Whatever happened to the pink humbugs?
when I was at primary school in the 1980's I used to visit the local shop and get a quarter of humbugs. Whatever happened to the pink humbugs with black chew inside which used to be very big for the mouth? Thanks DB
Posted on October 31, 2003
Old English Spangles??
What ever happened to Old English Spangles?? We LOVED them!!
Posted on October 30, 2003
Galaxy counters and spangles
As a child of the early and mid 70's I was wondering if you happened to know what happened to Galaxy counters I used to eat these frequently in the 70's.The times I used to drag my mom in the sweet shop on the way home from school to get some galaxy counters and spangles-those were the days. They looked like revels but not the assorted centres?
Posted on October 29, 2003
Toffee
Whatever happened to everlasting strips of toffee that used to cost 3d and lasted all day in the 50s and 60s? Also ear shaped sweets that cost 1p in the 80s, they had a sour taste at first and then lasted for ages with a lovely chewy jelly flavour, I used to buy a 100 at a time!
Posted on October 28, 2003
Applause Choc Bars
what happend to the Applause Choc Bars they were in a burgandyish wrapper just one stick like a twix they had raisens and biscuit in they were really nice?
Posted on October 27, 2003
I loved Applause chocolate bars, my wife thinks I made them up...I wish they were still in my life...Hmmm
Posted by: Harv on December 8, 2006
CANDY CIGARETTES
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE CANDY CIGARETTES THAT EVEN HAD RED COLOURING ON THE END SO THEY LOOKED LIT. ALL THE KIDS THOUGHT THEY WERE SO GROWN UP WALKING ROUND SMOKING SWEETS!
Posted on October 26, 2003
TUBBLEGUM
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO TUBBLEGUM?
CHEWING GUM IN A CONE SHAPED TUB THAT WAS REALY SLIMY WHEN YOU PUT IT IN YOUR MOUTH. THE ADVERT WAS ON TELLY A LOT IN THE EARLY TO LATE 80'S
Posted on October 25, 2003
Cabana Bars
Cabana Bars made my Rowntrees, (and frequently stuffed in my Dads empty packed lunch box, along with loads of other "freebies"!, he worked there in the Export Dept)
From memory coconut with a strawberry stripe in covered in chocolate,
great bars, obviously not a patch on Texans or Nuttys
Also Montegos, (Not the cars!), but chocolate bars, like clubs, but better, especially the orange ones!
Posted on October 24, 2003
And what about the Pacers Chew (green and white chewit like sweets) i remember when i split my wrist open at the corner shop ,the shop assistant asked me to chose anything in the shop to take my mind off the injury and i saw a family size bag and grabbed it lol, can anyone else remember them???
Posted by: fee on February 3, 2007
Mint Cracknell
Cracknell bars were indeed made by John Macintoshes and Son of Halifax West Yorkshire. The cracknell sweet was first a member of the Quality Street selection and was then later made into bars, then came in Orange Cracknell, Mint Cracknell, Coffee Cracknell and Original Cracknell (original being the one found in Quality Street). Sadly it went many years ago, a shame really as this was one of my favourites.
Posted on October 23, 2003
this cracknell was my fav
can i get it anywhere ?
i dont buy quality street since it went
paula
Posted by: pauline cleland on May 18, 2006
Nutty Bars...
Not sure why they were withdrawn either - I loved them. However, Hersheys in the US make a very similar peanut bar (which is just as yummy) called PayDay.
Posted on October 22, 2003
Yeah, they were cool and I seem to remember they were cheaper than other bars because of the lack of chocolate, handy when you were on a budget of 10p.
Posted by: fil on October 21, 2006
Have found a Nutty Bar taste and look-a-like. The Payday bar made by Hersey - if you have a friend going to the US get them to bring them back or buy them from a US food importer online. They take you right back - why is this sweet not made any more they are the best.
