Food and drink

A thick chocolate shell, containing cake, topped with butter cream and a small chocolate, there was a round one, a square one, orange and chocolate cream.  ...

Anyone remember these? They came in a black packet (I think) with Vesta Crispy Noodles written in a cheesy faux Chinese script. They looked like inch-long bits of flat pasta until you deep fried them, then they became awesome curly ...

What about "Fleur De Lys" Steak & Kidney pies? - the BEST pies I have EVER tasted in my life! ...

A white paper small bag and a long table covered with sweets mostly 1/2 penny each 1 p and most expensive were 5 p each. I had a bag full for 10 p also I liked the golden cup chocolate ...

5 Boys chocolate bar was a small milk chocolate bar that was plain on one side but embossed with the heads of 5 boys on the front. I don't remember who made this chocolate but I loved nibbling the chocolate trying not to ...

Who remembers a chocolate bar in the 80's. It had the picture of a girl on the front with red hair and I think a straw hat. I think she was wearing a blue and white striped top with a ...

I absolutely adored Abbey Crunch biscuits. For years these were my one and only biscuit, then all of a sudden they just disappeared. I would easily eat a whole packet, whilst dunking them in a big mug of tea... heaven! RECIPE ...

Acid Drop Spangles were my favourite. Can't describe the flavour but had a bitter taste. I would love to have a packet to see if I would like them as much as I did when I was young. ...

Acid drops were an incredibly sour boiled sweet. They were round and lemon in colour, in a yellow cellophane wrapper. You could buy them in quarter bags. We used to have competitions to see who could eat the most Acid ...

Not the ordinary Aero, but the other flavours from the 70's which included coffee, strawberry (and Aero that was pink inside) and lime flavours! I think, although this sounds mad, that there was date & walnut flavour too. I had ...

In the mid-60s, my grandfather (probably also in his mid-60s then!) used to buy (and if we were lucky, let us have some) After Eight chocolate bars. No one else seems to recall these, but I remember them well. The ...

Was there ever anything that made you feel as sophisticated as offering around a packet of After Eights once your meal was over? (Obviously I mean a meal where people outside your immediate family were invited; After Eights were far ...

All Stars were star-shaped corn crisp snacks around at the end of the 1970's and early 1980's. The gimmick was that they came with a football card to collect in a cellophane packet attached to the front of each crisp ...

Remember the little cardboard boxes decorated like a child's ABC building blocks? Inside were those hard candy alphabet sweets (still sold by the gram). I only ever saw them in supermarkets. I think Marks & Sparks might have sold them ...

The Alpine Soft Drinks man used to come round in a sort of converted milk float every week (Wednesday or Thursday), and sell these street by street back in the mid seventies. Alpine Soft Drinks were closer to Corona than ...

Back in the 70s, Cadbury's broke with tradition and made a fruit-only bar called Amazin' Raisin. It was a rum (yes, you could feel like you might get woozy while watching Swap Shop) and raisin bar that, as you may ...

Amazon bars were a bit like Fuse bars - does anyone remember them, as my boss swears blind they exist. ...

A pale pink shebert Lick you finger dip it in simple or if you had a lolly you could use that . You used to be able to buy it in sweet shops weighed out into a "quarter of" ...

I haven't found anyone who remembers from the late 1950s a confectionery known as an Americo Bar. I used to buy one quite often in Harrow at a small sweet shop. It was a chocolate covered bar which had nougat ...

Perhaps considered the king of puddings amongst children of the 1970s (that may have been contested by Arctic Roll of course) there was always that frisson of excitement when the kitchen cupboard was opened after your tea and an Angel ...

Anglo bubble gum was a flat round pink piece of bubbly that came in a yellow and pink wrapper. I think it was 1pence for one. You could blow huge bubbles for hours with it! ...

Chocolate covered mint or orange honeycomb bar. Used to love these as a kid cos they were twice the size and half the price of the big brand bars. ...

Does anyone remember Appeal orange juice? It was powdered orange juice that you just added water to and one sachet made a jug full. It just reminds me of family camping holidays and being young. There was also another make ...

Applause Bar had a biscuit base with a layer of soft caramel with raisins and apple covered in milk chocolate. It was lovely! ...

You knew it was a special day when you finished your tea, asked what was next and your Mum started walking towards the freezer. If your pudding came from the freezer it was going to be good, whatever it was. It ...

I had a huge jar of the apple ones that my mum brought home from the Cash and Carry. They were the sourest sweets I have ever tasted. The sourness lasted all the way through unlike today's sweets that just have ...

