I remember with fondness..... Spangles, Sherbert DibDabs, Marathons.......
I remember with fondness..... Spangles, Sherbert DibDabs, Marathons.......
I will raise with the Texan bar, curly wurly and the infamous filling puller.... McCowans highland toffee
Texan Bar totally forgot about them!Originally Posted by deerworrier
I will raise with the Texan bar, curly wurly and the infamous filling puller.... McCowans highland toffee
Good call.
Apparently they resurfaced for a while
Texan Bar - Classic UK TV Advert: https://youtu.be/bzvlnkxTYQg
I'm sure I'd be disappointed if I had one now.
Aztec bar! Loved them!
black jacks, mojos. cola cube , pineapple chunks etc etc!
The Aztec bar was one of my favourites.
Flying saucers and shrimps
Love hearts
Sherbet dip...with a liquorish stick
Palma violets....
Pineapple cubes.
Spanish gold sweet tobacco. Try and put that back on sale
Knock yourselves out - http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/
Not my website, just a happy customer, other retro sweet shops are available.
God that's a blast from the past!
Pacers
Bazuka bubbly
Wham bars
Cigarette sticks with the red tips!
Space dust
Happy days :)
they sell this at my local sweet shop, and it's still as good
Though minus the garish packaging, this delicious confection is still available from Farrahs in Harrogate.....
Costco do the flying saucers, wife addicted to them. She also orders false teeth and those vile foamy banana sweets by the box from amazon.
All part of her 5 a day!
WTF, apparently they have stopped making Frys Orange Cream bars?
Rob.
That must be very recent, as I had one a couple of weeks ago from my local Ex Pat grocers?
They do Orange, Peppermint Cream and "Cream"
I also mourn the multi fruit one, was it called "Five Centres"?
+2. Loved them.
Whatever happend to Ovaltine chocolate as well? (Quite a few years after the last Aztec, sadly).
White chocolate mice
nutty logs
space dust? (it used to pop/burst! in your mouth!).
Alright, anyone remember those chewit sized chews that were green and white striped (minty I think)?
"Bite my shiny metal ass."
- Bender Bending Rodríguez
Pacers!
Yes, yes, yes. You (all) resolved one of the great unanswered questions of my adulthood.
"Bite my shiny metal ass."
- Bender Bending Rodríguez
Pacers
Crackerjack popcorn probably early 1970s I think. I am not sure whether it was sold in every part of the UK but we definitely got it in the North East. Then it disappeared back off to America
Wham bars and coconut mushrooms
At our school the currency was coconut rings and toffeepops
Mars bars - the gold standard.
Tutti fruttis and Poppets
yum
Golden Cup!
yum
Surely you you can't still buy these (I wish!)
American Hard Gums, Acid Drops and anything Swizzels
raspberry ruffle bars,
sherbert pips,
licorice laces,
soft "fried eggs"! (jelly ish mushy crap!)
fruit salad chews
bazooka joe
club
bandit
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/
might not be doing people any favours with the above link though , most probably have at least type 2 diabetes by now :)
Ah, Anglo Bubbly Bubble gum, used to be my favourite. I clocked that site but they want 16 quid to ship to Germany, so I think I´ll pass.
Nice thread
Fruit salads
black Jacks ( not sure you would get away with it now)
Revels
Dolly Mixtures
Pez (cherry)
All washed down with Corona cherryade, Panda Cola or a Tab.
does anyone remember gets a packet of "Bits" from the Chippy on a Friday - 5p and about a billion calories.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Surprised nobody has mentioned gobstoppers, the big variety about 1" diameter that changed colour as you worked your way through the layers, they had a tiny black 'pip' in the centre.
Proper Midget Gems, Poor Bens, Licquorice Tablets, Butterscoth Tablets and Fruit Salad made by Lion in Cleckheaton, not the poor substitute now available.
I remember a variation of this which I'd get at lunchtime at school and would last hours and changed colour and flavour as you ate them. Eventually you'd get to the sour core, dinosaur eggs I think they were called. I loved them.
Edit: been googling and realised they were called DinaSOUR eggs:
I wish they still made these, I crave them even now!
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Bar six, Opel Fruits, and Fruit Polos, once a week with the Beano.
Chocolate cigarettes. In the. In the nice softpacks, just like my dad's Rothändle.
fruit salad sweets, they were 4 for 1p
as were blackjacks, I used to love those
Surprised no one has mentioned liquorish allsorts, and they are still around today.
A lot of these my current company manufacture ;)
Export only? SPILL MAN??!!
Just a few products that have been mentioned on this thread.
Refreshers, Dip Dabs, Fruit Salad, Black Jack, Lion (Midget Gems, Sports Mix etc), Wham, Anglo Bubbly. All produce of Tangerine Confectionery. I have worked there for nearly 9 years, but that ends in 5 weeks time. Time for a new challenge. Great brands though.
Freddo the frogs & Furry friends chocolate
Old Jamaica
Nutty bars
And has anyone mentioned you don't get chocolate spanners, saws or screwdrivers in selection boxes or stockings any more?
My favourite was one of these:
So glad somebody mentioned splicer bars, I've never met anybody who actually remembers them, genuinely beginning to wonder if they were my imagination. Also loved popping space candy and those coloured sheets of edible paper (can still remember they tasted like cardboard).
I loved Spangles, especially the 'Old English' ones. The ones I really miss though are licquorice gums, Rowntrees I think. Their advertising was cowboy-themed, for some reason. The old Fruit Gums were much nicer than the present incarnation too, especially the boxed ones.
What else - oh yes Fry's Five Centres - like Chocolate Cream, but with five different fruity flavours (and colours).
Happy days.
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