Great Food You Can't Get Anymore

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Ya know I'm very sad these days because it's impossible to get my absolutely favourite food Heinz Miracle Whip, Tuna just doesn't taste the same. Anyone have an idea where you can get this in Limerick or Dublin?

The Backwards Man

One word

Fat Frogs

fleet_admiral

Sky ice cream bars

Galwayguy35

Monster Munch crisps, can't see them in any shop these days.

dodderangler

10p bag of jellys is like a fcukin euro now and jellys aren't the same as they were.
5ives- the little packet of crisps. Burger bites, bacon wheels and loop d loop.

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The Backwards Man wrote: »

One word

Fat Frogs

Those were the days when living was good

Yamanoto

Creamy racist goodness...

HeidiHeidi

Two and two chocolate bars

deco nate

Dennys steak and kidney pie,
In a tin! Others are just not the same

Kintarō Hattori

dodderangler wrote: »

10p bag of jellys is like a fcukin euro now and jellys aren't the same as they were.
5ives- the little packet of crisps. Burger bites, bacon wheels and loop d loop.

What world are you living in chief? Loop da loops and Burger Bites are still available in Dublin.

Sheep Lover

Pussy.

Not since that face disfigurement incident I was involved in

heldel00

Roy of the rover pineapple bars
HE man bars

and another one along the lines of those with pink goo in the middle

Señor Fancy Pants

Top deck bars!

BehindTheScenes

Ya know I'm going to open up a nostalgia shop sure it would make a fortune.

ger vallely

Up until quite recently I got Miracle Whip in Dunnes (Galway). When I say recently-about 6 months. I used to love it on iceberg lettuce with bread, yummy. But no sign of it lately at all. Remember Cheese Whizz? Spreadable cheese from a jar? I loved it. Then again that was back in the very early 80's and there was not much to choose from then!

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Sheep Lover wrote: »

Pussy.

Had the same problem when my misses had a baby, lads if your misses is ever having a baby stay away from the goal end, it's just never the same after seeing a head other, than your own, coming out of it.

efb

Totem candy popcorn

Birneybau

Dodo.

Aongus Von Bismarck

It's very difficult to find good ham in Ireland. When I was home for Christmas my mother brought home this supposedly 'finest' or 'specially selected' ham from one of the supermarkets. It was luridly pink and shiny. I hesitantly put a slice of it on a slice of my Mother's delicious brown bread. The ham was horrific. Inedible. Coming from a packet I should have known it would be like that. Freshly sliced ham from the local butcher was marginally better after I went into town to buy some. Wouldn't hold a candle to the delicious hams and cured meats available here in Germany.

Birneybau

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

It's very difficult to find good ham in Ireland. When I was home for Christmas my mother brought home this supposedly 'finest' or 'specially selected' ham from one of the supermarkets. It was luridly pink and shiny. I hesitantly put a slice of it on a slice of my Mother's delicious brown bread. The ham was horrific. Inedible. Coming from a packet I should have known it would be like that. Freshly sliced ham from the local butcher was marginally better after I went into town to buy some. Wouldn't hold a candle to the delicious hams and cured meats available here in Germany.

Well, obviously.

Slicemeister

Gollywog bars. :-(

Custardpi

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Monster Munch crisps, can't see them in any shop these days.

They're still available in multipacks in some supermarkets. Unfortunately the recipe seems to have changed & they're pretty much flavourless lumps of corndust nowadays. No doubt their accountants told them that it was more profitable to produce crap than the wonderful snack of the '80s.

SEPT 23 1989

Campbell's Irish Stew

pharmaton

read my blog all about shiney ham. and cheese/

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Custardpi wrote: »

They're still available in multipacks in some supermarkets. Unfortunately the recipe seems to have changed & they're pretty much flavourless lumps of corndust nowadays. No doubt their accountants told them that it was more profitable to produce crap than the wonderful snack of the '80s.

I live between Dublin and Limerick. Shop in Dunnes in Limerick and Supervalu in Dub and the feckers never have it. Tried Centra and Spars and they're the same as well.

Agree though about food becoming more tasteless. You can't get dip dab anymore and that was jsut crazy that they could sell a bag of sugar with a lolly. Same problem with tv, gone be the days when bullets would fly, plans would come together and not a drop of blood would have been spilt.

jojofizzio

Yellow Ready Brek...bring it back pleeeeeze..

Señor Fancy Pants

pharmaton wrote: »

read my blog all about shiney ham. and cheese/

You should probably get that checked out. Could be contagious.

