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Nutty Bars
Nutty bars. I think a Nestle product from the late 70s. Nuts in caramel, like peanut brittle, but in a translucent brown wrapper. It looked like human waste, which is probably why it never continued.
David
Posted on July 31, 2005
Cabana Bars
Cabana bars. Early 80s Cadbury choccy bar, with coconut centre with a slither of cherry sauce running along the top under the chocolate.
Posted on July 30, 2005
Bounty Bar Cherry: Dark Chocolate Bounty with a rich cherry flavoured coconut filling. Mars takes on the leading Oz choc bar Cherry Ripe!
Surely if they can sell this, they need to re-instate the Cabana ASAP
Posted by: P Jones on January 5, 2007
Boost
Coconut, peanut, biscuit?
I think peanut Boosts were re-branded Star Bars, which have since returned to their original name in the last few years. Coconut Boosts have disappeared entirely around the mid-90s. Biscuit Boosts, based on the Irish Morro bar, seem to have also vanished to be replaced with Guarana Boost bars.
Posted on July 29, 2005
They did used to have coconut ones first, then they brought in the Peanut ones in a tasteful brown wrapper, then they brought in Biscuit boosts last. I used to love the coconut ones. Now that i live in Australia, its funny that Biscuit Boosts are only new in the last 12 months. And i always thought that Star Bars were and have been around in addition to Boosts. And the Biscuit Boosts come in 2 packs, so they are like King Size size.
Posted by: Dave on September 6, 2006
I too remember the Coconut Boost (the original and best in my humble opinion).
I used to put mine in the fridge for half an hour and then peel off the chocolate and caramel to leave the coconut centre in one piece then slowly eat it.
The Boost you now buy in the shops with the Blue wrapper(with Glucose) are still widely available in my local shops and I have rather a liking for them as well although I wish they'd bring back the original Coconut Boost in the Red wrapper.
Posted by: Gary on September 21, 2006
Texan
Just surfed onto your site and had a trip down memory lane when I looked on the 'Whatever Happened To' pages - Texan bars!!!! My goodness, my sisters and I used to love those bars! Do you remember the advert on TV? It was a scene of a cowboy in a bit of a predicament with some local Mexican gangsters. One of them asks the cowboy, "A last request gringo?". The cowboy asks for a Texan bar but it takes so long for him to eat it - the emphasis is placed on him taking his time chewing, that the Mexican soldiers fall asleep and the cowboy escapes! Brilliant!!!!
Neil
Posted on July 28, 2005
Glees
Hi
Just wondered about glees, rather like skittles.
Cheers
Sue
Posted on July 27, 2005
Yeah i remember 'Glees' but nobody else does. They were in a purple packet with a window at the front with coloured sweets inside-rather like skittles or tooty fruities-like today but a bean shape. They were my favourite sweets as a child in the late 60s early 70s.
Posted by: Tracey on June 27, 2006
i remember glees , abit like skittles. used to be in a purple packet!
Posted by: tracey on July 5, 2006
Rum And Butter Toffees
Rum and butter toffees were a particular favourite of my "gang" when we were at university. The gang are all still here, but the rum and butter toffees are not!
Posted on July 26, 2005
Fizzy Chewits
I know it's not very retro but my favourite sweet ever was fizzy chewits, particularly in lemonade flavour. I can't understand why they don't make them anymore because they were much nicer than normal ones. On a tip-off, I know have a mouthful of lemonade whilst chewing a normal chewit to try to replicate the experience.
Posted on July 25, 2005
i used to love the ice-cream flavoured chewits! those were the best ever!!
Posted by: tasha on July 5, 2006
Lions Sports Mixture
For over the last 50 years I have been a big fan of Lions sweets and have just bought a bag of Sports mixture with the name Maynard's on it. I am so disappointed that they have felt the need to change what has always been a great sweet! he new back flavour, blackcurrant leaves me cold. As a Yorkshire lass who used to buy then when they were 4 a penny (old money) I don't think the new flavour been a good idea at all.
Posted on July 24, 2005
i can accept trying out a new flavour but how dare they get rid of the black ones! The black ones are so popular around here that that you can buy quarters of them. (Sorry 250g of them.)
Posted by: Karen on December 17, 2005
Couldn't agree more, the new Maynard's versions are horrendous.
