988 the one-pound note was withdrawn and replaced by the one-pound coin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It must still be missed by many of the older generations as it was convenient, light, and easy to find in your purse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People would much rather have 50 one-pound notes than coins, and you were far less likely to lose it in the sofa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another pro for the one-pound note was that it was considerably more difficult to make fake versions of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you know around 20 percent of \u00a31 coins in circulation today are frauds? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can buy one-pound notes from Amazon, where they are classed as a collector&#8217;s item.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason it was discontinued it was due to its short life-span.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Money-back bottles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As a kid in the 1970s, when you bought a glass of pop and finished it, you could take it back to the shop and get a partial cash refund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was made so the chance of people throwing away the bottles as litter was a lot less &#8211; an early example of recycling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It would always encourage people to pick up any bottles they found from parks, hedges, and gardens to supplement their pocket money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the 1980s, this was stopped as the prices of cheap, disposable plastic bottles increased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the seas and rivers filling up with plastic, it would be an excellent time to bring it back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Need Career Advice? <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/info\/category\/career-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Get employment skills advice at all levels of your career.\"><strong>G<\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/info\/category\/career-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Get employment skills advice at all levels of your career.\">et employment skills advice at all levels of your career<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Phones with keyboards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember the BlackBerry phase in the early 2010s, when everyone thought it was the most fantastic phone around?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the BlackBerry&#8217;s blinking red lights and cool games are well in the past, people who find it challenging to use a touchscreen miss those clickable keyboards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2016 BlackBerry discontinued all their mobile phones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while Chinese manufacturer TCL has taken up the brand, its devices should be more sophisticated so it&#8217;s unlikely to be making an appearance in phone shops any time soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Follow us on<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCq7Ngf1IK1GJMZUmg6WXVfg\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>&nbsp;YouTube<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhatJobsNews\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>&nbsp;Twitter<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/whatjobsnews\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>&nbsp;LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a><strong>, and<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/whatjobscom\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>&nbsp;Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can&#8217;t do much to bring any of them back, but we can reminisce the memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7,414],"tags":[2491,338],"class_list":["post-31843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-stories","category-what-news-topical","category-uk-business-news","tag-cadbury","tag-products"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}