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Posted: 2/10/2007 6:23:47 AM | Told you that I wouldnt be able to get them off my mind today!!:
Would you risk it for a swiskit?#
And I do know they are still around but 'Nudge Nudge, wink wink' Breakaway!
how sad am I?  | |
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Posted: 2/10/2007 11:23:34 AM | | i remember getting some small toffees , different flavors , mojo was the name i think, parma violets, and do we still have lovehearts around | |
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Posted: 2/10/2007 11:30:50 AM | You need to check out Pauls Newsagents in West Wycombe.... they have a site online and i think they do mail order too..... He sells ALL the old fashioned sweets from big jars (and doesn't correct you when you ask for them by the quarter either ) | |
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Posted: 2/10/2007 11:45:08 AM | ..anyone remember a choccy bar called "Mint Cracknell" and what about that Chewing Gum with the Liquid Centre - the jokes that CAME from that experience........ | |
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Posted: 2/10/2007 12:10:59 PM | cola cubes, peanut brittle and the coconut ice my mum makes, all helped to make me the well rounded **stard i am today,
also seeing as i cant post yet rosebuds or oddfellows brown and pink aromatic sweets | |
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Posted: 2/10/2007 12:27:13 PM | OP.... you did say 'old sweets' didn't you?
I yearn sometimes for 'fruity tips'............... is there anybody out there that remembers these?....
I may have got the name wrong, it was a long long time ago.... like really old!!!!
it was a blob of marshmallowish stuff with a slightly harder fruity tip on the end (which may be why they had that name or did we just call them that?)
I found a little old fashioned sweet shop last year in Knaresborough where the guy rememberd them and said he'd try and find out for me... but the shop had turned into an art gallery the next visit I made.
Mmmmmmm Duncan walnut whip... with a nut on top as well as the one inside.... I used to have to have both the coffee and the vanilla..... never could decide between the two.
The old fashioned 'cough candy' large big golend chunks !!!!!
oh and by the way........... that Texan bar sounds a lot like the old Picnik !!!!
..............and I miss the old Mars bar.... thick, hard and just the right size ... I don't like this thinner, softer, longer version.... (rather too sickly for my taste!)
I think I may just have to pop out for a nice crunchie bar and a bag of malteasers!!!!! | |
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Posted: 2/10/2007 2:49:23 PM | update to Msg: 18
OK I have gone off Drifters now
and probably won't want one for a while
I over did my earlier drifter hunt quest to excess. | |
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Posted: 2/10/2007 3:09:55 PM | to student nurse... don't know the official name but we just call it poppin candy and you can still buy it... tip for you... have some when your doing some serious snogging with ya loved one... its nice! lol
I used to love pear drops, pineapple cubes and cola cubes and i know you can still get them but they jsut don't taste the same! Wham bars are just as good though but i used to love a toffee bar, think i was called highland toffee or something and you could get it with or without choc on the outside .... they were delicioussssssssss! | |
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Posted: 2/10/2007 10:27:24 PM | I know you can still get victory v lozenges, but they used to be so hot, they really did blow your head off. Now they are just not hot, im sure I used to be addicted to them as a child, if ever I had 6 pence I always bought a bag, you used to be able to buy them loose from a big tin also, I think if they had been in a glass jar, it would have exploded.
I think the ingredients were changed, probably contained an illegal substance, does anyone remember the hot ones.
Just googled v v ingredients, they no longer contain chloroform, no wonder my childhood memories are wiped out............ | |
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Posted: 2/16/2007 11:33:43 AM | poster 27... you would have loved it in Asda on Valentine's day... they were giving out little rolls of love hearts to anyone who donated to the charity fund.... my grand daugher and I receivied 3 rolls each !!!! mmmmmmm
Can anyone remember the oblong soft fudge type of sweet covered in a strong paper wrapper with the picture of a jersey cow on it?
I remember the trips to the seaside we had as children when my mum and dad always had a bag of these to share out in the car on the long journey. I never knew the name... just remember eating them....
