those sadly defunct uk food products

like remember when they changed milky ways in the mid 90s and then they got rid of marble bars damn

don't remember marble bars i miss wasabi pringles tho

bros were like damn wasabi pringles when they went idk tho i didnt have them but then i dont rly like crisps etc

oh i'm much more about the savories than the sweet stuff

Holland and Barrett did these chilli coated pumpkin and sunflower seeds that were amazing and they stopped them about a month after i'd discovered them

Coconut Boost - before they put speed into the nut ones.

damn that shit was dope

mustard flavor crisps in a kind of papery bag with a butcher on the front that I haven't seen for many years RIP

They still sell that mustard / butcher / paper combo - I'm SURE. Think I bought some the other week.

rip marathon, snickers is still a fucking stupid name

i will never not call opal fruits opal fruits

dude opal fruits have been starburst since like the crusades or some shit

think we could have a long discush just on this issue alone

fuck a starburst chew they will always be opal fruits in my heart

also i miss pink panther bars

Can you still get Trio's?

I think so.

They still sell that mustard / butcher / paper combo - I'm SURE. Think I bought some the other week.

― kraudive, Tuesday, July 19, 2011 10:25 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

what are they called? I'm going mustard crisp hunting tomorrow if this is true

Pacers - basically mint flavoured Opal Fruits

used to know a guy who was allergic to opal fruits, they'd make him go all hyperactive and mental, we'd encourage him to eat several packs to give him superpowers heh heh

Lady at work brings those things in sometimes - Penguins and stuff. Sure I've seen a Trio or two.

Not sure about the Blue Riband though.

Surprised you can still get Wham bars

Pacers - basically mint flavoured Opal Fruits

― Servants of the SBankh (snoball), Tuesday, July 19, 2011 10:31 PM

were those the ones with pale and bright green stripes?

does anyone remember those short-lived Cadbury Byte bars?

Blue Ribands still exist!

xp yes

yeah DG, I had a friend who'd go completely hyperactive whenever he ate tomato flavoured crisps.

also Cadbury's - purple snack bars seem to be all-but-extinct from the market here

walkers snaps voiced by Harry H. Corbett disguised as a dragon

i will never not call opal fruits opal fruits

I persist in calling them Chimpy Chompies which iirc was one of the amusing names suggested in the "we're renaming them!" advert.

Miss the most: *proper* original thick and syrupy Lucozade, as opposed to the watery gruel that replaced it about a decade ago. The real stuff was fucking dope and essential 24hr garage purchase when I was pulling all-nighters at lol university.

the indian and continental shop round the corner from us sells Saudi-produced Vimto cordial and it's in the proper old-fashioned glass bottle and is as thick and syrupy as it was when i was a kid.

costs a small fortune tho

xp also:

They still sell that mustard / butcher / paper combo - I'm SURE. Think I bought some the other week.

That's Brannigans "Roast Beef & Mustard" flavour. Monstrously good.

Yeah, NV, yr right that Vimto has been watered down too. Likely some EU law concerning max sugar content per ml or whatevs? Ruined a couple of great brands though.

Oh my, I could destroy a pack of roast beef and mustard flavour crisps. Yum.

Irn Bru bars, Secret bars, Vice Versas, Thornton's jelly fish: all needing to be brought back urgently.

Does anyone remember when More Nuts bars used to be called Snickers?

Balti and Vimto and Spangles were always crap.

caramac

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IYuRhWwfpxA/TFlaPXAc8EI/AAAAAAAAADE/PQ4AB51MkV0/s400/secret.jpg

can we include munchies, also, because once upon a time they were priced in a way that made them 'available' in a way they are not now

they're about 60p non?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3394676286237442332#

truly it was a different age

yes it is absurd. that ten p separation wreaks of superiority.

They dont call em Snickers bars in the UK anymore? I'm quite sure they do here still. I say "quite sure" cos I don't eat sweets so I'm embarrased to admit I have no idea.

Was joking. They're still called Snickers, but the packaging now says "More Nuts" because apparently there's more nuts.

http://www.forgetthebox.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/snickersMoreNuts.jpeg

think I've seen Brannigan's mustard crisps fairly recently, I think they still exist but were bought by McCoy's and are now in a less papery bag with a smaller butcher

then again I didn't really like them (they captured the things I like least about mustard) so I dunno

have def eaten an Irn Bru bar this year. shd poss not be proud of this, am supposed to be an adult.

The concept of an Irn Bru BAR is blowing my mind.

Hm. The internet says you can't buy them any more but you can buy "brew"-flavoured Wham bars. The packaging doesn't look familiar so maybe I just found a box of Irn Bru bars which had been on a newsagent shelf for a very long time.

Anyway I dunno if you have Wham bars in Aus but the Bru ones were similar chewy tooth-destroying things.

