Your favorite classic sweets

Professey Chin

Ok we all remember the days before regulations on additives ruled out all the tasty tasty poisons we used to ingest but what were the ones that always took your money.
Chocolate cigarettes? Candy sticks? Golf Balls?

For me it was always the sour bubble gums. Eye Poppers and Witches Brew stole many a pocket money from me...And probably half my teeth.

Ruu

Refreshers, Hi-Sours, Desperate Dan Bars (with the black pieces inside, friends said they were cancerous ), Roy of the Rover bars, Stinger bars, Chomp, Touch-down, Frosties. Loads more.

Professey Chin

Hi-Sours were the devil. I remember having competitions to see who could fit the most in their mouth at once. (14 I think)

SEPT 23 1989

Time Bars

Ruu

The Dark Lord Cthulhu wrote: »

Hi-Sours were the devil. I remember having competitions to see who could fit the most in their mouth at once. (14 I think)

Yes, they had apple or lemon flavours from what I called. Many used to run them under the tap before even eating them! I was a big fan, loved sour tasting sweets, still do.

Professey Chin

Ruubot2 wrote: »

Yes, they had apple or lemon flavours from what I called. Many used to run them under the tap before even eating them! I was a big fan, loved sour tasting sweets, still do.

Well that's just cheating

I think sour sweets need a revival. Bring back the golden age of hi sours and eye poppers where everything else had sour versions too like chewits and nerds.

Oh and bring back bubble kings. They were great

vektarman

Aztec bars..Mmmm

Samphire

Nancy balls (Aniseed balls)- 8 for one old penny!

An Riabhach

Fruit Salads,Fizz Bombs,Cola Bottles,Pear Drops.....

Nino Brown

Postman Pats, Blackjacks, Macaroons, Taz bars.

Dr Turk Turkelton

Apple jacks.

Professey Chin

So we're in agreement then?
Everyone is beating up local shop owners to get their preferred sweets reinstated.

Also
I want a giant bowl full of nerds, dweebs and gobstoppers

fussyonion

Haha yes I used to run the EyePoppers under the tap before eating them, too!
God, they were sour.

I also loved Fruit Basket-a pack containing three or four really fruity sweets..same texture as EyePoppers but these weren't sour.
Eat-A-Yolks were good too.

Nowadays I still love a Cadbury Eclair (classic forever!) and I'm a sucker for Wham! bars....they sell them in bags now.

rovoagho

What's retro about Refreshers? I had a roll yesterday.

Professey Chin

fussyonion wrote: »

Haha yes I used to run the EyePoppers under the tap before eating them, too!
God, they were sour.

Coward!!! :mad:

:P

rovoagho wrote: »

What's retro about Refreshers? I had a roll yesterday.

True. They did start long ago though :pac:

fussyonion

Yes, I was a little six-year-old coward :(

BorneTobyWilde

Wibbly Wobbly Wonder

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Yum

Professey Chin

Can you still get wibbly wobbly wonders?

rovoagho

You can in Cork, but from previous discussions it seems only some parts of the country stock these and other of the older ice creams.

Professey Chin

I think ill set up an old ice cream shop. All the good stuff :pac:

Pang

Secret bar. Unfortunately it doesn't exist anymore.

Professey Chin

Pang wrote: »

Secret bar. Unfortunately it doesn't exist anymore.

I recognise the wrapper but I don't think I've ever had one. Apparently they were like walnut whips! Nom

chakotha

Little Devils, Little Angels and Dracula ice lolls are no more. Loop the Loops were my fave though. For a while they had plastic sticks that you could collect to slot together and build things.

rovoagho

You can still get loop the loops down here too. Draculas were available as a limited edition last year, there was a vote on what people wanted to come back.

Professey Chin

I dont remember Draculas but now I want one......

Taxburden carrier

Klipso and Trigger bars

SoapMcTavish

Anyone remember Prairie Bars ?

Fondant filled bars - similar to Frys Chocolate cream but about half the size and in a variety of flavours ... strawberry, mint etc ....

