Foods from my childhood that I miss!

[Frosty6611]

AIBU to miss this Sara Lee Chocolate Gataeu SO MUCH?!

Also miss Cadbury Marble :-( :-( :-(

Pyramints
Tab coke
Treats the chocolates in a yellow bag before M&M's
chocolate cigarettes that came in a box to look real

Highland toffee (10p or thereabouts!!)

Penny (or even half penny) sweets :)

A decade or two later ... magnum chocolate bars (the best chocolate bar I've ever tasted! Never to taste again!!)

Oh and those smiths crisps where you add the salt (in a little blue bag) yourself!

Galaxy truffle eggs
Gypsy creams
Coconut boosts

Topper bars - around in the 80's, nobody EVER remembers these! They were smaller than other chocolate bars and were nougat, toffee, crispies and chocolate. Sort of a mars bar/toffee crisp hybrid.

Pacers. Those stripy chewy sweets and fruit polls which always stick together

High-fives to the poster who said school chicken supreme!! It was pretty much grey slop but it was damn tasty! Did every school in the UK have the same menu?

These! 😭

Anyone remember Looney Toons crisps with the characters on them?

Used to love these too

I will carry on missing Kunzel Cakes until the day that I die www.google.com/search?q=kunzle+cakes&oq=kunze&aqs=chrome.3.69i57j0l15.11756j1j4&sourceid=silk&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=a9cBfNOf2mNiVM:

Definitely Secret Bars...

Home Bargains do nerds and dweebs @litha

You can buy nerds from Wilkos.

I wished they’d bring Astros back.

I'd kill for one of these. I wish they still made them.

@PomBearWithoutHerOFRS wow, I've not seen them in years. Thought they'd gone. I shall definitely have a look next time I'm there 🙌🏻

This was my most favourite thing as a child 😍

KP WigWams

The coloured monster biscuits (can't remember the name of them but they had Red Devils, Orange Ogres, Green Gremlins, Lilac Loonies and Yellow Perils!)

Dracula ice lollies

Cresta strawberry pop

Pacers i.e. Opal Mints not Fruits (can't even remember the "new" name for OF; that's how old I am. Just that they were "made to make your mouth water".)

McVities Ginger Bread. Only I would buy one now and cut it in half across the top, so I could scoff all the gooey soft top to myself.

Mr. Kipling Manor House Cake. See above but for crunchy demerara sugar topping. Although that's probably fucked with the new low sugar mandate.

Funny Feet icecream lollies.

Cider, Lager and Lime and Cherry Brandy flavour lolly ices.

Chewy pink shrimp sweets (nearly typed sweeties; I've lived in Scotland for too long. )

My mum's ham shank with lentil and split pea soup

My mum's homemade blackberry (picked from hedges, obviously) pie, served with vanilla ice cream

My mum's mince and carrots and onions, served with mashed potato and tinned sweetcorn. Simple and filling.

There are more, but that's all for now.

@ohNoes they were called spooks

ProfessorMoody I spotted Trio bars in Co-Op the other day.

Anyone remember Fuse bars? they were Cadbury;s IIRC

Pringles don't taste the same either. I can't put my finger on what it is but they taste different. Stil good but nowhere near as good as before.

Why do "they" keeep messing with our food?

@SoSoFullTooMuchChoolate I've seen magnum chocolate bars recently. Home bargains I think, or similar. Wilko and B&M are other similar stores near me so could be them. Did you know they did an Easter egg too? Probably be out right after Christmas!

Also agree with whoever said the chewy sweets in the net bag, long fruit flavoured stick sweets in paper? So. Good.

I often think about soured cream and chive walkers I had at a fireworks night with the spice girls on the front. The ones I've tried since never taste the same.

Yes to mingles too. Visited a Lindt shop recently and their dark mint Lindor hit the spot.

Things mentioned on here that we sell in the shop i work in.
Rainbow Nerds
Jolly Ranchers
Pop Tarts
Sweet Tobacco (not in a pouch though)

We also have small bits of honeycomb covered in chocolate (Honeycomb Bites)

Were the fruits sweets in a net called Fruit Bonbons

I’ve seen Funny Feet for sale recently - might’ve been in a supermarket. I was on the hunt for Mini Milk, which I found.

I miss the vanilla Walls ice cream which came in small blocks in a wrapper. You unwrapped it and then had to manoeuvre it into a rectangular cornet or (for the pros) between two wafers.

And having Googled it, it seems to be made by Lyons Maid, with pre-decimalisation prices. So clearly I am older than I thought I was.