Bygone Snacks

[Seagull on the wing]

There was'nt too many treats after the War.....so we made our own snacks...my personal favourite was Dripping on toast and a sprinkling of salt... a healthy food guru's nightmare...but really delicious!

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Smiths Savoury Vinegar Flavour Crisps. Long gone, but never forgotten (once tasted).

Oh, and then there's this chocci behemoth:-

 

[Sergei's Celebration]

There was'nt too many treats after the War.....so we made our own snacks...my personal favourite was Dripping on toast and a sprinkling of salt... a healthy food guru's nightmare...but really delicious!

I have just been sick in my mouth thinking of that.

To make it go away...

 

[Two Professors]

My son was really into Piglets,made by Burtons.Bacon,and Bacon & Bean flavour.Nice flavours,but a bit hard and brittle

 

[Davemania]

In the early/mid eighties I used to like "Pacers" a white and green chewy sweet, spearmint flavour yum

 

[Bwian]

Yup, the corona man we used to call him. Does Corona pop even still exist now?

 

[Lush]

What were those crisps that were shaped like fusilli pasta?

Like this but shorter and fatter

 

[BUTTERBALL]

I liked Banjo bars, peanut was the best. Banana Toffo was also very nice. I also liked Golden Wonder 'Good N' Crunchy' crisps. Don't think any of them exist anymore.

 

[BUTTERBALL]

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No, sadly Corona doesn't exist anymore

 

[BensGrandad]

Still do if you go to Mr Simms sweet shop, one in Crawley and Horsham I think, not sure about Brighton..
!

They are national company which lets shops out on a franchise.

Who remembers the old 1d arrowroot biscuits sold in pubs. Used to go to The Dragoon in Worthing with dad and sit outside with a glass of Hooper Stroove Yellow Lemonade and an arrowroot biscuit early evening on most Sundays.

 

[chesneyhawkes]

I also remember smiths tubes, best crisps ever! they came in a green and red bag i think? and tasted just like smiths squares (but tube shaped). Also 5-4-3-2-1 chocolate bars.

Wasn't that a rip off of the old banjo chocolate and wafer bar?

 

[BensGrandad]

There was'nt too many treats after the War.....so we made our own snacks...my personal favourite was Dripping on toast and a sprinkling of salt... a healthy food guru's nightmare...but really delicious!

Best done on a long fork in front of the fire. Then some fool invented an electric toaster and took all the fun away. I still do my toast on a grill not a toaster, much better.

 

[Hyperion]

Do they still make these?

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

A quarter pound of broken cigarettes would do me nicely right now. I'm sure someone told me that you can still buy the small boxes in some supermarkets, but presumably rebranded as 'sticks' rather than cigarettes these days?

 

[Lush]

What were those crisps that were shaped like fusilli pasta?

 

[Lush]

 

[WATFORD zero]

 

[brakespear]

You can get own brand versions of these at certain supermarkets (Sainsburys I think). Almost posted the Fangs/Bones ones myself but was sure there was another one that I couldn't quite remember, 'Bats' or something maybe.

Oh, and 'Cheese Savours'.

 

[Grombleton]

Riesens, anyone?

Been trying to find them for years...only place i've found them is a petrol station just outside Midhurst.

 

[BHAFC_Pandapops]

Riesens, anyone?

Been trying to find them for years...only place i've found them is a petrol station just outside Midhurst.

'the chocolate chew'?

Given we're talking about sweets and crisps and the like, i do like the way christopher lee says 'chocolate'...choc-o-late