Food and drink

Cabana was a milk chocolate bar in a blue wrapper. Inside you found a delicious coconut filling and chunks of cherry. They were made by Rowntrees in York, and were discontinued in the early 90s. It was totally irresistable! I suppose ...

A chocolate bar made by Cadbury - early 80's. (Double decker size and shape.) I seem to remember it had a vaguely tropical theme so it had in it coconut, glace cherries, possibly bits of biscuit and raisins all enclosed in ...

It was the late 1990's when Cadbury's Nobble bars were around. They were the fantastic price of 20p - they were small, but well worth it for the taste! They had caramel and were nice and chewy with coco pops around ...

A little bit like round smarties in a purple square box, Cadbury's Astros had the crispy outer shell of a Smartie but alse contained a little biscuit centre. Cadbury's Astros were released in 1997 by Cadbury in the UK, Canada, ...

Often a favourite for swimming bath vending machines, Cadbury's Bar Six was a creamy chocolate bar with a wafer centre and hazelnut cream, they were very similar to a Chunky Kit-Kat. Bar Six had an orange wrapper and was wrapped ...

Does anyone remember Cadbury's Coconut Boosts? Much better than the biscuity ones out now so why did they discontinue them? They were heaven in a bar! ...

I just remember that Creme Eggs used to be bigger, thicker and much cheaper than they are today. And you usually couldn't buy them until Easter-time, which made you so eager for one as soon as they became available again ...

Cadburys Creme Teddy Bear was a foil covered chocolate shaped teddy bears made by Cadbury. Inside was a soft white fondant, very similar to a Cadbury's Creme Egg. ...

Nearly every child must have owned one of these as a child, it is a timeless classic & is still in production to this day.It was a chocolate dispenser that doubled up as a money box. By putting in a ...

A frog-shaped chocolate bar that I first remember from the early 70s. It wasn't much more than a mouthful...not even a mouthful for a greedy kid of 12 or so! Freddo Frog was followed up by Carmello Koala.The caramel-filled Freddo ...

Ice Breaker was a dark chocolate bar created by Cadbury with mint pieces in it. The Ice Breaker bar had a shiny, light blue wrapper and a white lightning-type zig zag across the front. I remember the advert where this ...

As I can remember, it was a small bar in a black wrapper. ...

This was originally launched in 1970, Old Jamaica bars had a mix of milk and plain chocolate with rum flavoured raisins - though I don't think you could get drunk on them, although at the time I might have tried... This ...

Many a discussion has been had about what used to be in a tin of Cadbury's Roses. Where have all the classic ones gone and can anyone actually work out what they used to be? Sometimes it's easy to confuse ...

Cadbury's Skippy was a long wafer biscuit covered with Cadbury's chocolate and contained a hard chewy strip of toffee within the centre of the wafer. The packaging for Cadbury's Skippy was blue with distinctive red and yellow writing. It was ...

Cadbury's Spira chocolate bar was a bit like a Twirl but a lot more tasty (well I thought so anyway). I've no idea why they stopped making them as the shops that sold them around where I lived were always ...

They came in a similar packet to the standard chocolate buttons, but the bag was red. They were chocolate buttons but with a bit of soft toffee in the centre. Basically, a 'Curly Wurly drop'. Rolf Harris used to advertise ...

When Cadbury's stopped selling Top Deck's in the UK, our world fell apart... until we found out that they still existed, only in Australia! Top Deck was a milk chocolate bar topped with white chocolate - it was delicious! The ...

Cadburys Wispa Bars were first produced in 1981. They were a chocolate bar with air bubbbles in it (like an Aero but from Cadburys). Original Wispa bars came in a distinctive blue packaging with bold red letters. The Wispa product ...

Anyone remember those rectangular packs of toffee based sweets? They came in various flavours (Treacle, butterscotch - my particular favourite - etc.) Quite expensive, so a real treat! ...

During the 1970s, 'everybody' smoked! If you were a young kid you had to make do with candy cigarettes instead (we called them 'sweet fags' (oh innocent days!!!)) until we were old enough to start smoking properly. I have a ...

Jewellery from our childhoods. The idea was to wear it then eat it! Perfect when worn with a Candy Watch! ...

Similar to Chocolate Digestive biscuits but these were topped with Caramac. Great for dunking and sucking the melting Caramac. Gorgeous. Wish they still did them. Nestles Caramac bar. A caramel flavoured chocolate bar. Nice if you had the sense to eat ...

They were initially sold in a big bag, but later changed to a multi-bag for the school lunchbox. A small spherical chocolate filled and decorated with a little cartoon face/eyes/other facial feature ...

