"Foods" you don't see anymore

LNH666 · 01-10-2011 04:22AM

Woppa bars - the cola ones

jill_valentine · 01-10-2011 04:25AM

Once upon a time, when actual orange juice was a still a crazy wacky novelty you only saw on American tv shows, you'd have one of those teeny tiny Sqeez tins of concentrate that you mixed into a jug of water.

thebullkf · 01-10-2011 04:26AM

XiledSniper wrote: »

You can get em all in one shop here in Limerick

where ..... sure tis only a spin away from me...:D

ballsacky · 01-10-2011 04:29AM

LNH666 wrote: »

Woppa bars - the cola ones

I've been trying to remember the name of those for the last 10 years!The peppermint ones were rotten!

01-10-2011 04:45AM

Tinned spaghetti bolognese and the like are very hard to find now.

ballsacky · 01-10-2011 04:52AM

Crunchies prawn cocktail crisps in the pink and blue bag.haven't seen them for many a moon

GAAman · 01-10-2011 04:58AM

Yakult wrote: »

Can anyone remember these long slim "bar" like chewing gum with a monkey (maybe?) on the packaging? Not sure on the latter but someone might remember the shape alone, was brownish in color! Being trying to remember for years

I do, and there was a monkey on it. I remember there being two flavours one def cola because thats what i always got, i think the other one was a berry flavour. I have been trying to remember the name but i remember clearly that it was a paper wrapper and the bar itself was kind of a H shape.

bmcc10 · 01-10-2011 04:58AM

Peggy,s Leg as my mother would say...also BN BN duh duh duh duh BN BN..

Sharpshooter · 01-10-2011 05:03AM

It's not a food, but what happened to SunnyD?

I really liked that.:(

bmcc10 · 01-10-2011 05:07AM

Hot Lips wrote: »

It's not a food, but what happened to SunnyD?

I really liked that.:([/QU
Got banned supposedly turns your skin orange!!

retalivity · 01-10-2011 05:26AM

cans of smak for 20p.

think it was a northwest thing. i murdered many pineapple flavours about 15 years ago!
5-4-3-2-1's
chomps

Frowzy · 01-10-2011 05:46AM

Yakult wrote: »

Can anyone remember these long slim "bar" like chewing gum with a monkey (maybe?) on the packaging? Not sure on the latter but someone might remember the shape alone, was brownish in color! Being trying to remember for years

Were these the "Bubble King" bars? Cola flavoured chewing gum ..... Nice

Used to love Wham bars, but they've made a comeback recently.

Also "Moon Dust" it used to crackle on your tounge.

Jawbreakers, big round sweets you'd have to suck for hours.

There was also a sherbet dipper thing, a stick of licqourise you'd dip into sherbet.

"Double Dippers", a double sided sherbet dipper thing, like a sweet and sour thing

Us girlies also used to buy edible necklaces and bracelets. Little sweets on pieces of elastic

classy!

I also remember when Snickers was called Marathon Bar and Starburst was called Opal Fruit.... Made to make your mouth water

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jay-me · 01-10-2011 06:20AM

Frosties and those lollies with two sides a pink side and a white side IIRC they were called drumsticks!

Irish Guitarist · 01-10-2011 06:20AM

Pink Panther bars. They were pink chocolate with a picture of the Pink Panther on them.

Benny_Cake · 01-10-2011 07:52AM

Birdseye's Arctic Roll - vanilla ice cream wrapped in strawberry jam and sponge pastry.Gonna look now and see if it's still available anywhere.

Gummy Panda · 01-10-2011 08:14AM

I miss those Denny's pies. There is nothing close to the taste or texture.

phasers · 01-10-2011 08:26AM

Does anyone remember that pink and blue popcorn? I used to get it in the mid 90s but one day it just disappeared

DANJOMULL · 01-10-2011 08:34AM

Chewits - i can still taste the ice cream flavoured edition. Candy sticks/cigarattes deserve a mention too.

whiskeyman · 01-10-2011 08:38AM

phasers wrote: »

Does anyone remember that pink and blue popcorn? I used to get it in the mid 90s but one day it just disappeared

I got a bag once and ended up spewing it right back up in the car on a warm day. Oh the colours... I was never allowed a bag again!!

Hot Shots were a delicious Burger Bite style crisp that only seemed to be out around 1994 for the world cup. So much nyom.

Little Devil ice pops.

Gold Bullion toffee. As good as Toffos!

Those cheap pizzas were gank, although we ate a load of them. We'd grate more cheese and chuck a slice of ham on them.

Telex bars and Pankys - lunchbox staples in the 80s

Badly Drunk Boy · 01-10-2011 08:43AM

Back in the 80s, I used to love Dell crisps. (Before they went into the computer business). They were extremely cheap and extremely tasty. And probably extremely unhealthy.

Frowzy · 01-10-2011 08:48AM

There was no Lidl or Aldi during the 80's recession so our house used to be full of "Yellow Pack" products from Crazy Prices.

One thing I won't miss! I remember having to put salt and vinegar on the crisps!!!