Sometimes I still get cravings for spearmint Mojos (chew things in a variety of flavours, similar to Fruit Salads I guess) despite probably not having had one since about 1987.

http://www.jakehowlett.com/tuckshop/wrappers/chocolate/filled/maverick-kingsize.jpg

Hooper's Hooch

http://www.britishdelights.com/images/CAD26.JPG

Nah we dont have wham bars here but I've seen them in UK import sweets stores and in perth supermarkets (Perth is chockers with brit ex-pats, so their outer suburban shops are loaded with UK supplies)

James I am truly sorry for the SB but you slagged off Vimto and the purple mist descended

Better SB Mark E Smith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW9PUHNbX2Y

Yeah Maverick and Fuse were essentially the same bar. Both dead :(

I preferred the chocolate in the Fuse.
Also, Chocolate Oranges before Terry's was bought up by Cadbury's and then Cadbury's was bought up by Kraft and they put a fuckton of vegetable oil in it.

irn bru bar jesus christ the memories

No wonder my dentist stopped writing

can you still get those little bars of chocolate orange? they were good.

i was about to SB Mark E. Smith btw but then remembered it was James' log-in at the last second.

Fuse bars were great. Maverick bars will live on in that League Of Gentlemen sketch. Vimto is an anagram.

I think i privileged Maverick over Fuse due to its League of Gentlemen appearance

don't get me wrong fizzy Vimto is sehr meh but cordial is the best cordial in the world. well, maybe behind Rose's lime

rose's lime and ginger ale is damn near a substitute for actual drinking

for real

anyone remember 54321 bars they were good

i miss Red Strip Crucial Brew i dunno if it even exists any more.

and beer is a food product so

no i don't remember 54321

there was a song on the ad it went 54321, 54321. 555555444444333332222221

Jogging anything?

it was the manfreds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezLzflX6r5Q&feature=related

oh i do remember them. fuck anything you've got to crunch and chew imo

54321 bars along with Blue Riband bars in the "only bought by your Nan" category, but 54321 = a good tea at Nan's and Blue Riband a bad one.

crunching + chewing = awes, cadbury's double decker ftw, fuiud

rong to the nth.

Did they become 'catch' bars in a red wrapper? Maybe.

nah, mars bars good, kit kat okay, double decker too much like hard work

xxp to nv, ledge otm obv

TOFFEE CRISP VS LION

king of contests

Why, i had a Double Decker just yesterday. They are a bit hard to handle tbh

i want to miss Ringos and these corn puffy skeletons and fangs snacks i used to love in the 70s but neither of them was all that tbh

pissed off that our M&S have discontinued their pork and pickle pies tho

used to be some awesome ice lolly in the 70s with a red jelly filling, think it was the og Happy Faces, miss them

full disclosure: was in the pub the other night ripping on the Scottish propensity for turning all known foods into a pie, and i said "don't get me wrong, i like a pie", and my friend Stu looked at me and said "no fucking shit"

nah, mars bars good, kit kat okay, double decker too much like hard work

― Wavey Grave-Shit (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:08 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

This is just silly.

multiple xposts: Wham Irn Bru bars are good but they just aren't the same, they have that same tooth-rottingly sweetness I love but you don't ever get the little bits that haven't been mixed properly and are just sour bursts of sugar, i.e the best bits. I easily get through a family bag of Wham Mini's every week still.

Double Deckers - am I the only person who eats each "deck" seperately?

Snacks named after transport media vs Snacks named after cosmic ephemera - FITE!

Kit-Kat Chunky is one of the few reinventions of a classic bar that really works i think. Also i would like to try all those mental Japanese Kit-Kat flavours they have one day

Snacks named after transport media

Double Decker
Wagon Wheel
Taxi
err?

Skoda Kola

Panda Pops

Mini Kievs

So wait, I'm still bugged over these irn bru bars. are they like, chewy fruity bars?

Ambulance Bars

Speaking of panda pops, I have a Bill Bryson book where he does a walking tour of england and at one point he walks ages and is desperately thirsty an all he can find is a stall on the beach selling Panda cola. Which he drinks, and then goes on for ages about how dreadful and sugary it was.

It made me wonder what the heck the stuff was.

I once had a breakaway that was all chocolate, no biscuit in it at all. I was a hero at school that day.

panda pops, along with rola cola = cheap cheap fizzy drinks - the runt of the soft drinks litter

Panda Piss wd be too good for Bryson

Hearse Chews

i've had a legendary all chocolate kit kat, but a breakaway wd be something else

If you are looking for retro sweets, they can be found here, but most of you probably know the site. http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/

Someone once bought me some car sweets. Disgusting.

A whole jar of aniseed balls for 30 quid, that would be about a year's worth or longer.

I have spent my whole life looking for a sweet or cake or confectionary product that I dislike, and I have yet to find one. This thread, being mostly sweet-based, is literally making me salivate.

