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To ask what one extinct thing you would bring back from your childhood?

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PansyPotter84 · 05/06/2025 18:00

By “thing” - I don’t mean people. I’m sure there are people from our childhoods that we would all want to bring back more than any “thing” in the world.

The thing that I would bring back would be tinned Spaghetti Hoops with Hotdogs in Smokey-Bacon Sauce by Heinz.

Best thing ever in the 90s IMHO!

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Lindajonesjustcantlivemylife · 05/08/2025 20:00

Burton's potato puffs
Cheese and tomato
Beef.
😋

Menobaby79 · 05/08/2025 08:29

Licko chocolate or Choc Lick! I used to love buying this from the shop on the way to school, so good. 😋😋😋

spoonbillstretford · 02/08/2025 15:46

Also a Wright's Pie shop.

spoonbillstretford · 02/08/2025 15:41

I'd like to bring to the 2020s the sense of stability and optimism which existed from 1995 - 2001.

Not great for my waistline but I'd like an Abdul's takeaway and for proper big naan/flatbreads breads to exist south of Birmingham.

Ilovepatrickjane · 02/08/2025 15:39

Mint cracknell
Lime and liquorice toffees
Topic
Texan
Toffo

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 02/08/2025 15:32

Tins of sterilised cream. Kept for ages and tasted - well, unlike actual cream but I loved it!

And they still sell Old Jamaica chocolate in Woolworths in Oz. Last time I was over I came back with a suitcase full.

Katemax82 · 02/08/2025 15:29

The body shop pre 1994

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 02/08/2025 14:46

Reliablesource · 02/08/2025 14:07

Wait, what?! I loved garibaldi biscuits but never knew there was a chocolate version! Did they have currants in them?

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Yes. They were just Garibaldis, with a layer of chocolate on the top.

They were my favourite biscuits of all time.

ruethewhirl · 02/08/2025 14:22

ToadRage · 05/06/2025 18:10

Trios - although I am informed they still exist i can't find them anywhere.

TRIIIIO! TRIIIIO! I wanna Trio and I want one NOW!
Perhaps Susie ate them all...

(totally showing my age now... 😂)

Reliablesource · 02/08/2025 14:20

Hollowvoice · 06/06/2025 16:32

Galaxy truffle eggs - I know they still make small ones but they're nowhere near as good as the creme egg sized ones were

Ferrero Mint

Body Shop "summer rain" shower gel

Woolies

Cremola foam (quite probably tastes disgusting but I remember it fondly!)

Oh gosh yes, Creamola Foam! ❤️ My grandparents lived on a remote farm, and a mobile grocery shop came round once a week and she’d occasionally buy a little tin of it as a treat! We were obsessed with it! I loved the raspberry flavour and was always a bit disappointed if she came in with the orange one 😂 You can get versions of it online now but I’ve tried a couple and they are awful.

Caterpillargirl23 · 02/08/2025 14:16

I'm amazed chocolate Garibaldis never made a comeback, they've put chocolate on many foods and not Garibaldis, makes no sense.

Reliablesource · 02/08/2025 14:15

VickyEadieofThigh · 02/08/2025 14:11

Of course! They were just your standard Garibaldis coated in milk chocolate.

Or, if you're my friends, "They never existed/you've made that up/you're mad".

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Am absolutely gutted that I never, ever knew of those. They would have been my perfect biscuit!

I have also spent years telling people that we used to get (green) mint custard with chocolate sponge for school dinner sometimes (early 80s). No one I know remembers or believes this, including my siblings! I randomly listened to a podcast about school dinners a few months ago and someone actually mentioned the mint custard and finally I felt vindicated! 😂

Reliablesource · 02/08/2025 14:11

Lucozade, when it was mostly sold in the chemist and was only ever purchased for medicinal purposes. It came in a large glass, dimpled bottle and was wrapped in crinkly orange film. It was the absolute highlight of being off school sick for a few days! I’d be left at home under a duvet with a bottle of that and it was such a treat! Happy days, when things were much simpler…

VickyEadieofThigh · 02/08/2025 14:11

Reliablesource · 02/08/2025 14:07

Wait, what?! I loved garibaldi biscuits but never knew there was a chocolate version! Did they have currants in them?

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Of course! They were just your standard Garibaldis coated in milk chocolate.

Or, if you're my friends, "They never existed/you've made that up/you're mad".

Reliablesource · 02/08/2025 14:07

VickyEadieofThigh · 02/08/2025 14:00

At last! Someone else who remembers chocolate Garibaldis!

I've spent decades being told I've imagined them.

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Wait, what?! I loved garibaldi biscuits but never knew there was a chocolate version! Did they have currants in them?

VickyEadieofThigh · 02/08/2025 14:00

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 05/06/2025 18:15

Chocolate Garibaldis.

Sugar Puffs.

At last! Someone else who remembers chocolate Garibaldis!

I've spent decades being told I've imagined them.

Reliablesource · 02/08/2025 13:56

Heinz Toast Toppers. As young teens, we loved doing these for Saturday lunch and thought we were cooking! The pizza flavour one was my favourite.

Also: Sherbet Fountains in the old paper packaging. The modern plastic wrapping is horrible and they taste nasty now.

Mysa74 · 02/08/2025 13:49

DrummingMousWife · 05/06/2025 18:15

Tizer

You can still buy tizer but, if like me you have happy memories of it, don't. It's revolting. Really, really revolting.

Rockmehardplace · 08/06/2025 19:59

Toast toppers!

ToWhitToWhoo · 08/06/2025 13:43

The view that it's rude to comment on an adult's age. Celebrating adult birthdays just as birthdays, without all these age-related 'big' 'milestone' birthdays.

Cattenberg · 08/06/2025 00:54

@MrsPositivity1 Ah, Old Jamaica chocolate! I had vague memories of the chocolate my dad liked, with a ship on the packaging, but couldn't remember the name.

DamnedIfIDoDamnedIfIDont · 07/06/2025 19:22

Heinz spaghetti in tomato and cheese sauce

Caterpillargirl23 · 07/06/2025 11:14

Easy access to GPs and dentists.
Regular and frequest buses.
Simple parking charges-not hundreds of parking apps.
Space, everywhere is crowded- housing estates, hospitals, roads. My dad used to take us swimming on a Saturday afternoon the pool was nearly always empty apart from us.

PlantPowerr · 07/06/2025 11:12

laurini · 05/06/2025 18:03

Life without smartphones

This 👌

Ironic given I’m using mine now I know!

Flashahah · 07/06/2025 11:02

researchers3 · 07/06/2025 10:41

Came on to say salt n vinegar ringos!

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They sell them in Iceland!