Who remembers these?

[wendilla]

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We used to sing
pk penny packet

First you chew it then you crack it

Then you stick it too your jacket

PK penny packet

[wendilla]

Can't remember what the others are called someting like fizz bombs I think.

[emmie]

no but then we had other sweeties to concentrate our minds and pennies.

[tiggerblue10]

I remember the drops on the left and I think you can still get them. The penny sweets I used to get when I was a kid were cola cubes, pear drops, aniseed balls, cola bottles wich were sour and milk bottles. This was late '70s, early '80s. They were probably around before.

[wendilla]

Yes I remember all them Tigger.

[Robinia]

Oh yes, I think the coloured sweets are fruit or sherbet pips. We ate them in class at school 'cos they were so small the teacher couldn't tell you were eating....until you dropped them and they bounced all over the floor. :)

[albaqwerty]

Robinia, thank you!! I've been scratching my head trying to think of their name!
(Got splinters now)
I fondly remember penny caramels and flying saucers.

[jno]

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they were the cheapest where I was, a farthing each.

[wendilla]

I am sure you can still get the flying saucers Alba.

[wendilla]

Also just remembered the A B C alphabet ones that we used to try and make naughty words with .

[tiggerblue10]

Ah yes, thats it, sherbet pips. I used to get flying saucers and sherbet dips as well. And chocolate Galaxy Counters in a little white bag with an animal on the front.

[Jemisa]

No, never heard that before wendi. is it regional? down here in Essex its not known.

jem

[wendilla]

JEMISA could have just have been a Scottish saying as I lived there till I was in my teens. And that's a long time ago.

[Robinia]

I can remember way too many sweets...probably why I've got a mouth full of fillings now.
Glees...life savers....chocstix...fry's five boys...fry's five centres...midget gems...mo-jo's...black jacks...fruit salads...swizzels lollies...refreshers...anglo bubbly....anyone remeber ovaltine chocolate?

[wendilla]

Hi Robina we used to get Ovaltine Tablets and Horlicks Tablets. Now you got me looking in the supermarkets but we have one of those old fashioned sweet shops not long opened in town so will have a look there to see what they do next time I go town.

[jan01]

oh i used to love those horlicks tablets .. oh & a 1/4 of those choc drops covered in 100's & 1000's!! ;p

[CatGirl4]

Cor,i loved those Horlicks tablets,i also remember Fry's five boys.Don't remember Ovaltine tabs though.

[horseshoes]

We used yo get PK chewing gum out of a machine and if the turning handle's arrow was facing forward, you got an extra packet. Now who else can remember that?

[boxtops]

Aniseed balls, and gobstoppers!

[horseshoes]

There used to be a HUGE advertising board for Five Boys Chocolate. For some reason it terrified me!

[wendilla]

I don't think these sweet machines would last long nowadays before they got broken into.