childhood sweeties

footloose jen

wham bars and alien spacer crisps does anyone remember these??????

pcurls

roy of the rover bars all the way!! i can taste it while im typing!!

freddyf

There is a shop not too far from me in canary wharf that sells all them old sweets. I bought some white mice and fruit salads last week. White mice didnt seem like the ones i had as a kid but the fruit salads were exactly how i remember.

puddlestarter

Lazer bars!

Oh and battle of the planet bars.

Dancor

Dandy bars!!!!

steveone

sweet cigarettes and cigar chewing gum

messrs

Wham bars, Desperate Dan bars, macroons and mint crisps (10p ones)
drumsticks ( 5p lollies) gobstoppers, Viking crisps
eye popper chewing gums Frosties - cola flavour and fruit ones

RustySpoon

get your wham bars Here

fintonagirl

used to love sherbert dib dabs, aslo the one with the liqourice stcik but wouldn't tuouch them now..

still ove clove rock, rhubarb and custard, brandy balls etc yum!

xzanti

Who remembers Rubblegum?? Pure dirt, I loved it

Tangy bars, time bars, Smiley Bars (orange flavoured Chomps)... Can't think of any more right now, but they'll come to me...

Edit; those jellys that you bought indiviually in plastic moulds?? They were to die for, you had to peel back the plastic and pick out the jelly, soooo fruity and wobbly

WIZE

Were wham and Stinger bars the same thing.

I loved apple drops except when i left them in my pocket too long and they stuck together. Refresher lollypops rock too.

God im old (30)

carbsy

Kinder Eggs, Mr Freeze, Fizzy Cola Bottles, Fruit Salads, Eating Paper, Fizzy Dust (used to pop in yer mouth), Apple Drops, Pink/White Nougat Bars.Toffee Apples from a big truck on the Airport road in Cork on Sat morning around the late 70s, early 80s. lol

deadhead13

+1 for the fizzy cola bottles, although I prefered the non-fizzy kind. 1p each.:)

Sar21

Roy of the Rovers, Black n Red Bars, Dan Bars... Yum!

WIZE

don't forget half penny sweets ( 2 for a penny .) and 10p mixes

bullets

Regal Crown Sour Apple Drops.
Sold in a paper tube packet, individually wrapped in wax paper.
Dont think they are available or can be got from any retro sweet shops.
But they were the best tasting apple drops I've ever had.

http://greatbutforgotten.blogspot.com/2008/07/regal-crown-sours-candy.html
~B

Eviledna

Smiley bars!! Oh god I'd give my right arm to have some of that chewy orangy goodness right now!

ScribesQuill

freddyf wrote: »

There is a shop not too far from me in canary wharf that sells all them old sweets. I bought some white mice and fruit salads last week. White mice didnt seem like the ones i had as a kid but the fruit salads were exactly how i remember.

Where about is that shop? I'm in England myself!

I do just about remember half-penny sweets but they quickly became penny sweets I loved Black Jacks and Fruit Salads. Time bars were great but I was wary of them after I lost a milk tooth in one

Nanook32

Blue Rave Bars!! Omg, the sugary goodness!

Ghosties, Chicken Chomps, Fun Onions, Snaps oh the glory

Demonique

BVB wrote: »

Were wham and Stinger bars the same thing.

No, they're different. Stingers were green with pink sherbet inside, Wham were the pink ones with the sour sugary crystals in them.

And I've seen both for sale recently in Athlone IT's student union.

mental07

Mmm, I'd love a Fruit Salad bar right about now.

willy wonka

What a great thread!
The sad thing about all the penny sweet malarkey was when you went with your 50p - or £1 if you were really lucky - the shopkeeper might be really p-eed off with you or would count out the sweets him/herself and not give you the full amount.

I remember going to the cinema one time and asking the man what I would get for my moiney and he gave me all these lovely tasty things and was really kind and patient. That really made my day!

Does anyone remember the drinks you got in the cinema - they were fruity drinks in a plastic cup with a foil lid and you pierced it with a tiny red straw?

I loved the FizzWhizz stuff you put on your tongue and it would fizz - you could get a bubblegum version of this which was even better.

