Food that we have lost down the years (including sweets)

The Bowling Alley

What sweets or food items, that we can no longer get (OR are not as popular as years ago) can you remember?

Touch downs and smileys stand out for me in the sweets catagory. I remember eating a lot more frozen things when I was younger than we do now...like those cripsy pancakes!

The King of Moo

Smiley bars!

Like an orange-flavoured chomp, delicious!!

Mycroft H

Those crispy pancake things that would burn you if you bit into them too soon. Tasty though.

The Princess Bride

Peggy's legs.

Insect Overlord

InB4 Opal Fruits and Marathon bars.

tomwaterford

Cigarette sweets....can't think the name of them..

Can't imagine they'll ever come back either

tomwaterford

Also the mini cans of coke/fanta ya could get before

Specialun

The chocolate cigs. Vessell or something like that

traprunner

Old man's baccy

Ursus Horribilis

Secret Bars

RollieFingers

Apple Jacks

The Backwards Man

Yellow Man

Digs

Angel delight, wopa bars and sparkles ice pops.

VincePP

Mint Toffo.

fatknacker

Dan & Gargoyle bars

The_Valeyard

Bubble king chewing gum

Mugatuu

Fat Frog ice pops!

Chocolate girl

Fizzle sticks

agent graves

Wham bar

traprunner

Those 2p jelly sweets that looked like and tasted like a bottle of beer.

Sir Osis of Liver.

White dog sh1t.

e.r

Desperate Dan bars

failinis

tomwaterford wrote: »

Cigarette sweets....can't think the name of them..

Can't imagine they'll ever come back either

You mean the white sticks (that tasted like bloody chalk but I ate it anyway) ones?
I seen them for sale today in my local tesco with Tom and Jerry and Star Wars on them.

Ronald Wilson Reagan

Golly bars were racialicious.

tomwaterford

failinis wrote: »

You mean the white sticks (that tasted like bloody chalk but I ate it anyway) ones?
I seen them for sale today in my local tesco with Tom and Jerry and Star Wars on them.

Ya...there can be still Gotten....might take a trip to tesco tomorrow

Ruu

Hi-Sours.

That cancer causing bacon Pot Noodle.

failinis

tomwaterford wrote: »

Ya...there can be still Gotten....might take a trip to tesco tomorrow

Funny this thread came up, as I have walked past them twice now in tesco and was meaning to buy them, now I have an excuse to disappoint myself :pac:

Junkyard Tom

That explosive powdered stuff we used to put on our tongues, and then we'd run around the place like demented dogs, off our heads on the e-number colourings/flavour-enhancers that were by-products of nuclear power stations.

doolox

....Vesta dried ready meals.

Canned steak and Kidney Pies.

Penny biscuits.

I remember when Dib Dabs were 2d each seen them lately on sale for 55c.

nkav86

Bikers/banshee bones!

maudgonner

Bazooka Joe chewing gum. It had a comic strip wrapped around it and you could collect them and send off for rewards. I think my brother got a camera?

Apparently you can still get the gum, but they don't include the comic strip any more - which was the whole reason you bought it. Silly company!



Oh, and I've mentioned it about twenty times on boards already, but Sam Spudz Smokey Bacon were the best crisps ever! EVER!!

Neon_Lights

Touchdown bars

Parachutes

Not so much food that's lost but food that has fallen from its former glory.

The Loop da Loop comes to mind. You'd open it and it'd be so luminous it would look like it had been through a nuclear reactor. Pale imitation of its former self. Bring back the artificial colours and flavourings ffs!

sunbeam

Prairie Bars from back in the 70s. They were like mini versions of Fry's Chocolate Cream, with only three segments, came in various flavours and had pictures of the wild west wagon trails on the wrappers.

Olishi4

tomwaterford wrote: »

Also the mini cans of coke/fanta ya could get before

You cant get them anymore?

My boss used to always get them and he'd down it one and say "it's just the right amount"

Stealthfins

Jr ice pops and little devil ice pops.

Chickarooney

Secret bars and Sky ice creams.

RIP.

Praise be to the confectionary gods.

Silverfish

United bars

heldel00

Cavan cola

I would give anything for a taste of this heavenly elixir again! It was delicious.

fryup

cornbeef sandwiches

Infini

Big als chicken tenders. They seem to have just dissapeared and those were nice too!

Booms

Urney's chocolate bars.

Esp. Two and Two

the evasion_kid

Crunchos....a mighty bag for 12p

VincePP

Catch bars - still available (not everywhere) - still the best bar ever.

Used to be always in top 5 selling bars.

Also used to be made in tallaght, but now made in Trinidad!!

nails1

Frisps crisps. Ripples as well

Ninjini

Postman Pat sweets.

desbrook

Pacers (spearmint chewy sweets) - can still remember the taste !

Miss Demeanour

Blackjacks.
Kalipso bars.
A team 5p crisps.
Appledrops.
Guess who worked in a shop?

maudgonner

VincePP wrote: »

Catch bars - still available (not everywhere) - still the best bar ever.

Used to be always in top 5 selling bars.

Also used to be made in tallaght, but now made in Trinidad!!

"Catch 'em if you can, on the outside is chocolate, but underneath the chocolate are crispies". I remember the jingle better than I remember the bars.

Same is true for 54321 bars - I can still sing the jingle. I may have watched too much TV as a kid

VincePP

maudgonner wrote: »

"Catch 'em if you can, on the outside is chocolate, but underneath the chocolate are crispies". I remember the jingle better than I remember the bars.

Same is true for 54321 bars - I can still sing the jingle. I may have watched too much TV as a kid

You need to get out more!

Owryan

Club shandy and klipso bars