Sweets that just weren't nice.

Archeron · 19-12-2006 11:29am #1

Was remembering some of the sweets from yesteryear, and my memory is filled with many of them that just simply werent nice, for a multitude of different reasons.

Chalk letters. These things used to come in a little square box, and I think everybody used to buy them just so they could write "poo" out of sweets. I reckon they were made of ear wax and chalk dust.

Time bars. I lost at least 5 teeth to these beasts. They were nice, but they were dangerous.

Desperate dan bars. What the heck were those little lumps of coal in the middle of them? It was like eating burnt glass.

Aluminium balls. remember these things? Little silver balls that you buy a handful for about a penny. I think they were banned after somebody copped on that they were actually made of aluminium and that that might not be good for you.

Eating paper. Why did anybody want to eat paper and pay for the privilege?

Lucky lollies. These things tasted awful, but I think everybody bought them because if you got a number 5 in your wrapper, you won......yes, another lolly. (This explains my Lotto addiction)

Gobstoppers. Many the times I seen people try to suck gobstoppers that were bigger than their own head. Usually, they were so adamant to finish it that they wouldnt be able to speak again for nearly a year.

Why in the name of all thats holy did we eat this rubbish? I suppose for me, when I was a kiddie, chocolate bars (proper ones like Mars and Marathon and so on) were always out of my price range, so you just spent you 20p on an assortment of rubbish like that above. You have any that you remember that you now wonder why you bothered?

mickith · 19-12-2006 11:40am

Why in the name of all thats holy did we eat this rubbish? I suppose for me, when I was a kiddie, chocolate bars (proper ones like Mars and Marathon and so on) were always out of my price range

thats exactly it. you could buy so much stuff with yuor 20p

Desperate dan bars. What the heck were those little lumps of coal in the middle of them? It was like eating burnt glass.

i would have to disagree with you there. they were the best ever. that and the likes of wham bars and cola bars where you would chew for hours.

also do ye remember the chewing gum that was around. you had wrigleys spermint, gold balls and the little pack of pebbles that you could get brilliant!

c - 13 · 19-12-2006 11:41am

Chalk like ciggerates - Same as the chalk letters

Chocolate ciggerates - Not only looked like sh!t, they tasted like it too.

Touchdown bars - I thought you said there was supposed to be chocolate in the centre ? Where the **** is it then ? This is just two big bloody wafers.

Sparkles/Sparklers ice lollys - Watered to hell ice lolly

Golfballs chewing gum - Horrible, tasted like mint flavoured wallpaper. Flavour lasted all of two seconds.

Rainblo(w) chewing gum - See above

Rainbow Drops - Colored rice, dry as a nuns gee and about as nasty.

Some unknown jellys, they were small, red, cost got about 5 for 1p, and tasted spicy ? Spicy jellys WTF like ?

Reason for eating this crap, more for your money, even if they did taste like ass.

Also desperate dan bars were and still are, lurvely .... but sooo bad for your teeth.

r3nu4l · 19-12-2006 11:50am

Stinger bars/wham bars/desperate dan bars...all poison from the same tree really

Time bars, I really liked but yes, I too lost milk teeth to them.

I actually really liked the taste of chalk letters.

What about those girlie bracelet/necklace sweet things? You know, different coloured beads of chalk or chalk like sugar substance

They were my guilty pleasure but as a boy you couldn't be seen buying or eating them...unless you had robbed them from a girl

Chocolate cigarettes...now they really did taste awful :puke:

EDIT: oops, I meant BIG Time bars.

Jimoslimos · 19-12-2006 12:11pm

Parma violets....ugggghhhh!

Nalz · 19-12-2006 12:12pm

lycris - plain and simple. Disgusting

delly · 19-12-2006 12:13pm

If you had a loose tooth a Wham bar would finish the job for you.

missgiggles · 19-12-2006 12:23pm

I didn't like "flying saucers" the wafer things with fizz in them.

Wasn't a big fan of sweet cigarettes or those edable watches/necklaces

niall mc · 19-12-2006 12:35pm

does anyone know if the paper on the chocolate cigarettes is edible?
Many a schoolyard debate on that.

