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POTATO PUFFS

I KNOW THEY WERE NOT SWEETS BUT THEY REMIND ME OF MY CHILDHOOD.THEY WERE ORIGINALLY MADE BY:WALTERS: BUT I CANNOT FIND THEM , ANYBODY HELP?

Posted on June 30, 2005

United Bars

"We are delighted to be united" done as a football chant the bar was Red an White stripped for the Orange version an Blue an White for the Original milk chocolate version which consisted of a biscuit base (similar to a Breakaway) an the chocolate was thick in it's delivery ...nice!

Posted on June 29, 2005

thank god somebody else remembers them-thought i was going mad!!!!
i take it they are definitely not available anymore?

Posted by: dee on September 24, 2006

Pink Panther Bar

'twas just as simple as a Milky Bar -but in Strawberry pink ...nice!

Posted on June 28, 2005

Urban myth has it that they were took off the market by the EEC due to the colouring contained in them having nasty side effects. But they were fabously nice, so who cares. I had many when younger, so the damage must be done. So put them back on the market.

Posted by: Ivan on December 2, 2006

Cabana bar

Coconut filling with highlights of cherry. I remember this due to fact that I lived around the Rowntree macintosh factory area. Also my parents house was originally owned by Joseph Bellamy (hows that)!

Posted on June 27, 2005

My mum used to eat these when I was really small but I didn't like them. I got a bit older, developed a taste for them, couldn't stop eating them... Then they disappeared!!!! Gutted!!! Where can I get them from?

Posted by: Ava on March 15, 2007

Rowntrees Candy Tots

Mini Dolly Mixtures, but sweeter!! Yummy Yummy!! They came in a pink coloured pack, with a picture or a doll on the front. You could also get mini liquorice alsorts, these were in a green bag with a tiger on the front!! PLEASE FIND THE CANDY TOTS & TAKE ME BACK TO MY CHILDHOOD!!!!!

Posted on June 26, 2005

Think you may mean DOLLY TOTS !!! To complete the set, you need TIGER TOTS (the mini liquorice allsorts), TEDDY TOTS (small sugar-coated cubes) and of course JELLY TOTS (small fruit-flavour jelly sweets).

Also, the end of the jingle used to go ..... Four tots to choose from, along the shelf .... Rowntree's Tots - please yourself !!!!!

Posted by: Steve H on August 27, 2006

Blackcurrant and liquorice humbugs

It is triangular in shape with a three diamential shape they were around about twenty five years ago and were about two pence each then!

Posted on June 25, 2005

I have been looking for these for ages. When I was at secondary school about 25 years ago we used to go to the shop over the road I always used to buy these sweets. They were pink on the outside with a hard coating and liquorice on the inside, really yummy but I can't find them anymore.

Posted by: Sarah on September 8, 2006

Chocolate nougat

Chocolate flavour toffee with a white stripe through the middle (in a slab) tasted gorgeous! circa 1940 possibly made by Palm toffees?

Posted on June 24, 2005

Bizzie Lizzie (or Fizzy Lizzy?)

Chewy bar - raspberry flavour, with very fizzy sherbet in the middle, used to be 5p each, and my sister was mad about them!

Posted on June 23, 2005

Tangerine Balls

Boiled sweet, tangerine flavour in small round ball shape. Bloody lovely!!

Posted on June 22, 2005

Choc Italian Creams

Choc Italian Creams (Buchanans) & Fruit Creams (Ross's of Edinburgh)

Half Chocolate covered soft (not liquid) caramel - a bit like a very creamy fudge & fondants with a hard shell and melting centre with very natural fruit flavours (the white one (pear) is particularly good.

Posted on June 21, 2005

Candy cigarettes

White sticks with a pink bit at the end (for the lit part). No idea where they came from!

Posted on June 20, 2005

Triffic Bar

Nougat bar covered in chocolate. Marketed by Mike Reid from Eastenders!

Posted on June 19, 2005

Peanut Treats

Peanut dipped in chocolate with a candy coat (melts in your mouth not in your hand!). Was made by Mars.

Posted on June 18, 2005

Chocolate coated lolly

Red lolly with a chocolate coating.....

Posted on June 17, 2005

FRUIT FLAVOURED THINS

HARD BOILED CANDY SQUARES, WRAPPED IN POLYTHENE WITH ONE SINGLE TWIST IN THE WRAPPER, AT THE TOP!!

Posted on June 16, 2005

Yes, I remember these ..... PARKINSON'S Fruit Thins !!

Posted by: Steve H on August 20, 2006

I was just going to ask about these!! Have been wondering for a while if you could get them anymore. Last time i saw them (years ago) was in the pick n'mix in Woolworths. Havent seen them since but would love to get hold of some, they were lovely!!

Posted by: Jenny on November 10, 2006

I have been looking for these sweets for a number of years surely somebody outhere must know??? Were the makers - Barker & Dobson from Liverpool ?

Posted by: tom sweeney on March 9, 2007

Sweet pebbles

They were sweets that looked like pebbles from the beach....

