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Gold Bullion Bar
Bluebirds toffee in a gold foil tray - shaped like a bullion bar. They were about 4 or 5 inches long & cost 10p in the 80's.
Posted on July 31, 2004
Coal from Newcastle
Boiled sweet black and tangy....
Posted on July 30, 2004
Chocolate Teacakes
Like a sugary teacake but covered in chocolate.....
Posted on July 29, 2004
Bliss
Narrow chocolate bar, in about 5 or 6 sections. Each piece was a nut surrounded in a gooey mixture, runnier than the walnut whip mixture. They were about in the early 60's, when I was a child, and they were gorgeous. I only had one now and again as a treat, as they weren't 'childrens' prices!
Posted on July 28, 2004
Visa-Versas
A pack of chocolate sweets, white on the inside and dark on the outside, then there were milk chocolate on the inside and white on the outside. oh they were the best. I've been trying to track them down for years, when I saw your site in the Sun I thought you might be able to help. I'm not even sure who made them but if you could get some I'd buy from you for the rest of my life!
Posted on July 27, 2004
Vice Versas were the best! Two tone chocolate minstrel-like things. Mmmm. Why don't they still make them?
Posted by: Georgina on November 13, 2006
Vice Versa.. nostalgia for may, and impossible to locate. A product made by Nestle for some years prior to their disappearance from all markets they were last seen around 2004 floating around some UK corner shops. I doubt very much if these will come back into mainstream unless those that really liked them start pestering Nestle themselves.
I liked them but was rather young at the time so I forget what they really tasted like. These days they'd be competing with other similar products already on the market namely M&Ms.
Posted by: Saphrina on March 13, 2007
Red liquorice
Red liquorice by Bassetts about 10" long used to buy in 1967!
Posted on July 26, 2004
Merrymaid Caramels
Chocolate coated, individually wrapped caramel toffees with a picture of a milk-maid on.
Posted on July 25, 2004
Bubblegum
Not sure but it was bubble gum
Mild taste of germolene(its true!) and you got a smiley face transfer tattoo in the wrapping, one penny I think!
Posted on July 24, 2004
Ice Breaker
Ice Breaker
Well, it was dark chocolate with crispy BLUE bits in..the bar was quite big, like the old Turkish Delight bars...same time as my favourite the MINT CRACKNEL BAR!!!
Posted on July 23, 2004
Matinee assortment
Marzipan sweets, each one almost a work of art, quite expensive....
Posted on July 22, 2004
I dream of those sweets. I would buy pounds of them if I could and lock myself away and scoff lots. The fondants can be bought in Lakeland shop.Creme Parisienne or something like that, but those are not the best ones. The strawberries were the best. Harrods marzipan fruits not nearly as good. And the last time I bought 10 sweets it cost£8!
Posted by: Dee Bates on August 1, 2006
Milk Chew
Milk Chew - I think
It was a white penny chew wrapped in white paper with red and blue squares on the paper.
Posted on July 21, 2004
well i weas a fan of chew bars, there was 1 in blue wrapper called milk chew get it for about 10p. also there was a wider 1 with multi coloured wrapper, like refresher but not!! sorry not to b exact.
Posted by: Rachel on September 4, 2006
Super Moose
Chocolate bar very similar to milky way only more delicious!
Posted on July 20, 2004
Yeah! Super Moose/mousse was like a cool milky way but the chocolate had parallel ridges on the top which somehow made it taste better??!
Posted by: fil on October 21, 2006
Anniseed Laces
Anniseed Laces.
They are like the strawberry flavoured laces, but I just cannot find the anniseed flavoured ones. I put down Maltesers as my favourite of all time, but I've just remembered, these anniseed laces were!
Posted on July 19, 2004
Mint sensations
A disc/dome shaped sweet, with a buttered shell and chocolate centre (made by Nuttalls possibly)
Posted on July 18, 2004
i have been looking for these and also fruit sensations for ages
can anyone at all out there tell me if they are still available and who made them
Posted by: col on August 19, 2006
Secret agents
A tube,I think they were hard boiled outside and soft inside but I could be wrong. Certainly a tube of sweets though,about 1977.
Posted on July 17, 2004
I thought they were called double agents. they were definitely boiled sweets with a soft sherbety centre I think. think they came in two flavours in either a yellow packet or blue. also think the packet had a shillouette of a spy holding a magnifying glass and wearing a trilby hat.
Posted by: john simpson on October 21, 2006
Vice Versa
Like Minstrels Brown Shell With White Chocolate and White Shell With Milk Chocolate.....
Posted on July 16, 2004
Booooomf you knows it!!!!!
