Penny sweets

[JackDanielsU]

Many a year ago (well 20), every friday I would get a 10p bag of 1p sweets. Im sure you know the kind.

Fruit Salads, Mojos, Black Jacks. Shrimps, Cola bottles and so on

But I remember red lips, but they tasted quite perfumy I guess...or am I just confused.

Any other Abs remember any other good 1p sweets?

[spudqueen]

Milk chews, flying saucers, fried eggs, fizzy fish (my favourites!).

[Dockley]

what about those teeth, not the ones you get now that taste like those shrimps, the ones that were a bit powdery?  And those milk bottles too... the only perfumey sweets I remember were those awful Palma Violets - granny sweets. And drumstick lollies, frutella's when they were long and thin and not square - and stripey Pacers - god, you've got me started now! Chocolate mice, pretend ciggies, anaseed balls (yuck), jelly worms,  why can't they make sweets like they used to?

[normyc]

The red lips were called Cherry Lips, and were similar to Floral gums.

[curiosity]

Yes, that crackly stuff that popped on the roof of your mouth for ages, kind of yellow bits of gum in a cream canvas bag something jack I think.

[JackDanielsU]

I think thats a kind of Space Dust.

Also remembered Gummy Beer Glasses. Jawbreakers (esp the hot ones) Double DibDab, Fizzy and Normal gummy cherrys. Chewy Bananas, Pear Drops, Rhubard/Custards.

They were all great!

[smudge]

Yes, those were the days Jack!

Penny sweets: Here

[Pinotage]

Black Jacks penny sweets? Thats inflation for you. They were a farthing each when I were a lad.

[smudge]

Me too Pinotage - well '4 for a penny' at least!

[B00]

My local shop still sells most of the above- would you all like a bag?

[Robinia]

Pinotage & smudge you've beaten me to it - I was going to say 4 a penny too!  For a penny you could get a long thin toffee bar & for 3d a bar that just about lasted all day - if you still had any teeth left!

Does anyone apart from me remember choc-sticks? They were a twisted toffee stick, (lovely buttery taste) with chocolate that ran right through the middle.  There were barley sugar sticks too.

[smudge]

Wasn't that long thin toffee bar called an 'Everlasting Strip' Robinia?

I used to love banana palm toffee too!

[normyc]

what about liquorice root, it was basically a bit of wood!!

[spithray]

Going a bit upmarket, my all-time fave was the 2p Skullcrusher.  It was a white chocolate skull with strawberry flavour goo in the middle.  Haven't seen them for years.

[spithray]

Sorry, forgot to say...

I'm assuming it wasn't just me that called it a '10p mix-up'.

[Dockley]

We used to call them a 10p or 20p  mix up - depending how good we were and how much pocket money we got!

Does anyone remember these sweets that looked like polo's, but were chewing gum, but you could whistle with them before you munched them to blow bubbles with? They were pink and cost 1p... I used to get them in my 10p mix up about 30 years ago.

[smudge]

normyc - my husband chews liquorice wood every night!

I think it's disgusting stuff, but he enjoys it & says it stops him snacking in the evenings!

[Robinia]

Palm Bars (3d) smudge!!!!  That's it!  There were several flavours but banana was best.  (If FP sees this she'll scream, I think she detests bananas!)

What about chewing tobacco?  Imagine that now?

[normyc]

smudge  try substituting it for an old bit of birch or willow and watch his face!

[smudge]

That's an idea normyc! I shall cut a branch from our Forsythia tree tomorrow & put it in with his bunch of Liquorice sticks just for the crack!