Yahoo News The 90s staple foods and drinks at risk of becoming extinct
There are many things mourned by those of us who were born in the 1980s and 1990s.
From downloading off Limewire to recording the Sunday chart show onto tape cassettes the world of music has changed massively but few industries have seen the loss of iconic staples quite like the world of food.
From corned beef to bread sauce, those of us who grew up in the '90s are seeing the eradication of some staple kitchen cupboard ingredients. Here we take a look at some of the ingredients in serious jeopardy of becoming extinct.
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Bread sauce
This roast dinner accompaniment dates back to medieval times and is made up of just a handful of ingredients: milk and onion with breadcrumbs and butter.
Bread sauce is often flavoured with nutmeg, pepper, cloves and bay leaves and is most commonly served with roast chicken or roast turkey. However, it's fallen out of favour, even though you'll still come across sachets in the 'sauce packets' section of the supermarket.
Salad cream
In 1999 the death knoll was almost tolled for this staple sandwich sauce.
Since its height of popularity in the 1960s, salad cream had declined steadily to form 16 per cent of the dressing market - worth £143m a year. Heinz admitted the market was "in decline" and almost considered discontinuing it despite saying "if we don't do something, then salad cream may become extinct".
Fortunately, in part thanks to a public outcry, salad cream was saved. But there is no doubt that the youth of today don't appreciate its qualities quite like those of us who grew up in the 90s do.
Corned beef
The crucial ingredient in a penny-pinching dish that costs just 50p per person, as I demonstrated HERE, corned beef dates back to the 17th century - and possibly earlier. Due to its non-perishable nature, thanks to the addition of nitrates which give corned beef its pink colour, it was often sent over to feed settlers and slaves in the French West Indies and was also also popular during World War I and World War II.
Today significant amounts of the global canned corned beef supply comes from South America and approximately 80 per cent of the global canned corned beef supply originates in Brazil.
Soreen/malt loaf
When it comes to comfort food there are few mouthfuls more satisfying than a slab of malt loaf topped with a generous slathering of butter (real butter of course).
In 1932, Dane John Sorensen bought a property on Drake Street in Hulme, Manchester, and set up his own bakery. He quickly shot to fame with his 'Sorensen Malt Cake' which saw queues of customers line up outside his shop in Beswick, Manchester.
Despite selling his company in 1938, John's legacy lived on through the name - Soreen - by which many of us now refer to malt loaf. Soreen now has varieties flavoured with strawberries, apples, bananas and even white chocolate.
Findus crispy pancakes
Although becoming increasingly rare, Findus Crispy Pancakes can still be found on the shelves, although they're now sold under the Birds Eye brand and have different fillings.
Generations of children grew up having Findus Crispy Pancakes after school, as they've been on sale since 1958. They were particularly popular in the 1970s and 1980s, and were often served up alongside other retro classics such as Angel Delight and potato smileys.
They used to come in cheese, ham and cheese, and beef flavours - but these have now been scrapped and replaced with new flavours.
Birds Eye is now using more "premium" ingredients for the new-style crispy pancakes, which now come in mozzarella, tomato and mozzarella, and ham and mozzarella flavours.
Vienetta
One of the more recent items on this list is Vienetta which was only invented in 1982. Sold by Wall's, the layered frozen treat was developed at the company's Gloucester factory and was originally sold in KFC and Pizza Hut.
A long running UK advertising campaign for the product used the slogan "one slice is never enough", which is still occasionally used in promotional efforts.
Sunny Delight
SunnyD was launched in the UK in April 1998 with a £10 million promotional campaign, and by August 1999, it was the third biggest selling soft drink behind Coca-Cola and Pepsi.
Despite the name, SunnyD is not a high source of vitamin D, nor has it ever claimed to be; however, it contains significant amounts of vitamin C, and its high sugar content has led to it falling out of favour.
The UK's Food Commission pointed out Sunny Delight's high sugar content and minimal five per cent real fruit juice content, while criticising Proctor & Gamble for its misleading packaging, which made Sunny D look similar to a pure juice drink.