There was also that red liquorice stuff, flat and rolled up,
sweet necklaces - never liked the taste of the sweets but loved the necklace,
lipstick things that had a lipstick container but the "lipstick" was a sweet
pez which are still around
I loved all the fruit salad and black jacks and the apple flavoured ones. Black jacks made your mouth soooo black!

35notout

Barrets Milk Teeth (the dusted ones) ftw

Absolutley loved these and still dream of them....

Magnum

BVB wrote: »

don't forget half penny sweets ( 2 for a penny .) and 10p mixes

I thought i was the only one that remembered them

RonMexico

The local has pretty much every sweet named in this thread.

Elle Victorine

http://www.bagofsweets.com/

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/



just look at them both. I spent a good portion of a week picking things I wanted to buy. However does anyone remember dweebs?!?!?

0999

Does anyone remember fizzel sticks?? Think thats the correct spelling? Gave up searching for them years ago.

Chora

DWEEBS!!! Sold in the boxes, all diff colours, illuminous... There was also a really mank alternative NERDS!!

Also Push Pops... Are they still around?!

One thing I always hated but seemed popular, Black Jacks!! Ew! "Is my tongue black yet?"

Lana80

Heman bars,yum

Iggy Pop

0999 wrote: »

Does anyone remember fizzel sticks?? Think thats the correct spelling? Gave up searching for them years ago.

I remember them well. I don't know why I used to buy them as they were God awful yokes. I ate about 20 of them one time and puked them all back up 5 minutes later.
I used to love the Trebor fruit salads though. 10 for a penny:D.
Used to drive the b1tch at the newsagent mad when a gang of us would go in and each order 10 pence worth.:p

dungeon

I remember the sweet cigarettes but after that, I must be either much older or younger than I thought!!

footloose jen

carbsy wrote: »

Kinder Eggs, Mr Freeze, Fizzy Cola Bottles, Fruit Salads, Eating Paper, Fizzy Dust (used to pop in yer mouth), Apple Drops, Pink/White Nougat Bars.Toffee Apples from a big truck on the Airport road in Cork on Sat morning around the late 70s, early 80s. lol

god!! ive just remembered the toffee apples now, loved them and someone mentioned the smiley bars loved them too:D

Ann22

Does anyone remember those little boxes of alpabet sweets? Just remembered them recently. I remember Fizzle sticks too...mmmm! The earliest sweet I can remember are Peggy's legs and these little bags of sherbet that were red and had a pic of a little old lady on the packet. I remember being carried up to bed on a sunny evening. My mam brought me up a bag of this sherbert. I sucked the toffee lolly away then dipped my dummy in the fizz. My sister came up to bed and threw a tantrum 'cos I'd fizz and she hadn't:o. That would've been about '74..

Shan75

Anybody remember Minty Nibblers? I remember when I was about 5(1980) these bars were 4p.I only had them a few times and then they disappeared.

Also nobody I know remembers 10:30 chocolate bars.These were out in the early 80's for a very short period and they disappeared.

murf313

I just bought a **** load of sweets off bagofsweets.com!
Any one remember the white chocolate fish and chips?

footloose jen

murf313 wrote: »

I just bought a **** load of sweets off bagofsweets.com!
Any one remember the white chocolate fish and chips?

yep was just talking about them the other day:D but i didnt really like them i thought there was a weird smell off them would you remember the white marshmellow type fish with a powdery stuff on them i think the name if them was flipper ????

Flowertot

35notout wrote: »

Barrets Milk Teeth (the dusted ones) ftw

Absolutley loved these and still dream of them....

God i'd love some of those now.
postman pat sweets were a close second

murf313

footloose jen wrote: »

yep was just talking about them the other day:D but i didnt really like them i thought there was a weird smell off them would you remember the white marshmellow type fish with a powdery stuff on them i think the name if them was flipper ????

