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postman pat chews
Like a strawberry milkshake flavoured penny chew, blue and pink wrapping, same size as black jacks and fruit salad penny chews...
Posted on June 30, 2004
Toffee Rolls
It was like the Cadburys chocolate eclairs, but it was in a red wrapper, and tasted nicer! I last seen the sweet around 1990 when I was still in primary school, it was my dad and my favourite!
Posted on June 29, 2004
Smilies
A large round sweet with a smiley face on it. Came In different flavours......
Posted on June 28, 2004
Smilies were awful and only sold by ice cream vans containing men who didn't wash their hands. Now I'm all growed up I will only buy sweets nicely sealed in their packets and not subjected to the mischiefs of frustrated ice cream men. No offence, if anyone's Dad is an ice cream man!! Plenty of dentists have done alright out of rock hard smilies though. All's fair in business right?
Posted by: Hayley on November 10, 2006
Rose buds
Small pink balls, taste of perfume, similiar to parma violets.....
Posted on June 27, 2004
Starbar
Peanut nougat filling covered in caramel and chocolate, in a bar.
Posted on June 26, 2004
I live in Northern Ireland and we can still get starbars. Sometimes sweets are tested in an area to gauge the response and if it is not good they are taken off. N.I. must have eaten a lot of starbars as we did with salt and vinegar peanuts. N.I. is deemed to be a perfect test area for a lot of stuff.
Posted by: ALISTAIR SMYTH on November 28, 2005
Star Bars are still widely available. Used to be in a brown wrapper, but now red. Had one at lunchtime today!
Posted by: Dan on November 9, 2006
Just as an addition to the above, the original Star Bar was renamed as Boost Peanut and added to the Boost range, but when they dropped the original Coconut Boost, the Peanut version was rebadged back in to Star Bar.
Posted by: Dan Haines on November 13, 2006
Blobs
Sold in tubes. There were several flavours: toffee apple, strawberry & cream and cola and probably more that I've forgotten.....
Posted on June 25, 2004
I'm pretty sure there were only three flavours
Toffee Apple
Straberry and Creme
Cola
They were launched the same time as chewits.
And they used to cut your mouth to shreads!
Posted by: Steve Kelly on September 29, 2006
Tabs
They were very small sweets that looked like small house bricks. They were all different colours, and packed on top of each other. When you opened them all the sherbert off them would fall out....
Posted on June 24, 2004
Gold Rush
Bubble gum in small gold chunks in small pull string bag!!!
Posted on June 23, 2004
Strawberry Pasta
Red square fizzy sweets
Posted on June 22, 2004
Nest something or other!!
It was from Cadbury's. Had a whipped chocolate mousse type filling and was covered in Cadburys' milk chocolate which had been 'spun' over it to make it look like a birds nest...I think!
Posted on June 21, 2004
Teddy bears!
Penny chew size, jellyish like cola bottles. Was my first choice when I was a kid, black, green, red, orange, yellow etc
Posted on June 20, 2004
Nerds
Small balls of candy that came in a cardboard box split into two sections -flavours included Atomic Apple
Posted on June 19, 2004
Splicer
Chew bar with ripples of fruit flavours like opel fruits joined together,classic 70`s.....
Posted on June 18, 2004
Palm Toffee
Toffee strip with banana or strawberry flavour strip through the centre.
Posted on June 17, 2004
Liquorice pipes
Black Liquorice shaped like a pipe with red sparkles on the end of the pipe....
Posted on June 16, 2004
I bought some in a sweet shop in Ambleside in September 2006. Nice, but not quite the same (the fontant bit in the pipe bowl wasn't nice!).
It was great fun (and totally non-PC) giving one to each of my kids and getting them to pretend to smoke!!
Posted by: Steve Kelly on November 17, 2006
Wilko mints
White minty stuff with liquoice centre.....
Posted on June 15, 2004
Apple Jack
Chocolate Bar...I think dark chocolate - over a really sharp apple jelly....
Posted on June 14, 2004
i remember eating an applejack chocolate bar once in summer of 1972 when i was 9 - it was delicious.
Posted by: sally leggett on November 22, 2006
Wrigglers
Gummy worm shaped fruit flavoured sweet!
Posted on June 13, 2004
i would love to know where i can find wrigglers, does anybody know?
Posted by: kevin on January 18, 2006
BRING BACK MY LOVELY WRIGGLERS - THE BEST SWEETS EVER MADE - I SEEM TO REMEMBER THEY DID LARGE SNAKES AS WELL BUT THEY WERE NOT AS NICE - MAYNARDS - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BRING THEM BACK
Posted by: Kim Grange on August 2, 2006
RUMBA
This was a chocolate covered bar of soft nougat with a rum flavour.
