Food and drink

Baked not fried! Oinks were packaged in a pink bag and were just bacon flavoured corn rings manufactered by Red Mill. They only cost 10p, too! Rumour has it that Oinks were withdrawn - possibly because they were seen as ...

'Old Jamaica' was a rum flavoured chocolate with raisins in. It had a pirate on the wrapper.  ...

It came in a small tin and you just added it to the eggs...was full of taste. ...

Carbonated soft drink for those counting calories, As the name suggests, a can only contained a calorie. I remember it leaving a nasty, bitter aftertaste! Probably something to do with the amount of artificial sweetners it contained! Think it came ...

One Two was a sort of Twix deluxe - twin chocolate bars with a biscuit filling. Unlike Twix, the two bars were individually wrapped with a serration between them. I even remember the advert: a mock gameshow where the object ...

If you're a 90s or possibly 80s kid, you'll remember these! Onken Frufoos were the little UFO-shaped yogurts that came with a toy in the middle - in a Kinder Surprise kind of way! I remember thinking that they were ...

'Made to make your mouth water' Opal Fruits (now renamed 'Starburst') were slightly crunchy on the outside and chewy in the midddle. The Opal Fruit sweets had lurid colours and overwhelmingly fake flavours. ...

We went to France many times when I was a small child and although I remember an overall feeling of sun and happiness simply because we were on holiday, my overriding lovely memory is of warm summer evenings outside, drinking ...

Does anyone remember the short-lived bottled water called Orbitz? They were bottles of water with floating gelatin balls of different flavors like "Blueberry-Melon-Strawberry", "Raspberry Citrus" and "Vanilla Orange". A truly far-out idea! ...

Outer Spacers crisps were like a 70's version of the 'Space Raiders' 10p crisps kids get nowadays. I remember beer flavoured spaceship things, pickled onion space stations and one that was mango chutney flavour and the beef ones turned your ...

Available only for a very limited time around the mid-80s, they came in a wrapper which reflected the design on the tins at the time, and they tasted a bit like a Bar Six dipped in Ovaltine. They were crunchy ...