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United Bar
Chocolate covered biscuit with a layer of honeycomb in a blue and white striped wrapper...like a club in size but waaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy better
Posted on January 31, 2005
I have been trying to find northumberland fudge. I used to buy it on the way to school. The nearest thing that is sold ito it now is chocolate nibbels, its not norhumberland fudge though!!! it stoped beeing sold around 11 years ago and I havent seen or heard of it since !
Posted by: coleen Downing on February 26, 2007
What about Sherbet Fountains? They
came in a yellow tube with a Liquorice sticking out of the top?
Opps they are sold on this web site!!
Posted by: Aidan on March 5, 2007
Sour Jokers
Used to buy them in a Londis shop in S.Wales. They were hard flat rectangles in either yellow or green and were the most sour sweets ever!
Posted on January 30, 2005
Caramel Cups?
Dark chocolate individually wrapped sweets that have runny caramel inside. They were wrapped in gold coloured foil.
Posted on January 29, 2005
you can still buy caramel cups in the pick a mix section at tescos!
Posted by: Katie on September 11, 2006
Old Betty Plant's Herbal Cough Sweets
(Bright) Orange oval sweets wrapped individually in clear cellophane wrappers. Don't remember buying them for their medicinal benefits and they tasted quite differently from most other herbal cough sweets. They were always quite expensive, and I could buy them at least up til the late 80's (probably later) from my local 'olde sweete shoppe'. I think the name I have given is fairly accurate ?!
Posted on January 28, 2005
Jolly rancher
Hard boiled square shaped sweets. The flavours were: cherry, orange, watermelon, strawberry and apple I think!
Posted on January 27, 2005
Nothing - they just did not sell in the UK. Still very big in the US with chews, lollys and lots of new flavours.
Posted by: DS on February 15, 2006
Jelly Wellies
Gummy sweets in the shape of wellington boots, preferably blue!
Posted on January 26, 2005
i remember these they cost 1p each in 1978 and i remember the corner shop putting up the price to 2p each and it halved the number i could buy!! such a harsh lesson in inflation!
Posted by: alison on October 16, 2006
Nestle Orange Aero
Bubbly chocolate with orange filling!
Posted on January 25, 2005
Jamboree bags
They cost about 3 old pence and contained about 4 sweets = chews+liquorice stick+sherbet etc PLUS a cheap plastic toy (if my memory serves me well)
Posted on January 24, 2005
In the jamboree bags of the mid 1960s was a pack of 4 cards, very graphic of the union and confederates showing blood and gore war scenes ,I think there were 50 to the set ,i think they got withdrawn from sale in the end because of complaints
Posted by: melcatch on December 1, 2006
sister sweet to Cherry Lips
squirrels?
You have them with cherry lips. the sister sweet, were in lots of flavours and were kind of round with flat bottom?? They came in a triangular long tube then you could get them by the 1/4 in sweet shops. They were called something else but I can't for the life of me remember what it was. They were lovely!
Posted on January 23, 2005
Floral Gums - buy 'em on this site!
Posted by: Le chat on September 10, 2005
Gonks
Gonks came in two colours (pink or yellow) they were very large and would only just fit in your mouth - I guess as an adult they might seem a bit smaller, but as a child they were enormous! The sweets were hard and brittle, but would soften and become chewy when sucked (they were too big to chew straight away). They had a slightly fizzy or was it just sugar coating?
Posted on January 22, 2005
here we are! get going go gonks!
Posted by: the gonks on February 6, 2007
Dizzy fizzers
Sour small round hard sweets in different flavours - i can remember apple flavour .....
Posted on January 21, 2005
Gorgo bars
It was green with tangy black fizz in it. A bit like a Wham bar.
Posted on January 20, 2005
Yep and then there were orange ones later on.
Mumbo Gumbo I think they were called. They used to sell Wham, Gorgo and Mumbo gumbo at "The Lord Roberts" Village Green shop in Purley near downside school.
