What products do you miss?

camelot1001

Tunis Cake - Used to have one for my birthday every year. I think it was madiera cake with a thick layer of chocolate on top and 3 marzipan fruits in the middle.
Always had one bite of the slice of cake, slip the rest to the dog and then eat the chocolate!

Also miss horlicks tablets, yummy!

Lilyplonk

candlelight_2013 wrote: »

.....triangular ice lolly......... we called them "jubblies", maybe regional names for the same thing.

Candlelightx

I'm from St.Helens (Lancashire/Merseyside) and we called them 'jubblies' too. Always gave me a chuckle when I heard DelBoy Trotter say 'Luvvly jubbly!'.

flubberyzing

When I was younger, perhaps in the early 90s, you used to be able to buy Cartoonies. Which were little snack biscuits, filled with chocolate. They were one of my favourite things, but I haven't seen them for years now.


Robinsons apple squash. It got phased out in the mid-00s, and has recently made a comeback. But it isn't the same. They've changed the recipe slightly, and it isn't the flavour I remember. I don't have the heart to tell my sister, who keeps buying it for me as the occasional present, that I'm not that interested in it any more!

baconandcabbage

flubberyzing wrote: »

When I was younger, perhaps in the early 90s, you used to be able to buy Cartoonies. Which were little snack biscuits, filled with chocolate. They were one of my favourite things, but I haven't seen them for years now.


I loved Cartoonies Burtons made them

baconandcabbage

Chinese Beanfeast and the BBQ flavour

space raiders

pigpen

MollyMischief wrote: »

I have never found Stardrops in shops near here!!! Keep reading about how fab it is, but can't find it anywhere!!!!

I just put a full bottle in the bin.. it is rubbish you aren't missing anything.


Savoury ham... I loved it.

TravellingAbuela

NoahsPennilessMummy wrote: »

Travelling abuela I order US foods online and Cheez Whiz is available

http://www.usfoodz.co.uk/cheez-whiz-original-cheese-dip-226-gram

The label hasn't changed in all these years! But £4.99 a jar .......!!

SpecialBrew_2

I remember my mum buying a packet of Spangles to share between the three of us on the way home from primary school sometimes, and sometimes she'd buy us a Traffic Light lollipop each instead - lollies that were a mix of red, yellow and green, with more of one colour and less of another being exposed as you sucked them smaller. There seemed to be a jar of these on every sweetshop/corner shop counter for years, and then they just disappeared without me even noticing. Another thing we used to get very occasionally were plastic fruits that looked a lot like a Jif lemon but came in other varieties too (I mostly remember the plastic blackcurrant), full of sherbert in the corresponding fruit flavour. 'Weekend' chocolates were nice too, mostly nougat as I recall, but they were not the sort of thing we saw often in our house (once, maybe twice) and were more like the kind of things we'd drool over the adverts for in the odd magazine that made it's way into the place.

I remember an Apple Shampoo too, but I don't think it was Woodleigh Green - it came in a clear plastic bottle shaped like an elongated teardrop (similar to Vosene - or how Vosene looked at the time. I don't think I've seen that for a while either). It was a deep reddish-orange colour and you couldn't just smell the apple in it, you could practically smell the crunch too. I loved the smell of that stuff.

As I got a bit older (ten or so), my mum would send me to the chemist's on the corner of the street sometimes with some money, a handwritten note and strict instructions that I was not to read it out loud but to give it to the assistant instead. It said 'A packet of Dr White's No.2' I doubt anyone misses these - I can remember having to use them myself for a couple of years, complete with sanitary belt, before stick-on towels came out.

Other items in the chemist's included sachets of Linco Beer shampoo, and Shaders and Toners, which were sachets of 'temporary' hair colouring that were popular with us in my teens because you were supposed to be able to colour your hair on a Friday night and the stuff would come out when you washed your hair ready for school on Monday when the weekend was over. Only often it didn't In the chemist's window, they always had the cellophane-wrapped glass bottles of Lucozade (it was still being marketed as a boost for convalescents and invalids then), plus Energen Rolls for slimmers - supposed to be a bread substitute with something daft like 10 calories each in them - as well as 'diet chocolates' called Ayds, which not surprisingly vanished overnight in the early eighties.

By then, on hot sunny days I was occasionally enjoying a soft drink called Quattro, not unlike Lilt, but better, and sometimes on an evening I was able to partake of a drink called CherryB, which was in the same sized bottles as Babycham but looked like something a Vampire would drink.

Something else that sticks in my mind from that era was one of the first laundry soap liquids (as opposed to powder). It was called Wisk, and came in a big red plastic bottle with a yellow lid. My mum raved about that stuff for months before the novelty wore off.

An honourable mention has to go to my Pippa doll. I'm far too old to miss that kind of thing, but Pippa was still better than Barbie or Sindy any day of the week

paulineb_2

Nocturnes wrote: »

Deltas! Marks and Spencer potato (I think) snack in thin triangular shape and dangerously salty! Had to eat whole pack in one go every time.

I loved them, they were excellent.

paulineb_2

parkgirl wrote: »

Cabana bars - I had forgotten all about them! Germolene smelled lovely - clean iykwim. And why are all toffees and Refreshers and whatnot tonnes smaller than they used to be?

I also really liked cabana bars which is odd as Im not a huge fan of coconut in general.

You can still get juicy fruit and parma violets where I live. Theres a few sweet shops that do the old favourites.

Not had aniseed balls for ages (no smut intended).