Food and drink

The name has always been misleading – the ‘cham’ part leads many people to assume that the bubbly liquid they are happily quaffing at parties is champagne, when in fact this popular drink is actually perry; alcoholic sparkling pear juice. ...

Babycham Liqueur Chocolates came in a luxurious pale blue box with a pale blue ribbon. They were gorgeous and were only available to buy at Christmas time. ...

Banana Creamy Ice Lollies were made by Midland Counties Dairies which were later taken over by Lyon's Maid. They were dreamy Banana Milky Ice lollies that tasted like the banana version of Angel Delight, only frozen! I wish you could ...

Banjo bars were about in the late 70's/early 80's and were just about the finest sweet I can remember. They came in two varieties: Roast Nut (blue and yellow wrapper) and Coconut (pink wrapper) but Banjo bars sadly vanished some ...

Bar None was a candy bar made by Hershey! I can't remember much about it except how much I liked it and wish they still made it! I remember it was a wafer type candy bar with peanut ...

Bart Simpson Clear Cola was available for a short time in Australia. It came in a white can that had a picture of Bart Simpson on the front. The drink was cola flavoured but was clear like lemonade. ...

Launched around 1979 in an attempt by Batchelors to rival the burgeoning success of Golden Wonder's Pot Noodle, these 'just add boiling water' quick snacks were of very similar format - dehydrated noodles and vegetables that came in a variety ...

Battle Bags were brands of crisps available in two varieties: Fighter Planes (salt and vinegar) and Tanks (cheese and onion). I mainly remember the advert which went something like:"Squadron Leader to Tank Commander - looks rough. Over.""'bout time we gave ...

Bazooka Joe was a large stick of pink American bubble gum that can still be purchased today. Around the large sticks of gum was wrapped a small comic strip starring the adventures of Bazooka Joe and his friends and advertising ...

This is an oft mentioned sauce - particularly in the midlands of the UK. It graced many a dinner table in the 1980's but these days is rarely found.Some say it is "Simply the best brown sauce ever to have ...

You might remember getting this out of the old chewing gum vending machines outside your local sweet shop? Beech Nut brand had a sweet peppery taste and came in little oblong packs, dragees not sticks, usually on sale for around 2p or ...

Betta Bars were a rectangular bar of some sort of puffed rice (Puffa Puffa Rice - remember that?) covered in a sweet syrupy coating. They used to sell these at our local outdoor swimming pool and were always a huge ...

Biarritz is a long forgotten and short lived 70's drink that came in a little bottle and had a bitter orange taste. I remember only one pub in Doncaster in the 70's that sold this fabulous drink and I loved it! ...

Like a giant fudge bar. The ad was 'Big One, sticks out a mile' and had a cowboy kid hiding behind a chuck wagon pointing the bar like a gun around the wheel. ...

Bing was a Tizer-esque drink made by Silver Spring. Like its fellow Silver Spring drink, Cocopina, it was bright in colour, this time orangey red, and was often sold at sports days across Kent. ...

Does anyone remember these! They were in the late 1970's early 80's and were really nice. They were like egg with bacon or sausage (I can't quite remember which) and covered in breadcrumbs then fried! They looked like fishcakes!  ...

Cap'n Bird's Eye has come up with some of the most enduring food memories over the years - who can forget Birds Eye Chicklets or his Hungry Joes, for example? Bird's Cheesies were just as yummy. Popular in the late-70s ...

Birds Eye foods featured in most of our childhoods - from Birds Eye Hungry Joes to Birds Eye Crispy Cod Fries - the Captain was a genius. Birds Eye Chicklets were bitesize bits of minced chicken breaded like today's standard ...

I remember Birds Eye making a frozen really rich chocolate mousse called a Chocolate Lovely - and it certainly was lovely. They were kept in the freezer departments in shops. It was incredible solid (well it would be if it ...

Sadly I have been unable to locate a picture of these but they were indeed .... lovely. They were frozen melted chocolate with a small white piped ice cream star in the middle. I could never wait for mine to ...

When I was a little girl my mum would buy Bird's Eye Crispy Cod Fries every Friday. Bird's Eye Crispy Cod Fries were round pieces of cod covered in a crispy batter, they were so scrummy!  ...

Birds Eye Hungry Joes were made in the same shape as fishcakes but were made from grated potato and onion covered with breadcrumbs. They were so tasty, anyone else remember them? ...

Similar to Birds Eye Supermousse but this was orange mousse with chunks of chocolate on the outside. I think you were meant to turn them upside down and put it on the plate but I never bothered.Also came in mint ...

