What products can you remember that have disappeared?

[nlogax]

I guess I no longer noticed after reaching 18 ish. Or maybe 16 ish, it was back in 1971 after all…

Have to admit I wasn't looking for it, was looking for something else in a cold drinks fridge at the turn of the decade as a thirty-something and I was taken aback to see it was still being sold!

 

[Strathclyder]

Creme Egg Twisted - A creme egg bar, now only available in boxes of Heroes

Can't believe I forgot about this one, granted I hadn't even realized they'd been withdrawn from individual sale. A Creme Egg in bar form: 12-year old me thought it was a stroke of genius (maybe 'cos I loved Creme Eggs at that point in my life). Every time a Heroes selection box has appeared in this house, I've made a beeline for the Twisted ones almost on instinct, an instinct I'm now gonna double down on lol

What is it with Cadbury's and all but getting rid of these awesome chocolates (I know the likely reasons why, but why)? I tell ya, I don't know what I'll do if they ever pull Fingers from the shelves lol

 

[Trackman]

Virgin Cola! With adverts made by Gorillaz's personal stylist, Jamie Hewlett...

Ah, the 'Roller Cola' girl, forgotten about her!
If you're wondering why Virgin Cola once the biggest selling cola in the UK disappeared - google it- you'll be surprised, and even the bearded one didn't see it coming until major retailers stopped stocking it and then he decided to find out why.

Shandy Bass... Oh how I miss thee

On a hot summers day ice cold, it cannot be beaten.

Back to the thread:
Are Tab Cola and Doctor Pepper still going in the UK?

 

[Busaholic]

Idris was popular down my neck of the woods.

I drink Idris when I's dri - advert on red London buses in the mid 1950s, around the time 'Bridge on the River Kwai' was being advertised too.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

In the 1970s you could buy large bottles of shandy as a soft drink: it did contain beer although only about one or two per cent. It was sold at our school tuck shop until a new headmaster decided that even the small percentage of alcohol was too much and banned it. (The brand we had was Corona. Somehow I don’t think that name is likely to come back on soft drink bottles.)

Apparently sales of Corona Lager increased at the start of the pandemic last year... presumably because everyone thought it would be oh-so-original to post photos of themselves swigging it on social media.

 

[backontrack]

Here's a product I remember that disappeared:

Wrexham & Shropshire.

 

[nlogax]

Are Tab Cola and Doctor Pepper still going in the UK?

Tab..no (I remember Tab Clear from the early 90s, it didn't last long), Dr Pepper yes.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Here's a product I remember that disappeared:

Wrexham & Shropshire.

Surely the much lamented WSMR was a service, rather than a product?

 

[Trackman]

I drink Idris when I's dri - advert on red London buses in the mid 1950s, around the time 'Bridge on the River Kwai' was being advertised too.

was that ginger beer? (so to speak)

 

[najaB]

Are Tab Cola and Doctor Pepper still going in the UK?

I'm about 95% sure that Tab doesn't exist anywhere. Goes to check...

Yup. According to Wikipedia it was discontinued in 2020.

 

[birchesgreen]

The previously mentioned Bass shandy was legal to sell to children, anything with less than 0.5% alcohol is classified as a soft drink.

Yes i often used to have it as a soft drink with my school lunch!

 

[Busaholic]

was that ginger beer? (so to speak)

On my 6d a week pocket money, never got to try it!

 

[route101]

Nestle Drifter bar and Cadburys Time Out bar. Both fairly recently discontinued. Brannigans Crisps too.

The Big G !! Man I miss that stuff. It's Buttercup in my house and is a decent replacement.



Idris was popular down my neck of the woods. I remember you were either one or the other.

Shandy Bass... Oh how I miss thee

Still managed to get Idris Fiery Ginger Beer until recently. Not sure what happened to Shandy Bass, still get Barrs Shandy.

I remember all sorts of stuff - Cadbury's Dream, Fuse, Flyte, and Bliss bars, Trio biscuits, the Nuts About Caramel and Truffle chocolates from Heroes and Celebrations collection boxes, Tooty Frooties (which I miss so, SO much), Starburst Choozers...

Trio bars came back. You can get Australian Cadburys Dream in B&M.

 

[pitdiver]

What about Milo? I believe a malt chocolate drink.

 

[route101]

What about Milo? I believe a malt chocolate drink.

Seen it in the world foods section in Asda.

 

[duncanp]

Does anyone remember sweet cigarettes?

