Things that were taken before their time

abouttobebanned · 28-12-2009 4:23pm #1

Sometimes companies do strange things...they make me wonder whether I'm the only one that was purchasing their products, I mean, I must have been because why else would they unceremoniously take the things off the shelves.

Let me give you some examples.

There's a company that makes stir fry sauces, I think their called Dragon something...you know the ones...different sachets in different colours. They used to make a honey and corainder one which was perfect for my duck dishes...people used to think I made the sauce, which of course I didn't argue with. I should have been suspicious then, they obviously weren't buying it themselves cause they would have known it wasn't my concoction...they weren't....nobody was buying it, except for me. And it became no more.

Lynx...that company that make deodorant sprays that don't work very well...Back in 1993, I started hanging around with girls and there was one thing they loved about me more than anything else...how I smelt. Lynx made a sex spray called Tempest back in the day. The very mention of the name Lynx tempest would have the other 13 year old girls quavering in their little pink ribboned knickers. One girl even asked me to spray some on some tissue and give it to her to get through the day...I was then told it wasn't the same...wasn't the same without being mixed with my one body smell. I had my whole life ahead of me, and it smelt great. And then Lynx, the bastids, took it from me. They took this magic potion off the shelves.

I'll only touch on this one for a second cause it's mentioned elsewhere on this forum...but God knows what cadburys were up to when they sat down at their annual pre-christmas roses meeting. God must also only know why they got rid of the bournvilles...or changed the cute shape of the dairy milk...it's like a mini bar!!!! But then...they introduced some cool new additions...the wine one with the crispy bits...the orange one with the crispy bits....lovely!!! Then they got rid of them! A few years ago the got rid of the strawberry one...the creme de la creme...and apparently public demand brought it back...(The strawberry one divides households like the civil war did...but i love em...In fact I take place in an exchange program with another household...we swap the tins with the dregs left in them...the barrels are the dregs in my house...the strawberries are the dregs in theres) To sum up, stop fcuking with it cadburies....if it's not broke, just leave it to hell alone. And cadburies, while we're at it...bring back Vice Versas...thanks.

That's it for now, I've got a lot more but I'm aware that many people on this forum are not fans of reading beyond the first paragraph...

bluto63 · 28-12-2009 4:26pm

Does it have to be only products? Because if not:

Jeff Buckley

steveone · 28-12-2009 4:27pm

lynx africa was taken as well.

ottostreet · 28-12-2009 4:28pm

Jade Goody!

no really...Ayrton Senna.

and Maxibon icecreams.

brummytom · 28-12-2009 4:29pm

The versions of the Dairy Milk bars Cadbury did, Dairy Milk Biscuit, Dairy Milk Bubble, Dairy Milk Crispie etc. they were lovely.

And where have Scampi Fries gone?

abouttobebanned · 28-12-2009 4:29pm

Yes, just things please. People get far too much attention these days.

28-12-2009 4:29pm

Dunnes Stores Coconut Crumble Creams.

To this day I still search the shelves in hope that it was just some sick joke

28-12-2009 4:30pm

brummytom wrote: »

And where have Scampi Fries gone?

They're in the shop down from me! Yummy.

brummytom · 28-12-2009 4:31pm

Deleted User wrote: »

They're in the shop down from me! Yummy.

I could kill you I'm that jealous.

Jesus Wept · 28-12-2009 4:31pm

brummytom wrote: »

And where have Scampi Fries gone?

I see them in the pub.

Lexus1976 · 28-12-2009 4:32pm

Dan Bars and my youth

NothingMan · 28-12-2009 4:32pm

steveone wrote: »

lynx africa was taken as well.

I wish it was. I just got a giftset of that putrid crap.

The Coffee sweets from the roses/milktray. They were my favorite and I always got extra cos noone liked em.

brummytom · 28-12-2009 4:33pm

They used to be in every pub and newsagent I went to up until 2 or 3 years ago. Now nowhere does them near me (and believe me, I've looked).. I've looked in pubs all over the country

bluto63 · 28-12-2009 4:33pm

brummytom wrote: »

I could kill you I'm that jealous.

I see them everywhere in England. Getting bacon fries is harder than getting scampi fries

28-12-2009 4:33pm

abouttobebanned wrote: »

And cadburies, while we're at it...bring back Vice Versas...thanks.

They weren't cadbury's

Creamy Goodness · 28-12-2009 4:34pm

steveone wrote: »

lynx africa was taken as well.

all lynx products should be taken away as well.

seriously anyone over the age of 15 using lynx should be taken away as well.

canada dry.
super cans.
peanut lion bars.

citizen_p · 28-12-2009 4:35pm

steveone wrote: »

lynx africa was taken as well.

are you sure....i got like 3 sets of it off aunties etc.. at christmas
shower gel and spray

well the company didnt take them away but. reeses peices etc... the peanut butter things...
i used too get loads of them but now none of the shops stock them

phasers · 28-12-2009 4:36pm

Peanut Lion bars :mad:

Wompa1 · 28-12-2009 4:36pm

brummytom wrote: »

The versions of the Dairy Milk bars Cadbury did, Dairy Milk Biscuit, Dairy Milk Bubble, Dairy Milk Crispie etc. they were lovely.

And where have Scampi Fries gone?