These were breadcrumb-coated "burgers" of minced meat, onion and various other fillers (I remember seeing a bit of pearl barley in there too), and I liked them very much. Why don't Birds Eye bring them back? I know they would ...

Steaklets were a superior form of beefburger in two square shaped beef patties. Birds eye started targeting food at children and these were in the same cupboard as Birds eye Chicklets So the general rule was that they were much ...

Anyone recall this product? It was a powdered gravy mix (so called because that's how long it was supposed to take to make it), which was prepared in the same way as Bisto - I mean the original Bisto, back ...

Bitsa Pizza Crisps were made by Walkers and they should definitely bring them back! They were a bit like mini Doritos, and were pizza slice shaped crisps available in different pizza topping flavours."If you're hungry, dive in, they're a real ...

Bitz bars were big chocolate bars that would have been too expensive for me to buy as a child as I only got 30p to go to the sweetie shop with! The wrapper was [I think] dark brown with green ...

This was a square black shape and tasted of liquorice. When you unwrapped it, it had a joke caption on waxed paper featuring the black eye. They're been around since - 1928 Here's one of their straplines "After smoking, ...

I used to buy these jelly sweets shaped like the aforementioned fruits as you got 2 for 1p. More often than not, I always chose the Raspberries as they tasted much better. I think they are still available. ...

Four for a penny, Blackjacks were little chewy sweets wrapped in greaseproof black and white paper wrappings and a favourite for the old mixed-bag selection. More like a chalk grey than jet black, too many of them would turn the ...

Alcoholic drink made from Castaway and Diamond White cider.  ...

Blobs were around at the time time as Spangles. They were round and came in different flavours. The toffee apple ones had a soft toffee centre in a hard green apple boiled sweet. They were also strawberry and ...

The BN Biscuit (or snack), usually just BN, is a type of biscuit. It has a filling, for example chocolate, sandwiched between two biscuits; it was launched in 1997 and acquired by United Biscuits in 1998.BNs are produced in two ...

Body Parts was frozen fruit flavoured ice body part shapes (no bigger than 5p piece each) feet, hands, ears..that came in a light blue plastic packet/bag. To be honest they were a bit of a 'thin thing' but I ...

Bone Shakers were pieces of swizzle-type skeleton sweets in a plastic coffin. You could put the pieces together like a jigsaw and they cost about 6p in 1984(ish). ...

"Bones" crisps, the packets were black with skeletal style pictures on the front , crisps were kind of bone shaped, well sort of! They only came in salt & vinegar, and were kind of like space invaders. ...

Bovril crisps were fab. My grandma used to buy us Bovril flavour crisps. I think they came in a white bag and tasted very, very beefy! ...

Huntley & Palmer Breakfast Biscuits had a really smooth edge and were really hard and crunchy. I loved them! ...

These were boiled sweets in various colours. You used to be able to buy them by the quarter and they were always broken, long fish shapes with imprinted eyes and scales. They were delish!!! ...

Do you remember when brownies would sell clover shaped biscuits of two varieties, plain and choclate covered, to raise money?The only problem with this was that they tasted so good that the only way to get them would be by ...

In 1888, an Adams' chewing gum called Tutti-Frutti became the first gum to be sold in a vending machine. The machines were located in a New York City subway station. The round candy coated gumball and gumball vending machines were ...

These were a few pence. I know they still do sell them online (https://lovisweets.co.uk/sweets/bubblegum-millions/), but I remember when getting them from the corner shop from a big jar after school! ...

Bullion Bars were possibly made by Blue Bird sometime in the 1980s and were toffee shaped in a gold foil tray like "Gol Bullion". They were lovely and creamy and very tasty and I think they cost around 10p. ...

I remember having these in the late 80s and they were sublime. Haven't seen it on the menu since then, but gather they do it in the US. ...

Burple! Ahhh Burple... I remember the accordian-like containers that the sweet beverage was packaged in, the pop and crackle of pushing and pulling the container and, who can forget the name? What a name! We begged and pleaded with our mother ...

I remember having these nearly every lunch time in primary. ...

Burton's Fish 'n' Chips were a sort of a biscuity, crackery, crisp. They came in a bag with newspaper print on it. They crisps themselves were in the shape of a fish or a chip. They never quite had enough ...

Potato Puffs were a sort of crisp manufactured by Burton Biscuits. The came in varieties of Ready Salted, Cheese and Onion and Salt and Vinegar. I'm sure that they have gone out of production now but who knows... if enough ...

These were small oval shape biscuits with poppy seeds on them, I can only remember my grandma and mother buying them at Christmas. They came in red cylinder tins, they were the best small snack cheese biscuits I've tasted and ...