Retro Sweets

Naos

Haven't had a look around this thread in a while and thus do not know if this has been posted before, but I've just heard something interesting on the radio:

"I want candy..."

This site has some retro sweets such as Fruit Salads, Golf Balls, Rainblo, Flying Saucers and Edible paper, and yes, they deliver

Ruu_Old

Loved those Flying Saucers.

Papillon87

Ooooh! LOVED those Double Lollies. Ya can only get crappy replicas in multipacks now Also was a fan of the Dip Dab (in its original red packet)...not that nasty one with the liquorice bit. Though the lolly did not last very long cos it was tiny! That site is cool

cjmcork

they don't do fizzle sticks.....

Fruit salads, unsugared cola bottles that you eat as if they were an actual bottle, Black jax, cough drops, the dynamite licquorice sherbet thing,
and these huge gobstopper turtle things that tasted sour.

Almost none of which are veggie

gerky

Moonbaby wrote:

Fruit salads, unsugared cola bottles that you eat as if they were an actual bottle, Black jax, cough drops, the dynamite licquorice sherbet thing,
and these huge gobstopper turtle things that tasted sour.

Almost none of which are veggie

If its any good to you aquarterof has a fairly big section of gelatin free retro sweets heres a link aquarterof

I feel like I'm six again and I want to try them all!

Thanks Gerky.

gerky

Moonbaby wrote: »

I feel like I'm six again and I want to try them all!

I think for the best value with delivery they recommend buying with a few people or buying in bulk instead of several small orders.

steveone

here's a back cover off a '77 mag...:D
anyone remember the ads that used to be in the comics back then...
the spy watch.... slim jims:D

tampopo

I was in Dublin's Meath street yesterday, don't ask me why and I popped into the Londis, don't ask me why, and I saw that they had Clove of Rock, bulls eyes, cough drops and those sweets that look like coloured pillows. You know the ones?

So I got the cough drops. Ah, lovely.

They're all in individual plastic bags. There used to be a 'quarter of' shop on Aungier street nearly opposite the Y. This was about 10 years ago, unfortunately....

TEDDYBEAR90

Anyone know the name of the sweets that had a free tattoo with them?

Ruu_Old

Chewing gum of some sort from what I remember, don't remember the name.

steveone

TEDDYBEAR90 wrote: »

Anyone know the name of the sweets that had a free tattoo with them?

superheroes

Jay P

I see loads of these aroud town still, quite regularly as well, and not in the one shop

flanum

F*ck Snickers, bring back Marathon:

Another site dedicated to 7o's sweets: http://www.escape-to-the-seventies.com/sweets/sweets.php


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Rockee

Sherbert Dips! or was it Dib dabs??

steveone

hey flanum thanks for that link, it brought back memories... i used to love texan bars... i had forgotten all about them

Mrs. MacGyver

Rockee wrote: »

Sherbert Dips! or was it Dib dabs??

It was dib dabs - we were eating them in our local last Sunday evening watching the Everton Game. Does anyone know if alphabeth sweets still exist? They were in a small box around 15cm square and the shopvan used to sell them in out terrace years ago - ive such a craving for them!

Lauragoesmad

flanum wrote: »

F*ck Snickers, bring back Marathon:

Another site dedicated to 7o's sweets: http://www.escape-to-the-seventies.com/sweets/sweets.php


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3p?????:eek:
Those were the days!!

Jimbo

flanum wrote: »

F*ck Snickers, bring back Marathon:

Another site dedicated to 7o's sweets: http://www.escape-to-the-seventies.com/sweets/sweets.php


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& with peanuts!!

rejkin

oh man i so want to get loads of those banana sweets and the milk bottles :):)

gerky

Mrs. MacGyver wrote: »

It was dib dabs - we were eating them in our local last Sunday evening watching the Everton Game. Does anyone know if alphabeth sweets still exist? They were in a small box around 15cm square and the shopvan used to sell them in out terrace years ago - ive such a craving for them!

Are these what your looking for alphabet sweets

gollyitsolly

Remember Summer Drinks,VoVos,Pink Panther bars, minty golf balls,liquorice shoelaces,(little pillows were satin cushions).

Donegal Lass

Postman Pat sweets...yummo!

intheknow

Anyone remember a chololate bar, I think they were called 2 and 2 or something like that ?

tc20

intheknow wrote: »

Anyone remember a chololate bar, I think they were called 2 and 2 or something like that ?

indeed and i do...

i have memories of my dad bringing home a bar of chocolate in the evenings when he came in from work as a treat, (we're talking mid 70s here) and one bar i remember is 2 by 2. IIRC however, it was actually three squares by three for some reason, had an inner foil wrap, and an outer paper wrap with vertical bars of dark brown, caramel, and light brown. Im sure there was red on the wrapper too, and that each square of the bar had a different flavoured filling.

Remember the good old 5p A-Team & tomato flavoured crisps, Club shandy & Chocolate cigarettes

Degsy

Womble bars..they had what appearde to be lumps of tarmac in them.Captain Crisps..he had pretty much the samer outfit as Judge Dredd at the time,you could send away for posters but they never came.Texan bars.."everybody knows a texan takes time for chewin'".Fat Frog and Thataway ice pops,Hairy Mollies,Bloody Jaspers lollys,Special Agent sweets..they came with some nonsensical code wrapped around each sweet but i could never figure out waht it was about,Mummies..horror-themed sweets,Poprocks and Moondust..probably poisonous and they popped in your mouth.

intheknow

tc20 wrote: »

indeed and i do...

i have memories of my dad bringing home a bar of chocolate in the evenings when he came in from work as a treat, (we're talking mid 70s here) and one bar i remember is 2 by 2. IIRC however, it was actually three squares by three for some reason, had an inner foil wrap, and an outer paper wrap with vertical bars of dark brown, caramel, and light brown. Im sure there was red on the wrapper too, and that each square of the bar had a different flavoured filling.

