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Your favourite crap food from the 90s and 00s

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ThisCraftyHelper · 30/05/2025 20:01

What’s your favourite crap food from 90s and 00s? Utterly UPF and would not dare eat now?
Mine:
Findus crispy pancakes
Bernard Matthew’s Turkey dinosaurs
Frufoo yogurts
Sunny D
Virgin cola
Campino sweets
Freddy bar that were 10p
pop tarts
fish Fingers, beans and microwave chips

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scotchbonnetface · 30/05/2025 20:34

Micro noodles
those yogurts with a space man in the middle?
findus lasagna 🐴
marble and fuse bars
cockles

ThisCraftyHelper · 30/05/2025 20:34

Polaopposite · 30/05/2025 20:30

Those individual yogurts that had monster feet on the pot. Can’t remember the name, something monster?

Fiendish feet? I can’t remember them but googled it.

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feelingbleh · 30/05/2025 20:35

Alphabites, jetters, Billy bear, them little pots of raspberry ripple mousses/ice cream , pop tarts. Abbey crunch biscuits.

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Polaopposite · 30/05/2025 20:36

Yes! Fiendish Feet!

EnjoythemoneyJane · 30/05/2025 20:37

Just tried to google the Ginster’s thing and it comes up as an MN thread reminiscing about the ‘Pasty Italiano’. Lotta love out there for the pasta pie!

FlightCommanderPRJohnson · 30/05/2025 20:37

Phileas Fogg snacks, especially 'Punjab Puri'.

ShinySquirrel · 30/05/2025 20:39

French bread pizzas were amazing.

PlumFairies · 30/05/2025 20:40

Anything from Kwik Save!
Fray Bentos Meatballs in a tin!
Hedgehog Flavour Crisps!
Rice Paper Money!
Sherbert Flying Saucers!

The 90s were the best!

Lindajonesjustcantlivemylife · 30/05/2025 20:41

ShinySquirrel · 30/05/2025 20:39

French bread pizzas were amazing.

I remember just underneath the cheese crust the sauce was like molten lava.
Took the skin off my lip 😢

Seagullsandsausagerolls · 30/05/2025 20:41

Alphabites no sleepover was complete without a bag.

Tudor Crisps especially Salt and Vinegar and Pickled Onion.

Monster Munch did a Salt and Vinegar briefly in 1988. Amazing.

The pots of peach Melba you got in the freezer shop.

More 80s I guess but green Quosh in a picnic cup and put in the freezer for an hour. Mix with a spoon and home made slushy 😂.

Dressed Pims at Christmas in the 80s (mine was Coke) with sugar round the glass on Christmas night. My uncle made the best ones ever.

feelingbleh · 30/05/2025 20:42

Them chocolate cigarettes i use to love them when I was pushing my doll in her pushchair playing single mums pretend smoking and pretending tic tacs where my meds 🤣🤣 the 90s where funny

skilpadde · 30/05/2025 20:44

Vesta chicken curry
Heinz sandwich spread (in the jar)
Heinz vegetable salad (in the tin)
Angel Delight… always butterscotch
Kia-Ora

Polaopposite · 30/05/2025 20:45

Those packets of, almost spherical, biscuit that were kind of wafer like with chocolate inside and they had images ‘printed’ on each individual one. I say printed but was almost like it was lasered on, so was just a darker brown compared to the wafer.

CombatBarbie · 30/05/2025 20:46

Um bungo juice!! 10p mix bags and the proper sweet shop which weighed your sweets!

One thing I do really miss is the fangs which were covered in a powder. I've tried various versions over the years but none compare. Oh and I'm sure green turtles were more tangy than they are today.

cremebruleee · 30/05/2025 20:48

Oh yes those little crispy ham & cheese pancakes! I found one at the back of my freezer recently.

Ooo Lauren is so cross!

cremebruleee · 30/05/2025 20:49

I used to eat a lot of garibaldis in the 90’s because my dad loved them dipped in his coffee.

Lindajonesjustcantlivemylife · 30/05/2025 20:49

cremebruleee · 30/05/2025 20:48

Oh yes those little crispy ham & cheese pancakes! I found one at the back of my freezer recently.

Ooo Lauren is so cross!

Think they were called hamwhiches?

BCBird · 30/05/2025 20:49

I used to eat Beanfeast when I was at uni- grim now. Loved fishfinger, mash and beans too. Loved chicken and bacon crispy pancakes. Would not touch any of these now😂

DivaDroid08 · 30/05/2025 20:49

Polaopposite · 30/05/2025 20:45

Those packets of, almost spherical, biscuit that were kind of wafer like with chocolate inside and they had images ‘printed’ on each individual one. I say printed but was almost like it was lasered on, so was just a darker brown compared to the wafer.

Cartoonies! Not thought of them in years! Home Bargains/B&M have something like them called Hello Panda (or something like that)

BCBird · 30/05/2025 20:51

Remember the Umbongo ad' . Umbongo they drink it in the Congo'😂

BCBird · 30/05/2025 20:52

Would Spam Fritters that you can buy be an upmarket version of Hamwiches? 😅

ladymalfoy45 · 30/05/2025 20:54

Ketchips. They stopped making them because people were burning their mouths.
Sara Lee double chocolate gateaux
Barbeque Pork Steaks
Aunty Lin's Crispy Peking Duck from Safeway. It had sliced leeks instead of spring onions.
Gypsy Creams
Boutoni Ravioli because there was meat in the sauce.
Finally, local curry places that actually made the curry from scratch rather than chucking a jar of sauce in with whatever veg or protein you've opted for.
I've finally found a place in town that does proper curries but it's been a 17 year quest.

Polaopposite · 30/05/2025 20:56

DivaDroid08 · 30/05/2025 20:49

Cartoonies! Not thought of them in years! Home Bargains/B&M have something like them called Hello Panda (or something like that)

Cartoonies! Thank you!

HaddyAbrams · 30/05/2025 20:58

Crispy pancakes. I bought some for DC a few years ago. They were awful with barely any filling!

DS2 loves the tinned meatballs. I cooked fresh ones once in homemade sauce. He said they were too meaty Grin He's usually a total meat fiend, the more the better as far as he's concerned! Except when it comes to crappy tinned meatballs Hmm

MrsApplepants · 30/05/2025 20:58

Fiendish feet
mini kievs
super noodles ( still love these)
Discos
crispy pancakes
french break pizzas
beanfeast
mr Freeze and 10 fags for lunch when I was 17

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