Sweets
Can anyone name any more sweets from the past?
Texan Bar
Spangles
Space Dust
Hedgehog Flavoured Crisps
Mojos
Started: 11th May 2006 at 22:46
Gobstoppers and Crisp with a packet of salt.
Replied: 11th May 2006 at 23:32
Lest we forget penny daintys, bulls eyes, pear drops, strawberry limes, cola cubes, winter nips, sasperellaes, & my girlfriend (from Bolton) says don`t forget spanish gold (toffe tobacco) & the best of all that wasn`t really sweets was the good old jubblie (jubbly if from Bolton)
Replied: 11th May 2006 at 23:35
whatchamacallits not sure how to spell it.
Replied: 11th May 2006 at 23:44
Well, there was also liquorice sticks and coltsfoot rock.
Replied: 12th May 2006 at 00:46
How about Uncle Joe's mint balls or Pontefract cakes.If you are including frozen sweets or treats,I had my first ice lolly in the summer of '46,one of my older sisters bought it for me,it cost 1d and my mother her asked why she was wasting her money like that.
Replied: 12th May 2006 at 01:34
do you remember the slabs of toffee with nuts in and they came with a little hammer............mmmmm
Replied: 12th May 2006 at 08:52
Flying saucers
Sherbet dabs
Black Jacks (four for 1d)
Fruitips
Penny arrows
Contrast chocolates
Dairy Rich chocolates
Kaylei
Plus Miss Fallal, that was called nut brittle you described. My dad's favourite!
Replied: 12th May 2006 at 12:00
Aussie Roy. You'll be pleased that Uncle Joe's is still going strong and churning out their mint balls and you can still get Pontefract cakes - er, made in Pontefract, so I believe.
Replied: 12th May 2006 at 13:51
Nobody ever mentions the
CABANA!
Now discuss please!
N.
Replied: 12th May 2006 at 15:49
what about 1/2p chicks
fruit salad
black sambos (no offence to anyone)
spearmint chews
ansieed balls
cadburys lucky numbers
bar six
i will have to go now i feel quite sick with all the sweets.
Replied: 12th May 2006 at 15:56
now your making me want some
and i cant them in canada :-)
Replied: 12th May 2006 at 16:09
the long lost Aztec bar !
Cherry lips
Chewing nuts
Russian Caramels (omg I loved them!)
and loose Rum Truffles from BHS!
Replied: 12th May 2006 at 18:06
i remember Z Bars. they were just blocks of caramel (extremely bad for the teeth because it was hard caramel and you had to really really tug at it) but one used to last me ages. I also remember the liquorice that was like a twig and used to break into threads as you chewed it (just like a real twig).
Replied: 12th May 2006 at 18:10
licorice root and coltsfoot rock can still be bought i saw some on a chemists counter only a couple of weeks ago
Replied: 12th May 2006 at 20:02
ianmcl you are the ONLY other person I have heard mention the aztec bar, I've been going on about these for AGES and everyone looks at me as though i'm off another planet!!! So glad you remember them to and why oh why did they get rid of spangles I LOVED THEM, they revived them for a short spell but as far as I am aware you can't get them anymore ?
Replied: 12th May 2006 at 22:04
licorice root and coltsfoot rock can still be bought i saw some on a chemists counter only a couple of weeks ago
Ah, so does this mean you need a prescription.
Replied: 12th May 2006 at 23:59
Still no mention of the 'Cabana' - am I the only one remembers it?
Like a bounty but wi' cherries in it also.
And on a different note... what was the name of the cider version of a can of shandy you could once buy?
N.
and what about the 'Black Magic' chocolate bar...
Caramac...
Refreshers...
Sherbert Fountains...
Bazooka Joes...
Swizzle Lollies...
'Lipstick' sweets...
Parma Violets...
Pontefract Cakes...
Coconut Mushrooms...
And of course - Lucky Bags! Sweets, Chewing Gum, Plastic Doings and trading cards all in a 'mystery paper bag'.
N.
