What sweets or treats from your childhood do you wish they’d bring back?

[Martylaa]

Me, I wish they’d bring these back.

Super Mousse pots.


Cabana Bars.



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[stooo]

Fortunately not extinct, but Maxilin Flyers remain a guilty pleasure for me.

[g40steve]

Making wine gums, midget gems, sports mixtures soft has ruined them!

[Harry Smith]

Sherbert Dip. You can still get a version, at a daft price.

[John Wall]

Nutty bar
Texan bar
Gold Rush
Spanish Gold
Mojo’s
Black Jacks
Rainbow Kali

[Martylaa]

Striper Bars, I remember getting these on the way to junior school in the early 80’s, bloody amazing.



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[Christian]

https://www.change.org/p/kellogg-kel...k-start-cereal

[pete-r]

Loved Start, full of honey and sugar and before the days I became lacrosse intolerant.

Pacers, mint or fruity Toffos, and Fry's Fruit Cream bar were up there for me.

Plus in the old days Lion's and Star Bar's were fantastic, but these days they are feeble.

[TheTigerUK]

Frozen Jubbly when I was flush with cash :)

[Highroller1]

In the 70’s I lived on a cereal called Puffa Puffa Rice, a nut covered fudge called ‘Nutty’ and Penny Bubblies. Sadly long since discontinued but I still have many happy memories and lots of dental work in the interim to remind me of them !!

[Claret67]

Super Moose - Chocolate bar, very similar to Milky Way.

[Lelykins]

Loved Start, full of honey and sugar and before the days I became lacrosse intolerant.

Pacers, mint or fruity Toffos, and Fry's Fruit Cream bar were up there for me.

Plus in the old days Lion's and Star Bar's were fantastic, but these days they are feeble.

I've always been intolerant of lacrosse, bloody awful...bloody auto spell.

Nutty for me. Used to love them

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[KavKav]

Frozen Jubbly when I was flush with cash :)

4d if I remember correctly and they were a real treat and lasted ages!

[Groovy Greg]

Aztec absolutely the best

[JasonM]

Quattro drink.

[Craizeehair]

Not long discontinued but these are / were surely the king of fruit sweets.

[johnboy9876]

Nutty bar
Texan bar
Gold Rush
Spanish Gold
Mojo’s
Black Jacks
Rainbow Kali

+1 for all of these and add Fruit Salads too!

[Sharky]

Really miss Pacers mints.

Pacers_Mints_1981_television_ad_screenshot by mcridland, on Flickr

Also, Quatro drink:

Quatro by mcridland, on Flickr

And Matotaki fizzy drink, no pics unfortunately :(

Mark

[TaketheCannoli]

Cabana and Texan bars

[monogroover]

Spangles
Fry's Five Centres
Rowntree's Liquorice Gums
The original Rowntree's Fruit Gums that weren't soft

[hilly10]

My Nan back in the 50s owned an old fashioned sweet shop, I can remember 4 chews a penny and all the boiled sweets in jars. It was great as it was all free she spoiled all her grandkids.

Original hard Sports Mixture’s
Aztec bar

[Martylaa]

Amazing how many good sweets Rowntree's used to make back in the day...

[brownip]

Bar 6
multi-flavoured Toffos
another vote for Aztecs
Milk Tray bar
Cadburys Tiffin
Treets (all varieties)

It's a wonder I survived the 60's and 70's with any teeth left and not weighing 20 stone.

Cheers

Ian

[sprite1275]

Cherry lips.

And Highland toffee bars.

Also fruit gums that were rock hard. Not the soft ones you get these days.

Don't think my teeth would stick up to them these days.

[Neil.C]

Punch bars - loved them.

Fry's five centre

Palm toffee bars.

Sugar mice.

[Chinnock]

+1 for Tooty Frooties

.......and for all the other childhood sweets that still exist today, bring back the original size!

[Middo]

Cabana sounds ace

[Griswold]

Victory V's to the original recipe. The modern version, when you can find them, are a poor imitation and nowhere near as hot!

Also, liquorice and violet pills.

[Joyce]

Dark chocolate Club Biscuit bars.
They still do orange / mint / various other
But no sign of the Dark choc.
I still look sometimes, just in case.