I hate aniseed - it makes my mouth feel like the tastebuds are misaligned.

I'm a weirdo, I dislike a ton of sweets. I think it was due to having braces on my teeth as a teen - I wasn't allowed to eat sugar, so I just lost the taste for it completely (and I used to inhale Lifesavers).

Cant stand licorice/aniseed/fennel tastes bleeeugh.

Trio is no more...discontinued about 7 years ago.

Just saw lots of Blue Ribbon in Sainsbury's.

Some good ones here...

http://www.cadbury.co.uk/ourproducts/yesterday/Pages/Yesterday.aspx

We used to plump for the more vile sweets knowing that they would not be people asking to share them all day. So Victory Vs and those really acidy lemon things were popualr as well as cough candy.

popular sorry,

54321

Don't get me started. In the early 80s lady came to my front door doing market research for this. She asked me what I thought of it and I said it was revolting and reminded me of toothpaste.

I was appalled by the tune in the advert too - couldn't believe it was an actual real pop song in the sixties given the crap lyrics and wasn't written speshly for the ad. Guess I was a rockist before Pete Wylie coined the term.

Anyway, United, that was great. Remember those?

don't really enjoy mint or aniseed flavour sweets but am a bugger for aniseed flavour booze

Spira! I used to like them!

i believe many of us were delighted, to eat united

xp

5-4-3-2-1 my grandad's got a gun
he shot my nanny up the fanny
5-4-3-2-1

That's how it went, right?

Uniteds were the same size as Clubs and Trios. iirc, they were divided into three sections each of which had dimples on the top a la a golf ball.

Some time in the mid eighties they changed the recipe and design of Jaffa Cakes to an inferior one yet no-one seems to remember this.

The Jaffa cake got slightly thinner and the base changed colour and didn't taste as nice.

BISCUIT nut Steve Lund has missed his favourite Trio chocolate bar so much since it was discontinued six years ago he has built his own....THREE FOOT HIGH.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2447542/I-want-a-Trio-and-I-want-one-now.html#ixzz1Se4a5VcG

"Would you care for a bite of my Vengelerstrasse bar?"

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zJv17X2CI4c/TIZLVuDssoI/AAAAAAAAB7M/TdNNqc-gt8U/s1600/uter2gr.gif

Man I wish they had jaffa cakes here :( The only sweet biscuit I do like.

them Gold bars are pretty similar to Trios if they still do them

Threshers - that's another transport-based snack.

A couple from my long lost youth:

Milk Tray bar: Cadbury's milk tray in a bar of chocolate, genius.

Amazin' Raisin' bar: Another goodie from Cabdury's, really it's a Marathon bar with raisins instead of nut.
http://www.escape-to-the-seventies.com/images/sweetpics/amazin.jpg

Now I know why my teeth are so bad.

For Trayce

The number of TV ads that are based on the premise of a character stealing the Secret formula or recipe to something, crikey.

Ha, awesome :) Do love McVities.

Mini Kievs

i ate approximately 5,000,000,000 packages of minikievs during a five-month stint in glasgow in 1994 - it was like heaven

og Wham bars had so much more of that zingy sugary space dust on them than they do now - the faces it made people pull prompted my friend to start calling them "spazzy bars" (this was in about 1980, when people didn't give one shit about offensive language).

I still do the Blue Riband Blues song when I see Blue Ribands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HG15ij3wOY

It's the biscuit to beat the blues.

Alls I know about mini kievs is theyre mentioned on the Fast Show.

it's what they give you for hors d'ouevres in heaven

I'm all about mini any savoury thing: sausage rolls, vol au vents, franks in pastry, etc

oh phew, you can still get Findus Crispy Pancakes.

I hated crispy pancakes. One of the main reasons I left home tbh.

even the chicken curry ones?

i wonder if Vesta still do their horrible "ethnic meals in a box" things. so long i waited to grow up so i could buy and eat a Vesta Chow Mein. boy was that a disappointment.

God, i used to love Crispy Pancakes. They're obviously pretty disgusting objectively but they're also somehow strangely compelling

I have never had a crispy pancake but have always wanted one. When i was back home recently I was shopping with my mum and I picked a pack out of the freezer. She looked at me and said, "you're not buying that junk are you?" and I put it sadly back.
I am 35 and want to eat a findus Crispy Pancake!

And decorate my room in the boxes like that kid in the advert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFXQZVGpJN8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFXQZVGpJN8

sorry for double post, not sure how that happened

even the chicken curry ones?

― Mecha-Geir Solid (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 13:30 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's the texture and flavour of the outer shell that kills me before I've even thought about the filling. I can't even remember there being curry ones. I think my mum bought minced beef and some other kind that involved stinking cheap cheese. She'd often overcook them so the joined up bit opposite the fold was brick hard.

