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White chocolate skulls
They were skulls made of white chocolate with pink goo inside for blood!
Posted on August 31, 2004
Sweet And Sour Jawbreakers
Sweet And Sour Jawbreakers
As per the standard jawbreakers, but sweet & sour flavour! Killed your teeth, but it was worth it :-)
Posted on August 30, 2004
It's just come to me - Fireballs they were called
Posted by: Tim on August 12, 2006
Tiger Tots
Came in similar packets to Dolly Mixtures. They are/were miniture liquorice alsorts
Posted on August 29, 2004
Spangles
Spangles - Original flavours
Square, boiled sweets. Had a distinctive 'cough sweet' taste. Colours where black, brown & grey (I think!). They then made the fruit flavoured ones - not as good though!
Posted on August 28, 2004
Chelsea Whoppas
Its like a chewy choclate bar, covered in choc poweder, used to pretend it was chewing tobaco when i played cowboys and indians hahahahahah. It was a great sweet. May have been made by Barret, not sure though.
Posted on August 27, 2004
Pineapple rock
Similar to the other broken rock you sell, it was red on the outside with a white/cream coloured centre...
Posted on August 26, 2004
Canary bananas
Small, hard, banana flavoured boiled sweet.....
Posted on August 25, 2004
Hi,
thank Shiva I wasn't imagining it! For what must have been a very short period around 1983, in only one shop I knew of in Wallasey on Merseyside, I bought Canary Bananas. It wasn't in one of the usual and convenient sweetshops we would frequent, but I obviously happened in at a propitious time as there, amongst the other giant sweet jars, was a sweetmeat previously unknown to me; the CBs. Only half the jar remained. A sucker for anything new, I obtained my quarter and a new sweet sensation entered my young life. The CBs had obviously been there a while as the outside of the sweet was a little soft, presumably due to absorption of water from the atmosphere, but instead of being horrid, this softness added the the overall experience; the sweet was hard in the middle and had a really lovely banana flavour.
I returned again and again to the shop for more and I remember one day, getting to the bottom of he jar and there were no more to be had...The proprieters either declined to restock or they were unavailable.
I never saw Canary Bananas again. I find it strange that in a large town I had never seen these sweets before wandering into that shop and never since. Decades later, I would occasionally ask friends if they remebered them, to no avail, and I searched the 'Net in vain finding nothing to confirm these happy memories.. until today. Now I know they were real and I can share my (excellent) story with all aficionados of sugary goods. Canary Bananas: a great sweet and a great name! Hurrah!!
Peace out.
Jack, Budleigh Salterton, Devon.
Posted by: Jack Oley on November 24, 2005
Germoline bubbly?
Distinctive germoline taste and a free tattoo to make you look hard! Had a smiley yellow face on it.
Posted on August 24, 2004
Yeh - Germoline bubbly - I've just been asking random people at work and only one person remembers it. ! The maddest thing ever when you think about it, I mean, it's like having furniture polish flavour chocolate bars?!?
Posted by: Bump on May 24, 2006
Dinasour Egg
It was an egg shaped gob stopper sized sweet which changed colour and flavour as you ate it (all sour flavours). In the middle was a sweet powder. Fantastic for school, since you could take it out of your mouth and blow on it for a few seconds and it would dry without being sticky. Therefore, it could be put back into the box/pocket, to be continued when class finished. They came in different colours, but the blue ones were incredibly rare. The cost 10p and were bought in a single box - the foll
Posted on August 23, 2004
Rowntrees Junglies
Jelly sweets in a square box in the shape of animals....
Posted on August 22, 2004
Spangles
"Old English" flavour Spangles.
Tube-type pack of individually wrapped square boiled sweets. I think the paper wrapper was black, can't describe the flavour but it was great!!!
Posted on August 21, 2004
where oh where did my spangles go
I loved old English they were the best you know
and jubblies and sweet tobbaco and lucky bags too
Then of course there was also the great 1d (that's penny for all you young uns) chew,
My poor kids only know the latest sweets
They're not as good as my favourite treats.
So bring back the flavours we used to enjoy
We never suffered from ADHD when we were young girls and boys!!!!
Posted by: Angie on May 26, 2006
Yankee taffy
Small hard fizzy squares, in lots of flavours
Posted on August 20, 2004
I've also been looking for these little beauties. I recall a sarsaparilla flavour which was quite pleasing, and a super sour flavour (could've been blueberry I think) which could blow your mind (and tongue). There were a few other flavours too, but what they were escapes me at the moment.
Kudos to whoever finds these!
Posted by: Daniel Roberts on October 4, 2006
Metal mickeys atomic thunder busters
Pink hard sweet, spherical ,fizzy and v.good!
Posted on August 19, 2004
Hubba bubba original flavour
This is the original flavour that dissappeared years ago. Red packet with pink bubbles on it......
Posted on August 18, 2004
It is still available in Canada.
Posted by: Saqib on June 21, 2006
Chomp
Chocolate cover caramel bar.....
