Food and drink

Sasparilla was a little pink torpedo tasting a bit like Army and Navy cough candy. It was available from the traveling pop van, Vil-Sasp pop. ...

This product was a mix, which made a sponge pudding with a sauce base. I don't know exactly how they were prepared, as my mother used to make them up for us. They came in a variety of flavours, and ...

The Tonibell Ice Cream Van sold these pale-blue paper cones filled with vanilla ice cream and a dollop of frozen raspberry jam in the centre. You had to peel the cold paper lid off and scoop it out with the ...

Sausage and tomato crisps by golden wonder - there were amazing! Though, for many, despite loving eating sausage and tomato and getting quite excited about the idea of these crisps - buying a packet and tasting them was a disappointment! ...

When the ice cream van used to come round to our road on those hot summer days in the early 1980s, I was never a Cornetto kind of a girl. I never went mad for Funny Feet, Zoom or Fab ...

The Secret chocolate bar was made by Nestle in the 80's and 90's and was one of the most delicious treats ever. It had a sort of bird's nest chocolate outer layer with a creamy mousse center similar to the ...

Sherbet Pips used to come in the jars that you would get a quarter weighed out from. They were hard boiled, small, brightly coloured sweets covered in a dusting of icing sugar. They were very tasty - especially when you ...

A sachet of sherbet with a lollipop. The idea was to suck the lollipop then dip it in the sherbet and then the sherbet would stick to the lollipop. Mmmmm sherbet... ...

We used to have these if we were good as a treat. They were sherbet powder in a yellow paper cylinder and out of the top would be a piece of liquorice. The liquorice used to have a ...

Wasn't sure where to put this one, but as they were free in boxes of cereals, I think Food and Drink are quite apt. Shrinky Dinky's were a picture of a cartoon character, (I think mine was Jerry Mouse), and ...

Crisps or corn snacks created by KP (Kenyon Produce) [a division of McVitie's and Jacob's; all three a division of United Biscuits] that resemble seashells and melt on the tongue. Skips were first launched in 1974 under the description of ...

Skull Crushers were white chocolate skulls with a strawberry middle filling. When you bit into a Skull Crusher through the white chocolate skull the strawberry filling would ooze out like blood! ...

Sky ice cream bars were vanilla ice creams with a stick of bubbly chocolate through the middle and then coated in more chocolate. They came in a blue foil wrapper and were absolutely delicious.I will always remember having a Sky ...

Skydiver crisps were corn snacks shaped like little men with their arms out and legs spread. (A bit like Quarterback shapes now). They came in the usual flavours, but the salt and vinegar ones were particularly potent!  ...

Smax were oval savoury biscuit snacks similar to Fish'n'Chips. I think there may have been about three flavours. Chicken comes to mind but my favourite was smoked bacon. I can just remember watching Top Of The Pops, sucking the flavour off the ...

These were a bit like Bacon Fries, but onion flavour and they came in a white bag with blue and white writing. They tasted great when they came out in about 1975 for about a year. ...

They were around in the late 80s early 90s and were made from the same texture as Square Crisps. I thought they were much more interesting, you could crunch up a tube into a pulp and place another in your ...

Based on the popular 80s kids cartoon, The Smurfs, released in 1983, Smurf Berry Crunch cereal consisted of red and blue puff pieces that were made to taste a bit like fruit. Many people have compared it to the taste ...

I remember buying these in the early 80's for 5p each and ,as the name suggests, came in snooker ball colours. I remember the white one tasting of mint, but I'm not sure if the brown one was cola flavoured.As ...

I can remember the Soda Stream bottles of concentrate. One drink in particular was bright green and called Witches brew. It tasted like almonds, and was revolting. ...

WOW! These blue and yellow, rectangular-shaped, hard sweets were THE most dangerously sour things ever imaginable. SERIOUSLY. They cost a mere 5p each, I believe. Sucking one melted the skin off your tongue. Curiously though (baring that in mind), they ...

This was a drink marketed in the late 80's early 90's and sold in a clear plastic can that took the same shape as a regular 330ml coke can.It was great being able to see the clear liquid inside the ...

Space Dust was the fizzing, popping candy that sent your tongue mad. You had to press it up onto the top of your mouth to get the full effect and it made your head feel like there was firework display ...