When my then girlfriend and I first went food shopping the week we moved in together I told her in no uncertain terms that I would never eat another crispy pancake in my life and that if she bought and cooked them she'd be eating alone. That was in 1993 and I haven't eaten a single one since.

By amazing coincidence - on Saturday she dug some out of the freezer as we'd been away for a fortnight and had nothing in and she attempted to give it to my son. He refused point-blank to even have it on his plate, calmly informing her that crispy pancakes are "minging". A proud moment for his old dad.

lol i like stinking cheap cheese

(this was in about 1980, when people didn't give one shit about offensive language).

― a million anons (onimo), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 13:18 (50 minutes ago) Bookmark

hence the 5-4-3-2-1 jingle

I forgot to mention the mouth burning from the fillings being 1000 degrees hotter than the pastry. Findus were putting kids in casualty long before McDonald's apple pies.

Somebody mentioned ice lollies with jelly in them, they were Jelly Terrors iirc. Part of a small range of would be horror lollies (I want to say Lyon's Maid?) that also featured Haunted House, which was a plain milk lolly that had a ghost which appeared as you liked one of the sides.

wibbly wobbly wonders can you still get them the lemon bit was awesome

more horror-based snack food imo

tbh, there are lots of products where I have no idea if they still exist or not, Topics and Jelly Tots being among them.

Both still available I think. As are Tutti Fruities and the even harder to find Tutti Minties.

Fiendish Feet

What has a mouse's head in every bite?
TOPIC!

Tooty, not Tutti.

or is it tutti?

I'm going to have to google this important detail

http://www.chocolatebuttons.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/f0cc0cea74181e4da67f899f66d827ec/r/o/rowntrees-tooty-frooties_1.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_Flavoured_Moments

It was announced on the 12th January 2010 that Smiths would no longer manufacture them due to lack of popularity.

thank fuck, they were vile

urgh, I remember an Oasis docu where the brothers Gallagher reminisced about how their mother would bring home 54321's and other assorted McVitie's biscuits from the factory. Then they sang the 54321 ad jingle. Another reason to hate them.

According to a recent response from a representative at Pepsico's UK Customer Service department (dated August 27, 2010) "I am pleased to advise I am not aware of any plans to discontinue producing Cheese Flavoured Moments", it would appear that the parent company of Walkers and indeed Smiths has no current plans to axe this product.

shit stop playing with me

i like that this thread is co-existing with the 'americanisms' one

6p!
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1368/1265764438_d40401ba29.jpg

I think the first packet of crisps I remember buying was 6p. The teacher took orders with registration in the morning and crisps were distributed at playtime. You could still pay with a tanner. This was before Maggie Thatcher stole the milk.

this were all fields etc

I am 35 and want to eat a findus Crispy Pancake!

I am 37 and my mother fed us Crispy Pancakes on an almost continuous basis in the mid 80's. I could never work out where the 'crispy' bit was supposed to come in, as they always seemed soggy to me.

Texan was a nougat/toffee bar covered with chocolate, manufactured during the 1970s and 1980s. It was withdrawn from sale in the 1980s but was briefly re-launched as a limited edition by Nestlé in 2005 during a wave of sweet-related nostalgia.

The advertisements for the Texan showed a cartoon cowboy, who was captured and tied to a stake. When asked if he had a last request he was given a Texan bar which took him a long time to eat, meanwhile the bandits fell asleep ensuring his escape. The cowboy's catchphrase was "A Man's gotta chew what a Man's gotta chew", also "Sure is a mighty chew!"

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/images/retrosweets/texanbars.jpg

This was before Maggie Thatcher stole the milk.

At the time I was actually glad she did that. Shit was served unrefrigerated and tasted of plastic.

Had some Crispy Pancakes the other day, in a sickening nostalgia-driven act of masochism. The beef ones were sort of OK but christ almighty the cheese ones were foul.

The cowboy's catchphrase was "A Man's gotta chew what a Man's gotta chew",

Also used for these...
http://www.treasureislandsweets.co.uk/acatalog/toffo_original.jpg

Miss drinks more than I do snacks: there was a lime Lucozade that came in green bottles which was a+ and there were a couple of Frutopia flavours I'd have back too. Tab Clear and Quattro, too.

Shit was served unrefrigerated and tasted of plastic

I loved Texan bars. I bought a box of them during that 2005 revival from http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/

The Texan catchphrase was "Go get 'em Floyd!" iirc

i wonder if Vesta still do their horrible "ethnic meals in a box" things.

Still available at some Asda's and Tesco's. I used to really like the Chow Mein as a kid. Especially the crispy noodles. I found it hard to believe that you got so much shit in the box. Almost literally though, unfortunately.

No wait that was the line in the ad before "sure is a mighty chew" - "a man's gotta chew" was definitely Toffos. Then there were Chewits, which were "even chewier than a 15 storey block of flats" :)

xping myself

Bird's Eye still do frozen curries, but IMHO nothing can beat the 70's dayglow orange boil-in-the-bag monstrosities that would stain the plate. Although the '£1 for a terribly artificial microwave curry' supermarket own brands come close today.

