Food and drink

Pacers are the sweets of playground legend – whizzy little green and white striped chews that arrived in the 1970s, excited children’s taste buds and then disappeared again in the 1980s, leaving a generation bereft.What not many people will know ...

Does anyone remember a packet fudge mix available in the U.K. in the late 1970s early 1980s?   It came in a box, with a cardboard tray to pour your made fudge into - in vanilla or butterscotch flavours.  I seem to remember ...

Palm Toffee was a slab of toffee with a flavour going through the middle, and each bar had a wrapper emblazoned with a palm tree. The different flavours available included strawberry, with a pink middle; mint, with a green middle, ...

This was made by Branston though had been brought out by premier foods in 2002. It was very sweet and spicy, lovely in a cheese sarnie! No longer made - in fact after an online plea by Chris Evans on ...

In my childhood, never was there a church fete that passed without me consuming a significant percentage of my own body weight in Panda Pops.These small bottles of fizzy drink (think of a plastic bottle slightly smaller than a 330ml ...

Parma Violets were a mostly uk phenomenon, manufactured by the Derbyshire-based company Swizzels Matlow.The sweets are hard, biconcave disc-shaped sweets, similar to the Fizzers product from the same company, but without their fizziness. There was also a line of Giant ...

Unfortunately (perhaps fortunately) I was too young to drink alcohol when these came out during the 1970s They were quite iconic and looked like a small beer keg almost - athough what they were was a larger than life can. ...

These were so yummy, but were only available for a short time in the 70s. A bit like Jammie Dodgers, but these were oval in shape and inside was a lovely creamy filling with a blob of chewy honey 'jam' ...

These were just like regular Lion Bars only with loads of peanut butter in the middle where the wafer should be. They were AMAZING!! They had tendencies to come and go, the last time I remember eating one was in ...

These were sweets shaped like peas and small carrots (the clue is in the name) and you could only buy them in 2oz for 10p or a quarter of a pound for 20p. I used to eat them back in ...

I love Peperami, as do my sons, my dad and my nephew. I have been trying to tell them that, back in the 80s, the green foil packs had a picture of a glass of beer on them with a ...

Fried chicken flavour instant noodles with a satchet of sliced Pepperami. ...

Perri Burger Bite snacks were remotely burger-shaped. The were kind of similar to cheese puffs and smelt rather whiffy! They didn't really taste of burgers though. ...

Brick shaped candies that are sold in refill packs to be dispensed from Pez dispensers. Apparently Pez sweets were originally sold as peppermints in Austria with the word Pez being an abbreviation of the German word pfefferminz (peppermint). For a ...

Does anyone remember Phantom Chews? The vanilla flavour was the one with a blue wrapper. They also did toffee & lemon too. They were up there in taste alongside fruit salads. ...

Wow, these were the bad boys of the snack world - hot and fiery and not to be taken lightly! I wish they'd bring them back - their new Tortillas are just not the same. Anyone else agree? The Totally ...

As a child I remember these being the best crisps EVER !!! Bring back the Piglet x  ...

Does anyone remember the crisps which were shaped like pigs? They were bacon flavour and they were like little 3D pig shapes. No-one I know believes they existed but I remember them vividly as a child. Please, someone! They can't ...

Piglet shaped crisps that were bacon and bean flavour. ...

Does anyone remember Pineapple Gateau. I think it was made by Cadbury's? ...

Pink Elephant was a strawberry ice cream Choc Ice covered in chocolate. They were so nice and were available in the Seventies. ...

This was a strawberry flavoured pink candy bar made by Nestle. I used to use my pocket money on a Friday coming home from school to buy a Pink Panther bar and a Curly Wurly as my treats for the ...

Shrimp Sweets were another of those sweets that were great if you were only allowed to spend a limited amount on sweets, as you could buy several for a penny (well, you could when I was six). They were ...

This was a kids confectionery from the 70s that came in a pouch like real tobacco (I know, I know, they'd never allow it now). Think it was strands of coconut really, but it managed to look like tobacco, enough ...

These were a range of tinned meat products that were around in the '70s and early '80s (they may still be for all I know, but I've been vegetarian now for the past 22 years so I wouldn't notice). Their ...

I don't know if that was what they were really called, but Mum used to buy them for us when we went to visit some horses near our house in Newbury. The horses loved them just as much as we ...

These crisps came out in the early 90's but didn't last very long. I remember the advert being borderline racist, with an Indian fella singing "Get your thumbs off my poppadums" but nevertheless I LOVED these crisps.They were small thin ...

Poppets were first sold 1937 in cinemas and the boxes designed to fit inside what were at that time, futuristic vending machines!Toffee was the first flavour, closely followed by orange, mint, fruit creams, coconut, peanut and raisin.According to the website ...

Individual mini pork pies with chutney in the meat. These were really nice! Remember eating them maybe late 1970s or early 80s! Can't remember the name of them and it's been bugging me for years!  ...

Postman pat sweets! They were pale pink in a sky blue wrapper, the size of fruit salads. Had a picture of Postman Pat's face on them too. Think they were strawberry flavour? No-one ever remembers them.  ...

It’s hard to imagine a time when eating rehydrated noodles out of a plastic container was considered the height of exciting cuisine but in 1977 that’s exactly what a lot of people in the UK started believing when the Pot ...

White pot of meat or fish spread ...

Anyone remember Rowntrees Prize from the 70s and 80s? It was a chocolate bar with raisins, nuts and fudge in it. I seem to recall it being advertised on TV with a Robin Hood type cartoon character. ...

I couldn't remember who the manufacturer of these were, but online it seems that it was Jacobs. I seem to renember a light orangey box they came in but a picture online shows a blue box, I may have forgotten ...

I couldn't remember who the manufacturer of these were, but online it seems that it was Jacobs. I seem to remember a light orangey box they came in but a picture online shows a blue box, I may have forgotten ...

Punch chocolate bars were my favourite! They were like a smaller and more chewy Mars bar... or a bigger and more chewy Curly Wurly. Either way, they were brilliant and there's nothing on the market like them today. I remember ...

Pyramints were a sort of "minty" version of a Walnut Whip. I believe they were made by Terry's and they were a perfect small hollow pyramid of dark chocolate containing a minty creamy fondant filling. Pyramints were packaged in small ...