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foods no longer available for which we crave

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pably15 Fri 09-Jan-26 12:24:11

yoyo biscuits, many different flavours...strawberry ,raspberry .blackcurrant and toffee and mint. bars of Cadburys chocolate filled with strawberry cream, and the ice cream van coming round the streets selling real ice cream...

MaizieD Fri 09-Jan-26 12:08:46

We've all heard of Tunnocks Tea Cakes I'm sure, but when I were a kid I could buy infinitely superior ones which had a blob of red jam in them grin I just cannot recall who made them.

Cadbury's Milk Tray were my favourites for years because of the variety of the chocolate fillings. I've had to beg my DH to stop buying them for me at Christmas because since being taken over the fillings have all turned into a flavoured sludge and they're quite revolting...

Apart from those I don't think I really miss anything.

Chestnut Fri 09-Jan-26 11:53:40

This may not be on anyone else's list because it's American. Boysenberry Jam from Knott's Berry Farm. It can only be bought in California and I don't think it's the same recipe now as it was taken over by Smuckers.

Oreo Fri 09-Jan-26 11:19:57

I remember the golden foiled butterscotch sweets but not the others.
Chocolates were so much nicer many years ago, they all taste the same now, sugar and palm oil, unless you buy Swiss or Belgian.

Basgetti Fri 09-Jan-26 11:19:50

“processed” cheese cut from huge blocks wrapped in foil. Melted beautifully on toast.

CariadAgain Fri 09-Jan-26 11:18:25

Real milk chocolate would be nice - I remember when Cadburys Dairy Milk chocolate was chocolate and not just chocolate flavour and no longer legally able to refer to itself as "chocolate".

Raw milk being readily available - don't think I've been able to get any for around 50 years! (ie the time I was used to having it was when I was living on a Danish farm for a while all those years back). I could cream the "cream" off for cream purposes and the balance of the milk was still incredibly creamy compared to any bought milk.

Blossoming Fri 09-Jan-26 11:16:57

I loved Terry’s Langue de Chat.

SORES Fri 09-Jan-26 11:14:16

Searching for Bel Paese soft Italian cheese this morning, right down a rabbit hole, available from Amazon of course, now I know it isn’t freely available I really want it.

Is there anything in particular anyone misses?

I remember my Grandma having a Terry’s of York casket,
the glamour! with wee drawers, layer of Langue de Chat before the good stuff underneath, violet creams, hazlenut swirls, butterscotch.
Callard and Bowser’s butterscotch wrapped separately in foil in a little box, I preferred to a tin of Sharp’s toffees, the dentist’s delight.

It has been a looong time but I still crave Huntley and Palmer’s Breakfast Biscuits, the factory in Reading long gone,
New Zealand red Cheddar cheese, nutty and delicious.