Whatever happened to ‘Quiz Bars’
I believe they were made by Taverners and came in orange, mint, chocolate, banana, strawberry…………. Each wrapper had a question with the answer printed inside. I used to spend my paper round wages on these !!
Showing my age I’m afraid as this was a long time ago but if I could still buy them I would spend my wage on them !!
Regards
Neil
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Somone mentioned cereal before.
What happened to Puffa Puffa Rice?
Awsome!!!!!
Hello, well this website has brought back alot of childhood memories. I used to love Spangles and Penny Dainties. Can still remember a few more, McGowans Toffee Bars, Flying Saucers, Frys Five Boys, Gobstoppers, Fruit Salad, and that loose stuff in a big jar called Caylie (think I spelt that wrong !!) but we used to buy a bag of the stuff, wet our fingers and stick it in the bag and, well you know the rest, I always had a yellow finger after eating it, it was like yellow flavoured sugar, very bad on the teeth !! One thing I can’t remember the name of was a stick about the size of a pencil, it was like eating wood and had a licorice sort of flavour, any clues anyone ??
Jeannie
My nan always had boxes of chocs at xmas but my favourite was ‘Weekend’ by Mackintosh – she didn’t like those so i got the best pick!! They were an assortment of jellies,nuts, fondants and chocolate. Loved them – wish they would reintroduce them !! Last time i had them was when i had my first son 19 years ago.
Has anyone ever heard of RICHMOND SELECTION loose SWEETS? I don’t know if they are still made. They were my grandfather’s favourite.
RE;TEXAN BARS
I AM SO GLAD SOMEONE ELSE REMEMBERS TEXAN BARS…..OH GOD!!!THICK MILK CHOCOLATE COVERING A CREAMY/WHITE CHEWY/TOFFEE TYPE BAR.TOOK AGES TO EAT AS WAS SO CHEWY!! Mmmmmmmmmm.. ALSO DOES ANYONE REMEMBER TRIFFIC BARS MY FAV FROM THE 70S A BIT LIKE A SMALLER VERSION OF THE TEXAN,MIKE REID ADVERTISED THEM IT WAS HIS GIMMIC “TRIFFIC”,PLEASE SOMEONE SAY THEY REMEMBER THEM ALL MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS THINK I MUST HAVE DREAMT THEM!!!
STRIPES!!!!
DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER THESE SWEETS?? SPEARMINT CHEWS WITH GREEN & WHITE STRIPES, KINDA LIKE CHEWITS?? MOUTHS WATERING JUST THINKING ABOUT THEM!!!!
Richmond selection were made by Needlers of Hull – Revamped as butter sensations – alas Needlers bit the dust 5 years ago – the name has recently re-emerged [ashburys] and some lines have reappeared – glace fruit drops , barley sugar drops and assorted jersey toffees. But not as yet fruit pastilles or sensations or maltona drops
can anyone remember treats toffee and peanut hard shell soft chocolate then a peanut or toffee centre
I am wondering whatever has happened to Callard & Bowser sweets, their delicious Butterscotch & licorice toffee all individually wrapped and in neat boxes? Never see them anywhere these days?
Whatever happened to Plain Toffee Crisp? they seemed to dissapear during the early 80′s.
This site is just great, so many memories.
what happened to the galaxy maverick and cadbury fuse chocolate bars?
hi anyone remember arrowroot sticks my friends use to buy them,they were awful,also sherbet dips ,a tube of kalie powder and a liqurice stick to keep dipping in the powder ,lovely!!! (sorry about spelling its me age LOL)
Hello Everyone
Can anyone remember Charles W Mattock Ltd, manufacturing confectioners. Sowerby Bridge – I remember they used to sell toffee which could be bought at Sunny Vale.
Regards
Chris
Does anyone remember?
“Big One”‘s – similar looking to an elongated Cadbury’s Fudge although it didn’t taste like one. The advert went along the lines of “Big One…sticks out a mile” (honest). Came out around the time of Texans
Does anyone remember Jersey Bars they were thin bars of creamy tasting toffee,I used to buy them on the way home from school in the 70s.They were lovely i realy miss them.
jap desserts top sweets….i used to get em for my cousin….he would give me a handful for goin for them for him….different coloured cube like sweets,with a soft inside,yum yum
Does anyone else remember Secret bars!? I could only ever get them in one shop when I was a kid and none of my friends believe they exsisted!! They had marshmallow in the middle and were covered in chocolate, which was in sort-of in a lattice pattern all around it. I think the wrapper was purple, and the bar slid out on a little tray because all the little lattice bits used to break off! Goddamn, that was a good chocolate bar! Please tell me I didn’t imagine it!?
Does anyone remember Jamboree bags, a paper bag with a picture of a scout Jamboree on the front, inside were a few sweets one toffee and a small toy. they were sixpence each I think, my mum used to hate them and say what a waste of money, late fiftys early sixties.
Does anyone remember that Spanish Tobacco? it was like laces in a real old Holborn type packet. Has anyone seen it anywhere? Thanks.
Can anyone help me!!
I loved a particular sweet they were shaped like sweet peanuts but were bright green with red in the middle.
They were called vampire something??
does anyone remember Black Sambo Chewing Gum? it was my favourite, tho theres no way it would make a comeback.I also remember plastic stagecoach with sweeties pushed inside it
Jeannie i’m sure the stick of licorice flavour wood you talk about is licqorice sticks. I have bought them up to a few years ago. I also used to buy what i think were called tiger nuts.
