Forgotten/defunct Brands You Have Loved.....

[bhaexpress]

what ever happened to marathon?

It became 'Snickers'.

 

[chobby]

corona

I thought it was Cresta, with the polar bear.

I'm sure Smiths used to do Savoury Vinagar crisps. I loved them.

And Top Deck Shandy!!!!

 

[Simster]

QUATTRO.

A fine fizzy beverage.

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

What was the fizzy drink that had the slogan "It's frothy man"?

Cresta I think.

Corona was the one where ever bubble had to pass it's fizzical.


Anyone still collecting Green Shield Stamps?

 

[chobby]

Re: Re: Forgotten/defunct Brands You Have Loved.....

Also, have king size Mars bars got one hell of a lot smaller or do I just have bigger hands these days?

I remember when Wagon Wheels, were the size of Wagon Wheels!

Nutty Bars, anyone?

 

[Jonathon Livingstone]

Top Deck shandy

 

[Cian]

Cadburys Top Deck - normal chocolate with white chocolate "glued" to the top. They relaunched it a while back and the white stuff was VILE, used to be really nice.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

spangles!!!!

and "lucky bags"

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Rancheros crisps sort of Bacon type fries.

Canda Dry cola

 

[Pavilionaire]

I loved Cabana bars - chocolate, coconut, caramel and cherry pieces. Yum!

What about Spangles? I was also a big fan of Ringos crisps and I used to drink loads of R White's Cream Soda.

And Cider ice lollies.

 

[chobby]

Does anyone remember Horror Bags? crisps in the shape of fangs, bats and fings.

Cor, this is much better than work

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

spangles!!!!

From www.bagofsweets.com - Spangles
Flavours: Aniseed
Spangles Fruit flavoured square boiled sweets – that came in a tube. They were made by Mars, sadly they were discontinued in the early 80's but they were re-introduced due to popular demand in the 90's. Only to be withdrawn again a short while later. I don’t think these will be back on the shelves again. S.I.P. † (Sweets In Peace)

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Garbage Pail stickers.

In fact any 80s Panini sticker collections where you could buy a packet of 6 for 12p.

Now they're all far too expensive and not nearly as exciting.

I went through phase of collecting Mexico 86 stickers, along with everyone else in my primary school.

By the time i got bored of them and realised I was never going to get either the silver Iraq team badge or Jesper Olsen no matter how many packets I bought, I'd accumulated12 Kenny Sansoms, 9 Gary Baileys, 7 Karl-Heinz Rummenigges, 6 Norman Whitesides and a brace of Cha Bum Kuns*



*any 80s child will tell you that Cha Bum Kun was the funniest named player EVER.

 

[Brovion]

The "It's frothy man" drink was definitely Cresta.

Anyone else remember Amazin Rasin (sp) and Aztec bars?. And although I didn't LIKE it I do miss Watney's pubs as it was always a good guide as to which pubs to ignore. Speaking of pubs and beer, whatever happened to:

Brickwoods,
Bass Charrington,
Double Diamond
Ind Coope?

I know a lot of the brewers got merged (Grand Met, Allied Domeq, etc) but those old brands remind me of my youth.

 

[El Presidente]

This is one for the oldies, "Aztec" chocolate bars, full of caramel and raisins. It felt like your mouth was full of gooey rabbit droppings

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I'm sure there was a drink called Quattro once. It was in a green can, but was probably vile.

Tab Clear was a mercifully short lived experiment by Coke.

And why no popping candy any more?

Sherbert flying saucers never taste as good as they used to either.

 

[Eddie the Seagull]

Space Dust

 

[Brovion]

This is one for the oldies, "Aztec" chocolate bars, full of caramel and raisins. It felt like your mouth was full of gooey rabbit droppings

Snap!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

YoYo biscuits

 

[Robdinho]

Whisper Gold. They were delicious.

And whatever happened to Quosh? My Grandma once gave me a full glass of that undiluted when I was little...