Food that we have lost down the years (including sweets)

Colser

Golf ball chewing gums.Furry friend chocolate bars.

jimmycrackcorm

Gold nuggets bubblebum.
Oatfields Sweets (emeralds) as made in Donegal

feargale

Bulls Eyes
Orby and Cleeves lollipops
Coughnomore bars
Sherbet powder ( sometimes in lucky bags )
Milroys' chocolate covered toffee bars
Willwoods fish ( tasted a bit like the aforementioned cigarettes )
Caffreys mice
Dandy and Beano toffees ( six a penny )
Gearys' currant top buns ( one currant on top )
Licorice strings
Moneyballs
Bikki bars ( a chocolate covered biscuit )
HB, Palm Grove, Suir Valley and Leadmore ice cream
Cidona
Cidereen
Cocoa
Urney chocolates
Bolands biscuits
Potters boiled sweets
Scots Clan chocolate covered toffees ( produced in Listowel by North Kerry Manufacturers under licence from Rowntree Mackintosh )
Clarnico-Murray icing covered toffees
Cleeves Slab toffee
Irel Coffee ( more chicory than coffee )
Gateaux cakes
Thompsons Battenberg Cake
TV Dinners
Erin Foods dehydrated vegetables
Necklace sweets
Brown and Polsons porridge and cornflakes
Donnellys sausages ( with so little meat you could eat them on a Friday, or
so they said)
Limerick sausages by Shaws, Mattersons, Dennys, Clover Meats and O'Maras
Cheese triangles by Galtee and Golden Vale
Connie Dodgers ( when Bishop Con Lucey said you could have a biscuit at midday during Lent, and Deasys bakery produced a biscuit as big as a wheel.)
Gobstoppers.
Bubblegum.
Mushrooms picked in a field.
Blackberry jam made from picked blackberries.
Home made griddle bread
Unpasteurised milk straight from the farmer
Periwinkles, barnacles and sea-grass.
Crubeens
Blancmange
Ogilvie & Moores sweets
Cadburys Tiffin bars
Lairds Jam from Ballinamore
Pak Orange
Lyles Golden Syrup
Dungarvan canned apples
Locally produced lemonade in every one horse town.
Mars Spangles
Peek Freans and Huntley and Palmer biscuits
Lozenges with love messages inscribed

There was a famine, but we were happy.

o1s1n

This thread has made me hungry

saywhatyousee

Cadburys white chocolate polar bear biscuits

tonytiger81

+1 for crunchos they were the bomb, and barry mcguigan crisps to rival the 5p a-team crisps. oh and pink mice

mulbot

flying saucers with the fizzy cocaine stuff inside,and also,eating paper!

saywhatyousee

Ghosties Ireland made some fine contributions to the corn snack market

mud

Gino Ginelli pizzas and those pizza slices from Iceland. Gone but never forgotten.

nkav86

sugarman wrote:

You'll all be pleased to know all these still exist

Not the same, all that baked not fried bull ruined them!

Joe prim

Marathon bars, lovely chocolate with peanuts and caramel, just disappeared off the market.

nkav86

Anyone remember 5s crisps?! Loved them! Ooh or curry chips, can't remember the actual name of the crisps but that was the flavour, I was a crisp fiend!!

osarusan

Frosties.

Callard and Bowser Butterscotch (usurped by the appalling Werthers).

pl4ichjgy17zwd

I've definitely seen these in Tesco before, coke anyway. With the tonic water.

12 cans for 2.99 on Mr Price website too.

Zaph

maudgonner wrote: »

Oh, and I've mentioned it about twenty times on boards already, but Sam Spudz Smokey Bacon were the best crisps ever! EVER!!

They really were the best. I never eat smokey bacon crisps any more because none can ever compare to Sam Spudz.

desbrook wrote: »

Pacers (spearmint chewy sweets) - can still remember the taste !

I loved them and I can remember the taste too. There was something about them that made you want to eat the whole pack as quickly as possible.

Radharc na Sleibhte

Aw man Ghosties and a TouchDown.
My staple lunch.

I miss Black Jacks too.
Proper BLACK Jacks with plenty of tasty E numbers.

Starokan

Chocolate girl wrote: »

Fizzle sticks

these were just the best

Alcoheda

Stinger bars

martin101

Crunchies crisps. Prawn cocktail flavour and also salt and vinegar

JanaMay

The King of Moo wrote: »

Smiley bars!

Like an orange-flavoured chomp, delicious!!

I lost more than one baby tooth to a Smiley Bar. Whoever thought up the name was a cheeky fecker!

Westernyelp

Big time bars
United bars
Smak cola and orange
chilly willys
Totem popcorn

notsoyoungwan

Anyone remember cadburys topdeck? It was a slab of milk chocolate topped with a slab of white chocolate. Only ever available in the slightly bigger size bars, ie three squares across by 7 or 8 down, rather than the standard 8 square bar. They were absolutely delicious.

TG1

The mint woppa bars. I used to get one every Friday on the way home from school. It was the highlight of the week!

