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 :)

Vesta Beef Risotto, not risotto & probably vegan, but a delicious memory from childhood!

Those and the Californian Corn Chips...God I miss both so much!

Spiras were good..and Mint Wispas!

Yes! Someone else who remembers them!

I would also like to add, boddingtons and pickle flavour cheddar to the list

Was it Golden Nuggets? Can you still buy Golden Grahams? I’d forgotten those!

https://ifoodsuk.com/products/cadbury-turkish-delight-180g?variant=34565877104776&country=GB&currency=GBP&utm_medium=productsync&utmsource=google&utmcontent=sagorganic&utmcampaign=sagorganic&srsltid=AfmBOoo8ghArXXB3uXaoUxWuT5pIxKRauwfTpKZOJt4AsPgHwIj6S-WHCow

:-)

And I think can still get the sauce?

Iceland do the fires to go are Birds Eye ones e £2 for a pack of 2

Ribena Spring and Ribena Twist. I also loved a bit of Sunny D.
Bar Six.

> Sainsbury's fragrant Thai base
My sainos still has it, and you can get it if you order online

My mum used to keep a tin of biscuits for snacks when we got home from school, and there was a definite hierarchy - Wagon Wheels were like winning the lottery, and Viscounts, Yo Yos and Clubs were elite, as were Tunnocks caramel wafers (or more usually the Sainsbury’s dupes).

Blue Riband were next, but they barely touched the sides so you’d always be trying to wrangle another one. And sometimes it’d be the Biscuit Tin of Sadness if you opened it and the only things in there were Penguins (nicest thing about them was the coloured foil) or, worse, custard creams 😭 - such a sinking feeling of disappointment!

Amazing! Thank you ❤️

I wish you nothing but joy for the rest of your life for the joy you have bought to mine by pointing out Worcester sauce flavour french fries still exist! 🥳😘

When that was brought out for us 70s kids you knew you must be ill.
Blanket on the settee
Beano
Lucozade
Mr.Ben on TV.

Spangles - they were a roll of square fruit hard boiled sweets that looked like Tunes cough sweets. I had them in the 70s as a kid. Similarly, fruit polos.

when I was a teenager I worked in McDonalds at weekends and they used to do a chocolate glaze ring doughnut and root beer. I miss those!

I bought some Feasts on our shopping this week and theyve changed the recipe so it doesn't even taste like a feast anymore. They swapped the layer of choc ice cream with vanilla ice cream.

Not quite the same as missing discontinued items but frustrating

Thanks my user name is a Northern soul record.

Toffos, Spangles & Heinz golden syrup or jam sponge in a tin

OMG Yes!!!

Gutted at the sneaky discontinuing of Gentleman's Relish while my back was turned. The sadness.

Spira, Secret and red Bounty.

Salt and vinegar Quavers.

M&S chocolate covered cornflakes that came in a bag on the till end caps, haven’t seen those since 2002ish but I ate loads of them!

Thornton’s bags of chocolate covered Special Toffee.

And Morrison’s used to do a pasta ready meal that was a chicken/cheese/red pepper Alfredo sort of deal that I used to buy for work lunch once a week back in 2004 or so. I’ve got a close-ish homemade replica but it’s not quite the same.

You can still get the chocolate cups in traditional sweet shops.lve seen them in Cleethorpes and Mablethorpe.

same for me and I was a 50's kid

Came here to say exactly this!!

Was literally just looking online for them today and they're nowhere - they were so, so, good I WILL NOT BE TAKING QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME.

'Tobacco' it came in a pouch and was brown strands, I think it tasted like coconut. Jubblies', Mintolas, they maybe still make those though, penny wafers, and those packets of sweet, multicoloured rice crispy like things, I think they were called Rainbow drops?

Theyre the shard of potato style crisps.The maize ones are only available in salt and vinegar

@ConstanzeMozart I think the "cold" thing was because they had glucose powder in them. I had a phase in puberty when my blood sugar used to drop like a stone, no idea why and docs never found anything but for a couple of years, I used to have to carry glucose tablets around with me. They have the same coldness thing.
On from those little cups, does anyone remember a sweet in a tiny coneshaped plastic cup/glass....by tiny I mean around an inch and a half high with a tiny spoon linked to the cup. The cup was filled with a solid creme in laters, chocolate pink and white. I am doing up an old dollhouse now and collecting miniature things....wish I had kept some of the cups....