Wow…you cannot imagine how this takes me back in time..especially the Zlatorog and pasteurized milk. I almost get jugo-nostalgic ;o)

     by Peter Zrinski on October 25, 2006 at 6:27 am

It’s still possible to get Ježek in our stores AFAIK. And those PVC milk bags were great. Every houshold had at least one plastic milkholder. I remeber we always cut both upper edges of the bag, so that the milk would run more smoothly.

     by Sunshine on October 25, 2006 at 9:07 am

I remember when Ledo company from Croatia launched an icecream called Å arenko, which had layer upon layer of different tastes…. It was hip for about two weeks but then we went back to our trusty Ježek and Zlatorog

     by pengovsky on October 25, 2006 at 9:08 am

for “tastes” read “flavours”, obviously…:blush:

     by pengovsky on October 25, 2006 at 9:09 am

Radenska. The omnipresent mineral water. Somehow, if you’ve drunk one kind of mineral water most of your life, all others need getting used to.

     by alcessa on October 25, 2006 at 9:46 am

@Sunshine: “Every houshold had at least one plastic milkholder”

Actually you had to have one, otherwise your milk was all over the fridge. The bags broke easily. Bad invention.

     by Matej on October 25, 2006 at 10:26 am

Oh, and the best about diary products was the commercial “Rad imam mleko” (I like milk). Especially the girl taking her T-shirt off, showing breasts for a short time. I wonder where is she now (and commercial too) …

     by Matej on October 25, 2006 at 10:32 am

Well, the legendary ad has been located, whereas the woman with yummy boosoms is still on my MIA list.

     by pengovsky on October 25, 2006 at 10:58 am

@pengovsky: “Well, the legendary ad has been located ”

Thanks
And she is putting T-shirt on not off. It’s been a long time since the I saw this ad.

     by Matej on October 25, 2006 at 11:21 am

those were the days.. no rush.. no hurry.. uff..

     by had on October 25, 2006 at 11:37 am

Well, I’m going above and beyond the call of duty on this one. Unfortunately I still haven’t learnt the name of this lovely lady, but apparently that was the highpoint of her carreer. I’m told by reliable sources that her beauty faded only a couple of years later and while she is still with us today, she apparently has as much sex-appeal as a road accident. Too bad!

     by pengovsky on October 25, 2006 at 12:24 pm

Hey, does anyone remember that verrrry sexy (at least the ladies thought so!) ad for Radenska or some other mineral water? A young man working in a steel factory or something like that, splashing himself with the water?

     by chana on October 25, 2006 at 12:59 pm

I think the commercial set in the steelworks was for Radin and the model was Jurij Schollmayer. He then went on to set up the Big Bang music stores and perform some tax evasion tricks. Oh, and Chana, some guys thought he was hot too, you know.

     by borut on October 25, 2006 at 2:09 pm

@chana & borut: correct on both counts. And the song was performed by Sasa Einsidler: “Kako te cutim, ko sem sama s seboj” (and was later stolen by Michael Jackson, who sang “The way you make me feel” ;))

     by pengovsky on October 25, 2006 at 2:53 pm

Pengovski, the song actually goes “kako GA Ä?utim, ko sem sama s seboj”. Fortuantely for us, MJ has never recorded something like “the way that dinky thing makes me feel when I’m alone with myself”. And it seems it’s not even the song we’re looking for. I gather from my e-research that it was performed by Panda and used in a commercial for Fructal fruit juice. The way I remember it, the music in the Radin ad was more energetic.

     by borut on October 25, 2006 at 3:15 pm

Ah, of course… “Kako GA cutim…” obviously. I’m positive that it was for one of those products that Radenska lauched in late 80’s. If it wasn’t Radin it was the other one (there were tits in that particular commercial as well, so I remembered it well ;)).

