What products do you miss?

jemski1981

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver wrote: »

Small bottles of San Pellegrino (not very MSE).
I adore San Pellegrino Limonata which I now buy in bulk from Amazon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sanpellegrino-Limonata-Cans-Pack-Total/dp/B008IDJPTI/ref=sr_1_3?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1390895505&sr=1-3&keywords=San+Pellegrino
Limonata is my favourite Soft drink and it beats the hell of lesser counterparts like 7up which I used to like till it affected my teeth.
I would rather have a little of a good thing than lots of an inferior cheap product.
I would follow your heart.

Tesco now sell it if that helps they sell 2 other varieties too £4 for 6

Angellore

Aw, my thread got picked for the email! :j
Thank you!

candlelight_2013

ivanbrownbear, Many thanks I am going to try that

Candlelight x

candlelight_2013

Well done Angellore, I knew it would be a popular thread, we all love a bit of nostalgia and over fourteen and a half thousand views not bad:)

Candlelightx

electric_comperella

rufydoofyM wrote: »

Bournvita springs to mind and Cadburys used to make a bar called Old Jamaica. Also I remember Fuse bars and coconut Boost, Bar Six and Skippy Bars. Chocolate today just doesn't taste the same and I miss these the most.

Miss Fuse bars too also does anyone remember Cadburys Secret....loved them! x

happyinflorida

Fry's chocolate cream that had different fruit flavour creams in each section - delicious, I really miss that choccy bar. There was a strawberry cream, pineapple cream, I think lime, it was lime green colour and I didn't like that one so much, orange cream and I can't remember if the last one was lemon or the usual white cream or a raspberry?! Anyone else got a better memory than me?!

SpecialBrew_2

Someone's mention of lemon bonbons has just reminded me of those little long, thin fruit bonbons, wrapped in white paper which was pinched out into a triangle at each end and had a little colour picture of the fruit in question in the middle of the wrapper. They were like hard, boiled sweets, but the inside was slightly soft and chewy.

'Crown Court' and 'Houseparty' bring back memories here too, but my sister's favourite daytime TV programme was always 'Paint Along With Nancy'. I think Nancy painted with oils using a knife. 'Mastermind' seemed to be on in the day a lot when I was off school for some reason too, but Crown Court was the best, even though I probably found it entertaining for all the wrong reasons. The only episode that still sticks in my mind after all these years involved a woman being had up for assaulting a bloke on a department store escalator with a frozen turkey in a carrier bag, but it still makes my wicked childhood self smile

ally18

Reading all these posts does bring memories back.

One I miss, is getting up in the morning, going to the back door to fetch the milk in, after brushing off the snow first. We kids used to sit and wait for the milkman if he was late, huddled by the rayburn fire to keep warm. As the eldest though, it was always my job to get some coal put on and make sure the fire was still in. The times I had to empty the ashes out of that thing from the age of about 10.

Talking about fashion, does anyone remember the shoes from the 70s, there was something called a polyvelt I think that was the fashion at the time. I used to be so upset that my dad wouldn't let me have them, they weren't proper school shoes, so he said but absolutely everyone else at school had them.

And they were the ugliest shoes going!!!

electric_comperella

Lilyplonk wrote: »

Romantica - an Ice Cream, Meringue and Fresh Cream dessert - only seem to have disappeared around 15yrs ago. They were around before 'Roulades' started. Looks like they're still available in Ireland .

Goldiegirl wrote: »

I must have been odd, because I really liked the Findus Crispy Pancakes. I'm about the only person who liked them!

anniemf2508 wrote: »

Spira bars, we were holidaying in Wales when Cadbury first trialled them, think we ate them everyday for a week, then it took them another 6 months or so to roll them out across the country. I was really sad when they stopped making them.

Rounders....Minced beef wrapped in mashed potato and then breadcrumbed. Iceland(when it was Bejams) used to sell these, i loved them, much better than crispy pancakes.

mcdonalds doing a brown bread deli sub roll

nutella doing individual serving 5g approx packs with a little spoon

bubblegum which came with a little roll of transfers (fake tattoos)

aldi did a lovely chocolate ice cream lolly which had loads of black cherry filling - delish

also from aldi something I think they called tropical crush - it was sold in 6 packs, pineapple and grapefruit flavour if I recall correctly

being able to return glass bottles for money

lucky charms cereal can still get them but they're extremely expensive as imported now

fudge of the day from the ice cream van

mobile shops, the fish van, the ginger man (he wasn't red headed but he sold "ginger" which was pop )

single fish and chips with the fish enclosed in a little cardboard box

burger flavoured crisps made of maize which were shaped like little burgers

Terry's chocolate orange before they sold the company - now it tastes like an wax candle

Riva wafer bars

peanut cracknel quality street

fruit polos

superdrug tea tree and mint face mask, used to be able to peel it off in one go

the coffee ones from roses

shape magazine

old tv shows, eldorado, as time goes by, howards way, 2 point 4 children, upper hand, you rang m'lord, hi de hi - when you could all watch tv together and know it'd be ok

little packets of "smokes" which were little thin white sticks pretending to look like cigarettes

also anyone remember the chocolate sticks wrapped in edible paper which looked just like cigarettes

(I never became a smoker after eating these)

caramac wrapped in foil

also the biscuit which was wrapped in caramac can't remember the name

wildlife bars

soft mints (mr soft ones)

being allowed to play out until the street lamps came on of a summers evening, used to wander quite a way really - something i wouldn't dream of letting my DD do.....shame really

some little coffee flavoured cups bought around the 90's from poundstretcher - not seen them since

cartoons, the raccoons, dreamstone, captain planet,

take the high road

the original prisoner cell block h

watercolour challenge with hannah gordon

the clothes show

Majestic1919

Memories give you a warm glow - loving looking back to the days when sweets and chocolates were real treats.

I remember
Kunzel cakes, Rilchoc (very large blocks of chocolate in milk or fruit and nut), Bluebird toffee bars, Chipmunk crisps - an occasional treat from the school tuck shop, Corona pop, gorgeous jam and mock cream buns from the Sharrocks bakers van which used to come around on a Saturday, Flying Start (out before Ready-Brek - darker in colour and delicious), square boxes of sweet Alphabet Letters that hung on the Christmas tree and Fussells (sp?) Cream to go on tinned fruit.

Would love to find any or all of these things now!