Replied: 13th May 2006 at 00:46
Fry's Five Boys.You could get them from a machine for sixpence.
Replied: 13th May 2006 at 08:55
This site might interest some of you http://www.justjars.co.uk/
Replied: 13th May 2006 at 13:18
thanks for that Keily my daughters bopth live up there and i am going up on Tuesday so will take a look...........mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Replied: 13th May 2006 at 16:18
Terry's Neapolitans. (My Favourites)
Imps
Tick Tacks
Tiffin Bar
Spangles
Fruit Polos
PK & Beech Nut chewing gum
Old Jamaica (Chocolate bar)
Replied: 14th May 2006 at 22:49
Imps? Were those the little strong black things in a tin box?
Replied: 14th May 2006 at 22:52
what about rainbow drops?
Replied: 15th May 2006 at 08:46
I keep telling my daughter about Winter Nips I wish I could get her some..............
Replied: 15th May 2006 at 13:28
Winter Nips are for sale on the site i posted earlier, under medicinal.
Replied: 15th May 2006 at 14:33
you can get winter nips from the uncle joes shop opposite debenhams side entrance just down from dickens, mens clothes shop
Replied: 15th May 2006 at 17:58
what about
bonfire lollies,
dazzel drops
merry maid caramels
jap nuggets,
cherry lips,
tics,
sherbert lemons,
chocolate limes,
the best toffee shop ever was westheads in beech hill they had everything yummy mmmmmmmmm
Replied: 15th May 2006 at 18:16
Just as a matter of interest there is or was in '96,a shop in Rockingham,Western Australia,that specialised in English sweets,names like Callard & Bowser,even Blackpool rock.I'll check to see if can find anymore info.
Replied: 16th May 2006 at 08:22
Brian: To answer your question above, yes, Imps are those little black very strong liquorice sweets in a tin box!
Replied: 16th May 2006 at 10:13
Midget Gems. I know you can still buy them but I loved the black ones best. Do they still do those little soft gum sweeties coated in sugar. Can't remember the name of them, and do they still do those harder gums that yer teeth got stuck on?
Replied: 22nd May 2006 at 16:57
There was an outdoor stall on Bolton precinct last week selling all the old sweets, my g/f bought some sasperellaes, bullseyes & toffee tobacco & rum fudge, although the bullseyes were nothing like they used to be when i was a kid, tasted more like Everton mints & they`re not 4p a 1/4 anymore
Replied: 23rd May 2006 at 11:08
I read that wrong for a minute Keily. I thought you said they were selling old sweets! For just a sec I thought they wouldn't be too tasteyful. What's your g/f, or am I being thick?
Replied: 23rd May 2006 at 12:43
g/f = girlfriend it`s just another of those lazy cyber abbreviations, as if our language isn`t abbreviated enough....
Replied: 23rd May 2006 at 12:53
Cough Candy
Cinder Toffee
Victory Vee Gums
Best of all not sweets but a penny bag of broken biscuits form the Market Hall
Replied: 23rd May 2006 at 16:35
Just thought of another.. Germoline chewing gum with a tatto inside? Tell me I'm not dreaming, lol.
Replied: 23rd May 2006 at 22:50
germoline bubblies i remember those too
Replied: 23rd May 2006 at 23:21
Oh good, it wasn't a dream then. God knows what made me think of them?
Replied: 23rd May 2006 at 23:24
Wasn't Germoline an antiseptic ointment,pink if my memory serves me right and surely not a flavour for a sweet.I don't know about a dream it sounds more like a nightmare.
Replied: 24th May 2006 at 07:07
Damn those Germoline Tattoos, they scarred me for life.. lol
Replied: 24th May 2006 at 11:49
Last edited by keily: 24th May 2006 at 12:14:40
I've done a search on Google and I fail to find any reference of "Germoline" or "Germolene" in connection with sweets.so please enlighten me.
Replied: 26th May 2006 at 10:23
Rileys chocolate toffee rolls
Jap cakes
Santus invalid toffee
Bazookas
Replied: 27th May 2006 at 23:02
Rileys chocolate toffee rolls
Jap cakes
Santus invalid toffee
Bazookas
Replied: 27th May 2006 at 23:05
Anyone seen any sherbert dips?
