Mourning food from your childhood that you can’t get anymore

[AngeloMysterioso]

I’m 10 weeks pregnant and having some very random cravings, unfortunately for stuff it’s impossible to get my hands on now! Specifically Birds Eye boil-in-the-bag chicken and mushroom casserole, Sainsbury’s cucumber relish, and Gino Ginelli tutti frutti ice cream.

Anyone else grieving for the amazing food of their youth that is now a distant memory?

[8dpwoah]

Can someone talk me through this cucumber sandwich spread? Sounds grim tbh. I've only ever had one real cucumber sandwich that I've enjoyed though, done right they are perfecto.

[IntermittentParps]

Does anyone remember Romany biscuits
Yes, I came on to say those! God, they were amazing. Really rich.

Fish n Chips crisps (well, biscuits/crackers really). Still exist but I swear they're different now.

And Piglets.

[DialSquare]

@HangingOverTheEdge

Munchmallows from the 70's.
Red and silver wrapper, marshmallow on a soft biscuit base and covered in milk chocolate. Not sure who made them and I can't remember really when I last had them :(

Tunnocks tea cakes?
You can still get them.

[8dpwoah]

@IntermittentParps

Does anyone remember Romany biscuits
Yes, I came on to say those! God, they were amazing. Really rich.

Fish n Chips crisps (well, biscuits/crackers really). Still exist but I swear they're different now.

And Piglets.

Controversial but I think the chicken and chips were as good if not better than than the fish...

[Jojoanna]

Toast toopers

[Jojoanna]

Toppers I mean

[Twenty2]

@mrshonda

Can you still get Old Jamaica chocolate bars, flavoured with rum? They were lovely.

I'm sure I've seen them on Amazon.

[Twenty2]

HangingOverTheEdge
Munchmallows from the 70's.
Red and silver wrapper, marshmallow on a soft biscuit base and covered in milk chocolate. Not sure who made them and I can't remember really when I last had them :(
^Tunnocks tea cakes?
You can still get them.^

No, not Tunnock's. I think the ones Hanging is thinking of were rectangular and the filling was more marshmallowy and not as soft as Tunnock's.

[DialSquare]

They also sound familiar now you've said that @Twenty2

[HangingOverTheEdge]

@DialSquare

Broadly similar. I should have googled:
munchmallow.uk/

[janeapple111]

When I was a teenager they used to do a box of three mini cheese and tomato pizzas in Tescos. I loved them. they discontinued them, and the mini pizzas that they have now dont taste as good.

Does anyone remember the brand name of mini pizzas , that Tesco would have stocked around 1998. I cant remember it and would love to look up a photo online.

[AngeloMysterioso]

Agree with everyone lamenting the loss of pre-sugar tax Lucozade. I’ll never forgive Jamie Oliver.

[CakeIsMyFavouriteAndBest]

@Twenty2

HangingOverTheEdge
Munchmallows from the 70's.
Red and silver wrapper, marshmallow on a soft biscuit base and covered in milk chocolate. Not sure who made them and I can't remember really when I last had them :(
^*Tunnocks tea cakes?
You can still get them.*^

No, not Tunnock's. I think the ones Hanging is thinking of were rectangular and the filling was more marshmallowy and not as soft as Tunnock's.

The chocolate teacakes from m&s are very similar to munchmallows although I did find original and white chocolate munchmallows last Christmas in B&M!

[mygee]

My Mum would sometimes buy me a microwave ready meal as a treat, I think it was called bats and balls? Tennis racket shaped pasta with little chunks of ham/ bacon, in a cheese sauce. It was delicious.

Those yoghurts with a hole in the middle of the pot for a little toy. Frufoo I think?!

I really, really miss homepride cheese and bacon potato bake. So much that it makes me feel sad.

[Grumpylate20s]

Turkey twizzlers - never been the same without em. Never going to be the same either

[Caramel81]

Sara Lee chocolate gateaux (we had it every Saturday night when I was a child).

[IntermittentParps]

8dpwoah, I'd forgotten about the chicken and chips!
I'm sure I liked them, but my heart is with the fish n chips.

[CheapOne]

I used to love an ice lolly that was like a strawberry split, but had raspberries stuck on the outside. So ice cream in the middle, then raspberry ice then actual raspberries.

[JeremyIronsBenFolds]

Batgers Chinese Figs - we used to get these as a Christmas treat as a kid in the 80s, my Dad used to have them as a little boy too (in the 1940s!). They were fig jellies shaped into fig shapes. Really juicy and sweet, I loved them! Sadly it seems they were made by one English factory that shut down in the 90s. I really miss them, Xmas isn’t quite the same (well, ok that’s a bit much, but I’d really bloody love some!).

[Twenty2]

[quote HangingOverTheEdge]@DialSquare

Broadly similar. I should have googled:
munchmallow.uk/[/quote]

Maybe I'm thinking of something else, then? I definitely remember something like I described. I seem to recall a biscuity base, piped into two joined pieces? I'm old, my memory's not what it was!

[noirchatsdeux]

Birds Eye Chicken Supreme

Lean Cuisine meals ...I lived off those when I was in my late teens, early 20s, no wonder I never weighed above 9 stone!

Supermousse

Heinz Toast Toppers

Toaster Pockets

[Jdhshekr]

I remember the Lovely chocolate mousse things with the blob of cream on top but I didn’t like them! I was also too impatient to let them defrost so used to attempt to eat them frozen.

I really miss something from M&S good hall in the 80s - they used to sell packs of three chocolate desserts (that was what they were called - ‘chocolate desserts’) They were like a chocolate mousse but without bubbles. Almost blancmangey but a much nicer texture. Brown and orange packaging. Yorkie desserts are the closest I’ve ever found to them, or the chocolate bit from a Rolo dessert. But not quite the same. I crave them regularly.

[TTCat39]

@SirDidymus

Those hot custard puddings that you sprinkled biscuit crumbs on. Came in different flavours but cannot remember what they were called?

I had completely forgotten about these, and I loved them too!

[tedsletterofthelaw]

Golden Grahams

Sun Lollies

Libby's Orange C (you could still get that until recently )

Original Sunny Delight

Asda used to do these mini Cornish pasties from the deli counter that were amazing

I can't remember the name but you used to get yoghurts with different monster faces on each pot, I loved those!

[Crinolinelady]

Horlicks tablets
The original victory V gums
Imps
Tesco ploughman's pasty