Posted by: Niels Stevens on October 11, 2005
Golden Cup
It was a bar like a dairymilk but thiner and each bit was filled with carmel.
Posted on January 19, 2005
please find me golden cups... I'd pay a fortune
Posted by: heather fraser on December 15, 2006
Was mad for golden cups! I still remember them in the late 90's possibly? I got a bag of Hershays Caramel Kisses at Christmas - they're the nearest thing I can get to the fantastic 'golden cup' - does anyone know if it's still available anywhere please??
Posted by: Jules on February 1, 2007
Flavoured pencils
Flavoured pencils
Sugar flavoured coating with liquorice in the middle...
Posted on January 18, 2005
Riley's Toffee Rolls
They were covered in chocolate and came in a reddish-purple wrapper.
Posted on January 17, 2005
I understand Riley's were bought out by another company some years ago, then said company scrapped a number of recipes one of which was the popular toffee roll of which we now speak.
Posted by: Pete Mitchell on May 18, 2006
The best was chewing a Riley's toffee roll together with some monkey nuts - magic!
Posted by: KeithB on June 29, 2006
Foxes Bitter Lemon
Square frosted white colour(not yellow) and tasted exactly like Schweppes bitter lemon mixer....
Posted on January 16, 2005
Cough sticks
Long black hard stick, aniseed flavour in white greaseproof paper type wrapping. Last forever......
Posted on January 15, 2005
Wonkalate
Made by Nestle 'Wonka' range: Purple chocolate with fizzy green bits called snozzberrys. Used to find small bars of it in Nestle allstars.
Posted on January 14, 2005
What happened to the choclate bar 'Wonkalate' It was my favourite chocolate.
Posted by: Charlie on September 25, 2005
Wonka Wegg
Made by Nestle 'Wonka' range: Is a purple square chocolate egg with a strawberry centre...came out at easter time......
Posted on January 13, 2005
Hey did you ever find out what happened to the wegg?? I'm desperate to find one (or a lot, even) but they seem to have dissapeared from existence!
Posted by: Em on November 11, 2006
Pink Pillows
Pink Pillows (I think... at least that's what we called them!)
Came ONLY from Forbouys chain of sweet shops in the 1980's(Fieldway, New Addington, Croydon, Surrey - inparticular). They were Hard, Pink, Huge, kind of triangular in shape. Strawberry flavoured. Had a tangy pink sherbert/sugary coating. Lasted for ages. Had to hold them and suck them - couldn't manage a whole one in the mouth all at once (or maybe that's because I was alot younger then lol)
Posted on January 12, 2005
Rubble Gum
Bits of bubble gum shaped like little bits of rubble!! Man with a hard hat on the front!
Posted on January 11, 2005
Ipsos....I think
Ipsos....i think
They were small fruit and mint flavoured sweets in a box that had sides like lego so you could join them all together.
Posted on January 10, 2005
Yeah, I remember them - in fact I just found an old packet of lemon ipso drops in my loft!
Posted by: Nick on January 14, 2006
Yes they were great - I actually just came across this site because I decided after 25 years to google them to see if they were still available - I had all 4 colours in my lego collection when I was a kid - and I remember liking strawberry the very best :)
Posted by: sq on June 9, 2006
Atomic Fireballs
Yellow box, red writing, similar to aniseed balls but smaller and cinnamon flavoured. Can't remember makers name?
Posted on January 9, 2005
I remember them they were small,red and fiery flavoured.I used get them all the corner shop.
Posted by: Willow on August 31, 2006
Atomic Fireballs are still around! we sell them in the shop i work in! and atomic sourballs too!
Posted by: Lisa Kelly on September 4, 2006
Mint sensations
A hard, smooth, minty, domed shaped outside with a chocolate centre. you could suck a hole in the bottom and lick the chocolate out!!!
