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final_edition
25-Oct-2006, 02:59
What were the sweets that you miss most from childhood that aren't about these days?
Here are a few of mine..:pig:
Space Dust
Chocolate Tools
Bones (crisps)
Fizzle Sticks
Have a look here for some of the old favorites;)
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/index.php
doogalman
25-Oct-2006, 06:20
Spangles.:D :D
Florence
25-Oct-2006, 06:59
Mint Cracknell. That chocolate covered green glass fibre looking stuff that blasted everywhere when you bit into it. Yummmmmy
And for the more mature people like myself, some may go back as far as remembering "Firemen's Hose" a thin, long, red, strawberry flavoured kind of liquorice:eek:
I miss Clark Bars. They never made it to the UK as far as I know, I'm not even sure they're still available in the US.
Anyway, I miss 'em.
What were the sweets that you miss most from childhood that aren't about these days?
Here are a few of mine..:pig:
Space Dust
Chocolate Tools
Bones (crisps)
Fizzle Sticks
Have a look here for some of the old favorites;)
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/index.php
We get a box delivered by them every few months in the office. :D Superb service and the sweets ... oh god the sweets.....
Melnie Mouse
25-Oct-2006, 09:21
I remember 'pacers' they were white mint squares (exactly like opal fruits) but with 3 green stripes across em. - but i weren't keen on them, I did like spangles, but my fave
was the pyramint. It was dark chocolate triangle pyramid with white mint fondue centre.. Mmmmm making my mouth water.
I wish they did a cadbury fruit bar though, you know like fruit and nut without the nuts though, i rememember writing to them once, ask them to do one, for people like me who hate nuts in choc, or for allergies, apparently they did a 'just sultana' they told me but wasn't successful.
Shame... I bet it would be now... Cadbury's is the best!!!!
Iconic944ss
25-Oct-2006, 11:19
Great website!
They have the Spanish Gold that I was going to mention :) remember getting that as a nipper, packaged to look like a box of tabacco.
My faves:
Olde Jamaica
Aztec
and anything with peanut butter which I think one of the reasons we had to stop going to Florida :o
Frank
Florence
25-Oct-2006, 11:24
Great website!
They have the Spanish Gold that I was going to mention :) remember getting that as a nipper, packaged to look like a box of tabacco.
My faves:
Olde Jamaica
Aztec
and anything with peanut butter which I think one of the reasons we had to stop going to Florida :o
Frank
All lovely!! I also remember the cloth bags of gold nuggets that were bubblegum and if you held them tooooo long, ya fingers went yellow!!:lol:
...
and anything with peanut butter which I think one of the reasons we had to stop going to Florida :o
Frank
mmm ... Reeses Peanut Butter Cups ... aaahhhh ....
Martinp
25-Oct-2006, 15:36
We get a box delivered by them every few months in the office. :D Superb service and the sweets ... oh god the sweets.....
I've used them before aswell mmm Alphabet letters.
There's a shop in our little town that opened it's doors as some sort of 'olde sweete shoppe' where all the sweets are in big glass jars and get weighed out into little paper bags. I gave it two weeks before it closed again through lack of custom, but no, they seem to be doing quite well.
Mind you, I liked Jamboree bags that had a few cheap sweets and a tacky plastic toy in them. And those tubes of bright yellow sherbet with a liqourice straw. Then there things that I think (believe it or not) were called Jubblies...a sort of ice lolly in a pyramid shape. One of my favourites were things called, rather imaginatively, Potato Puffs...which were, surprisingly enough, puffy bits of hollow potato shaped a bit like a mini shredded wheat but about half the size. They're not around any more, the nearest thing to the taste of them is Hoola Hoops, but obviously a completely different texture.
Melnie Mouse
25-Oct-2006, 16:11
There's a shop in our little town that opened it's doors as some sort of 'olde sweete shoppe' where all the sweets are in big glass jars and get weighed out into little paper bags. I gave it two weeks before it closed again through lack of custom, but no, they seem to be doing quite well.
