Food and drink

Rainbow Drops are a brand of sugar-coated puffed rice confectionery sold in the United Kingdom, produced by Swizzels Matlow. The sweets have a coloured, sugary coating, and are sold in bags of 80g, 25g and a smaller 10g bag.Rainbow Drops ...

Does anyone remember raisin wine? It was a non-alcaholic drink made by Wrights. It was very rich, fruity and dark in colour. It forms part of my fond memory of Christmas when I was a child in the 70s, as ...

These were delicious crisps - they were kinda BBQ beef flavour, the only thing similar to them now are bacon snacks sold by Marks and Spencers - not sure who made them though. I also think they did bacon & ...

One from the early 1990s I think but some friends used to run a pub and they used to stock Really Ruthless brand crisps. Now usually when you get crisps that claim to be hot or spicy they are only ...

Red Devil Ice Lollies were strawberry lollies around in the early 70's. Red Devils always had a cartoon on the back of the wrapper, in which the devil would ask a group of kids a riddle. The kids always got ...

I remember a red pyramid shaped ice lolly that had a distinctively soft texture. They were very sweet and melted almost as quick as a five year old could lick! I have seen a few other people asking the same ...

Mmmmmmm! Refreshers, lovely fizzy fun sweets that melt on your tongue, and taste as good today as they always did! Sweet memory heaven! ...

Refreshers mixed fruit flavour drink was based on the popular Refreshers sweets. This limited edition soft drink was made by Coca-Cola under licence from Trebor Bassett Limited. Refreshers Soda was available for a short period in 1994. Other limited edition ...

When you're a kid, nothing beats that feeling of being handed 50p pocket money. Ooh, the opportunity that one coin symbolised! Well, while my big sister was a "saver" (or "tight" as I'd call it today) and stored up her ...

This was a kind of ground rice pudding that you made up with milk in a similar way to custard powder. It was yellow. I adored it and my mum fed it to me all through the 60's and 70's.I ...

Rise and Shine was the substitute for when fruit juice was only to be found in tins or on very exotic holidays and was was very popular during the 1970's.It came in the form of a powder mix sachet which ...

OK so I'm not sure if that's the right spelling, but Rispinos were lovely! They were like rice cakes, fairly big and round but you could also get smaller ones. They say snack-a-jacks are low in fat, well ...

Immortalised by Vivian of The Young Ones, Roast Ox crisps were a firm favourite from the crisp aisle when I was a lad. I've completely forgotten who made them - it was neither Smiths nor Golden Wonder, but someone out ...

"New from Golden Wonder, they're called Rock n Rollers,' stated the dodgy animated sweet-styled glam group on the advert. Were they not just a maize ball snack? ...

Nobody in scotland seem to remember Rockin' Roller Crisps. I can remember buying them as a child in the 70's. They had a picture of a guy playing a guitar on the front of the packet. My favourite flavour was ...

Rondello biscuits were simila tasting to Malted Milks, and their melt-in-your-mouth quality made them really popular among grandparents. ...

The selling of root beer was restricted to a small number of McDonalds restaurants by 1992, due to poor sales, and stopped completely in 1993. I hated the taste of it, it tasted like medicine - YUCK !!!!! I only ...

My sister used to live on the stuff! I hated Rosehip Syrup, so I can't actually remember that much about it, except it was red and very syrupy. The bottle was a lovely shape, though, and I think it may ...

Ross Oven Crunchies were light knobbley potato pieces formed into a cyclinder shape, kind of like hash browns but without the onion. I used to love them but you can't seem to get them anymore. ...

Rowntree's Fruit Gums were round fruit-flavoured sweets, like very hard jelly and they needed a lot of chewing. One side was flat, the other side had bumps on it.Fruit gums feature in one of my earliest memories. It was Christmas, ...

The advert was probably Alan Randall doing his seventies copy of of George Formby. I can only remember "Rowntrees Jungilees are new and nice to eat" from the adverts on the box. They came in a card-type box and my ...

Please tell me there is someone else out there that remembers the Roy Of The Rovers Chewy Car made by McCowans? If i remember it was pineapple flavour with sours bit in it and the wrapper had a picture of ...

Ruffle Bars were small, dark chocolate bars in a burgundy and gold wrapper with a rasberry coconut filling. They were so scrummy you had to eat three at least! ...

It is a ring doughnut with the hole filled with cream. Cherry on top covered in rum flavored liquor. Sold in Wimpy's all over UK. Some kebab shops still sell them.  ...

My colleague at work is always going on about a Rumba Bar but nobody has ever heard of it. Does anybody remember it? Has it ever existed? ...