Food and drink

I absolutely adored Abbey Crunch biscuits. For years these were my one and only biscuit, then all of a sudden they just disappeared. I would easily eat a whole packet, whilst dunking them in a big mug of tea... heaven! RECIPE ...

Acid Drop Spangles were my favourite. Can't describe the flavour but had a bitter taste. I would love to have a packet to see if I would like them as much as I did when I was young. ...

Acid drops were an incredibly sour boiled sweet. They were round and lemon in colour, in a yellow cellophane wrapper. You could buy them in quarter bags. We used to have competitions to see who could eat the most Acid ...

Not the ordinary Aero, but the other flavours from the 70's which included coffee, strawberry (and Aero that was pink inside) and lime flavours! I think, although this sounds mad, that there was date & walnut flavour too. I had ...

In the mid-60s, my grandfather (probably also in his mid-60s then!) used to buy (and if we were lucky, let us have some) After Eight chocolate bars. No one else seems to recall these, but I remember them well. The ...

Was there ever anything that made you feel as sophisticated as offering around a packet of After Eights once your meal was over? (Obviously I mean a meal where people outside your immediate family were invited; After Eights were far ...

All Stars were star-shaped corn crisp snacks around at the end of the 1970's and early 1980's. The gimmick was that they came with a football card to collect in a cellophane packet attached to the front of each crisp ...

Remember the little cardboard boxes decorated like a child's ABC building blocks? Inside were those hard candy alphabet sweets (still sold by the gram). I only ever saw them in supermarkets. I think Marks & Sparks might have sold them ...

The Alpine Soft Drinks man used to come round in a sort of converted milk float every week (Wednesday or Thursday), and sell these street by street back in the mid seventies. Alpine Soft Drinks were closer to Corona than ...

Back in the 70s, Cadbury's broke with tradition and made a fruit-only bar called Amazin' Raisin. It was a rum (yes, you could feel like you might get woozy while watching Swap Shop) and raisin bar that, as you may ...

Amazon bars were a bit like Fuse bars - does anyone remember them, as my boss swears blind they exist. ...

A pale pink shebert Lick you finger dip it in simple or if you had a lolly you could use that . You used to be able to buy it in sweet shops weighed out into a "quarter of" ...

I haven't found anyone who remembers from the late 1950s a confectionery known as an Americo Bar. I used to buy one quite often in Harrow at a small sweet shop. It was a chocolate covered bar which had nougat ...

Perhaps considered the king of puddings amongst children of the 1970s (that may have been contested by Arctic Roll of course) there was always that frisson of excitement when the kitchen cupboard was opened after your tea and an Angel ...

Anglo bubble gum was a flat round pink piece of bubbly that came in a yellow and pink wrapper. I think it was 1pence for one. You could blow huge bubbles for hours with it! ...

Chocolate covered mint or orange honeycomb bar. Used to love these as a kid cos they were twice the size and half the price of the big brand bars. ...

Does anyone remember Appeal orange juice? It was powdered orange juice that you just added water to and one sachet made a jug full. It just reminds me of family camping holidays and being young. There was also another make ...

Applause Bar had a biscuit base with a layer of soft caramel with raisins and apple covered in milk chocolate. It was lovely! ...

You knew it was a special day when you finished your tea, asked what was next and your Mum started walking towards the freezer. If your pudding came from the freezer it was going to be good, whatever it was. It ...

I had a huge jar of the apple ones that my mum brought home from the Cash and Carry. They were the sourest sweets I have ever tasted. The sourness lasted all the way through unlike today's sweets that just have ...

Ayds were slimming toffee cubes around in the 70s and early-80s. They were also hugely expensive! They came in chocolate, chocolate mint, caramel and butterscotch flavours. The toffee was supposed to help satisfy your cravings for something sweet long enough ...

The Aztec Chocolate Bar was very similar to the Mars Bar and was made by Cadbury in the 1970s. There used to be about a five minute advert for them at the cinema. They were quite scrummy and half a ...