Another sweet I liked was Halva and I've noticed these are now on sale in our health food shop... and there is a new one.... covered in chocolate !!!! | |
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Posted: 4/29/2008 4:14:06 PM | | sorry had to bring this one back as today i saw in morrisons my favourite sweet and a wee child tootie fruties and yep had to buy them but as i still remember the packets were much bigger then | |
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Posted: 4/29/2008 4:34:27 PM | | cola bottles, sherbet dip, "the lucky bag" and sweet cigarettes ( the chocolate cigar ones were better though) Blue smarties and my favourite Mintola (yes I kow they are still available)although the experiment at school was alternate bites of a twix with eating a polo mint seemed to work- oh! and not forgetting fruit polos! | |
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Posted: 4/29/2008 5:14:01 PM | | I miss when every shop had a pick n mix and when penny sweets actually cost a penny | |
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Posted: 4/29/2008 5:44:00 PM | | Go to Tesco, they are doing all the old style boiled sweets, from cough candy to rhubarb and custard, i spotted them all for the first time today, off the top of my head i would say there was about a dozen or so different sweets to choose from. | |
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Posted: 4/29/2008 7:03:47 PM | Used to LOVE Pacers - sort of minty Opal Fruits.........(or whatever they're called now) LOL
Oh, and the original Cadbury's Picnic Bars - BEFORE they decided to take the peanuts out :(
Try here for some great stuff
http://www.bagofsweets.com/
http://www.cybercandy.co.uk/aaasmt/index.php/url_uksec | |
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Posted: 4/29/2008 11:14:54 PM | Not really a 'sweet' sort of woman but adore chocolate.....I love the chocolate in a Fredo, Crunchies and Frys Turkish Delight. Oh and Bournville Dark Chocolate too yummmmmmmm  | |
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Posted: 4/30/2008 12:11:29 AM | I'm not 100% sure what they're called. Small corn puffs.
I think they were called Burton Puffs. Came in chicken, Tomato and Beef flavours. LOVED them at school and used to buy bags (and occasionally, boxes) of them from the tuck shop.
I also love Floral Gums, but i can still get those in Lancashire, and any time I see a newsagent selling them, I always panic buy the entire tub, I've one at home as I type :) | |
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Posted: 4/30/2008 12:37:34 AM | i used to love caramacs,i know you can still get them but they did disappear for a few years and when they came back they just didn't taste the same,and they used to be 10p and now there 40p.and the crisps called puffs,and snaps.and ice pops that were really frozen yogurt and you could get them in chocolat,strawberry,orange,vannilla, and tropican,they were lush. | |
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Posted: 4/30/2008 7:16:29 AM | were they texas or texan's?
I loved pacers and Nutty bars | |
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Posted: 4/30/2008 7:30:58 AM | Spacedust & spearmint mojos & rice paper sheets
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Posted: 4/30/2008 8:44:55 AM | Sherbet pips
Fruit salads and blackjacks
Lucky Dip Bags
'Proper' Opal Fruits (they were made to make your mouth water)
plus, although it's not an 'old sweet' but a similar memory. Jubilee's when the ice cream man came around.
Och, the days when it was safe to run up to the van and suck on a lolly that a man in a white van gave you | |
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Posted: 4/30/2008 9:04:29 AM | | going to the sweet shop for a mix up ,you could get a lot for 5 p. Toffee logs , black jacks , fruit salad , sweetie necklaces , red licorish. | |
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Posted: 4/30/2008 9:06:06 AM | Is it just me or have curlywerlys become smaller?
I remember when i would have one end clamped between my choppers while the other end trailed allong the ground?
Bring back nutty bars.
Did you know that theres a website that speciallises in so many of the now defunct sweets we used to be able to buy in the corner shop?
PS.from where i was from from in newcastle we used to call sweets "kets"
any other slang names for sweets? | |
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Posted: 4/30/2008 9:06:47 AM |
Can anyone remember the oblong soft fudge type of sweet covered in a strong paper wrapper with the picture of a jersey cow on it?
Yep, Highland Toffee, yum yum!!
My nan used to have little tins of sweets with tiny sweets in that were all different shapes like hearts and stars and moons and so on. They had a sort of perfumey taste. They were lovely | |
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Posted: 4/30/2008 9:07:56 AM | The one I miss is Swisskit, life was never the same when they disappeared | |
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