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Beechnut chewing gum
I had some Wrigleys Extra chewing gum the other day, and my Mum thought they were the Beechnut chewing gum as they were a similar size and shape.
If they still make it I would like to buy some for her. It would be a real blast from the past for her!
Many thanks
L.G.
Posted on January 31, 2004
Blobs
blobs I think they were made by trebore???
Posted on January 30, 2004
Yes, YES, YES!!! I remember blobs. They were fab. I remember my mum taking me to the sweet shop and i would always buy blobs. I was born in 1972, so this would definately be the mid to late 70's. I loved cola blobs which were hard cola candy which was full of fizzy sherbet, and toffee apple blobs which were full of a chewy type toffee. Yes they did cut your mouth to bits. but i do recall there being quite a few flavours as i seem to recall it being difficult to decide which ones to chose. They were in a tube like packet and had funny little faces on "blobs" on the packet.
OHHHH nostalgia.
Lets have a blob party?????
Posted by: Tracey Alston on February 19, 2007
Dinosaur eggs
Came in a box and could be sucked for DAYS (literally) - they were so big at first they barely fit in your mouth and got smaller and smaller - so long ago I can't remember what was inside but I remember it being amazing!!!!
S.G.
Posted on January 29, 2004
You can get the smaller version still thru candywarehouse.com. Not nearly as good as the larger egg, but may be good....
Posted by: Dino sucker on February 24, 2006
Dinosaur eggs (very popular in the early 1980s) got banned at my school (Neville's Cross Primary, County Durham). The reason: The kids liked them too much! One boy called Malcolm Whale decided to spend all the pocket money he'd been saving, go 1st thing in the morning to the local post office that sold them, and buy out the entire stock. They cost him 10p each but he was selling them on in a mafia style operation at 50p a shot (and kids were prepared to pay!). The age of Thatcherite private enterprise indeed!!!
They were the greatest 80s sweets *ever*. In second place for me were Watermelons (massive watermelon flavoured gobstopper in a similar sized box and made by the same company I think)
Posted by: Katherine Bone on November 15, 2006
Ipso's
I am sure that I can remember a sweet from the 70's called Ipso's.
The were little sweets that came in a box. I have no idea who made them but I do remember them coming in different flavours and they had a very strong sweet smell. Does anyone else remember these little boxes of delights?
Posted on January 28, 2004
I was born in 78 and I still have the ipso boxes from the eighties amoungst my lego collection
Posted by: Jamie Beckford on March 12, 2006
Ipso's were made by Nicholas Products who are now Sara Lee. They also made those whistle lollies aswell. My mum used to work there years ago, and would sometimes bring us some home.
Posted by: Dot on March 29, 2006
I can remember them, the boxes fixed together like LEGO. I'm glad I'm not the only person who can remember them....
Posted by: Peter on April 8, 2006
Yes, I remember these. Like tic tacs. The boxes had lego like connectors around the side so you could stick them together. I know I should get a life, but I still have a couple of empty boxes in with my lego collection and they still smell of the sweets inside!
Posted by: jennie wignall on June 28, 2006
Yes, I have eaten them! There was even a TV advert with a song, # "Ipso, Ipso, Ipso Calypso...# " The boxes could be joined together like lego too! Three flavours I think.
Posted by: K Marsh on August 6, 2006
For some odd reason I recently remembered these candies and the fun boxes they came in. Does anyone know if they are still in production and where to get them?
Posted by: Sunny on October 4, 2006
The brain is a funny thing. I only ever had these candies once: Halloween 1984. I haven't thought of them since that time until today while trick-or-treating with my neice and nephew. I was compelled to find them online and see if they were still in production. Turns out they're not, but it was fun to see all of you remember IPSO candies too.
Posted by: Trixie on November 1, 2006
Jubilee Bags
Jubilee Bags? sweets and a novelty toy, with a puzzle printed on the back.
You can get lucky bags but they are not the same
J.B.
Posted on January 27, 2004
Nebury Fruits
Hi there,
Looking for an old favourite of my mum's they were called Nebury Fruits, a type of fruit jelly with a liquid centre.