However, I managed to find the real thing in a little sweet shop during a visit to Hoyland, South Yorkshire. The real 'Lions' versions, including Midget Gems, Uncle Bens and Butterscotch Tables............hmmmmmm heaven.
Posted by: M on February 23, 2006
Horehound Candy
Hello there€“ I am DESPERATELY searching for some horehound for my true love and was wondering if you could please help me? Many thanks - Sheila
Posted on July 23, 2005
Pink Panther Bars
What ever happened to the Pink Panther chocolate bars – the ones which were similar size to the Milky bars but were bright pink and strawberry flavour.
If I remember they were made for the release of the Pink Panther films just like the Wonka Bars have been now.
Posted on July 22, 2005
I loved Pink Panther bars. And even thought of re-manufacturing them and having a trendy bar in Clerkenwell or somewhere called the pink panther bar but only serving pink panther bars. And maybe coke floats. I would pay a lot of money to eat one now. £100 even. And another £200 for several 48 packs of:
Chicken Wickers
Skydivers
Little Piggies / Piglets
Farmer Browns
THE classic KP multipack.
Posted by: Tim on January 18, 2006
I'm so glad I'm not the only person who remembers Pink Panther chocolate bars - have tried for years to find a strawberry chocolate to take it's place but they're just not the same... maybe it was the picture of him on the chocolate that did it! YUM!!!
Posted by: Emma on October 20, 2006
They were lovely - I am now 6 months pregnant and want one NOW!!! X
Posted by: Ang on December 5, 2006
Fresco Mints
I would kill to get hold of a packet of sweets called "Fresco Mints".
They were made by Ferrerro (I think) and were out of this world (well Italy I suppose at least). There were three in a pack they were round and covered in an outside layer of choc, and inside layer of chocolate separated by a wafer layer and had the most exquisite crème de menthe in the centre.
Are you able to get em??
Ian
Posted on July 21, 2005
Gold Rush
Whatever happen to `Goldrush` bubblegum in the 70`s? I remember it being sold in little pouches with a little drawstring on the top....... If I remember correctly there were pictures of wagons and cowboys on the pouch?
Those were the days eh?....................
Posted on July 20, 2005
Blackcurrant Éclairs
I was wondering if you could help, I'm trying to find my dads favourite sweet-blackcurrant eclairs - hes given up hope but there must be some out there somewhere?!
Thank you for your time
Claire
Posted on July 19, 2005
Triffic Bar
Do you remember the bar that was called "triffic" or something like that.
If my memory serves me correctly it was in a blue wrapping and used to be advertised by Mike Reid.
Regards
Daren
Posted on July 18, 2005
Worm Cakes
Just to let you know, as you request on the page, another name for these is Worm Cakes - mainly within my family but from searching the web I know other people also call them worm cakes, the reason for this is that they apparently look like worming pills given to horses (in the old days!) and I suppose that is why they are also called horse cakes.
Hope that is of some interest to you.
Regards
Mark
Posted on July 17, 2005
theres stuff from germany thats supposed 2 be the same, heres the link it has some old war memorabilia can also be bought on this website so be warned incase this stuff offends u! http://www.ostfront.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=GROT-0028&Category_Code=
Posted by: Nic on January 31, 2006
Junior School
I used to go crazy over them when at Junior school (around 1982). The ingredients were probably banned by the EC for being too tasty.
Posted on July 16, 2005
Sadly Fizz Bombs are no longer made. The company was sold back in 1996 and then the new owners went bust in 2000.
Posted by: Mark Young on October 11, 2005
Fizzy Chewits
I've been looking for fizzy chewits everywhere. I last spotted them 3 years ago in "migros", a wee shop in wood green but they've since been replaced by some sort of Hershey's rubbish.
would you know where I could get a fix? I've heard it through the grapevine you can get some sort of Haribo with a similar fizzy sherbet filling in the US.
Posted on July 15, 2005
I've been looking for Green Cola chewits for a lnog time- apart from me and a brief comment on a website, no one seems to know anything about them!
Posted by: Hannah on September 11, 2006
Arrow bars
Chewy, wangy sticks of succulent scrumptiousness! Similar to Highland Toffee bars only longer and thinner. They came in a variety of flavours including strawberry and fruit salad. I remember buying them in the late 70s/early 80s when they cost the princely sum of 4p. Ahhhh - halcyon days!
Posted on July 14, 2005
Big red gum
Cinnamon flavoured chewing gum (I know you guys are about sweets, but this was great!!) made by Wrigley's...
