Favourite sweets.

[rasmus]

What sweets can you remember from your childhood that arn`t around anymore?I used to love spangles.

[smudge]

I very rarely buy sweets these days, only Murray Mints or chewing gum, specailly for long journies.

Mmmmmm Chocolate Limes were so tasty too ummmm & yes they did play havoc with the tongue!

I've never been a cruncher though so that could be why, always worry about my teeth & fillings too much!

I'm a sucker (not in the American sense) & it drives me potty listening to people crunching away!

[smudge]

*'specially even

[SilentSnow]

secret bars, off the chart awesome, they had protective cardboard and everything

[shivvy]

Cabana bar - coconut and cherry chocolate bar. Anyone remember it?

Or the Nutty bar which we used to give to our long suffering dog who also used to get fed space dust quite regularly!!

[Zeddy]

Silent, Shivvy, have a look at this site for chocolate nostalga:
http://www.chocolatereview.co.uk/

[SilentSnow]

^oh cool, that is a great site :) i can't believe i forgot vice versas! or those heavenly whispa golds!

[tara20]

I used to love the short hard liquorice sticks you got for a ha'penny.
Imps
Barley sugar twisted sticks
Oddfellows (Do they make them any more?)
Parma Violets (sweet and sickly - lovely!)

Who else remembers the penny and ha'penny counters?
A shilling went a long way! Now that's an age giveaway ! ;-)

[tickledtrout]

nutty bars
mojos
similar sweets i think they were called space invaders
chocolate cigarettes
chocolate covered bananas
tooty frooties and tooty minties

[alijangra]

The first question I ever posted on here was about Delight bars. It was like soft pink/beige stuff covered in chocolate. Im sure it was in a blue wrapper, and was the best thing ever. Only person who could remember it was Scarlett

[redcrx]

spangles
toffees (fruit ones)
quirks

you can still get most of my childhood faves

does anyone remember quirks? they were a chocolate with a mint flavoured shell?

[Katie~77]

Pacers!!! I loved them.x

[Donquixote]

I can't remember what they were called, but when Wham bars first came out they brought out another one that was half black-half green. I used to love 'em! Wish i could remember its name!!!

[Psychick]

I can remember buying the pick n mix with the sweets only being a halfpenny each, but shillings were before my time Tara ;) lol

[Rossatron]

You can still buy most of the old sweets, even down to wierd victorian boiled sweet recipes . . .they're just either called different names, or not sold in mass produced shops ie. Woolies or Tesco, lol. You can find them on exclusive food sites and delicatessens . .or (if you're a parituclarly fat and sugar-toothed person) you can make them, lol . . .evem Mrs.Beeton has a recipe for Sarsparilla

[Snowy Owl]

If you're absolutely desperate to find more names and/or to buy some of them, go to http://www.aquarterof.com/ Everything you could imagine and more is on there.

[Champagne]

Does anybody remember Nutty bars? I used to love them.

Chocolate & peanut bar in a brown cellophane wrapper.

[Wispy68]

Sweet Peanuts...mmmmm!!!

[moggie 939]

Are you thinking of Caleys Chocolate bars in the 1950s? They had 6 chocolates all different in a bar. Incidentally, Caleys were I think the oldest mfr of chocolate (before Cadbury) and were from Norfolk?
Moggie

[moggie 939]

Forgot - also Zubes. Ad was "go suck a Zube" Hot little blighters!

Moggie

[moggie 939]

Mooglet

Yes it was Frys Chocolate '5 Bar' which had 5 flavours - possibly Strawberry, Rasberry, Pineapple, Lime and another.
Moggie