Any help in finding a box would be much appreciated
K
Posted on January 26, 2004
NEWBERRY FRUITS were a great favourite of my Dad's, and always a part of his Christmas or birthday. Made a brief reappearance 2-3 years ago, but nowhere to be seen nowadays.
YORK FRUITS suffice, but the connoisseuar says they're not quite the same.
Posted by: SR on July 26, 2006
Raffaello sweets
Are you able to get the Raffaello sweets? They are made by the same people who make Ferrero Rocher and are made of a white crispy shell covered in desicated coconut and the shell contains a nut and a creamy filling.
I.R.
Posted on January 25, 2004
I love them too .... yum..yum...
Posted by: Chi on September 20, 2006
You can get them in poland :D
Posted by: Adam on January 9, 2007
Pretty much all over the continent, I normally pick them up in Paris but I have seen them here probably at the Polish shop, very expensive!
Posted by: JoJo on March 14, 2007
Secrets
What happened to the chocolate bar Secrets. it was a bar with chocolate layered in the same birds nest fashion as a walnut whip and in the centre it had a chocolate mouse
Posted on January 24, 2004
I have been wondering for quite some time now where secret bars went to i want them back.
Posted by: Lisa Hamilton on March 21, 2006
I am trying to remember a chocolate bar I was hooked on in the mid eighties - sounds similar to the secret bar in that it was thin rectangular and creamy tasting but I am sure it has a blue wrapper and was called something else....any ideas out there?!
Posted by: kate on October 4, 2006
Topic bars
Great website!
Can you tell me when Topic bars stopped containing glac‚ cherries?
Posted on January 23, 2004
Topics NEVER had cherries in, your probably thinking of the similar Cabana choc bar.
Posted by: Dan Haines on November 9, 2006
Splicer bar
whatever happened to; A splicer bar - multicoloured chewy bar
An amazin raisin bar - rum and raisin milky way type bar
Cabana!
Bounty with cherries and caramel.....
We miss them and would like them back. please advise
Many thanks
J.
Posted on January 22, 2004
At last - someone else remembers Splicer bars! My Brother is convinced I made it up - or it's a throwback from smoking something leftover from the 60s. I remember the ad with the racing cars and the winner with a tropy full of Splicer bars - even the song............'Splicer is nicer, it's great every time - bursting with raspberry and lemon & lime'...... sad I know. Please someone prove me right!
Posted by: mand on February 24, 2007
Maverick Chocolate Bars
What ever happened to "Maverick" chocolate bars? They were a bit like a fuse or a picnic but better!! They had nuts and biscuit and were extreamly tasty.
Please help me find them!
Posted on January 21, 2004
I adored Maverick Bars, why the hell did they stop making them? Mmmmm. Obviously not enough people with good taste.
Posted by: Frog on October 11, 2005
I used to loooooooove maverick bars - they had biscuit, caramel and raisins in and they were great
I haven't seen them for about 7-8 years though :(
Posted by: Clare on December 20, 2006
liquorice pipes
Great site by the way!
When I was growing up I used to get liquorice selection boxes for Christmas they had things like your catherine wheels in and wands etc, but they also had liquorice pipes, have these been banned to stop kids imitating smoking? They were great, would like to get my hands on some!
Can you help?
Cheers
D
Posted on January 20, 2004
Mint Cracknel
I've just come back from Australia and Mint Cracknel is alive and well down there - just wish I'd bought more bars of it back with me!!
Sorry can't remember who manufactures it there
Not a lot of help - sorry!
All the best
P
Posted on January 19, 2004
orange and lemon slices
Great Website, I'm trying to find these sweets that my husband loves but I don't know their names.
They are orange and lemon slices that are slightly chewy with like a sugary/sticky sort of coating to them.
Not much help I know but if you know what they are or indeed have them already on your site then please could you let me know?
LJ
Posted on January 18, 2004
Cadburys secret bar
Cadburys secret bar - spiral wired chocolate over a soft creamy something. I can remember them vaguely. Any ideas what happened to that?