I just hope they taste the same as they used to!! No but I remember blue jelly dolphins???

footloose jen

ive just had vanilla ice cream in a glass with cream soda poured in on top yummmmmm, does anyone remember doing this as a kid:D

bombilla

Postman pats, Apple Jacks, Eye Poppers, Mr. Freeze and if your pushing the boat out a delicious Mario ice cream. HOM!
oh and Woppa bars.
Tucking into it all whilst watching the big red bus quiz on the den,..........ROLL THE DICE...........STOP.

hamstercrusher

There is a shop in Crumlin round the corner from the hospital that sells loads of these sweets. Had my 31st there a month or two ago and all the sweets were stuff like candy cigarettes, dib dabs, Desperate Dan Bars, roy of the rovers bars etc. Everyone was wary of the Wham bars, scared we were gona pll our teeth out. They even do a range of penny sweets, even Golfball and Rainblo chewing gum!!! Its retro heaven, try and space out my visits as I can feel my teeth becoming looser even thinking about some of them

*giggles*

RustySpoon wrote: »

get your wham bars Here

I just spent half an hour on this, oh the nostalgia. Brings me back....... I'd love a Chuppa chup right now, cherry flavour:)

Owen

Don't forget rubblegum, and my personal favourite, toffee logs. I was three when they were out which would have been around 1981, but I remember they were 1/2p

Aglomerado

What about the Count Duckula-themed Wham bar-type thingies?

Suckula they were called if I recall correctly.
Yum

messrs

used to love the whoppa bars, 5p each - mint and cola! 5p drumstick lollies, rolls of frosties, chocolate mice, viking crisps, penny gobstoppers, smileys, fizzy orange bottles (although i used to call them orange cola bottles!!)

Degsy

10p ice-pops..Olympic Cola and Captain Dread(which had a seriously scary label),JR's,Thataways(in the shape of a finger),Draculas(with red inside) and Funny Frogs to name but a few.
There were also these cylindrical shaped ice pops that were deep red,almost purple and were also available in orange and white(pear flavoured yeeuch).

messrs

omg!!!! sparklers! o i used to love them so much ooh that brings back memories used to love the 10p snaps, though you can still get them now, and burger bites.

briany

There used used to be this strawberry flavoured ice cream in the early 90's that came in little tubs with a spoon. Used to call it strawberry mousse but I don't know if that was right but it was like ambrosia at the time to me.

Big Tone

I remember most of the sweets mentioned here, anyone remember the Dracula ice lolls, black on the outside and red on the inside. Getting sticks of chewing gum in the packets of collectable cards like Land Of The Giants or those soccer cards. Dime bars and Highland Toffee bars. Edible cigarettes which you prentended to smoke before eating (they started us on the habit young back then!). Gobstoppers with chewing gum in the middle. Fizzle Sticks and Lemon sherbit with the black liquorice, there was another packet of sherbit divided into three but the name escapes me now.

Ye'll all get a laugh off this....enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEwVpWFyy3M

Ann22

Big Tone wrote: »

I remember most of the sweets mentioned here, anyone remember the Dracula ice lolls, black on the outside and red on the inside. Getting sticks of chewing gum in the packets of collectable cards like Land Of The Giants or those soccer cards. Dime bars and Highland Toffee bars. Edible cigarettes which you prentended to smoke before eating (they started us on the habit young back then!). Gobstoppers with chewing gum in the middle. Fizzle Sticks and Lemon sherbit with the black liquorice, there was another packet of sherbit divided into three but the name escapes me now.

I do remember Dracula ice pops, I imagined they were white and red in the middle. I used to love them. I remember these white ice pops with a picture of a snowman on the front too...can't think of the name. Also Ricki Raspers (raspberry flavoured ones) and the orange Captain Quenchers, Little Angels(pear flavoured tubular ones with a little bit of chocolate on the top) and Little devils(strawberry tubular ones...maybe it was them that had the choc on top).
Jaw Breakers, fizz bombs(or money balls)..some had a 2p in. I loved Fizzle Sticks especially when they were a bit soft. The fizz bags you're thinking of aren't 'Dib Dabs' by any chance?
I remember candy cigarettes courtesy of Superman but I also remember another type of cigarette that may have been sticks of bubblegum wrapped in some kind of paper covered in icing sugar or flour..whatever it was, it gave the illusion of smoke when you blew.

murf313

the white ice lollies with the snowman on them was called "mr frosty" (i think you can still get them in the north?)