Forgotten brands

[Burdock]

Pacers.... (green and white pseduo-chewitts)

Twists.... salt n vinegar spirally crisps

[Denny]

Those were the days....

Spangles - boiled fruit sweets.

Buttersnap - now called Dime bars and half the size

Vesta Curries - dried powdered chicken or beef curry in a pack with another pack of rice. Just add water and you got a great tasting curry (nothing like the original but still tasted good, even if the peas and chicken did stay very chewy after cooking).

Raspberry Ripple Ice Cream - Like all 70s ice creams, they were sold in blocks to slice like bread. This was 'special' occasion ice cream that looked like Stilton cheese (only it was streaked with vivid red) that you had when you wanted a change from Cornish vanilla or chocolate or strawberry or rather pink or brown ice cream with tons of E-numbers.

Victory V sweets - square greyish tablets that tasted hot and peppery at the same time. Really yum!

Blamange - nice pink, yellow or chocolate wobbly opaque jellymould kiddy food that came in powder packs which you just added milk to and set in the fridge. It didn't really taste of anything really, and certainly not strawberry, banana or chocolate - but was always served with jelly at kids parties.

Angel Delight or Instant Whip. - Powdered flavoured mousse - usually strawberry, chocolate, vanilla or banana (or more accurately pink, brown, cream or vivid yellow). You just emptied out the powder and added milk and whipped up and placed in fridge.

Walls sausages. Those nice floppy bright pink sausages you got in the 70s that were made of rusk, additives, spices and loads of salt and fat which just a hint on pork meat to legally allow them to be labelled pork.

Tinned fruit salad. This was the best. Empty out a tin of rich thick fruit syrup loaded with little cubes of pink (peach), orange (mango), white (pear) and bright red balls (fruit cake cherries). The fruit all tasted the same except the cherries that tasted like mazipan and it was impossible to tell whether you were eating. Great stuff!

Harvest Fruit Pies - smelt great, cut them open and you got a pastry shell with a thinnish layer of blackberry and apple or apricot fruit jammy stuff inside covering the bottom inner layer of the pastry and an empty space above it. The upper pastry lid seems to stay put with nothing to support it underneath. A civil engineer must have designed these. Magic!

Mr Kipling chocolate cup cakes. A sunday teatime treat in our house. Basically a tray of 6 large dark brown serated edged fairy cakes made of very dry inedible sponge covered on top with a thick layer of very sweet chocolate flavour goo.

I'm surprised I'm still alive.

[OwlHoot]

I genuinely miss proper Dandelion & Burdock and Sasparilla. Apparently there are root bears of similar taste out there but they're bleedin well hidden round here.

I'm sure they've stopped doing Aqua Libra now too, although that wasn't yesteryear as in "bygone days" but only a year or two ago.

[Pondlife]

Ahh the 80s...

Smash

Toast Toppers

Cigarette sweets

Cola Cubes

Sherbet UFOs

Vimto (sp?)

[foritisme]

Aztec Bars

Marathon (Snickers still sounds stupid)

[Rantor]

Aztec Bars

Marathon (Snickers still sounds stupid)

Cremola foam - chemical crystals to make a refreshingly fruitlike fizzy drink. Came in a wee tin as well.

Kellogs Rise n' Shine - such a seventies concept - orange juice in a packet.

Chuckles - boiled sweets in a long skinny packetm loved em!

[hyperD]

Jubbly's were the AIM-120s of the school playgrounds - one good lock at the head and another kid with a inop RWR drops like a sack of spuds...

[Troll]

I genuinely miss proper Dandelion & Burdock and Sasparilla. Apparently there are root bears of similar taste out there but they're bleedin well hidden round here.

I was amazed to see cans of Dandelion & Burdock at the local Sainsburys... a pale imitation of what I remember from childhood, but enough to let the kids get a taste

[Troll]

Jubbly's were the AIM-120s of the school playgrounds - one good aim at the head and another kid with a inop RWR drops like a sack of spuds...

I recall the trick was to suck all the favour out leaving just a ice shell behind - then launch....but also not seen them around for ages

[wobbegong]

"I'll risk it for a Swisskit".