Posted by: Kathy, Edinburgh on November 6, 2006
Krispets
When I was younger my mum used to let me have some of her chocolate sweets, they were called Krispets I think?
I know they had either very small or crushed bits of almond and honeycomb and the chocolate was either the same or at least tasted the same as the type of chocolate used in the sweet cigarettes. Do you know if it is still possible to buy krispets or have they stopped being produced?
Posted on October 21, 2003
Aztec Bars....
These were re-issued again in the year 2000, but didn't seem to last very long after that.
Does anyone remember Cadbury's Cabana bars (coconut choccie bar)? And Cadbury's Gambit (a mixture of dark & milk chocolate)?
Posted on October 20, 2003
I remember both those bars (though I struggle to find anyone else who does). If I remember correctly, the Cabana bar had a cherry centre or filling.
Posted by: Michael Denholm Maloney on August 15, 2006
I remember them both. The advert for the Gambit was a man who took a bite out of his gambit, and then picked a rainbow out of the sky and used it as a bridge to cross a canyon. They were 15p.
Posted by: Martin on August 24, 2006
Gold Nuggets (chewing gum)
what happened to
gold nuggets (chewing gum)?
Posted on October 19, 2003
soft sherberts
I used to like soft, chewy fruit flavoured sherberts. Whatever happened to them?
Sherbertless in Bradford on Avon
Posted on October 18, 2003
Maple Brazils
Could someone tell me if Maple Brazils are still available - my Mum is an old newsagent who used to sell and eat them - I used to be allowed to have one only if I was good.
The yellowy creamy taste on the outside and then the crunchy brazil inside was just wonderful.
Does anyone still make them?
Posted on October 17, 2003
Hi, Audreys chocolates in Brighton and Hove make wonderfull maple brazils
Posted by: Diane Collings on May 14, 2006
Made by both Callard and Bowser and also Maynards - they were done away with when Kraft Suchard took over C&B and when Cadbury Trebor Bassett took over Maynards
Posted by: David on December 1, 2006
They're available in quality sweetshops all over the place. One in the Norwich arcade, one in Deal, one in Sandwich, one in Romford...
Posted by: Tracey Annison on February 2, 2007
Rufffle Bars
Where are Jamesons Ruffle bars? They were chocolate covered raspberry coconut and quite small bars?
Posted on October 16, 2003
We get Raspberry Ruffle bars in the chocolate box at work, which is provided by the NSPCC on an "honesty-box" payment idea.. so they are still about
Posted by: feef on August 16, 2006
They sell Raspberry Ruffle Bars in my corner shop in Aberdeen.
Posted by: Fi on September 16, 2006
Penny Arrows
Who remembers Penny Arrows? I remember saving the wrappers and getting a Cowboy and Indian Jigsaw
Posted on October 15, 2003
Penny Arrow Bars, what memories, we used to take them to school on birthdays to hand out to your mates, '30 penny arrow bars please'.
Posted by: John Norris on January 8, 2007
Cadbury's bar of milk chocolate
Hello,
This is a recent chocolate bar but very greatly missed nontheless!
It was a Cadbury's bar of milk chocolate, but with raisins in it, and I used to really enjoy it, being a person who loves fruit in chocolate but hates nuts!
Great website by the way, especially the liquorice cream rock! If I end up 17 stone I shall hold you responsible!!!
Best Wishes
J C
Posted on October 14, 2003
Frother bars
Frother bars were on the front of the sweets for kids display in my grandparents shop in 1966 in Bradford-on-Avon.
As a treat I was taken, when very young to watch the making of orange and lemon wedge-shaped boiled sweets. They were made in huge copper bowls in an oven then poured over a table full of little crescent indentations, rolled viciously then cooled.
They were broken up before our eyes ready for eating and they tasted magic!
Where I live in France there is a junk-antique shop that has a mould similar to those in Melksham but unfortunately it's not for sale!
Keep up the good work,
L
Posted on October 13, 2003
Cadburys Strollers
Whatever happened to,Cadburys Strollers?
