What products do you miss?

Justamum

rufydoofyM wrote: »

Bournvita springs to mind and Cadburys used to make a bar called Old Jamaica.

You can still get Old Jamaica http://www.cadburygiftsdirect.co.uk/products/490-cadbury-bournville-old-jamaica-180g.aspx

I've seen it in shops too recently.

CurlyTop

I can confirm what Justamum and others have said on here about Old Jamaica. So much so, that I took myself off to the B&M around the corner from where I live and bought two bars yesterday. £1.29 each. Yum yum.

SpecialBrew_2

candlelight_2013 wrote: »

Now you can imagine 2 were able to have the end pieces, which had more chocolate on and the other had the middle bit. Now to stop any arguments (you can imagine) we had to take it in turns, and we never forgot which one of us should have the next end bit. I am sure children now wouldn't understand, but Mum and Dad didn't have much money although Dad had a trade and had served his apprenticeship.

As one of three girls I can definitely relate to this! Even chocolate bars that came in chunks never seemed to be easily divisible by three. I was the eldest, and most of our clothes came from jumble sales, but when I did have something new my mum and dad would buy my sisters something identical (usually from the Brian Mills or Kays catalogues), so on the face of it they had something new when I did. In practice though, these things would of course be passed down, so my youngest sister could still be wearing the 'latest' fashion four or five years later

soba

Sausages in lard in a tin. Reminds me of camping when I was little and we always had to use up whatever we'd got left at the end of the week because my dad wouldn't allow us to take any food home. So it was usually a 'tin delight' - tinned sausages or stewed steak, with tinned potatoes, tinned carrots and marrowfat peas. With a tin of rice pud and jam for pud or jamaica ginger cake with butter on, depending on what was left.....if we had that on the last day we'd consider it a great meal - we had some very strange meals on the last day of our holidays:rotfl:

LV_Sue

vikki_louise wrote: »

Another thing I keep hoping to come back is orange smarties. You used to be able to buy a tube of just orange (which were by far the loveliest). When I googled it I found a thing saying it was a beeno promotion and the orange ones had been stolen from the tubes and put white smarties in. Talking of smarties I loved them until they went 'healthy'. Poor kids never knowing a true blue Smartie. Mini smarties were cool, even better than giant smarties.

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Orange Smarties were always 'Mum's Smarties', then later 'Grandma's Smarties' in this house. My children and grandchildren grew up thinking that children weren't allowed to eat the orange ones.:D:D
Now though anyone can have them, they don't even taste of orange any more.

Gigervamp

I used to lick the red smarties and use them as lipstick.

Curious_Moose

Neapolitan chocolates, the ones with the liquid filling.


Also, Contac 400 when I had a cold. They just dried everything up, which is just what was required. Not as nice as Neapolitan chocolates though.

Gigervamp

I had an allergic reaction to those Contac 400s. Came out in a rash all over. Shame, cos as you said, they did dry everything up.

ERICS_MUM

lily117 wrote: »

Spangles. Fry's Five boys chocolate.

I have a vague recollection that they made a "fruit" version, with the filling in each of the chocolate segments being a different colour. I wasn't keen on the bar with a white filling, too sweet and sickly.

Does anyone remember a chocolate bar called Coffee Crisp ? It was different from Toffee Crisp.

I use to love sweet tobacco - shredded coconut covered in a brown sweet substance a bit like icing sugar.

Lucky bags but Mum would never buy them for us as she said they weren't value for money ! She's one of the original MSE's !!

Jubblies - another con as they were just chunks of ice with a drop of orange squash mixed in which soon disappeared. I think it was the shape of the container that appealed.

Cider ice lollies from the ice cream van on a hot Sunday afternoon.

Mum used to love boiled sweets and always had a roll of either Bitter Lemons, Bitter Orange or Cherry Bitters in her pocket.

Something I never liked was R White's Ice Cream Soda. The girls next door always had it so I never got a drink in their house - I preferred Tizer.

What a lovely thread.

sandstormer

i used to love Mint Cracknell, i think it was square after eight sized chocolate
with a crispy minty middle that shattered when you bit into it