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Fizz bombs
Bon bon size, hard, with an 'abrasive' sugar coating (various flavours). sold in large jars for 1 -2 p each, the label was of a small space ships diving down to earth!
Posted on December 31, 2004
Moffat Toffee
Hard boiled sweet, despite its name. Sweet and slightly sharp, toffee flavour (from Scotland!)
Posted on December 30, 2004
Laser Bar
Red wrapper, 1cm thick approx 8cm long. The actually sweet was half red half yellow striped length ways. The consistency was hard like a boiled sweet. The taste was sharp and a little sour....
Posted on December 29, 2004
Secret bar
In a brown packet with a cardboard insert with the bar in it. Chocolate outside (not solid more criss cross) with soft (marshmellow) type centre....
Posted on December 28, 2004
Heart shaped white chocolate truffles
It has a smooth cream truffle filling and is incased in creamy white chocolate....
Posted on December 27, 2004
Heart shaped white chocolate truffles
It has a smooth cream truffle filling and is incased in creamy white chocolate....
Posted on December 26, 2004
Ice Breaker
Milk chocolate with a mint cracknell, similar to mint cracknell. Pale mint/silvery wrapper.
Posted on December 25, 2004
Ovaltine chocolate bar
Milk chocolate flavoured with Ovaltine. Bits of Ovaltine in the chocolate to give it texture.
Posted on December 24, 2004
i used to love these when i was a little girl, my nan used to buy then for me after school and i think they should bring them back!!!
Posted by: andrea on September 26, 2006
Moose (or Mousse?)
It was a chocolate bar, like a milky way, but less fluffy. Had a picture of a moose on the front. It was my favourite confectionary about 30 years ago.
Posted on December 23, 2004
I remember moose bars, they were wicked, jst like a milky way bt better, iv been looking for a wrapper image bt cant find one. Any ideas who made theses bars?
Posted by: jackomonkey on August 29, 2006
Callard & Bowser Dessert Nougat
Delicious nougat in a box. About 6 individually wrapped pieces. They had glace cherries and almonds and were wrapped in rice paper. absolutely scrummy.
Posted on December 22, 2004
1. The individual wrapping was silver with an edible rice paper under that - no sticky fingers.
2. They weren't glace cherries, they were rose flavoured jellies.
3. No idea what happened to them, but would like to know.
Posted by: David Konopinski on January 12, 2006
i had an old fashioned sweetshop for years.So many lovely sweets have disappeared but the nougat was the delishiest. Has it gone for ever?
Posted by: veronica on January 20, 2006
Can you still buy this or is it gone forever cheers Neil
Posted by: Neil on February 24, 2006
WHERE CAN I BUY THESE DESSERT NOUGAT.
Posted by: BHASKER on July 30, 2006
My grandfather used to buy these for me! Tragically, Suchard, who bought the Callard and Bowser name, have discontinued production of the most delicious sweets ever!! Shame on them!
Posted by: Simon on September 26, 2006
Actually according to the company's releases, was a decison of the american company Wrigley who make chewing gum and who acquired callard and bowser brand last year. Shame indeed.
Posted by: Michael on December 31, 2006
I've been looking for these for years. We used to have them every Christmas when I was a kid. Everything about them was just glorious. Yummo! I had a nasty feeling they must have been discontinued so your post about Suchard confirms it. What were they thinking??? No other nougat comes close.
Posted by: Susan on February 24, 2007
Yes an absolute disgrace. I propose a 'bring back desert nougat' campaign!
Posted by: Simon Harris on March 20, 2007
Thoses old fashioned lolly things....?
Round flat fruit lollies, quite old fashioned, has the fruit on it, a bit like boiled sweet kinda rock sliced up to make lollies.
Posted on December 21, 2004
Almond mars
Mars bar with almond in the centre......
Posted on December 20, 2004
cabana's ?
Chocolate covered, with coconut and cheries inside..were my favorite till I ate so many I couldnt face another for months......hehe
Posted on December 19, 2004
Jelly Rings
Jelly Rings - not the fizzy ones!
Woolworths sold them for a while and they are part of the Haribo Star Mix. They look like ladies rings with the jewel in the centre made in a different colour jelly to the rest of the band. The come in the following colour combos: red/orange, yellow/red, green/clear. My life would be complete if you could find them!
Posted on December 18, 2004
Brandy Balls
Common in Northern Ireland. Hard boiled sweets with brandy flavour....
