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General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: usedbustickets on July 19, 2011, 18:53:17 PM
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I just contributed to another thread, where my thoughts were turned back to my childhood, and the joys of enjoying a jubbly (a frozen orange or cherry drink in a triangular container) Lovely Jubbly!!. And then I thought what a great idea for a new topic, favourite sweets or snacks as a kid. Here are some of mine:
Banana Toffee
Pineapple Chunks
Toffee Crunch
Sun Pat Hot Roasted Peanuts
Spanish Gold Tobacco
Sherbert Lemons
Beach Balls
Satin Cushions
Sherbert Pips
As you can see I was partial to a boiled sweet still am but they are harder and harder to find in these days of jelly sweets.
So what sweets do you remember loving as a kid?[^]
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blackjacks and fruit salad
sherbet fountains
refresher chews
Mark
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Liquorice sticks - the woody ones !
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Old English (mint) Spangles.
Whopper bar
Aniseed balls
Bazooka Joe Bubble Gum
MB bars
5 boys chocolate bar
Fry's chocolate cream bar
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Caramac, Kola cubes, Pear drops:D
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Mmmmmmm
Blackjacks and fruit salad
Wine gume
Mojos
Wham bars
Hubba bubba
Texan bars
Flying saucers
Cough candy twists
Dib dabs
Spangles
Space dust
Mmmmmmmmmmmm
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raspberry ruffles
magic wands [liquorice sticks with sherbet running thru]
walkers toffees - 4 for a penny, what a bargain :)
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Rubarb and Custered
Sherbert lemons
jambree bags
everton Mints
pear drops
gob stoppers
imps
opel fruits
peanut britle
fudge bar
sherbert fountain
Humbugs
munchies
mintolas
aniseed twist
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Saved myself some typing ;):D
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Originally posted by Highlander
Saved myself some typing ;):D
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I loved the frys 5 thing but also
Cherry lips
Midget gems
Wine Gums
Coconut mushrooms
Red laces
Sherbet Dabs
Roses Lime Centre Chocs
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Sport Mixtures - I was so pleased when my son gave me some for Father's Day - a 3kg box !!!!!!:D
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All that have been mentioned plus Banjo bars.
I was terrible for sweets at xmas I used to lift the presents out of my sack to get to the sweets at the bottom 1st!!
We once had chocolate xmas tree decorations that were shaped and then the foil wrapper had a picture on. there was 1 that was a Golli like on the jam jars, me and my sisters all wanted that 1, so determined it was mine I sneaked down in the night carefully unwrapped it ate the chocolate and then put the empty wrapper back on the tree (I was only about 6 at the time) :-\:D
My dad always says that when I was little and playing outside if anyone had offered me sweets I would have been off, my response is what do you mean when I was little, I still would (a bit much at 48!!) :D:D
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Cadbury's Lucky Numbers
Aztec bars
Cadbury's Skippy
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LOL Diane, made me chuckle.
Does anyone remember the bars of Milk Tray chocolate, it used to have a lime barrel one at the end. Always was trying to get my Mam to give me that square. Don't know why they discontinued making the bar and that one chocolate first,it was the best one there!:D
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Originally posted by slikmrs
LOL Diane, made me chuckle.
Does anyone remember the bars of Milk Tray chocolate, it used to have a lime barrel one at the end. Always was trying to get my Mam to give me that square. Don't know why they discontinued making the bar and that one chocolate first,it was the best one there!:D
Thats the one I got mixed up with the frys bar,The Milk Tray Lime was my fav and dont know why they dropped
My claim to fame is my Grandad had the concept of Cadburys Creme Eggs while working for Cadburys :)
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Originally posted by Julesp
Roses Lime Centre Chocs
These are not sweets, these are the work of the devil. I tried one once, never again, a combination so foul uuuuhhhhhhh!! [xx(] ;)
Try some of these:
Army and Navy
Cloves
Milko chews
Liqorice Torpedoes (red ones for double use as lipstick
Barley Sugar Sticks
Wagon Wheels (proper ones in a yellow bag
Liqorice Pipe and/or Catherine Wheel
Flying Saucers
And sweets for your grandad
Victory Vs
Hacks
Mentho Lyptus
Foxes Glacier mints
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When I was a child We rented a caravan in Abersoch Wales But had to pick the key up from a place near Nantwich Cheshire They always gave us a jar full of Uncle Joes Mintballs for our hols
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They were given for you to hang in the wardrobes Jules :o
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uncle joes mint balls
keep you all aglow
give em to your granny
and watch the bugger go 8)
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Jules I only live a couple of miles from Nantwich and go there quite often as prefer it to Crewe, we always have Uncle Joe's mint balls in as Steve really likes them. Small world! :)
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Refreshers
Odd Fellows
Lucky tatties (plastic charm in middle)
Puff Candy (cinder toffee)
Cinnamon sticks
Candy balls (strange...they were pyramid shaped!)
Aniseed balls
Parma violets
Creamola Foam!
As you can tell, I had (and still have)a very sweet tooth! (yes, only one LOL)
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there's nowt wrong with Crewe as long as you can speak and read Polish, you feel like a tourist if you ask for something in English.
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:D:D:D that is so true Steve!!
