30 Things Britain Ate That Are Gone Forever

Thirty things Britain ate and drank between the 1950s and the 1990s, and every one of them has a date on it. Nothing here survives on a British shelf today under the same name in the same form. The list runs from the sweet shop jar and the chocolate counter, through the crisp bag with the blue twist of salt loose in the bottom, the chip shop on a Friday, the biscuit tin and the school servery, to the grocer's counter that the supermarket replaced. Covered in full: Spangles, Old English Spangles, Pacers, Toffo, the quarter weighed out on brass scales, Aztec, Bar Six, Cabana, Fry's Five Centre, Texan, Caramac, Animal Bar, Smith's Crisps, Tudor Crisps, Cresta, Quatro, Corona, chips wrapped in newspaper, scraps, chicken in a basket, the ploughman's lunch, Trio, Breakaway, the Yorkie biscuit bar, arctic roll, the school pudding and the custard jug, broken biscuits sold by weight, the deposit on the bottle, the pop round, and being served across a wooden counter. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spangle...) https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Spangles https://nostalgiacentral.com/pop-cult... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacers_...) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toffo_(...) https://www.snackhistory.com/spangles/ https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1... https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscri... https://legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/... https://fullfact.org/europe/metric-eu... https://metrication.uk/shopping/food-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_(...) https://www.foodie.com/2206004/classi... https://spiritof1976.co.uk/14-best-ch... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabana_...) https://nostalgiacentral.com/pop-cult... https://80sheaven.com/whatever-happen... https://britbrief.co.uk/business/cons... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texan_(...) https://www.timeout.com/uk/news/after... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_...) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowntre... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiths_...) https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A16455053 https://onepoundcrisps.com/salt-and-s... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_C... https://museumofcrisps.com/2020/08/04... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cresta_...) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatro_...) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_...) https://dailybritain.wordpress.com/ta... https://www.thetakeout.com/2175905/wh... https://paulsullivan216.substack.com/... https://www.countrylife.co.uk/food-dr... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ploughm... https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/... https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1... https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trio_(c...) https://www.nationalworld.com/busines... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_... https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/retr... https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f... https://historyandpolicy.org/policy-p... https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/sch... https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-... https://quadram.ac.uk/blogs/the-nutri...