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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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Bellaboo01 · 08/12/2025 17:32

shellyleppard · 08/12/2025 15:15

@Defiantly41 York fruits are on sale in Iceland....
Possibly home bargains too

Ohhh - i used to love these too X

Growlybear83 · 08/12/2025 17:32

I’ve been hunting for cheese footballs without success 😞

Bellaboo01 · 08/12/2025 17:30

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!

I love some of the old school food but, i must admit that i dont recognise any of what you have listed.
Whereabouts do you live in the Country? I'm in London.

blackpear · 08/12/2025 17:30

Oh, the mignons morceaux! But also Phileas Fogg Corn Chips!

Newpudding · 08/12/2025 17:25

lookluv · 07/12/2025 23:03

i just want a mignon morceaux

I have been trying to remember what these were called for months! Loved them, but they just disappeared. :-(

Lovelynames123 · 08/12/2025 17:24

lookluv · 07/12/2025 23:03

i just want a mignon morceaux

Loved these! The people who owned the company that made Phileas Fogg lived in our village, they sold out at some point in the 90s and I've never eaten the delicious garlicy nuggets since😭

Normalorproblem · 08/12/2025 17:15

pandagirl93 · 08/12/2025 09:20

Every year I miss the Mingles chocolates!

The after eight selection box has a couple that are similar !

BrennieGirl · 08/12/2025 17:13

I’ve just opened the box of M&S big mix I had carefully stashed away thanks to this thread!
so far they are delicious and very reminiscent of old style Roses.

ilovepixie · 08/12/2025 17:11

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

You can still get all of these apart from the weekend chocolate box

OhDonuts · 08/12/2025 17:06

Gliblet · 08/12/2025 16:03

Lidl for both.

I'm not entirely convinced the M&S big mix tin thing actually exists, our local ones have the peppermint bark and some ungodly concoction involving cold popcorn, but the chocolate selection tins are nowhere to be seen.

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I think that’s because people stock up on them when they come in. When I bought mine (1 tin) other people were grabbing them quickly, (I saw one guy get 4!) and when I looked again the shelf was empty!

zingally · 08/12/2025 16:59

I had a packet of cheesy niknaks today!

IIRC, they came from Home Bargains a month or so ago. Honestly, I didn't really like them. But I LURVE the purple rib n saucy flavour!

ThorsRaven · 08/12/2025 16:59

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!

worcester sauce crisps

They have brought them back. Multipacks currently available in Tesco - and probably in other supermarkets. Had a bag for my lunch today 😋

GnomeDePlume · 08/12/2025 16:54

Babycham liqueur chocolates. We would get a small bottle of babycham or the chocolates in our Christmas stocking.

Daygloboo · 08/12/2025 16:50

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!

KP bignuts 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣ooo errr missus

Hemax1 · 08/12/2025 16:49

Has anyone seen any marzipan fruits? I used to love them eapecially the way they were decorated!

Have seen cheesy nik naks recently and bought a Tunis cake from Tesco a week or so ago ( with marzipan fruits on top ! )

Millytante · 08/12/2025 16:40

CoastalCalm · 08/12/2025 15:13

It was the Punjabi Puri I preferred to MM

M&S do lovely Worcester Sauce crisps - very strongly flavoured

Maybe GB has different stock, but here in Ireland there’s Walker’s Lea and Perrin’s crisps in 6 packs. Dreadfully moreish.
(Funny now I think of it: since they no longer offer L&P Worcester Sauce online (only way I have of getting groceries), just their own version which seems to contain genuine seaside sand. Rank.)

JohnBullshit · 08/12/2025 16:38

I like the M&S Worcester Sauce crisps, and the revived Walkers ones are fine, as in perfectly acceptable for occasional consumption. I find the Seabrooks ones a bit fiery for my taste. Gingery almost. No.
Really, I'm only here to denounce the criminal downgrading of Quality Street and Roses. Corporations have no respect for culture.

Turnitoffnonagain · 08/12/2025 16:36

SeaAndStars · 08/12/2025 09:59

I had a craving for coffee Matchmakers last week. Thought I'd treat myself and found they don't do them any more. Bugger.

We used to have a box of Matchmakers in our stocking every year when the box was long and thin and not square.

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Thornton do bags of coffee creams, and Beeches coffee creams were in Iceland (the shop) last year but I got the news too late and they were all gone. 😮‍💨

MistyGray · 08/12/2025 16:28

RosesAndHellebores · 07/12/2025 23:12

Proper Roses chocolates with jewel shiny wrappers that came in a tin.

M&S Grand Marnier Chocolate Log

Roses chocolates now taste 🤮
Cheap nasty chocolate! And no hard caramel ones 😪 Travesty.

Allseeingallknowing · 08/12/2025 16:27

HeyThereDelila · 07/12/2025 23:54

York Fruits still exist - the ones with the juice centre are called Newberry Fruits. My DGM always lamented their demise - then a few years ago I found them in an old fashioned sweet shop! They still exist @Defiantly41

I wish they’d bring Newberry fruits back in the supermarkets!

Allseeingallknowing · 08/12/2025 16:26

CluelessAboutBiology · 08/12/2025 15:00

The best ones are from Fortnum & Mason. I’m not a regular shopper (I wish!) but I have done detailed research into sugared almonds, and they do the best ones.

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I loved them , but now I can’t risk huge dental bills, so never have them, or chocolate brazils either!

HurdyGurdy19 · 08/12/2025 16:25

My mum used to get Terry's Old Masters chocolate liqueurs, and Buttered Brazils every year. I used to sneak one of the liqueurs and thought I was very sophisticated. The hard candy around the Brazil nuts was gorgeous.

I lament the demise of M&S Potato Deltas. Little triangular salty cross between a crisp and a cracker. They were delish.

JenniferBooth · 08/12/2025 16:17

SocksAndTheCity · 08/12/2025 15:57

I suspect it's the cocoa prices, but I've tried to get dark chocolate brazils and also dark chocolate florentines this week and they are very scarce compared to the milk chocolate ones.

I can order them online if I want to spend a fortune, but other years I've just walked in any supermarket and bought them.

Saw these in Womans Own
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/301892599?srsltid=AfmBOorY1f6CDGgNWGJG5Fl3DmpFmYYvqIjxSpamZJPpO75EImEwliwS

SocksAndTheCity · 08/12/2025 16:10

Thanks @Gliblet but I don't have a Lidl anywhere near me. I did get some florentines from Aldi one year but they were miniscule (although better than nothing - might be worth a look) Smile

I can confirm I've also tried to get the M&S Big Mix chocolate tin and had no luck. The others have shrunk so much I was determined not to buy them this year.