We always just ate it in the end coz it was too much effort to peel off and it tasted better than the chocolate!

Kojak · 19-12-2006 2:42pm

I used to hate those Licerous (sp?) sweets. And those Turkish Delights

Kolodny · 19-12-2006 2:47pm

'Chocolate flavour' mice. Whatever they were made out of, it wasn't anyhting like real chocolate and it was disgusting. Same goes for those buttons with tiny coloured bits (hundreds and thousands?) on them. And anything at all made out of liquorice - does anyone actually like the taste of it?

19-12-2006 2:50pm

I never really liked Roy of the Rovers bars, were just too bitter for my liking. Still didn't stop me buying loads of them...

smallpaws · 19-12-2006 3:28pm

Turkish Delight=sugar-sweetened vomit. In gel form.

o1s1n · 19-12-2006 3:35pm

It really is not a good sign when you realize you've eaten absolutely everything on this list and more. What the hell. Where were my parents? No wonder i have dodgy insides! :eek:

emeraldstar · 19-12-2006 10:15pm

can someone remind me what Time bars were? The name sounds familiar but I can't picture them...

byte · 19-12-2006 10:24pm

smallpaws wrote:

Turkish Delight=sugar-sweetened vomit. In gel form.

God they were rotten! Licquurice is another sweet I can't stomach.

Dunno if these can be classed as sweets, but Victory V's were absolutely dire.

Ruu_Old · 19-12-2006 11:05pm

smallpaws wrote:

Turkish Delight=sugar-sweetened vomit. In gel form.

Yep hated it meself, my brother couldn't get enough of it though..eughhhhh. Time bars were like a flake+cadburys wafer combo.

Faith · 19-12-2006 11:17pm

I saw Time bars in my local shop in Edinburgh last week, so they're still around. They weren't the best, but they weren't too offensive!

Desperate Dans were LOVELY!

Turkish Delights are gross. I agree with most of what's been said, but can't think of my own contributions!

colm_mcm · 20-12-2006 12:30am

any variation on twix or kit-kat is guarunteed to be rank!

r3nu4l · 20-12-2006 9:57am

emeraldstar wrote:

can someone remind me what Time bars were? The name sounds familiar but I can't picture them...

Oops, just to clarify, I meant 'Big Time' bars. These were rectangular bars of hard toffee with a thin chocolate covering. They came in a yellow wrapper with a black stencil of the face of Big Ben (or similar type clock) on the wrapper. They were quite cheap.

You had to suck on them for ages to soften the toffee then stick your teeth in and tear a chunk out so you could chew it...inevitibly I lost some loose front teeth and one or two back teeth to them when I was a kid

Mexicola · 20-12-2006 10:19am

Candy fags were mank. Also those violet things - even though I had forgotten about them I the name has rekindled some horrid memories of the vile things. I have to say Wham bars were ok apart from the tooth removal bit.

Slightly OT but the blue Mr.Freeze (tropical flavour I think) was like sucking a wad of frozen washing up liquid.

Great thread! Ah the memories....

xzanti · 20-12-2006 4:17pm

Clove drops

or those annaseed (sp) balls.. Yuk

Archeron · 20-12-2006 4:34pm

Zubes. I know technically they werent sweets, but since they were hard boiled and came in a tin, I still always stole them on my mum. And regretted it everytime.

Clove drops, gaaargh, just remembed them. They used to make my throat seize up.

Kwekubo · 21-12-2006 3:27pm

c - 13 wrote:

Also desperate dan bars were and still are, lurvely .... but sooo bad for your teeth.

Apparently they stopped making them this year, along with Roy of the Rovers bars... can't say it's a big shame though...

LivingDeadGirl · 21-12-2006 9:57pm

Desperate Dan bars, gross!

And what about Penguins? Talk about sh*tty quality chocolate!!

Pighead · 21-12-2006 10:03pm

Panky Bars ruined Pigheads childhood, I used to eat them in the toilets at school because they were a cheap bar from Dunnes or Crazy Prices and the rich kids would laugh and ridicule me. Sad Times.

