Pining for discontinued foods! (lighthearted) rant!

[summerchild82]

About 20 years ago when I was at Uni, I lived opposite a LIDL (back when you had to find a carboard box to carry your stuff around!). They used to do a Ristorante Frutti Di Mare frozen pizza (I think it was 2 in a box) and it still pisses me off that it was discontinued. It wasn't just prawns, it had mussels and other stuff (possibly olives) on it. I still think about the bastard things today and I just thought there must be others who have their long lost foods.

Others for me are Brannigans crisps and more recently, Fries To Go! Oh how I could demolish some Fries To Go right now!

What are yours? Join in my rant :)

M&S spring onion crisps.

For me the veggie stuff that I did live that suddenly does no exist no more. The quorn lamb grills I did used to love years and years ago, or the quorn pork pie. The sausage patties etc. so much disappointing

My mum used to get us those mousses from Bejams. Quite a treat for us kids back then.

Ski frozen yoghurt- I loved this so much

Chocolate cake from Sayers. Only bought for special occasions. So chocolaty.

And I used to love cheese moments!

Fruit polos
and dr oetker chicken and spinach pizza.
it was the best

Cheap kwik save cheese and tomato pizza. Delicious.

Does anyone remember a bran cereal, probably 1980s... small curls like a letter C, very hard so never turned to mush, definitely sweetened a bit?

So like Apericubes? Yum I don’t remember.

Cadbury's Icebreaker chocolate.
Beef Wotsits
Quorn taco mince
Bachelor's Pasta & sauce Mushroom and wine flavour.

Ah you’re another lover of the Dr Oetker Pollo pizza 👍 I miss that pizza so much!!

Secret chocolate bars.
Steak flavour wotsits.
Spring onion flavour crisps.….think they were Golden Wonder.

Mexican Chilli Mcoys

Want a chicken and spinach pizza right now!

The Thai fragrant base pissed me off too, it just disappeared!

Always have to buy Apericubes whenever we're in France! Love those.

Debbie and Andrew’s pork sausages. Loved those - they were proper meaty.

Maggi papers for chicken. You can still get the bags, but not the papers infused in flavoured herbs and spices. I loved the garlic one.

Sweet and sour super noodles, and Sainsbury's prawn flavour noodles. I miss them so much! I used to mix tuna into the pawn noodles, and pineapple chunks into the sweet and sour ones. They've been gone for over a decade now. 😭

Walls Romantica ice cream cake - was a real treat when I was a student at uni in the 90s

I used to love these. They still do the steak ones but they're not as nice. The veggie/vegan section changes so much there's no point getting attached to things :(. Morrisons used to do amazing glamorgan sausages and vegetable burritos but no more.

Mint choc ices, loved these as a kid. The plain vanilla are just not the same.

Marble chocolate but then it was sold in B&M for a while, I was utterly delighted but it just wasn’t as great as I remembered! Mars Delight bars are always one I think about from time to time.

I also distinctly remember these Thomas the Tank Engine desserts. No one ever remembers them so I’m wondering if I made them up. They were like sweet pastry I guess filled with icing sugar, shaped like Thomas. I guess they went in the microwave to be heated.

Do you mean Farmhouse Bran (or something similar)? I loved that. I did find it once years ago and it had been rebranded as ‘(Something) Curls’. I used to eat it for breakfast and dry out of the packet for a tasty snack 😀

Not many people seem to remember Nutty Bars but I loved them and often think about them 😔
Also:
Cabana bars
Drifters
Banjos
Deltas
Smiths ready salted Chipsticks - they were one of my pregnancy cravings in 1994 and I still crave them!

Walkers ready salted Tear 'n' Share crisps - the ones where you were supposed to fold the bag into a kind of bowl for sharing. They were far superior to ordinary Walkers but didn't last long.

Going way back to the 70s, Apeel. A powdered orange drink that was mixed with water.

Just last month Frosted Wheats cereal discontinued 😭why kelloggs why!?

Apparently aldi do a dupe so I will try that but hands down best cereal and now gone.

I had one of their "new and improved " Feasts and was very disappointed. The whole point is the chocolate icecream and the solid choc middle, but this was white icecream with a more firm Nutella middle. Wish they would just leave the original as is and bring out a new flavour.

On threads like these, my much missed food is always a packet mousse, very similar to Angel Delight in how it's made but you use water instead and it was a light citrus mousse.
Lidl also had an instant cappuccino coffee in a couple of flavours, one was winter spiced and the other was a vanilla. I tried to eek out the ones I bought but it was a sad sad day when I had my last one