Mesrine65

BehindTheScenes wrote: »

I live between Dublin and Limerick. Shop in Dunnes in Limerick and Supervalu in Dub and the feckers never have it. Tried Centra and Spars and they're the same as well.

I saw multipacks of them in Lidl Rathmines this morning.

Señor Fancy Pants

Wait wait wait....


... Does anyone remember Champion Crisps? Yellow packet with red lettering? Haven't seen them in yonks.

Todd Gack

BehindTheScenes wrote: »

Ya know I'm very sad these days because it's impossible to get my absolutely favourite food Heinz Miracle Whip, Tuna just doesn't taste the same. Anyone have an idea where you can get this in Limerick or Dublin?

Fresh on Camden Street stock it or used to anyway

Zippie84

Spar spicy chicken fillet rolls with mayonnaise and lettuce.

(no longer live in Ireland, they just don't have the likes here).

Maudi

I miss horse in the meat

Custardpi

Most great foods from are still available in some form or other. The problem is often more that the recipe has been changed either to cut costs or to make it blander & thus appeal to more dullard taste buds. Wagon Wheels, one of my chldhood favourites are still around but are significantly smaller than they used to be, while those XXXX mints (or whatever they're called, insert obvious joke) that used to leave one speechless with the strength of their mintiness have become larger versions of the middle of Polo mints, no kick to them at all.

spurious

Kerry Creams, with their lurid pink filling.
Butter fingers, while I'm at it.

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Mesrine65 wrote: »

I saw multipacks of them in Lidl Rathmines this morning.

Todd Gack wrote: »

Fresh on Camden Street stock it or used to anyway

Thanks! I was on to my misses to head over in the morning for me. She's deadly she agreed to do it as well.

Oh yeah and I was asked to add Nougat bars to the list as well.

Custardpi

I wouldn't be too excited. You're in for a serious let down in the flavour department. It may actually ruin your childhood, just a friendly warning.

Anonymagician

Dan bars

Kovu

Desperate Dan bars that were lurid orange and had black chunks of sugar embedded in them.

Super Mario ice creams/Wibbly wobbly wonders that tasted of delicious additives.

That crappy mayonnaisey vegetable salad in a small tin that Mammeh always bought for summer evening teas.

Vojera

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Monster Munch crisps, can't see them in any shop these days.

They're called Mighty Munch now. Back in the day (with the Cyclops on the bag), Walkers owned the rights to the Monster Munch name in the UK and Tayto had it in Ireland. But once Walkers started to being their own (vastly inferior) Monster Munch to Ireland, Tayto had to change the name to Mighty Munch. And Mighty Munch are still pretty good.

Aldi does a version called Monster Claws. They're nowhere near the Tayto ones, but better than the Walkers ones.

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Custardpi wrote: »

I wouldn't be too excited. You're in for a serious let down in the flavour department. It may actually ruin your childhood, just a friendly warning.

I'm praying that it's not like the A-Team, was very dissapointed with the remake.

Funnily enough about food being less tasty, when I was a child we lived in the U.S., sugar isn't generally used in sweets over there, I think it's fructose (though I stand to be corrected), we moved back to Dublin when I was about 12 and man did sweets here blow my mind. The only thing to compare it to is this.

Happy days!

Custardpi

Yeah, American sweets are generally pretty crap. As are most of their fizzy drinks.

lc180

Anyone remember a chocolate bar from years ago called 'Secret'? Why the hell did they stop making them!

Custardpi

lc180 wrote: »

Anyone remember a chocolate bar from years ago called 'Secret'? Why the hell did they stop making them!

It's a secret!

Señor Fancy Pants

lc180 wrote: »

Anyone remember a chocolate bar from years ago called 'Secret'? Why the hell did they stop making them!

Yep!

Aaaaand now I'm sad

the evasion_kid

Crunchos.... I'd say the local stoners in my town were gutted when they stopped making them

PrettyBoy

McRibs

Stavro Mueller

Apparently those Secret bars cost too much to make. Shame really - they were delish.

Triboro

Honeycomb bar

Sam spudz crisps

Big time toffee bar

Saralee4

Slicemeister wrote: »

Gollywog bars. :-(

I think you can still get them, they just changed the racist name!!

Saralee4

I can rarely find 'smiley' bars anymore. I loved them. They were better than a chomp

Mam of 4

Banjo bars , anyone remember them?? Probably too long ago, showing my age here