Cowboy survives Indians by taking his time with a Texan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je1rOO_QUvk

54321 was first thing that came to mind. hedgehog crisps. has the orange nice n spicy pot noodle gone? salt n shake made a comeback iirc, altho i don't you can get the flavoured varieties, which is best for all concerned. the knock-offs were pretty evil, little bags of coloured msg.

cheese moments were good

xp Absolutely no homosexual subtext there, no sir.

Used to really like the Chewits advert with the monster who ate buildings.

Does anyone remember when the quality of crisps were more or less gauged by how loud they were?

HEDGEHOG CRISPS

"It's eating everything in it's path!"

has the orange nice n spicy pot noodle gone?

I think so, loads of pot noodle flavours have gone - it's all doner kebab flavour and "Bombay Bad Boy" now. I'm not sorry to see the back of the cheese and tomato one - I drunkenly ate then threw up one of those once and it looked and smelt the exact same coming back up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mcuRmVhi6I

('Mexican' flavour was the best)

I grew up in the rural Scottish borders in the 70s so my first experience with curry was Vesta chicken curry which we sometimes had as a treat, or when my mum made a curry, lashings of curry powder and raisins. I was quite a bit older when I first had a proper Indian meal which was a real eye opener. Naan bread, what's that?

when i go back to i used to pick up a spicy curry and a nice n spicy but last time the nice n spicy was gone so i tried the doner one, disappointing.

back upthread, i did enjoy a united. are clubs still around? what about rocky bars? they're ace. also add my voice to the laments over the boost guarana revolution. i swear to fuckin god peanut boost was better than star bar.

xp Fuck yes, for years I thought that curry meant "minced beef with curry powder and sultanas in it".

(many xps) I missed the days of free milk at school, but I'm led to believe it was the stuff the dairies wanted to shift anyway cz it was at the end of its shelflife, easier to get rid of it for free and call it a public service than to risk angry paying customers

this may not be true and is in no way to be read as a compliment to the milk snatcher herself

Clubs are still around - I got one in a lunch bag on a stag weekend recently.

We got free milk at primary school but that would have been after the milk-snatching. How did we get away with it? Did it only affect certain parts of the country?

Orange were (are?) the best flavour. Remember when mint Clubs were called Golfs? Used to confuse the hell out of me in the supermarket.

i am glad to see that spicy tomato snaps are still a going concern
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Snaps-Spicy-Tomato-Pack-48/dp/B0010S2N42

also, tangy toms are 20p??? what the fuck!

http://www.goldenwonder.com/images/stories/products/tangytoms-lg.png

raisin clubs ftw

what were the 10p pickled onion crisps that you could supposedly fit together to make little spaceships?

Space Raiders or Transform-a-snack, they were pretty similar.

Space Raiders? Although I don't recall the 'fit them together' dynamic.

Chunky peanut butter kit-kat, miss u

space raiders and transform-a-snack both gloriously still around

Nerds candy. I think they're made again now, but they were discontinued in the late 80's when some psycho put broken glass in them.

Cheesy Moments have gone ???

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

;_;

oh wait i just read the next bit

thank fuck for that

wonder if the McEnroe impersonator in the Smiths Tubes ad upthread was the same guy who made the record "Chalk Dust (The Umpire Strikes Back)" under the name Brat?

Does anyone remember Good 'n' Crunchy crisps? They had bran in them and had serrated edges.
The advert had a cartoon with a cartoon jungle animal ensemble a la Um Bongo or Coco Pops with a tune which went "They're so good, good 'n' crunchy" to which the animals danced. I remember asking my mother what the dance was called and she told me it was th jive, so that was my first introduction to the jive!

and Whickers? They were also a crispy snack which resembled Shreddies in appearance. They were advertised in a medieval themed advert including a court jester (who may or may not have been Michael Staniforth ie Timothy Claypole) and a tune with the lyrics "The wonderful thing about Whickers, is Whickers are wonderful things" to the tune of the Tigger song from the Disneyfied Winnie the Pooh.

Was Nerds candy like Space Dust? If so I think that the calcium oxalate crystals were found to be harmful in some way themselves, rather than that a saboteur caused their demise.

i remember Whickers, they were good, there are still the odd snack like them. Nerds were more like tiny bits of fruity chews iirc

Nerds weren't/aren't the same as Space Dust. They're crystals coated with the same type of wax used on Trebor Soft Mints.

nerds not a uk exclusive, i think; still around

dweebs, however, cancelled

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ea/Dweebs.png

transform-a-snack is what i am thinking, joy to the world, they are still around. wonder if i can get them shipped int'l from amazon. 10p crisps also made me think of burger bites.

skips still have to be around right? although hopefully not the non-prawn flavoured ones. there was a particularly gross 5 spice one i think, or something vaguely east asian.

also:
http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/18860_1319644664228_1024130279_31007109_3736590_s.jpg

proustian moments itt

somebody used to do bagel bites, i think they were supposed to be pastrami and mustard flavour or something? they were the most relentlessly more-ish crisp type snack ever. still miss you guys.

