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Lost Xmas food

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lookluv · 07/12/2025 20:35

Xmas nostalgia has been bad this weekend - why will someone not bring back mignons morceaux, cheese moments, worcester sauce crisps, cream and cheesy niknaks and those massive KP bignuts

It really is not Xmas without them!

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RescueMeFromThisSilliness · 08/12/2025 23:12

HalfasleepChrisintheMorning · 07/12/2025 22:03

Terry’s Neapolitans

I still miss these too. What were they thinking when they discontinued them? 🙁

PrimalScreaming · 08/12/2025 23:09

I've been looking for Maple Brazils and can't find them anywhere! They used to be pretty hard to find, but are now non-existent. Charbonnel & Walker did some (for a price) and Fortnum & Mason did some for an even higher price....But I haven't even seen those this year.
They were my Mum's favourite and I just fancied a few in her memory.

Mansionscoldandgrey · 08/12/2025 23:09

Breathmiller · 08/12/2025 18:58

I usually get a box of Marzipan fruits from one of the kids at Christmas. I think they get them at M&S? I love them. And the best bit is no one else does I get them all.

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I buy them from Waitrose, and they actually count as one of your five a day at Christmas 😁

CunningLinguist2 · 08/12/2025 23:05

Defiantly41 · 07/12/2025 22:41

York fruits - jelly sweets with a weird hard capsule of fruity liquid in the middle
jelly orange & lemon slices
Weekend chocolate boxes
Tunis cake and Dundee cake

Tesco does Tunis cake!!

ABeerInTheSunshineMakesMeHappy · 08/12/2025 23:01

Cherrysoup · 08/12/2025 17:35

Coffee creams and a packet of Sobranie, dad’s standard Christmas present from my aunt, a cigarette to match your dress! Bloody awful fags, actually, but they looked incredibly sophisticated.

Ooh Sobranie cigarettes - thought they were so sophisticated! There were the pastel coloured ones and the black ones. Love coffee creams too.

ABeerInTheSunshineMakesMeHappy · 08/12/2025 22:47

My mum used to make marzipan fruits.

Love the little liqueur chocolates in the bottle shape - I used to buy these for my dad.
I used to like Terry’s All Gold and Black Magic. Mum used to like dark chocolate so I think I got the taste from her. I’ve got an old Black Magic box with sewing stuff in and the fillings it’s showing on there are very different to the ones now. I bought myself a box a year or so back and they were disgusting.

ABeerInTheSunshineMakesMeHappy · 08/12/2025 22:40

Be careful what you wish for. My DH kept saying how he loved cheesy footballs and always had them as a kid but I could never find any in our local shops, then one year I spotted them and bought him a big tub. They’d changed the recipe and they were horrible .

Pineapplesunshine · 08/12/2025 22:38

devildeepbluesea · 08/12/2025 18:35

For anyone else who misses mignons morceaux, these are exactly like them:

Maretti Bruschette Slow Roasted... www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B087D82JB2?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

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Sorry - just realised you already shared about these! They’re worth a double recommend to m m lovers though I reckon 😊

Diversion · 08/12/2025 22:36

Also my Mum's trifle. Nobody could make a trifle quite like her. Presented in its beautiful glass bowl which I inherited (claimed because of precious memories) and is which now lovingly stored on a very safe shelf in the cupboard and saved for very special occasions. She would bring it in her shopping basket, covered in cling film, don her apron and then produce it like magic out of the basket to be placed in the fridge until later and then I would get shouted at for pinching one of the glace cherries off the top.

Pineapplesunshine · 08/12/2025 22:35

lookluv · 07/12/2025 23:03

i just want a mignon morceaux

I loved these too. I have recently discovered Maretti bruschette chips and the roasted garlic ones are the closest I’ve found to mignon morceaux. They’re not as small and possibly not quite as garlicky, but they’re not at all bad, especially with a glass of something cold and fizzy. My local corner shops all seem to have them, although I’ve never seen them in a supermarket. You might be able to get them online I think. Worth a try?