They were chocolate covered raisins, biscuits and toffee. A bit like Revels yet without the horrible orange one.
And are they still available?
Let me know what you come up with please.
Regards,
L M
Posted on October 12, 2003
Jelly Skulls
anything we put in here goes on the site even when edited
Posted on October 11, 2003
Mint Cracknell
Another bar that we think was made by Macintoshes. It was a brittle mint centre (lurid green if we remember right) covered in milk chocolate. Not sure when it went... but it surely did - apparently due to difficulties with production. The fact that it used to cut your tongue didn't help either!!!
Posted on October 10, 2003
Sounds very similar to Peppermint Crisp, which I used to buy a a kid in South Africa, and which is still available here: http://www.biltong.co.uk/detail.aspx?ID=2728
Posted by: Rob on September 21, 2006
Still available in South Africa and Australia, I believe. In SA, it's marketed by Nestle and is called Peppermint Crisp.
Posted by: John on September 28, 2006
Definitely sounds like the South African Peppermint Crisp - which you can buy at any South African shop in South West London. Except when I bought a whole lot for my English colleagues, they found it too weird - maybe that's why it didn't last. Pretty sure it is made by Nestle
Posted by: Fi on October 8, 2006
My favourite sweet ever! I was gutted when they stopped making them. Might be worth a trip to Australia or South Africa just to get it!!
Posted by: Gillian on November 9, 2006
Pacers
A bit like spearmint Opal Fruits (we refuse to call them Starburst!). They were soft and chewy and delicious. They started off all white and then the manufacturers added 3 green stripes. And then they stopped making them...why oh why???
Posted on October 9, 2003
i loved pacers when i was a kid!!BRING THEM BACK!!!
Posted by: nicki on August 11, 2006
mmmm, pacers. Well do I remember their superior mintiness and stuffing the green and white striped wrappers down the back of the seats in my parents renault 12. They loved that.
Bring back pacers.
Posted by: rachel on August 15, 2006
and, if I remember right, according to the advert, anyone who ate one would have a large green stripe appear on their clothes, a pair of ice dancers for instance!!
Posted by: igcw on August 18, 2006
Jap Desserts
Coloured candy on the outside, with coconut on the inside. Again a sweet that we would like to add... but we can't find a manufacturer. Any ideas?
Posted on October 8, 2003
jap desserts i have a full recipe for these
but cant find the record book with it in at the moment as have just moved all of the files!
Posted by: pat on October 25, 2006
Last knew of these being made by Dunhills of Pontefract but the line was dropped when haribo took them over
Posted by: JohnD on December 5, 2006
Jap Desserts without a doubt were my favourite sweets along with Toasted Teacakes, you've guessed it I love Coconut. Spanish Gold in those strange cubic stile waxy folded packets.
Where can I gets these childhood delights from???
ASH
Ex-Pontefract lad, but I don't like Ponte-Cakes.
Posted by: Ash on January 6, 2007
Frys Five Centres
This was around in the 1970's (along with a Cadburys bar which was like a box of chocolates in a bar). However it was withdrawn - what remains are the single flavour Frys Chocolate Cream, Frys Peppermint Cream and Frys Orange Cream (we stock them all!).
Frys Five Boys were the forerunner to Five Centres - with a different boy's face on each piece.
Posted on October 7, 2003
does anybody know where to find these?
Posted by: dee on September 24, 2006
Accoding to Cadbury Rep Jim Morris 20 years ago THe machinery that made them wore out and the sales did not justify replacing - they were discontinued !
Posted by: David on December 1, 2006
Spangles
Spangles were made by Mars. They were fruit flavoured square boiled sweets - in a tube (like refreshers). They were taken off the market back in the early 1980's but they were re-introduced in the 1990's due to pupular demand. However it seems that the buying public then remembered why they had not bought Spangles in larger quantities first time around and the sweets were withdrawn again.
