Food and drink

I love fizzy sweets and remember Lemfiz sweets. They were about 1 inch squares, around 1/4 inch thick and came in at least three flavours, lemon, orange, and a green one which I think was lime.They were great to eat and could ...

I remember Lemonade Sparkle Ice Lollys. They were the only ice-lolly I ever bought. They cost about 12p and there was orange and cola flavour too. They had a paper wrapper that stuck to the lolly like glue! ...

I used to love these. I'd get two every day from the corner shop before school at 5p each along with 10 aniseed balls.  ...

Does anyone recall a chocolate pyramid - similar in size to a Terry's Pyramint, avaiable in the early-mid 80s, which came in a gold wrapper and contained, if I recall correctly, a rich choclate and apricot truffle-type centre? I have ...

Limits was a range of cardboard-tasting slimming biscuits. Even the added flavours did nothing to conceal the fact they were proper diet biscuits. They were available in Mint, Chocolate, Orange and even Cheese flavours. And for those who wanted to ...

I remember these 'slimming biscuits' from when I was a kid in the 60s, but I think they were around long after that. My mother who was on a perpetual diet would never let me have them because they were ...

One of the few things in the Linda McCartney range that seems to have been phased out during the '90s, which is a great shame. They were like chicken rissoles (though without the meat, of course) but had a cheesey-tomato topping, ...

Lippy Chick was similar to the Wham or Irn-Bru Bar but with a lip smackingly good sour cherry flavour. I believe it also had fizzy pieces in it. At only 10p a bar this had to be worth its weight ...

They used to sell the dried root of liquorice in chemists. I bought one once with my pocket money, much to the amusement of my parents, and spent one summer crushing the woody stump with my teeth trying to extract ...

Lolly Gobble Choc Bomb was an ice lolly - strawberry ice cream, dipped in chocolate, covered in Hundreds & Thousands, with chocolate at the centre.I think I only ever had one, for some reason my mum always discouraged me from ...

Lollygobblechocbomb was an ice lolly a bit like a Fab but with a melt-in-your-mouth chocolate centre. ...

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Lord Toffingham was a banana-flavoured ice cream with a huge thick block of toffee / caramel / inside. Lovely! They were the ultimate 70's lolly. Didn't the wrapper have a depiction of a Lord Toffingham-type kid with a monocle and ...

I think Love Heart Lollies were made by Walls. They were in shape of love hearts with dark chocolate on outside, strawberry ice cream in middle and a blob of strawberry stuff in centre. They were lovely. I don't know ...

One of the most nostalgically remembered sweets from my (and probably yours too) childhood was the always amusing Love Hearts. They were sold in round tubes, with approximately 20 sweets in every packet, each one adorned with a heart shape ...

Lovelies were frozen chocolate desserts that came in plastic containers with five little blobs of cream on top that looked like a flower. They tasted delicious! ...

Lucky Bags were bags of sweets that were always full of surprises. Sweets, a game maybe,a miniature pack of playing cards or one of those blow through, keepie uppie basket ball type games. Sometimes you might also get a small ...

Lucky Charms cereal are still available in the US but they disappeared from the market in the UK unfortunately.Lucky Charms cereal features frosted oats and colored marshmallows. Lucky the Leprechaun creates the marshmallow shapes ? hearts, moons, stars, clovers, horseshoes, ...

Lucky Lumps were large square pink or white sweets in the mid 70's. They were sugar coated and they took the top layer of skin off your tongue. If you were lucky you would find a half pence in one, ...

Now, Lucky Numbers were absolutely gorgeous. Cadbury's produced them from the 50s onwards. They were expensive to buy back then, and like Roses or Quality Street chocolates, Lucky Numbers were often sold in a tin. The caramel chocolate was the ...

Lucky Tatties were cinnamon dusted sweets that were hard inside. They came with a lucky charm. ...

The Lucozade that I remember from the 70s came in a large glass bottle, and was wrapped in yellow cellophane. The top part of the bottle - where it narrows towards the cap - had little raised glass bumps on ...