What products do you miss?

Aldridge_Andy

Please bring back Kunzle Cakes they were amazing and a fantastic memory of my childhood.

LV_Sue

jungliemac wrote: »

I loved iced magic. Sure it was called that. You poured it in a liquid form over ice cream and it set hard so you could crack it.
Also remember going to my Nan's and she always had salmon paste. The lid had a picture of a salmon on and the jar came with a small stick attached which when you had finished it would slide behind the lid to form some sort of badge. Nice!
I remember tiny books of tattoos possibly from those machines outside shops where stuff comes in an egg shaped container.
Also loved the milky lollies that had purple pictures of ghosts on.

You can still buy a chocolate sauce like that. It is made by Askeys and I get it in Asda. It's not quite the same as Ice Magic though - or so my grown up kids tell me!:) My 29 year old says he misses the bottle with the 'dripping chocolate' lid and that must be why it doesn't taste the same now. :rotfl:

CCP

Another vote for London cheesecake here - they seem to be very much a London / home counties thing, and you just don't get them on the south coast. (Although apparently a baker on the Isle of Wight, not far from where my parents live, has now started making them - I'll have to stock up next time I visit!)

Brannigan's ham and mustard crisps - hot enough to take the top layer of skin off the inside of your mouth. I seem to remember that they did a ham, cheese and pickle flavour that was pretty good, too.

A breakfast cereal that was called something like 'Oat Crunchies' - little cereal pillows.

Scampi Fries with silver foil lining - they're not the same without it!

M&S used to do a cheese and mustard bread that I have tried many times to recreate, so far without success.

And, slightly OT - my dad's HM bread pudding. It just doesn't taste the same when I make it, somehow.

PenguinOfDeath

LV_Sue wrote: »

You can still buy a chocolate sauce like that. It is made by Askeys and I get it in Asda. It's not quite the same as Ice Magic though - or so my grown up kids tell me!:) My 29 year old says he misses the bottle with the 'dripping chocolate' lid and that must be why it doesn't taste the same now. :rotfl:

Aldi also do a version, but again it doesn't taste the same

baconandcabbage

Me again! sparkle lollies Orange or Lemon Flavours they came a couple of years ago now they are gone.

I mentioned Dentyne chewing gum way back on this thread you can get it on Ebay or the American one called big red even stronger than Dentyne and nicer

Oyster wafer with lemon ice cream from the ice cream van or a double cone with a ice lolly can't remember the name of it now

pollypenny

ERICS_MUM wrote: »

I think it was Phyllosan that fortified the over forties !

It made 40+ sound really old remember !

It's young now.

Throwaway_History

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scottishminnie

What a wonderful thread - many happy memories!

On the snack front I miss:

Jelly Tots
Golden Wonder Sausage and Tomato crisps
Malibu (or could be maribu) chocolate bar - nobody ever remembers this. It was in a pink and blue wrapper and had sort of whipped stuff in the middle. No coconut.
Golden cup bars

Cachet perfume - thought I was so cool- would like to smell it again but it's probably vile!

Anne French lemon cleanser.

The early hair gels which were green and blue in colour - utter gloop and made your hair ramrod stiff. - Maybe I don't miss this after all.

and from the 80's I remember a cake which mum used to buy from Marks and Spencer as a real treat. It came in a box, was marked to be cut into slices, had chocolate strands all over the sides and buttons on top. It was sponge with a chocolate filling in the centre and if you were lucky enough to get an end bit there was even more filling as the outside was coated too. You can tell I really miss this cake:)

Granny shoes as we called them - height of fashion in the late 70's. They were lace ups but had heels and only came in sensible colours like black and tan.

Mum and I were also laughing recently about some wallpaper she bought in the 70's. It was called Novamura and had large purple and pink flowers. Granny was the person who always papered but she was demented with this stuff as it felt like fabric and went a bit rubbery when pasted!

I always remember the excitement of getting my first duvet but I did miss the big heavy blankets with the nice satin ribbon along the edge. I liked the feel of the ribbon against my face as I snuggled down - although I also remember the weight of blankets and candlewick beadspreads on my feet. There wasn't much moving about the bed once I was tucked in!

Tiffany_Aching

jungliemac wrote: »

Also loved the milky lollies that had purple pictures of ghosts on.

Haunted House Ice Lollies!! I had forgotten them!

You could get ghost, skeleton, Frankensteins Monster and maybe a spider in a web? I'm sure there were other pictures too.

candlelight_2013

SM your wallpaper sounds similar to one we had. It was Novamura and was called Peony, enormous pink and purple flowers. My goodness we did think we were trendy, but as you say there was a lot of wastage because the pattern was so large.

With regard to the candlewick bedspread, I was a very naughty girl when I was young because I used to pick the candlewick out. When Mum made my bed in the morning the floor and bed would be covered with these bits.

Candlelightx