Badly Drunk Boy · 01-10-2011 08:53AM

You mean you still don't?

Hayte · 01-10-2011 09:13AM

A&W Root Beer. I saw a few cans of the stuff in Fallon & Byrne a long time ago but its vanished since. I have a root beer craving too.

Abi · 01-10-2011 09:22AM

starbelgrade wrote: »

When I was growing up, I was fed some awful shite - not really my parents fault I suppose... processed food was all the rage back then and there wasn't really a whole lot of information as to how crap it actually was.

Regular meals would include...

Findus Crispy Pancakes ("meat" in some weird semi-circular enclosure that had vibrant orange bread-like crumbs on it)

Denny Steak & Kidney Pies (you'd lob the lid off the tin & bake the whole thing in the oven, in the tin - probably a pre-cursor to microwave meals)

Frozen Mini Pizzas (tastless, vile things that probably had the "cheese" spray painted on)

So what foods do you remember that you don't see anymore (or are glad to see the back of!)?

I'm pretty sure I've seen all that stuff recently, just different packaging

Wayne Victorious Gymnasium wrote: »

Campbells Meatballs
They came outta the can like dog food till thy warmed up and you got your protein. From select cuts no doubt

Poor Mother still blushes when we remind her of the sh*te she used to feed us

You can still get them, again different packaging. Mad colours and animated to attract interest from kids.

chin_grin wrote: »

Ah, I remember the mini pizzas and their cardboard bases.

Angel Delight would be one.

Any particular brand in the mini-pizzas? I'm still seeing plenty of them in the shops. And as for the Angel delight, I remember the hen used to get us this years ago, it was yum

I don't know if they're still about or not, but I think Tesco have their own cheap version of them.

stoneill wrote: »

I don't see Granby sausages or burgers anymore - they probably do exist but I don't see them. I've gone blind.

Yep they do, seen 'em in Tesco yesterday

orourkeda wrote: »

Meanies

I'm sure I've seen those about o_0

Gonna go sniffing for all this stuff today :pac:

mark17j wrote: »

and Sunny Delight orange drink, can't find it anywhere

Banned because if you drank a lot of it it turned your skin orange, I believe.

Colilfc wrote: »

Golly bars

Now these, I haven't seen. Miss them!

thebullkf wrote: »

big time bars (yellow wrapper)

I remember these, they were about 10p. Your jaws would be in bits trying to eat them.

desperate dan bars with the stones in it ...!!

yeah, why did they take the stones out of them?

jay-me wrote: »

Frosties and those lollies with two sides a pink side and a white side IIRC they were called drumsticks!

I know you can still get the drumsticks, dunno about the frosties though =/

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Pink Panther bars. They were pink chocolate with a picture of the Pink Panther on them.

They were lovely

When utter shoite like those soother shaped lollies and highly coloured liquid sweets came about, I think the older sweets started to fade away

phasers · 01-10-2011 09:30AM

I think as people get older they just stop noticing this stuff in shops, because 90% of the stuff mentioned is still available. Not my pink and blue popcorn though ;-;

Rumours that those brain lickers gave you cancer were rife in my school, so we stuck to Atomic Fire/Sourballs and flumps :pac:

mud · 01-10-2011 09:40AM

Candy popcorn is still available. Lovely nuclear pink/blue and sometimes green colours.

Frosties are still available too but have been seriously toned down flavour wise.

Trying to remember a bar that was stupid hard toffee covered in white icing?

I used to LOVE the frozen pizza slices, they had to be watched like a hawk during cooking though, 20 seconds too much and they turned as hard as a rock!

I was never brave enough to try Campbell's meat balls, the grey look of them used to turn my stomach! (also my ma made AMAZING real meatballs, one was around the size of the tin itself so really, I was spoiled for reformed dog-food

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phasers · 01-10-2011 09:42AM

mud wrote: »

Candy popcorn is still available. Lovely nuclear pink/blue and sometimes green colours.

WHEREWHEREWHEREWHEREWHERE??????????????

Abi · 01-10-2011 09:48AM

phasers wrote: »

I think as people get older they just stop noticing this stuff in shops, because 90% of the stuff mentioned is still available.

You're right, most of it is still around, only half the size they used to be =/

Rumours that those brain lickers gave you cancer were rife in my school, so we stuck to Atomic Fire/Sourballs and flumps :pac:

Were flumps those multi-coloured twisted marshmallow things? or what am I thinking of? o_O

Yeah, I remember the cancer scare-mongering about the likes of them brain-lickers. They can't be good for ye though, the colours of them >.<

mud · 01-10-2011 09:52AM

phasers wrote: »

WHEREWHEREWHEREWHEREWHERE??????????????

Co. Limbo for sure

Heading into town soon, will pm you if I can pick some up!

btard · 01-10-2011 10:02AM

Vesta Curry meals. The 'meat' was shaped in square blocks. Had a few sultanas thrown in too, which I thought was very exotic. I loved them at the time, but I shudder to think what garbage was in them now.

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