As far as performers are concerned, we’re both right. Saska Einsidler WAS the leading vocal for Panda.

     by pengovsky on October 25, 2006 at 3:20 pm

Džizus, you lads really don’t mind a commercial for milk showing tits “most of the time”, do you, while I’m losing my appetite for milk rapidly…

     by alcessa on October 25, 2006 at 3:27 pm

Well, we learn to associate tits with milk very early in our lives, so it’s kind of logical. Actually, milk ads are among the very few where tits do make sense and are not thrown in just because.

     by borut on October 25, 2006 at 3:38 pm

I still vividly remember the taste of all of these products. Have been a vegan for almost four years now, but the thought of the jogurt and sirni namaz make my mouth water.

     by Tina. on October 25, 2006 at 3:45 pm

And that bread! It is rarely that I can find good bread here.

     by Tina. on October 25, 2006 at 3:45 pm

Well, I’d prefer my milk without associations to boobs, thank you.

     by alcessa on October 25, 2006 at 3:45 pm

Well, you must remember that women as a target group were not recognised until early nineties - at least in Slovenia. So boobs and milk went well together And they still do, but nowadays everything is so damn politically correct.

     by pengovsky on October 25, 2006 at 4:03 pm

Oh, sweet Jesus, I think I’m gonna cry from nostalgia.

     by luka on October 25, 2006 at 4:25 pm

Oh, dear! Let me get you some Paloma napkins!

     by pengovsky on October 25, 2006 at 4:29 pm

The Zlatorog ice-cream was really awesome, but a bit expensive. It was a real treat. The waffle part used to get very soggy if you didn’t eat your ice-cream fast enough and the ice-cream would drip out at the end. Later versions had a chocolate plug at the end because of this and that was a real ttreat. There was also a chocolate spike randomly insterted somewhere in the ice cream and when me and my cousin shared on of these, we would always fight over who got the chocolate spike. Fight long enough fo the ice-cream to start melting and dripping out at the end, then the parents had to intervene….

     by crni on October 25, 2006 at 4:30 pm

The tetrahedral shape of milk and yogurt containers was deemed some sort of industrial design quantum leap and registered under a trade-mark Tetra-Pak. There were weird plastic containers where these tetrahedrons were efficiently packed together, wasting no space. Of course, a regular old cube does the job just as well, but the tetra-pak was soooo much cooler.

     by crni on October 25, 2006 at 4:34 pm

Zdenka cheese is a good old thing, too.

     by alcessa on October 25, 2006 at 4:49 pm

I lost a tooth while trying to open one of these tetrahedral yoghurts we got for snack in school (that was in early 1990s).

     by Igor on October 25, 2006 at 5:48 pm

What we definitely didn’t have was milk from imaginary cows, did we?

     by alcessa on October 25, 2006 at 6:56 pm

Hardly anything to add here…

I remember my mom always buying me the Zlatorog ice cream when we would go to the ZOO. In my mind, it’s still connected to that hut selling drinks and snacks next to the pond with pelicans.

And, as others mentioned, every other time when you were buying milk you noticed that the plastic bag leaked and had to run from the cashier back to the fridge to get another one. It was even more entertaining if you noticed the leak in the car or at home.

     by DamirK on October 25, 2006 at 8:27 pm

Am I to understand that you can no longer get the Zlatorog ice cream bar? Skoda! But there’s a solution - just get to the States and ask anyone for a drumstick (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drumstick_(ice_cream)). You can also write to the nice folks at Nestlé (www.nestle-icecream.com/Pages/drumstick.asp) - although I do not appreciate their alterations of the original. Damn Schweizers.

     by Patrick on October 25, 2006 at 10:18 pm

Oh, and the steel factory macho was spilling Miral over himself, not Radin. Radin had a female character in its ad.

     by DamirK on October 25, 2006 at 11:01 pm

Hmmm, now I figured out why the description “milk ad with nice boobs” didn’t sound familiar. Because I had -5 years then. I wasn’t even born at that time. :)

     by Sunshine on October 25, 2006 at 11:01 pm

Alpinsko Mleko is familiar to me from my time in Sarajevo. I far prefer the cube pack, those tetrahedal packs are a nuisance! So are the bags!

     by Katja on October 25, 2006 at 11:28 pm

Cokolino, Medolino, ukusno i fino. I loved Cokolino and Cokolesnik

hehe

     by Dado on November 1, 2006 at 1:57 am

I tako se zahvaljujuci govnomilu raspalo i ono sto ostade od Juge. Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, those who helped destroy the greatest country in the world, the SFR of Yugoslavia, please die!

     by CrnaGora on November 2, 2006 at 4:13 am

Does anybody else gets an eerie feeling while looking at those ill-shaped dairy product containers?

Remind me of some Lovecraft tales (the ‘obscene angles’ of the Dogs of Tindalos, IIRC).

     by Carlitos on November 2, 2006 at 9:08 pm