2 posts tagged “cheese”
Are there any snacks, food or candy that are no longer made that you desperately miss?
I can't remember the name of them, but for a brief time in the mid-1980s, Cadbury's made a savoury snack that came in a blue and yellow wrapper (a bit like a Flake wrapper, I think) and consisted of a lattice tube made of crunchy, crispy cheesy reformed potato-type stuff like Smith's Chipsticks, filled with totally fake, very strongly-flavoured cream cheese. They were incredibly salty, and utterly, utterly delicious.
I have only met one other person who remembers this snack - hello Rachel! - which leads me to believe it was never fully launched, only available as part of a regional trial.
In fact, I don't know if I got them from shops or if my Dad, who worked at Cadbury's, brought them home (generally if I liked a new product, it was bound to fail, but if I hated it, it would be a great success, an example of the latter being the fucking disgusting Cadbury's Milk Drink).
Ooh, I just had a brain spasm: they were called Criss-Cross!
A quick Googling turns up this 1982 report from popular regulatory body the Competition Commission:
The growth in sales of savoury snack foods has also attracted
larger food manufacturers, especially confectioners who are well placed
to enter by virtue of their familiarity with the type of product and of the
disposition of their sales and distribution facilities. Cadbury Schweppes
began a research and development programme in the mid-1970s which
led to the introduction in 1982 on a limited experimental basis of a
product called Criss-Cross, which Cadbury described as a savoury count-
line (see paragraph 4.7). This product is a strongly differentiated extruded
snack, in that it is a bar with an extruded exterior and cheese filled
interior. Initial sales of the product were favourable and Cadbury is
considering future plans.
Sadly, those plans came to nothing. And my favourite snack of all time was lost to history.
In the grand tradition of tedious weblogs through the ages, I present my lunch, and a comment on the weather.
The baguette and the cheese (something goaty, I forget what it's called) came from Ian J. Mellis, the Piccalilli from the least manky-looking jar of that condiment I could find in the fridge. The raspberries are from my favourite grocers, Roots & Fruits. It were a lovely lunch, though could've done with a glass of wine, perhaps a white Beaujolais (my new fave rave - they taste of dusty soil and metal, and can be so dry that they strip the inside of your mouth off).
I had planned a proper picnic in the park, or my back garden, but it's just too hot. I didn't move to Glasgow for weather like this - can't wait for the drizzle and sleet to return. Keep it dreich.
That's probably enough words to see how the text wraps around an image in a post here, eh?
