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Witches brew
It was a chewing gum ball which when put in your mouth, it foamed! it was rudy gorgeous! please please get them if you can!
Posted on February 28, 2005
i used to adore witches brew loved the green foam they used 2 make. can remember when i gave my nan one of them hehe.
Posted by: Lisa on February 1, 2007
Spearmint Bar
Spearmint Bar (I think)
It was pink in colour with squares about 5/6ins long and about 1ins wide and flat, chewy and obviously tasted of spearmint. I'm asking because it was my cousins favourite chewy bar and she is always going on about them. They were lovely though and made your mouth water.
Posted on February 27, 2005
Oddfellows
Traditional Scottish sweet, hard and round, 3 different colours in the same packet; orange, yellow and pink, possibly made by a company called ross.
Posted on February 26, 2005
Sour Plooms
Green additive sour boiled sweets from Scotland....
Posted on February 25, 2005
Got them just the other day, they're everywhere, in my part of Scotland anyway.
Posted by: Emma on December 24, 2006
Orange Fizz Bomb
Orange Fizz Bomb
Boiled sweet, round orange ball equivalent in size to rosy apple. Orange fizzy flavour as you sucked.
Posted on February 24, 2005
Jazz balls
Boiled sweets that were round and usually striped. They came in different flavours and some had soft centres. Flavours included lime with chocolate centre, cherry, etc.
Posted on February 23, 2005
Freshen up
It was a square shaped chewing gum & when you bit into it, a lovely fresh runny minty juice came pouring out to flavour the gum!
Posted on February 22, 2005
whatever happened to freshen up gum? it was my favorite, especially the cinnamon one, that's the only gum i ever used to buy
Posted by: tammy thibert on February 22, 2006
This was the best gum there ever was. A thick square piece of gum, when you bit it a load of cinnamon liquid oozed out - fabulous.
Posted by: j v b on January 1, 2007
Nutty Bar or just "Nutty"
It was fudgy in the middle, covered in soft caramel and then rolled in unsalted peanuts. It was in a brown plastic wrapper with orange writing that said "nutty" on it in bold 70's style font. I remember it from the mid to late 70's after which time it disappeared. It's one of those sweets that everyone has fogotton about until reminded, and then they all long for it again.
Posted on February 21, 2005
Cabbana Bar
Cabbana Bar (not sure that's spelt right!)
A coconut and cherry bar covered in milk chocolate.... Gorgeous, I miss it :-( p.s.. Just found your site, have been looking for Yorkshire mix and Chewy Nuts for years!! Thankyou.
Posted on February 20, 2005
lol. I just typed cabbana chocolate bar to see if anyone remembered them. I remember the advert. It must be about 20 years ago and i still cant get the tune out of my head.
Posted by: andy on May 8, 2006
Nutty Bar
A bar of peanuts held together with caramel.
I know you said you can't get them anymore - so, just to say that Hersheys 'Pay Day' bar is very similar. But they've strangely decided to coat salted(!) peanuts with caramel - so they're nowhere near as good as the british equivalent....but the taste grows on ya!!
Posted on February 19, 2005
Tubble Gum
A tube of bubble gum (like toothpaste)!
Posted on February 18, 2005
Tiger tots
Looked like mini liquorice allsorts. They were in the jelly tots range....
Posted on February 17, 2005
Amazing someone else who remembers them!! I thought it was just me - can you still get these anywhere???
Posted by: Ellie on January 4, 2006
Melody lollies? Possibly
It was a lolly, similar to Chup Chups, but it was shaped like a whistle, and it worked as one! Used to have great fun annoying adults for miles around, until you bit the end off...
Posted on February 16, 2005
cremola foam
A small tin of different flavourd powder added to water to make a fizzy drink,yummy!
Posted on February 15, 2005
I really mioss my glass of cremola foam. Why has it been taken away, because it was lovely. Bring it back and a lot of people would be very pleased.
Posted by: doctorden on May 26, 2006
I really mioss my glass of cremola foam. Why has it been taken away, because it was lovely. Bring it back and a lot of people would be very pleased.
Posted by: doctorden on May 26, 2006
Coconut Boost Bar
Boost bar in a red wrapper. Chocolate covered coating with creamy caramel and coconut inside. Seemed to have stopped making them about 5 years ago!
Posted on February 14, 2005
The only choccy bar I ever loved was the coconut boost bar, bought several every week at youth club. Now a stone lighter, what happened to them, they were the original before the biscuit one?
Posted by: elisa on June 23, 2006
Longer, sadly. And they were the best chocolate ever. I got through my sixth form purely fuelled by coconut boosts. Five in one day, on one memorable occassion. (Good thing, in hindsight - clearly they were in short supply).