Namechangeforthis88 · 08/12/2025 22:29

Bottle shaped liqueur chocolates in TK Maxx at the minute. A couple of varieties.

Diversion · 08/12/2025 22:26

HalfasleepChrisintheMorning · 07/12/2025 22:03

Terry’s Neapolitans

These were my Grandad's favourites and we had to include a box for his present every Christmas, so much so that we placed a box in his coffin with him. I miss Neopolitans, but miss my Grandad even more and would probably pay an extortionate amount of money at Christmas just for the memory of him💔

Hemax1 · 08/12/2025 22:22

Solmum1964 · 08/12/2025 22:19

@Hemax1 Lakeland (the kitchen shop) also have marzipan fruits - on their website anyway.
They've also got free delivery on for the rest of today, if you're quick!

Off to look …. Thank you !

Solmum1964 · 08/12/2025 22:19

@Hemax1 Lakeland (the kitchen shop) also have marzipan fruits - on their website anyway.
They've also got free delivery on for the rest of today, if you're quick!

JenniferBooth · 08/12/2025 21:48

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 08/12/2025 19:23

Nutcracker - I think it was Terry's ?
Two halves , milk chocolate with a soft caramel. About the size of a walnut

Terrys are missing a trick with this. They could bring it back at Christmas times and have it in the shape of a Nutcracker soldier.

SomethingFun · 08/12/2025 21:33

I had the tin of big mix but we’ve already eaten it so now I just have a tin 😁 I got all the coffee creams as no one else likes them, so that was a win. They do boxes as well so I’m going to get some and refill. Loads better than the sad sacks of palm oil and flavouring masquerading as Roses and Quality Street. I too miss Mingles and also lament the thin and delicious After Eight and will make do with whatever is in the box I bought that says it is After Eights but is probably an abomination.

curtaintwitcher78 · 08/12/2025 21:15

JenniferBooth · 08/12/2025 21:12

Yep Im old

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Same

JenniferBooth · 08/12/2025 21:12

curtaintwitcher78 · 08/12/2025 20:41

Do you remember the advert? Sung to the tune of Bermuda Triangle "In the blue triiiiaaannnngle"

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Yep Im old

JenniferBooth · 08/12/2025 21:11

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 08/12/2025 19:23

Nutcracker - I think it was Terry's ?
Two halves , milk chocolate with a soft caramel. About the size of a walnut

YES Bloody lovely. I have mentioned it before and not many knew what i was on about

Hemax1 · 08/12/2025 21:01

Breathmiller · 08/12/2025 18:58

I usually get a box of Marzipan fruits from one of the kids at Christmas. I think they get them at M&S? I love them. And the best bit is no one else does I get them all.

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Amazing ! Thank you. I need a trip to M&S then!

Left · 08/12/2025 20:54

Ohhhh I’d love some Mignons Morceaux right now!! What do we have to do to persuade KP snacks to relaunch them? I’d 100% contribute to a crowdfunder!

SwirlyShirly · 08/12/2025 20:48

Contraryjane · 08/12/2025 09:10

Cheese Footballs

They’re definitely still knocking about - the Smiths ones are in B&M

curtaintwitcher78 · 08/12/2025 20:46

M&s crisps were so flavoursome back then. Barbecue Beef & Onion, Salt & Vinegar so strong they'd make you sweat, prawn cocktail puffs, cheese tasters.

Also, Viennetta was totally different. The ice cream was dense, so was the chocolate, it was thick and crisp. I tried one recently and it was so... limp and frothy.

curtaintwitcher78 · 08/12/2025 20:41

JenniferBooth · 07/12/2025 23:21

Cadburys Biarritz

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Do you remember the advert? Sung to the tune of Bermuda Triangle "In the blue triiiiaaannnngle"

firstofallimadelight · 08/12/2025 20:40

Beef and mustard branigans
pop from the pop van

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