Replied: 29th May 2006 at 08:19
Palm toffee
triple bars (3 colours of chocolate)
Kali and spanish
blue bird toffee
Replied: 29th May 2006 at 08:49
And what about Bassetts Liquorice Allsorts,and what was your favourite? Mine was the coconut ring.
Someone mentioning "old" sweets reminded me of a little shop on Pall Mall in Chorley,where just after the war when chocolate was in short supply you could buy some of his old stock he had on display in his window and despite the lack of direct sunlight the chocolate was white.With todays "best before" or "use by dates" he wouldn't get away with it but those were desperate days.
Replied: 29th May 2006 at 10:26
WHAT ABOUT
PINK PANTHER BAR
FIZZ BOMBS
ICE BREAKER
MILK TRAY IN A BAR
FLORAL GUMS
Replied: 29th May 2006 at 21:37
I still buy Imps at our local chemist. On the Standish web page it tells of a place on Bradley Hall trading estate making & selling all kinds of sweets which you can buy mail order.
Replied: 29th May 2006 at 22:52
just found the web page for the sweet place at Standish www.sweetsforu.co.uk
Replied: 29th May 2006 at 23:00
wiganyankeeron: I bought my mum some Terry's Neapolitans from Woolworths last Christmas.
Also: Can't believe that no one has mentioned Aztec Bars! They were around for a short period in the 70s. Think Mars made them. They were a bit like Milky Ways but were larger and more chewy. Think they contained raisins. Purple wrapper.
Replied: 30th May 2006 at 17:51
Holly, Aztec bars were mentioned earlier by ianmcl, although i can`t remember them...
Replied: 30th May 2006 at 19:04
does anyone remember hollands caramels they had a red and gold paper wrapper.
winter nips
climpys
swizzels
parma violets
sour grapes
golf balls
rhubarb and custard
pear drops
toffee cigs
liquorice pipe set
chocolate tools
Replied: 30th May 2006 at 20:00
wiggy you can still buy sherbet dips in morrisons in ince ,on the toffee section
Replied: 30th May 2006 at 20:01
keily; Whoops, didn't spot that one. SWEET of you to point it out...
karen; Yes! Milk Tray in a bar, how bizarre was that! I liked the lime one best.
Replied: 30th May 2006 at 20:53
My favourite sweet shop used to be on Mesnes Road, where Diana Louise hairdressers is now. My little brother and I used to be taken there on a Friday night for a treat to buy some sweets, usualy Fry's Chocolate Cream bar or a sherbert dip - can't remember the name of the shop but it was owned and run by a nice old man. Another favourite was Sharrocks in Queensway and the one opposite Mab's Cross School - if you weren't too greedy a Jubliee bought there after school could last all the way to Danesway on the walk home. Curly Wurly bars seemed to be absolutely ginormous - not now in the days of Americanised buckets of popcorn and supersized Mars bars etc. but in the early '70s they were HUGE!
Am I bucking the trend here - I really hated cherry lips, pear drops, parma violets and all sweets that depended on aldehydes for their flavourings - way too false - sorry to upset all you nostalgia junkies! Can't beat a good suck on Uncle Joes.
Replied: 30th May 2006 at 23:17
Here... jumping back to the 'Germoline Bubbly'
I remember some daft buggers at school sticking the tattoos on their tongues and ending up with 'em turning blue and yellow.
Why?
The mystery and idiocy of youth!
I never did - but I did like the taste of the bubblegum though!!!
N.
Replied: 31st May 2006 at 01:40
Fizz bombs
and that stuff....was it 'Stardust'...used to explode in yer gob
Wham bars seem to have the same stuff in them
Replied: 31st May 2006 at 13:25
Is anyone old enough to remember Dandy lollies? They were very hard and red and came wrapped in a kind of tin foil. We used to buy sherbert to dip the lollies in.