Mind you, I liked Jamboree bags that had a few cheap sweets and a tacky plastic toy in them. And those tubes of bright yellow sherbet with a liqourice straw. Then there things that I think (believe it or not) were called Jubblies...a sort of ice lolly in a pyramid shape. One of my favourites were things called, rather imaginatively, Potato Puffs...which were, surprisingly enough, puffy bits of hollow potato shaped a bit like a mini shredded wheat but about half the size. They're not around any more, the nearest thing to the taste of them is Hoola Hoops, but obviously a completely different texture.
oh that's a shame they sound nice :(
Sweet Tobbaco,Fruit Salads,Shrimps, Rainbow Drops,Sherbet Fountains most of the sweets I brought in my childhood days were often simular but three times as big as they are today. 4D
jeff st4s
25-Oct-2006, 16:23
most of the sweets I brought in my childhood days were often simular but three times as big as they are today. 4D
They always use the excuse that it was down to kids hands size, I wonder how long they will keep plying us with that old chestnut! :eek: :eek:
monstermob 998
25-Oct-2006, 16:47
Texan bars---- any body remember them?
"a mans gotta chew what a mans gotta chew" was, i think the advertising slogan
Melnie Mouse
25-Oct-2006, 17:00
Texan bars---- any body remember them?
"a mans gotta chew what a mans gotta chew" was, i think the advertising slogan
oh yeah I do, but i guess they must have nuts in them, as i never ate one!
I could be so rude on this thread but am keepin it clean for the kiddies
Melnie Mouse
25-Oct-2006, 17:03
why what was you going to say??? :D :D give us a hint!
Florence
25-Oct-2006, 17:05
Texan bars---- any body remember them?
"a mans gotta chew what a mans gotta chew" was, i think the advertising slogan
They ran another ad too
"A texan takes time to chew" :frog:
why what was you going to say??? :D :D give us a hint!
keeping schtuum in case I get moderated
Melnie Mouse
25-Oct-2006, 17:10
keeping schtuum in case I get moderated
okayyyyyy
final_edition
25-Oct-2006, 19:48
Sweet Tobbaco,Fruit Salads,Shrimps, Rainbow Drops,Sherbet Fountains most of the sweets I brought in my childhood days were often simular but three times as big as they are today. 4D
Yeah,
Curly Wurlies and WagonWheels were much bigger!!
Col996s
25-Oct-2006, 20:25
Not a sweet but an ice cream. Can't remember what they were called but they were made by Walls and had toffee in the middle. I think they were named after one of the characters from the Beano?
Any other ice creams that were good but long gone?
philthy
25-Oct-2006, 21:45
There's a shop in our little town that opened it's doors as some sort of 'olde sweete shoppe' where all the sweets are in big glass jars and get weighed out into little paper bags. I gave it two weeks before it closed again through lack of custom, but no, they seem to be doing quite well.
Mind you, I liked Jamboree bags that had a few cheap sweets and a tacky plastic toy in them. And those tubes of bright yellow sherbet with a liqourice straw. Then there things that I think (believe it or not) were called Jubblies...a sort of ice lolly in a pyramid shape. One of my favourites were things called, rather imaginatively, Potato Puffs...which were, surprisingly enough, puffy bits of hollow potato shaped a bit like a mini shredded wheat but about half the size. They're not around any more, the nearest thing to the taste of them is Hoola Hoops, but obviously a completely different texture.
Lucky bags.....which were the same as Jamboree bags, and Mojos ( four for a penny , or a farthing each ) and little plastic cocktail glass shape full of hard chocolate with a minature plastic spoon.
And '' Force '' breakfast cereal......'' High 'oer the fence leaps Sunny Jim ''
'' Force is the food that fortifies him ''
I'll go now shall I ?:(
Galaxy chocy out of a machine on the wall !
threpeny bit Got you one !
and Willy Wonkers chocky bar you could win a prize if you found the right bar !
Willy Wonkers chocky bar !
and no ! it was not a sexual offence !
PMSL
mav
can you still get Toffos or walnut whip?
vaguely, but I had the plain ones in the red pack
philthy
26-Oct-2006, 00:52
I'd forgotten about them, and yes I know what you mean!
Florence
26-Oct-2006, 06:47
Galaxy chocy out of a machine on the wall !
threpeny bit Got you one !
and Willy Wonkers chocky bar you could win a prize if you found the right bar !