54321 chocolate bars. They must have spent a fortune advertising them as I still remember the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjJ1_Rabs2w

Also "poprock" (sp?) sweet powder. It used to pop/crackle in your mouth when you poured it in. I haven't seen a Lucky Bag in decades either.

retalivity

Arctic roll
Ritchies cinnamon lozenges

12Phase

Those old "Tenpenny bags" which newsagents used to sell. When I was a kid these were 50p but still called Tenpenny Bags..

Random mixture of mad E-number rich 1980s sweets, cola bottles, fizzy cola bottles, false teeth, little marshmallow things, a few flying saucers and a good dose of newsprint and e.coli.

GrumpyMe

Joe prim wrote: »

Marathon bars, lovely chocolate with peanuts and caramel, just disappeared off the market.

Just a name change!
http://tinyurl.com/z9qfj8e

feargale wrote: »

Erin Foods dehydrated vegetables
Lyles Golden Syrup

Eirin still do Marrowfat peas - they've gone all posh with the likes of Quinoa Roasted Vegetables "A delicate blend of Quinoa, Dried Vegetables and Roast Pepper Flavouring" :rolleyes:
Lyles Golden Syrup Still going strong even in the same livery
http://tinyurl.com/jtrnbtj

doolox wrote: »

Canned steak and Kidney Pies.

Probably not the same brand but Fray Bentos S&K pies are still available

Aniseed Balls

.red.

Blue Pepsi!

Boom_Bap

.red. wrote: »

Blue Pepsi!

chrystal pepsi

fussyonion

Boom_Bap wrote: »

chrystal pepsi

LA Beast!

fussyonion

Hellas Strawberry Chocolate-used to get a bar every week with the grocery shopping in Crazy Prices in the 90's.
It was the only reason I went shopping with my Mam; I knew she'd buy me a bar.

Golfball chewing gum- bland as feck but retro!

Fruit Basket-extremely flavoursome chewing gum; they were so fruity.

Eyepoppers-extremely sour chewing gum.

Boomy icepops.
Super Mario ice-creams.

PK chewing gum. Banshee Bones. Ghosties. Maverick bar. Fuse Bar. Marble Bar.

I miss them all!

razorblunt

Touchdown bars, there was a lot of eating in there for 10p.

There was a toffee bar too, covered in chocolate, yellow wrapper with a clock on it, you'd be chewing for hours.

fussyonion

razorblunt wrote: »

Touchdown bars, there was a lot of eating in there for 10p.

There was a toffee bar too, covered in chocolate, yellow wrapper with a clock on it, you'd be chewing for hours.

Big Time, they were called!
Jaysus they'd rip your fillings out.

I also remember a really hard toffee bar covered in thin white chocolate, called Lazer.

anewme

Our Dad worked in Urneys(later becoming HB Chocolates).

Our house was full of
Catch Bars
Mint Catch Bars
Rovals( Irish equivalent of Rolos)
Mint Rovals
beanies (Irish version of Smarties)
Turkish Delight
Our favourite 2 and 2 bars (mum and Dad used to tell us they were their stash!!)

We were never short of visitors to the house.

Good Times!

tom_tarbucket

Frosties. As is the sucky sweets, not the cereal. Full of E numbers.

kfallon

Frosties cola sweets
Roy Of the Rovers bar
Woppa bars
Bikers crisps
Cans of Smak Pineapple
HB Sky Ice creams

JustTheOne

Crunchos hot dog flavoured crisps.

blackplum123

Charms..... Glassy square fruit sweets

Two and two chocolate bar

Dotty delight ice cream bar with bits of chocolate in it.


Fizzle sticks

blackplum123

Big lumps of broken honeycomb

Cleaves toffees

Stoolbend

Pot rice.

Disappeared off the shelves for no apparent reason.

Meeoow

Tasty crisps. The most salt and vinegary crisps ever!
Anyone remember Boost bars when they were in a red wrapper and were coconut inside. Haven't seen them in years.

Owryan

I can remember buying ha'penny sweets, felt like a bargain getting double your money's worth.

Used to get small chocolate covered toffee balls, lasted for hours.

bonzodog2

Dark chocolate Toffee Crisps
Amazin Raisin bars
Acid Drop Spangles

spankysue

Toffee mice (the dark chocolate covered ones were delicious)
Eat a yolks (the stuff on the inside looked less like an egg yolk and more like nuclear waste)
Touchdown bars (I preferred the purple one to the red one, even though I don't think there was any difference between them)

Boom_Bap

JustTheOne wrote: »

Crunchos hot dog flavoured crisps.

It's my mission in life to find out where I can still purchase these. There are rumours that surface from time to time of a shop that will stock them, but I've never found it to be true yet.

12Phase

I'm missing proper Cadbury's already

Irish Guitarist

Pink Panther Bars. They were like Milky Bars except pink with a picture of the Pink Panther on them and they had a kind of strawberry taste.

Barry McGuigan crisps. I joined his fan club with some tokens from the packets. I had no interest in boxing but I was a fan of his crisps.

Spring Onion Tayto.

Crumpets

Mars Delight bars

TG1

Crumpets wrote: »

Mars Delight bars

Why did they ever stop those?