What is your favourite retro sweet?

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This poll is closed.

What is your favourite retro sweet?

• I don't like retro sweets / I don't have a favourite - 45 votes
• 25%
• Other (please tell us!) - 35 votes
• 20%
• Blackjacks - 17 votes
• 10%
• Flying saucers - 14 votes
• 8%
• Fruit salad - 13 votes
• 7%
• Pink shrimp - 13 votes
• 7%
• Rhubarb and custard - 11 votes
• 6%
• Cola bottles - 10 votes
• 6%
• Pineapple cubes - 6 votes
• 3%
• Jazzies / white or brown gems - 5 votes
• 3%
• Sherbert pips - 5 votes
• 3%
• Milk teeth - 5 votes
• 3%

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[eleanor2]

Might as well be just a dream to us now barry ;0)

[barry1010]

:D My family is munching their way through a pack of mcVities caramel chocolate biscuits. It is a torture to me, I haven't tried them :(

[eleanor2]

They're just a bit good barry to be honest .. sorry :0)

[barry1010]

:|

[eleanor2]

Ha ha!
Right, had something to eat, off to be useful, bye barry.

[Rosie29]

I remember sweets in the 1930s called "chops potatoes and peas" - little sweets in those shapes. I have never come across anyone who remembers them. I wonder if anyone on here does ?

[Aldhelm]

It's spelt sherbet, not sherbert.

[Lie-in King]

The extra 'R' can be used -

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sherbert

[barry1010]

I think 'sherbet' and 'sherbert' are two different things. Sherbet is a drink - this is sherbert
https://onepoundsweets.com/tag/sherbert/

[lady-janine]

coconut mushrooms

[KayB]

Tea cakes

[emmie]

Jubblies, the pyramid shaped ice lolly, great on a hot summers day.

[barry1010]

I thought they were horrible, emmie. Soon lost their flavour so you were just sucking frozen water, it ran down your arm is it melted leaving a sticky mess and the feel of the waxed card made my fingers itch. I preferred a tip top or if I had the cash a Mivvie

[Outdoorsman2]

yorky chocolate

[JimF]

What a pointless waste of time!

[Outdoorsman2]

YORKY'S CHOCOLATE

[Mamyalynne]

Welcome to Answerbank Outdoorsman - do you mean Yorkie bar by Nestlé?