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Toffee lollies
Flat toffee lollies like a penny wrapped in a square of clear film....
Posted on March 31, 2005
Banana Candy sticks
Yellow candy sticks......
Posted on March 30, 2005
Coconut Boost
Like a biscuit boost or star bar only the centre was coconutty.....the wrapper was red if I remember correctly....
Posted on March 29, 2005
Glees
I remember having these as a child...think they were similar to skittles?
Posted on March 28, 2005
I remember Glees from when I was a child. Everyone I've asked doesn't remember them, so I'm glad I found this site! Now I have the proof these sweets DID exist after all!
Does anyone know if Glees are still available? I've looked on a couple of sites selling retro sweets but as yet had no luck.
Posted by: Sharon on May 28, 2006
I ate my last packet of Glees in 1984 - not seen any since.
Posted by: Roy on November 17, 2006
Dundee biscuits
Size of a wagon wheel with chocolate on top......
Posted on March 27, 2005
Dundee biscuits
Status Missing presumed discontinued
According to the website: NiceCupOfTeaAndASitDown.com
Dundee biscuits are described as:-
1. Sold in stacks of five or six, wrapped as per Eccles cakes (i.e. in clear cellophane);
2. Approx. 3-4 inches across (as a kid this would have been 12-18 inches);
3. Shortbread-type base;
4. Circular, with a slightly crimped edge;
5. Rich chocolatey topping;
6. Chunky grains of sugar stuck to the underside;
7. The word DUNDEE visible on the underside (standing proud rather than embossed), written in a rugby-ball shape, so the initial D and trailing E were smaller than the rest, the central ND the biggest of all letters.
The Dundee biscuit was manufactured by a company called Broadhurst biscuits up to the early 80's, when i believe that the companys manufacturing site in Gadbrook Northwich was sold (I think) to Burtons. The factory was closed soon after and production of the Dundee was moved to Utoxeter (near Alton Towers). I'm positive it was then discontinued in the early 90's despite attempts to bolster sales with the introduction of a delightful minty variant.
Posted by: Julie Prigg on January 9, 2006
If no-one knows where to buy the real Dundee Biscuits has anyone at least got the recipe??
Posted by: Pete on March 8, 2007
Everlasting toffee
Think it was made Burton's; a popular provider of childrens sweets and snacks in the 1970s in Leicestershire primary schools. Everlasting toffee was very hard and made in a long flat strip and covered in a paper wrapper. Lasted for weeks!
Posted on March 26, 2005
Apple Tarts
Apple Tarts
Apple-flavoured green, yellow and red balls, boiled sweet. VERY sour, shredded your tongue, mouth-watering, etc. Bought in jars in 60s.
Posted on March 25, 2005
Fizzle Sticks
Fizzle Sticks - 1974 or thereabouts
Candy stick, about 5 inches long, about half-inch wide, oval, because it had been cast or moulded in two halves, so there was a seam down the long edge. Texture like a big "sweet Cigarette" (I know!), they had several fruit flavour/colours - yellow/lemon, pink/strawberry, orange and green, which changed from light green to dark in about 1975 and were then harder and less pleasant-tasting. I did find a few in a Huddersfield petrol station in about 1986, but haven't seen any since.
I bought an entire boxfull (100?) with my first week's Saturday job wages. Late 1973, Coventry).
Thanks.
Posted on March 24, 2005
Thanks for this page, have been racking my brains to try and remember what these sweets were called. I also spent my wages on a box and tried to limit myself to a couple a day (not easy!)Have tried various imitations but nothing comes close!Cant remember who made them but I wish they still did!
Posted by: Jane on November 8, 2006
TAXI BAR/ 5,4,3,2,1 bar
A chewy wafer chocolate coated bar. Very thick wafer, several layers with chewy toffee covered in milk chocolate.
