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?

Chocolate rich tea biscuits
What? No! Really?

@niceberg

They looked a bit like this?

Nutty bars

@SirDidymus

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

I came in here to say exactly this. I can't remember what it's called either. My mum used to buy me it as a treat and I loved them!!

Ovaltine chocolate bars. Yum.

@DialSquare

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

Yes! I knew there was something like this, but I mistakenly remembered them being chocolate-coated! Thank you

@bigsplosh

Ovaltine chocolate bars. Yum.

Oh, yes!

Showing my age now, Virol.

Tinned sweet milky pasta. Can't remember what it was called.

It was the type of food I had when poorly.

Ready salted chip sticks

Cadbury fuse bar

Toast toppers

Spira

Woodys pink grapefruit alcopop

@IntermittentParps

Chocolate rich tea biscuits What? No! Really?

They were so good! Don't know why they were discontinued

@bigsplosh

Tinned sweet milky pasta. Can't remember what it was called.

It was the type of food I had when poorly.

Tinned Heinz macaroni cheese?

Black Forest Cornetto! Lovely. A box of chocolates called “weekend” that my grandma had on special occasions! Especially the lime one!

It was a sweet/pudding like rice pudding.

United biscuit bars - blue pack milk chocolate with honeycomb pieces / red pack dark chocolate.

Those tiny sponge cakes topped with a layer of form fondant icing - came in orange / lemon and chocolate ones.

Tizer just isn't the same although it's not readily available.

Cobana? Chocolate bars - like Bounty but with cherries too

Space biscuits

Sago?

There were a few other sweet tinned puddings that seem to have vastly reduced or vanished - Ambrosia used to do semolina, sago, and tapioca puddings.

How do you start a pudding race? Sago

I'll fetch my coat...

Those floppy oatcake things are widely available in Cheshire and Staffordshire. Not keen on them myself but everyone who grew up here is obsessed with them and eat them regularly.

I’d forgotten the Ovaltine chocolate bars - so nice!

And I loved chocolate rich teas. They weren’t around for long.

M&S do lovely ready salted chip sticks. They are the hard, skinny ones, not the fluffy, fatter ones. They’re just like chip sticks we had at parties when I was little.

Black Forest Cornetto sounds fucking incredible.

Oatcakes are the only thing I miss about living in Staffordshire...

EdwinPootsLovesArchaeology Marconi made with milk like rice pudding

Aprilshowersandhail I only clicked on this thread to post about the best pudding ever and you. eat me to it!

I hadn't realised that chocolate rich tea no longer existed

Already mentioned up thread a few times, but Walter's potato puffs (later produced by Burton's) were the best crispy snack in the world ever.

[quote noirchatsdeux]@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...[/quote]
So excited that somebody else remembers them! Nobody else ever does. I remember the lovely fruit flavoured posh yoghurts with not bits in too.

Um Bongo.
Kia Ora.
Sunkist
Frutang sweets!

And also Walker’s crisps when they hid little blue packets in them