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 :)

@BoogieVoogieAllNightLong I don't remember Teddy Tots either but I just googled and found an Instagram post saying that they were like the shiny coloured cube things that are part of dolly mixtures, but were subsequently replaced in the range by Bunny Tots which I definitely do remember

@bendmeoverbackwards so few people seem to remember Puffa Puffa Rice, it was amazing!

Off-topic but I don't suppose your username is a Victoria Wood reference?

@PutYourSpecsOnJean Thanks, no memory of those at all!

I'm still mourning something very short lived from about 1980, pretty much the same time as toast toppers arrived on the scene. It was a thin, square frozen sheet that you put under the grill on a piece of toast and it was called Grillers. Don't remember the spelling but there was a gorilla in the advert. I was a pizza fiend so I loved the pizza flavour but alas they didn't last long. There was originally a pizza flavour toast topper too that went by the wayside but it wasn't a patch on Grillers.

@ballroompink Pim's are made by Lu and sold in France in several flavours, you might be able to find them online?

You've reminded me of the Fabulous Bakin Boys ones, the lemon and orange ones were lovely.

At least we were able to have all the delights of yester year..70s kid.

United biscuit bars. Used to have these in my school lunch box. And to find any without the biscuit just pure choc!!

Yes it is! I was (still am) a huge VW fan and miss her every day 😢

Omg you could get this in Tesco, only place I found it, I actually saw it recently on the shelf but I stopped buying it coz it doubled in price! I used to buy it weekly. I've just looked on the app and it's gone :(
Maybe still check just incase... Coz I definitely saw it in our local one just a few weeks ago.

My DH still laments the loss of Start cereal!!

Glucose powder, eh? I'm another one wondering how, having grown up in the 70s and 80s, I still have teeth/am alive

I don't remember the sweets in a tiny coneshaped plastic cup/glass. I'd love to know what they were.

Oh, me too! I was listening to her song in the car only last night and thinking it's been a while since I watched any of the stand up.
(My name comes from dinnerladies which I rewatch annually, I have a date worked out to start series 1 which means I can watch series 2 on their original broadcast dates!!)

That’s a lovely thing to do @PutYourSpecsOnJean love dinnerladies

Look up Hannah Brackenbury - she performs VW songs and also writes her own comedy songs

Yes! And it's the only Club they've discontinued. Haven't RTFT yet, but Toast Toppers anyone?

I've just remembered something else, those frozen packets of Ross oriental express stir fry. Especially the prawn one, which had water chestnuts in it! It had a very distinctive taste that I couldn't identify and I loved them!

Told mum I liked them that and king ribs..god got them all the bloody time.

Yes, they were Lyons - 4 in a pack. The made orange and lemon ones too which were my favourite! Also McVitie's Mallows were delicious!

Bassets fruit allsorts - the ones without liquorice. Devine!

I worked on the development and launch of Time Out, back in the day when I worked in a marketing consultancy. The reason it was withdrawn/changed into its current iteration was that (I believe) it was too similar to another Cadbury brand, Twirl ,in terms of when it would be eaten, and started stealing share from what was deemed to be a strategically more important brand.

Which is a great shame as it was a really good product. The current version is nothing like it.

(I also worked on Fuse, but don't know why that was withdrawn!)

A few things that have been mentioned

the person asking about Bath Oliver biscuits- Pretty sure I saw these at our fancy cheese shop here in Bath recently

They also used to do Summer Fruits compote in a carton, like the milk ones, it was lovely to just pour over ice cream, the quickest pudding ever!

oh wow that sounds amazing, I am gutted to have missed out on that!

Me too, every time I drive through the lovely village of Kimberley I can hear her saying my friend Kimburleeeeeeeeeee, when we were house hunting it was off our list! My all time VW favourite though is 'not unless sperm can get through a sash window!' from Dinner Ladies.
As you say, very sadly missed, I can still recall my shock on getting the 'guess who's dead' message from my daughter!

Were they not called Kunzle cakes? Running your nail up the flutings meant you still got the chocolate without it going sloppy!