PS LivingDeadGirl: Is that a Suede reference? If it is then you rock! If its not then Happy Christmas.

Ruu_Old · 22-12-2006 8:20pm

Big Bars (came in white and milk chocolate) were teh mank also, the chocolate tasted awful and just got stuck into the roof of your mouth for ages! I suppose you can't expect much for 5p and they were tiny.

Mantel · 23-12-2006 8:27am

smallpaws wrote:

Turkish Delight=sugar-sweetened vomit. In gel form.

Nah, it tastes like baby poo.

Those candy ciggies... wow, the second wrost chocolate I've ever tasted, they're nearly as bad as hersy's kisses. I usually got rid of them somehow without eating them.

TerrorFirmer · 23-12-2006 8:23pm

Jimoslimos wrote:

Parma violets....ugggghhhh!

You can still get those in those cheap fun packs. They were so horrific - they tasted like the smell of perfume, if that makes sense. Can't imagine how anybody could like them, but that's what I think about Turkish as well so...

Blackjack · 23-12-2006 8:38pm

those Candy watch things were Mank. I've seen these recently as well. How they're still being made I'll never know.

Peggys Leg was another horrible lump of junk.

Faith · 23-12-2006 8:49pm

Jimoslimos wrote:

Parma violets....ugggghhhh!

What exactly are these? My friends were talking about them recently, but I can't think of them.

Creamy Goodness · 23-12-2006 9:01pm

missgiggles wrote:

I didn't like "flying saucers" the wafer things with fizz in them.

Wasn't a big fan of sweet cigarettes or those edable watches/necklaces

had flying saucers there about 2 weeks ago, the wafer is nice but the sherbet is terrible as it's more times than not gone off and all hard.

them necklaces/watches were great catapults though, you'd bite off half of the sweet and use the elastic as a slingshot.

anyone speaking bad words about desparate dans/roy of the rovers/wham bars need to rethink their childhoods.

have to say i absolutely hated turkish delight and to this day still do, it's not so much the taste that puts me off but it's the texture of the turkish combined with chocolate that just makes me shudder anytime anyone is eating one.

JC 2K3 · 23-12-2006 9:07pm

What were those cylindrical, red tubes with white sweet stuff in the middle? the white stuff was ok, but the red exterior was like eating plastic...

Firetrap · 23-12-2006 11:54pm

Kalipso Bars. I'm not sure I've spelled it properly but the toffee in them was so hard I broke a grown up tooth. Those and Macaroon Bars (equally ugh) came out of the same factory. They used to come in a papery wrapper and cost about 10p.

Also, some of those penny chews were very dodgy - fruit salads (now there's a misnomer if there was ever one), Postman Pats etc.

At a time when getting more bang for your buck was a big thing, the 5p Big Bar was a right thing to get. Such a shame the chocolate tasted like radioactive cooking chocolate

Firetrap · 23-12-2006 11:58pm

JC 2K3 wrote:

What were those cylindrical, red tubes with white sweet stuff in the middle? the white stuff was ok, but the red exterior was like eating plastic...

I ate something like that last week actually. Can't remember the exact name for them but bought them in a Julian Graves shop for some reason. The tubes were a rubbery strawberry flavour and the filling was suspiciously like sugar. I think the wrapper described the filling as being "crystals"

Capt'n Midnight · 24-12-2006 12:08am

Archeron wrote:

Time bars. I lost at least 5 teeth to these beasts. They were nice, but they were dangerous.

amen.
if the bar was cold you had to hit it against something to break it and hope it shattered in to smaller pieces, but if it got too warm it was worse than stretch Armstrong , you'd try to bite a piece off and pull with both hands, feel your teeth starting to give while the bar just got longer.

those pink/purple sweets with the coins in them, horrible but you bought them in case you got 5p in one

Double Centres - I really hate them so many obnoxious combinations, I don't think there was a single one I liked :mad:

Ruu_Old · 24-12-2006 12:10am

I almost forgot the foul tasting Caramac bars, Nestle made them, "caramel tasting" indeed. *pukes*

Killaqueen!!! · 24-12-2006 12:17am

Yis act like these sweets were posionous and from about 20 years ago! Most of these sweets are still available I think and I used to love them when I was a kid! The amount of Dan/Wham/Cola bars I could get for a pound (or euro) - those chewy bars were the best! And I remeber me thinking I was the sh1t with my candy sticks - pretending I was smoking. Mind you I didn't like the chocolate (if you can call it that) smokes...were you supposed to eat the paper surrounding the 'chocolate'? I did...not nice. Actually, I think they've banned these with the new smoking laws an such.

