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 :)

Asda do their own version..ice cream roll it's hit and miss if stores have it.
Good luck.

Oh no!! That stuff is elite :(

I came here to say I would like a ham and mushroom toast topper! Also, secret bars, spira, cheese niblets (I think they were called.. they were wheels with a squirrel on the packet), Hamwich with the layer of cheese not the cheese dotted throughout and a thing my mum used to get in the late 80s called superwhip which was like a low fat frozen cream thing weight watchers used to recommend!

Bath Oliver biscuits

I used to make a simple cheesecake
with icing sugar
cream cheese and
vanilla angel delight

Can’t get that angel delight anywhere these days

Then
huge jars of gooseberries. Safeways used to do them.

I miss texan bars aswell

I saw these in home bargains last week, maybe they’re making a comeback

OMG yes the chocolate fudge cake was the absolute best, my mums friend would always have it for dessert for us when we used to go there for lunch! Probably going back about 28 years now!

Wall's Sky Bar, hardly anyone seems to remember them because I think they were only around a couple of years in the early-mid 90s. Imagine a frozen Wispa/Aero (bubbly choc tube) surrounded by vanilla ice cream and enrobed in more chocolate so sort of like a choc ice with a Twirl finger down the middle 😂

The original time outs.

The version that we have available today is nothing like what they used to be! I miss them so much 😩

The original milky way. Please bring it back ....with no sodding palm oil either.

Worcester Sauce flavour Twiglets

Salt and Vinegar Dairylea Dunkers

Nescafe Gold Blend (before they changed it 😭)

Made by Rowntree I think - caramel filled chocolate eggs as an alternative to a standard easter egg. Individually wrapped in pink and orange foil. Gifted by my family in North England, best Easter treats ever.

I loved that stuff! It was a treat in our house, especially with a blob of jam plonked right on top in the middle of the bowl. 😋

Kellogg’s Puffa Puffa Rice cereal

Ben and Jerry’s Coffee coffee buzz buzz buzz ice cream - dd2 recently found this in Australia

Spare Rib crisps. No one ever remembers these. Sold in our school tuck shop late 80s. Fancy black shiny packaging.

Coffee walnut whips

Yes, I was going to say these too.

Gah, failed to quote. I’m referring to Pacers.

Chocolate cup cakes with thick smooth and flat icing on top. They were in fluted foil type cases. Delicious and I miss them. I think they were Lyons? There were always little bits of the icing left on the case which I would lick off!

They do sound similar! Pims also had a vaguely 'Bakewell' taste!

Fruit club biscuits in purple wrapping.

Mars Delight.

Neapolitan chocolates.

Tesco vegetable plait in the bakery section.

I've looked everywhere for tinned celery but can't find it anywhere. Absolutely love it.
I also like Muller light vanilla yoghurt but can only ever find the vanilla with chocolate sprinkles which just isn't the same.

Dipping into a cup of tea and letting the chocolate melt in your mouth. I used to get one every Sunday with my papers.

Delrosa is a name that i haven’t heard of for years!

Oh I used to love Tiger Tots, little mini liquorice allsorts! And there were Bunny Tots which were like tiny Tootie Frooties. My mum used to buy me a packet from the shop next to the hairdressers when she went to get her hair cut, they had the full 'tots' range and I had too choose which one!

Apparently there were also Teddy Tots. I had forgotten all these other tots existed but I don't remember Teddy Tots at all, what were they?

Mr Kipling apple and custard pies. I think you could also get a variety box, so maybe 3 apples and custard, and 3 apple, blackberry and custard. That little splodge of bright yellow custard inside was soooo good.

I loved those!

This thread is making me sad. Kind of. In a lighthearted way. 😆