What products do you miss?

Jnelhams

I miss Star Chips and Smedley Sausage rolls, Star Chips were basically French Fries but in a tin which you deep fried and Smedley used to make really delicious tinned sausage rolls which were wrapped in a piece of grease proof paper, which you then baked, absolutely gorgeous.

Rowntree's Nutty Bars, fudge covered in peanuts, now that was lovely. I don't miss Tab Cola or Carters Fizzy drinks they used to come by a delivery man in 2 litre glass bottles covered in polystyrene and were made with saccharin and tasted foul.

It's good to see Golden Wonder crisp back but they are not like they used to be.

Marks and Spencer are the most annoying for ending products, they do it so often, a variety of 8 small bread rolls and Apricot Victoria Sandwich cake to name just a few. :mad:

MrsAtobe

auntymabel wrote: »

I wish they still made Aqua Libra. Lovely drink!

According to g00gle, it was rebranded as Purdeys. The next time I'm shopping, I'll see if I can find some and see if it tastes the way I remember and let you know.

Does anyone else remember West Coast Cooler?

kerri_gt

MrsAtobe wrote: »

According to g00gle, it was rebranded as Purdeys. The next time I'm shopping, I'll see if I can find some and see if it tastes the way I remember and let you know.

Does anyone else remember West Coast Cooler?

Hahn, that would explain why I don't like Purdy's either :rotfl:

Re; m&s apricot victoria sandwich - have a go at baking your own, I'm sure it would be as good. Sure you can even get shop bought plain sponge if you're really not into baking.

loudmouth

stellata wrote: »

?.were they the chunky shape ones? Narrower but thicker than dairylea?
"Swiss Knight" brand. Celery was my fave.

I remember these too. My Grandad loved these. He died aged 67 in 1967 so we are going way back. My Gran refused to buy them as she thought they were too expensive, so my Mum used to treat him to some every so often.They had little flags on the stickers.

madtrekker

I grew up in the 80s / 90s. Things that stand out for me that I don't see anymore:

At home

Once shampoo. It separated out into two layers, you gave it a good shake before using it to wash your hair. My mum used to have a bottle on the side of the bath when we were really small and would shake it when my brother and I started our bath. When the layers had separated again, it was time to get out.

Zoflora - I don't think it smells the same anymore. My childminder used to mop the kitchen floor with a few drops of this in the water and I remember making some sort of scented hanging thing at Brownies with a few drops of this in.

Matey bubble bath and Pears soap (both still available but don't smell the same)

Body Shop range for kids - satsuma bubble bath and cola bubble bath ring a bell. Also the badges you could get there that promoted them being anti animal testing.

Dewberry body spray from Boots Natural Collection

Sweets

Fish n Chips - like a fake white chocolate. Really creamy & yummy.

Sweetie bracelets / necklaces - hard candy on elastic

Tiger Tots, Bunny Tots and Candy Tots - I guess they were made by Rowntrees as they were similar size to Jelly Tots and the packets had the same sort of design but the sweets were different. Tiger Tots were like mini licorice allsorts, the others were a bit like dolly mixture I think.

Round lollies - like a boiled sweet but in a flat round circle on a paper stick. They came in fruit flavours that were transparent (I remember green=lime, purple=blackcurrant etc) but my favourite was a toffee flavoured one which was opaque and looked just like toffee.

Candy cigarettes - came with a picture card

Flavoured Toffos - blue packet, different flavoured toffees. They came in a tube and were individually wrapped - the writing on each wrapper was a different colour to identify the flavour. I remember the banana ones being particularly nice but the pineapple ones were minging.

Booty Bags - a goody bag of lollies / penny sweets with a hologram sticker of a ghost-like character in. A special treat for a good school report!

Chewits - Lots of flavours that you can't get anymore, including banana.

Lemon Polos - Not the clear yellow ones in the fruit polo packs, these were white-coloured, tangy lemon flavoured polos. Yum.

