What products can you remember that have disappeared?

[Darandio]

Vesta boil-in-the-bag curries and Chinese dishes.

Vesta meals are still around.

 

[Non Multi]

Wasn't the first batch of it in the UK also recalled after it failed a food safety test?

I didn't remember the product recall, but yes it was found to contain bromate. What a disaster!

 

[GusB]

Vesta boil-in-the-bag curries and Chinese dishes.

Asda still has the Vesta Chow Mein listed on their website.

 

[birchesgreen]

Do they still sell Brillo Pads?

No he left GB News.

 

[D821]

Dasani bottled water (Coca-Cola Schweppes). Absolutely bombed after the revelation that it was only filtered tap water.

There's a great Tom Scott video on that, part of the failure was down to Only Fools and Horses!

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Bingos, Echoes and Trios.

Trios can be found in Asda. I have a friend who has an Asda nearby and I get a regular supply that way...

 

[GrimsbyPacer]

Strawberry and Cream sweet, perhaps campinos.

That's it! Thanks

Polo Fruits - haven't seen any in ages

In Grimsby, Poundland sells the Polo Fruits, maybe it's the same in your town? They still exist anyway.

 

[Busaholic]

Instant Whip, the precursor to Angel Delight, was eaten in my household at dinner time about five times a week. It disappeared in 2004 apparently, but a keen entrepreneur might have made a killing re-introducing it when 'Fifty Shades of Grey' was popular.

 

[LOL The Irony]

In Grimsby, Poundland sells the Polo Fruits

Thanks for the heads up, I'll keep a look out for them.

 

[PG]

Numerous bread names have disappeared. I have not seen Mother's Pride

Mother's Pride is still available in Scotland.

 

[D6975]

Montego – chocolate bar

Fresca – grapefruit fizzy drink

Glees – similar to skittles

Cresta – It’s frothy man

Chipmunk brand crisps

and I do remember Curly Wurlys, there used to be a chippy just west of Queen St station that did deep fried ones.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Cadbury dairy milk chocolates in bar form.

 

[najaB]

Fresca – grapefruit fizzy drink

Pretty sure that I've seen Fresca in the last year or so. Although, thinking about it, I was outside the UK for a while so it might not have been here.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Cadbury dairy milk chocolates in bar form.

The Milk Tray bar. It had the lime barrel on it which I don't think was in the box version.
Who remembers "New Coke" when the formula was changed followed by a global uproar as it was not great?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

The Milk Tray bar. It had the lime barrel on it which I don't think was in the box version.
Who remembers "New Coke" when the formula was changed followed by a global uproar as it was not great?

Lime barrel was in the box version, it was one, along with strawberry cream, that I always went for when a kid.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Lime barrel was in the box version, it was one, along with strawberry cream, that I always went for when a kid.

I liked the lime barrel. I used to try and get the liquid out without breaking the chocolate too much.
Talking of chocolates where have all the coffee creams gone? I think it's only Black Magic that still have them.

 

[najaB]

Who remembers "New Coke" when the formula was changed followed by a global uproar as it was not great?

That one is a funny one. There's a very convincing argument that New Coke was nothing more than a way to get people talking about Coke, with no real intention to replace the formulation on a permanent basis.

 

[Mojo]

Galloways Cough Syrup. That stuff was delicious, I always remember helping myself to a tablespoon full of the stuff whenever I went to my nan’s house, using her measuring spoons for baking!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

When I was but a mere gossoon, my mother always bought Virol for me. I think it was a malt extract product.

 

[DelW]

Vesta boil-in-the-bag curries and Chinese dishes.

Pedantry warning, but Vesta weren't boil in the bag - the bag had to be emptied into a saucepan and water added to the mixture.

As others have mentioned, they're still around, though a smaller range these days. Just for old times sake, I tried a curry and a chow mein a couple of years ago when I saw them in Poundstretcher. Let's just say, food technology and tastes have moved on since I ate them regularly 50 years ago.

 

[xotGD]

Alpine pop.

We used to get it delivered from a lorry, returning the empties each week.

Tudor crisps. Remember the advert featuring the 'rocket flats' in Dunston? 'For Tudor I'd climb a mountain.'

 

[ChiefPlanner]

Aztec Bars

Old Jamaica

 

[najaB]

Old Jamaica

If you mean Old Jamaica ginger beer, I bought some a couple weeks ago in Tesco.

 

[ChiefPlanner]

If you mean Old Jamaica ginger beer, I bought some a couple weeks ago in Tesco.

No - the chocolate bar ! (rather expensive relatively , but very nice) !

 

[GatwickDepress]

Oxtail soup - in tins on the supermarket shelf

Tinned oxtail soup is still around. Heinz make it and most supermarkets stock an own-brand version, plus as an instant cup soup flavour.

Old Jamaica

I believe they relaunched that under the Bournville brand at the beginning of last year, although without the ship on the packaging. I've seen them in Morrisons recently.

 

[Ediswan]

Pedantry warning, but Vesta weren't boil in the bag - the bag had to be emptied into a saucepan and water added to the mixture.

Or in one case, deep fried.

 

[Busaholic]

When I was but a mere gossoon, my mother always bought Virol for me. I think it was a malt extract product.

Lovely stuff - we're obviously of the same generation. Cod liver oil, on the other hand - I'd rather have swallowed castor oil! Those cod needn't have lost their livers for my benefit.

 

[Calthrop]

Lovely stuff - we're obviously of the same generation. Cod liver oil, on the other hand - I'd rather have swallowed castor oil! Those cod needn't have lost their livers for my benefit.

I hear this from pretty well everyone I know, who as a child was was subjected to cod liver oil. I must be weird -- as a little kid in the early 1950s, I liked the stuff.

 

[birchesgreen]

Cod liver oil is much better in pill form (as i have every day).

 

[AM9]

I hear this from pretty well everyone I know, who as a child was was subjected to cod liver oil. I must be weird -- as a little kid in the early 1950s, I liked the stuff.

I agree. On a recent holiday in Iceland I had a traditional Icelandic breakfast in Rekyavik. In that was a nip of cod liver oil. It brought memories from childhood back when the square bottle with the painted metal screw top was on the table to serve us the stuff from. It was quite pleasant. I also have a 1000mg capsule of CLO every day now, - it's not so nice that way.