Or the wispa.
I remember going on a walk with the cubs and having some boiled sweets - blackcurrant and liquorice (but they were round balls) and I often had small fruity boiled sweets that were about the size and shape of a double thick 1p piece. Any ideas what they were???
C.
Posted on January 17, 2004
Me and my brothers used to love secret bars, but no 1 else we know seems to remember them. Me and my mum have asked in alsorts of sweet shop and nobody seems to have a clue what we are talking about. I think they should be brought back especially now I have a child on the way so my son/daughter can enjoy them aswell
Posted by: heather on March 19, 2007
Blobs
Whatever happened to 'Blobs'? They were around in the late 70's?
C.
Posted on January 16, 2004
Ice Breaker
Whatever happened to Ice Breaker. It was a chocolate bar with a pale blue wrapper and it had 'shards of glass' in the middle. Not sure who the manufacturer was. Was it replaced by anything.
Posted on January 15, 2004
Wow, Ice Breaker Bars -I am glad other people remember them, as I doubted myself. They were so tasty, can you still get them?
Posted by: Jackie on January 29, 2007
Palm toffee
Can you please tell me whatever happened to the bar of Palm toffee, with banana flavoured toffee sandwiched in between two layers of buttery creamy toffee, marked into squares for easy breaking? Is there any, anywhere?
Kind regards
LC
Posted on January 14, 2004
My wife's grandfather used to work for Palm Toffee, which was based in Birmingham. They closed down years ago, but he still has all the recipes, somewhere!
Posted by: Ben on September 15, 2006
Newberry Fruits
Newberry Fruits.....Any ideas, please? Are they still made? Where can I buy them?
Thanks in advance
Posted on January 13, 2004
I would also like to know what happened to Meltis Newberry Fruits, are they still made? If so, where can they be purchased?
Posted by: Mrs Jennifer Mott on December 8, 2005
In case youre still wondering, Meltis who made NewBerry Fruits closed in 1996.
Shame eh?
Posted by: Michael on January 7, 2006
i'm dying for a newberry fruit. tell me where. a taste of my childhood
Posted by: bernice saxony on May 26, 2006
if you find out will you let me know please. bernice
Posted by: bernice saxony on May 26, 2006
Meltis went bankrupt about 8 years ago. No other manufacturer has decided to pick up production of NewBerry Fruits. Sadly. :(
Posted by: Phil Glew on June 9, 2006
I to have been looking for years for a supplier of Newberry Fruits. Did you find one and if so can you let me know.
Regards Rolfe
Posted by: ROLFE on June 14, 2006
Perhaps someone could persuade a manufacturer to make the sweets. They were totally different to anything that exists today, and there would surely be a market for them.
Posted by: Wendy on October 17, 2006
Spangles
You mentioned on the website that Spangles were fruit-flavoured. In fact, the flavour that everyone reminisces about is "Old English" which was an elusive but compelling sweet spicy flavour, reminiscent of cinnamon, anise and cloves. They were superb, and if Mars thought that the fruit ones were what everyone requested, then their market research is as good as their chocolate, i.e. not very. I would cut off my right hand to taste them again.
Well, probably not, but they were delicious.
T
Posted on January 12, 2004
Lime Cracknell
Hello again!
The Lime Cracknell came in the same wrapper as the more famous Mint, except it was white!
B
Posted on January 11, 2004
"Fizz Bombs"
Hello
Any idea where I can get a few jars of the old favourite "Fizz Bombs"
in the north east a company called dobsons did them but they are no longer around
I would pay good money to find them
CG
Posted on January 10, 2004
I remember my local sweet shop taking down a few jars and telling me that they weren't allowed to sell them any more! That would be around '82-'83.
Posted by: Sunrise on May 4, 2006
metal mickeys favorite eh?
are the 'fizz balls' on the website similar to what you'r thinking perhaps?
Posted by: a nonny mouse on May 5, 2006
chocolate nougat
There is a sweet I used to have about forty years ago I can't remember what it was called, it was a chocolate nougat it came in orange wrappers and purple wrapper and you bought them by the quarter?
