While we are looking back in time - which sweeties did you buy ?

I remember Spangles , and green and white striped chewy mints - Pacers ?

Anglo bubbly , aniseed twists , Parma Violets , Black Jacks - any more ?

White chocolate fish n chips! Lush!

For you St.Domingo!!

Fab topic!
and Bless the little market trader who took on Europe and we can now ask for "a quarter of....." once more

its 2 oz of cherry lips and 2 ozs of Floral gums for me!! a filling ripper cocktail

Oh HuskyGal - i'm in Retro Heaven now !!!!!   Pass the cherry lips !!

Here's one for me

How is it you seem to be the font of all knowledge, HuskyGal? I'd never know where to find all these!

I used to love "chewing nuts", little round balls of toffee covered in cheapo chocolate....and all the sweets St.Domingo mentioned!

winter mix and chocolate tools and swiss kit ( a lovely muesli bar covered in choc ) and sherbert pips lemon and pink and cola cubes, aniseed balls, sherbert dib dab yum yum rhubarb and custard , rainbow something or the other- many coloured puffed rice

When in hospital at the turn of the year I had a craving for sherbet lemons and my OH managed to find me some, since I have been out I can't leave them alone and have progresses to all sorts of other sweets I had almost forgotten.

swiss kit..........oh yummy heaven....I LOVED that bar, wish they were still around.

***mmmm, good fairy on my right shoulder says its a good job they are not,**** :0

Crispets..........I love 'em, just been caught though by husband.....ordering sweets online!!

Karen

cola cubes chocolate limes and my fav the frys cream bar that had all fruit flavors intesd of just mint.

> White chocolate fish n chips! Lush!

Yes they were yummy, parma violets, highland toffee 10p a bar, wham bars.

Yeah!!  Chewing nuts, what ever happened to them?  And sports mixture, sweet peanuts, rhubarb and custard, soor plooms, pineapple chunks, Kola Cubes, parma violets, kay-li (rainbow crystals), jublees, flying saucers.  I was never a fat child - honest

CG

And tooty minties as well

Black jacks - Mmmmm

SPACE DUST!!!  wow, loved that stuff!

I used to like mint cracknel (think thats what it was called) It was chocolate with slivers of glassy mint inside. Oh and counters (in a white packet) And Lord Toffingham lolly ices, yum yum (and I dont even like lolly ices really but I loved them!)

> I used to love "chewing nuts", little round balls of toffee covered in cheapo chocolate....

oh yes, yummy!

also these really sour things that made your tounge bleed lol.

space dust now theres a baslt from the past!!!!

What was that scrummy choccie bar full of rice crispies called? Was it Dairy something? Ooohhh I could eat it now

That was dairy crunch your thinking of! It used to always be in the vending machines on railway platforms!  was v nice.
I used to like scented cushions or even better chocolate cushions! Anyone remember them? they were like little satin cushions pink and yellow with choc inside!

I also loved Texan Bars!

Chewing Nuts were nice but nicer were Rileys chocolate toffee rolls, the dark variety in that waxy red wrapper!

Does anyone remember OLD ENGLISH?   in a square 'tube' there were some really weird flavours but I loved them

also Caramac bars   MMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Sherbet pips were good for aaaages as there were so many in an ounce

and what about  Licquorice IMPS?   great if you had a cold

Is it possible to get POPPING CANDY now?    we bought some about 25 years ago and let the dog have some, he looked SO FUNNY with his whole being focused on his muzzle as the candy popped on his tongue    when it finished he wanted more!!!!

> Does anyone remember OLD ENGLISH?  

Yes, I do.  Sort of medicinal flavour I think.  We are not alone.  There is a few people mourning them here

We use to have a van come round our school at 'playtimes' which sold all these funny old sweets. I remember MB bars ( really cheap choc), sweet tobacco ( how weird was that but tasty), Black Jacks and everlasting strips. Shrimps and flying saucers were my favourites - lucky that -because I can fill up my pic'n'mix with them at Woolies still.