Replied: 31st May 2006 at 14:55
Last edited by fozzy: 31st May 2006 at 15:24:29
Iremeber Aztec bars, my mums favourites, there is a shop in the mall at Bondi Junction call "a taste of home" that sells all sorts of swwets, chocolate and others, like custard powder, sauce, beans, Vimto cordial, chocy like, Topics, Double Deckers, Lion Bars, Frys, the list goes on. Give it a try Aussie Roy next time your in Sydney. I'm barred, spend to much when I go in....quarter of Riley's Toffe Rolls please"
Replied: 15th Sep 2006 at 01:04
I can sympathise Flockhound. We now have a Treats from Home shop in Melbourne and it has put a serious dent in my bank account. We also have the Old Time Lolly Store which sells a similar range of treats well. The Chocolate Box occasionally has Uncle Joes Mint Balls and David Jones sells Thornton's Fudge. Oh the temptation!!!!
Replied: 15th Sep 2006 at 01:37
It's been a long time between drinks on this thread,what motivated its resurrection? Anyway it's a good opportunity for me to ask the question again,what's a "germoline bubbly"?
Replied: 15th Sep 2006 at 07:50
Germoline bubblies were a wierd tasting bubble gum, and you got a transfer inside with a smiley happy face on it, going of the taste and tattoo that came with it, it was probably and experimental drug used on kids in the 80`s
Replied: 15th Sep 2006 at 08:48
Chewbaxter, replying from your earlier message, i do remember 'cabana bars'. They were cherry and coconut flavoured and i loved them. Germoline bubblies with the tattoo that everyone stuck on their tongues. I remember all the sweets mentioned on here.
Spangles,pink panther bars, wham bars, stardust.
No one has mentioned pacers, which were mint flavoured and im sure had green stripes on them.
The 'milk tray in a bar' keeps getting a mention. But wasn't that a 'Frys' product.Like a Frys bar but each piece had a different flavour in it?
I bet we were all hyperactive has children. All those colourings.No wonder i couldn't sleep at night.
Replied: 15th Sep 2006 at 09:13
Last edited by disco_diva: 15th Sep 2006 at 09:14:29
does anyone remember a choc bar called take 2 it was a bit like a twix but it never caught on so they stopped making it cant even remember who made it my husband thinks i'm making it up so would love to know if somebody else remembers it. also what happened to banjo's
Replied: 15th Sep 2006 at 13:50
Dont forget Dolly mixtures and Torpedoes, I used to eat mine then nick my sisters
Replied: 17th Oct 2006 at 22:42
mollie m...wernt those toffees called dew drops? Used to go to westheads on gidlow lane on my dinnertime from school always ennded up buying a 1/4 of broken sticks..they were the toffee cigs that were brokn..makes sense !!!.living in states our toffee crap..but I get visits from my family once a year and the staple toffees brought are REAL chcolate, aniseed balls/twists, fruit pastilles all the good teeth rotting stuff. Do remember a toffee but cant remember wot it was called..tatsed like winter nips a bit but it was softish and mostly sugar..help me out anyone?
Replied: 17th Oct 2006 at 23:30
I remember 'Nutty Bar' a roll of caramel covered in nuts, my favorite! but they didn't stay around for long. Also rainbow sherbert, (multi coloured sugar really), it was my crave when I was pregnant!
Replied: 17th Oct 2006 at 23:42
i remember pacers the green and white striped mint chews any1 remember the chocolate tools (saw hammer plyers etc)
Replied: 18th Oct 2006 at 08:10
Last edited by wiganer516: 18th Oct 2006 at 08:47:25
What about shoe laces,
chewing gum in a roll &
Daintys
Highland Toffee bars.(lost a filling with that once) I'm surprised I still have my own teeth!
Replied: 18th Oct 2006 at 11:00
When we were kids we used to buy all our sweets at "Westheads Toffee Shop " at the top of Gidlow lane, and it is still there today and still sells a lot of the old style sweets like cinder toffee and coldfoot rock.
Replied: 18th Oct 2006 at 21:56