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[ali]

Originally Posted by final_edition

What were the sweets that you miss most from childhood that aren't about these days?

Here are a few of mine..
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. Superb service and the sweets ... oh god the sweets.....

[Melnie Mouse]

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!!!!

[Martinp]

Originally Posted by ali

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

I've used them before aswell mmm Alphabet letters.

[Jools]

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]

Originally Posted by Jools

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

[Fordie]

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]

Originally Posted by Fordie

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!

[monstermob 998]

Texan bars---- any body remember them?
"a mans gotta chew what a mans gotta chew" was, i think the advertising slogan

[Melnie Mouse]

Originally Posted by monstermob 998

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!

[Florence]

Originally Posted by monstermob 998

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"