Friday 18 November 2011

IT'S THE JIF LEMON TREE!

Well Peter Ustinov may have written a play called "Halfway Up A Tree", but halfway up this tree was a strange fruit that I mentioned on Retro back in April - plastic Jif lemons!
We weren't hallucinating after all - here is the evidence from 1974.
Photo by DC Thomson.

4 comments:

  1. Proof at last, nobody would beleive me when I told them about it.

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  2. I'd need to see that in colour, :)
    I remember them well tho,
    Some folk said they were real,
    not too sure Lemons would survive the cold blast of the Silvery Tay tho !!!!

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  3. I remember it well, my boyfriend at the time (now my husband) is from Cyprus, where real lemons grow, he thought it was hilarious!!

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  4. I remember too. :)
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203566442149969&l=9200155d3e

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