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Title: old sweets?
Post by: cam2502 on 01 June 2009, 00:39:55
After reading LKs thread on his dark choc (which i love) got me trying to remember the sweets i used to eat as a kid. Splicer bars,parma violets and sweet peanuts come to mind but cant think of many more. Refresh my memory folks. What did you chomp on as a nipper?
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Post by: Vamps on 01 June 2009, 00:42:44
Spangles........... :y
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Post by: The Red Baron on 01 June 2009, 00:43:26
black jacks, fruit salads. yummy.  :y
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Post by: cam2502 on 01 June 2009, 00:48:00
just remembered a choc bar i loved,and they brought it back....a wispa bar. yum yum! :y
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Post by: Gareth Lewis on 01 June 2009, 00:50:21
Sherbert Dips
Pear Drops
Spangles
Curly Whirly
Mint Imperials
Black Joes

No wonder I now wear dentures! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Plomien on 01 June 2009, 07:09:01
Try here http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/?gclid=CI-jw8a06JoCFUsI3wodZUB9BQ you can find most things on the site  :y
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Post by: Ghost on 01 June 2009, 09:37:55
Acid drops are the ones I used to like. they curled your toe nails up.
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Post by: mantahatch on 01 June 2009, 09:55:56
Not quite the same but, at work we have on a high shelf a Club biscuit which had a sell by date of 1983.
It has now become a good luck charm for us. It is shown to anyone new as a matter of ritual.

Sad ain't we.
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Post by: crazyjoetavola on 01 June 2009, 10:15:26
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Not quite the same but, at work we have on a high shelf a Club biscuit which had a sell by date of 1983.
It has now become a good luck charm for us. It is shown to anyone new as a matter of ritual.

Sad ain't we.


'If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our club' :y :y
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Post by: Vamps on 01 June 2009, 21:22:40
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Try here http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/?gclid=CI-jw8a06JoCFUsI3wodZUB9BQ you can find most things on the site  :y

No Spangles though....... :( :(
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Post by: crazyjoetavola on 01 June 2009, 21:30:06
Army and Navies :y
Brandy Balls :y
Clove Rock :y
Cherry Lips :-/
Reillys Chocolate Toffee Rolls :y :y
Cowans Toffee Pennies :-/
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Post by: Del Boy on 01 June 2009, 21:34:05
Milk bottles
Aniseed balls
Football crazy crisps
Chocolate tools
Fish & Chip chocolate

They'll flood in, in a minute
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Post by: crazyjoetavola on 01 June 2009, 21:35:34
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Milk bottles
Aniseed balls
Football crazy crisps
Chocolate tools
Fish & Chip chocolate

They'll flood in, in a minute


That's the one I couldn't remember LSG :y
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Post by: Del Boy on 01 June 2009, 21:35:46
Space dust thats another  :y
Liquorice Pipes

Aniseed balls were lovely.
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Post by: Del Boy on 01 June 2009, 21:37:56
Kola cubes
Sweet peanuts
Mojo's
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Post by: miggcddave on 01 June 2009, 21:41:23
what about rileys toffee rolls  aint seen them for a long time :P
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Post by: crazyjoetavola on 01 June 2009, 21:41:26
...and the sweetie cigarettes with the red tip

flying saucers.....the liquorice curled around to resemble a wheel.......
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Post by: crazyjoetavola on 01 June 2009, 21:43:06
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what about rileys toffee rolls  aint seen them for a long time :P

They stuck to your teeth like crazy, but after a while they got all sophisticated and brought them out in dark chocolate as well :y
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Post by: Del Boy on 01 June 2009, 21:43:45
Chocolate sheroots
Foam teeth

There is a shop on ebay called retro sweets that do aa hell of a lot of old sweets, not that I've bought any of course  ::)
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Post by: amigov6 on 01 June 2009, 23:11:11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je1rOO_QUvk
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Post by: webby23 on 01 June 2009, 23:18:59
Nutty Bar............??

Anyone remember them???

Chewy toffee and nougat wrapped in peanuts if I remember and with a brown opaque wrapper.

 :y
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Post by: Darth Loo-knee on 01 June 2009, 23:21:22
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After reading LKs thread on his dark choc (which i love) got me trying to remember the sweets i used to eat as a kid. Splicer bars,parma violets and sweet peanuts come to mind but cant think of many more. Refresh my memory folks. What did you chomp on as a nipper?