Second on Dairy Milk Biscuit...also the sex which was Cadburys Top Deck!!...I'd kill anyone on this for one square

abouttobebanned · 28-12-2009 4:36pm

Deleted User wrote: »

They weren't cadbury's

you know too much about chocolate.

brummytom · 28-12-2009 4:37pm

bluto63 wrote: »

I see them everywhere in England. Getting bacon fries is harder than getting scampi fries

WHERE?!!! :eek:

Darksaga87 · 28-12-2009 4:37pm

There use to be a lovley lemon curry sauce in dunnes a while back, think it was uncle bens.
But it was sooo nice!!! I still have a look for it, but alas, its never there.
Ive tried differant sauces, but its never the same.

bluto63 · 28-12-2009 4:38pm

brummytom wrote: »

WHERE?!!! :eek:

Fancy a trip to London?

brummytom · 28-12-2009 4:39pm

bluto63 wrote: »

Fancy a trip to London?

For scampis, anything

daca88 · 28-12-2009 4:40pm

Dairy Milk Top Deck!!! i miss that bar:(

MiciG91 · 28-12-2009 4:41pm

Brian Casey murdered in ennis st stephens night rip bud

Wompa1 · 28-12-2009 4:43pm

daca88 wrote: »

Dairy Milk Top Deck!!! i miss that bar:(

Online petition?...They still sell them in Australia....it worked for Wispa..

Parsley · 28-12-2009 4:44pm

ottostreet wrote: »

and Maxibon icecreams.

You can still get these in some tescos, packs of 3...

Creamy Goodness · 28-12-2009 4:44pm

HB Chunky Chocs.

they were ****ing awesome.

Mayoegian · 28-12-2009 4:45pm

The Bourneville sweet in Roses-what possessed them, I just don't know.

brummytom · 28-12-2009 4:47pm

And the 'Dream' (white chocolate) and 'Time Out' in Cadbury Heroes... they're not worth buying anymore

phasers · 28-12-2009 4:48pm

I wish they'd sell Lucky Charms in Ireland again (I mean properly, not some prick importing them and selling them for a tenner a box)

NothingMan · 28-12-2009 4:52pm

Does anyone remember Secret bars? They were a thin wispy chocolate full of cream. Kind of like a walnut whip in a bar without the nut.

They were in a gold wrapper with a piece of cardboard stopping it from breaking.

gizmo · 28-12-2009 4:52pm

Hmm...

Top Deck
Snow Flake
HB Cool Bits
Flipz (Chocolate flavored pretzel things that you can only get from the US now)

Bloody huge +1 for the Coconut Crumble Cream things from Duness. They were utterly epic!

phasers · 28-12-2009 4:54pm

Oooh, and chocolate covered pretzels as well, they were savage!

daca88 · 28-12-2009 4:56pm

Wompa1 wrote: »

Online petition?...They still sell them in Australia....it worked for Wispa..

yes it did work for wispa....bring back the top deck!

28-12-2009 4:57pm

phasers wrote: »

Oooh, and chocolate covered pretzels as well, they were savage!

You can get them in Dundrum cinema. Not sure of the brand though! Definitely not flipz. They're more chocolatey.

Oh, Sky Ice Creams. They had like a whole Aero in the middle of the ice cream.

seanybiker · 28-12-2009 4:57pm

Vanilla Coke. that was lovely.

rannerap · 28-12-2009 4:58pm

the snow flake was a complete ride,as was the gingerbread iceberger,come back my love!

bluto63 · 28-12-2009 4:58pm

gizmo wrote: »

Hmm...

Top Deck
Snow Flake
HB Cool Bits
Flipz (Chocolate flavored pretzel things that you can only get from the US now)

Bloody huge +1 for the Coconut Crumble Cream things from Duness. They were utterly epic!

I forgot about them! They were so good!

BroomBurner · 28-12-2009 5:02pm

Definitely agree with the Nestle Secret bars, delicious.

Neurofen have recently stopped making meltlets

I now either have to swallow stupid whole tablets, or use the children's lower-content version.

Pushtrak · 28-12-2009 5:03pm

First there was lucky charms, which were great. They stopped being sold here, some time passes and there is Hot Krumbly (cereal again if that wasn't obvious). I only recently found someone else who had even heard of them, many years went between them being gone and me finding anyone even familiar with them.

abouttobebanned · 28-12-2009 5:03pm

Ok, I agree about the top decks.

Let's do something about it.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/topdeck/

bonerm · 28-12-2009 5:04pm

Peperami. I don't think I'd want to buy one if they were still on sale in this country, but I would like the choice.

beauty101 · 28-12-2009 5:05pm

Tesco's Malted Milk biscuits...they were amazing
vanilla coke yuuuummm
the flintstones biscuits....were around when i was about 5
crispy orange + coffee cadburys roses

Bring them back!!

sillyputty · 28-12-2009 5:08pm

Arrested Development

28-12-2009 5:09pm

beauty101 wrote: »

Tesco's Malted Milk biscuits...they were amazing

They still exist

Daemos · 28-12-2009 5:10pm

Eleventh Hour was a spectacular show, cancelled was before its time

Plowman · 28-12-2009 5:11pm

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smcgiff · 28-12-2009 5:12pm

Fizzle Sticks (Instant High)
Maltesers (original formula)
Texan bar (Remember the chocolate used to break off when you bit into it)
Wibbly Wobbly Wonder (original - that jelly stuff they have on top now is rancid)

Oh, and just so ye don't think I'm obsessed with sweeties...

Concorde

ctrl-alt-delete · 28-12-2009 5:12pm

Lexus1976 wrote: »

Dan Bars and my youth

Dan Bars are still about,

i had one a few weeks ago for the memories, not as much of the black toppings and not as long as they used to be,

but still delicous - but as always not recommended if you have any dodgy teeth or filings, unless you want them out!

Bring back Smiley bars!!!

Things that were taken before their time

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