Or was it all in a dream ????????????

nom nom

Bearhunter

Pink Panther bars - pink chocolate that tasted, now that I think of it, quite repulsive.
Fizzle sticks - I'd cheerfully choke a granny for one of these now.

gammygils

Charms
Spangles
Golden Days Toffees
Florida Fruits
Black Jacks
Fruit Salads
Texan Bars
Rovals
Two And Two Bars
Kojak Lollies
Captain Spear penny bars
Sparkle Ice Pops

Bring em all back I say!

Ruu

Pang wrote: »

Secret bar. Unfortunately it doesn't exist anymore.

Very tasty bar. Nearly flake like chocolate with caramel type filling.



Dip Dabs is another one (this site has loads of scans of 80s crisps and sweets).

Professey Chin

Dip-Dabs are still going I think. I've definitely had one recently enough

J Madone

Anyone else remember bazooka joes chewing gum?

Professey Chin

J Madone wrote: »

Anyone else remember bazooka joes chewing gum?

Vague recollection of the comics (which apparently they dont do anymore).
Cant remember ever trying the gum....but that could be it melding in with all other gum from the past :pac: Im surprised I still have teeth

Actually, I remember eating paper became pretty popular for a while and I've no idea why. It just tasted like communion

unjedilike

Cadbury's Smiley bars.

rovoagho

J Madone wrote: »

Anyone else remember bazooka joes chewing gum?

Used to be manufactured by Topps in Cork, who were also responsible for the Garbage Pail Kids stickers that used to litter the place. My dad used to supply them, so we used to have shedloads of the stuff. It was disgusting.

Lyssa

The Dark Lord Cthulhu wrote: »

Well that's just cheating

I think sour sweets need a revival. Bring back the golden age of hi sours and eye poppers where everything else had sour versions too like chewits and nerds.

Oh and bring back bubble kings. They were great

I was in Galway last week for exams, and bought a bag of teeth-curlingly sour sweets in Aunty Nellys sweetshop... they are great!

There's a retro sweetshop near me, I have banned myself from the place!

I miss the proper snowballs... the stuff they have inside them now, just isn't the same

Micky Dolenz

Dandy bar. It was orange with black crystals through it. Pull the fillings clean out of your head.

Professey Chin

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Dandy bar. It was orange with black crystals through it. Pull the fillings clean out of your head.

The amount of people who tried to convince me those crystals were everything from dirt to spider eggs is amazing.

I'm pretty sure I belived a few of the stories...I was not a clever child

rovoagho

I can't eat any of those chews any more, they literally do pull the fillings out of my back teeth. It's happened twice, last time with a Refresher. Sucking them just isn't the same.

Professey Chin

rovoagho wrote: »

I can't eat any of those chews any more, they literally do pull the fillings out of my back teeth. It's happened twice, last time with a Refresher. Sucking them just isn't the same.

The dark days youre forced to move onto sucky sweets

LizT

Apple drops
Roy of the rovers
Dan bar
Stinger bar

Penny sweets that actually cost a penny :P

Professey Chin

5p crisps!

LizT

I remember getting a pound on Sunday after mass, going to the shop and being able to get a can of coke, a dairy milk, a packet of taytos, a bag of penny sweets and still having change!

Ruu

The Dark Lord Cthulhu wrote: »

5p crisps!

Barry McGuigan and A-Team crisps were 5p.

Professey Chin

Ruubot2 wrote: »

Barry McGuigan and A-Team crisps were 5p.

I have no recollection of those

The ones I remember were actually called 5p crisps.
Only flavours I ever saw were pickled onion and....I think the other was smokey bacon. Im not sure

Micky Dolenz

rovoagho wrote: »

I can't eat any of those chews any more, they literally do pull the fillings out of my back teeth. It's happened twice, last time with a Refresher. Sucking them just isn't the same.

Highland toffee bars were murder for that.

Ruu

Big Time bars (Caffreys) were great for pulling out the loose teeth. You can get them online.

madmaggie

Leaf bubblegum. It was made in Co Kildare.

Oops69

Fizzle sticks , I would happily live on them forever more with a few vitamin supplements to keep me ticking over, if only they'd make them again

physioman

i want fat frog ice lollies. use to love them

DEFTLEFTHAND

Haven't seen pear drops in a long time.