Help me find this food from late 1960’s/1970’s!

[Chatterboxy]

Having a conversation with family tonight about childhood foods, I remember a ‘honey type sandwich spread’ in a fairly flat round tub, bit like a set honey, obviously cheaper, bulked out with god knows what! White tub, maybe a bear 🐻 on the lid… distinct memories of it being really sweet & sugary texture on bread & butter for our tea. No one else remembers it! Am I imagining it?

No it was a shallow white plastic tub… maybe with blue lettering. Definitely no metal or glass.

@Chatterboxy I think I know exactly what you mean. When Sainsbury's supermarket opened in Camberley in the 1970s, we upgraded from our local Finefare.

Sainsbury's did their own brand set honey in a white, flat, round tub with pictures of brown bears around the sides, maybe playing the drum between them in pairs. Orange featured heavily too - well, it was the 70s.

And the dark chocolate spread was in a similar tub, maybe a bit taller and narrower. It was runnier than modern chocolate spread, but glossy and rich. Loved it 😍

Don't get me started on Bejams....

And the spiral ramp multi-story car-park. It was like going into space 😊

I think you might have it!

I wondered whether it was a Sainsbury's thing as my mum shopped there at that time.

I had forgotten about the dark chocolate spread until this thread - it was so delicious!

Yes, we had that chocolate spread about once a year when we could persuade mum to buy it. And I remember some honey-like stuff in a plastic tub.

But we always begged for the runny honey in a bear shaped bottle.

But we never got anything unless it was cheaper than co-op own brand equivalent. So Normid jam it was.

I don’t think the one I remember was from Sainsbury’s as there was no Sainsbury’s in Northern Ireland in the 1970’s. Our local supermarket was called Crazy Prices 😆

@tothesea I grew up in NI too. Ours was definitely Clover Crest and I've finally managed to work out how to attach a pic of the tub!

Oh interesting! That’s not the image I have in my brain..it was shallower than that and didn’t have a red lid but it was as a long time ago and I could be misremembering. I might be getting a bit over invested in this OP!

Sainsbury’s Archive on Twitter is very good. It might be worth asking them.

Yes!

m we used to get it from a health food store. I had a love/hate relationship with it.

id kill for that proper chocolate spread again.

OMG I remember Honey Bear spread - it was like a very cheap set honey - perhaps bulked out with extra sugar and had a strange gritty texture. It came in a shallow round white plastic tub.

My brother loved it. In fact when he comes to visit I save the out of date, partially dried up jars of set honey especially for him these days to recreate the memory

I remember the chocolate spread (used to have it in sandwiches as a child) which was much nicer than nutella, and also the apple & pear spread which was one of the things I gorged on the late 80s when I was then briefly vegan.

My first Saturday job was in that Sainsbury’s in 1972!

I absolutely remember this. To me the tub had orange/brown bears on it very 60/70s colouring.

I loved it 🤮

This might be the chocolate spread...

Don't get me started on Bejams....

Bejams 😃😃😃

Have a search here: sainsburyarchive.org.uk/catalogue/search/search/ewao-everywhere:honey?date_from=1914&date_to=2015&page=5

I remember Honey Bear spread and agree that it was in a shallow round tub with bears on it.

My younger sister loved it!

That’s the one I was thinking of! Also grew up in NI

@Katrinawaves @tothesea
I have disappeared in to a complete rabbit warren here as I'm stuck in the bed with my youngest.
The tub I remember was flatter than the pic shows - I could fit the palm of my hand across the top of it as an adult. It made such a ripping plastic sound when you opened it.
Apparently it was banned from the EU because it's genetically modified honey. That might explain the texture 🤣
On another note, bring back Crazy Prices.

I so remember that honey spread and the dark runny chocolate spread - we used to have chocolate spread sandwiches for tea

For the honey spread I'm thinking red gingham check

Feeling quite nostalgic

@Ahnobother some of the pictures if you Google image it seem to show a shallower tub. I wonder if it came in different sizes? I also remembered it as being a little shallower than the picture posted upthread

Became Iceland.

Bejam was an anagram of some of Malcolm Walker's family initials. He eventually decided to rebrand to Iceland 😊😊

I also remember the chocolate spread! Looked like marmite, tasted like dark chocolate.

Honey Bear spread and the choc spread both came in a tub about the shape and size of those @ToiletTroubles and @Ahnobother have posted. Smaller than Vitalite, and possibly deeper.

I think the choc spread @ToiletTroubles has posted is a dupe for the original which was Cadbury's. It was a white tub with a bit swirly Cadbury logo and other writing on in red and black.

Honey Bear was is a very similar shape/size t

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Honey bear was in a very similar pot. White with a brown/orange/pink Scandinavian style pattern of bears, wooden cabin, flowers.

They were not Sainsbury's own brands. We only ever had them at my granny's house and she only shopped in her village which did not have a Sainsbury. She would go to town for Bejam, but I seem to remember that being later than the Honey Bear spread and choc spread.