Is there anything more annoying than thinking about something you want to eat... then not being able to eat it?
No. Not really.
So, apologies about this gallery of retro snacks that we would LOVE to eat now but have been discontinued. Because we've got to be honest, we've felt hungry just making it...
How many of these do you remember?
Snacks That Have Been Discontinued And We'd Love To Eat Right Now
Cadbury Dream
So, basically, this was just white chocolate. And, ok, I'm nailing personal preference to this gallery, but I just don't get white chocolate. But people who like white chocolate are like people who like gin – they have to talk about it all the time. So the internet STILL talks about Dream bars. Even though, after being brought out in 2002, they were discontinued a few years later because of poor sales. Which makes my point, really.
Hubba Bubba Bubble Jug
Because why eat gum, when you can kind of drink chew it type of thing?
Cartoonies
You KNEW it was gonna be a good day when there were some Cartoonies in your lunch box.
Cadbury's Astros
Right, now I've remembered THESE exist, I'm going to make one of those petitions. Smarties type shell, Cadbury chocolate and biscuit in the middle. Feel like pure shit, just want her back x.
Panda Pops
A teacher in primary school used to give us traffic light lollies and a Panda Pop every Wednesday afternoon. Probably not allowed that now, is it? The little bottles of sweet sweet pop were axed in 2011 after 35 years in business.
Smiths Crispy Tubes
Now I've seen these and tasted them in my memory, I'm actually furious. Thanks.
Sun Lolly
Because triangular ice lollies are the best. Don't fight us.
Vice Versas
Ok, this is when white chocolate comes into its own. Basically Minstrels, but white chocolate in dark case and dark chocolate in white case. Delicious. First produced in the UK in 1991, then re-launched in 2004, only to be withdrawn a year later. A rollercoaster of emotions I'm sure you'll agree.
Salt and Vinegar Crunchies
Big fan contributing editor Jessica Barrett says, 'They sold these at my school for 10p a bag' which sounds like BLISS.
Fake candy cigarettes
Now very much illegal. Problematic? Yes. Delicious? Sorry yes. Can we just have some candy vapes please? Or these ones, available on Amazon as 'Candy Sticks'.
Piglets
Assistant editor Charlotte Williamson says: 'Pig-shaped, pig-flavoured crisps called Piglets that we made into pig crisp sandwiches. I can't imagine they exist anywhere now but they should.'
Brannigans Crisps
We're remembering, specifically, the mustard ones that made your nose burn. Fond memories. Which it seems you can re-enact by buying them still.
Burton’s Potato Puffs
If you know, you know. I can taste these little puffy pastry potato-y things right now – and there are a million campaigns on Facebook calling for them to come back.
Mini Cheddars Crinklys
These were AMAZING and we don't understand what happened. That's all we can say.
Mars Delight
Only four years in our lives – and yet still strong in the internet's memories (there was a petition to bring them back). The 'lighter' and (massively offensively) branded as a more female Mars bar, the Delight lived from 2004 til 2008. We'd love to tell you what was in it, but we've always just been MAN ENOUGH to eat a normal one… Apparently it had some wafer in.
Flyte
'Taste the chocolate, skip some fat' says the label. Which is probably why this one went out of business tbh.
Cadbury Spira
We can't say we'd massively been missing this one, but now we're LOOKING at it, we're very, very keen to give it a try. Which is annoying.
Trio
Or should we say, TRIIIIIIOOOOOO! Toffee, chocolate, biscuit – what's not to like? Actually, you all seem to think so, because you can still buy them.
Cadbury Fuse
The launch of the Fuse bar in 1996 was such a big deal that Cadbury even renamed launch day 'Fuseday' in its honour – apparently 40 million were sold in the first week. And with a load of nuts, cereal, raisins and fudge rammed inside chocolate, we can see why.
Cadbury Snow Flake
There was a MASSIVE outcry when Anthea Turner posed with one of these at her wedding to Grant Bovey and given the way today's world spins on #Ads, is kind of hilarious. Anyway, the bar itself was a white chocolate flake wrapped in milk chocolate, which is not, let's face it, the most interesting thing everyone remembers.
Rowntree’s Secret
Great advertising line: 'You can't trust anyone to keep a Secret'. The bar itself though, apparently not as good…
Milkybar Choo
See, what did I tell you about white chololate people. There's a PETITION to bring this one back. Chewy fudge, covered with white chocolate.
Cadbury Marble
Celebrity director Guy Pewsey pens this love letter to the Marble: 'In the early noughties, Cadbury launched Marble. A swirled mix of milk and white chocolate, biting into it unearthed a velvety praline centre. It was delicious, and just felt a bit more elegant than the standard chocolate bar. Alas, they didn't last, and were discontinued several years ago.I truly think about them all the time. More expensive praline chocolate bars don't hit the spot in the same way. They were a real treat and I'd love to have them back. Word on the street is that Australia is reviving the bar after a popular campaign to bring them back. But there are no such plans in the UK. Can I call that a form of localised discrimination and take it to the high court?'
Toffo
Individually wrapped toffees (so there'd be no lying to your mum about how many you'd scoffed) in a signature red tube. You could also buy them in various flavours – yuck, sorry. You can't buy them anywhere now. And we've tried.
Texan
Aka, The Mighty Chew. A nougat-toffee type thing wrapped in chocolate that surely kept dentists busy in the 90s.
White Maltesers
The white chocolate lovers strike out again… 'Why?!' (probably because it's an excuse for chocolate IMHO).
Push Pop
Absolutely devastated for kids who've not spent hours honing the shape they were trying to suck their Push Pop into, and getting a really sticky finger from pushing it in and out.
Mars Planets
Soft, crispy or chewy, you didn't know what you were going to get. But they were all delicious, so it wasn't scary, like with Revels when you could end up with orange or coffee, which everyone knows are disgusting.