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

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