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

  • 29-04-2016 09:59PM
    #1
    The Bowling Alley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 370 ✭✭


    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!


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Comments

  • #2
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Smiley bars!

    Like an orange-flavoured chomp, delicious!!


  • #3
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,306 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


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


  • #4
    The Princess Bride
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,767 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    Peggy's legs.


  • #5
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    InB4 Opal Fruits and Marathon bars.


  • #6
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


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

    Can't imagine they'll ever come back either


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  • #7
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


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


  • #8
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    The chocolate cigs. Vessell or something like that


  • #9
    traprunner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭traprunner


    Old man's baccy


  • #10
    Ursus Horribilis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    Secret Bars :(


  • #11
    RollieFingers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,645 ✭✭✭RollieFingers


    Apple Jacks


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  • #12
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Yellow Man


  • #13
    Digs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭Digs


    Angel delight, wopa bars and sparkles ice pops.


  • #14
    VincePP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 982 ✭✭✭VincePP


    Mint Toffo.


  • #15
    fatknacker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭fatknacker


    Dan & Gargoyle bars


  • #16
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Bubble king chewing gum


  • #17
    Mugatuu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭Mugatuu


    Fat Frog ice pops!


  • #18
    Chocolate girl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 131 ✭✭Chocolate girl


    Fizzle sticks


  • #19
    agent graves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 354 ✭✭agent graves


    Wham bar


  • #20
    traprunner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭traprunner


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


  • #21
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    White dog sh1t.


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  • #22
    e.r
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 432 ✭✭e.r


    Desperate Dan bars


  • #23
    failinis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭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.


  • #24
    Ronald Wilson Reagan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 282 ✭✭Ronald Wilson Reagan


    Golly bars were racialicious.


  • #25
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #26
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Hi-Sours.

    That cancer causing bacon Pot Noodle.


  • #27
    failinis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭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:


  • #28
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,115 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #29
    doolox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,345 ✭✭✭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.


  • #30
    nkav86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 714 ✭✭✭nkav86


    Bikers/banshee bones!


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  • #31
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭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!!


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