Posted on January 8, 2005
CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHO THE MANUFACTURER OF MINT SENSATIONS AND CAN I GET THEM ANYWHERE
Posted by: ANNE-MARIE on March 1, 2006
Punch bars
I think it was made by frys it was a carmal covered treat?
Posted on January 7, 2005
This was delicious but i can only remember trying it a few times. I was beginning to think i had imagined these tasty bars.
Posted by: Colin R on August 4, 2006
Northumberland fudge
It was a sort of nutty, fudgy concoction covered in chocolate, which sold in chunks by weight from a jar. I used to get it from a newsagent on Newnham Road in Cambridge.
Posted on January 6, 2005
I have been trying to track down Northumberland Fudge for ages. I used to buy a quarter of it form the paper shop with my pocket money and my copy of Jackie magazine! If you manage to track it down let me know - although i did hear from a retro sweet shop that it was no longer made
Posted by: Marion on November 23, 2005
I have also been trying to track down northumberland fudge but as yet to no avail! Please let me know if you find it!!
Posted by: H Williams on March 8, 2006
i was also wondering what happened to northhumberland fudge we used to get a quarter of it every sunday for 50pence (old money) in a sweet shop in ireland. I really wanted to get some for my brother as a birthday present.
Posted by: christina on March 31, 2006
Why this isn't produced or commercially available these days still remains a mystery to me, as it was always one of the better sweet jar options. I daresay it avoided critical radar for most people, which is a pity. It always seemed a bit of a rarity and I never saw an empty jar of the stuff, unless it was myself doing the emptying! The last time I managed to grab a bag was during the mid nineties in a village post office in the West Mids. Sadly, it was never restocked and being the only place I knew of that had it, that was the end of that...
Digest In Peace.
Posted by: Woody on January 1, 2007
I have been looking for Northumberlad fudge for years. I have found choc nibbles which are similar in a smaller version however nothing beats the real thing. If you find it let me know.
Posted by: Pamela Hunter on January 20, 2007
Me too! have been looking for 15 years! Used to get northumberland fudge from newsagent in Clanfield, Hampshire in early nineties.
Can we at least find out who produced this to try and get the recipe???!!!
Posted by: Dave on March 13, 2007
Karate belt
Karate belt
Red liquorice, really long karate belts, without any sugar coating or anything.
Posted on January 5, 2005
My first love, Mike once bought me a whole box of these because I loved them so much. Makes my mouth water just thinking of them!
Posted by: Rhian on January 18, 2006
i remember them, and i have only found them in 1 shop, it was just a newsagent and i can't remember the name of it. sadly i've moved away from there now, but they must still be making them! long, flat red sweets that didn't taste of liquorice, just tasted sweet. one of my favourites, please help me find them!!
Posted by: sam on January 19, 2006
What we are really looking for is the classical Red Liquorice from a while back in the sixties and seventies called Firemans' Hose.
Posted by: Peter Smith on June 19, 2006
Texan bars
Very hard chewy centre bar with chocolate coating that almost breaks off in pieces as the center is so hard!
Posted on January 4, 2005
Yorkie almond
Its was a chocolate bar like the yorkie you can get today, but it was full of almonds!
Posted on January 3, 2005
Whopper bars
Soft bendy chew coated in coco
powder(thin)!
Posted on January 2, 2005
Cadbury's Spira
A little like a Twirl but more solid and twisty....
Posted on January 1, 2005
I am very upset and sad because i can't find my fav Cadbury's Spira...
Posted by: Ben on December 30, 2005
Ah. The Spira... Happy days. Cadburys great chocolate amalgamation left many casualties...
Posted by: Rebecca on June 30, 2006
They still make spiras, don't they? The shop I worked in still sold them last summer.
Posted by: sven on February 16, 2007
Always thought I had made these up as no-one else seemed to recall them!! I loved the blue one, biscuit base, then a thick layer of chocolate with bits of honeycomb in, all covered in more chocolate....YUMMY!!
Posted by: chilli on February 19, 2006