Re bobby; those sticks you are talking about are liquourice [sp?] sticks, and you can buy them on this site
Whatever happened to cadburys chocs that had the same selection in a bar, that you got in a box – i think there was 6 or 8 separate chocs moulded together with choc mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
What ever happened to the Cadburys Whisper bar the most tasty chocolate bar ever? I to wrote to cadburys and they said to me that they stoped selling them as they didnt sell well but I asked them how can that be all my shops in Croydon were always sold out? Does anyone remember this bar and do they sell them any where near you?
Does anyone remember a chocolate bar called something like Hallas? Was quite a big bar but they were pretty cheap, around twenty years ago.
Both me and my brother would love to get hold of them if they still around anywhere. They had different flavour bars with a runny middle! Please help us!!!!
Would you risk it for a Swiskit? And who could forget the Amazin’ Raisin bar? Midget Gems are also rare.
Does any one remember a cinder toffee like bar that was green and mint flavoured? It was covered in dark chocolate and came in a green and clear striped wrapper yummy!!! also does any one remember sour grape bubbly and proper bassetts hard red liquorice that was and still is my favourite, now ive stared having that australian liquorice but its so expensive and very addictive. I luv this site it feels good to reminis on my childhood sweeties. BRING THEM ALL BACK SPANGLES TOO****
I used to love those chocolate tools myself.The chocolate was really nice and I used to love spangles and pacer mints.
I remember 2 chewing gums but can’t remember what they were called.They were both around in the 70s.The 1st one used to change colour as you were chewing it.Really strange as they were not around for long.I think it was made by the same people who made Aero chewing gum.
The second one was a chewing gum that reminded me of the smell of hospitals.You know the smell hospitals used to have like antiseptic.It was in a wrapper and was white and you got a free tattoo inside the wrapper.It had a really strange tast to it
Golf ball chewing gum.They were white,round and bobbly.
I know this is not a sweet but does anyone remember a banana tasting winnie the pooh pudding that was around in the seventies.You could save up the tokens and send off for a money box.I have still got my nans winnie the pooh money box.I don’t even know who made the pudding.It was sooo nice I have never tasted a pudding so nice since.Yummy.
does any one remember coals from newcaste sort of blackcurrant rough sweets from a big plastic jar onsweet shop shelf around in late 70′s?
used to buy them singly.really lovely i used to live in callow end in worcester maybe it was a midlands thing i used to get them from martin at the post office??
any 1 from there remember?
let me know if any one does or if you can still buy them.
plus i remember the gold rush bubblegum my mum used to put in my stocking at xmas
There are some amazing memories on here.
I bet nobody remembers a nougat and nuts type of bar called “Americo Bar” that I used to buy in the 1950s ?
I well remember the Jubbly orange drink in the tetrahedron carton and I’ve found a black and white photo of one but can’t find a colour one anywhere. Been searching the web for five years looking for one.
I love the references here to Mackintosh’s Week End. Those wonderful packs of sweets Lucky Numbers Chocolate and Chew. Quality Street and all those Woolworths sweets like Rum and Butter Toffees by Milady. Barret’s Sherbert Dips. Love Hearts. Black Jacks four for a penny (farthing each) wow that dates me!
this site is really making me hungry i used to love cadburys top deck, plain on the bottom and white on top i think they should be sold again, every sweet and chocolate mentioned on this site is available in cork however i weigh 48stone and eat them all before they hit the shops
Does anyone remember Cadbury’s milk tray chocolates bars? They were bars of chocolate that had a few of their Milk Tray chocolates embedded in them. My mother used to buy one as a sunday treat for her, my sister and I. She’d break it up and share out the chocolates. Then she and I would eat them while watching an old black and white movie on the TV. That was in the 1960′s and I still remember them.
Those brick like sweets are called ‘Tabs’.
What a great site, conjoured up loads of childhood memories – looked on here as I am going to put together a ‘nostalgia’ sweetie box for my sisters forthcoming 50th birthday (Hope she doesn’t see this!).
Jeannie, I think that the liquorice flavoured stick you are referring to is actually liquorice root, I believe it can still be found on this site!!
Louise – there is a fab sweet shop in York (I think it is in the Shambles, a few doors down from a John Bull Rock and fudge shop)that does Spanish Gold sweet Tobacco (made of coconut I think) – tried to buy some a couple of weeks ago, but they had sold out as it was half term (them pesky kids!!!); it is, like this site, a treasure trove of things long forgotten.
Hi Seren
I remember milk tray chocolate bars. They also used to sell a tiny box of milk tray, with 1 layer of about a dozen small chocolates. If you were lucky, you would get one as a present from a friend on your birthday party (in the late 60s early 70s, when children’s gifts were a token,not a display of wealth! and you were happy to come home with just a slice of birthday cake) Oh the joy of carefully lifting off the dark purple lid and opening up the waxed paper!
Karen
Hi, Does anyone remember chocolate tools, you used to be able to get spanners and drills and they tasted lovely.
I used to eat them really slowly to make them last.
Does anyone here over the age of 30 remember Pink Panther Chocolate? It was a chocolate bar, and yes, it was pink!
I’m loving reading all about other people’s memories of sweets from yester-year!
SPANGLES…I LOVED Old English…does anyone know who made them – I would love to write the company!