11 Delicious Snacks You Can't Buy Anymore
Absence really does make the heart grow fonder.
Nothing fuels nostalgia quite like the memory of a treasured childhood treat the inner kid in everyone fondly remembers the visit to the local sweet shop, running out to the ice-cream van to get a 99 cone, or tucking into crisps on the sofa while watching TV. As the years pass and you nonchalantly go about your repetitive everyday adult life get up, shower, go to work, get home, go to bed, repeat then a craving for the release of childhood can suddenly take hold once something triggers a memory. Do you remember when we used to buy Frosties from the ice-cream man when we were getting our 99s? a friend might ask. Or an elderly relative may enquire as to what that sweetie you were always munching on as a kid was. That is when you rush to the shop, determined to sample the sickeningly sweet taste of that cherished childhood treat just one more time and feel the memories come flooding back. But scanning the shelves in the corner shop is a very different experience to what it was 30, 20, or even 10 years ago and some of the former favourites are nowhere to be seen. So, here is a list of 11 discontinued snacks which everyone would love to see return to the shelves in Britain...