Great Food You Can't Get Anymore

Maudi · 17-02-2015 08:02PM

I miss horse in the meat

Custardpi · 17-02-2015 08:05PM

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 · 17-02-2015 08:05PM

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

BehindTheScenes · 17-02-2015 08:07PM

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 · 17-02-2015 08:08PM

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 · 17-02-2015 08:09PM

Dan bars

Kovu · 17-02-2015 08:13PM

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 · 17-02-2015 08:14PM

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.

BehindTheScenes · 17-02-2015 08:16PM

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 · 17-02-2015 08:18PM

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

lc180 · 17-02-2015 08:20PM

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

Custardpi · 17-02-2015 08:22PM

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 · 17-02-2015 08:23PM

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 · 17-02-2015 08:24PM

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

PrettyBoy · 17-02-2015 08:40PM

McRibs

Stavro Mueller · 17-02-2015 08:45PM

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

Triboro · 17-02-2015 08:50PM

Honeycomb bar

Sam spudz crisps

Big time toffee bar

Saralee4 · 17-02-2015 09:07PM

Slicemeister wrote: »

Gollywog bars. :-(

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

Saralee4 · 17-02-2015 09:08PM

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

Mam of 4 · 17-02-2015 09:33PM

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

Rubberlegs · 17-02-2015 09:45PM

Skull crushers , they were white chocolate skulls filled with strawberry cream for 2p.
Fizzlesticks.
Hellas bars, I loved the mint ones.
Busker bars.
Those 3p chocolate toffee mice that ripped out fillings

HeidiHeidi · 17-02-2015 09:59PM

Candy cigarettes, complete with red tip. Available in singles or packets.

Ahhh, the memories!

(Same shop also sold single real cigarettes, don't think that'd fly these days :eek:)

Rubberlegs · 17-02-2015 10:38PM

Those chocolate cigarettes that were covered in edible white paper. They looked very realistic. The box they came in looked like a real pack of cigarettes.
Texan bars.

Iranoutofideas · 17-02-2015 10:43PM

Practically everything mentioned in this thread is still available. You're just not going to find the sweets and crisps in a ****ty Spar, Centra or Mace.

NachoBusiness · 17-02-2015 10:44PM

Cavan Cola.

Freshly popped popcorn with real melted butter at the flicks.

I used to love the burgers at Metro Burger also (side of the Screen cinema).

mojesius · 17-02-2015 10:47PM

Saralee4 wrote: »

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

Nice tang off them.

Meangadh · 17-02-2015 10:51PM

the evasion_kid wrote: »

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

I was/am no stoner and I was gutted when they stopped making them! They were so delicious. There are no other crisps or snacks like them. They're kind of similar to niknaks but niknaks are a very very poor substitute.

Iranoutofideas wrote: »

Practically everything mentioned in this thread is still available. You're just not going to find the sweets and crisps in a ****ty Spar, Centra or Mace.

Yeah most of the stuff mentioned can be gotten in any of the Ye Olde Sweete Shoppe type places which are in pretty much any of the big towns/cities in Ireland.

But no Crunchos, Smiley bars, Top Decks, Secret bars or Fat Frogs as far as I know

:(:(

17-02-2015 10:52PM

Mars Delight.

Pang · 17-02-2015 10:53PM

Secret chocolate bars

It was so delicious.

Turtyturd · 17-02-2015 10:54PM

Fun Yuns.
Cheezels
Woppa bars...only the cola ones.

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