Food and drink

These were similar to FAB lollies - fruit ice base (I think strawberry) and white ice cream over the top. But the difference with Fame ice lollies were white chocolate coating around the top, with multi-coloured sugar strands instead ...

Fangs were Vampire teeth-shaped maize snacks which came in a red packet and were Cheese and Onion flavour. They came out together with a packet of bone-shaped Salt and Vinegar snacks called Bones that were in a black/dark brown packet. ...

Fantastix are a bit vague in the dark recesses of my memory but I think they were the forerunner of CDC's Savoury Straws crisp snacks except they were thinner. I remember a strong cheese flavour and possibly a spring onion ...

Nobody else I know can remember Farmer Browns Crisps. They were available around 1983 and the advert had a song that went "Farmer Brown, you got a crunchy snack there with lots of savoury shapes like me and you!"The crisps ...

My father worked for 40 years with the firm that bought the patent for Ferguzade, which was called Lamb's lemonade, a Forfar firm dating back to the late 1890's. Mr Ferguson, the man who made his patent of the glucose ...

Just by writing the words ‘Ferrero Rocher’ I am able to exhibit my astonishing mind-control powers. I can guarantee that by now the phrase ‘Ambassador, with these Rocher you are really spoiling us’ is now sashaying through your brain on ...

Anyone remember these from the 90s? They were yogurts with plastic feet on the pots and monster faces on them. I think they were made by St Ivel. ...

Does any one remember the original Findus Crispy pancakes containing fruit. They were so yummy. It seems I'm the only person who ever ate them. They were frozen and you cooked them in the oven and my favourite was apricot. They were scummy with fresh ...

Does anyone remember Findus Double Deckers? They were made out of half potato and half sausagey meat and were covered in batter. They were better than crispy pancakes too! ...

They came frozen in singles and the box was red. Shaped like boats and the end bit that curved always ended up like a brick, never got eaten!!! I think cheese and tomato and ham and pineapple were the only flavours ...

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Fireball Gobstoppers were huge bright red gobstoppers that came in packets of 3. They were burning hot and used to seem to last forever. You had to keep taking them out of your mouth because they were so hot and ...

Anyone remember savoury snacks shaped like fish and chips (salt & vinager) in packet covered in newspaper print? ...

Does anyone know if you can still get these? Fizz Bombs were fizzy, round, hard, sour sweets with a rough coating. Eeeugghh! They made you scrunch your face up! ...

Fizzies were flavored effervescent tablets that kids would drop into a glass of water turning it into an instant soda. Imagine a sweet, flavored Alka-Seltzer minus the medication.They were sold in flavors one would expect, cherry, grape, cola, etc. Introduced ...

A candy chew filled with sherbet. It was sweet and bitter at the same time, and every time you ate one it would make you screw up your face when the sherbet was released. Fizzy Lizzys were made by McCowans ...

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Does anyone remember Fling the poor kids Coke / Pepsi  in the sixties ? ...

Floral Gums were soapy tasting sweets. I thought they looked gorgeous in the sweet shop window so stuffed a handful into my mouth! All I can say is URRGH! I was actually sick! ...

Flying Saucers were one of my favourite sweets as a small child. They consisted of two circles of rice-paper (or something similar) in bright colours, with sherbet powder inside. There were several techniques for eating them: you could let them ...

The 'Flyte' bar was a chocolate bar manufactured by Mars and introduced in 1996. Each bar was wrapped in two individual halves that consisted of a chocolatey, whipped nougat-style centre and it was coated in milk chocolate. It was basically the ...

The local chippy sold Flyte Milkshake. If I remember rightly the advert mentioned pina colada flavour, alright! For more milk drink flavours everybody take Flyte! It had an elephant on the front in different colours I think. ...

These pink and white sweeties were superb. They're increasingly hard to find now, although you can still get them from retro cany suppliers and they taste just as good as they ever did.It's weird, because these sweets don't really ...

Football Crazies were a school Tuck Shop favourite. They were bacon-flavoured balls that cost around 5p a packet and came in a mini-sized bag. They tasted great and you could also send away for football strips, I think, if you ...

Like miniature footballs, which tasted like bacon (of sorts) and fizzed to nothing on your tongue. You could save your bags and send off for your team's strip in return. The only trouble was the bags were so small that ...

Delicious crunchy malted flakes of toasted wheat completely unlike the soggy bland offering often offered by HealthFood suppliers as a claimed "near" alternative, except completely lacking the texture and flavour (theses suppliers won't use malt or sugar).It's a mystery to me why Nestle bought ...

Does anyone remember those tinned pies?! I remember my dad used to like them, and I thought they were so exciting because they came in a tin! Don't actually remember eating one though....... ...

Exactly like Freddo in shape but different features and not Cadbury. ...

Free school milk was a hugely contentious issue in the 1970s. ‘Thatcher, Thatcher the Milk Snatcher’ was commonly heard after the woman herself (she was the Secretary of State for Education at the time) authorised the end to free school ...

Fresca was a drink I remember my mum buying and I was never allowed to have any. The advert featured a couple drinking "Fresca" which caused their sunglasses to freeze over. The Fresca can had a light green-aquamarine background with ...

I remember these 'choc ices' in the early seventies, not seen them since then. They had a yellow 'choc like' coating, think a light lemon flavour, with a white sorbet middle. Lovely and refreshing on a hot day. Wrapped in ...

Freshen up's were individually wrapped chewing gum, sold in packets, various minty flavours with a liquid centre.They were first made in 1975 by Cadbury Adams in Brazil and exported to the wide world.They are still made believe it or not, ...

I'm new to here so forgive me if this has already been on! Does anybody remember Frosted Cream biscuits? 2 little sugar coated shortcake biscuits sandwiched with a vanilla cream. Made by Burtons, I think. People look at me like ...

if my mind aint playing tricks i remember a frozen bake at home loaf made by hovis it needed defrosting before cooking but smelt lovely bought from local asda end of 1970,s i think ...

Do you rermember Fruit Polos? ...

Last time I remember eating them was about 1968/9. they were a bag of different fruit flavored round balls. I think they were chewy and slightly sherberty (I was only 4 year-old last time I had them) ...

Toffo with fruit flavours. Banana and strawberry were lovely ...

Fry 's Five Centers was a chocolate bar like Fry's Chocolate Cream but it had fruit flavoured cream running through the middle. Each chunk had a different flavour (orange, lemon, lime, strawberry and raspberry) and each flavour was a different ...

It’s the chocolate bar that has always seemed a little bit more exotic than the others. Immediately recognisable from the metallic pink wrapping, it was – and still is – seen as a more ‘grown-up’ treat: not one that you’d ...

Funny Faces were thick and sickly ice cream on a stick shaped as a face. There were a few different faces to try but you couldn't see what you got until you removed the paper wrapper. Funny Faces came in ...

In the 70s and 80s, Walls produced a pink ice-cream lolly in the shape of what was meant to be a rather large, and often misshapen foot, due to melting slightly then reshaping in transit. it was strawberry-flavoured and pretty ...

Fuse bars were chocolate bars containing pieces of nut, crispy bits and raisins. It was a rectangular bar and the wrapper was purple with a sort of explosion of the contents on the wrapper. ...