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Last week we posted an article, a simple little piece about foods we thought left our culinary world before their time. We weren't prepared for what came next, 203 comments from you, our fine learned readers, each with it's own nostalgic long lost foodstuff.

We felt it would have been an injustice to let your contributions wallow in the comments of a single post, so we collected the 10 foods you mentioned most. We also managed to track down places to buy no less than six of your faves. We're so good to you.

So for the Aztec and Texan bars, Creamola Foam and Pretzel flipz, keep reading.


Food: Aztec Bar
What? A chocolate, nougatine, caramel delight.
Delicious because: Its name, Aztec, had absolutely nothing to do with the bar whatsoever, but the name alone made it more delicious.
Available: 1967-1978
Why'd it go? The Mars Bar came along and ruined its sales.
Get it here: Sorry guys, we're out of luck.
Make your own: The closest you'll get is squishing a Mars bar.

Food: Mountain Dew
What? Lemony Limey fizzy drinky.
Delicious because: It was everything 7up and Sprite could have been.
Available: On and off since the 60s, but eventually discontinued in 2001
Why'd it go? Sales slumped. Big time.
Get it here: Cybercandy
Make your own: Just mix 7up and Sprite and a drop of generic limeade, it kinda works, but mostly it doesn't.

Food: Treets
What? Like M&Ms.
Delicious because: They refined the hard sugar coating.
Available: 1976-1988
Why'd it go? Fancy-Dan M&Ms came along and pinched all their sales.
Get it here: We've got good news, Treets are back.
Make your own: If you melt galaxy chocolate and dip peanut in them, you're half way there-ish.

Food: Vanilla Coke
What? See above, if you can't work it our form that then Vanilla Coke is the least of your worries.
Delicious because: The subtle undertone of vanilla provided boring Coke a peculiar class that Cherry Coke, Coke Zero and Diet Coke with lime could only dream of.
Available: 2002-2006
Why'd it go? Sales dropped off.
Get it here: Cybercandy
Make your own: You could drip a bit of vanilla extract into a can of coke, that might work. It might.

Food: Creamola Foam
What? Soluble crystal soft drink.
Delicious because: You were part of the process, without you adding water to the crystals there would be no drink. That's what made it delicious.
Available: 1952-1998
Why'd it go? Nestle pulled it -- no reason given.
Get it here: Creamola foam was resurrected in January '10, as Kramola Fizz, get it here.
Make your own: Creamola was like a soda stream without the soda stream, so the closest you can get is probably a soda stream. Or, you know, the real thing.

Food: Pretzel flipz
What? Chocolate or white fudge covered salted pretzels.
Delicious because: At first you're not sure if salty bread and chocolate should go together, but they so do.
Available: 1998-2003
Why'd it go? Nestle sold the brand to DeMet's who don't operate in the UK.
Get it here: Cybercandy
Make your own: Dip little pretzels in Nestle chocolate. Done.

Food: Texan bar
What? Nougat and toffee covered chocolate.
Delicious because: "Because a man's got to chew what a man's got to chew"
Available: 1974-1988
Why'd it go? Sales dropped off, some say the Double Decker has a lot to answer for.
Get it here: Sadly no longer on sale, but sign-up to an email alert which will inform you if it becomes available.
Make your own: Get some nougat, cover it in toffee, dip it in chocolate. To be fair, it's a lot of effort.

Food: Vice Versas
What? Like Minstrels but they were either milk chocolate in a white chocolate casing or white chocolate in a milk chocolate casing.
Delicious because: They were thirty little surprises in a packet.
Available: 1991-1996, 2004-2005
Why'd it go? "We are sorry to inform you that the products have been withdrawn from our range due to the high cost of production and the relatively low level of sales."
Get it here: No such luck sorry. If you're that bothered join the Bring Back Vice Versas Facebook group.
Make your own: Buy some Minstrels, shut your eyes, eat them, tell yourself they're Vice Versas.

Food: Marble
What? A black and white swirled chocolate bar filled with praline.
Delicious because: It took praline out of the high-end chocolate industry and put it into a delicious bar for us, the proles, to enjoy.
Available: 1996-2001
Why'd it go? Don't know, it's still on sale in Australia, the lucky aussies.
Get it here: Get in!
Make your own: You could just buy those posh seashells and pretend, but that'd be expensive.

Food: Burtons Fish 'n' Chips
What? They were little fish and chip flavoured biscuits in a crisp packet.
Delicious because: It was all the taste (kind of) of fish and chips except cheaper and quicker.
Available: 1982-1994
Why'd it go? The factory that produced the fishy biscuits closed. Sad face.
Get it here: Nah.
Make your own: Leave an open bag of mini-chedders next to some fish and chips and they should absorb the taste. Trust us, it absolutely definitely possibly works.