Can you remember "Pacers" they were lovely :y
Strawbery Bon Bons which had the sherbert all over them, cant seem to get them around here anymore  :(
Chewy nuts :y
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Post by: Tommy on 02 June 2009, 06:27:12
Didn't the liquorice tube in a sherbet fountain used to have a hole running through it so that you could suck the sherbet, get it wrong, inhale it and cough your lungs up?
Now they are solid which to me defeats the object of calling it a sherbet fountain

Bet it's H&S again
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Post by: largecol on 02 June 2009, 10:59:18
Used to love Texan bars, lasted forever, by the time you`d finished them your jaws were aching!! IIRC they had a cartoon ad with a firing squad falling asleep waiting for the guy to finish his `last request`!   ;D ;D
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Post by: crazyjoetavola on 02 June 2009, 11:09:29
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Used to love Texan bars, lasted forever, by the time you`d finished them your jaws were aching!! IIRC they had a cartoon ad with a firing squad falling asleep waiting for the guy to finish his `last request`!   ;D ;D


I wonder if that was the same as the Dime bar? :-/ :-/
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Post by: webby23 on 02 June 2009, 11:16:12
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Didn't the liquorice tube in a sherbet fountain used to have a hole running through it so that you could suck the sherbet, get it wrong, inhale it and cough your lungs up?
Bet it's H&S again

Did that once, never again, honestly thought I was going to die......

CAUSE OF DEATH...........SHERBET.......not good

Made me fall off my Grifter and also ripped one of my STOP / GO patches straight off my left knee.........

 :y
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Post by: largecol on 02 June 2009, 11:22:06
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Used to love Texan bars, lasted forever, by the time you`d finished them your jaws were aching!! IIRC they had a cartoon ad with a firing squad falling asleep waiting for the guy to finish his `last request`!   ;D ;D


I wonder if that was the same as the Dime bar? :-/ :-/

Different thing Zulu, Dime bars were square and flat and had `crispy bits` in. Texan was about Mars bar size with hard-as-hell toffee in chocolate. (both were deeelish though) And just to get on my soap-box for a second - Marathons were DEFINATELY bigger than Snickers!!!  >:( >:( :D
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Post by: Varche on 02 June 2009, 11:41:04
lion bars.

Also Jubblies (the sort of triangular fruit ices). Not a sweet as such but memorable nonetheless.

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Post by: crazyjoetavola on 02 June 2009, 13:06:08
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Used to love Texan bars, lasted forever, by the time you`d finished them your jaws were aching!! IIRC they had a cartoon ad with a firing squad falling asleep waiting for the guy to finish his `last request`!   ;D ;D


I wonder if that was the same as the Dime bar? :-/ :-/

Different thing Zulu, Dime bars were square and flat and had `crispy bits` in. Texan was about Mars bar size with hard-as-hell toffee in chocolate. (both were deeelish though) And just to get on my soap-box for a second - Marathons were DEFINATELY bigger than Snickers!!!  >:( >:( :D


Can't remember it LC but it sounds as it would fit the bill :y :y
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Post by: largecol on 02 June 2009, 13:41:35
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Used to love Texan bars, lasted forever, by the time you`d finished them your jaws were aching!! IIRC they had a cartoon ad with a firing squad falling asleep waiting for the guy to finish his `last request`!   ;D ;D


I wonder if that was the same as the Dime bar? :-/ :-/

Different thing Zulu, Dime bars were square and flat and had `crispy bits` in. Texan was about Mars bar size with hard-as-hell toffee in chocolate. (both were deeelish though) And just to get on my soap-box for a second - Marathons were DEFINATELY bigger than Snickers!!!  >:( >:( :D


  Can't remember it LC but it sounds as it would fit the bill :y :y

Heres the fella http://www.cybercandy.co.uk/aaasmt/index.php/url_indprod?xlc=2177 and guess what? Bloody sold out.  :'( :'(
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Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 02 June 2009, 15:32:58
Alphabet sweets were always my favourite,............but usually along with 1/2 lb of four inch nails to build little houses for myself and my dolls out of wood! :D :D :D 8-) 8-)

I try not to anaylise too closely that time (4 - 7 years of age) of my life!! ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D ;)

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Post by: LaserLance on 02 June 2009, 15:55:54
I remember Texan bars ....Yumm. Who remembers Aztec bars ? Sherbert dib dabs were a favourite of mine as also were the old swizzler lolipops and the swizzler sweets which had sherbert in the middle> Sherbert seems to a reacurring theme on this thread  :y :y :yMust admit im a bit of a choc freak but once tried a Hersey bar(americain choc bar )only one discription for it .......Disgusting!!!!!!!
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Post by: omegadti on 02 June 2009, 17:10:19
floral gums
cherry lips
bassetti hard licorice

why did you have to post up that "quarter of" site....they've got everything that ruined my teeth and will now pull my crowns off!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: djm1964 on 02 June 2009, 17:21:37
Sweet peanuts , and a toffee flavoured trianglular bag shaped sweet not sure of its name , looked like a 3 d pyramid , aoyone remember them ?
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Post by: Auto Addict on 03 June 2009, 06:35:32
Dolly Mixtures, doesn't cost you much to hand them round :D
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Post by: raywilb on 03 June 2009, 20:38:09
lions midget gems :y
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Post by: Olympia5776 on 03 June 2009, 20:51:20
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lions midget gems :y
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Oh YES......
And real sports mixtures ...............
My mouth's watering now.
Used to be able to get them both back in Dunstable when I lived near there , but Ireland never seems to have had them...... :'(