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 :)

yup, sweet tobacco. I hated coconut so never bought it.

In my youth I loved a can of Britvic lime Citrus Spring. And Schweppes blackcurrant cordial like the pubs used to use!
Does anyone remember bacon Fries? In a pink newspaper printed pack. With the texture of chipsticks?

Sainsbury's did a chilli con carne lasagne with nachos on top back in the 80s, it was delicious.

I loved citrus spring

You still get rainbow drops my 20 year old son loves them and I got him some for his birthday

Toasted coconut Toblerone bars - especially the giant ones you buy in duty free.

Tesco’s smoked hummus - there are other brands doing smoked hummus, but none as nice as the Tesco one - I could have lived on that.

Oh - and Boots Catarrh Cough Mixture - basically sugar syrup that tasted of creosote - I know it sounds atrocious, and I’m sure it didn’t really do much, but I loved the taste.

Anyone remember a chocolate bar (80s) with a pale yellow honeycomb-like filling, a bit like a Crunchie but far lighter and nicer, and quite cheap. The wrapper was blue, yellow and red I think. Loved those.

Available on ocado, Amazon and eBay.

I remember those!

Sweets made to look like tobacco products
Sweetie fags with the red tip
Chocolate fags that came in a soft pack and looked like a real cig.
Can't imagine that now somehow.

I have been trying to remember my favourite and it’s taken me to page 17 - Phinneas Fogg again but mine were the Pastrami Bagel Chips ….super savoury tasty treats that were so rock hard my dentist was extremely happy🥴.

I loved the chocolate cigarettes, @JoyLoveJoyInOrbitNsoul!

Exactly. On all fronts. That spiral choc bar was special. Just as a flake is special. Shape seems critical.

I remember that casket from Thornton, it was delicious.

Yes!!!! Golden nuggets!! That's what they were!

The same happens if you pour melted chocolate onto ice cream

Raspberry Angel Delight

Dairy Milk before the palm oil.

You also used to get "smokers sets" made of cheap chocolate moulded into pipes, cigars, ashtrays and so on and wrapped in printed foil.....unthinkable now. This from X

I'm so glad someone else remembers this !!! DH is English and thinks I made this up and couldn't possibly be real. ! It was great.

Ready salted chip sticks im still fuming

For anyone who misses mignons morceaux enough to have a stab at making them!

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Lilt.

Screwballs I think they were called - a plastic cone with a ball of chewing gum on the bottom and ice cream on top. Only from an ice-cream can. The last time I saw one of those was in the 1990s, when I spotted a poor squirrel with one of the cones stuck on its head.

Previous posters mentioning Thorntons have reminded me of their chocolate toffee - not ordinary toffee coated in chocolate, but chocolate flavour toffee - I loved it, and they haven’t done it for a decade now. Probably for the best, given my waistline is more of an equator now! 😂

I enjoyed fruit allsorts. I HATE licorice so the fruit ones were amazing to me. I was born in 91 but theres been a few things that have gone that I once enjoyed.
Dark chocolate bounty - I love the bounty from the christmas chocs!
The snowy flake I think it was.
Some one mentioned laughing cow squares - that was only recent wasnt it? Knowing my way of viewing passing of time it was probably 10-15 years ago though. Seriously strong used to make them too but not seen those for years either. They were handy instead of opening a big tub.