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 :)

Mint cracknel

Ooh great thread!
mine is recent - fries to go! They stopped making em! Loved em since a kid and most recently I enjoyed whilst pregnant.
One that I don’t think is discontinued but I struggle to get - mayflower beef curry! The sauce is just so thick and the beef is so soft haha. Used to get from home bargains and pound land which I have local to me. Think heron foods is meant to have them but my nearest is a drive away and they haven’t answered the phone when I call to check ahead bahahha

I loved potato puffs! We used to buy them during break time at my primary school circa 1968… I can still remember the taste. Apparently there are no plans to bring them back despite a concerted effort from a fan group

I think I’ve seen these in Savers

If you want celery for soups Fen celery, aka dirty celery, has so much more flavour that the supermarket stuff and May is the right season for it but I'm not sure how widely available it is.

I loved that as a kid!

No, Kunzle cakes had a chocolate shell, with cake and icing inside.

@TheBookShelf I understand that Fortnum & Mason make their own version, but it looks as though many other people also regret the passing of the original Patum Peperium, so it’s all gone already
https://www.fortnumandmason.com/fortnum-mason-s-relish-42-5g

I do like the thought of “Anchovial Alchemy”

I absolutely LOVED them, they were my favourite choc of all time, but sadly, Mars discontinued them in 2021 after almost 60 years because of declining sales and peoples general changing tastes.

Sorry, the photo didn't come up!

Topic Chocolate Bars!

Wait, what, Rolos have gone? My husband always used to give me his last Rolo!

Our savers doesn’t have a freezer section wah! But noted for if I go to another area haha

Dream job!

When i was a kid, i wrote to Cadbury’s and asked them if they would consider making a dark chocolate Flake.
And, god love them, they humoured me and wrote back a sweet letter; and gave me some gift vouchers.

Mint wispas. Wispa Gold returned but not the mint ones which were the best, last seen about 2005.
Pyramint
M&S layered mint chocolate bars
...all the minty chocollate basically!

As an aside, when I was at primary school in the Sixties, classes would be entered for an annual writing competition held by Cadbury-Bournville chocolates, as I think it was known then. Although we never won the top prize, which I think was a visit to the Bournville factory, we all ALWAYS received at least one bar of Bournville chocolate each (which may have been the reason for my aversion to dark chocolate, now I think about it!). Is anyone else on this thread old enough to have participated in the same competition?

I used to live in Highgate and used to see her often in the village

Just remembered, Tootie Frooties! I loved them. Tried the B&M version but they just aren't the same

I envy you.
I wrote a letter to the makers of Sindy doll with all sorts of suggestions about products and her lifestyle. It was 1978.
To be fair I got a lovely letter back and then a box came from Hamleys with all sorts of goodies. We didn’t have a lot and it was like Christmas.
When a few things did change, I convinced myself it was because of my letter. Of course if I’d married a prince I could have dined out on my fight for feminism. 🤣
I remember my mum let me use her Basildon Bond paper I think I used half the pad!
A dark Flake - sounds gorgeous. Did they do one once that also had white chocolate in it?

I miss ALL the chocolate from the 70s.
Galaxy and every product it made.
Cadbury’s.
Nestle as well.
It was all gorgeous.
I can remember when the Cadbury’s Caramel came out and it was just delicious.
Munchies were so expensive a rare treat.
Now it’s brown plastic lard.

The American Musketeer bar has a very similar filling to the original Milky Way but is spoilt by the horrible waxy American chocolate that we are now lumbered with😕. I have never forgiven the white filling version replacing it.

I’m beginning to think I loathe these food brand management teams who decide what’s for the chop, second only to politicians, both seem to share a contempt for the public. 🤨

Agree with everything you say. Chocolate used to be such a treat, now it’s more like a punishment. How could we go down the American chocolate route! It’s like a form of treason 😡 Now I only search out chocolate that is real chocolate but it’s not easy and it’s expensive, I can’t just spontaneously buy chocolate anymore 😢

Bitz bar - came in mint and orange flavour and was chocolate with flavoured sugary shards. Like matchsticks, but in a bar. I loved the mint one and remember once getting a mint bitz easter egg, which remains one of the best things I've ever had.

I also want to say cadbury strollers but I'm not sure if this is correct. I've looked up strollers and can see that they were chocolate balls with either biscuit, raisin or caramel fillings - sort of cadbury's answer to revels. This fits my memory to a degree but, in my mind there was also a solid chocolate ball and I remember that somehow that tasted better than any other form of chocolate I'd ever had. I know it would have been the same cadbury's dairy milk as all their other chocolate but somehow it was much more luxurious in this format. I even remember my dad, who disliked chocolate and did not have a sweet tooth, being partial to these, and we'd often share a bag. I also remember the biscuit filling being particularly good. Anything I've found online about strollers, however, only refers to the biscuit, raisin and caramel fillings so I wonder if I'm confusing two different products, or maybe strollers did have the solid chocolate for a short while?

I have to say while the kids still reach for the bar of Cadbury I just can’t do it. It tastes of sweet and nothing else really

i find Lidl and Aldi do a good range of bars bars that are palm oil free and still taste of actually chocolate

Crestona frizzettes. It was a powder that you mixed with water (or maybe milk?) to make a sort of savoury pancake. They probably disappeared about 60 years ago.