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If you could bring back one discontinued food item what would it be?

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Caramel78 · 04/02/2020 11:25

Mine would definitely be the Marble chocolate bar

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BedStuy · 05/02/2020 08:40

@Marahute was it Flyte?

namewhatname · 05/02/2020 08:50

Lyons Maid Cornish Mivvi.
Highland Toffee, tooth destroying but delicious.
Smith's Ready Salted Chipsticks.
Marks made a potato snack, triangle shaped - were they Deltas? Flat, crisp, not too salty, terribly moreish.
There was a puffed snack with a texture similar to Quavers but not as aerated, with the pieces about 2 cm each. They were coated with a light toffee flavour and had a light sprinkling of crushed peanuts on them and were painfully good. Were they Toffee Puffs? I'd know the packet straight away, haven't seen them for more than 35 years.
The Bird's hot crunch puddings were dangerously good, especially the lemon.
Cadbury's Roses are now pants. They never should have got rid of the mini Dairy Milk bars or changed the twisty wrappers.

SapatSea · 05/02/2020 08:55

Callard &Bowser's Butterscotch

MilkTrayLimeBarrel · 05/02/2020 09:13

Fruit Polos
Lyon's orange and lemon cup cakes

Waspnest · 05/02/2020 09:29

Coffee walnut whip

Bunionbandit I was so happy when M&S brought out a cappuccino walnut whip but they seem to have discontinued that and only do the original or bloody salted caramel.

Oh and that Callard and Bowser butterscotch, that was lovely, especially when the edges started going gooey.

PrincessHoneysuckle · 05/02/2020 09:36

Vesta beef risotto,I thought I was v posh eating that back in the day

PrincessHoneysuckle · 05/02/2020 09:38

Campino sweets strawberry or peach flavour.They were creamy tasting hard boiled sweets

tiramisususu · 05/02/2020 09:41

Toast toppers
Chesswood creamed mushrooms
Ribena before they removed the sugar so it tastes disgusting

IntermittentParps · 05/02/2020 10:01

Oinks were good, they were the hollow pig shaped snacks iirc. That's Piglets. Mention of Oinks just made me think of other pig-themed things!

Waspnest · 05/02/2020 10:16

Were toast toppers those frozen rectangles of God-knows-what that were supposed to be like Welsh Rarebit? They reminded me of sick.

Clevs · 05/02/2020 10:17

@PrincessPain
I used to love citrus polos too!

Caramel78 · 05/02/2020 10:19

Does anyone remember these?

If you could bring back one discontinued food item what would it be?
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AngusDuck · 05/02/2020 10:20

I do! Loved those when I was younger.

SerenDippitty · 05/02/2020 10:20

Chocolate Ovaltine.

Caramel78 · 05/02/2020 10:20

Or these

If you could bring back one discontinued food item what would it be?
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Enb76 · 05/02/2020 10:21

Flamin' Hot Monster Munch

Jabba2020 · 05/02/2020 10:25

Spira
Burtons potato puffs

Buddywoo · 05/02/2020 10:25

The old style Black Magic chocolates. Where the hell has the coffee cream gone, it was so delicious.

AttilaTheMeerkat · 05/02/2020 10:26

M & S venison pie
Still fanta orange
Cadburys Flake snow bar
Applause

nicslackey · 05/02/2020 10:26

Cabana (Cabanna?) coconut and cherries and Amazin' Raisin and I totally know I am showing my age!! Ooh! Texan, Mint Cracknell and Icebreaker

Blamangeatrois · 05/02/2020 10:41

Strawberry Quosh thought it was nectar Grin

etherealbeauty · 05/02/2020 10:44

Batchelors mushroom & red wine pasta sachet

caperplips · 05/02/2020 10:46

I am a child of the 70's and I loved 'mix-ups' - small paper bags of premixed penny (and halfpenny!) sweets. If I was choosing my own I would always get fizzle sticks and cola bottles. But I had a special love for fizzle sticks! I wish you could get them still.

As a more expensive treat I also loved the milk tray chocolate bar, frys 5 centers and my Irish grandad had another one I LOVED called Two and Two Bar by Irish company Urney, it was deeeeeeelicious!

He also loved callard and bowser butter scotch, bournville chocolate, jamacian rum chocolate and iced caramel Pink & White sweets

In the summer time I loved Dracula Ice pops (black outside and red jelly centre) or JR Pops - orange and red came out after JR Ewing was shot Grin I KNOW they were a thing but I can't find a picture of them, They were red and orange coloured ice pops

As very small child I loved pink panther bars too

I also loved vesta chicken curry, boil in the bag. The first 'exotic' food I tasted and made such a welcome change from the tyranny of my mother's meat and 2 veg.

As a teen I loved Tea-Time Express cakes in my grandparents house, especially the chocolate layered cake or the coffee one - wish I could still have them

In my 20's I adored the M&S vacuum packed 'brunch in a box' - called something like egg and bacon hash. They didn't need a fridge! I kept them in my flat for emergency weekend morning hangovers and they were delicious, I wish they still made them!

I was fond of a peppermint patty, weekend chocolates, dairy box chocolates - my mother loved boxes of chocolates and was often given them by my father and we loved the thrill of opening them to see all the very tempting sweets laid out. I especially loved the fruit flavoured ones.

I miss the treats of my past Sad

Nowisthemonthofmaying · 05/02/2020 10:53

@RUSU92 Entenmanns still exists, but it's a US company which is probably why you can't find it over here very easily. I had one of their cakes when I was in the States last year and it was delish!

I miss lemon Polos - so good even if they made your tongue go a bit funny

Wafflehouse · 05/02/2020 10:55

Reminded of this by the mention of muller choc yogurts, Muller used to make a big pot of yogurt it was called thick and creamy and it was vanilla flavour. Nothing else is as nice as that was.

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