British Burger Bar chain popular during the 80's. These outlets were only found in Mainline train stations such as Euston, Kings Cross, Waterloo, Glasgow etc. They were eventually replaced by Burger King being as they were the biggest burger bar before ...

I worked in Charing Cross CJ's before the unit opened and had many great times with the lads n lasses there. Being 23, I was older than most of the crew, but thankfully had a brilliant shift manager - Billy, ...

When the film Casper the ghost came out they made a very nice refreshing blue bubblegum flavour ice lollie. I think they also made a Spiderman one which was red and blue but not as nice tasting as the Casper ...

Does anyone remember a selection box with a cassette tape in it no one seems to remember ...

Can you remember the wine cooler that was wine mixed with tropical fruits? It looked and tasted a bit like orange and pineapple squash, but fizzy. Come to think of it, maybe it was nearer a 4.8% alcoholic version of ...

Back in the 80s, no party was worth going to unless the table centrepiece was a cheese and pineapple hedgehog. You couldn't get a much better party snack in my opinion, although some people didn't feel the same... there would ...

A delicious and salty sandwich biscuit with cheesy filling in 1970's pubs. Two pints and a bag of Cheese Specials please. Fantastic. Red and blue cellophane wrapper with exotic (at the time) "Ashby de la Zouch" in the small print! ...

Do you remember the advert for Chef's Square Shaped Soup? It was a small red square box with dried soup in. I think the jingle went "Chef's square shaped soups show how a good soup should be" ...

Chelsea Whoppers were a kind of chocolate sweet or, as was common in the 1970's, 'chocolate flavoured' (like Wagon Wheels). They came in a bandolier of around 10 at a time and I think they cost 1p each. They tasted ...

Not really a food and drink item, although I did think it tasted nice enough to eat! This was a toothpaste, back in the days when toothpaste came in metal alloy tubes! It was a red-coloured gel and tasted like ...

Am I the first ?! I was born in 1953, and I all but grew up with a fabulous dark red little drink called Cherry B ! It came in a small bottle that would have been about a wine ...

These were made by squirell I think and were hard tiny little red smiley shaped gums which you could buy from the jar - in Lbs and 2oz!They had a slight scented taste kind of perfumed cherry. They were my ...

There are many chewy sweets of note from my childhood: Mojos, Fruit Salads, Pacers etc. but Chewits always stand out in my memory because of their really fruity flavours. And they’ve been a firm favourite of children (and adults) for ...

These weren't nuts but chocolate with toffee inside.. used to get them from the corner shop.. either 2 ounces or a quarter of.. bloody lovely..:-) ...

Chic Bubble Gum came in a red wrapper around 1982 or so and was sold alongside Anglo Bubblys for a penny each. They tasted like aniseed and turned the whole of your mouth black when you ate them! ...

Chillo was a powder in a sachet that was meant to metamorphosise into ice cream. You had to pour it into a bowl and add milk, then pop it in the fridge for a while. I didn't like the taste, ...

Does anyone remember Chipmunk Crisps in the late 1960's and early 1970's ? When I was around eight years old I had a friend whose Uncle owned a Wholesale Warehouse selling food to shops. We both got a promotional cuddly ...

Chipmunk were the first crisps in cellulose (cellophane) film and therefore not kept in sealed jars. Jim Mill, who died in May 2015, convinced Chipmunk to try Sidac film transparent packaging in the early 60s. He got his company, Sidac, to loan the ...

We often talk about choc top yoghurts, they were the best. I wish someone would bring them back!  ...

These were little pieces of puffed wheat coated in milk chocolate. They originally came in a cream coloured packet with a picture of the chocettes in brown writing, but were later made more varied -with even Picnic and Turkish ...

Does anyone remember a chocolate bar in the 1980s that only a few stores stocked? It was similar to a Milky Way only smaller and much creamier. It was in a shiny metallic, pink and turquoise wrapper and was made containing cream. ...

Can anyone remember the wee pieces of chocolate covered apple that were in a packet shaped like an apple? They were ageing about in the mid-60s. ...

Chocolate Covered Pretzels were made by Nestle and were exactly as the name suggests - pretzels covered in chocolate! It sounds disgusting but they were actually lovely! They did white fudge covered pretzels too but they sadly seem to have ...

Does anyone remember chocolate covered teacakes..every where I go and there is a sweetshop I ask..another great sweet.. ...

I am sure Hubba Bubba did a chocolate flavour that wasn't very nice but memorable. I think the packet was brown and they looked like the cola flavour ones. Chocolate Hubba Bubba must have been in about 1982ish. Does ...