Posted on March 23, 2005
Pez
Everyone knows pez! the little bricks of beautiful fruity flavours that you put in Pez dispensers, I can't find them anywhere which is just plain ridiculous if you ask me! Pleeeeeeaaaaaase add them! I NEED peeeeeeeeez!
Posted on March 22, 2005
still available , got some just last week in dunnes stores in dublin and seen them in asda i think
Posted by: linda on September 13, 2006
Hi yep remember pez - managed to get some online tescos - 98p each(think)
Posted by: mel on November 1, 2006
Hobo
Penny chew a bit like black jacks, but half liquorice and half luridly coloured "fruit" bit. I particularly remember black and purple (presumably blackcurrent) and, I think, something horrible like black and orange (yes liquorice and orange flavour!)
Posted on March 21, 2005
Fizzlesticks
Fizzlesticks
Pastel coloured sticks with a mild sherbert taste with a slightly chalky consistency. very popular in the 70's and early 80's....
Posted on March 20, 2005
I used to work in a Tuck Shop in the early 80's and the owner sold these fizzle sticks, but they were all broken pieces and we used to call them "chalks" and would buy them 1/2 lb or 1 lb at a time... Absolutely loved them.
Posted by: Shazzer on March 18, 2007
Merrills bon bons
They were packed in tubular wrapping (similar to Rolo)and were butterscotch on the outside and a soft centre within. Utterly delicious and were available in the late 50's and early 60's but haven't seen them since....
Posted on March 19, 2005
andy whistle?
candy whistle?
A lolly in the shape of a whistle which you could blow and it whistles!
Posted on March 18, 2005
Still make these, I see them in my local chemist!! Don't taste the same as they used to, but they still whistle!
Posted by: chilli on February 19, 2006
Bloodsucking leaches
Leach shaped white chocolates with a runny red 'blood' inside!
Posted on March 17, 2005
Swiss Kit
This was a chocolate covered (I think) meusli bar from the late 60's early 70's - certainly no later than 1973, produced by Nestle. Thier advertising slogan was, Would you risk it for a SwissKit?'. Priceless!
Posted on March 16, 2005
I used to love these, I think they were about late 70's
Posted by: Johnny H on September 22, 2006
Crispets
Oval-shaped chocolate pieces with coconut bits in it- mouthwatering but I despair they are no more.....
Posted on March 15, 2005
Not just me looking for these then, the chocolate was quite dry and the side opposite to where the name appeared was just the overflow from the mould, nothing hi-tech but I miss them.
Posted by: Mark on May 10, 2006
Well... been searching on here for months, finally realised im not dreaming there were such things as Crispets!! Cant u buy them anymore? Im sooo disappointed they were lovely
Posted by: emma on September 25, 2006
My whole family loved crispets/crispits! I havent had them in over 10 years but I can still remember that taste...MMM!
Posted by: Tara on February 27, 2007
Nestle 'pretzel flipz'
Pretzels covered in chocolate! - DELISH!!
Posted on March 14, 2005
I know exactly which ones you mean - somebody else refers to it under the Jolly Ranchers strand. I've been looking for them for a while, as they were kinda wierdly addictive, perhaps 'cos the pretzels under the chocolate had salt on them. This could, of course, be why they disappeared...
Posted by: Ros on September 29, 2006
They were called Flipz. You could get milk chocolate, white chocolate and fudge flavoured covered ones. They were so strangley nice and addictive.
x
Posted by: Ali on November 30, 2006
Strawberry flavour aero
This was a special edition flavour of aero bubbly chocolate bar!
Posted on March 13, 2005
this was my absolute favourite on a Saturday morning cinema trip when i was little. No one believes me when I talk about the strawberry aero. I wish I could buy one from somewhere just to prove my point. Why do they always discontinue the best stuff?
Posted by: Tracey on November 9, 2006
i believe you...I've been claiming there was a 'Red Aero' for years. I was very young and wasn't allowed them!
so I was never sure if they were cherry, strawberry or raspberry flavour. This must have been early 80s?
