What your nostalgia snack?

Apparently Lilt is no more – it’ll be rebranded as Fanta pineapple and grapefruit.

Although Lilt is not disappearing, what other drinks/snacks do you with stayed around? Personally I loved a Spira chocolate bar….

Bin Dun

BinDun

Edit – ah, didn’t see your addition of the ‘what snack…’question. Also kinda done recently 🙂
But, I agree with Spira. You could drink a luke warm coffee through a Spira….

Updated title.. 😁

I really miss Marathon, Treats and Opal Fruits. If only they were still around…

Mrs brain got a box of kp dips for hallmark day today.
I used to love those things.

Oh, and toffee poppets

Marathon = Snickers, Opal Fruits = Starburst but M&Ms are NOT Treats!

Man I miss Toffee Treats!

For me, it is Frazzles but the modern ones are just too healthy. Not enough E numbers or salt!

Potato Puffs
Horror Bags
Aztec bars
Scotch Pies

Potato Puffs

Not sure what they are but for some reason they made me think of tangy toms, they were awesome and far and away the best thing in the swimming pool vending machine

Cheese Moments – Scampi Fries long lost partner in crime.

cans of Quatro

@northernmatt

Affectionately known as ‘The Smiths Medley’ in our local;

Scampi Fries, bacon fries and cheesy moments.

I’ve just guiltily wolfed down a bag of midget gems.

Cup a soup but only one I like now is M&s mushroom, tomato is tasteless no sugar or salt nowadays
Might be the flavoured msg that I like

I constantly mourn the disappearance of both Worcester Sauce and Spicy Tomato flavour Wheat Crunchies

What monster was responsible for this decision?

They kept the bacon ones and they’re crap! 🙁

Pacers

Ohh, and Heinz Kidney Soup – I used to live on it as a child. When it stopped being available (mid 70s?) I had to move on to oxtail – a poor substitute.

Cheese and Chive Spice Girls special edition Walkers crisps. Only place i ever saw them was a newsagents at the end of Albany Rd in Cardiff. Heaven!

Cheese and Chive Spice Girls special edition Walkers crisps. Only place i ever saw them was a newsagents at the end of Albany Rd in Cardiff. Heaven!

Are you sure you didn’t imagine them?

I have this about Greggs cheese and chorizo pasties. I only ever saw them at the Greggs in Lancaster while I was walking round the corner, and I get accused of having dreamt them as nobody else has ever seen or tasted one

They were amazing

Lilt, Texan Bars, Quatro etc… All minging and disastrous for your teeth.

Consigned to the bin of history along with white dog turds, Noel Edmunds and Small Pox.

@Binners sometimes i do wonder!

Apparently they did exist though – EDIT – cant link to eBay by the looks of things

Caramacs – still available but not widely (at least round here) a true confection of the 70’s.

same for dolly mixtures

honourable mention to Spangles – gone but not forgotten

Potato Puffs

Not sure what they are but for some reason they made me think of tangy toms

You can still get Tangy Toms, they sell them round the corner from me.

Potato Puffs were odd, they were like… actually, they weren’t really like anything else. They were tiny, hyper-thin potato airbeds. The ‘puff’ bit wasn’t like Wotsits et al, just air. One kid at school used to get them from the tuck shop and smush up the bag before succumbing to bullying demand offering them around, they’d come away with a pinch of strongly-flavoured potato dust.

They sound like they’d be ideal for dropping a pickled egg in and shaking the packet up to give you a flavoured, coated pickled egg

Presently the best crisps for this are salt and vinegar Seabrook

I have this about Greggs cheese and chorizo pasties. I only ever saw them at the Greggs in Lancaster while I was walking round the corner,

Total aside, but there’s a chance they might have only existed at that one (or a couple locally…)

I know my other half bemoans the loss of a particular bakery chain in Birmingham that got bought out by Greggs (though the name escapes me…) Apparently they had a really good veggie pasty, which the newly Greggs-ed branches locally stocked for a while then discontinued. Might have been the same situation with your Cheese & Chorizo.

I have been craving a Star Bar since the thread yesterday. They were always my sweet of choice, not had one for about ten years, hoping they haven’t somehow ruined them

Cabana bar.

 been craving a Star Bar since the thread yesterday.

a best seller in my shop….

Caramacs

Unfortunately you get too many in a case and most small shops cant sell through the case before the comparatively short sell by….

The only thing I really pine for are Fizzy Jerks, these pop flavoured hard sweets in a roll. For a while you could occasionally find them in low traffic vending machines in leisure centres…but no more.

Can you still buy scampi Nik Naks?

Horror Bags

How do you know my missus?

Potato Puffs

Not sure what they are

Reconstituted potato – like pringles, only in a small dollop with an air bubble somehow baked into them.

I have fond childhood memories of both eating potato puffs and the hilarious joke “how do you make a potato puff….. you chase it round the garden”.

Cresta, it’s frothy man.

Can you still buy scampi Nik Naks?

Released in January this year, so yes.