Posted on December 17, 2004
Boiled sweets
Can't remember the name!
Paper-wrapped, fruit-flavoured (ie in various bright colours) boiled sweets which were disc-shaped, about the size of an old penny (or a bit bigger).There was a slight hollow on one side of the disc?
Posted on December 16, 2004
Swizzle Sticks
Orange, strawberry, lemon or blackcurrant sticks of a chewy "fondant" that looked like Edinburgh rock. It wasn't a chew but a soft chalky texture. Used to be sold in the kiddies sweet section. Haven't seen them since later 80's or early 90's.
Posted on December 15, 2004
Everlasting Strip
Industrial strength toffee strip about a foot long. Like CurlyWurly but without the trellis work....
Posted on December 14, 2004
Marabou Delite
My favourite choc bar in my childhood. I think it was made by Barratts. It had a pinkish, soft, not chewy, almost powdery, whipped centre with small extremely crispy pieces the length of a mars but wider and a quarter of the height and a thin choc coating. Light pink wrapper with brownish twirly writing. Nothing like the Delight bar you advertise I dont think.....
Posted on December 13, 2004
I agree these were fab! They were made by Maribou, the company who make Dime Bars. hey came out at the same time but sadly only Dime Bars remain.
Posted by: Sharon on March 22, 2006
Jokers
They were multi coloured candy sticks (about 1/2 inches long) and were so sour that they made some peoples tounges bleed (Possibly why I can't find them anymore!)The last time I saw them was in about 1993/4.....
Posted on December 12, 2004
Lady Janes
A toffee (3.5cm x 2.5cm x 1.5cm) with almonds on one side wrapped in clear cellophane with (I think) pink edging and a pink lady jane promenading with a parasol. My mum's favourites!
Posted on December 11, 2004
Red liquorice
Lovely strawberry flavour, very chewy. A lot more thick/substancial than strawberry laces.
Posted on December 10, 2004
Sweet & Soft Liquorice
They are different shapes like round, diamond, oblong & bertie bassets, these were bought in Crete, Greece under Bassets name and brilliant.....
Posted on December 9, 2004
Exploders
Bright yellow rough coated balls, initial taste was a vile sour bitter lemon that literally made you wince at the taste, then a normal lemony flavour with fizzy sherbert middles....
Posted on December 8, 2004
Cider apples
Cider coloured to me back then i thought they tasted like cider and they are not rosey apples as people have been telling me.....
Posted on December 7, 2004
Licko
It was like chocolatey lumps....Mum used to call it "deck shavings" it was broken m&m's and other chocolatey lumps and powder and was my favourite sweet ever. I have not seen it since I was 13 years old (1994)
Posted on December 6, 2004
Arrow bar
It was called the penny arrow bar, it was toffee flavoured and it used to pull my fillings out!!!
Posted on December 5, 2004
Astro Belts
12" x 1" strawberry flavoured strip, covered in the most delicious sour sugary stuff. Eyewatering stuff !!
Posted on December 4, 2004
They're still about, but i don't think they're 12"... maybe 6? just have to search them out, we can get them in my local post office.
Posted by: Luke on March 12, 2007
Cadburys astros
Crispy shell covered chocolate balls VERY YUMMY!!
Posted on December 3, 2004
I wasn't sure if these had chocolate inside or if they were just fruit-flavoured. I nearly bought a pack in about 2003 from Blockbuster (Video, now presumably, DVD store)... however, I had an ulterior motive which is, I play the card game 'bridge' and one of the 'conventions' played in my circle is ASTRO (actually a 'defence' to a 1 no trump opener) - I was going to pull out a pack of ASTROS the moment someone made this bid!
Posted by: Jonathan FeBland (Znethru) on September 30, 2006
Lemonade Dipper
Variation of original Sherbert Dib Dab!
Posted on December 2, 2004
I was just thinking the same thing! they were lush.
Posted by: Laura Kenyon on February 2, 2006
Runts
Fruit shaped sweets (bananas, oranges etc) that I used to get out of the 20p machines.
Posted on December 1, 2004
You can still get them at the bowling alley in Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth!
Posted by: Bry on August 10, 2006
You can get it from the Moffat Toffee Shop or other places around the Borders. My home town, Dumfries, has plenty of newsagents that sell it - loose as well as in the gift tins!
Posted by: L Stene on September 7, 2006