What products do You remember that aren't around anymore?
By ShepherdSpy
@ShepherdSpy (8544)
Omagh, Northern Ireland
March 20, 2008 12:45am CST
I'm in the UK,but this one could apply anywhere-what products can you remember that are no longer on the Market? I'm thinking foods,but we can throw in non food ones too! thanks for responses!
First one comes to Mind..Big T Bread-a round (Cylindrical) Sliced white Loaf..
Old Jamaica Chocolate Bar (with rum flavoured raisins)
Cresta Drink in Cans (with the cool Polar bear in Shades-"It's Frothy,Man..")
The way retro things are being brought back,some of these could be back on the market somewhere! I'm listing them as I haven't seen them in years..Sightings appreciated!
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6 responses
@ruby222 (4847)
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20 Mar 08
Now I remember a brand of biscuits that were sold at the co-operative stores....they were called Duchess biscuits..
They were yummy!!!....I havent seen them since our local co-op shut down years ago!!!
Also lol remeber the dividend stamps the co-op used to issue????
@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
20 Mar 08
I remember My Mum having the stamp book..there was a 40 "stamp" Stamp the size of 4 regular ones that completed a page..
Thanks for the comment!
I thought of another couple-the Texan Bar..You gotta Chew..I think I'd heard this one made a comeback,but have yet to see one...
I'm not sure if this other one I'm thinking of was a Cadbury's product,but it was (I think) bits of dried apple covered in chocolate,and was in a round apple shaped bag..
@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
21 Mar 08
I remember those..don't remember my family collecting them..you got them with Petrol? I lived in a city til I was in my teens,and We didn't have a car.. I'd heard of another Esso promotion that was a "tiger tail" that came out of the filler cap!
@p1kef1sh (45681)
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20 Mar 08
On the subject of stamps, do you remember Green Shield Stamps? "Put a Tiger in your Tank" Esso decals of bullet holes that you stuck on your dad's car and spent the next year having to wash it because he couldn't get them off! I noticed that there is still one on his garage window just last week.
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@Dollface812 (84)
• United States
20 Mar 08
Ok...when I was younger there was colored popcorn. Like it could be blue, red, or green. I thought it was the coolest thing ever! I'm not sure if every bag in the box was the same color, or if it was surprise every time you popped a bag of popcorn. Anyways....it was pretty cool and I haven't seen it in years.
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@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
20 Mar 08
In the UK,when I was a kid,the Matlow's company had sugared puffed rice in many colours-sold as "Rainbow Drops" -I found them again in a shop recently and have been buying them for my Sister's kids!
@subha12 (18441)
• India
26 Mar 08
There are many things that i guess. most of them are locally made.
there was a digestive thing that we used to buy in childhood. it is somewhat very tasty and no more there. then there was a certain type of sweet that was in three colours and they used to make shapes of watches, buckets etc when selling. i miss those.
@bowtieguy (5915)
• United States
21 Mar 08
Mars candy bars, I used to love them but haven't seen them recently. they were still around in the 90's I though but have seemed to vanish recently.
@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
21 Mar 08
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....Not the Almond Mars bars???? Those were great! There's a British product called a Mars Bar,but No Almonds..Caramel and Nougat layers in thick chocolate-very rich..
@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
27 Mar 08
Anybody got any news on these Yummy Almond Mars Bars? please say they're still around!
btw..there's a UK site that offers the sweets we used to be able to get measured out in the traditional sweetshops..www.aquarterof.co.uk .. take a look :)
@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
30 Apr 08
An Uncle works in Donegal,and When in the area for shopping or passing on a day out,we'd visit him-There was a chocolate bar I'd have bought in a shop nearby,whose name I can't remember,it was unique to Ireland,AFAIK...it was a bar where the segments each had a creme filling..this particular one had a caramel and vanilla 2 tone filling,and the outer chocolate shell was dark chocolate on one side,and milk chocolate on the other! Haven't seen them in years..
@SarahRiches (33)
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20 Mar 08
Wispas
Milky ways that were brown in the middle - not white
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