Posted on January 9, 2004
Fry's Chocolate sandwich
Please put me out of my misery and tell me if I'm mad.
I remember as a child being addicted to something called a Fry's Chocolate sandwich, one bar was a layer of plain, then a layer of milk, then another layer of plain, the other bar was the same in reverse.
NO-ONE remembers these except me - I've tried chocolate addicts of all ages and they all think I'm making it up - am I??? was it all just a dream??
Please tell me if anyone else has asked you for this.................
Thankyou
T.S.
Posted on January 8, 2004
No, you didn't just dream it, they certainly did exist. I was also rather fond of them, partly for the challenge of attempting to de-construct the layers :)
Posted by: maggzy on April 26, 2006
Secret
I am looking for an old chocolate candy called Secret. I do not recall who made it and it has been years since I have seen it. Do you recall this candy?
Thank you
L.
Posted on January 7, 2004
i am 19 years old and i can remember secret bars from whe i was about 5 or 6 i used 2 run out 2 the van and get 1 they were absolutley gorgeous. I dont know anyone else who can remember it tho :( shame because they were immense . the crumbly chocolate * drools *
Posted by: steven on December 28, 2006
I love them i want them back but apparently we have no chance they cost too much to make and don't sell enough so they were always produced with out a profit but if any one finds them then please tell where
Posted by: laura on February 24, 2007
Pink Panther Bar
Any ideas?
It was like Milky Bar but was pink and tasted pink...
T.D.
Posted on January 6, 2004
Oh yeah I remember them they were my favourite of all time. I'm sat in my office with some vacation chocolates called milka from Austria, and they have a small strawberry one which of course got us 40 somethings into reminiscing about PP bars.
Sam
Posted by: Sami on February 26, 2007
Chocstix
Whatever happened to Trebor? Chocstix. They were wonderful. I note you stock barley sugar sticks but these were about 8 inches long and had a twist.
B.
Posted on January 5, 2004
Chockstix were my favourites. Bring them back!
Posted by: anon on September 20, 2005
Dime Bars
Can no longer find my favourite Dime Bars, either single or multipack. Do you have any news?
Excellent site, my 9year old grandson can't believe some of the sweets his father used to have.
Regards,
Mrs DP
Posted on January 4, 2004
pop along to ikea,and you will be able to buy some there!
Posted by: dee on September 24, 2006
Raspberry Ruffle Bars
Hi,
I think the last time I bought one of these was about 10 years ago; I can't remember who made them but they were very similar to the Raspberry Ruffles you already sell, but obviously in bar form. Yummy coconut/raspberry filling! I think they were about 3 inches long, 1 inch wide and 0.5 an inch thick. Are they still made? Great site BTW.
Cheers,
D
Posted on January 3, 2004
Hi,
I bought Jameson's Raspberry Ruffle bars only a few years ago. I seem to remember they were slightly different to the ones I had as a kid, slightly more, ooh, I dunno...gooey perhaps? Still nice, though. They brought out a mint version (5 years ago??) which was also quate nace.
Interesting, a?
Jack, BS.
Posted by: Jack Oley on November 24, 2005
They are sold in Morrinsons' Supermarkets in packs of 5!
Posted by: Lindsay on September 19, 2006
Sweet memories
I have lived in South Africa for 20 years and grew up (did I?) in the UK.
Sherbet Lemons??? Took me back many years. What about the coconut slivers? Remember? Yum. And the winter mixture with the clove flavour. Am I being too nostaligic?
Posted on January 2, 2004
Strawberry Lollies
I have been searching for these lollies for years!
I used to have them as a child in the 1970's.
I am not too sure of their name (I think it was something like "Strawberries")
They looked exactly like a medium size strawberry. Red in colour and a hard sugar coating on the outside with delicious moist coconut inside!
They were just divine.
Regards
LB (Australia)
Posted on January 1, 2004
I dont know if its the same but here in the usa they have it still I believe
Posted by: Mike on January 3, 2006