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omg Creamonla Foam[xx(] How awful was that!!!
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Anne!!!!! As a kid I loved it. Loved the white moustache it left too, LOL
:D
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Coconut tobacco (in the pouch)
Mars Bar (taste different back then)
Blackjacks & Fruit Salads (4 for a penny)
Apple Footballs
Chewing Nuts (possibly my favourite)
Monster Munch (original Beef flavour)
Drumsticks (deffo my favourite) :D
Jubilee's (much bigger in those days!)
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"Victory V's" (I was 'ard)
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Who remembers Red Aniseed Balls that turned white if you could suck them for long enough?
What about Grays Herbal Tablets or the little black triangles of something horrible that came in a little flat tin. Weren't they called Imps or Nips or something like that?
but the mosty bestest sweet of all ever time was a Bazooka Joe - an inch square lump of pink chewing gum that would last for a whole afternoon and you could blow the biggest ever bubbles and the wrapper even had a cartoon strip printed inside.
Sorry - slipped back fifty years for a moment there.
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If they still made Love Hearts what would be written on them for todays kids?
"Pimp my Ride" or
"Crash me a Fag" or
"Shake my Booty" or
"Got any Carlsberg Export Mate"
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I remember that with Bazooka Joe that if you saved enough cartoons you could send off for the free gifts etc including the x ray specs Did anyone ever get cos I didnt but always wanted? They were also advertised in all the comics
Moon dust although my kids generation but not mine was good also all that crackling in mouth
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Wine gums
Pineapple chunks
Midget gems
Peanut brittle
Bonfire toffee
Best of all was going to the sweet shop on Saturdays to get a sixpenny mix (bit like pick n mix, but the shop owner put the sweets into the bag for you)
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SteveJ, Love hearts are readily available to this day. Same old soppy stuff on them still.
You can get miniature packets of them with your own message printed o them now.
http://www.adgiftsonline.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=408
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So far no mention of Fisherman's Friends....
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see below
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This links this thread nicely to the other current thread on Cigarette vouchers and other give aways.
What about sweet cigarettes, in packs of ten with their own playing card inside, I had a big craze on them once,:P which meant I had to reduce my pear drop order from a quarter to 2oz. In the winter months the pear drop order would be changed to army and navy, to help - along with a good balaclava - to keep you warm on those frosty winter mornings. Was it me or were all winter mornings frosty, enabling the collection of frozen spiders web from bushes en route to school. An important must do task as I recall:D
Any way I digress nowadays the sweet cigs are called candy sticks and no longer have the red end, so children cannot mistake them for 'real' cigarettes!! I buy the occasional pack even today, and yes I do pretend to smoke when I have them ... sad old git or what:D
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Mint Cracknel was one of my faves.Anyone remember Pyramint?a dark chocolate pyramid shape filled with mint cream.
Coconut mushrooms,
strawberry shoe laces,
licorice torpedoes,
Texan bars,
Oh and everlasting toffee on saturday mornings to take to the cinema.
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Refreshers. They always made my eyes water when I (inevitably) burped after eating a pack.
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Midget Gems
Dolly Mixtures
Flying Saucers
Sherbet Dabs
Black Jacks & Fruit Salads
Shrimps
White Chocolate Mice
Rhubarb & Custard
Winter Mixture
Fisherman's Friends
Pineapple Chunks
Pear Drops
I'm sure that there are a few more :-\:D
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I was telling my kids that when i was there age i used to be able to go to the local corner shop and get crisps, chocolate, large bag of penny sweets, drink, bubble gums ,pop corn, a magazine and pay ten pence
cant do it now since they installed the bloody CCTV :D
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I was telling my kids that when i was there age i used to be able to go to the local corner shop and get crisps, chocolate, large bag of penny sweets, drink, bubble gums ,pop corn, a magazine and pay ten pence
cant do it now since they installed the bloody CCTV :D
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OOh look at all you locals to Nantwich,didn't realise there were any on here, :o and Jules, people still always seem to have those joe;s mints with them. There is an old fashioned sweet shop in town and they sell most of these sweets mentioned..:D
mmm mint cracknell,now that was lovely. ;)
Just remembered when Cadbury bars had letters on the wrapper you could collect them and when you got all the letters you could claim the prize on the card..I got a camera.. :)
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Do the lids of Smartie tubes still have a letter of the alphabet embossed on them? Does anyone know why?
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All this sweet talk got me shopping....
(http://i840.photobucket.com/albums/zz328/redding431/623a4793.jpg)
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Bernie, I was in Nantwich this afternoon at the hairdresser's but managed to resist the temptation of going to the old fashioned sweet shop, trying to be good after getting back last week after 2 weeks in Calis!!
Diane
I also used to love Galaxy counters they came in a white bag with a picture of a giraffe on it, think he was called Jeffrey.
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Seeing Steve's picture of his sweety hoard, reminds me that one of the delights of going to watch the Arsenal - apart from the football - is the two sweet stalls outside Arsenal tube station. Big selection of proper sweets, including shrimps, bananas, cherry jellies, sherbert lemons to name a few. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmagnificent:P
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Originally posted by tony jenkins
They were given for you to hang in the wardrobes Jules :o
No They had many uses#
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7aoyF0enNU&feature=related