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Do you remember the ads music!?
They were a chewy chocolate bar, kind of like a toffee crisp….
They were quite well known and even advertised on T.V
Regards
David
Posted on November 23, 2005
'bite into cadburys chocolate.....54321' was another line but i can't remember much more!!
Posted by: clairesweetie on August 16, 2006
54321 - Ad now online complete with the catchy music:
http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/commercials/ads_0-9.html
Posted by: Steve on August 21, 2006
what happened to princess toasted coconut marshmallows?
Posted by: wendy on August 30, 2006
Does anyone remember the penny chocolate tools !!!!!!!!
(i think they were made by cadbury's cos the chocolate tasted soooooo good!!! and they were soooo scrummy
when we were kids our mum used to bring back a surprise mixture of penny sweets,
they were always in there!!!!!!
hammers, wrenches, spanners everything but the tool box!!!!!!!
bring them back they were the best!!!!! please!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: angie on November 8, 2006
Angie I loved chocolate tools too! I'd forgotten all about them until I read your comment. They tasted brilliant - sweets today just aren't as good!
Posted by: Gillian on November 9, 2006
i,m glad my comment jogged your memory gillian,
its also brings back the great times we had as kids when thoughts of our favourite sweets come to mind!!!!!
i still say bring back chocolate tools!!!!!!
Posted by: angie on November 10, 2006
Tooty Frooties? Tooty Fruities?
What a great website - where are all the sweets I used to gobble up?? Especially Tutti Fruities by Mackintosh I think. Blow Skittles out of the water in every respect, from poxy name to inferior sweet shape/taste. Yet again the homogenising US monoliths mess it up for everyone else.
Posted on November 18, 2005
You can still get them & jelly tots! Tutti Fruties in a purple pack, jelly tots an orange one & they are veggie!
Posted by: Kate on August 26, 2006
Bought some Tootie Fruities recently in Tesco
Posted by: Sandra on September 29, 2006
Tooty Fruities, a revelation they can be eaten by my son who is not allowed any colours or flavourings and these contain only natural colours and flavourings.
Posted by: Tracey on November 17, 2006
WOW! TUTTI FRUITI'S ARE STILL ABOUT, IM GLAD I CHECKED OUT THIS WEBSITE. THANX. XX
Posted by: CLAIRE on December 11, 2006
You can keep the tutti fruities, i want the tutti minties to come back.
Posted by: Rose on February 5, 2007
Would the maker please step forward....
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 on November 15, 2005
think these were called 'violet' something ?
Posted by: andyg on August 12, 2006
could this be palma violets
Posted by: andyg on August 12, 2006
Floral Gums? can still get those, had some last week from a shop in Scotland nr St Andrews
Posted by: Kate on August 26, 2006
Has anyone ever heard of sweets called japs my dad is convinced that they exist but i have never heard of them
Posted by: Grace on August 29, 2006
I remember floral tablets they where little oval shaped sweets that where pastel coloured in tins to freshen your breath , and Parma Violets where something completely different. You can still get Parma Violets and in giant size too, as for floral tablets not seen any for ages but a friend said you can buy then in health food shops, but i have not seen them
Posted by: gaynor on August 30, 2006
I remember those...very odd things. We used to buy them from the chemist! They also had tins of 'cherry lips' - tiny lip-shaped (obviously!) fruity jellies. Not really worth eating as they were so small!
Posted by: Heidi on September 21, 2006
I thought floral gums were like different coloured tiny flowers and tasted well, very chemically (but I liked them). They came in small plastic bags with flowers on them. I can see them in my mind - shame can't download it.
Posted by: BN on September 22, 2006
I remember Japs too and every so often I smell someone wearing a perfume that smells just like them, which prompts me to try to find them in so called sweet shops. I don't think I have seen them since about 1968. You could get large or small ones and were like little coloured laquered shiny boxes.
Posted by: Rosie Nichols on September 28, 2006
I remember Floral Gums and that taste! It was like someone had sprayed perfume over them.
Posted by: Tina on October 1, 2006
The Japs were called Jap Desserts which were my Dad's favourite sweets but were very hard to find in the seventies. You can get mini versions in Dolly Mixtures – they are the coloured cubes with sugar coating and a kind of soft coconut thing going on inside....
Posted by: Emma on October 2, 2006
hi,anyone remember whirly gigs? They were a chocolate bar made up of 4 round whirls of chocolate and also chocolate nut logs,they were to die for back in the 70s.
Posted by: paul on November 14, 2006
Japs or jap nuggets are still around; they are the cube shaped sweets that are now and have always been part of dolly mixtures as I remember, my dad loved them too, you used to be able to buy them in quarters yrs ago... probably a bit like you can now buy individual quality street populars!
