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?

Spangles........... :y

black jacks, fruit salads. yummy.  :y

just remembered a choc bar i loved,and they brought it back....a wispa bar. yum yum! :y

Sherbert Dips
Pear Drops
Spangles
Curly Whirly
Mint Imperials
Black Joes

No wonder I now wear dentures! ;D ;D ;D ;D

Try here http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/?gclid=CI-jw8a06JoCFUsI3wodZUB9BQ you can find most things on the site  :y

Acid drops are the ones I used to like. they curled your toe nails up.

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.

Mantahatch wrote on 01. Jun 2009 at 09:55:

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

Plomien wrote on 01. Jun 2009 at 07:09:

Try here http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/?gclid=CI-jw8a06JoCFUsI3wodZUB9BQ you can find most things on the site  :y

No Spangles though....... :( :(

Army and Navies :y
Brandy Balls :y
Clove Rock :y
Cherry Lips :-/
Reillys Chocolate Toffee Rolls :y :y
Cowans Toffee Pennies :-/

Milk bottles
Aniseed balls
Football crazy crisps
Chocolate tools
Fish & Chip chocolate

They'll flood in, in a minute

Del Boy wrote on 01. Jun 2009 at 21:34:

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

Space dust thats another  :y
Liquorice Pipes

Aniseed balls were lovely.

Kola cubes
Sweet peanuts
Mojo's

what about rileys toffee rolls  aint seen them for a long time :P

...and the sweetie cigarettes with the red tip

flying saucers.....the liquorice curled around to resemble a wheel.......

miggcddave wrote on 01. Jun 2009 at 21:41:

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

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  ::)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je1rOO_QUvk

Nutty Bar............??

Anyone remember them???

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

:y

cam2502 wrote on 01. Jun 2009 at 00:39:

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

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

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

largecol wrote on 02. Jun 2009 at 10:59:

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? :-/ :-/

Tommy wrote on 02. Jun 2009 at 06:27:

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

wrote on 02. Jun 2009 at 11:09:

largecol wrote on 02. Jun 2009 at 10:59: 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

lion bars.

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

largecol wrote on 02. Jun 2009 at 11:22:

wrote on 02. Jun 2009 at 11:09: largecol wrote on 02. Jun 2009 at 10:59: 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

wrote on 02. Jun 2009 at 13:06:

largecol wrote on 02. Jun 2009 at 11:22: wrote on 02. Jun 2009 at 11:09: largecol wrote on 02. Jun 2009 at 10:59: 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.  :'( :'(

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 ;)

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!!!!!!!

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!!!!!!!!!

Sweet peanuts , and a toffee flavoured trianglular bag shaped sweet not sure of its name , looked like a 3 d pyramid , aoyone remember them ?

Dolly Mixtures, doesn't cost you much to hand them round :D

lions midget gems :y

raywilb wrote on 03. Jun 2009 at 20:38:

lions midget gems :y

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...... :'(