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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Darth Loo-knee on 10 July 2014, 22:44:51
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My all time favourite sweet....
whats yours?
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thought they were funny looking yank cars.
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thought they were funny looking yank cars.
with unequal length doors ::)
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that kept breaking down. ;D
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Used to be quite partial to pacers myself. :y
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I thought they were a basketball team from indiana :D
Were these sweets nice? I can't remember them :-\
My all time favourite sweets have to be jelly tots :y
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Spangles were the sweet to have in the 60's................ :y :y
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This is a Pacer - a Class 143 job to be exact:
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43954633/Train_in_Hengoed_Station_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1152515.jpg)
You asked for it Dazzle ... (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43954633/rofl.gif)
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Drum sticks. :y
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My all time favourite sweet....
whats yours?
Opal mints, you can still get Spearmint Chews :y
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Spangles, sweety tobacco and Old Jamaica :y
Kept the dentist busy ;D
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And Golden Nuggets bubble gum that you got in a wee cloth bag with a drawstring !
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Gas mantles.....battery glass accumilaters....and nit combs.... :y
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This is a Pacer - a Class 143 job to be exact:
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43954633/Train_in_Hengoed_Station_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1152515.jpg)
You asked for it Dazzle ... (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43954633/rofl.gif)
Surely that's a facelifted Leyland National :-\
As for the sweets, off my radar...
Was quite partial to silver cola balls myself, and Nerds... especially the cherry cola and water melon ones :y
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This is a Pacer - a Class 143 job to be exact:
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43954633/Train_in_Hengoed_Station_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1152515.jpg)
You asked for it Dazzle ... (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43954633/rofl.gif)
Nice one Seth!! :y :y :y :y :y :y
Like me, never miss a chance to add the essential railway subject into a thread!! ;D ;D ;D :y :y :y
Lovely picture that 8) 8) 8)
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Mint Cracknell.......in the green wrapper was basically green sugar. :(
Aztec bar. :y
Swisskit ?
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Spangles, sweety tobacco and Old Jamaica :y
Kept the dentist busy ;D
Ah yes the old sweet tobacco ... liked that :y And Sugar barly sweets :P
Fizzers :-*
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Spangles, sweety tobacco and Old Jamaica :y
Kept the dentist busy ;D
Ah yes the old sweet tobacco ... liked that :y And Sugar barly sweets :P
Fizzers :-*
Unlike my youthful self you must be old enough to remember 'sweets in jars' ......Mr Emd. ::) ::) :)
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Spangles, sweety tobacco and Old Jamaica :y
Kept the dentist busy ;D
Ah yes the old sweet tobacco ... liked that :y And Sugar barly sweets :P
Fizzers :-*
Unlike my youthful self you must be old enough to remember 'sweets in jars' ......Mr Emd. ::) ::) :)
Oh yes mr opti , a quarter of barley sugar wrapped in a paper bag :) If we were lucky we would get some kayli and a liquorish dipper :P
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Parma Violets, that were 2/6d a quarter in 1967, and sold from a lovely shaped jar, and not to be confused with the modern version sold in a small round packet.
By then I was a counter assistant in a confectioners and I spent my hard earned wages on these beauties when other sweets were about 7d a quarter. Damned expensive by lovely! :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Parma Violets, that were 2/6d a quarter in 1967, and sold from a lovely shaped jar, and not to be confused with the modern version sold in a small round packet.
By then I was a counter assistant in a confectioners and I spent my hard earned wages on these beauties when other sweets were about 7d a quarter. Damned expensive by lovely! :-* :-* :-* :-*
Two and a tanner.......half a crown. Sounds so much better than twelve and a half new pence. :y :y
Do you remember when the 'groat' was legal tender, Lizzie?....... ::) ::) ::) :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Parma Violets, that were 2/6d a quarter in 1967, and sold from a lovely shaped jar, and not to be confused with the modern version sold in a small round packet.
By then I was a counter assistant in a confectioners and I spent my hard earned wages on these beauties when other sweets were about 7d a quarter. Damned expensive by lovely! :-* :-* :-* :-*
Two and a tanner.......half a crown. Sounds so much better than twelve and a half new pence. :y :y
Do you remember when the 'groat' was legal tender, Lizzie?....... ::) ::) ::) :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
;D ;D ;D No, but I remember the farthing being used! :o :o ;D ;D ;D ;)
That is often what I used when buying 4 Fruit Salads or Black Jacks! :D :D
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Flying Saucers! :y
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Flying Saucers! :y
Didnt like those , use to get stuck to your gums :( Banana chews :)
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Used to be a bit partial to Victory V's when I was a kid in the winter months.
Fairly sure we've had a topic on them before, seem to remember they up of all sorts of chemicals they weren't good for ya. :-\
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Parma Violets, that were 2/6d a quarter in 1967, and sold from a lovely shaped jar, and not to be confused with the modern version sold in a small round packet.
