Sweeties from days gone by
 

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

Spangles.:D :D

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.

We get a box delivered by them every few months in the office. :D Superb service and the sweets ... oh god the sweets.....

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!!!!

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:

mmm ... Reeses Peanut Butter Cups ... aaahhhh ....

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.

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

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:

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

why what was you going to say??? :D :D give us a hint!

They ran another ad too
"A texan takes time to chew" :frog:

keeping schtuum in case I get moderated

okayyyyyy

Yeah,
Curly Wurlies and WagonWheels were much bigger!!

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?

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 !

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

I'd forgotten about them, and yes I know what you mean!

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: :)

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...

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:

Liquorice Mad Me!!
 

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".

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!

yeah space dust... and hey talking of licourique do they still do red boot laces, 2 for a penny as it was then...

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:)

:lol: Mel, I think you need more chocolate my sweet. Ya brain cells are malfunctioning :eek:

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

Yep, they do them over here :lol:

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!