One thing that was really horrible: Phileas Fogg Mignon Morceaux

A potato snack called Farmer Tom's: full of neigh, baa, woof and cock-a-doodle-doo. Were shaped like animals.

I also remember a weird corn snack that was strawberry flavoured and disgusting, but then my grandad was manager of a co-op and used to get all kinds of mental stuff for taste tests.

xp

no they were okay! for a couple, then they got a bit sickly

Prawn cocktail flavour Skips were my favourite flavour, and seemingly the only flavour ever sold at the newsagent run by the easily distracted and shoplifted-from Italian guy, next to...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6SStaVYo0w
Leslie Philips and Kenneth Williams voiceover action in the same ad. Nowadays you'd just get Ricky Gervais or someone.

aldo, it was Farmer Browns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhZgBinC0BU

Superb, Ta.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9R_QrbLDiw

these are still a thing??? i used to go out with this girl - her dad would come home from work and fall asleep immediately in front of the tv, but somehow remained completely aware of what was on tv, eg we came in and he was asleep in front of some nature program with a river on it, and i said to gf at the time "that's beautiful, wonder where it is" and her dad woke up and said "oh it's the white nile". anyhow, another time we were watching the news and he is snoring, and there is a feature about the financial crisis in asia being attributed to poor sales of microchips, and he suddenly wakes up and says "microchips? our robert eats them".

prob not enough to keep asia afloat though

microchips (i only just got this pun) are available at the londis in the business park where i am currently sitting

also, i can't believe that joke took me eighteen years

I loved Dweebs but the packet was a nightmare. I remember once thinking I had closed the lid back over and the entire contents falling out all over a crowded bus... and for a small box there was a surprisingly large amount of mess.

Are Toffos still around? I haven't seen them in a long time.

i had blue riband biscuits w/my lunch so they're still going

Blue Ribands have lost a bit of their power since they became JUST 99 CALORIES!

also, RIP Wispa Mint.

xxp Toffos were made from pretty cheap toffee IIRC, basically the cheapest boiled condensed milk type of toffee. Didn't they also come in different flavours for a short while?

There were mint ones

they were so foul

Can you still get a Fry's Chocolate Cream or did Kraft kill those off?

I LIKED FRUIT GUMS BETTER WHEN THEY WERE SMALL AND SO HARD AS TO BE DANGEROUS

so many forgotten memories on this thread, bitza pizza is next level tho.

"i'm in pieces for bitza pizza" to the tune of dave clark 5s 'bits and pieces'.

think I saw a Fry's Chocolate Cream tonight, but then it was at the corner shop which regularly sells out-of-date stuff, so maybe that was misleading.

Nah, you can still get them

definitely, tho obv peppermint/orange cream preferable when available

banana toffos maybe the single most disgusting sweet ever knowingly sold to kids

Banana, yes! Even the halfpenny sweets had a better banana flavour - actually all of them had a banana flavour after being in the jar for a while.

my dad once bought a box of banana chews from the market so they were the only sweets we had for a month and now i can never eat anything with horrible artificial banana flavour ever again

IIRC it was fine until I realised it was supposed to be banana flavour. After that it was like chewing on a pair of pants that had been used to strain mashed bananas.

CADBURY'S American owners are planning to use the iconic Brit chocolate - in a CREAM CHEESE.
KRAFT is preparing to risk the fury of the nation by combining Dairy Milk with its processed PHILADELPHIA spread.

The giant already sells "Philadelphia Milka" in Germany and Italy.

A spokesman last night wouldn't confirm the move,but refused to deny it. He said: "We are always looking at ways to give consumers what they want by sharing our success in one category to drive another."

Can you still get a Fry's Chocolate Cream

^ apart from just plain chocolate, Fry's whatever creams are basically the only vegan chocolate bar that you ever see in newsagents/garages. Will be a sad day if they ever call it quits :(

caramac

― LocalGarda, Wednesday, July 20, 2011 10:53 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

I had a banana bread beer once from some wee brewery in the Lake District and it tasted exactly like someone had dropped a banana Toffo into a proper beer. Weird how a flavour you haven't tasted for 20+ years suddenly comes back to haunt you.

I have read this entire thread with the old Smiths Crisps ad jingle in my head (the one with the wee dancing potatoes singing to the tune of "Bobby's Girl").

I'm glad, as per someone up thread, that I'm not the only menk who went to the shop to buy sweets and came back with a packet of Victory Vs.

