Food and drink

Two chocolate sandwich bicuits akin to a Penguin but with a coconut flavour. 'Hard like dad, but like mum at heart', described the 'Werther's' type grandad to his grandson as he snapped one in half to share. T Bars came ...

TAB was introduced as a diet drink in 1963 by Coca-Cola so was the original Diet Coke of our time. Apparently, it was so called because it helped people to keep a tab on what they were consuming if on ...

TAB Clear was suppose to be Coke but clear. The lemonade-looking, Cola-tasting (not quite) soft drink with the 8 wonders of the world advert (TAB Clear as no. 8).TAB Clear was a strange idea that mysteriously disappeared. Obviously not a ...

These were little 5p tomato flavoured crisps. They were round - like little balls - and were a hit in schools across the UK in the 1980s - most probably because of their cost!Not only were they great to eat, ...

Ice cream ...

I used to beg for these every time I went shopping with my mum to ASDA. They did one covered in chocolate spread and marshmallows. Need I say more? ...

Terry's moonlight chocolates.These treats had that fantastic advert with an old crooner preparing a meal for a date. He really camps it up and it quite funny.The chocolates themselves made by Terry's (the same company that make Chocolate Oranges) now ...

Milk chocolate egg shape came in two halves each filled with a whole hazelnut in caramel. Similar concept to a walnut whip. Awesome ...

As a kid I pulled out two teeth (admittedly already loose at the time) by chewing on a Texan Bar! It was chocolate-covered nougat which was virtually impossible to bite through. Kids loved it, dentists/mums hated it! ...

Thingies crisps, possibly made by Burtons. ...

Tiger Tots were made as part of the same range as Jelly Tots and made by Rowntree, but these had an array of different sweets in them, so a bit like Dolly Mixtures. The packet had a cute tiger on ...

These were made by Smedley and they were lovely. You rolled out greaseproof paper with six sausage rolls ready to cook. They smelt great, too. Smedley also made tinned peas. They were often found inside Christmas hampers in the 70s ...

Tip Tops were a long plastic tube filled with various fruit flavoured drinks and then frozen. I believe the company who manufactured them itself was called Tip Tops. It was almost impossible to open them without using your teeth or ...

I think this sauce was made by Fletchers. It was a brown sauce with a yellow and white gingham design label. It was the only sauce we ever used in our house and nothing else compared it took me several ...

Tizer was a soft drink, I think it was orange or red, and as a kid, it was one of my favourite fizzy drinks. I tried it again when I was in my 30s, for the first time in many ...

The best tasting cheese flavoured crisps from the late 80's early 90's. I keep emailing walkers to see if they will ever reappear but get nothing back from them. Cheese Pringles come close but are not as nice. ...

Cinnamon coated toffee with a small toy inside. ...

I know you can get these again now as we've got a box in the freezer, but I remember them first in the 70s, I think. Toffee Crumble ice lollies were a favourite treat for me from the ice-cream van. ...

Toffos were chewy toffee sweets that came in a normal toffee flavoured version, a mixed flavour type and a mint one I think. The mixed ones were banana, chocolate, strawberry and toffe if I recall correctly. ...

Please help, I have a memory of a fizzy drink can (I think it was lemonade) with Tom & Jerry the cartoon cat & mouse on the can. I have searched the web with no results & no one else ...

We used to get served Tom Toms for school dinners back in the late 80s/early 90s. They were chicken balls covered in breadcrumbs, but also filled with steaming hot Ketchup, so when you cut them open you got squirted with ...

Tooty Frooties came in a multicoloured packet. The individual sweets were square shaped with hard shell and a chewy centre. Tooty Frooties came in a number of different colours and flavours. They're now come with no artificial colours or ...

Does anyone else remember Tooty Minties? They were like Tooty Frooties but mint flavoured. I never tried them but remember being a kid in the early 80's and seeing them in the newsagent's and thinking they looked horrible! ...

I can remember when I was 13, my mate and I would go in to our local shop and buy a can of Top Deck lemonade shandy. We couldn't beleive that it actually had tiny amounts of alcohol in it ...

I don't know whether Topic bars still exist, but they were made of chocolate, hazelnuts, caramel ( I think) and nougat. It had a red wrapper and there was a naff cartoon advert where the man was doing some sort ...

Treats was the original name for  M&M's. 80's joke  "how do you get a peanut out of your ear?" Answer, "put chocolate in there too, it'll come out a TREAT!"  ...

Whatever happened to Treetop squash?  It came in funny-shaped bottles, a bit like lava lamps, and it had colours like lava lamps too.  Dayglo pink and bright orange.  I think they had combinations of flavours like 'orange and passionfrut' or ...

Treetops orange squash was always a special treat because it was quite expensive. I think we only had it when we were on caravan holidays. Tasted much nicer than normal squash. ...

I fondly remember Treets. Caramelized Peanutty loveliness in a yellow bag. Trying not to crack your teeth on the oft found clumps of peanuts that had stuck together was a real test of mettle. I was sad to see them ...

I remember buying Triffic bars off our ice cream man when I was young.They were long toffee bars covered in chocolate and they were gorgeous. The late actor Mike Reid used to advertise them but it seems to be only ...

Trio Biscuits were biscuits with a gold inner wrapper and a red outer wrapper. In between the biscuit was a toffee flavour. The Trio advert was perhaps the most memorable thing about it. ...

You might not remember the biscuit straight away but one blast of the song from the advert will shock your memory into instant recall… ‘TRIO (this has to be written in capitals as the singer was always SHOUTING), TRIIIIIIO, I WANT ...

These were a 1980s frozen milky ice pop in chocolate & strawberry flavours im not sure but i think there was a pineapple flavour too. ...

Tudor Crisps were the best tasting crisps ever, especially the pickled onion and tomato sauce flavour. I seem to recall collecting empty bags and sending them off to collect Tudor Butterflies! When I wasnt sending them away I used to ...

Tudor Gold Ice Cream was sold in the 80s. Cuboid in shape the packaging was made of card. You opened it one end then folded the card open and sliced the ice cream instead of scooping. I remember the vanilla ...

At the height of Turtlemania at the turn of the Nineties, we all went round saying: "Cowabunga" and I sent my parents everywhere trying to find a place that hadn't sold out of Turtlevans come Christmas time. These pizzas were ...

Soft drinks in many colours and flavours. Came in tubes with a top that you would twist off. ...

Conical plastic cup, filled with raspberry ripple ice cream and a couple of crunchy, supposed to be chewy, gumballs at the bottom! Scoffed on a cold summers day with the standard wooden spoon as issued by the tally man! ...

Does anyone remember Tyne brand curry and rice in a tin? Rice was one end, curry the other. ...