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 :)

You can order Lincoln biscuits and Romany creams (I imagine 'gipsy' creams had to rebrand) from Amazon but you may just be paying for a very expensive bag of crumbs, I wouldn't trust them even if the package was labelled 'fragile'.

Cadbury Spira. Ye gods, the texture of that chocolate bar was divine!

Kellogg's fibre plus bars. They were wank for actual fibre content as they were advertised (probably why they don't exist anymore), but they were sooo tasty! I took one pretty much every day for my lunch at uni!

Omg I loved them!!

Squash without sweeteners. That you don't have to pay a fortune for.

Mars delight

6p a bag Krunchi Puffs (Salt & Vinegar)
Chambourcy Chocolate Mousse (probably spelt that wrong)
Chocolate Ring doughnuts covered in chocolate sprinkles from Sainsbury's

Yes I could do with making more healthy choices 😂

Just remembered tracker bars.

That has just made me think of the Gino Ginelli advert ‘Tutti Fruti what a cutey - take some Gino home with you” 🤣

Heinz Cucumber spread

You can still get the sandwich spread but not the cucumber one. Though I think it still sells in other countries 😭 I grew up on that in my sarnies with grated cheese

Flyte chocolate bar
Secret chocolate bar
Vice Versas
And also a thing I remember from the 80s was this pudding which was a lemon tangy flavoured stuff with biscuity crumb on top. I vaguely remember it being called lemon crunch although this might be the name we made up for it as kids. It was heavenly. I think it was made by Kraft

It was made by Birds and called hot crunch pudding. Just googled it. Wish they'd bring it back.
Anyone remember Gino Ginelli ice cream? The tutti fruitti one was epic

Another vote for brannigans beef and mustard crisps - elite! Tom’s tomato ball crisp thingies too.
I was possibly too excited when top deck chocolate came back but I still miss Spira.
The original recipes for Sainsbury mixed fruit or strawberry custard flan with the clear jelly on the top.

No way! I loved that. Echo bars were delicious.

Raspberry fizz bomb sweets

Ooh…Death by Chocolate gateaux

Does anyone remember a small chocolate bar from the late 70s -

I THINK it was made by Lindt
Small log shaped bar with a dogs face and paws, about 4” long
Filling was some sort of praline
Wrapper was white and gold foil (maybe a bit of red) with the ends twisted

It wasn’t the Lindt chocolate animals sold in boxes. This was sold individually.

Fruitettes. They were the same brand as Poppets (the chocolate covered raisins). Or at least the packaging with similar. Chewy balls of deliciousness. I’ve scoured the internet though and can’t find any proof they ever existed.

Toast Topper cheese and ham

Brunchies (breadcrumb coated mix of sausage meat, egg and bacon)

PROPER old style Findus Crispy Pancakes (the one now are nothing like the original)

Ting grapefruit fizzy drink (before sweeteners)

Tootie Frooties

Bandit chocolate covered biscuits were my favourite as a kid along with Macintosh caramel cup bars, really miss them, also Gino Ginelli tutti frutti ice cream.

Oh the boxes and tubes of fruit pastilles and fruit gums were absolutely delicious

And in the UK. We regularly buy them.

So many happy food memories. I'll add Rise and Shine powdered "juice" and Lord Toffingtons.
I bought the Ice Blue from the local Cancer Research, for a pound a few years ago. It smells exactly as it used to. I also loved Body Shop's Rosemary shampoo, you used to be able to refil the original bottles in-store.

Rise and shine..70s powdered chemical goodness.
I loved that stuff.