Retro Sweets

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

puntosporting

Bring back fizzel sticks and superman chewing gum!

Podge2k7

Ruu wrote: »

Loved those Flying Saucers.

+1

MoodeRator

Ok I wanna kick this one back to life and ask anyone out there, what the feck ever happened to the Cabana Bar? And why is it not back on the shelves?

zilog_jones

Not sure if this was mentioned before, but there's an Irish online sweet shop too: www.slipsweetshop.com

sqlpod

Sticky Toffee,,,nuff said.

dazzyash

You should check out Mr Treats Sweets in Temple bar, they have loads of old fashioned and retro sweets, just like the old sweet shops from our childhoods, you have to check it out :-)

dnme

Chocolate Mice anyone?

xzanti

A tenpennny bag

ghost_ie

Last Christmas in Past Times they were selling sugared mice - and I'll date myself by saying I haven't seen these since the 50's/early 60's.

They were every bit as good as I remembered

boomchicawawa

I remember them, pink and sugery...do you remember lucky lumps, really hard with pink suger coating and the lucky bit was that there might be an old penny in it,...:eek: in your face health and safety brigade !!!! I remember getting a penny in mine, the pennys were nearly the size of the lump, no wrapping on them and you could have easily broken your teeth on the hidden prize...ah the good old days :rolleyes: