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Cabana's
Cabana's
Think it was made by Terrys. Chocolate coated coconut bar with cherry centre. Superb, as I remember anyway. If you get this I'll buy 100!
Posted on May 31, 2004
They were made by Rowntree MacIntosh's
My Grandma worked on the coconut line for longer that I can remember
We got them as part of a trial, before they went on the market :D
Posted by: Andy on February 15, 2007
Boost
Boost (in the red wrapper)
It was delicious, moist, crunchy coconut, covered with smooth caramel and encased in smooth milk chocolate mmm!!!
Posted on May 30, 2004
I have been on the hunt for these elusive laser beams for a while now. They were and remain mine and my sisters favourite sweets ever! I tracked down some laser beams by Malaco but they were not the same. Less hard and not hollow. I am still not sure whether I did not find the right ones and they are still out there somewhere or if the company have changed them. If they have changed them, they are not as good.
Nick
Posted by: Nick on February 6, 2006
The Peanut Boost (brown wrapper) was just a re-named Star Bar, I think they eventually reverted to Star Bar (still around) due to flagging sales!
Posted by: Dan Haines on November 13, 2006
Liquorice root
Liquorice root .
This was from the under ground and not the wood type,the actual root....
Posted on May 29, 2004
Jamaica Bar
Milk chocolate bar with raisins soaked in rum. Yummy!
Posted on May 28, 2004
available occasionally as Rum and Raisin 100g bar made by Cadbury [Poland] !!!
But Old Jamaica discontinued about 4 years ago.
Posted by: David on December 1, 2006
What happened to Jamaica chocolate bar laced in rum and raisins Mmm.Can anyone please tell me if still able to buy or even what became of the product thankyou.
Posted by: buckstar on December 9, 2006
Splicer
A chew bar. Multi coloured stripes of green, yellow and pink. Unsure of manufacturer. Was out just before WHAM's and the pies de resistance was when you put it in the fridge! Superb!
Posted on May 27, 2004
Blobs
Blobs
Boiled sweet, about twelve in a tube, small. Flavours: Cider, cola, treacle, apple-pear-banana, strawberry and cream, raspberry......
Posted on May 26, 2004
Yes I remember Blobs but could only remember the Toffee & Apple and Raspberry & Cream flavours - no one else I know seems to remember them ... can you still get them?
Posted by: Louise on April 25, 2006
Cola Chews
They were pink, hardboiled, cola flavoured sweets with a dark stripe and a chewy centre.
Posted on May 25, 2004
I am looking for cola chews aswell! i can't find them anywhere, do you know where i can get them from?! GinaX
Posted by: Gina on October 17, 2006
please also let me know i have tried quite a few parts of britain. I could still get them in one sweetshop in the mid 1990's and cant find them. I have dreams still about them
Posted by: NIchola Mundy on December 11, 2006
OMG - they were the best sweets ever..... I have been searching for them for ages, and have never been able to track them down.... Thought they would be in a very well stocked Quater shop in central london but they lady seemed convinced i wanted Cola Cubes!! Not the same by a long shot!!
I love these sweets if anyone has any idea of where to get them PLEASE let me know
Posted by: claire on March 14, 2007
Golden Nuggets
Golden Nuggets (not the cereal)
sweet description: Small gilt covered pieces of chewy candy, possibly a gum.
Posted on May 24, 2004
Fizz bomb
Fizzy round sweet, hard, but goes chewy in mouth,about same diameter as a 10p piece. I think they came in more than one flavour, but I remember the strawberry ones. This would have been late seventies to early eighies. Sold in jars.
Posted on May 23, 2004
You can get the small ones here: -
http://www.treasureislandsweets.co.uk/acatalog/fizz_bombs_sour.html
have never seen the big ones since way back then :(
Posted by: mega V on August 19, 2006
Menthol Fruits
Menthol Fruits
Small round boiled sweets,with bobbled top and bottom, different flavoured fruits, with menthol. If you ate too many you felt as if your head was going to explode with all the menthol!
Posted on May 22, 2004
Blackcurrant eclairs
These are the same as chocolate eclairs but with a blackcurrent centre.....
Posted on May 21, 2004
Thank goodness someone else remembers these! Nobody I know does - I don't like liquorice and everyone thinks I mean the liquorice and blackcurrant sweets and looks puzzled and humours me!! My Mum used to buy them for me from our corner sweet shop - happy memories - Bring them back - would love to taste them again!
Posted by: Corrina on December 15, 2006
Toffee cushion
Cushion shaped, toffee flavour hard sweet.
Posted on May 20, 2004
Chocolate Cushions
Its pink and yellow with chocolate in the middle.....
Posted on May 19, 2004
And they were wonderful!!! Bring them back!!! Please???
Posted by: Kirsty on January 3, 2006
Giant humbugs
The ones I remember were huge and filled your mouth. Two flavours I loved were Golden Toffee (gold mint outside and toffee inside), and blackcurrant and licquorice (blackcurrant outside, licquorice toffee inside). Delicous...I would love to be able to buy these again.