I had a banana bread beer once from some wee brewery in the Lake District and it tasted exactly like someone had dropped a banana Toffo into a proper beer. Weird how a flavour you haven't tasted for 20+ years suddenly comes back to haunt you

Wow yes, had that exact same experience here!

Never had Victory V's but my dad used to buy these nasty little things called Potters Pastilles.

http://images.productserve.com/preview/2102/32452262.jpg

^ Good grief they still do them. Made out of catarrh, no wonder they taste so bad.

I found some microchips in a fridge a few weeks ago thinking 'I can't believe you can still get this'. Couldn't tell after four or five of them if they were always this shit OR if you couldn't get them anymore and the ones I'd found were ten years old. The latter proved to be the case but I'm pretty positive they may have improved with age.

Oh and banana bread beer I think was still sold at this horrible little hippie pub in Peterborough last time I was there. Along with Raisin beer which is equally as disgusting.

The 'microwavable junk food# market is bigger than ever.
http://www.rustlersonline.com/menu
There's a truck that delivers a shit-ton of these seemingly every day to our corner shop.

Yeah, freezers and fridges full of that shit in the Londis at the end of my street. I bought one of those microwaveable subs on a hungover trip home from a long night out one morning, and it was fucking vile.

Microwaveable pizzas are the work of the devil though, seriously.

The only acceptable use of a microwave for cooking is heating up soup or baked beans imo.

the above two posts are truth y'all. I avoid even soup and beans in the microwave. Hobs 4eva

On hobs choice

Chicago Town microwave pizzas are pretty good TBF. But microwaveable subs/burgers turn into drywall if they're not eaten within 30 seconds.

actually I do garden peas in the microwave

Microwave acceptable for making wee portions of scrambled egg without having to wash a frying pan, and for steaming veg. That is IT.

Anyway, back on topic (no pun intended). Mintolas. Like a cross between Munchies and After Eights. Could only eat about three before feeling sick though.

Microwaves are for reheating leftover curries.

And other home-cooked meals e.g. pasta glop. Not the pasta y'unnerstan, just the sauce.

oh aye, leftover curries. Doing just that on Sunday was the last time I used my microwave.

Porridge in the mornings = microwave.

i'd sooner eat one of those mini microwave pizzas than a rustlers burger. mind you, rustlers have been keeping bachelors in skinny jeans since at least the early 2000s.

The only other thing allowed near the microwave...
http://www.ocado.com/catalog/images-hires/56142011_H.jpg?identifier=adea092c5f44d3f2cc5c7f60364dec24
g00blar Loyd Grossman smells a smell...

Although I guess it doesn't count as you still have to get the pasta separately and boil it in a saucepan.

Cadbury's Top Deck silently disappeared a few years ago. It was like eating a 200g bar of Kinder Egg, and I miss it dearly.

Other fairly recent, short lived ones: Kit Kat Chunky Peanut Butter (seconded many xposts), Fajita Pot Noodles, Thai Green Curry Pringles (these lasted about 3 months).

I also loved Spira's - the stale chocolatey air inside them totally made them the best tasting chocolate.

Nik Naks changed, and were never the same. They used to be really dense and really strongly flavoured and were amazing.

Also, in addition to Irn Bru bars, you used to be able to get packs of Irn Bru Chews, where they were kinda like more rectangular, Irn Bru flavoured Chewits.

Ooh, Top Deck shandy!

Has Creamola Foam been mentioned yet?

The Top Deck Bar was magnificent yeah. I think you can still get Mintolas, they just turned into Mint Munchies

Tab Clear

Those fish and chips snack things you used to get in pubs - came in a crisp packet done up like a newspaper iirc.

Ooh, Creamola foam that was the stuff like Alka-seltzer iirc.

That reminded me of this staple of my after school drinking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdnUo1q2E90

banana toffos maybe the single most disgusting sweet ever knowingly sold to kids

OTM apart from Caramacs

or Fry's Turkish Delight

xpost YES I loved those fish'n'chips things!

got Caramac choc ices yesterday, lovely. am also v. partial to a Fry's Turkish Delight but no way could i have afforded one as a kid

fry's turkish is a prince of confectionaries imo

Toffypops have to be the worst, tho yeah those banana toffees awful awful awful

Speaking of shit you couldn't afford, remember when magnum/solero broke the 50p barrier for icecreams? Crazy stuff.

Aye it's all Ecuadorian chocolate and the like these days.

Speaking of shit you couldn't afford, remember when magnum/solero broke the 50p barrier for icecreams?

I stopped at a service station the other week and bought ice creams for my three kids - two magnums and a (whadyacallit - spiral fruity thing?) came to just shy of £6 :(

Twister!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCAaxoPrjvI&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxTs0Xw-S_Q

I used to drink this all the time and remember finding it in a shop long after it was discontinued covered in dust. I bought both bottles from the shop keeper who wasn't even aware it was on his shelf.