Moving on to the 80s... does anyone remember BITZ bars, kinda like kit kats but my fav was the mint version in a green and white wrapper, chocolate with a hint of mint flavour, little fizzy like bits, kinda like the new cadburys mint crisp bars... but yummier cos they were more like kit kats, biscuit too!
Please tell me someone else who witnessed the 80s remembers them, I know I didn't dream it !!
Pam
Posted by: Pamela on November 16, 2006
Parma violets, theyre awesome!
You can buy mini ones or massive ones - they're great fun!!
Posted by: Sara on November 20, 2006
Re: the floral tablets - do you mean the small oval breath freshener ones called floral cachous (pronounced "cashews")?
Posted by: Jill on December 3, 2006
Floral tablets yeah, you can get these in Scotland. As you can many of the sweets on here!
Posted by: Emma on December 10, 2006
Where these possibly Floral Cashews as in 'breath fresheners', I remember they came in a small box with a flip top lid and they were all pastel colours.
Posted by: Michelle F on December 21, 2006
just found this site,and my mouth won't stop watering.
All talk of those fantastic sweets we used to enjoy, those were the good old days weren't they?.whirley gigs were my favourite chocolate and chocolate tools, also parma violets were to die for,you can still get them now but they are giant size.does anyone remember the spanish tobacco in a pouch.?
Posted by: gina downings on January 24, 2007
I have seen similar sold in chemists, floral tasting little sweets marketed as 'cashous' or 'devon cashous' very 'fragranced' flavour
Posted by: Lesley on January 31, 2007
Should that be Husky Bars?
Could you track down whatever happened to Husky Bars
....absolutely gorgeous things. Could never work out why they didn't hang around a bit longer.
Posted on November 7, 2005
Does anyone remember Texan bars the ad used to say Texan the big one.
Cabana bars were the best, really moist and I think it was caramel in with the coconut and cherries.
Pink panther bars (strawberry flavour choc) really good.
Posted by: Michelle on November 11, 2006
does anyone remember crest bars....i remember them from the 50s, chocolate covered with a creamy white centre.
Posted by: pat on March 4, 2007
Possibly Chocolate Almond Clusters...
Hi maybe you can help , lookin for a popular sweet circa 70's, sold in qtr's loose, (they were in all sweet shops ) Flat Almond shape (approx 1") powderey milk choc' with fine almond ?, through centre, makers name embossed on it, Can't remember what they are called and can't find any, on any site, poss' Chocolate Almond CLUSTERS ?????, ANY IDEAS......Thanks, Andrew...
Posted on November 7, 2005
I think I remember the sweets you're talking about...but they didn't have chocolate on them. They were flat and oval shaped, light brown in colour and very crumbly to eat...can't remember what they were called though!! It's really bugging me.....! I'll let you know if I think of it. These were kind of coconutty (!) though, so maybe not the same. Had fine sugar on the outside
Posted by: Heidi on September 21, 2006
I remember having CRISPETS as a child, think they were oval shaped with CRISPET written through the middle..thought they had small pieces of coconut tho..Id love to get hold of some of these if anyones got any ideas??
Posted by: emma on September 25, 2006
Am I the only person alive who remembers NAVY FRUITS?. I can see them now in the window of miss days'shop at the corner of Water st and Beacon st opposite st Stephens' school Wolverhampton' they were a fruit flavoured boiled sweet in a roll about the same size as polo mints. i think they just may have also had a hole in them like polo's but after 50+ years it 's really hard to be certain.
Posted by: roger on January 15, 2007
Crispets - I used to fight with my dad over these - loved them. Then went into a shop to get them years ago and was told they were no longer made but that coconut macaroons were the next best thing - they are good but no where near as good as crispets.
Also love jap desserts and as I can't find them to buy on their own I'll buy dolly mixtures for the kids and steal the japs desserts out of them.
Posted by: Cat on January 26, 2007
Just read down on the comments. I remember Triffic bars, they were thin and nougaty and very NICE.
Posted by: Teresa Hall on February 11, 2007
Re CRISPETS
These were first called nutbits, then became crispets, i used to buy them by the quater in the local shop, i didnt see them for ages and went back to that shop to ask about 9 years ago, I was told they had stopped making them and wouldnt be making anymore. They had a full jar left so i bought the lot..only lasted a week tho!! Coconut macaroons have a similar flavour.
Posted by: sue on February 23, 2007
Anyone remember charms,phantom chews, fizzlesticks, toffee logs, sweet cigarettes, the lime barrel sweet in milk tray,I could go on for ages...
Posted by: paula on March 10, 2007
I remember them well. I made a fortune buying them at Safeway, then reselling them individually at school.
I can remember the first half of the music quite well, but after you "chew, chew, chew the caramel toffee in...54321", my mind goes blank.
Posted by: Tim on August 11, 2006