Food you remember from the 80s

[Brizzles]

Space Dust
Golden Nuggets
Rancheros
Texan
Cabana
Toffos

 

[SpiritOfTheAge]

Findus crispy pancakes.

Heinz Looney Tunes BBQ flavour beans and sausages in a tin, loved these on some super noodles and toast.

 

[chroniclard]

Can still get the majority of the above easily.

 

[Kol]

Cadbury's Spira.

 

[Brizzles]

Splicer (?) bar
Pacers
Topic

Yeh, i had a healthy diet back then

EDIT : It was Nutty bar i was thinking of not Topic

 

[Lartyconshayo]

angel delight , 54321 choccy bars

 

[jsmoke]

Toffo, looked that up also.

'Can I get a quarter of chocolate bon bons please..'

I bought a Mars Bar the other day, 75p for a tiny little bar, couldn't believe it. We used to get King Sized Mars Bars.

Just looked up some more.

Sherbet Fountain
Toffee bon bons
Fruit polo
Mint humbugs
Candy Cigarettes (wouldn't happen nowadays)
Flying Saucers
Acid drops

 

[Monkeynut]

Chocolate ciggies.

 

[Kronos]

Pineapple upside down pudding.
Treacle tart.
Egg Custard tarts.
Jam rolly polly.
Steamed golden syrup sponge.
Tifle.
Fish and chips in newspaper.

 

[Efour]

Fish n chips crisps/mini biscuits. Very salty.

Puffs. Some hideous processed puffed snack.

Spaceraiders 10p got a real amount not 10g.

Frey bentos tinned pies. My nan used to buy
them. Was a treat lol. Nasty.

 

[Efour]

Chocolate ciggies.

Lol yes

 

[Thekwango]

Brannigans beef and mustard crisps. I found them in Poundland 2 or 3 years ago, after not seeing them for years, but they've gone from there now too.

can still get these with relative ease here in NI - glorious things they are too

Cadbury's Spira.

oh lordy i had forgotten about those.....so lovely...

Can still get the majority of the above easily.

yea, not sure whether the op meant food you remember from the 80's that you can't get now or just food from the 80's

KP (i think) used to do tandoori flavoured crisps - jesus they were lovely.

 

[glenimp617]

Findus crispy pancakes.

I'd forgotten about these!! They were epic. Please tell me you can still buy them.

 

[glenimp617]

Frey bentos tinned pies. My nan used to buy
them. Was a treat lol. Nasty.

You can make your own frey bentos pies. Pedigree chum and some pastry.

 

[hyperseven]

Double Decker.....with raisins

red hot jawbreaker.

 

[Rilot]

Wham! bars
Bitsa Pizza crisps
Proper milk bottles covered in flour (not the Haribo junk)
Sherbet fountains

 

[Feek]

So many things listed in this thread are still available and not just in niche shops but mainstream.

 

[arc@css]

Spacedust.

I think this was it:

 

[builder22]

Creamola Foam. Although think it was around well before and after the 80s. Gone now tho

 

[Kainz]

Heinz Chicken & Mushroom Toast Toppers! My dad worked at Heinz in Park Royal, London so as a child I used to get tons of the stuff for free and it was godly until they ruined the recipe decades later. You can find tins in the odd european store here and there but they just aren't the same.