Old foods that you loved that no longer exist.

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I was remembering back when I was kid, my Nan would pick us up from school, and take us back to her house where we would have a small tea.

One thing we loved was tidgy puds and gravy. I was gutted when they stopped doing tidgy puds

Mignons Morceaux and Californian Corn Chips from Philias Fogg. Loved those things.

White chocolate After Eight Mints. They do different varieties evey year but have never brought these back for some reason. I adored them.

Cabana bars. My grandparents got me a bar every week when we went to visit.

Back, probably in the late 80’s, I think it was Ginsters, made an Italian Pasta Slice. They were vegetarian and had pasta twists in a herby tomato sauce in flaky wholemeal pastry. Our works canteen used to sell them warm and I’d have one most days. Then they suddenly disappeared never to be seen again.

I believe Greens Lemon Meringue Pie Filling is the same as the Royal one, and still available.
Greens introduced a Panna Cotta Mix, and a Tiramisu mix the other year, and they have also vanished.
Honeycomb Mould - my job to prepare for Sunday Lunch.
Symingtons Table Creams, especially the Maple Walnut flavour. The company was taken over by Dr Oetker, who reduced the range to strawberry, and then dumped the whole thing.
Look What We've Found - interesting dishes linked to particular farms, in sachets, rather like camping meals. Bought out, and the range reduced to chilli and lamb casserole, and now, I think, dumped.

Tulip cheese & bacon grills

Oh and I have NEVER found anything remotely comparable to circa 1985 Asda All Butter Thins..

A round, super thin, flat biscuit with a rich buttery flavour, and when I say thin, I mean these things were about 1.5ml thick, if that. Probably a fairly basic shortbread recipe but rolled out SO thin... they were INCREDIBLY moreish.

Brannigans Roast Beef and Mustard crisps. Best crisps ever.

Lime angel delight. My mum used to top a dark chocolate rice crispy base with it as a pudding.

Yes, c'mon @crazeecatladee. Make with the spread!

You can get these in Iceland!! I was so excited as I remember them from my cjildhood. I'm sure I remember a whole range of food with beans in, like shepherds pie etc. Anyway, the bean pizza is still good!

Thought of another one - from the Waitrose bakery counter in the 80s - chocolate or coffee brownies with thick icing on top and with walnuts inside. Yum.

M&S used to do a dessert pot that was like cold, light, whipped rice pudding in cream with an apricot topping - incredible.

Also Sainsbury's Breakfast Slices.

Barmouth biscuits (thin and golden).
Sosmix a veggie sausage style mix. I used to make it in to patties with sGe and onion
Also Granose made a veggie savoury pudding which was very high in calories but just the thing for Christmas!

Cafe Noir biscuits. McVitie's had a factory problem, shrank them, and then dumped them.
And once available from a deli in Dulwich, now a Tesco, Cafe Choc. A biscuit with coffee icing one side and dark chocolate the other. I may have been the only person who bought them. Vanished.

Barmouth biscuits! I've been trying to remember the name of those for ages. Loved them.

Also Burton's potato puffs and the original Pan Yan pickle. And original Ritz crackers with salt.

Do they still do Sara Lee chocolate gateaux's? I can never find them.

Think I remember these. Did they come in a round tin. There might have been ones with celery plus ones with tomato. Mum bought then at Christmas. This was the seventies. She kept the tins to store stuff and I did come across in while clearing the house. Might have been Palmers a name I have just plucked from the deepest recesses of my brain

Gypsy creams. The girl next door to me always had them in the biscuit bin. I remember being annoyed and a bit confused because my own mother never, ever bought them. Were other mothers were a bit weird like that, as if they were in thrall to some mysterious kosher law about certain foods not being permitted within your walls.

Phileas Fogg snacks. I expect Punjab Puri would be considered a form of cultural appropriation these days but I miss them.

I bought some from Asda last week

Cadbury Bar Six

Kellogg's Start cereal. I was must putout to discover it had been discontinued.

@Deathraystare you can still get Sosmix at some whole food shops although I’m not sure if it tastes the same as it used to.

I still think about Cadbury Snow Flake. 😔

Happy Face biscuits - they’ve even gone extinct from their last bolt hole, the Family Circle biscuit selection.

Texan bars. Yes, they did reappear briefly in the mid 2000s, sadly only appearing in my dream’s forevermore.

Cabana bars. Coconut & cherry beauties.

Nutty Bars. Yes, they did look like giant turds, but I loved them & their fudge-y core. US Payday bars are just not the same.

Cracknel sweets in an old tin of Quality Street (in the red cellophane wrappers). Crunchy nuggets of wonder. Ditto their larger brethren, the Cadbury’s Mint Cracknel bar.

Tooti Frooti sweets (particularly the peach one). And, for that matter, tutti frutti ice cream.

Pacer chewy mints. Spearmint delights. Spangles could get in the bin but Pacers? Wow.

Recently departed in 2022 (on behalf of my Mum, who is simply bereft at this point), Heinz Ploughman’s pickle & Heinz Sweet Picalilli. We fear they’re a victim of Brexit (wanders off into the distance, shaking my fist at the sky).

Potato Triangles from Sainsburys. They just disappeared!!

I used to eat those Ginsters pasties at university so round about 84-88.