childhood sweets

katknapp
katknapp Member Posts: 709
edited 8. Mar 2011, 08:36 in Community Chit-chat archive
what was your favourite sweets from childhood?and can you remember any other sweets from when you were a kiddy?

my favourites were either sherbet lemons

or i used to love the penny mix ups!

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  • cthornley
    cthornley Member Posts: 627
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Oooo too many to choose from .....
    Flying saucers and fizzy cola bottles (still my favourites now)
    Early childhood memories of sweeties are great. My dad owned the village shop and sweet blonde blue eyed me used to spend many a day sitting on the counter by the sweeties .... It's amazing how many people used to buy a few extra sweets for me :roll: , I was devastated when my dad packed it all in and bought a gallery :shock:
    Chrissie
  • tonesp
    tonesp Member Posts: 844
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Licorice allsorts,tray toffee,jap desserts nut brittle YUMMY!!! :smile::smile::smile:
  • robertls
    robertls Member Posts: 2,304
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Spangles........
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  • caterina57
    caterina57 Member Posts: 1,424
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    My mums best friend "Auntie Joan" had a sweet shop - loved going there and getting anything I wanted for free! Loved black jacks and fruit salad 4 for a 1d midget gems and kali and american cream soda with liqourice or lollies. My dad used to bring us Vit C lollies from the chemist, as I got older I loved cough candy twist and kolacops my mum loved chewing nuts and polo mints
    Cath
  • katknapp
    katknapp Member Posts: 709
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    oh yes i loved spangles...and refreshers,pink shrimps,fizzy cola bottles..still get them but you have to be careful where you buy them as some brands are not very fizzy!
  • magenta
    magenta Member Posts: 1,604
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hiya,
    I too loved spangles, especially 'Ye Old Fashioned' ones. Fizz bombs :smile: Caramel chews for 2p.
    Magenta x
  • tjt6768
    tjt6768 Member Posts: 12,170
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    The best ever chocolate bar in the world was

    TEXAN......... The big one... Remember the advert? The cowbow was tied to a stake and the Indians let him have his Texan bar as a last request, but fortunately it was soooooooooooooooo chewy they had fallen asleep by the time he had finished, he just pulled up the stake and sauntered off :lol::lol:
    I even emailed the company to see if they were going to bring them back as a lot of the sweets from back then have been having a retro revival, sadly there are no plans though :cry::cry::cry:
    Spangles were great, we always got one from John the Baptist (local barber :shock: ) After having our hair cut :lol:
    If he did that these days they would have him on a 'special' register :roll:
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  • elainebadknee
    elainebadknee Bots Posts: 3,703
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Loved milk teeth and foam bananas...
    Anyone remember that chewing gum that was made to look like a tiny bag of gold think it was Golden Nuggets...Also that cracking, popping stuff that used to fizzle away on your tongue...

    Elainex
  • julie47
    julie47 Member Posts: 6,041
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    oh yes i loved black jacks, bars of highland toffee,cherry lips,sherbert fountain ..... ok i loved all the sweet you mentioned too.
    yum

    juliepf x
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Texan bars. Pear drops (still cannot suck one to the end, I have to crunch). Cherry drops (I crunch them too). DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • elainebadknee
    elainebadknee Bots Posts: 3,703
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Julie

    Next week Aldi have got bags of Black Jacks/Fruit Salad in on offer....Im on a diet but they do bring back memories of multi coloured tongues......

    OMG...Slush Puppies...Ice cream headache!!!!

    Elainex
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,395
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Midget gems and sweet peanuts.
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • katknapp
    katknapp Member Posts: 709
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    rhubarb and custard sweets,jazzies,sweet peanuts oh and pear drops loved them and strawberry bon bons! strawberry laces.........
  • prefabkid47
    prefabkid47 Member Posts: 1,316
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Lemonade powder (1d an ounce),sherbert dabs and fountains and chocolate covered honeycomb. :roll:
    Now progressed to chocolate brazils (plain chocolate of course).Had a 3kg bag for Christmas!! (daughter in law is a buyer for a local food emporium). :wink:
    ''Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy''. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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