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I am going nuts trying to remember the name of something that is from my childhood, and I also saw mentioned in a Jack the Ripper book.
When I was young (early 70s) my sister and I would buy a treat from local shops. The newsagent and two grocery stores sold them. I am pretty sure others did too.
It was a paper bag, often striped, that would contain a small assortment of "surprises".
So, sweets, stickers and/or waterslide tattoos, a cheap toy such as a bouncy ball or one of those plastic parachute men, small printed cartoons or jokes. Things like that.
They were inexpensive, and we bought them quite often. I think they were put together by the shop owner rather than being a commercial product, though I may have been too young to notice the difference,
I know we had a name for them, it was something like "bunker bag", but Google search is not finding anything for that, so I may well be wrong.
A few months ago I saw this exact term in a newspaper article, referenced in one of my Jack the Ripper books - I think it was The Sourcebook. The quote was something roughly like "He was going to buy bunker bags when he saw the lady by the public house."
I can't find the quote again, and can't search for it online because a) I can't remember the name of the blinking bags, and b) I can't remember the exact word order etc to make it searchable!
Please, does anyone remember these bags and what they may have been called? It is driving me insane!
When I was young (early 70s) my sister and I would buy a treat from local shops. The newsagent and two grocery stores sold them. I am pretty sure others did too.
It was a paper bag, often striped, that would contain a small assortment of "surprises".
So, sweets, stickers and/or waterslide tattoos, a cheap toy such as a bouncy ball or one of those plastic parachute men, small printed cartoons or jokes. Things like that.
They were inexpensive, and we bought them quite often. I think they were put together by the shop owner rather than being a commercial product, though I may have been too young to notice the difference,
I know we had a name for them, it was something like "bunker bag", but Google search is not finding anything for that, so I may well be wrong.
A few months ago I saw this exact term in a newspaper article, referenced in one of my Jack the Ripper books - I think it was The Sourcebook. The quote was something roughly like "He was going to buy bunker bags when he saw the lady by the public house."
I can't find the quote again, and can't search for it online because a) I can't remember the name of the blinking bags, and b) I can't remember the exact word order etc to make it searchable!
Please, does anyone remember these bags and what they may have been called? It is driving me insane!
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