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 :)

Oh god they were delicious if I remember them right. They had elephants on the packaging and the most amazing praline centers

Walkers Snaps cheese flavour. So much better than Quavers.

The proper Milky Way. Changed briefly to a Flyte bar and then disappeared. Why would anyone want vanilla filling when they can have chocolate?

Although I wouldn't buy them now, the Atkins chocolate decadence bar was so much better than all the other awful low carb bars. They spent 20 years perfecting the recipe and then discontinued it.

Loads of things. You can guarantee that if I like it, it will be discontinued.

I loved the treacle one.

Vienetta Chocolate Brownie. It was the best.

United biscuits. And Breakaways. Bastard biscuit-meddlers.

Never knew there was a Cheese Potato Waffle but now I’m pining for that as well!

Pacers and Spangles (I am old as feck).

I think there used to be minty eggs - like creme eggs but mint fondant. Mmmmm!

Swiss kit. Used to love them.

And Buttersnap, but Daim are a good substitute.

Polo citrus!!!!

Knew it was definitely still available in Europe. Think you can also get it in Belgium too. But just want to be able to grab a bar in the corner shop like I did as a child 🤣

Another vote for Spira! And you are right, the shape of the chocolate really does affect the taste, I loved Dairy Milk bubbly, too.

Also miss the Quorn ‘tuna’ melts. And M&S baked chocolate cheesecake. The non-baked sort is just not the same.

They were in the Vesta chow mein. If you ever find one in a shop and think about buying and eating it for the sake of nostalgia... don't. They are not the same. Not even the crispy noodles.

Only just recently discontinued, but some dirt cheap crispy chicken burgers from Iceland. Absolute dupe for McD's McChicken sandwich. 2 for £1 in a purple packet. My guilty pleasure. I nearly cried when I went in recently and was told they had gone.

Plain (dark) chocolate club bars

and no fucking sweetener

I remember Pacers! But only vaguely, I was so young when they were discontinued that for years (until the Internet, really) I thought I’d imagined them!!!

God yes! I loved a cheese moment!

Still available here in Ireland. My mother loves but I always thought they were rank lol

Already mentioned by pp but ..

Fuse
Spira
Secret

I was telling DD that my best friend and I used to drink hot chocolate through a spira when we were her age - she is v jealous!

I still haven't forgiven M&S for discontinuing their banoffee cheesecake

apparently you can make pasta puff up like that if you deep fry it

Walkers Bitza Pizza
Can’t remember the name. They were mini cheese flavour biscuits shaped many ways - club suit, heart, oval etc.
Maverick bars

Oh no, that's like me and my Fries To Go :( - Have you got a Herons or Farmfoods nearby? That's the kind of tasty shite they sell? x

their beercan chicken was sublime

Loved these crisps with a little chuck of cheese on the top.

When I was marginally less skint than usual as a student (aeons ago) my occasional treat for myself was a Vesta Paella.

I imagine I’d enjoy one now in the same way I very occasionally enjoy a Pot Noodle, i.e. deliciously unhealthy shite.