Posted on June 15, 2005

Bubbaloo

It's bubble gum and when you bite into it liquid comes out. E.g if you got a strawberry/Fraise flavoured one, when you bite into it that flavour liquid will come out of it. You can also get: cola, blueberry and lots more.

Posted on June 14, 2005

Smiley faces

They were round, quite large, and came in either plain hard jellyish texture (different colours)or the best ones were sour, and they had sugar on them.

Posted on June 13, 2005

Smilies were and still are delicious. Sainsburys sell half size versions. I used to get them from my school tuckshop in Germany. I've bought them in a tub of 500 before.
I have rubbish teeth.

Posted by: Allan on February 3, 2007

Strawberry crush

Like giant satin cushions but available in individual flavours. They make the roof of your mouth sore!

Posted on June 12, 2005

White chocolate crunch

Lke a crunch bar but in white chocolate!

Posted on June 11, 2005

Hi,
As I am currently eating a white Chocolate crunch bar...I do wonder what you are talking about....crunches are still here they just look different! STILL SO TASTY!!!

Posted by: Sarah Emery on October 27, 2006

Chocolate covered liquorice

chocolate covered liquorice wrapped in black and yellow paper. Individual sweets....

Posted on June 10, 2005

Bubble gum

Tasted like germolene in a white wrapper always got a tattoo inside!

Posted on June 9, 2005

Yep I remember them well. Pink, germoline tasting.
Each had two smiley face tattoos with different expressions - yellow face with blue border and features. They did come in a white wrapper but I can't remember what they were called or who made them.

Posted by: Toria on August 16, 2006

Tiger tots

Made by roundtree - same sort of packet as dolly mixture, tooty fruities and jelly tots.....

Posted on June 8, 2005

I used to love them to pieces, my absolute favourite. I soooo wish they still existed!

Posted by: gk on September 19, 2005

Two and Two

two and two

Two types of choc and and two types of filling and it was in squares with little tunnels connecting each one. Think it was made by Rowntree mackintosh but not sure.

Posted on June 7, 2005

I remember Glees as being a cakey sort of chocolate bar, but have never found any evidence that anyone else remembers them, so might well be mistaken.

Posted by: Elizabeth on September 14, 2005

Yes, I also remember a bar which I thought was called Glees but no one else remembers it. It was a rectangle block of spongey cake covered in chocolate. I remember them from around late 70's early 80's

Posted by: Jo on September 20, 2006

think it was called a Glee bar, the advert used to have someone sitting on a mechanical rodeo horse type thing while they ate one. think there were two different flavours, one with jam, one without, one had a red packet the other was more pink

Posted by: john simpson on October 22, 2006

sorry, can't remember what these were called!

It was a large lollipop sold during the late 80s which was a long kind of rectangular shape (much bigger than Drumsticks). You could get pink (strawberry) and yellow (lemon) ones. They were quite sherbety tasting. They had a texture similar to fudge or iced caramels and melted in the mouth. They came without a wrapper.

Posted on June 6, 2005

Cabana Bars

They were made by rowntree mackintosh they were like a bounty with cherry bits my mam used to work there and bring loads back it was 1980s.....

Posted on June 5, 2005

Yeah, used to love them! Vey sweet, chocolate covered coconut with cherry bits and caramel. Dark blue wrapper?? Weighed in at a hefty 10p which was more than most chocolate bars at the time.

Posted by: fil on October 21, 2006

Empress mixture

They were made by MARNARDS, sold loosely (by the 1/4 and looked like large dolly mixture with different coloured layers and also slightly harder....

Posted on June 4, 2005

dinosaur egg

It was like a small gobstopper (wrapped like an egg) prob 1987 ish had a sours taste and changed colour on sucking. Think they then bought out another variety which was yellow (watermelon?) - would have been the same time as the hot jawbreakers..

Posted on June 3, 2005

I loved dinosaur eggs. sweet then sour then sweet as the colours changed. I'd love to see these resurrected like the Texan bar. I have just bought a whole box and stashed it in my shed! I would probably have to buy a concrete bunker to store Dinosaur or Dinosour eggs in if they came back. I bought mine from a corner shop in Northfields London W5. Long since gone and become housing, it used to smell of sherbert and had sticky wooden floorboards from all the generations of dropped sweet powder. Heaven.

Posted by: Alex Carraro on November 8, 2005

Discovering this amazing sour gobstopper was the only thing I can remember about visiting the Commonwealth Institute on a school trip in the late 70's! Wow they were good - why did they suddenly stop producing them - they were a hit with every kid I knew - even though they were 10p a kick! (In those days that was a 1/3 of my pocket money...

Posted by: sam gladstone on February 8, 2006

Are they anything like these?
http://store.candywarehouse.com/candywarehouse/dinasoureggs.html

Posted by: Bilbo on March 4, 2006

or this?
http://store.candywarehouse.com/giantsours.html
the reason i ask, is cause i loved dinosaur eggs and im just wondering if anyone has tried the sweets on the links i've posted and if they are the same type of thing or not? they sound similar but would they be as good? hhhmmmmm......