A following list of obscure products either long dead or just failed in the UK.
If you are wondering why this came about then this should be all you need to know, I was looking at the cans in the 99p store and it struck me that we don't see Lilt around no more. There are numerous tropical drinks now but Lilt along with Five alive were the original pineapple based drinks but now sold almost nowhere (they're both owned by Coca cola so are probably safe but damn they weren't half bad). Here are some more stuff that
Burtons Puffs.
Can barely remember these, they were cheap crisps that were sold from our schools tuck shop, (no we werent posh our school did have a tuck shop). They cost 10p and you got loads of them in a packet, nice potato crisps. There is a thread that has some info. Burtons makes biscuits only now it seems and there is no room for crisps and stuff.
Tab.
Actually this one isn't so lost as it being a total failure here. Americans gating in here will say oh yeah Tabs still available in the states but I will say this. The UK version was a flop, I remember this coming out in the last year of school and of one corner shop selling it, after a while it just disappeared and Coke pulled the plug along with Vanilla coke although that is thankfully back.
I don't even remember it being any good just the advert on TV which was sort of Xfiles SciFi pastiche with the tag line now everything becomes clear. See also mountain dew and snapple for other American brands that have died on their arses in the UK.
54321.
A chocolate bar I only really remember from the song and Advert. I never actually got to taste this one.
Hubba Bubba Gum.
This I think you can still get, it was bubble gum and I fucking loved bubble gum back then, would take this over chocolate back then. It came in about a billion flavours such as, Cream soda and a variety of fruit flavours. Now I don't see them around along with the other novelty gums especially the one that was just an eyeball (Horror gum I don't know) maybe health and safety got them.
Marathon, Opal Fruits, Oil of Ulay, Jif liquid.
Basically renamed to oblivion often for the worse and often under the auspices of "homogenizing" the brand.
Mr Dog, Meow mix, Brekkies.
A rather pet centric mix of stuff that either does not exist anymore or has been renamed.
Meow mix you may remember from the advert that goes Miaow miaow Miaow and was basically cat food.
Brekkies were biscuits, that I think were either subsumed into Go cat or some other terrible product.
Mr Dog, is now better off known as Cesar for reasons that are never made clear at all. Incidentally I also saw a DVD line in Ibiza in a record shop a long time ago but they specialized in "Welsh vices" rather than
Dog food.
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