Sweetheart Desserts

[sixtyten]

Another long lost item from the 70's is Sweetheart dessert. I remember it being in a slim can, and advertised by Bob Monkhouse, way back in the early-mid 70's.
I've searched for years to find out more about it, but drawn a blank on the net, apart from other peoples vague memories of it.

[Heather74]

Re: Sweetheart Desserts

What was it Sixty? being in a can I imagine a rice based or custard type of pudding

[sixtyten]

Re: Sweetheart Desserts

It was a thick fruit flavoured dessert, same consistancy as custard.
Hard to describe as many sites say it had to be mixed with milk, but I don't remember doing that

[sixtyten]

Re: Sweetheart Desserts

All good things come to those who wait..
Finally after years of searching

1975 Sweetheart Dessert

[kazboot]

Re: Sweetheart Desserts

Blimey, I'd forgotten these. I used to love the orange one.

[n3llyo]

Re: Sweetheart Desserts

brings back memories of cutting my finger open on a badly opend can at the dinner table
my mum opend the tin left it on the table to go get the milk and a bowl from the kitchen me being a typical 5 year old couldnt wait to taste the stuff ,stuck my finger in the tin it was a strawberry flavour one(remember it like it was yesterday) and then there was claret everywhere as i somehow got my finger sliced through the middle by the can

[FLYING SAUCER]

Re: Sweetheart Desserts

I do remember this sweet and creamy concoction from the 70's - did the strawberry one have bits of strawberry skin and seeds floating about in it? If I can recall it correctly it tasted rather gloopy and sweet?

I think tastes have changed somewhat?

[battyrat]

Re: Sweetheart Desserts

The Mandarine one jolts a memory or two.We were mostly an angel delight household,and mum used to occationally mix bits of fruit in with that.Perhaps she got the idea from this product.Have a funny feeling the raspberry one may of been a desert that I always felt was stomach churning.It's a long time ago now...too many deserts have drifted under too many bridges to remember clearly.

[darren]

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wow thanks for reminding me of these.
1975 eh the year i was born.


yep i sure remember these one of the tastiest things i ever ate.
to be honest i loved them all.

[Trickyvee]

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These are before me but look like the sort of thing I would have liked. Wonder if they were a bit like Campbell's condensed soup with a big thick blob out the can that needed to be diluted with milk.

[Stitchylinda]

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It was like a thick, fruity syrup which thickened when mixed with the milk to a wobbly custardy consistency.

My brother and I used to save our pocket money until we could afford a tin of the strawberry one and a bottle of milk and eat it in the shed - can't imagine kids being so deprived that they would need to do that nowadays!

[teepee]

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I remember this vividly as I thought it was one of the most amazing foodstuffs I'd ever eaten (but then I am Birmingham born and bred) and certainly far superior to other dessert options (Angel Delight? No thank you.) Why it was taken off the market I'll never understand if I live to be 37. Perhaps it was the pieces of real fruit that people found disconcerting in the 70s?