By then I was a counter assistant in a confectioners and I spent my hard earned wages on these beauties when other sweets were about 7d a quarter. Damned expensive by lovely! :-* :-* :-* :-*
Two and a tanner.......half a crown. Sounds so much better than twelve and a half new pence. :y :y
Do you remember when the 'groat' was legal tender, Lizzie?....... ::) ::) ::) :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
;D ;D ;D No, but I remember the farthing being used! :o :o ;D ;D ;D ;)
That is often what I used when buying 4 Fruit Salads or Black Jacks! :D :D
You must have missed the demise of the groat by a decade or so, Lizzie........ ;D ;D ;D :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Just kidding. :y :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Used to be a bit partial to Victory V's when I was a kid in the winter months.
Fairly sure we've had a topic on them before, seem to remember they up of all sorts of chemicals they weren't good for ya. :-\
Like a Ginsters pasty in that respect. Connective scrotal tissue anyone?.... :-X
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Ah good ole E numbers never did us any harm :D
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We had half penny chews in the tuckshop at school... And a packet of Polos cost a whole 7p...
Makes them look chuffing expensive now :-\
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We had half penny chews in the tuckshop at school... And a packet of Polos cost a whole 7p...
Makes them look chuffing expensive now :-\
That must make you nearly as old as Lord Dr Opti? :-\
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Mars bars were a tanner and the size of a house brick when Fruit Salads and Black Jacks were 4 a penny.
You probably wouldn't be able to call them Black Jacks these days, I will :y ;D ;D ;D
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Cleggy, they might not like it, but you call them as they are... :y
As for you Sir Tig... I'll have you know I am still 37 :o
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Mars bars were a tanner and the size of a house brick when Fruit Salads and Black Jacks were 4 a penny.
You probably wouldn't be able to call them Black Jacks these days, I will :y ;D ;D ;D
Went the way of 'nigger brown', Mr Cleggy. ;)
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Mars bars were a tanner and the size of a house brick when Fruit Salads and Black Jacks were 4 a penny.
You probably wouldn't be able to call them Black Jacks these days, I will :y ;D ;D ;D
Stop pretending you are younger than me Cleggy! ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D
In the 1958 you got 4 of those to a farthing, 16 to the 1d, so you must remember that! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
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Mars bars were a tanner and the size of a house brick when Fruit Salads and Black Jacks were 4 a penny.
You probably wouldn't be able to call them Black Jacks these days, I will :y ;D ;D ;D
Stop pretending you are younger than me Cleggy! ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D
In the 1958 you got 4 of those to a farthing, 16 to the 1d, so you must remember that! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
No Lizzie, I can only remember them at four a penny, although I only came across them in the Tuck Shop at grammar school and a bag of nuts and raisins were sixpence. :y That was 1963. :o
I do remember using farthings though, withdrawn in 1960.
I used to buy penny bubbies with black and white pictures of the Beatles to collect, the Rolling Stones were in colour at junior school, wish I'd kept them. :y
A Jubbly was 4d in 1969, I was working by then. ;D
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Mars bars were a tanner and the size of a house brick when Fruit Salads and Black Jacks were 4 a penny.
You probably wouldn't be able to call them Black Jacks these days, I will :y ;D ;D ;D
Stop pretending you are younger than me Cleggy! ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D
In the 1958 you got 4 of those to a farthing, 16 to the 1d[/b][/i], so you must remember that! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
Are you sure, Lizzie?. I know that you're talking about 1958......but 16 to the penny. :-* :-* :-*
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Mars bars were a tanner and the size of a house brick when Fruit Salads and Black Jacks were 4 a penny.
You probably wouldn't be able to call them Black Jacks these days, I will :y ;D ;D ;D
Stop pretending you are younger than me Cleggy! ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D
In the 1958 you got 4 of those to a farthing, 16 to the 1d, so you must remember that! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
No Lizzie, I can only remember them at four a penny, although I only came across them in the Tuck Shop at grammar school and a bag of nuts and raisins were sixpence. :y That was 1963. :o
I do remember using farthings though, withdrawn in 1960.
I used to buy penny bubbies with black and white pictures of the Beatles to collect, the Rolling Stones were in colour at junior school, wish I'd kept them. :y
A Jubbly was 4d in 1969, I was working by then. ;D
Yes in 1958, certainly up to 1960, I used to get 8 to the 1/2d, and when I (unofficially) joined the confectionery trade in 1965 we were counting out 8 to the 1d. So the price was climbing, but the size stayed the same until about 1972 and then, like some other popular products reduced in size after RPM was abolished and supermarkets could use products in price promotions. Boy, did the trade change after that!! :o :o :y
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Really don't recall Pacers at all,my favourites have always been and still are Jelly Babies.
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Really don't recall Pacers at all,my favourites have always been and still are Jelly Babies.
Only the boys, you get more. ;) ;D
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Surely that'd depend on how big the girl is?