Chocolate

Spira Bars - Hollow twists of Cadbury's Chocolate

Coconut Boost - Like today's boost but with coconut.

Fuse Bars - Cadbury's Chocolate with raisins, nuts (?) and biscuit in.

How Cadbury's chocolate buttons used to have nursery rhyme characters on the packets and the mini Dairy Milk bars were called Wildlife bars (not to be confused with Nestl!s Animal Bars)

Milkybar Raisins - In a little packet, raisins coated in Milkybar. Yum.

Neopolitan Chocolates - Boxed chocolates. Solid pieces of individually wrapped chocolates - each one a different flavour such as mint, coffee, milk, dark etc.

Milky Bars - the middle used to be brown, like the chewy bit in today's Mars Bars. They were still sold like this in Australia when I visited 10 years ago.

Cadbury's Marble Bars - towards the late 90s. A marbled white and milk chocolate bar with a praline centre.

Drinks

Tab clear. I think it tasted a bit like coke but was clear like lemonade.

Vanilla Coke (TBH could still be available, I don't drink coke anymore)

Umbongo - new version isn't the same

Other food

Bird's Instant Whip - similar to Angel Delight

Hot Crunch Puddings - Two sachets in a box. You poured boiling water on the powder in one sachet to make an instant-custard type hot pudding. The other sachet had biscuit crumbs in to sprinkle on the top. I think the pudding was lemon or butterscotch flavour and the biscuit gingery.

Frozen Mousses - From the freezer store (like Iceland) in our town. They came in round plastic tubs with a pull-off cardboard lid and were sold as a stack of 10 in a long plastic bag. You were meant to eat them at room temp but we usually ate them straight from the freezer like ice cream. I remember a chocolate / mint flavour and raspberry ripple.

Funny Feet - Walls Ice-cream on a stick in the shape of a big pink foot.

Jelly Jumbo (I think?) another Walls icecream / lolly that had jelly in it. I think there was an elephant on the wrapper.

Pzazz - a Multicoloured marbles icecream / lolly by Walls. Quite gharish colours - blues / purples / greens / yellows all blurred together.

Frogletina

madtrekker wrote: »

Bird's Instant Whip - similar to Angel Delight

Much superior to Angel Delight I always thought

kerri_gt

Omg yes, I remember Dewberry body spray, and white musk.

Also miss Impulse O2 , reminds me of festivals ...before everyone too solar showers ..

kerri_gt

Ice magic ice cream sauce, where you had to leave it long enough to turn solid.

kerri_gt

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=254810666

Found frozen mousses, I'm think the ones you are thinking of were Lyons Maid?

TrashyBook

Most of these have already been mentioned, but I miss Mint Cracknel, Milk Tray bars, Nutty bars, and Terry's Waifa (plain!)

I also have fond memories of another chocolate bar, I think it was called Daily. It was in a white wrapper, and in two pieces, and was a variation on a milky way type filling, but flatter squarer pieces. Can't find any mention of it online so maybe I invented it!

I used to love Ponys too - a sherry type drink along the same lines as Cherry B. And (also in the pub!) Billian - those little packets of a cheese spread triangle, a couple of biscuits and some silverskin pickled onions. Yum.

Away from food and drink I miss Impulse O2 (found an old can lurking at the bottom of a handbag the other day, and it still smells lovely, hasn't gone off at all).

But way above all these things I'd put the original Nina fragrance, by Nina Ricci. Brought out in about 1987 I absolutely loved it, and was really disappointed when they discontinued it. Then to add insult to injury they got my hopes up by introducing it again.....so I dashed to Meadowhall to get some, only to find that the new stuff in the apple-shaped bottle smells revoltingly sweet and sickly and isn't worthy of the name!

Finally, I can't leave this topic without mentioned one of my dad's favourite discontinued products - Pacquins handcream. He used it for years and years and was distraught when they withdrew it. I managed to keep him going with ebay purchases for a while, but they dried up too (like his hands now!) He must have tried almost every other handcream on sale in the UK but nothing comes close to Pacquins for him.