Posted on June 12, 2004
Reeces Cups
Soft peanut butter in chocolate....
Posted on June 11, 2004
I don't think you can get them in England, but my daughter recently went to Canada and they have them there. She really wishes they were over here as she loves them. Yes they are soft peanut butter-cups covered in chocolate.
Posted by: Julia Daniels on October 28, 2006
Hey! You can still buy Reeses cups everywhere!!! I recently bought a packet in my local newsagents (edinburgh)
Posted by: Melissa Campbell on November 1, 2006
crispets
Oval chocolate with coconut in them with crispet written across them in the chocolate...
Posted on June 10, 2004
Nutty Bar
Nutty bar - thick fudge finger bar coated in a layer of toffee and covered in peanuts and sold in a brown cellophane wrapper.
Posted on June 9, 2004
Texan Bar
texan bar - it was a chocolate covered nougat bar in an orange wrapper and it was advertised by a cartoon cowboy in an orange wrapper.
Posted on June 8, 2004
"Nutty Bar"
I think its called "Nutty Bar"
Chewy toffee bar covered complety in peanuts.......
Posted on June 7, 2004
Laser
Long thin boiled sweet type of stick which was red and orange coloured. They were about 2p each in the early eighties.
Posted on June 6, 2004
I am so glad to see other people remember laser bars - I loved them until I broke a tooth on one. I made the mistake of trying to bite it when break was nearly over at school and managed to break off part of my tooth!
Posted by: Cathy on February 22, 2007
Laser
Long thin boiled sweet type of stick which was red and orange coloured. They were about 2p each in the early eighties.
Posted on June 5, 2004
Hallelujah!!!!Thank god that other people remember them, I was beginning to think i'd imagined it all as a child. No other sweet since lives up to the mighty laser bar!! Searched high and low for these to no avail.
Posted by: DEBS on December 2, 2005
my mother allwayz goes on about these sweets dem sayin how she used 2 buy them 4 2 pence n then people at school would sell then 2 overs lool does ni1 no were you could get them or if they stil get manufactured??thank u
Posted by: TASHA on August 17, 2006
Everyone thought I was mad and made these beauties up.....now if only I could find one.
Posted by: Dave on August 17, 2006
how great it is to see so many people remember laser bars. I used to buy loads of them when my son was a baby. I would definatley buy some if I could find some. It must be about 20 years since I last heard of them though.Aaahhhh the memories Mmmmm.
Posted by: gaynor on September 21, 2006
I thought that my brother and I were the only people who could remember these!! 2p each from our corner shop!!!!!!!!! Please someone start making and selling these again!
Posted by: sally on September 27, 2006
I used to love laser bars, then they disappeared from the shops. If anyone knows if they are still made or where to get some I'd be very grateful to find out. I'm going to keep searching and if I find some I'll be back to let you know where you can get them. Cheers!
Posted by: Alan on October 15, 2006
I have been googling for ages trying to remember what those sweets were called. Even tried describing them to people. But then with a bit of searching managed to find this page. I loved laser bars. bring them pack PURLEASE!!!!
Posted by: Siobhan on February 9, 2007
Postman Pat Penny Chews
A Penny (or maybe two-penny) chew with a blue(ish) wrapper. Had a picture of Postman Pat on the wrapper and were strawberry milkshake flavour... they were marvellous and used to be sold in Castle Bromwich village post office in Birmingham.....
Posted on June 4, 2004
I used to love these! When I got 20p I used to mis Postman Pats with fruit salads...
Posted by: Aoife on September 19, 2006
Jap Nougats
Similar to Jap Desserts, cube shaped, brown in colour, with a sugar dusting on the outside, soft chewy inside.
Posted on June 3, 2004
Double Agents
Different flavours available, favourite was Strawberry had a white centre. Boiled sweet outside creamy in the centre may have been made by Rowntrees?
Posted on June 2, 2004
COFFEE FLAVOUR WALNUT WHIP
ITS MADE BY NESTLE
Posted on June 1, 2004
where can i buy it
Posted by: Denise on June 4, 2006
we want coffee flavoured walnut whips
Posted by: Denise on June 4, 2006
where can i find coffee walnut whips please help!!
Posted by: Chris on December 11, 2006
rileys made toffee rolls absolutely delicious please try to get them in stock
Posted by: ali gib on July 22, 2006