Ayds were slimming toffee cubes around in the 70s and early-80s. They were also hugely expensive! They came in chocolate, chocolate mint, caramel and butterscotch flavours. The toffee was supposed to help satisfy your cravings for something sweet long enough ...

The Aztec Chocolate Bar was very similar to the Mars Bar and was made by Cadbury in the 1970s. There used to be about a five minute advert for them at the cinema. They were quite scrummy and half a ...

The name has always been misleading – the ‘cham’ part leads many people to assume that the bubbly liquid they are happily quaffing at parties is champagne, when in fact this popular drink is actually perry; alcoholic sparkling pear juice. ...

Babycham Liqueur Chocolates came in a luxurious pale blue box with a pale blue ribbon. They were gorgeous and were only available to buy at Christmas time. ...

Banana Creamy Ice Lollies were made by Midland Counties Dairies which were later taken over by Lyon's Maid. They were dreamy Banana Milky Ice lollies that tasted like the banana version of Angel Delight, only frozen! I wish you could ...

Banjo bars were about in the late 70's/early 80's and were just about the finest sweet I can remember. They came in two varieties: Roast Nut (blue and yellow wrapper) and Coconut (pink wrapper) but Banjo bars sadly vanished some ...

Bar None was a candy bar made by Hershey! I can't remember much about it except how much I liked it and wish they still made it! I remember it was a wafer type candy bar with peanut ...

Bart Simpson Clear Cola was available for a short time in Australia. It came in a white can that had a picture of Bart Simpson on the front. The drink was cola flavoured but was clear like lemonade. ...

Launched around 1979 in an attempt by Batchelors to rival the burgeoning success of Golden Wonder's Pot Noodle, these 'just add boiling water' quick snacks were of very similar format - dehydrated noodles and vegetables that came in a variety ...

Battle Bags were brands of crisps available in two varieties: Fighter Planes (salt and vinegar) and Tanks (cheese and onion). I mainly remember the advert which went something like:"Squadron Leader to Tank Commander - looks rough. Over.""'bout time we gave ...

Bazooka Joe was a large stick of pink American bubble gum that can still be purchased today. Around the large sticks of gum was wrapped a small comic strip starring the adventures of Bazooka Joe and his friends and advertising ...

This is an oft mentioned sauce - particularly in the midlands of the UK. It graced many a dinner table in the 1980's but these days is rarely found.Some say it is "Simply the best brown sauce ever to have ...

You might remember getting this out of the old chewing gum vending machines outside your local sweet shop? Beech Nut brand had a sweet peppery taste and came in little oblong packs, dragees not sticks, usually on sale for around 2p or ...

Betta Bars were a rectangular bar of some sort of puffed rice (Puffa Puffa Rice - remember that?) covered in a sweet syrupy coating. They used to sell these at our local outdoor swimming pool and were always a huge ...

Biarritz is a long forgotten and short lived 70's drink that came in a little bottle and had a bitter orange taste. I remember only one pub in Doncaster in the 70's that sold this fabulous drink and I loved it! ...

Like a giant fudge bar. The ad was 'Big One, sticks out a mile' and had a cowboy kid hiding behind a chuck wagon pointing the bar like a gun around the wheel. ...

Bing was a Tizer-esque drink made by Silver Spring. Like its fellow Silver Spring drink, Cocopina, it was bright in colour, this time orangey red, and was often sold at sports days across Kent. ...

Does anyone remember these! They were in the late 1970's early 80's and were really nice. They were like egg with bacon or sausage (I can't quite remember which) and covered in breadcrumbs then fried! They looked like fishcakes!  ...

Cap'n Bird's Eye has come up with some of the most enduring food memories over the years - who can forget Birds Eye Chicklets or his Hungry Joes, for example? Bird's Cheesies were just as yummy. Popular in the late-70s ...

Birds Eye foods featured in most of our childhoods - from Birds Eye Hungry Joes to Birds Eye Crispy Cod Fries - the Captain was a genius. Birds Eye Chicklets were bitesize bits of minced chicken breaded like today's standard ...

I remember Birds Eye making a frozen really rich chocolate mousse called a Chocolate Lovely - and it certainly was lovely. They were kept in the freezer departments in shops. It was incredible solid (well it would be if it ...

Sadly I have been unable to locate a picture of these but they were indeed .... lovely. They were frozen melted chocolate with a small white piped ice cream star in the middle. I could never wait for mine to ...

When I was a little girl my mum would buy Bird's Eye Crispy Cod Fries every Friday. Bird's Eye Crispy Cod Fries were round pieces of cod covered in a crispy batter, they were so scrummy!  ...