Yeah Mav and didn't the machines have fruit & nut bars too and the wrappers were always really ropey looking but you just died for that choccie moment :lol: :eek: :)
Melnie Mouse
27-Oct-2006, 14:22
Yeah,
Curly Wurlies and WagonWheels were much bigger!!
yeah ditto, I think curly wurlies were bigger and it's not cos i'm bigger now either...
I think just lately the Cadbury's twirl bar has got shorter too, not happy with that, even tho you get 2 sticks, they're small.
Oh, and yes I remember the mint toffo's too, and the noise the sweeties made in their little boxes with the punched out thumb bit where they fell out..
Hey talking of that, do you remember the PEZ sweets? they used to have popeye at the top you'd lift his head and a brick like candy sweet used to come out...
Florence
27-Oct-2006, 15:51
Gosh yeah. You could get all sorts of strange looking heads. Those sweets were just rock hard, and ya mum would clip ya ear for crunchin!!!:lol: :eek:
I spent the last ten years in the search for the elusive "Bassetti" liquorice sticks, the ones that are flattend at one end. Imagine my surprise when I found some in a local traditional sweet shop. I liked them so much I ordered a box of 100 for £9.00 !! Lasted me three months, so I have another awaiting collection. Space Dust also a favourite of mine and "Curly Wurlys".
Melnie Mouse
27-Oct-2006, 15:58
Gosh yeah. You could get all sorts of strange looking heads. Those sweets were just rock hard, and ya mum would clip ya ear for crunchin!!!:lol: :eek:
haha yeah and reading your message made me laugh as I had to think twice what it was that made you say all them strange looking heads, so i had to re-read the last thread (oops mine) to work out what you were on about.. ha ha oh dear, I'd get some funny looks if people could see me!
Melnie Mouse
27-Oct-2006, 15:59
I spent the last ten years in the search for the elusive "Bassetti" liquorice sticks, the ones that are flattend at one end. Imagine my surprise when I found some in a local traditional sweet shop. I liked them so much I ordered a box of 100 for £9.00 !! Lasted me three months, so I have another awaiting collection. Space Dust also a favourite of mine and "Curly Wurlys".
yeah space dust... and hey talking of licourique do they still do red boot laces, 2 for a penny as it was then...
final_edition
27-Oct-2006, 16:12
What was your favorite sweets from a jar?
Mine were Pips also Army And Navy. We either had to go half each for a quarter bag or have an eigth bag if I was on my own. They seemed so expensive when I was a kid.
Partial to a bag of Lemon Bon-bons too:)
Florence
27-Oct-2006, 16:18
haha yeah and reading your message made me laugh as I had to think twice what it was that made you say all them strange looking heads, so i had to re-read the last thread (oops mine) to work out what you were on about.. ha ha oh dear, I'd get some funny looks if people could see me!
:lol: Mel, I think you need more chocolate my sweet. Ya brain cells are malfunctioning :eek:
Florence
27-Oct-2006, 16:20
yeah space dust... and hey talking of licourique do they still do red boot laces, 2 for a penny as it was then...
Ah someone else remembers. In my earlier post I said about the firemens hose stuff. Yes they were also boot lace. Yipppeeee I'm not going mad :o
mazpillion
27-Oct-2006, 18:24
Yep, they do them over here :lol:
Melnie Mouse
28-Oct-2006, 11:17
:lol: Mel, I think you need more chocolate my sweet. Ya brain cells are malfunctioning :eek:
Oh yes please, is that in invitation, hang on i'll just go and dig in my emergency supply... Mmm I've got some cadbury's buttons... aren't I lucky....
and yeah i didn't realize that your firemens hoses were red licouriqe boot laces sorry...
and Final-edition -yah i remember the sherbet pips, they did army and navy and the pink and white ones, the white were lemonade tasting and were a bit sharp but lovely....
I also used to like from the jam jars, orange cushions, anyone remember them?
they were pillow shaped, orange half coloured and brown the other, with chocolate in the middle. they were my fave, and I can't seem to get them anymore even from olde worlde sweetie shops.. Oh and rosy apples you remember them? cor i could bore you to tears!
Florence
31-Oct-2006, 22:09
Oh yes please, is that in invitation, hang on i'll just go and dig in my emergency supply... Mmm I've got some cadbury's buttons... aren't I lucky....
