Delicious Mint Bars

Mikosyko

I dunno if anyone can remember these, they were toffee like bars of pure spearmint. I havn't tasted these for years but they were my favourite bars as a kid.:) They were light blue in colour!


Does anyone know what i mean, and if so are they still available?

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Tangy Bar?

smemon

ah yeah i remember them..

can't think of the name.. light blue chewy things with a minty taste..

one of the cheap ass 10/15/20p bars like refreshers and chomps i think..

Ruu_Old

Yep, same prices as the chomps, roy of the rovers bars, etc. I can't remember the name of them though.

smemon

stinger bars or whoppa bars? one of them?

Ruu_Old

Ah I think you're right. Whoppas came in 'Kola flavour' (red wrapper) and they had spearmint as well. Stingers were green with pink powder stuff inside but more of a fruity flavour.

Mikosyko

Yeah you've got the right idea! Jayzuz they were lovely!

Mikosyko

Are they still available?

Reku

I miss Smileys... sob sob...
Remember Whoppas too... where'd they all go...:(

Dun laoire

Mikosyko

While we're on the subject of sweets, what ever happened to Lucky Bags?


......Or Drum Sticks......

Ruu_Old

I think you can get some of those online, link here.

legs11

gollly, them bars would never make the shelf now, with enough e numbers to kill .....!

in the 80s they could put whatever they liked into food stuff, now its far more controlled.

It BeeMee

I used to love Peppermint Patties. Anyone remember them?

Someone gave me a piece of a Fry's bar at the weekend, long time since I tasted one of them....

Reku

legs11 wrote:

gollly, them bars would never make the shelf now, with enough e numbers to kill .....!

in the 80s they could put whatever they liked into food stuff, now its far more controlled.

I want my blue Smarties!!!:mad:
What does it say about the world when you can buy cigarettes but things with E number chemicals which MIGHT has side affects are withdrawn from the market.:(

Dun laoire

Anybody remember Big time, Honeybee, Klipso and of course the good auld caffreys macaroon bar. I still think the macaroon is available

Vegeta

remember desperate dan bars. they were orange with black bits in them. Oh all the sugar

Mikosyko

Vegeta wrote:

remember desperate dan bars. they were orange with black bits in them. Oh all the sugar

Sure it did nothing on ya!

big b

Anyone remember the mars-bar shaped mint chocolate bars from years ago?
Had a weird name - maybe Aztec or something?- green wrapper, same size & texture as a Mars but they were minty.
Don't think they stayed on the market any more than a couple of years, but I really liked them.

edit- found Aztec bars on the web, it wasn't them. They were good too though!

Mikosyko

We should start a petition to get our favourite sweeties back on the shelves!

Reku

Mikosyko wrote:

We should start a petition to get our favourite sweeties back on the shelves!

The kiddies today don't know what they're missing... damned parents with their E-number scaremongering, trying to blame those for their kids' behaviour rather than be real parents.:mad:

Bex81

Does anyone remeber the 5p packets of crisps you could get about 15 years ago or more (not feelin old at all....)? The bags were about 1/2 the size but were jam-packed with cheap corn-snack type crisps. I loved them....:)

mickrourke

Bex81 wrote:

Does anyone remeber the 5p packets of crisps you could get about 15 years ago or more (not feelin old at all....)? The bags were about 1/2 the size but were jam-packed with cheap corn-snack type crisps. I loved them....:)

Chickadees, Alien Spacers (though they were a bit pricier)
they still sell chickadees only much pricier nowadays

Roche

Whoppa's - either a red colour or a green toothpaste type. About 5 pence back in the day - muck..

mickrourke

Roche wrote:

Whoppa's - either a red colour or a green toothpaste type. About 5 pence back in the day - muck..

there you go, thats the answer!!!! Whoppa spearmint bar, very nice indeed, i think.

steveone

golf ball chewing gums??
and suoerheroes with the tatoo.. now yer talking sweets:D

remember this song..."catch it if you can on the outside its chocolate and underneath the chocolate its..crispy"!!

Mikosyko

steveone wrote:

golf ball chewing gums??
and suoerheroes with the tatoo.. now yer talking sweets:D

remember this song..."catch it if you can on the outside its chocolate and underneath the chocolate its..crispy"!!

Catch Bars!

mvah

Not Captain Spearmint bars? Does anyone remember TRUFFLE bars.Divine!!!

Firetrap

Anyone remember a bar Cadbury's used to do in the early 90s. It was about the same size/shape as a moro but came in a gold wrapper and was stringy chocolate around a chocolatey mousse centre. It's annoying me I can't remember the name of it.

Pigletlover

Firetrap wrote:

Anyone remember a bar Cadbury's used to do in the early 90s. It was about the same size/shape as a moro but came in a gold wrapper and was stringy chocolate around a chocolatey mousse centre. It's annoying me I can't remember the name of it.

I remember them, they were gorgeous. It's going to drive me mad now trying to remember what they were called.

Edit: Were they called Secret bars?

Pigletlover

Just googled secret bars and I came up with this. According to that link it was actually nestle that made them, couldn't remember myself tbh.

Firetrap

Thank you! No wonder I couldn't find anything online about them - I'd the wrong chocolate company :rolleyes: It's an awful shame they stopped making them. They were very very nice indeed.

SureThisIsIt

I lost a couple of teeth to Wham bars. Only baby ones though! The Pound Shop on Talbot St. still sell most of those 80s sweets. Check it out.

doc1234

Oh used to love Captain Spearmint Bars, and Winger Bars (remember the pink ones). Does anyone remember Two and Two Bars, they were made by HB Chocolate, they were chocolate squares with fudge flavoured cream in the middle - delicious! And the other choc bars i think animal bars that had 5 squares and each had a different flavoured fondant in the middle, orange, lime, strawberry, coconut and fudge - Yum!!

Skerries

no one remembers these but i used to buy about 4 or 5 them when the ice cream man used to come around our way on a Friday
Battle of the Planets bars - they were small thin taffee type bars in different flavours such as strawberry and grape and were still on sale years after BotP went off the air and cost 5p

WindSock

I remember Battle of the Planet bars. I used to love them! The wrapper was made out of paper too, if I recall correctly. Gargoyle bars, now they seem fairly rare. They were like Dan Bars only green.