Food/snacks/drinks you miss and would like back

[Ladder23]

Just looking back on things I miss, some which ain’t totally gone but at least have had there ingredients changed.

two of biggest ones for me that I often crave, and when I have I’m always let down are Lucozade original, and Irn Bru. Both have had significant amounts of sugar removed and just ain't the same no more.

keen to hear what things others miss!

 

[DM352]

Heinz treacle sponge in a tin. The plastic microwave ones are like rubber. I think Heinz had created too many varieties of puddings from about 3 so lost the plot.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Beef flavoured wotsits.
Jellymallow.

 

[nlogax]

Fuse bars
Maverick bars
Toffos (banana flavour please)

 

[Bantamzen]

Back in the 80s KP did a brand of corn snacks called 'Griddles'. I used to love them as a kid, very addictive I seem to remember. Probably down to a ton of MSG, which would now be bad for me as that stuff gives me the shakes! So maybe on second thought perhaps they should stay back in the day!

 

[Ashley Hill]

Top Deck lager and lime fizzy drink. (Enjoyed at youth club).
Quattro fizzy drink.
Nutty Bars.
Brannigans beef and mustard crisps.

 

[Big Tim]

@Ashley Hill beat me to it but I too came here to say Brannigans crisps. But also the smoked ham and pickle variety as well as the beef and mustard (the latter almost felt like they were melting your tongue!). They disappeared for about a decade, then were available in multipacks in the discount shops (e.g. B&M / Home Bargains) until three or four years ago, but now seem to have gone for good.

Also Rowntrees "Secret" bars, and bizarrely Crosse & Blackwell's "London Grill" which was beans mixed with sausage, bacon and kidney (!) in a tomato sauce - used to love that when away camping as a child. Miles better than the modern equivalent "Hunger Breaks".

 

[Furrball]

Quattro fizzy drink.

Indeed. Although I feel that made today it would not be the same!

 

[SuspectUsual]

Brannigan’s ham and pickle crisps. Unbelievably strong flavour, made my lips go a bit numb

Smax - baked potato snacks a bit like fish n chips that you can still get

Seabrooks pickled onion flavour

Bourbon type biscuits that were shaped like custard creams and had a bit more filling so seemed much richer in taste. We had them at primary school in the 70s

Pacers (minty chewit type sweets, not the trains I hasten to add)

 

[D6130]

Seabrooks pickled onion flavour

Even nicer....Seabrook's spring onion flavour. They didn't taste much like spring onions, but they were very moreish.

 

[Blindtraveler]

Iron brew. And more iron brew. Oh and pear drops, anyone seen those recently?

 

[uglymonkey]

Corona lemonade. I used to love the lime flavour.

 

[gazthomas]

Mcdonalds Big Breakfast. Classy

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Seabrooks pickled onion flavour.

Seabrook Crisps now seem to have more "retired flavours" than they do currently available alternatives.

Having said that, I don't ever remember their 'Sweetcorn' flavour range of crisps, and I'm not sure there'd be much call for their return.

 

[Blindtraveler]

Mcdonalds Big Breakfast. Classy

Now you reminded me, McDonald's post lockdown menu omitted the sausage and egg bagel, the only item on their menu that I've ever liked and would ever purchase other than drinks and things like cakes or donuts and the other ice cream

 

[birchesgreen]

Root beer at McDonalds.

 

[D6130]

Youngers' No. 3 (although Stewart's Brewing Co. in Edinburgh produce a beer to the same recipe).

 

[gg1]

Glenfiddich liqueur
BR Brunch muffins
Findus French bread pizza

The old recipe versions of:
Irn Bru
San Pelegrino
Crispy Pancakes
Sugar Puffs
Frazzles

 

[Acey]

Twiglets , before they changed the recipe !
Swisskit bars,they weren't around for long but I loved them !

 

[BwniCymraeg]

I echo the sadness over original recipe Irn Bru. My other main loss is Mingles, a box of assorted mint chocolates that my family would always eat on Christmas Eve.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Coffee Matchmakers.

 

[brad465]

These jelly beans. Note any other colour scheme and/or shape is awful IMO, but the specific ones below are delicious, but becoming ever more rare (I wouldn't be surprised if artificial colouring has something to do with the reason why).


(Image of jelly beans in a scoop)

 

[jon81uk]

Heinz treacle sponge in a tin. The plastic microwave ones are like rubber. I think Heinz had created too many varieties of puddings from about 3 so lost the plot.

Yes, those tinned sponge puddings were perfect, the right amount of fluffy even when microwaved. The new ones in plastic tubs, as you say, don't have the same texture.

Mcdonalds Big Breakfast. Classy

I see a lot of people who miss this, but it was just a deconstructed sausage and egg muffin except with "scrambled" style egg not the steamed ring egg. I don't see why having it spread out instead of stacked inside the muffin made it better?
I think if it were to return it would have the steamed egg, as I think that's why they no longer offer it, easier just to produce one style of egg for breakfast (also the steamed ring eggs are cracked from fresh, whereas the "scrambled" egg use bottled homogenised egg, so I think its a better quality anyway.

 

[43096]

Turkey burgers they used to do in BR station buffets.

FGW Travelling Chef breakfast baguettes. Always a great way to start a day’s bashing on a Freedom of South West rover.

 

[SJL2020]

Jacobs club biscuits: they now only seem to do them in orange and mint flavors, which I do not care for.

Bring back the plain and/or milk chocolate ones please.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Jacobs club biscuits: they now only seem to do them in orange and mint flavors, which I do not care for.

Bring back the plain and/or milk chocolate ones please.

I'd like the Fruit ones back as well.

...and the Trios. their recent revival only lasted two years before they axed them again - hardly surprising as they never promoted the revival...


Another vote here for the traditional large, hard, pear drops without powdered sugar coatings.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

I'd like the Fruit ones back as well.

They were o.k. Believe it's just Orange, Mint and Salted Caramel varieties just now, the manufacturers of Club biscuits these days being McVities, rather than Jacob's.

 

[Sorcerer]

White Maltesers, Mars Planets, Cadbury Dream bar, and Walkers BBQ Ribs crisps. The fact these snacks were ever even dropped is criminal!

 

[AndrewE]

Spangles, especially the "Old English" variety.

 

[jon81uk]

Walkers BBQ Ribs crisps

I spotted McCoys are now doing a BBQ flavour but I've not got round to trying it to find out if its as good as Walkers.