Brands we dont see around any more

snubbleste

oh and the Green Party

GAAman

The King of Moo wrote: »

The pizza (which I think was made by Bird's Eye: not sure how the licensing of the name worked out between them and HB) doesn't seem to be as well-remembered.

I remember them, if I recall correctly the box they came in was white with red stripes?

gsxr1

GONE

Irish Guitarist

snubbleste wrote: »

Dunno if these are around anymore, it's just I haven't seen them

Canada Dry
Virgin Cola
Blueband margarine
Minitel
Opal Fruits
Jif
Entenmann's cakes
Diet Lilt
GoldenDiscs
Monarchy of France
Netscape navigator
Those big tins of meat from the EU meat mountain..does anyone remember those?

I saw Canada Dry in Superquinn recently. Opal Fruits have been called Starburst for years now.

44leto

ballsymchugh wrote: »

heard on the radio this morning that some department in kodak came up with the first digital camera in 1992, but it was shot down at a meeting because they thought people would always want to hold photos. what a missed opportunity.

Heard that to, it seems a no-brainer now, digital cameras are the business but Kodak at one stage used the most silver in the world due to film sales. You would think a business that size would have diversatised.

kfallon

Anyone remember Yellow Pack, Quinnsworth's own brand? The nightmare for every kid:

Me: Any coke in the fride Mam?
Ma: Yeah
Me: *opens fridge, sees Yellow Pack coke*
Me: It's ok I'm not thirsty anymore

JustAddWater

Bebo

electrobanana

Acme hammers & explosives

Cameron Poe

uncle ernie wrote: »

x-works

Eclipse!

grindle

Loadsamoney wrote: »

The KVI brand was Crazy Prices wasnt it?

Used to be in Quinnsworth too, but they owned Crazy Prices, so...

First thing I thought when I read this thread was KVI.
Used to eat a half-kilo a day of their dry roasted peanuts as a kid - now have an intolerance to MSG.
Connected somehow, I wonder? :rolleyes:

The King of Moo

GAAman wrote: »

I remember them, if I recall correctly the box they came in was white with red stripes?

Yeah, that's them, and the name was written in a very flowing red font on the box.
I'm sure I remember ads that used the ice-cream ad music, but I might just be misremembering the ice-cream ad.

LordSutch

AYDS

Ayds slimming biscuits were marketed just before the advent of "AIDS" the disease, needless to say once Auto Immune Difficency Syndrome arrived that was the end of the little slimming biscuits ) unfortunate timing for the makers of Ayds . . .

tricky D

Pan Am

'cept on TV and in film

demanufactured

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vz2nxdM0qc

mikemac1

Breo

A white/cream drink from Guinness

I never tried it, based on appearance I think it would have been nice.
Ok that might make no sense but I liked the colour and the marketing

Well it must have flopped as it didn't last long

rob180

Quinnsworth yellow can larger, lovely stuff.

Chuck Stone

PB petrol stations?

Black Jacks sweets?

Marathon (RIP) now Snickers.

toexpress

Just so we all know Jif is now Cif

Zaph

mikemac1 wrote: »

Breo

A white/cream drink from Guinness

I never tried it, based on appearance I think it would have been nice.
Ok that might make no sense but I liked the colour and the marketing

Well it must have flopped as it didn't last long

It was a wheat beer, and it was pure muck. Amazed it lasted longer than a week tbh.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Jet petrol stations, they ended up merging with Statoil who have also since disappeared, possibly amalgamated into Topaz.

alwaysadub

retalivity wrote: »

thos reebok tracksuit bottoms with the buttons the whole way up to the waist.

everyone had them, and everyone used to run around trying to rip them off each other

They were adidas.
Often had the buttons popped open on me!

Rochie IRL

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Jet petrol stations, they ended up merging with Statoil who have also since disappeared, possibly amalgamated into Topaz.

Wasn't there petrol stations called Ola???

earlyevening

All things retro forum?

Jordan 199

Chuck Stone wrote: »

PB petrol stations?

You must mean BP.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Rochie IRL wrote: »

Wasn't there petrol stations called Ola???

That's right there was too, they must have been bought out somewhere down the line as well.

Oscars Well.

Five-Alive

44leto

Madonna seems absent its all gaga now.

flanders1979

Striders. Dunnes Stores runners. The shame.

Where To

earlyevening wrote: »

All things retro forum?

No, it's still there.



Thalidomide.

44leto

where do i go from here wrote: »

No, it's still there.



Thalidomide.

Its a miracle drug although not used in any case when a woman is pregnant it has uses in cancer treatment, leprosy and many more.
So it went away for a while but it is very much back.

mikemac1

Don't push me, push a push pop

Atavan-Halen

Chicken Tonight!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ9M7bsx10I

I used to like that

CiaranMT

atavan-halen wrote: »

Chicken Tonight!


I used to like that

Still going strong! Well, maybe not strong.. We've one facing for each type in the shop... :pac:

Gran Hermano

Megavideo or megaupload.com

Scanlas The 2nd

Slim fast

SafeSurfer

Mr. Kipling.

Whatever happened to his exceedingly good pies?

Niles

The PDs...

boobar

Jo Brand....

Haven't seen her in ages.

kowloon

snubbleste wrote: »

Entenmann's cakes

They were made under licence in the UK but no longer. Still around in the US though.

LordSutch

OMO

Washing powder.

FinnLizzy

Kickflip!

Skater style clothes for kids who's parents can't afford the more popular American Skateboarding brands.

Having a pair of baggy jeans and a Kickflip hoodie would render you the dogs bollocks. You could always spot an Irish kid abroad with them.

FREDNISMO

PYE radio's and Grundig tv

Ambp

When Tesco did their big restructuring thing about two years ago and started buying more from UK suppliers they dropped a load of brands, and I only realised last week one I used to occasionally buy I havent seen since - Cola Cao, a great tasty drinking chocolate. I saw it in an ethnic food shop window and it reminded me, will be picking it up!

Another brand I loved Tesco dropped is Rose's Lime Juice, you can still get it some places but need to look around.

One brand I'm glad is gone is Hummer - awful things!

44leto

Commodore
Amstrad
Sinclair

Once these brands dominated the home computer market but not a trace of them now.

Nokia will be one of these forgotten brands if they don't get their Smartphone game in order.

Underdraft

Kellogg's Smacks. (they were kinda like Sugar Puffs but had a frog on the box).

the groutch

Mitsubishi Black Diamond TVs, they were built to last.

SeanW

Underdraft wrote: »

Disco's crisps.

Still around last time I looked (a month or so ago)

Underdraft wrote: »

Peperami

Still around, in some Tesco stores. Standard and Hot versions.

skinny90

Loadsamoney wrote: »

I was very surprised as it's a giant of a company that even managed to coin a phrase, "a Kodak moment"

sorry if it was mentioned before(i only read the first page)but more or less everything kodak where good at as been digitalized and they never for what ever reason took off with it,they are trying to make another stab at the market but i think its too late.

admiralofthefleet

LordSutch wrote: »

OMO

Washing powder.

my late grandfather used to call an oul fella in his local 'omo' cause the oul lad was stinking and never washed

gurramok

neil_hosey wrote: »

fruit of the loom..

Still around, you'll find them making tshirts for Dunnes. Good quality ones too, they have the upcoming Euro qualifiers on their tshirts and good quality ones too!