Posted on August 17, 2004
These are still available, if you can't find them in your normal supermarket etc, then try somewhere like Costco and buy them by the box!
Posted by: Corrine Shimmon on September 20, 2006
Matinee selection
A selection of various coloured marzipan squares. Jelly were included and I seem to recal maybe another sweet but can not bring it to mind.
Each of the marzipans was (approx) 2" square, and I am sure that is not just memory playing tricks.
Posted on August 16, 2004
Dark Choclate Toblerone
sweet description: Toblerone - in dark choccy The normal stuff you can get anywhere. The white choclate one you can get at christmas. The dark choccy one I can only get at Glasgow Airport and I've left the job that sent me up there about three times a year!!!!! HELP.
Posted on August 15, 2004
Aztec
It was like a Mars Bar but not as sickly because it had nougat instead of toffee. It had a purple wrapper and I think it was made by Cadbury's. My father and I still talk about it!
Posted on August 14, 2004
Didn't it have both milk AND plain chocolate too ?
I think the main bar was plain, with milk along the top.
Posted by: Steve H on August 27, 2006
pyramints
A solid pyrimid of dark chocolate with mint fondant inside.wrapper in a green wrapper and in box.they they were pyramid shaped....
Posted on August 13, 2004
Pyramints were the only thing I chose to buy with my remaining British coins at the airport before returning to the states. I still have the pyramid shaped boxes. Do you think they would sell on ebay?
Posted by: Jeff on December 1, 2005
I loved pyramints,but no one I know remembers them.I loved the way it was packaged in the pyramid shape box,and the dark chocolate and runny mint centre yummy.Bring em back.
Posted by: louise on April 14, 2006
Nerds
Wonkas, sugar crystals covered in a tangey sweet coating. The packet was split in two with a variey of flavour combination....
Posted on August 12, 2004
Kojak lollypops
They had all different flavours ie blackcurrant/lime/lemom. taken from the american detective programme series....Kojak
Posted on August 11, 2004
Kojak Lollies, were displayed on a tree like block that span round so you could search your favourite flavour and the block remained left with just the yellow and green ones so you had to search other shops to find the red ones which were my favourire, Oh to have a box of them, Yummy
Posted by: JT on September 7, 2006
Whoppa
Its a chewy sweet in a bar form, it came in mint and cola flavours. on the wrapper it had a picture of a school kid, and his tie went around the front of the wrapper
Posted on August 10, 2004
i loved whoppa bars and i have been searching high and low to get them. i remember getting 1 mint and 1 spearmint on the way to school. please someone find them for me and let me know!!!!
Posted by: nicola harton on September 26, 2005
I haven't eaten Whoppa in YEARS! Remember the cola ones?
Posted by: Nisha Patel on August 20, 2006
Red liquorice
Not sure of the name....Red liquorice(?)
Strawberry flavoured liquorice, long with a hole runnig through the length (to suck your dandelion and burdock through)
Posted on August 9, 2004
Fizzle sticks
Green, orange, pink and yellow sticks, about three to four inches long - fruity flavours.....
Posted on August 8, 2004
Laser bar
Half width of a wham bar, same consistency of a boiled sweet, iron bru orange in colour with a strip down the middle of a darker orange....
Posted on August 7, 2004
Mint cracknell
Its mint glaciar chocolate bar by Macintosh!
Posted on August 6, 2004
Neopolitans
Box of small miniature chocs about an inch long of various flavours - mocha, milk, plain etc. about 30 in a box.....
Posted on August 5, 2004
I loved those! Had totally forgotten about them till now. My grandma always used to buy them.
Posted by: Ali on November 30, 2006
"nerd"
Not sure of the name, but "nerd" has been suggested
They were similar to the Strawberry Millions range, but they came with 3 different flavours in a box and had little hatches at the top so you could mix and match the flavours...
Posted on August 4, 2004
Horlicks Tablets
Horlicks Tablets
Sweets made from Horlicks
Posted on August 3, 2004
I used to love horlicks tablets but they seem to have died a death here now. I would love to get some if they are still available. I will keep searching for them although eveyone tells me they no longer exist. Why don't they start and make them again?
Posted by: Andrew on June 3, 2006
so can they be bought anywhere then, i used to eat them by the packet full when i were small they were delicious, have to make do with spoonfuls of horlicks powder now lol
Posted by: angie on June 21, 2006
I used to love these - tiny little tubes if I remember rightly -very sweet !
Posted by: Louise Hollow on October 6, 2006
Candy stones
They came in all different shapes and sizes and looked like pebbles and rocks!
Posted on August 2, 2004
Foam-alone
A chewing gum ball similar to jaw breakers, that when eaten it froths into sour tasting foam. last seen in 1994.....
Posted on August 1, 2004
Was Called "Witches Brew" last seen in the USA
Posted by: Nick on November 7, 2006
Not forgetting the really hot jawbreakers, I forget the name, always bought a pack of thos along with regular jawbreakers even though I could never tolerate the heat. Always ended up spitting them out - what a waste of money at 10p for 3......
Posted by: Tim on August 11, 2006