Posted on May 18, 2004
Maltona Drops
Boiled round sweet with an indentation in top and slight malt flavour.
Posted on May 17, 2004
Butterscotch Gums
A tube of butterscotch gums in the same format as fruit gums. Packaging was tartan in design.........
Posted on May 16, 2004
Wow I used to love those. Have been trying to think if they had a name but I'm the only person I know who remembers them. (I'm 45)
Posted by: sue on March 30, 2006
Double Agents
Boiled sweet 2 flavors in 1 sweet!
Posted on May 15, 2004
yes,,I have three badges which advertise them.yellow,blue and red. I remember the strawberry ones (red),but not sure on rest.I also remember Secret agents?? definatley did a lime with choc inside
Posted by: daz on February 15, 2007
Apple Jacks
Same as black jacks and fruit salads . green and white rapper cost 1p early 90's....
Posted on May 14, 2004
Too Right! Apple Jacks were AMAZING! Where r they now?
Posted by: Niall on November 14, 2005
Me like apple jacks, Jack me like apples
Posted by: Deborah Brennan on August 17, 2006
Quirks
Like a mint Smartie but imported from Finland. The outer shell was pale blue, pale green or white and mint-flavoured, wrapped around a chocolate centre. The sweet shops stocked them late 1970's to early 1980's. They came in little boxes with flip-top lids.
Posted on May 13, 2004
Splicer bar
A chewy fruity multi-coloured bar that tasted like 3 packets of Opal fruits all mixed up together.
Posted on May 12, 2004
Fondant Creams
White,Green,Pink,Yellow fondant creams shaped liked flowers....
Posted on May 11, 2004
Howells in Cardiff (part of the House of Fraser group) sell them in their food hall, in the glass cabinet where the loose chocolates are sold. You can buy them in boxes of 6, 12, 15 and 25, I think. They're not cheap but, my God, they're good..........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Sniff on July 2, 2006
Mint Chocolate Crisp
White oval boiled sweet with a layer of crispy chocolate in the middle...
Posted on May 10, 2004
Yes I remember chocolate mint crisps. My son, 34, mentioned them only the other day. Scrummy.
Posted by: lorraine on February 26, 2007
Magic wand
Liquorice wand filled with sherbert.........
Posted on May 9, 2004
Milky Way (not white)
It was the same as the white one apart from the filling which was brown, they should bring it back!
Posted on May 8, 2004
Hi,according to my wife Quicksave are selling them, cheers.
Posted by: R Ginnever on December 6, 2005
flyte bars are similar to old style milky ways. I don't really like the new ones
Posted by: Kyla on September 27, 2006
Radical Timebombs
Radical Timebombs
Hard sour coated ball same size as jaw breaker but when sucked it produced lots of fizzy foam in your mouth then turns to bubblegum, was amazing, only saw them abroad, in cyprus, similar to eye poppers though......
Posted on May 7, 2004
Lollyade
Lemon sherbert with a lolly in a plastic bag....very sour and made by Trebor I think?!
Posted on May 6, 2004
I used to work for Trebor and as I remember it they stopped making these Lollyade lollies but carried on sending them abroad for a while afterwards.
Posted by: Angela Brown on March 7, 2006
I used to love Lollyade as a kid - would still buy it today if it were around.
It's all the good things that disappear
Posted by: DavidH on August 22, 2006
Golden Cup
You could buy it in a small long round-ended (each end) soft toffee filled chocolate bar. You could also buy it in a larger version which was in segments but it was the small ones that I remember best - they were brill.
Posted on May 5, 2004
Moose
Like a milky way with raisins,about 28 years ago, no one has heard of it!
Posted on May 4, 2004
Roller cola balls
Silver marble sized balls white inside cola flavour.........
Posted on May 3, 2004
Dinosour eggs
These were AMAZING! They were huge gobstoppers that came in a cardboard box and changed colour as you sucked them. They had a million layers, each a different colour, and we used to suck them for a bit & then put them back in their box to save for later. When you got right to the middle they had a really sour refresher-type stuff at the centre. Fantastic! I suspect they were Willy- Wonka creations, but I might have imagined that! We bought them from R S McColls newsagent in the early 80s.
Posted on May 2, 2004
I think these are the same thing I used to buy them from the ice cream man in the late 80's. They were made by willy wonka only the ones I bought came in a plastic wrapper and there were 2 jawbreakers inside. They were the best!
Posted by: Allison on January 31, 2006
Wompa
They came in cola or peppermint flavour and I think they were about 10p each they were so yummy please help me find them I will buy loads!
Posted on May 1, 2004
I remember these really well and i miss them loads i too would buy plenty if we could get them they were my favs!
Please help to find some.
Posted by: jackie on September 25, 2006
can you remember the advert and the jingle ,we can !
Posted by: phil whaley on January 30, 2007