It's the only drink that's ever made me feel horny!

Tranceinyapantz 1 year ago

Toffypops have to be the worst

because if we extend this to Ireland, I need to mention lemon Cornettoes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gTUshlWFG0
Great stuff, tasted completely artificial and over the top when it first came out. In the late 80's it was changed to be slightly more subtle.

A Lemon Cornetto sounds NICE. Refreshing. Though yeah I can't remember ever having one.

xp See also: pear drops when they tasted entirely of chemicals, before they were changed to, you know, taste more like pears.

but then again, my tea tonight has some cheese stuffed crust. What do I know?

they were lovely, though I haven't had one in about 18 years so am almost certainly remembering them as better than they were.

Oh I see. I thought you were saying they were as worst as Toffypops. (Which I don't remember)

There used to be a Tutti Frutti Cornetto as well iirc

Always got these in the same place as those fish & chips biscuits (a shop called 'Alfie's Bargains' iirc, also sold fake Mars Bars):
http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/41567_127537490614641_7383_n.jpg

there were two types of fish and chips crisps. there were the superior biscuity ones, which were supposed to be a kind of fishy salt and vinegar i guess although i swear they did do other flavours occasionally, e.g. chicken, altho still fish shaped. the other type had these greasy, 3d latticework fish, and were unpleasant. i tried to find some photo evidence of these to back up my unsatisfactory description but failed. however, in the process i was reminded of smokey bacon piglets, so the overall effort was a success.

when cornettos first came out we sang the advert tune with revised lyrics:

Just one Cornetto
Geev eet to me
You greedy bastard
They're 50p

Toffypops were great! King of the biscuits you used to occasionally get at school. Getting a toffypop rather those pink cardboard abominations (or worse, a fig roll) was a cause for celebration.

That Cornetto lyric revision was a Little and Large sketch iirc. Except 'you must be joking' rather than greedy bastard (we used to sing that too)

In fact, I think the extortionate cost was 40p.

40p was a lot of money back when a bag of Snaps was 2 and a half p

variation from my childhood, early 1990s:

just one cornetto
give it to me
not fucking likely
they cost 60p

inflation!

Not discontinued but I never see them any more: the sandwich van which visits my work recently started having Roysters t-bone steak crisps, which I had not seen in at least a decade, but then they stopped again and now I have cravings

no other crisp is quite so... powdery

I mean I can't really think of a single positive-sounding thing to say about them but sometimes they're just what you need, y'know?

shop in our bus station suddenly brought Roysters back from nowhere. haven't looked in there for a couple of months tho

Have they stopped making paprika Pringles? I haven't seen them in a while. They were the best...

Roysters available in the Margiotta's across from my work. :)

http://991.com/gallery_180x180/Pookiesnackenburger-Just-One-Cornetto-449118-991.jpg

.. has the lyric:

just one cornetto
give it to me
you must be joking
cost 40p

.. and yet, they had to re-record it as "Just One Espresso" for Radio1 because of advertising.

Mint Cracknells? Would never get past Health + Safety these days, those were positively dangerous, it was like eating a light bulb!

"these crackers cut my mouth up somethin fierce!"

man dopeass food threads shit is on some awesome ass food shit damn

like kebabs and shit

food is like some dope shit, except for bad food

:D

disagree

I will rep for bad food u snobs

Nestle have turned After Eights into shit.

I didn't think I'd ever miss a chocolate bar the way I miss Marble.

I think they still make them in Australia?

Interesting. They are/were the perfect bar IMO.

I miss the Burton's snacks - Potato Puffs, Fish'n'Chips and Chicken'n'Chips. My dad worked for AB Foods and used to occasionally bring home boxes of them so it's pure nostalgia for me. Also Olivers bread which was a chain bakery that I don't think exists anymore. They used to have really good crusty rolls with poppy seeds on them.

really craving some roysters rn

Get yerself to poundland

It would appear from reading this thread that the most frequently mourned of defunct UK "food products" mostly involve large amounts of sugar and wrappers in bright primary colors.

Yes, obviously. Also fried salty starch

well, from here getting to poundland would take me half a day and cost a few hundred quid but yeah i might just do it anyway

Those fish and chips snack things you used to get in pubs - came in a crisp packet done up like a newspaper iirc.

― a million anons (onimo), Thursday, July 21, 2011 3:00 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They started making these again last year btw!

xxp
http://www.britishdelights.com/images/cw52.jpg

Nakh's patrician contempt for the banality of consumer nostalgia still overwhelmed by the gut brainwashing of consumer nostalgia

Not defunct, but I have to say that for what these are (Rice Krispies with melted marshmallows), they are a massive rip off (upwards of 65p each):
http://img.tesco.com/Groceries/pi/257/5000127731257/IDShot_540x540.jpg