Remember when prawn cocktail, a steak dinner and a Black Forest gâteau was the restaurant meal of dreams? Perhaps you snacked on SPAM on toast and Angel Delight – or maybe you opened your lunch box to find it crammed with Dairylea Lunchables and Cheestrings. Here, we look at the foods we fell in love with while growing up in Britain and Ireland.

Click or scroll through our gallery to see the weird and wonderful foods we used to eat from the 1950s to the 2000s – counting down to the most nostalgic snack of all.

We've based our ranking on the popularity of each food and on the opinions of our well-travelled (and well-fed) team. The list is unavoidably subjective.