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 :)

i Absolutely loved these, reminds me of my little granny.

Showing my age now but when I was a child my mum used to serve up a tinned steamed .mixed fruit sponge with custard...maybe HEINZ made it....it was delicious.

I loved the treacle sponge pudding one!!

The cracknell that used to come in Quality Street in the good old days before they ruined the taste with plastic chocolate.

Asda have mint aeros.

Takes me back to being a child lying on the settee on our living room. Drinking a glass of proper Lucozade to help my sore throat.

Also used to have a daily spoonful of rose hip syrup. Delish.

The used to be part of a Vesta meal in the late '60s!

My mum worked at the factory that made cakes for M&S. We had lots of deformed/rejected Angel cakes when I was growing up. She could buy them in the staff shop for 10 or 20p. I preferred the coffee and walnut one.

They used to do chocolate tear and share bread, delicious, our weekend treat, so decadent.

Cadbury marble chocolate bar
Mingles chocolates. They were a Christmas staple
Topic chocolate bar

Was it on tomato bread?

while we are talking about Ben and Jerry, Cherry Garcia FroYo.

So many for me: Fruit polos, toffos, mint wispa bars, Cadburys dream bars. I also loved mars bar muffins.

I can't remember the name, but I do remember fondly that Knorr used to make these little cubes which you could add to pasta. I used to think I was quite the chef when I began adding ham. I was about 15. I was very sad when they were discontinued.
I also wrote to McDonald's once when the changed the original vegetarian burger. I still think about those burgers at times...

Those are something you can get in Indian supermakets. They come in a mixed pack of colours, they're a popular snack. One of my Indian colleagues fried a bag up and brought them in for a try everyone elses treats day. He was really surprised they were so popular!

Yes, I think so ,little bits of sundried tomato and maybe a bit of onion? And there was a bit of dressing that wasn't mayo or cheese or hummus, trying to think what it was.

Amongst other things - I used to love Waitrose’s Goulash soup. I really miss it 😢 It was so delicious and filling.

Oooh some good ones here!

Beanfeast (I think) vegetarian bolognaise in the blue packet.

Mr Kipling large Bakewell Tart

Ice Breaker chocolate bars.

They came with Vesta Chow Mein.

So many amazing nostalgic snacks! Agree secret and spiral, both were delicious, i still miss cadburys astros and fuse bars plus Terrys pyramid and blitz bars! Probably just as well they are all discontinued - my metabolism isnt what it was 🤣
I also have to throw in 5-4-3-2-1 bars - never really liked them but my mum would bring me one collecting me from school on p/t days she worked so would be a few minutes late getting me before we went to collect my sister aslong as i promised to keep it a secret, i always felt v smug and special where as she just was trying to stop me getting hangry, clever lady!

I used to love Giovanni's tutti fruiti icecream, I think it came in a round tub probably from Sainsbury's in the 90s when I was a child/teen - still miss it, I dont understand why you never see tutti fruiti icecream anymore it is the best flavour!

I used to work for M&S many moons ago, and i think i remember that sandwich, actually.

Coffee flavoured walnut whips - they were amazing
Fry's chocolate creme the multi-coloured one (can't think what it was called)
Proper Cadburys chocolate before the idiots sold it to an American company that then buggered up all of the recipes

This is mine too! I absolutely loved it and I still miss it. I’m not even a mushroom fan but this was so nice.

I also miss the M&S chococcino muffins! Really loved those, and echo bars!