Food and drink

Now whatever happened to Galaxy Counters? They were amazing! They looked just like Minstrels but without the shell and had the same shape packaging as Mistrels too but the wrapper was white. A picture of Bambi comes in to my ...

Does anyone else remember these? They would be early to mid 90s, possibly earlier. There is almost no reference to them anywhere, yet they were the only truffle that I could eat as a child without being sick. These were creme-egg ...

Does anyone else remember these? They would be early to mid 90s, possibly earlier. There is almost no reference to them anywhere, yet they were the only truffle that I could eat as a child without being sick. These were creme-egg ...

A Gambit Bar was a chocolate bar of plain chocolate that came in about six sections and was lovely smooth chocolate. I think they weren't out for long and I remember them around 1984. They came in a deep red, ...

Gino Ginelli was a range of ice-creams popular in the late 80s, early 90s. The best flavour was toffee fudge (pronounced 'toffee-fooogee' in the adverts), that had toffee pieces in it. There was also a tutti fruitti flavour and mint ...

Glees were my favourite sweets at Junior School, from 1966 to 1970. The Fruit Glees were in a purple packet and the Toffee Glees in a brown one. Glees were small chewy fruity sweets, highly coloured with a crispy sugar ...

Gold Rush was small, yellow nuggets of chewing gum in a little yellow/brown drawstring pouch with pictures of little "wanted" posters or something similar on. Does anyone else remember this? ...

This was a chocolate bar made by Nestle Rowntrees, around in the 70s/80s. It consisted of milk chocolate segments filled with a rich liquid caramel. It was like a grown-up, luxury version of Cadburys Caramel - my Mum used to ...

Chewing gum (or bubble gum maybe?) which came in a little tiny draw-string bag. The pieces of gum were yellow and of odd shape, resembling gold nuggets. The tiny bag was made of cloth and had a little draw-string to ...

Golden Wonder Bugles bbq flavoured crisps were cone-shaped and very flavoursome. I just couldn't get enough of them. I found some bacon and cheese flavoured similar ones in Menorca last year, but they weren't the same. Bring them back in ...

I used to love Golden Wonder crisps... cheese and onion were my favourite but I especially remember the 'Bang goes a million' promotion where if you found a little packet in your crisps and it banged when you opened it ...

No Ringo goes like a Ringo goes.Ringos were crisps made by Golden Wonder I think in the mid- to late-80's. They were rings about the size of a 10p piece. They came in Ready Salted, Salt & Vinegar and Cheese ...

Good N Crunchy Crisps were like Discos but had bran in them. I actually quite liked them. Flavours were Salt n Vinegar, Cheese and Onion and Beef as I remember. ...

Light and dark chocolates from the 70s? ...

Gorgo bars were green Wham!-style chewy bar with fizzy black bits in. After eating one, your tongue always went bright green. There was a fat, green alien on the packet and I remember them being much bigger than Wham! bars. ...

I think they were made by Burton, they were a treacle biscuit (I THINK), We used to be able to buy them at school break and they were brilliant with ice cold milk......does anyone know if they still sell these???????? ...

KP Griddles were very, very strong beef flavoured crisps that had a naff slogan, "...with the holes in the middles." They were basically corn snacks from the 80's that were not too popular. This was probably because they suffered from ...

Grin's Smiles Giggles and Laughs was a fun breakfast cereal in the early 1970's. It did not last long. They always gave away prizes in the cereal. It was made by Ralston and the guys names were Smiles, Giggles and ...