Sorry Mel wasnt ignoring you. Been out in Germany, Just got back but took a huge supply of Choccie buttons!!!! My favourite too. :lol: :lol: Life without Cadbury's choccie buttons just AINT WORF LIVIN!!:o
chris.p
01-Nov-2006, 06:18
Chewing nuts, anyone remember them, :) , small roundish piece of toffee covered in milk chocolate, I think the jar used to have a picture of a squirel on it.
Chris:burn:
rcgbob44
01-Nov-2006, 08:20
I can`t be bothered to read all the posts so mine are:
Mojo`s, Fruit Salads & Black Jacks.
Melnie Mouse
01-Nov-2006, 09:27
I can`t be bothered to read all the posts so mine are:
Mojo`s, Fruit Salads & Black Jacks.
yeah fruit salads, i'd forgotten about those, my dad used to love those, and i used to buy him a quarter in a bag every so often.... :) yum yum
Melnie Mouse
01-Nov-2006, 09:28
Sorry Mel wasnt ignoring you. Been out in Germany, Just got back but took a huge supply of Choccie buttons!!!! My favourite too. :lol: :lol: Life without Cadbury's choccie buttons just AINT WORF LIVIN!!:o
Ooh your fave too, well you got good taste then! What's the choccie like in Germany then? I hate America's chocolate that tasts foul and bitter!
I've had belgium choccy, but you know I still prefer cadbury's, buttons, dairy milk or twirl. Mmmmm but i agree, what would we do with choccie buttons!
Florence
02-Nov-2006, 06:40
Ooh your fave too, well you got good taste then! What's the choccie like in Germany then? I hate America's chocolate that tasts foul and bitter!
I've had belgium choccy, but you know I still prefer cadbury's, buttons, dairy milk or twirl. Mmmmm but i agree, what would we do with choccie buttons!
Definately Cadbury's all round. Deutsch chocolate. Well some of it is nice but ............ cant beat Cadburys :lol: I believe that Cadburys are allowed to use ingredients here that other countries cannot use (so I was once told) :o Dont care whats in it.............................I JUST LOVE IT :devil:
Mad Dog Bianchi
02-Nov-2006, 07:10
Man, you folks got me cravin for stuff. Guess not too many of you have heard of Abba Zabba, but it was a taffy bar with a thin layer of p'nut butter in the middle. Lasted forever! Used to have a bunch of african native caricatures running around the label, but it became PC eons ago...
Florence
02-Nov-2006, 07:50
Man, you folks got me cravin for stuff. Guess not too many of you have heard of Abba Zabba, but it was a taffy bar with a thin layer of p'nut butter in the middle. Lasted forever! Used to have a bunch of african native caricatures running around the label, but it became PC eons ago...
Mmmmm Robinson's Golly Wog springs to mind on the PC front.:(
Still what about Galaxy Counters, Jelly Tots and Glees. Chocolate coated marshmallows and chocolate cigerettes. I'm a non-smoker but I used to pretend with these :frog:
doogalman
02-Nov-2006, 13:11
Don't forget them disgusting little violet sweets. EEEeeyyuuuk:frog: :frog:
Florence
02-Nov-2006, 14:15
Don't forget them disgusting little violet sweets. frog: :frog:
Devonshire Violets - They're not disgusting, they're yummy:)
What about traffice light lollipops. Suck all the red off and then it was yellow and finally green. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm Good for the teeth!!:o
doogalman
02-Nov-2006, 16:01
Devonshire Violets - They're not disgusting, they're yummy:)
They are DISGUSTING and allways will be. :frog:
I bet you like a "Chomp"??? ;) don't you???:D
Florence
02-Nov-2006, 16:06
They are DISGUSTING and allways will be. :frog:
I bet you like a "Chomp"??? ;) don't you???:D
Yes because they're Cadbury's :lol: I presume that's what you're on about :o
doogalman
02-Nov-2006, 16:09
Gobstopper anyone???:lol: :lol:
Florence
02-Nov-2006, 16:13
Gobstopper anyone???:lol: :lol:
It'll need to be flamin big for me:eek:
doogalman
02-Nov-2006, 18:40
It'll need to be flamin big for me:eek:
How Rude!!!!!:eek: :eek:
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