• Forums Software Updates

    The forums will be undergoing updates on Sunday 10th November 2024.
    Little to no downtime is expected.
  • We have updated the guidelines regarding posting political content: please see the stickied thread on Website Issues.

Weird, Rare, Forgotten & Discontinued Food Products

Not that weird but from the 70s, I was the only person I knew who liked Amazin Raisin
amazinrasin.jpg

or Pyramint

terrys-chocolate-ornage-pyramint-1599044630.jpg
 
Ronnie Jersey said:
It's sad though that the shelves are full of 'junk candy' now, filled with sugar and garbage -
At least Chunky was real chocolate, real nuts and real raisins! :)
Click to expand...
It was not real chocolate, it was made by Nestle who hasn't used real chocolate since before we were born, and nor has Hershey. But it did have "real" sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup, which is known to harden arteries ( not butter, but margarine and corn syrup).
 
Ronnie Jersey said:
I can't find your 'Bird's Custard' in our stores anymore, either.
I know I can have it mailed to me, but it's just amazing how many favorites are just discontinued in our stores, making way for questionable things!

It was always available at our local A & P Supermarket, in a box of 2 or 3 envelopes, even when I was a kid, now it's gone.
Click to expand...
Walmart sells it, but the price looks a bit high.
 
Giant R said:
I remember the ads on TV with the bear taking a swig and saying 'It's frothy man' . I recall them being quite a unique taste and texture - must have been packed with chemicals we aren't allowed to drink any more!
Click to expand...
I think it had milk in it, which made it pretty unique for a fizzy drink.
Or was it something else?
 
ChasFink said:
A memory from my childhood is Fizzies: tablets you dropped into water (like Alka-Seltzer) to make a carbonated drink. Never tasted too good, but kids wanted it anyway. Discontinued after various bannings of artificial sweeteners (sugar would have made the tablets enormous) it has been unsuccessfully relaunched several times since.
Click to expand...
The other day I picked up an item (forget now what it was) and the first ingredient was listed as corn syrup, and the second was high fructose corn syrup.
I put it right back, just more poison!
 
ChasFink said:
A memory from my childhood is Fizzies: tablets you dropped into water (like Alka-Seltzer) to make a carbonated drink. Never tasted too good, but kids wanted it anyway. Discontinued after various bannings of artificial sweeteners (sugar would have made the tablets enormous) it has been unsuccessfully relaunched several times since.
Click to expand...
I can guess; stick four in your mouth then run round the playground with foam coming out of your mouth and nostrils pretending you have rabies.
 
Ronnie Jersey said:
The other day I picked up an item (forget now what it was) and the first ingredient was listed as corn syrup, and the second was high fructose corn syrup.
I put it right back, just more poison!
Click to expand...
I read the labels too and don't buy a lot of stuff for the same reason.
 
When I was a kid we had a tiny store in the village that would have products from Mexico and we all loved the chocolate covered sugar ants (the tiny ones), can't remember what they were called in Spanish. Ants is hormigas but I don't remember that being the name of the candy. They came in a small jar and we loved that as much as eating them. The teacher laughed when she saw what we had and told us what they were. All the girls had been eating them, but when they found out what they were the boys started buying them and I was the only girl who would still eat them.
 
Mythopoeika said:
I think it had milk in it, which made it pretty unique for a fizzy drink.
Or was it something else?
Click to expand...
I dunno about additives but, from my recollection, the taste was ... 'softer'? No milk but it was less harsh than other fizzy pop. Less acidic?
 
Stormkhan said:
I dunno about additives but, from my recollection, the taste was ... 'softer'? No milk but it was less harsh than other fizzy pop. Less acidic?
Click to expand...
There was something in it that made it cloudy. This is unusual for a soft drink.
 
Victory said:
@Lord Lucan

Tab and Fresca were very popular in my part of North West London in the early 1980's.

Diet Coke was not launched until 1982, there was quite a lot of excitement about Tab as a sugar free Cola, but then it became less popular once Diet Coke came onto the market.


Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is.


R Whites was promoted by television ads starring 'The Secret Lemonade Drinker"



Corona had window stickers and cartoon adverts (plus loads of other flavours that appealed to kids such as Cream Soda, Cherry, Lime.)



7UP had a sharp Lime twist and was widely sold with a glamorous image.

Click to expand...
I was into Quatro in the mid 80's. It tasted like Iron Bru but with a fruity twist from memory. Even the can art was futuristic for it's time and the computer style advert appealed to me because I was just getting more into computers.

https://retro-hen.com/2019/08/18/the-quatro-conundrum/

 
Paul_Exeter said:
It is baking hot down here in the Westcountry and Cydrax cider lollies from my childhood would be perfect right now:

https://cider.space/2018/05/22/frozen-cider-designed-for-suckers/

Alcohol-free but as 7-year-olds we didn't believe that...! Did taste like traditional cider, too.
Click to expand...
Send some of your West Country heat up to Yorkshire, please! It's cloudy and about fifteen degrees and we're all perishing! Then we could all sit round and have some Funny Face (or Funny Feet) lollies - used to love those.
 
When I was quite little, Zero Bars were a thing--a candy bar shaped like a Snickers or Milky Way bar, but with white coating instead of chocolate. I believe these may be extinct now, unlike Payday peanut rolls, Mallow Cups, Goldies, Butternut bars, the Sugar Daddy caramel-bar-on-a-stick and the Black Cow which was the same covered in chocolate, all of which which you can still find and order online from specialty candy stores.

Oh, and there were also 7-Up bars--unrelated to the soft drink of the same name, the bar gave you seven segments of chocolate, each filled with a different goodie--there was a Brazil nut in each one, and a cherry, and I forget the other five. Sadly,7-Up bars are also defunct.
 
Giant R said:
I remember the ads on TV with the bear taking a swig and saying 'It's frothy man' . I recall them being quite a unique taste and texture - must have been packed with chemicals we aren't allowed to drink any more!
Click to expand...
I have to say as a kid I loved Cresta - I remember the colours being almost fluorescent - and the cool polar bear ads, but it always seemed to leave a weird slimy/waxy residue coating the back of my throat. Never had that experience with any other drink. I dread to think what they used to put it in.
 
...Is the Artic Roll still going? I remember it being advertised in the ‘70s by Stanley Baxter?... it was once regarded as ‘ sophisticated’ - but in reality, was a pretty soggy, fairly flavourless, and bland concoction...
 
I always thought that it was bland.
I suppose they were trying for a 'poor man's baked alaska'.
 
I used to love Instant Whip mousse desert as a child, very bubbly!

No photo description available.



And Angel Delight is not the same thing before you tell me it's still available.

It was the 1970s so probably full of tasty asbestos and radioactive chocolate-style flavouring. Boo, killjoys!
 
Anyway, Cheddar Spread. You could eat it with a layer of crisps slapped between two slices of white bread or spread it on thick and toast it. The cheese would then form a deceptive brown crust over a layer of red-hot liquid fat and preservatives.
Like biting into a lava flow. :omg:
 

Attachments

  • Cheddar Spread.jpg
    Cheddar Spread.jpg
    6.5 KB · Views: 48
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top