Things that time forgot.

[gurnemanz]

Knickerbockers as worn by Tintin, golfers (culottes de golfe) and my German father-in law.

[Tevot]

Blancmange (and I'd include the band of the same name too )

Vesta Paella

Angel Delight

Vesta Beef Curry

Arctic Rolls

Vesta Chicken Supreme (the stuff of nightmares imho)

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We were culinary giants back in the day !!!

[mercia]

I was about to ask if knickerbockers were the same as plus-fours but wikipedia has put me right

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus_fours

derived from Herman it would seem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Knickerbocker

[Anna]

Angel Delight
Vesta Beef Curry
Arctic Rolls

I think you've lived abroad too long Tevot! All the above are still available - Birds Eye brought back Arctic Roll "due to popular demand", Angel Delight was the subject of a discussion here about 18 months ago which prompted me to buy a packet(!) and I see Vesta Beef Curry is available at Asda - and comes in at a horrific 917 kcals per single packet serving.
Not sure about the other items you mention ...

[Nick Armstrong]

Vesta Paella

I think you've lived abroad too long Tevot!
Not sure about the other items ...

Well as well as the items indicated by Anna, you can get yer jolly old Vesta Paella on ... amazon ! Handy 7-pack for just over £3 a throw (I use the term advisedly).

Ditto yer actual Beef Curry and yer Chow Mein... And as for Butterscotch Angel Delight... (Talk about keeping up with the times - why, there's even a trendy-healthy No-Added Sugar Butterscotch Angel Delight these days !

Yer Vesta Beef was the first curry I ever tasted. But the Vesta dish I used to like most c. 1972 was their Beef Risotto - now that seems indeed to have vanished down the plug-hole of Time, per this thread...

Mind you, I did pick up a Vesta Beef Curry a few years back and it was vile - so, so salty

So perhaps it's a good thing I cannot disturb my fond Risotto memories...

[mangerton]

We tried Vesta curries at school (it was a long time between lunch and tea, especially on Sundays), and then someone produced boil in the bag curry - two bags, one with curry and one with rice. I think the brand name was Cerola.

[teamsaint]

you could always wash down the Vesta Curry with a glass of this.



But we used to buy a packet and eat it like sherbert.

[french frank]

But we used to buy a packet and eat it like sherbert.

Sherbert Dips with a little stick of liquorice?

[french frank]

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I think Walkers still make Salt 'n' Shake crisps.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The history of potato crisps is interesting. The Americans (who also happened to write the Wikipedia article) claim the snack was invented in the 1850s in New York by George Crumb, some 30 years after the recipe had been published by the British - William Kitchiner's "The Cook's Oracle" (1822).

[anotherbob]

Hornby clockwork Speedboats
Star pond yachts
Jetex rocket motors
Console television sets with doors

[Serial_Apologist]

Console television sets with doors

To that I would add hi-fi equipment that in general looks great, as it once did, as opposed to resembling gizmos out of The Pentagon. I regret losing my 1970s white plastic record player, complete with black see-through perspex top that never got scratched.

[anotherbob]

Watching the Co-op counter assistant pull the overhead handle that sent your cash by overhead wire to the central cashdesk whence it returned with change and hand-written receipt.

[P. G. Tipps]

I think Walkers still make Salt 'n' Shake crisps.

They certainly do as I've just consumed a packet complete with little blue salt sachet. Half the fun is shaking the packet in an effort to find the little blighter.

According to the blurb on my packet Walkers took over Smith's and in fact provides a short "biography" of the original Mr Frank Smith himself.

Fascinating!