Posted by: Rebecca on June 30, 2006
Riley's Toffee Rolls
Individually wrapped, chocolate covered toffee. The dark chocolate variety were wrapped in burgundy paper, not sure about milk chocolate or whether there were any?
Posted on February 13, 2005
There was a milk chocolate version wrapped in blue paper.
Posted by: johnj on August 25, 2006
Sweet peanuts
Very similar to the sweet peanuts you sell, but, with chopped up salted peanuts in the middle....
Posted on February 12, 2005
Liquorice & Nougat
Made by Callard & Bowser, in rectangular packets/boxes. The liquorice had black and silver wrapping, nougat wrapped in rice paper. About 10 pieces in a packet/box
Posted on February 11, 2005
i found this delight at hannaford in the kingston area about three years or so ago....but have not found it since.....i keep searching for this....i believe it was considered english licorice toffee...and yes....there were about ten pieces wrapped in that most lovely silver foil...just the sight and the sound of that crinkling paper was enough to make one's mouth water,,,,possible just like pavlov's doggies
Posted by: catherine on August 8, 2006
I used to love those things!! id buy boxes of the stuff from wholesalers! if anyone knows where 2 get any give me a shout!!
Posted by: Phil on September 13, 2006
Bobby bubble gum
It was a long pink stick with white powder over it wrapped in a waxed paper....
Posted on February 10, 2005
Welcome
Fudge covered in chocolate "you can't say no to a welcome"
Posted on February 9, 2005
Wilko mints
They were like liquorice torpedoes, but the shell was mint flavoured. they came in a box (like old dolly mixtures) and were a mix of green and white. have never seen them for years, but they were my mother's favourite.
Posted on February 8, 2005
Sour Cherries
Boiled sweets in the shape of cherries (unwrapped) in the jars!
Posted on February 7, 2005
Bliss
A chocolate bar with raised sections. In each section was a creamy extra smooth filling - delicious - late 60's/70's - in a light blue shiny wrapper...
Posted on February 6, 2005
Cigar chewing gum
It was shaped like a cigar long and thin or even the cigerette chewing gum?
Posted on February 5, 2005
bubblegum pellets
Sorry I do not know the name of these.....
They were bubblegum pellets with a liquid centre sold in all good newsagents in the mid 1970s and were a favourite of mine.yummy!
Posted on February 4, 2005
What you mean is Freshen Ups !
Posted by: Chris B on May 18, 2006
Fry's chocolate sandwich
A choclate bar consisitng of a layer of plain choclate, then a layer of milk, then another layer of plain or vice versa. No-one else remembers this and are trying to convince me it's a figment of my imagination but it used to be my favourite!
Posted on February 3, 2005
No you are not mad - unless I am too. The dark/milk/dark was the best one. I have even tried making my own but only partly successful. Latest ploy is to ask Motezumas Chocolates - on the web - in their create a kilo range to make some for me but they are not sure if this is possible. Still live. Why not Email them too and create a demand !!
Posted by: John Tarbotton on January 25, 2006
No you are not mad - unless I am too. The dark/milk/dark was the best one. I have even tried making my own but only partly successful. Latest ploy is to ask Motezumas Chocolates - on the web - in their create a kilo range to make some for me but they are not sure if this is possible. Still live. Why not Email them too and create a demand !!
Posted by: John Tarbotton on January 25, 2006
It's not a figment of your imagination, I remember this too! I used to try and separate the layers before eating them; it didn't always work.
Posted by: Nicholas on February 23, 2006
No, you are not mad. They did exist, and I always thought them rather sophisticated - esp in the plain-milk-plain combo.
They were a favourite of my mum's and were still readily available in the early 90s. Don't know why they were stopped.
I was also a fan of the Five Centres bars, also one of Fry's best sellers. Spent many a happy time peeling off the chocolate to see exactly where the colour changed. Innocent times!
Posted by: SR on July 26, 2006
Jamboree Bags
In my Dads sweet shop we used to stock these. Bags of different sorts of sweets, with dodgy plastic toys and whistles etc, where are they now?
Posted on February 2, 2005
Bloody Jaspers
I lived in the Isle of Wight in 1980-1 and used to buy bloody jaspers all the time. A small blackcurrant flavour boiled sweet lolly - themed on haunted houses(?). No idea if it was a regional thing or what. Delicious!
Posted on February 1, 2005
I was also wondering what happened to witches brew gumballs,And was wondering where i could get them. They were great tasting and good for laughs.
Posted by: Jessie on September 28, 2006