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Products they stopped that need to come back

487 replies

TreeSturgeon · 03/08/2025 23:52

Many years ago Marks & Spencer sold a cheese and apple sandwich. It was grated cheese mixed with some kind of mayonnaise and with chunks of apple. It was amazing. Then it stopped and it never returned.

Would I be unreasonable to email their head office to ask for them to reintroduce it?

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ChimbarasiKotapaxi · 04/08/2025 03:11

In my branch we can still buy the cheese and celery sandwich - which is indeed delicious

slashlover · 04/08/2025 03:17

Burtons Potato Puffs were a staple of my childhood.

Products they stopped that need to come back
SheReallyLikes · 04/08/2025 03:27

AHS1996 · 04/08/2025 00:05

They still do it in some stores, I see it quite regularly in my local one 😊

That cheese and celery sandwich IS NOT THE SAME as the old one, which was delicious.
The nearest I once came to it was primula cheese spread with herbs in it ( I think it had herbs) grated cheese and a nice peppery celery.

SheReallyLikes · 04/08/2025 03:30

I could do with some Tyrozets, antibiotic ( tiny amount) throat lozenges.
Very handy for sore throats for years !

ForestFox44 · 04/08/2025 03:32

ItsameLuigi · 04/08/2025 00:43

Those Milky bars that were like a fudge bar. So good

Yes!!! Moo choos or moo chews! I absolutely loved these and even sent an email asking for them to please make them again. I've been saying this for years and no one else knows what im talking about!!!

SparklyEmeraldShoes · 04/08/2025 03:43

Fairy Household Soap (the big green one) and Fairy Snow washing powder. The scent was incredibly good - the essence of clean. My mum used Fairy Snow and clothes smelled beautiful, I've never come across that clean scent since.

The modern Fairy washing powder/liquid and Fairy conditioner smell nothing like it, I find them quite sickly sweet.

pecanpiee · 04/08/2025 03:44

M&s custard doughnuts were amazing.

Lurkingandlearning · 04/08/2025 03:59

CalzoneOnLegs · 04/08/2025 02:55

@Lurkingandlearning D&G Light Blue? It’s still made, or do you mean another fragrance by them

Wow that’s the one. It was a someone in the perfume shop who told me it was discontinued.

Thank you

PennyRest · 04/08/2025 04:02

M&S lean ham brown roll with pineapple and I think a pepper mayo. I loved it and it’s never come back 😞
Waitrose do an acceptable Cheese&Celery but it’s not as good as M&S’s.

Pacers sweets

Those soaps shaped like a lemon

Japanese Washing Grains- it was probably in the late 80s could get these in the Body Shop.

I’m sure there used to be a chocolate bar like a toffee crisp but with raisins- they should get that back pronto.

WiddlinDiddlin · 04/08/2025 04:03

I've a list...

Smiths Cheese Moments - marmitey crunchy outside, deliciously soft cheesey inside.

Smiths Chipsticks - Ready Salted flavour. The best, why on earth discontinue it?!

Bernard Matthews Cheese Hamwich - yes they are still around but they changed from a triangle of reconstituted ham flavoured turkey with very cheesey processed cheese on top, wrapped in breadcrumbs, to a triangle of reconstituted ham flavoured turkey mush, with snippets of cheesey stuff mixed in... wrapped in breadcrumbs.. and are now disgusting. I mean the original thing was pretty vile but they were... moreish ... The replacements are just vomitworthy.

Turkey twizzlers, whatever was in that saucey coating, I need it back in my life.

Niknaks Cheese flavour. Cheetos crunchy are a close second but they're not as 'sweaty feet' cheese as the Niknaks were.

Spira - obviously.

Pacers - chewy mints, last seen in the mid 80s.

HurdyGurdy19 · 04/08/2025 04:07

Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia Ice Cream.

Creamola Foam. Small tin of some kind of crystals. You added a teaspoonful to a glass of water to make a drink.

M&S Potato Deltas. Triangular shaped cross between a crisp and a cheesy biscuit. No other similar biscuit comes close.