Posted on July 13, 2005
sweet cigarettes
Packets of sweet cigarettes. White with a red tip and I think each pack contained a card that you could collect.
Posted on July 12, 2005
Star trek bar
White chocolate with sparkly multi coloured candy bits in it - a few years back Thorntons did something similar called a cheerleader bar...
Posted on July 11, 2005
I have also wondered this! I remember them well! They were like a sweeter version of Snak-a-Jacks.
Posted by: Julie Fletcher on June 22, 2006
Whistle Lollies
Various flavours including cola and strawberry. They were shaped like a whistle and you could whistle with them. the more resent ones had a pipe in the stick which you slid up and down to adjust the note you were whistling. the pipe had numbers on it. each number equated to a note and the wrapper had a tune on it in the form of numbers which you could follow with your whistle.
Posted on July 10, 2005
Black Anglo Bubbly
The Anglo bubblegum that was black.....
Liquorice I think, but in the same packaging as the original!
Posted on July 9, 2005
Yeah I remember them! They were called Spook. Round liqourice flavour black chewing gum, they made a heck of a mess if the bubble you blew popped over your face!!
Posted by: Angie on January 25, 2006
Candy skeleton
It was a candy novelty sweet. A skeleton, made up of all the individual bones of candy you could put it together and it came in a plastic coffin!
Posted on July 8, 2005
http://www.nextag.com/skeleton-candy/search-html
Posted by: sel on September 30, 2006
Forget the best cola'sweet ever.
Cola chews Were the BEST SWEET EVER!!!
Posted by: Sam on February 2, 2007
Secret bar
Mallow inside chocolate but the chocolate looked a bit liked shredded wheat!!
Posted on July 7, 2005
Shredded wheat! thats exactly how I described it but none of my mates remember it.
Love to u all for remembering it!
Posted by: Nic on December 23, 2006
Brandy balls
These were fab boiled sweets and are still made by Campbells I think. As the name suggests they were brandy flavoured and round and were red in colour. Yummy!
Posted on July 6, 2005
These sweets are not brandy flavoured - they are cinnamon flavoured - they are also produced by a company called Rafflers,Flush Park, Lisburn, Co Antrim, BT28 2DX. (These are my favourite sweet).
Posted by: Gordon on January 3, 2006
Barley sugar twist
Barley sugar twists with chocolate all through the middle. These were loooong sweets....
Posted on July 5, 2005
Bournevita Bar
Basically as the name suggests a bar of chocolate (made like a thin Wispa) with a heavy taste of Bournevita (a malt drink-just add hot milk), I used to eat the drink by the spoonful-until the Bar came out that is ...Nice!
Posted on July 4, 2005
Thats Bournvita, but Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm yes , very nice
Posted by: Chris on July 24, 2006
Pez
It was dispensed from a montage of different cartoon character headed plastic holders, the body which can be only described as cigarette lighter shaped an size with the cartoon head on top ...Nice! (an collectable!)
Posted on July 3, 2005
Mint Banjo's
The standard Chocolate version was available in the UK-but when I was 12 ('82) I saw a mint version in Brussels an of course had to eat it ...mmm, nice!
Posted on July 2, 2005
Trio's
Trio's
As John Peel did the narration on the advert I guess it could have a cult notoriety to it-but nah! it was lovely chocolate covered biscuit an soft toffee all in a red an gold wrapper ...nice!
Posted on July 1, 2005
oh god trio's were brilliant, i asked a shop worker if they sold them and they didnt have a clue what they were (they were 16, im 22 and it made me feel old) :(
bring them back
Posted by: jim on February 10, 2006
"TRIIIIIIO, TRI I I OOOOOOOO, I WANT A TRIO AND I WANT ONE NOW!!!" i can stil vagly remember the advert aswel...a little girl throwing a tantrum in order to get her trio...thats how im feeling now!!!
miss them gorgeous bars, clubs are no immitation-there rubbish!!!
Posted by: kirsty-marie on September 26, 2006
I remember these all too well, my parents owned a sweet shop, and Yep i used to have the 'ODD' midnight walk to the stock room, Cabana bars where my favorite, really sweet, lots of coconut, and lots of cherries ... Yummmy - i remember the blue outer wrapper, ooohh it's all coming back to me!!
Posted by: Conrod on March 30, 2006