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

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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?

I don’t remember it, hope you can find out OP

My brother loved that 'cheddarie' cheese spread
Like plastic burger cheese but in the form of spread in a jar

Can't remember liking honey as a child but bloody lived that blue band margarine!

Omg Cadburys chocolate spread was the best! So much nicer than Nutella. Why did they get rid of it?
I discovered to my delight that Sweet Freedom do something which is quite similar (in squeezy bottle) but the tub was the best!

@Ahnobother we moved from NI in 1976 so I am very nostalgic for those times. I used to love going to Crazy Prices and choosing a cardboard box to pack the shopping in.

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

Bejams 😃😃😃

Became Iceland.

Bejams was my favourite shop. I bought my first freezer there.
We have the food warehouse here ,which is just Iceland.I have no idea why it's called that.

Our food warehouse sells bigger packs of things than Iceland. Same products just bigger amounts.

I'm a 90's child and although don't know about Bejams I do remember Bilo 🤣.

Bonne Maman do the best chocolate spread. No palm oil.

Yes op I definitely remember having that spread too at my Grandma's - my DM wouldn't ever buy it. It would've been in the 79's. I've googled it many a time trying to remember the name. Shallow white plastic tub, with a bear on it but haven't had any luck. I remember sometimes scooping a teaspoonful of the honey spread straight from the tub, I'm surprised I had any teeth left!

Not Sainsbury's. Our local supermarket was an independent called "Mac Fishery's" (this was the name but I've no idea how it was spelt or whether this was a family abbreviation). Bought out by Gateway, International and then ended up as a Waitrose I think (after we'd moved though). We also had Bejams!

(I've just discovered that Mac Fisheries was actually a chain founded by the same brothers who founded Unilever rather than being an independent supermarket)

I remember that honey type thing! I also remember Bejams. Instead of saying we are going to the shops it was known as going to Bejams. My Mum and Aunt used to go out every Wednesday to Croydon which means Bejams, Brentford Nylons, Croydon Market and C&A. C&A was for wigs and hairpieces. Oh and the department store Allders where my parents once got a Kingsize bed for a fiver!!!

Croydon may be shite but it did have some good shops (RIP Brentford Nylons, Allders, Bejam and C&A),

I remember ours came from Wimbledon Sainsbury which was underneath Ely’s I think? Opposite McDOnalds?

@ninetieseyebrows
www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/296481300

Sweet Freedom also do a thicker spread in a jar

We used to have something called Golden Spread that sounded like this.

I remember this. My
mum bought it in Sainsburys too. It was called Honey Bear spread, like others have said was in a white plastic pot with bears around it, they were yellow I think but there may have also been a pinky red on the pot, perhaps the lettering - or my imagination!

Yes! Sainsbury's!

Our Honey Bear came from an East London Sainsbury's. My Mum was the only woman in our neighbourhood that could drive so every Thursday my Mum, Grandma and 2 of the neighbours would pack into my mum's car and go to the "big" Sainsbury's to do the big shop

We got a jar of Cadbury choc spread at B&M the other day. So much nicer than Nutella.

I definitely remember it. It was honey flavour spread, so not sure there was any honey in it - typical 1970s

In my head there was also a chocolate flavour spread. It was very dark, almost black and quite runny. I've googled and only found this Sainsburys version.

We had honey bear spread I think, it was a bit gritty like honey that had inverted. Also chocolate spread, I'm sure the chocolate spread was in a white and red tub and looked like that Sainsbury one but we didn't have a Sainsbury's just small Tesco, Co op and Downsway so couldn't have been that

Spent quite a lot of time on that page last night @Toseland but no luck with the bear pot honey

Actually it may have been Sunny spread as I was a child in the 60s, the chocolate spread I think was Cadbury's as someone upthread mentioned the white black and red pot, it was delicious, I used to have it really thickly spread on white bread with lots of butter. The sunny spread? Was like old cheap sugary honey but still nice

I buy it regularly from the health food shop

I think it was Sunny Spread but not of enough historical importance to warrant being preserved for prosperity on the internet in its tub form.

I'd forgotten about cheese spread in a jar. Sun Pat if I recall correctly. I liked it.

Then when microwaves became popular people we microwaving jars of cheese spread to make cheese sauce.

That was a bridge to far for me !

Look what’s just come up on my ads. I blame this thread.