Space Food Sticks was supposedly food you could buy that was the same as astronauts ate on their missions. They were a bit larger than the diameter of a pencil and were similar in consistency to a Tootsie roll. They ...

Created by Hormel in 1937, Spam became known as the "miracle meat" that would keep Britain going throughout the WWII. The spiced, canned ham and pork produce was cheap to buy and its popularity was further helped later on by ...

Small tubes of individually wrapped sweets, they were available in various flavours - blackcurrant, strawberry, barley sugar, Old English (whatever were those supposed to taste like?) and a mixed fruit pack which for years contained one in a white wrapper ...

Old Jamaica was coconut-based chewing tobacco for kids! The wrapping was red waxed paper shaped like a real tobacco pouch and the sweet itself was reddy-brown strands of coconut looking like real tobacco which you pulled apart. A Sunday morning ...

Splicer Bars came out in the mid 1980s and were fruit-flavoured and multi-coloured twisted candy bars which were really chewy. The advert featured a policeman and various other people biting into a splicer bar and it turned them all multi-coloured! ...

Spooks Biscuits were made from coloured dough with 'scary' names including Yellow Peril, Red Devil and Green Meanie. Each Spooks Biscuit pack came with monster stickers which I remember having stuck all over my plastic guitar. ...

Starbar was Cadbury's first attempt to take on the big gus - Mars and its Marathon bar in the mid-70s. It still exists today. The ad for it in the 70s featured a woman walking alongside a horse which was ...

If I remember rightly, Star Trek chocolate bars were a similar size to Milky Bar and Pink Panther. The Star Trek chocolate bars were made of white chocolate and had multi coloured candy pieces in it, possibly to mimic stars? ...

I was at school during the early 80's and we used to buy this on the way home. We used to buy as much as we could afford and pour it into our mouths to see who could get the ...

Stimorol was menthol-tasting gum. You could buy it in bulk via the bubble-gum vending machine outside most newsagents shop, for about 2p a packet!Despite being a danish creation, launched in 1956, with its red, white and blue packaging and the ...

Well, you have to try new products don't you?In the mid 1990s pepsi released an obscure strawberry flavoured drink. I never knew one shop that actually sold it but somehow got a can of it once. It came in ...

Does anyone remember Striper Chew Bars? I used to eat them as a kid in the mid 80's and they were rainbow-coloured, stripy, fruit-flavoured chew bars. They came in a green wrapper and I think they were 10p ...

I think thats what they were called anyway. They came in a purple packet, and they were raisins, nuts and toffee covered in chocolate. Am I going mad, or did they exist?! ...

Sugar Crystals were a bit like sherbet dip-dabs (without the dipper), but you could only get it in the proper sweet shops, as you bought it by the quarter. They came in different flavours and colours and had a very ...

Sugar Mice were about 2 1/2 inches long, shaped like a mouse and made of solid sugar, with a little string tail, and the eyes and nose marked on in dots. They came in pink and white (possibly other colours?) ...

As a little girl, my father every Friday when he finished work for the week, always brought home a bag of Sugared Almonds for my mother. These sweets were my mother's favourites and if we children were lucky she would ...

My friends dad used to work for a confectionery company and so used to get us a load of different bars.Summit Bars were around in the early 70s and were similar to a Twix, except they had wafers and peanuts. ...

Similar to the Jubbly or Calypso, but the Sun Lolly was smaller and easier to bite into. There were lemon and orange flavours available. It was vital to eat your Sun Lolly really quickly in the summer though as they melted ...

KP Super Crunchies were 10p packs of square crisp style Snacks that came in cheese, prawn cocktail and bacon flavours. They were often bought just because they were so cheap they were found in corner shops and tuck shops the ...

Forget the new-fashioned style of plastic bottled coke, who remembers the full "Supersize" cans, a full 500ml portion of Cherry Coke delight! Not forgetting the superb ring pull used by 100's of kids around the country as "skimmers" played in ...

Sweetheart Dessert came in a tin and you bought it from Woolworths during the 70s. It was so easy to make: you poured the contents of the tin into a mixing bowl, filled up the tin with cold milk and ...

This chocolate covered muesli bar from the 1970's was made by Sharps and the slogan was "would you risk it for a swisskit". There are many different variations on the market today but the old ones are fondly remembered. ...