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 :)

My dh still gets disproportionately cross when he can't find Golden Crinkle CrunchBiscuits and regularly goes searching for them, despite them.being discontinued about 96. I know you can get cream ones but apparently they are Not The Same.
My dsis asked me to bring her(several) bags of Clarnico Mint Creams when I visited her in Australia last year. Again they were discontinued about 12 years ago. I miss them even though I rarely bought them.

Passion cake was rebranded as Carrot Cake
I remember having a huge slice in Camden Lock.about that time

Oh, and Weight Watchers chicken and mushroom pasta. I was skinny then, and wasn’t eating them for weight loss, so would eat two of them

What fruit polos have gone as well?!

Terrys used to do a chocolate sweet like two hazelnut in caramel halves in the shape of a walnut or hazelnut maybe . Covered in gold foil.
I only remember them being around at Christmas .

Seabrooks spring onion flavour crisps and Rowntrees Cabana bar.

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Is Passion Cake a carrot cake with added crushed pineapple ?

One year, about 20 years ago, I found an Easter egg which was white chocolate with tiny little refreshers in (the pastel coloured fizzy sweets, not the chewy bars). It was surprisingly delicious and they have never made one since, as far as I know.

Coffee custard creams. They had round circles on top of the biscuit have t had it for 20 years.

I'm ...ahem...around about this age and I've never recovered from the 1967 withdrawal of Kelloggs Sugar Stars. Ice cold milk = Heaven in a bowl. I have teeth as a direct result of this marketing move though so there's an upside !

Peppermint Wispa.

Marvellous cure for pregnancy nausea

Phineas Fogg Garlic Croutons - very grown up and the garlic taste stayed with you for days!

Sara Lee Pecan Danish, it was frozen and my mum cooked it for dessert every Sunday, it was amazing!

Are these like the M and S Deltas? Very much missed.

Also the M and S roast chicken sandwich

ready salted chipsticks 😢
pyramints 😢

Oh yes! They were little puffy things but not like rice crispies.
I saw a quote about Thorntons. Just about everything. Boxes of toffee in different flavours with.random sized chunks. Do you know they are uniform sized and individually wrapped? And taste awful. Cream mice. And continentals...I'd buy a quarter on.a friday night, eat some on.the bus then the rest id share with mum and dad. I used to be given the continental casket for special occasions- solid chocolate base, nougat walls and filled with continentals.

I found Mint Cracknel in a specialist South African food shop a couple of years ago.

So good

In the early 2000s the Co-op made a blueberry ice cream with cinnamon biscuit pieces. It was divine and I still think about it!

Bounty Dark. Absolute travesty that they're gone.

Pasta n Sauce Mushroom and Wine was immense, I've been pinning for over a decade! The only decent flavour.

I used to eat those in the '70s. Proper old school

Also what happened to Sweet and Sour Super Noodles?!

Original walkers cheese and onion and salt and vinegar crisps! They were a bit greasy but much better than the ones they have now! Just had some crisps in France and they were similar to dry baked ones - revolting!

I'm sure when Pot Noodles first came out (mid 80s maybe?) there was a cheese and tomato one. Bloody lovely!

And I still mourn the red Bounty bar...

Also, was there a cereal consisting of little balls? A bit like Golden Grahams, maybe a precursor to those.

that stll exists

Toffos but only because of the banana one.

My mum couldn't bake, she'd get us the Sara Lee choc gateaux every birthday, still fond memories :-)