You're 10, It's Saturday

[barry1010]

You've got your pocket money and you're in the sweet shop. What are you buying?

American hard gums, please, and a refresher chew

[Mozz71]

Lots of random pick n mix. Pink shrimps, candy cigarettes, white mice, rhubard & custard chews, anything blackcurrant flavoured (always loved blackcurrant) and a Wham bar.

[ToraToraTora]

ah yes forgot about the white choc mice!

 

[Jellybean30]

I spent one of my school summer holidays helping out in a little sweetie shop after I had done my shift in a bakers.

Got to select a cake to have on my T-break and I also got paid.  I think I was about 14 at the time.  Then it was next door into the sweetie shop to help out and usually came home with a quarter of mixed boilings or a bar of Lindt Chocolate.  

 

[rowanwitch]

Tom thumb drops, and a mivvi,  then maybe some crayons and a colouring book.  

[pastafreak]

There wasn't a sweet shop as such. But Saturday was the weekly shop at the A & P supermarket and my weekly treat was a bundle of lollipops. They were like round super sweet balls on a stick, and lasted ages.

[barry1010]

Were they called Chubba or similar, pasta?

Mivvi's were out of my price range 

 

[pastafreak]

Quite possibly Barry. They were tied up in a little bundle...I had one for each day of the week.

[david small]

Victory Vees.

[TheWinner]

for anyone that liked them, Horlicks tablets are back, in B & M (in a tin).

https://www.horlicks.co.uk/blogs/news/we-re-bringing-back-horlicks-tablets?srsltid=AfmBOooNspr5UOLoaWHMURdBJdF4AelOwRoYHqjW6F4kA5y9DcbJROkX

[barry1010]

Thanks, TheWinner, but are they the same? Looking at the ingredients I doubt it 

Wheat (Wheat flour and Malted Wheat) (51%), Malted Barley (28%), Dextrose, Calcium Carbonate, Vegetable Fat (Palm Oil), Anti-caking Agent (E470b, E551), Salt, Potassium Carbonate, Emulsifier (Sunflower Lecithin).

[Cloverjo]

I liked a Sherbet Dip, but not the liquorice stick in it. 
 

A sweet necklace or watch.

[barry1010]

Isn't a sherbet dip without licorice kali? 😁

[barry1010]

Speaking of sweets at this time of year, who got a smokers set for Christmas? I did - sweet cigarettes, licorice pipes and sweet tobacco. Was there a cigar? 

[rowanwitch]

I had pocket money from grandmother in return for housework, mum, because she wasn't around much , and a couple of aunts and uncles that visited every week.   Added up to about a pound a week  great in the 1960s  especially when  you think a Saturday job in the 1970s mostly paid between £3-5.  I just put my housework rate up. My Grandmother hated cleaning and was willing to pay.

[barry1010]

I had pocket money was told how to spend it - I had to buy my comics, put some in my Municipal Bank safe and what was left I could spend on sweets.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/2v2vQnLnSPmeI1PYu9xeXQ

[theshedman]

I used to like Spangles although that amount of sugar now would send me right over the top, also liked and still do when I can get them are the long very hard liquorice sticks with them flatened at one end.