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Energen Rolls were rough, tennis-ball-size, crunchy, dry, dough type things! I remember them from picnics with triangular Dairylea cheese spread on them. I loved them to pieces! This was late fifties early sixties anyone else remember them?

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  • Anonymous user
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    I had to have them in the Late 1940s early 50s when I was (mis)diagnosed as diabetic. So I connect them with getting no sugar or sweets and an apple at Easter when my brothers got chocolate eggs.Luckily I no longer need a low carb diet. But I do remember them.
  • Anonymous user
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    When I was a wee girl in the 50's, I loved them, My Mum and I called them paper rolls!
  • Anonymous user
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    I think they were taken off the shelves because of what they were made of.
  • Anonymous user
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    My mum got these because she was on a diet, but it started a craze and we had them for years, diet or not. They were like eating crunchy fresh air! (We also used to buy Energen crispbread in roast chicken flavour - really liked it but haven't seen it for years!)
  • Anonymous user
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    My Mum ate them in the early 50's hoping to lose weight. She didn't like them too much. Neither did I - they were too light and dry and no taste
  • Anonymous user
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    Yeah I remember them,my mum use to buy them when she was on a diet,I use to love them.
  • Anonymous user
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    After thinking further, I believe they were made of cellulose.
  • Anonymous user
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    I remember them. I think they were made of a substance our bodies cannot digest, so that in effect when eating them you were eating no calories, and received no calories and no nutrition at all. So I don't think they can have been good for anyone. They were a sort of pretend food, I guess.
  • Anonymous user
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    I loved them too. We had a (the?) Energen factory where I lived. Lovely smells of baking would drift past. They also did a crispbread. Rank Hovis McDougall took them on, then they just disappeared. The site is now a Tesco Express and some houses.
  • Anonymous user
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    Does anyone know where I can buy these now..I loved them as a kid and my mother always bought them when she was on her notorious 'diets'

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