Tar.Aldarion · 24-12-2006 12:24am

Ruu wrote:

I almost forgot the foul tasting Caramac bars, Nestle made them, "caramel tasting" indeed. *pukes*

They suck!

Most things on this thread are lvely.

JC 2K3 · 24-12-2006 12:26am

I remember being young and thinking I must have some sort of intellectual advantage over my classmates who were eating what was blatantly ordinary paper covering chocolate cigarettes. You couldn't eat it, it was paper. Edible paper dissolves on your tongue, that paper didn't, you couldn't even chew it properly.

Piste · 27-12-2006 1:12am

Kolodny wrote:

'Chocolate flavour' mice. Whatever they were made out of, it wasn't anyhting like real chocolate and it was disgusting. Same goes for those buttons with tiny coloured bits (hundreds and thousands?) on them. And anything at all made out of liquorice - does anyone actually like the taste of it?

I LOVE Liquorice! Probably explains why I like absinthe so much

Those ice pops that were just frozen milk were nasty, really horrible stuff.

Firetrap · 27-12-2006 8:01pm

Oh yeah, those milky ice pops were vile. Didn't like the unfortunately named Chilly Willies either - the sticks were splintery and the ice pop itself was watery. Actually, anything that came from Leadmore or Silver Pail dairies was gank.

dSTAR · 28-12-2006 10:43am

The ones that always made me gag were fizzle sticks especially if they were eaten while slurping on cheap cola from the supermarket.

I can feel my tummy burbling as I type...

JimmNeutron · 28-12-2006 2:26pm

TURKISH DELIGHT full stop. Who buys this stuff??
This and caramello wreck the dairy milk name. I dont understand why cadburys would sell this muck and stop sellin things that were nice like the wispa and top deck!!!
It just doesnt make sense

emeraldstar · 28-12-2006 7:06pm

ugh yeah caramellos are disgusting

Creamy Goodness · 28-12-2006 11:52pm

no way, caramellos are so nice, admittedly they are no dairy milk whole nut but they are nice all the same.

Tar.Aldarion · 28-12-2006 11:54pm

They are lovely, so are turkish delights.
And those fizzy spaceships, yum.

brian076 · 28-12-2006 11:59pm

missgiggles wrote:

I didn't like "flying saucers" the wafer things with fizz in them.

Wasn't a big fan of sweet cigarettes or those edable watches/necklaces

Did you know that the company who made those flying saucers also supplied host for holy communion to the church, same recipe. Think they were Belgium.

dSTAR · 29-12-2006 3:39am

brian076 wrote:

Did you know that the company who made those flying saucers also supplied host for holy communion to the church, same recipe. Think they were Belgium.

Holy crap!

No wonder there are so many messed up adults around the place. They were probably putting in some hallucinogenic drug that made people see moving statues or UFO's.

Tar.Aldarion · 29-12-2006 3:48am

brian076 wrote:

Did you know that the company who made those flying saucers also supplied host for holy communion to the church, same recipe. Think they were Belgium.

That's a great first post.

Capt'n Midnight · 29-12-2006 1:56pm

JimmNeutron wrote:

TURKISH DELIGHT full stop. Who buys this stuff??
This and caramello wreck the dairy milk name. I dont understand why cadburys would sell this muck and stop sellin things that were nice like the wispa and top deck!!!
It just doesn't make sense

did ya ever try the Turkish delight without chocolate - it's like eating perfume

never got the hang of loop the loops the chocolate on them was yukkie

Sweets that just weren't nice.

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