Maybe I just imagined them ?

[Kingstepper]

Cresta - not sure I’d still like it but would be good to try again.

Catchphrase “ It’s Frothy Man”.

[stooo]

Really miss Pacers mints.

Pacers_Mints_1981_television_ad_screenshot by mcridland, on Flickr

Also, Quatro drink:

Quatro by mcridland, on Flickr

And Matotaki fizzy drink, no pics unfortunately :(

Mark

I think you may have lived my childhood, and alarmingly remember more of it.

[Grandiloquence]

Spira, Fuse, Marble Bar, Topic, 54321.

I remember Quatro, loved that stuff.

[wotsthecrack]

Spira, Fuse, Marble Bar, Topic, 54321.

I remember Quatro, loved that stuff.

Used Spiras as a straw for drinking coffee, the trick was to anticipate the melting collapse point and wolf it down before dropping in the cup.

[SydR]

[MacDeath]

Spira, Fuse, Marble Bar, Topic, 54321.

I remember Quatro, loved that stuff.

Topic are still out there. Had one yesterday.

[sundial]

I'm wondering if our several dental surgeon members have opinions on the foregoing?
I regret buying and eating all the sweets / choc bars etc consumed in my youth.
Now have a top jaw permanent full prosthetic plate attached to very expensive dental implants.
The sugar in confectionery ruins our teeth. And the artificial flavourings, colourings and additives in confectionery compromise and destroy our gut microbiota thus weakening our immune systems.
I have not bought any sweets / chocolate bars / ice cream for many months - and I don't miss them.

[bandylegss]

Punch bars - loved them.

Fry's five centre

Palm toffee bars.

Sugar mice.

Showing your age there Neil. :)

For me proper wagon wheels todays are shite.

[Martylaa]

Ive just found this website, they sell highland toffee's (albeit a different cover) and many others on there...

I'm sorry to admit this but I've just ordered some highland toffee (for me) and some others for my little one...

https://www.aquarterof.co.uk/highland-toffee

[Mick P]

I'm wondering if our several dental surgeon members have opinions on the foregoing?
I regret buying and eating all the sweets / choc bars etc consumed in my youth.
Now have a top jaw permanent full prosthetic plate attached to very expensive dental implants.
The sugar in confectionery ruins our teeth. And the artificial flavourings, colourings and additives in confectionery compromise and destroy our gut microbiota thus weakening our immune systems.
I have not bought any sweets / chocolate bars / ice cream for many months - and I don't miss them.

I nibble chocolate things most days and I have a good set of teeth. Either you are very unlucky or you need to buy a toothbrush.

[jwg663]

Press your nose up against the window of this website -

https://www.aquarterof.co.uk/

[sundial]

I nibble chocolate things most days and I have a good set of teeth. Either you are very unlucky or you need to buy a toothbrush.

I have several electric toothbrushes thank you

[sundial]

Press your nose up against the window of this website -

https://www.aquarterof.co.uk/

Consider reading this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Food-Users-...c=1&th=1&psc=1

[Mick P]

I have several electric toothbrushes thank you

Yes but you are supposed to use them old boy.

[Franky Four Fingers]

Spangles!!

[sundial]

Yes but you are supposed to use them old boy.

I also have an electric dental flosser used daily thank you

[the.admiral]

Another vote for the Texan Bar.

Plenty of other treats that I can recall, but the ones I miss are:

Texan Bar, as above.
Proper Midget Gems. You can still find something that resembles these today, but not quite the same.
Top Deck Shandy. Plenty to choose from, but the Lime one was always my favourite.
Black Jacks in the wax wrapper
Bazooka Joe also in the wax wrapper, with the cartoon insert.
Dentyne
Toffo

[Mr Curta]

Pyramint, although I was a big kid by then.

[CardShark]

I'd just be happy if they called Snickers bars by their original, and proper, name.

[BritishExpat]

Another shout for Spangles
Drifter bar
Fruit Polos

[Mj2k]

Oooh Drifter, forgot about those.

Had not realised Tutti Frutti had been discontinued. Shame.