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?

Neapolitan-style ice cream that was white, green and orange.
Home-made gooseberry jam with the skins in
Vesta chow mein with crispy noodles

@ladymuck111 they were Birds Hot Crunch (someone upthread identified them for me). Sadly, they are no more

Maverick bars & brannigans ham and mustard crisps 😋🤤

Yoghurts in post shaped like monsters
Frozen mousses
Individual wrapped cherry flavour sweets that came in a roll, anyone know what they were called?!

Bachelor's used to do a Bolognese flavoured pasta bake. I miss that.

Not a day goes by that I don't miss ricicles. Putting sugar on rice Krispies just isn't the same 🤣

Fiendish feet!

Oh and Heinz toast toppers!!

noirchatsdeux those M&S set yoghurts were amazing!

[quote SirDidymus]@ladymuck111 they were Birds Hot Crunch (someone upthread identified them for me). Sadly, they are no more [/quote]
That's them! They were so good, they need to be brought back along with
Pyramints
Coconut Boost
Cadbury's Marble bar
Potato puffs
Romany biscuits
And loads more things I have forgotten. This thread has brought back some amazing memories of food!

@DialSquare

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

Get yourself to the Irish section of the supermarket. Bolands Jam Mallows. My MiL always has a packet

@SilverGlassHare

M&S triple toffee delights. And their Deltas.

Someone else remembers Deltas from M&S! No one ever does.

They were amazing. It's probably 30 years since they disappeared and I still miss them. They remind me of my very first job, buying lunch in m&s and feeling very grown up.

Burton's potato puffs. I'll never get over the heartbreak

The loss of all that sugar and those e-numbers in children's foods has really ruined it!

Sara Lee chocolate gateau
Secret bars - these were lush why did they get rid??
Um Bongo
Gino Ginelli - toffee flavoured one

@Jojoanna

EdwinPootsLovesArchaeology Marconi made with milk like rice pudding

Like lokshen?

@OutspokenNotThatFunny

Ready salted chip sticks

Cadbury fuse bar

Toast toppers

Spira

Woodys pink grapefruit alcopop

You can get the chip sticks in Asda.

@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.

Do you mean Staffordshire oatcakes? You can buy them in Tesco if so.

@Christmaspuddingsteaminghot

Yoghurts in post shaped like monsters Frozen mousses Individual wrapped cherry flavour sweets that came in a roll, anyone know what they were called?!

Are you thinking of cherry drops?

Nutty bars
Boxes of Weekend chocolate and sweets
Vesta? Crispy noodles

Grew up in another county and miss the type of custard and liquorice type sweets . I can buy the sweets on Amazon, but not the custard.

Pot rice! Hate pot noodles but loved the rice!

Dandelion and Burdock from the pop man

Panda Pops, the bright blue strawberry flavour, kids loved it. I liked the cola.

What was the pudding in a tin that was sort of syrupy - you mixed it with a canful of cold milk and it instantly became a kind of blancmange
Lots of fruit flavours
I loved that whatever it was

HollowTalk the Preston bakery we bought them from definitely didn't call them Staffordshire oatcakes 🤓 but funnily enough I googled after posting and came across Staffordshire oatcakes and they do look very similar - I'd never heard that name before. Off to add to my Tesco order!