Posted by: Chris Moore! on August 28, 2006
I too have been looking everywhere for vice versa's. I think they were made by Nestle but can't track them down anywhere. Please somebody find them!!!
Posted by: laura on November 15, 2006
Apple Tarts
About the size of an Aniseed Ball, with all the defined colours encircling it. Tasted very sharp.....
Posted on July 15, 2004
Sherbet?
A small square box which opened at the top with the best sherbert ever, quite fizzy.. box made from same stuff as sherbert fountain, the box had pictures on every side.....
Posted on July 14, 2004
Strawberry Hearts?
Strawberry Hearts (i think)
They were small red sugar coated heart shaped marshmallow type things in a long white bag that you could hardly get your hand into!
Posted on July 13, 2004
Yes you can still get them! The Haribo brand have them and they are sold at local shops in the pick n mix! goodbye from gary poole
Posted by: Gary Poole on September 27, 2006
Coals from Newcastle
Very fizzy, same range as your tom thumb drops, blackcurrant sour flavour, turned your mouth black!!!
Posted on July 12, 2004
Banjo
Light and crispy wafer with layer of nuts the wrapper was just like a twirl is now and a very catchy advertisement.....banjo banjo the one for me and you etc
Posted on July 11, 2004
Yes this was one of my favourites at the time too. A really satisfying snack - I used to buy them from school tuck shop if I remember rightly.... mmmm!!!
Posted by: Di Norton on November 5, 2006
Gold Rush Bubblegum
Gold Rush Bubblegum (I think)
Little gold nugget pieces of bubblegum that came in a small plastic pouch/bag with a drawstring. It had a drawing of a gold mine on the front if I remember right....
Posted on July 10, 2004
Pyramint
2 versions. First was a single chocolate pyramid with a mint centre. The second version was a rectangular bar of mini chocolate pyramids with a mint truffle centre. They were around in late 80's till early 90's I think.
Posted on July 9, 2004
I loved pyramint as a child, while in my sick bed in hospital, this was the one thing i looked forward to, however, this was back when parents could stay with you, my father ate my only pyramint while i slept.
Posted by: karly on August 24, 2006
I remember buying pyramints in a green rectangular box (1988). It contained three dark chocolate pyramids with a lovely gooey white mint centre. I also remember that there was something in them that made my teachers at school think I had been drinking alcohol!! Anyone else get boozy breath from them? Very puzzling indeed!
Posted by: Jo on December 16, 2006
Dinosour Egg
Dinosour Egg (I think)
Used to come in a little square box. Egg shaped (of course). Used to suck through several layers of different coloured sour tasting shells (bit like jawbreakers) until you got to the sherbert middle. About 20 years ago. Also did a water melon flavoured one.
Posted on July 8, 2004
Fizzbomb
Sherbety orange coloured round sweet with rough surface - could take the skin off your tongue if you had more than a couple!!
Posted on July 7, 2004
Fizz bombs
Round size of a kop kop, fizzes like stardust powder but is hard and crunchy....
Posted on July 6, 2004
Fizz bombs were great, they came in many colours, but the black ones were called "Coals from Newcastle" and I think the white ones might have had an alternative name too, probably something to do with snow?
Posted by: fil on October 21, 2006
Chelsea Whoppers
I think they tasted kinda chocolatley(?) and were a cross between a gum and a foamy chew thing.
Posted on July 5, 2004
Lamb chops, new potatoes and green peas!
Soft sugar-paste type candy made to look like the above - don't know the make but was available in Lancashire in the early 1960s....
Posted on July 4, 2004
Chocolate hexagonals
Don't remember the name. Was in a brown wrapped and must have had a short run, maybe only in the early 1990's. Chocolate hexagonals, about 5 to a pack, with caramel and and a single hazelnut in the centre of each. Think there was a version in a blue packet - maybe dark chocolate??
Posted on July 3, 2004
did you ever find out what this chocolate bar was called??
Posted by: j on February 21, 2006
Rockie bar
Chocolate covered crunch candy. It wasn't wrapped and they came in yellow box.
Posted on July 2, 2004
choc stix
Looked like a barley sugar stick. toffee on the outside, chocolate in the middle.
Posted on July 1, 2004
They were my favourite! Used to buy one at the paper shop when i started my paperround and depending on the weather, itd last for hours! if it was hot I could get 2 and have them finished within a street, if it was cold, one would last me all day!
I think they were still around in the early nineties, but sadly, now Ive kids who could do with their jaws toffeed shut on long drives, theyre nowhere to be seen. shame!
Posted by: Andy on December 9, 2006