Posted by: cherrycola on March 9, 2007
Nerds
They were tiny sour little sweets that came in a cardboard box with two different flavours separated into 2 compartments. They still make them I think its Willy Wonka, they are so wonderful, please stock them!
Posted on March 12, 2005
Red Whips
Red Whips
My husband and I love these. They are basically the same as the liquorice whips you sell, but are red.
Posted on March 11, 2005
Amazing'...or 'Amazin' choc bar
OH it was sheer bliss, as a child in the 70's it was a bar containing soft nougat, raisins and was just divine, I know the wrapper had purple on it and even rememberd part of the t.v ad words: " Its amazin, what raisins can do...all that..." Alas, thats all I remember. I dont know who made it either, I'd love to see one again, even just a wrapper, for old times sake! Good luck!
Posted on March 10, 2005
Hi
I loved Laser Bars so much. I used to buy them from the school tuck shop every day. I have been looking on the internet to see if I can get some for my son to try. Does anybody know where I can get them from cos I haven't had much luck so far.
J
Posted by: Julie on April 11, 2006
Hot coals from newcastle
This may not be the actual name of the sweet, but the were like sour pips only black, aniseed tasting almost, and the got hot and turned red when you sucked them. they were available about 10 years ago.
Posted on March 9, 2005
Yeah I cant find Newcastle Hot Coals anywhere!! they were great!!
Posted by: Tom on May 15, 2006
I remeber these as "coals from newcastle", a strawberry fizz-bomb covered in black sour kali/sherbet. I used to love these back in '82.
Posted by: gary on August 15, 2006
It may have been the original star bar
Fudge middle loose peanut halves pressed onto the outside and about 4 inches in length, the wrapper was brown celophane - I remember that because I used to look at everything through it!! writing may have been yellow or orange on it and it would have been the mid to late 70's even very early 80's....
Posted on March 8, 2005
Red Liquorice Whips
Red Liquorice whips. They had an aniseed taste to them rather than a strawberry taste...
Posted on March 7, 2005
Floral tablets
Boiled sweets in flat square tablets with a delicate flavour, usually dusted with icing sugar, and sold loose by the quarter. I remember them from my school days around 1977, from a tiny little sweet shop.
Posted on March 6, 2005
Thank goodness someone else remembers floral tablets. My brother and I were becoming convinced we were the only ones...
Does anyone make these anymore?
Posted by: Justin Dunn on November 15, 2005
Comfort Cushions
Pink (and I think yellow) outer hard shell with a big lump of chocolate in the middle (shaped liked cushions)
Posted on March 5, 2005
"Something (maybe Golden) Nuggets?
It was bubble/chewing gum shaped in the form of nuggets of gold and came in a small drawsting bag made to look like a miners gold pouch. I think I've still got one at home in the loft (with my Jacks in!)
Posted on March 4, 2005
Fizz bombs
Candy about the size of an average lollipop, the shape of a sphere that had been squashed slightly. Light and airy, kind of like cinder toffee, but fruit flavoured with a fizzy coating. I remember them being red but I'm sure there were other flavours.
Posted on March 3, 2005
whats happened with the dessert nougat in a can of 200g this candy is made in england and i would like to buy the product in mexico.
Posted by: ruben coronado on December 12, 2005
Bring them back!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Richard Gherson on December 14, 2005
Candy long
Chew bar about 5 inches long and half inch wide, I remember them in toffee flavour and a fruit flavour possibly rhubarb and custard. When warm they were really stretchy, my friend and I used to see who could stretch theirs the longest and would have to stand on chairs they were so stretchy.... gross huh :)
Posted on March 2, 2005
Wilco liquorice mints by Wilkinson
Shaped like comfit, white mint imperial on outside, liquorice on inside - recently found it in York sweetshop so is still being made!
Posted on March 1, 2005
I remember Glees - in a purple couloured bag. Loved them - whatever happened to them. No one i speak to remembers them.
Posted by: jan on March 5, 2006