These were sweets that were made in the same shape and colour as a cigarette.

Today's nanny state would never allow such things.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Does anyone remember sweet cigarettes?

These were sweets that were made in the same shape and colour as a cigarette.

Didn't look that similar nor taste of much, to be fair!

 

[Busaholic]

Didn't look that similar nor taste of much, to be fair!

I always preferred a Woodbine!

 

[Dr Day]

Quakers Puffed Wheat

 

[Trackman]

Yes i often used to have it as a soft drink with my school lunch!

I came home one day with a can of Shandy Bass in the 70's and my mum went berserk thinking it was beer! .. I had an apology later as my dad knew what is was.

--
Going back to 'Ginger beer' can you still buy Canada Dry in the UK?

 

[dgl]

I'm about 95% sure that Tab doesn't exist anywhere. Goes to check...

Yup. According to Wikipedia it was discontinued in 2020.

Supposedly it was partially introduced (or ended up as) a way to get rid of Crystal Pepsi, marketing a drink that people would think was inferior and as such they would think their competitors product was also inferior.

In his 2011 book, Killing Giants: 10 Strategies to Topple the Goliath in Your Industry, Stephen Denny published an interview with former Coca-Cola Chief Marketing Officer Sergio Zyman that stated the formation and subsequent failure of Tab Clear was a deliberate move to destroy Crystal Pepsi, capitalizing on the public's lack of understanding of Pepsi's heavily marketed product. Tab Clear was marketed as a diet drink, which were less popular than traditional colas, and the Tab brand in general was seen as an inferior product to flagships like Coca-Cola or Pepsi. With Tab Clear being placed in such close proximity to Crystal Pepsi, the image of both brands would be damaged in what Zyman called a "kamikaze" strategy. "This is like a cola," Zyman explained, "but it doesn't have any color. It has all this great taste. And we said, 'No, Crystal Pepsi is actually a diet drink.' Even though it wasn't. Because Tab had the attributes of diet, which was its demise. That was its problem. It was perceived to be a medicinal drink. Within three or five months, Tab Clear was dead. And so was Crystal Pepsi."

 

[BanburyBlue]

Nestle Drifter bar and Cadburys Time Out bar. Both fairly recently discontinued. Brannigans Crisps too.


Still managed to get Idris Fiery Ginger Beer until recently. Not sure what happened to Shandy Bass, still get Barrs Shandy.


Trio bars came back. You can get Australian Cadburys Dream in B&M.

Can still get Shandy Bass in local chippy’s around here.

 

[najaB]

Supposedly it was partially introduced (or ended up as) a way to get rid of Crystal Pepsi, marketing a drink that people would think was inferior and as such they would think their competitors product was also inferior.

Tab Clear specifically, but Tab was around from the 1970s.

 

[SteveP29]

I fondly remember a strawberry and cream sweet I've not seen since I was a kid.

Campino? (edited after Googling)

There was an ice cream van that used to appear at our school at lunchtimes. It sold two alcohol based ice lollies amongst its range, the above mentioned and one other.

You were lucky, ours used to sell us single cigarettes!!

 

[dgl]

Tab Clear specifically, but Tab was around from the 1970s.

Yes, that what I meant to put doh!, can't remember where I originally found that fact out but it's interesting nonetheless, not surprising that coke would go to those lengths to protect it's market.

 

[yorksrob]

I quite fancy a pyramint.

 

[341o2]

Pipes and pipe tobacco, also like sweet cigarettes, you could get pipe shaped chocolate pipes.

From Howard Spring to Arthur Ransome, apparently every young (and older) man smoked a pipe

 

[nlogax]

Snifter of Taboo or Mirage, anyone? Maybe a bit too early in the day.

 

[PeterC]

Does anyone remember sweet cigarettes?

These were sweets that were made in the same shape and colour as a cigarette.

Today's nanny state would never allow such things.

I remember having a "smoker's set" of sweets in my Christmas stocking one year including a pipe made of licorice and some sort of shredded sugary stuff dyed brown as "tobacco"

The white sugar sticks are still around, rebranded and without the dot of red dye on the end.

 

[david1212]

I remember having a "smoker's set" of sweets in my Christmas stocking one year including a pipe made of licorice and some sort of shredded sugary stuff dyed brown as "tobacco"

The white sugar sticks are still around, rebranded and without the dot of red dye on the end.

Look back to posts 37 & 91.