Parma violets, Screwball ice creams from the ice Cream Man with a ball of bubblegum in the bottom of the plastic cone, I had to buy them without mum finding out 'cos she hated any form of bubble gum.  Lord Toffingham ice lollys were wonderful too.  Sherbert Fountains and Lucky Bags!  I remember so many of the sweeties in this thread, it brings back so many memories of scrapping together pocket money to see how many sweeties I could get and then trying to eat them as quickly

Anyone remember Texan Bars and Jolly Ranchers..................sadly missed
Diane

Mmmm! Texan bars!
(could also double as Bungee rope they were sooo stretchy chewy!)
You can still get Jolly Ranchers in the states.

Does anyone remember 'Imps' (little pips of black hard 'pungent stuff'!!?? was it liquorice??) In a little metal tin... Mmmmmm.... black tongue...

My grandparents used to have a newsagents and sold sweets by weight so that was always good when we went round.

And my Grandmas brother used to have an old fashioned sweet shop in Skipton that sold all sorts of weird and wonderful things mmmmmmmmm

Sweeties seemed to taste better and last longer when you had them in a little paper bag!

I can remember when crisps cost 5p

It's candy alphabet letters for me all the way And joy of joys, you can still get them!!

Couldn't find any for years at one point, now they are starting to spring up again.  Woohoo!

when i was in infant school crisps were two and a half pence....
i loved texan bars and Cadbury counters

Don't remember that, but do remember the change to decimal....not that I knew what it meant ( being young like )

Do remember proper scoops of ice cream on your cornet from the newsagent- tutti-frutti was my fave, you could even have 2 scoops

gosh, this is making my mouth water.....every saturday i would buy a quarter of acid drops with my pocket money, eat the lot and then wonder why all the skin was eroded from the roof of my mouth I dread to think what it did to my teeth.

we have this http://www.mahumbugs.co.uk/ round the corner from my work, we often send someone round at lunchtime.  My favourites are chocolate covered bannanas

I remember when penny sweets were a penny Now you part with 5p just for one sweet!!!!!

Anyone notice that 'starburst' have resorted to their previous name of 'opal fruits' wonder if snickers will go back to marathon LOL
Angela

just told the guys at work that anworth, you have brought joy to many

ooh chocolate covered bananas......
Texan bars came out as limited edition last year but they were not as chewy..
curly wurlys are not as tough to chew now either
"Opal Fruits made to make your mouth water"

>curly wurlys are not as tough to chew now either

we keep ours in the freezer !!!

Spanish Gold yum

Yay!! I remember Imps! 

Also loved Pacers

Fruitellas

Rainbow Drops

Ainiseed Balls

:D

Yum

> Yay!! I remember Imps!

Im in good company!
(Yayyy!!! Ali bali beeeeee!!! good to *see* you!)

Used to get fruit salads, which I seem to remember were 8 for an old penny (just before decimalisation), I also used to get flying saucers and in the summer Ice poles and some triangular ice lolly thing

I used to love the little foil cup cakes that were filled with chocolate, fruit salads, black jacks, spacedust, white choc fish and chips.

Does anyone remember the E.T biscuits, they came in odd colours like green, orange, red, cola.

Spangles used to give me a sore throat for some reason.

The triangle ice lollys were called luverly jubblys i think, used to love them.

Lee's Macaroon bars anyone? I can even sing the advert theme tune... how sad is that?

> The triangle ice lollys were called luverly jubblys

I remember them well, me and all my mates had red faces for the rest of the day.... no problem with E numbers back then.

Anyone remember funny faces ice cream on a stick? They were foot shaped ( sort of )and had little choccie eyes. They were pink, cream and chocolate I think soooo yummy

CAn't remember what they were called, but I loved them....

chocolate covered outside, inside was green and mint flavoured and used to melt. A bit like really fine honeycomb...... Oh just remembered that you used to be able to buy bars (slabs) of honecomb. I used to get it in my hair as well as all over my face.

You Too Liv

I'm still Greeting for a wee bawbee
To buy mair Coulter's candy :D
x

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Found this site or rather OH did when I mentioned this thread!
Angela