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?

I think I was thinking of these when I said the rectangular ones sounded familiar @Twenty2

@Jdhshekr I remember those M&S chocolate desserts! They also did a set French Yoghurt that were different fruit flavours...I hate bits of fruit in yoghurt and they didn't have any so were just lovely. Also in little glass pots if I remember them correctly. Around about the mid 80s this would have been...

Used to get, from Tower supermarket, the most amazing, thin biscuits called Gingerella. No one ever remembers them. They weren't as gingery as ginger nuts, they had a more delicate, buttery flavour. Just lush.

@janeapple111 I remember them the closest I've found are the Iceland mini pizzas which are nice

This thread is spooky. DH is away this week and so I thought I'd indulge myself with my childhood food we would never in a million years have if he was here. I bought a frozen birds eye cottage pie, vesta curry and an arctic roll. It's chips and egg tonight.
Just need original Lucozade to make my life complete but that's never going to happen

I've just remembered Haunted House ice lollies. They were white ice cream with a purple outline of a vampire, ghost, skeleton or Frankenstein on them.

Potato triangles. Supermarket own brand. They were lush.

@Izzwizzo

Potato triangles. Supermarket own brand. They were lush.

Oh yes, salty and quite potatoey for a baked crisp! They were lovely

@Yogaposer

A chocolate bar called "Secret", nobody else seems to remember it but it was absolutely heavenly. Also, Etenmanns desserts.

I remember Secrets and miss them desperately. They were heaven.

Sara Lee Chocolate gateau. Although my corner shop does stock it so it must still exist - unless it's been hanging out in their freezer since the mid 90s...

@Yogaposer I remember secret bars. Whipped filling with chocolate strands almost around it. Loved them!

Totally agree to Secret bars, chicken tikka crispy pancakes and also those yoghurts with monster faces on. I'm really craving them all now! Also the lucozade tablets and a fab apple strudel I used to get from a local bakery

Chicken vol-au-vents

devildeepbluesea, I remember Gingerella biscuits! The 'snap' was divine. Ginger nuts are too chewy.

Old English spangles. Cheswood chicken and mushroom curry in a tin. Fry’s five centre bars and milk tray bar. Black magic like they used to be. Castle crisps,Ribena before they watered it down, it’s awful now .

Oatcakes in Lancashire where all my relatives lived. They were floppy (somewhere between a crepe and an American pancake), smooth one side and with rolled oats or maybe oat bran on the other. I used to love them rolled up with syrup. Never seen them anywhere since I was a child.

Back when I was a kid my mam used to buy cheese triangles that were flavoured - ham and smoked cheese and some other things. Loved them!

Iceland sells disco’s

Cartoonies
Doritos 3D
Fiendish Feet
Thundercat crisps
Mini milks that were ice lollies rather than ice cream
Proper penny sweets
Tinned pudding
Turkey drummers when they were huge
Campbells tinned meatballs
The greasy, flat, sausage rolls found in school canteens
Fudge tart
School dinner trifle. The fruit was unrecognisable and it was nearly always still frozen in parts

Oh so many....

@smogsville

Sara Lee pecan danish. Great big round pastry from the freezer section with icing all over it. You warmed it through in the oven it had loads of cinnamon it was amazing. I would never make another pudding when we have people round if I could still buy this.

If only you lived near me we could team up.

I am fab at baking those kinds of cakes / pastries and have no one to bake for now that I work from home. I miss baking, darn it!

The mallow biscuits pictured above are Kimberly I think? As in Kimberly, Milkado and coconut creams? Best biscuits of my childhood.

Another who misses Cremola Foam.

@HoulYerWheesht The greasy, flat, sausage rolls found in school canteens

I think my DCs school is still serving these. DS2 loves school sausage rolls and won't touch any I have ever bought or made at home.

@bigsplosh weirdly the closest I’ve found are Green Cuisine vegan sausage rolls. Go figure...

Does anyone remember Potato Puffs? They were in a little red packet, a bit like Hula Hoops.

Secret bars
Heinz toast toppers
French bread pizza's
Chocolate rich tea biscuits

@niceberg

Oatcakes in Lancashire where all my relatives lived. They were floppy (somewhere between a crepe and an American pancake), smooth one side and with rolled oats or maybe oat bran on the other. I used to love them rolled up with syrup. Never seen them anywhere since I was a child.

I think you can still get these! I have seen them and now off to google as I am sure they exist!