Posted on October 6, 2003
Spangles weren't in a round tube like Refreshers. They were square with a circular depression on each side - like Tunes still are today. Also, People here have referred to the Old English variety as a single flavour sweet - they weren't. There were a selection of flavours - from memory, butterscotch, apple a mint one??? One of them was a sort of deep red colour. Either way, they were an assortment of flavours, not one "old english" flavour!
Posted by: Adrian on February 7, 2006
Nutty Bars
We get lots of requests for these. We remember them well but we don't know what happened to them (or why they would have been withdrawn -they were delicious!!!)
Posted on October 5, 2003
I remember these. Absolutely loved them. Completely forgot what the centre was tho... fudge, eh? No wonder I liked them so much. :)
The nearest thing I've found are Reece's Nutrageous bar - peanut butter wrapped in caramel, covered in nuts, and coated with chocolate. I'm gonna have to see if I can get hold of a Pay Day to see how close it is to the original!
Posted by: Liam on February 16, 2006
I remember the nutty bars from the 80s I thought I was the only one, or imagined they ever existed. Oblong bars covered with nuts and one thing i do remember they tasted great.
Rach
Posted by: rachel crumlish on May 26, 2006
Please Please Please bring back the nutty bar.
Posted by: Ann on December 10, 2006
I remember Nutty Bars and until finding this site thought I was the only one who did. Asked all my friends and anyone new, I met, to see if they did. The answer was always no. I remember them in a brown see-through plastic wrapper with large orange bubble lettering saying NUTTY. The bar itself was really firm and chewy (toffee and something else mixed) and covered in peanuts. Used to love nibbling the peanuts off first then eating the centre. Would love to see them make a come back. Texan bars, another favourite, did recently!
Posted by: lee Eason on February 28, 2007
Aztec Bar
Made by Cadburys and, we think, launched to coincide with the 1970 World Cup (the one where Brazil scored that fabulous goal - Carlos Alberto I think). Not sure how long it lasted after that - lots of people seem to remember it fondly but it has long since gone.
Posted on October 4, 2003
they had raisins in them - they were lush
Posted by: anon on August 6, 2006
Aztec was Cadburys' "mee too" response to Mars. Cadburyworld in Birmingham used to have a large murial in its advertising archive and there, in the corner, was - yes! - one forlorn, embarrassed looking Aztec wrapper. And now, even that's not there. Are they ashamed?!
Posted by: Nick Thomas on December 5, 2006
Space Dust
Space Dust was a big favourite in the 1970's. We heard rumours that it had been withdrawn due to stories of people's stomachs exploding because they had swallowed so much of the stuff! (maybe we should start a competition of bizarre sweet related stories. Anyhow, we have Space Dust - except that it is now Fiz Wiz - you can find it here
Posted on October 3, 2003
Texan Bars
Texan is our most requested chocolate bar. Texan was a chewy nougat centre covered in milk chocolate. It was made by Macintoshes (now part of Nestle). Texan was launched in the mid 1970's and disappeared in the mid 1980's.
Posted on October 2, 2003
I REMEMBER THE ADVERT AS DESCRIBED BUT THINK THE TAG LINE WAS "TAKES A MIGHTY LONG TIME TO CHEW"
Posted by: RANKINPAUL on June 6, 2006
Just a thought for those, like me, who have Texan Bar withdrawals - if you bite the 'crispies' off a double decker bar you have the closest thing we have to a Texan bar.!!
Posted by: David Roberts on November 10, 2006
Milk Maid Bars
My mum has been trying to find Milk Maid Bars, they were a cross between scottish tablet and swiss milk tablet and she thinks they were in a lilac wrapper, not seen them for about 15/20 years, any ideas?
Many thanks
Jane
Posted on October 1, 2003
I REALLY LOVE APPLAUSE CHOC BAR SO IF THEY ARE STILL BEING MADE PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHERE I CAN GET 1
Posted by: VICKY BOOTH on August 8, 2006