ChocolateCinderToffee · 04/08/2025 04:08

Vidal Sassoon almond scented shampoo. Came in a dark red bottle.
M&S mini chocolate cakes with half a walnut on which they sold in the 60s.
Pret A Manger vegan hummus and red pepper sandwich with bearnaise on walnut bread
Body Shop strawberry and sea salt body shampoo. In fact, the Body Shop as it was in 1975 with refillable bottles and hand-written labels

maldivemoment · 04/08/2025 04:09

Kelloggs Start.

ChocolateCinderToffee · 04/08/2025 04:12

PennyRest · 04/08/2025 04:02

M&S lean ham brown roll with pineapple and I think a pepper mayo. I loved it and it’s never come back 😞
Waitrose do an acceptable Cheese&Celery but it’s not as good as M&S’s.

Pacers sweets

Those soaps shaped like a lemon

Japanese Washing Grains- it was probably in the late 80s could get these in the Body Shop.

I’m sure there used to be a chocolate bar like a toffee crisp but with raisins- they should get that back pronto.

Bronnley lemon soap https://bronnley.co.uk/products/single-fine-milled-lemon-soap?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22822797972&gbraid=0AAAABASqzLkQ3Y3veWXVtR6P69aPBasAe&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0IHcn5fwjgMVY4BQBh0SPQQxEAAYASAAEgJrePD_BwE

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clickyteeclick · 04/08/2025 04:13

M&S are bringing back a chicken tikka sandwich in the old St Micheals packaging. If you look at their insta page loads of people are requesting the cheese and apple one do you never know!

ChessieFL · 04/08/2025 04:25

Another M&S sandwich - tuna melt. It was a tuna sandwich with a cheesy topping. 25 years later I still look out for it in case they’ve brought it back. There was also a beef and onion sandwich on onion bread that I loved.

Fuse bars

Supermousse

Clarnico Mint Creams

Pascals Fruit Bonbons

Body Shop Fuzzy Peach range

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ayepecking · 04/08/2025 04:33

blackbunny · 03/08/2025 23:54

M&S did a cheese and celery sandwich, that was so tasty.

@blackbunny I had one recently cos the vegetarian options in M & S are not great.

WiddlinDiddlin · 04/08/2025 04:46

@PennyRest Wow.... I honestly started to think I had dreamed the ham and pineapple roll from M&S.

The other thing I have never forgiven them for was the jam filled YumYum... got them twice... never stocked them again. They were illegal levels of delicious. Probably a good thing tbh but... ugh, they get you hooked on something then STOP!

HelenaWaiting · 04/08/2025 04:55

The original Special K. Yes, I know it's about 12 years since the new recipe, but I'm not over it😥

Spartak · 04/08/2025 04:57

Chicken Tonight Peppercorn sauce
Birds Hot banana crunch
Secret chocolate bar - was a bit like a chocolate shredded wheat with mousse inside.

BeanQuisine · 04/08/2025 05:00

Dartmoorcheffy · 04/08/2025 00:13

Toast toppers

Here, have 4p off.

^^

Products they stopped that need to come back
Nugg · 04/08/2025 05:06

MrsClatterbuck · 04/08/2025 02:28

M&S egg and tomato sandwiches with salad cream and coronation chicken. Plus the sub rolls especially the beef and onion ones.
Would live to visit an M&S store in England because I'm not sure if stuff we used to get is no more cos of Brexit and the Irish Sea Border. You sometimes see items with labels saying not for the EU.

The egg tomato and salad cream sandwich is still going strong! I have one most weeks

BeanQuisine · 04/08/2025 05:12

BasiliskStare · 04/08/2025 01:16

Maille Bearnaise sauce in jars - just why ? I cannot find one as good . I'd love to know why they stopped it. Progress eh ? 😂

It was very good and very convenient. Just disappeared from the shelves.

dEdiCatEdFeliNeEntHusiAst · 04/08/2025 05:16

PrincessHoneysuckle · 04/08/2025 00:32

Ready salted chipsticks.Surely easier to make than salt and vinegar as one less ingredient

Oh how I miss Ready Salted Chipsticks.

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