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The reference to refreshers in the adverts thread got me thinking…Do they still make these sweets or are they ‘extinct?’ I used to like pacers and spangles. They stopped making them years ago, I think. Does anyone remember them? What sweets were YOU partial to, only to discover they stopped making them? (Ooh, and Texan bars too <!– s:lol: –>
<!– s:lol: –> )I remember spangles – sucking them and trying not to bite them before you managed to make a hole in the middle with your tongue.
Also sweet tobaco – toasted coconut flakes in reality.
Of course there were black jacks and fruit salads at four a penny – and I mean an old chunky penny, not these new fangled ones.
Space dust
Bazooka Joe bubble gum.
Actually there is a web site where you can order a lot of sweets from days or yore.
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk although in the best BBC tradition, other outlets are available as well.
PS Well I’ll be blowed – I have just been on the web site and they have sweet tobacco, space dust and Bazooka Joe
no spangles though
Mint Cracknel. Magic, so long as you could avoid the shards of mint piercing a hole in the roof of your mouth.
Blue-tube "Toffo’s" (variety of flavours, as opposed to simple red-tune toffee flavour) are sadly missed n’all.
I was, however, glad to see the back of the "Splicer", which was nothing more than psychadelically-coloured, vomit inducing tree-rubber.
Grasshopper, you can purchase fruit toffos (a good call) on that ‘quarter’ of website…I found texan bars on there too. Happy days
I’m not much of a sweets eater these days but in the bygone days of yore I loved Galaxy Counters, Stroodles, Bar Six, Golden Cups, Trophy & Amazin.
Stroodles were different as they were small dried apple pieces covered in chocolate and they came in an apple shaped pack made by Cadbury’s.
Secret bars!!!!
Bring them back. NOW!
Zoz, I think you and I must be soulmates!
Also, has anyone else seen that they brought back a certain retro sweet recently? Unfortunately, it just so happened to be the Wispa, possibly the least exciting of all the old chocolate bars!
http://tv.cream.org/specialassignments/bestbefore/arksweet.htm
List on the link above are a few blasts from the past.
Cabanas I remember as well as the Swizzels Double Dip,Space Dust and the Sweet Necklaces.I’m quite partial to a Wispa – but I would start a Nutty fan club if they brought that delight back into the sweet shops.
Candy cigarettes.
I looked soooo cool back then.
Especially in winter when it was so cold you could blow real looking smoke!!!
Actually there is a web site where you can order a lot of sweets from days or yore.
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk although in the best BBC tradition, other outlets are available as well.
Great website Paul THANKS!!!
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Great website Paul THANKS!!!
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No problem KT – I must admit after adding the post I spent almost 3/4 of an hour just trawling through the site again and getting dewy eyed with some good memories.
Now I am going to have an upset postman who is going to have to deliver the package I ordered and an upset dentist who will go ape at the amount of sugar I will be eating – but what the heck!!!
What the heck indeedy.
I just totted up my order but it’ll cost the same again to have it sent here by airmail
I have to now wait until I am back to get mine.
KP Whickers (prawn cocktail flavour, the chicken ones were wrong)
Ok, they’re crisps, but they were very nice (advertised by cartoon monks as I remember)…
Indeed they were, NV – KP had a campaign across their whole product range in the early 1980s featuring the "KP Friars".
Friars. Fryers. You fry most crisps. See what they did there? Do you? I’m so glad these red braces-wearing cocaine hoover advertising exec types think up all these clever ideas so we don’t have to.
Other crisp campaigns at the same time included Tudor Crisps ("Crisps well worth their salt!"), and the animated spuds in the earth that used to sing, "We want to be Smith’s Crrrrrisps!" in Pinky and Perky voices to the tune of "Bobby’s Girl".
All vastly preferable to the high-pitched East Midlands philanderer and his celebrity chums, I reckon.
Worrying that I can remember all of this umprompted and not anything anyone’s said to me so far this week. The last 20 years just haven’t happened for me – and I’m still only 32!!
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