Yeah thats the one, I was also quite partial to Captain Spear chewy bars, Oh and Aztec bars too!!!

Shivers26

Would anybody have any idea who made the 2 and 2 bar? My friend is obsessed with them. Personally I think it sounds mank but I am a Cadburys girl

Ann22

Cleeves made Two and Two bars. They were lovely! They were out in the mid 70s then again for a time in the early to mid 80s. There was a drawing of a little leprechaun fishing on each square. The flat underside of the bar was milk chocolate and the opposite side where the squares were was dark. The inside of each square were two different fondants, beige and cream in colour. Mmmmmm! Cleeves then produced another range of bars with a similar shape and design except with a single flavour of fondant. Mint, orange and strawberry. Remember them?:)

Sophisticated6y

Chocolate cigarettes....those were the days

Ann22

Were those the ones that had paper round them like real ones but with some kind of dusty stuff that you could blow like smoke?

MrsMcSteamy

Donegal Lass wrote: »

Postman Pat sweets...yummo!

Ahhhh was just on bout these the other day, used to love them. :D:D

MrsMcSteamy

Sophisticated6y wrote: »

Chocolate cigarettes....those were the days

These were removed along with the candy sticks at the beginning of the year from all shops as officials felt that they helped to promote smoking amongst children :cool:

Ann22

Remember there were Superman sweet cigarettes, then there was a Superman anti smoking ad where he fights Nick-o-teen.

therewillbe

Gold dust, was it gum or miniture sweets ?
Lemon Drops by the quarter mmmmnnnnnnn

Passenger

MrsMcSteamy wrote: »

These were removed along with the candy sticks at the beginning of the year from all shops as officials felt that they helped to promote smoking amongst children :cool:

One can understand the chocolate cigarettes being taken away as the paper that covered them really looked like cigarettes but the white candy sticks you get in boxes?? Idiots.

Tchaikovsky

Hey, kids no longer want to smoke because of that banning :rolleyes:

humberklog

Texan Bar. The toughest chewiest substance ever created on the planet. Some rumoured it to have been created by NASA to hold on the heat tiles on the space shuttle.

DrivingMad

Oh......all the memories.
Now I really want a traffic light lolly pop. Used to be a red lolly with a green and amber centre, and all covered with chocolate... aarrrhhhh slurp!

kwalshe

TEDDYBEAR90 wrote: »

Anyone know the name of the sweets that had a free tattoo with them?

Where these called Bazooka Joe?

mud

my sis bought me a bag of Swizzels Matlow Refreshers sweets, chewy lemon rectangle with sherbet in the middle, I ate one and was immediately transported back to my youth, I'm now seriously rationing myself but they are just so addictive!

:pac:

Scawgeen

Does anybody remember Lucky Numbers sweets ? they were wrapped in gold paper with a cellophane outter wrapper with a different number on each sweet. Also 'Dainties' the poor man's Snowball, they were in squares loose not wrapped like the delicious Snowball.

corkhero

i wish they had apple jacks

dolliemix

Me

ladyella

mmmm dollie mixture... I love when I get these from a pick n mix stand but its sooooooooo disappointing when they're stale and hard:(

keepitsimple

Hi

How's about Peggy's Leg? Rock hard goodness. Definitely showing my age with this one.

After much searching I still can't get hold of them. Any ideas anyone?

Quarter pound of cloves & a Curly Wurly to the person who helps me find them.


All the best

geraardo

flanum wrote: »

F*ck Snickers, bring back Marathon:

Another site dedicated to 7o's sweets: http://www.escape-to-the-seventies.com/sweets/sweets.php


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Was it snickers in America and Marathon over here ?

Poutbutton

It was originally Marathon here too, then it changed to Snickers. There's a standing joke about a shop in my home town, it's still in existance, one of those shops that has a bit of everything in it including the people that own it, their house is half the building. Your entry rang a bell in their sitting room & in ran a random family member to serve you. The Granny was often to be seen in her nightie fetching herself a packet of fags in the mornings when we'd be on our way to school. Cigarette ash often constituted part of your purchase The stuff in the window was so long there it was all bleached from the sunlight and covered in dust. A health inspectors nightmare.
The commonly known fact in the area is that you can still get Marathons in this shop

My sweetie memory goes way back to the 70's when you could get this coin in foil and it was raspberry or cola flavoured, you went home and put it in a glass of water & it fizzed up into a drink, does anyone remember them? They were about 2p each. Great stuff altogether. I also remember the original Pop Rock {space dust} being sold on our road by this guy who was old enough to go into the Dandelion Markets on a Sunday. We'd all hang around all day & try to raise the funds, then queue up at his house that evening to get our fix, I think he charged 8p a pack, shocking expensive habit. Good Times.

Reg'stoy

I just loved these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s0iMw0F7cU

I'm surprised we all don't look like this with all the chocolate we ate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZCzKko03W4