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In reply to an earlier post on 7 Apr 2009 16:50:06 BDT
Mrs. C. A. Robertson says:
aaahhh, but we all had to go on our bikes to buy them, and had to spend our 10p wisely - no half pound or 500g bags for us - we made do with 2 oz!! Happy days....
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Posted on 14 May 2009 09:23:56 BDT
Big Figure says:
Yes, Mr. M. J. Phair, I too remember Ice Breaker bars ...... and Applejack, strawberry Aeros, the five flavour Fry's bars and cracknells from Quality Street.

But am I the only person to remember jelly daleks? Around briefly in the 60s.
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In reply to an earlier post on 14 May 2009 22:26:54 BDT
D. Blakelidge says:
I well recall "Ice Breakers" if you bit off the chocolate and then licked the crystalline mint, it would make your tongue bleed, the crystalline acted like shards of glass, I don't know, but I'm guessing that may be the reason the were pulled. They were tasty though. Anyone know why they stopped making em?
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Posted on 15 May 2009 20:46:35 BDT
Irbydatious says:
I didn't like Pacers as I always thought they were a naff version of Opal Mints.
I used to like Old Jamaica chocolate bar which tasted strongly of rum and Country Store (I think that's what it was called) which was another chocolate bar with raisins and small biscuity bits in.
However, the three things I miss are Mint Cracknell and one that wasn't a sweet but was sold in sweet shops which was a sort of lattice biscuit tube with cream cheese running down the middle.
Plus, the best ever Pot Noodle flavour - Cheese & Tomato. Which, for some reason, they refuse to bring back.
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Posted on 17 May 2009 19:48:40 BDT
Mrs. M. Butcher says:
Fuse Bars. My family used to joke that they contained everything swept up from the Cadbury's factory floor because they had so many different ingredients but we loved them all the same!
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In reply to an earlier post on 17 May 2009 22:39:07 BDT
Free Julian Assange says:
I agree with the Canadian chocolate part - every time I go to visit friends in Canada I take armfuls of Galaxy chocolate, Polos and Wine Gums and leave with Jolly Ranchers sweets.

I really miss the Peanut Lion bars they had as a limited edition about ten years ago or so.
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In reply to an earlier post on 18 May 2009 18:43:55 BDT
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K. YOUNG says:
Yes the gold rush was great had a great flavour and was very neat in those drawstring bags
You can still buy it and it still comes in the little drawstring bags with the gold miner on the front at www.thepinksweetshop.co.uk

They also sell the wham bars!
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In reply to an earlier post on 20 May 2009 00:20:56 BDT
G. Herring says:
Oh, at last. I was beginning to think I was the only one who loved Nutty Bars! I used to buy one every Sunday morning after finishing my paper-round. Heaven! They were made by Rowntrees, since swallowed by Nestle. I emailed Nestle a few years ago asking them to reintroduce it but they said it would be 'too expensive to produce'. Sounds like a poor excuse to me. You can buy something almost identical in America called Payday. The shop here that imported them charged 89p a go so I could only afford to buy one on a payday!
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Posted on 20 May 2009 08:32:49 BDT
Mrs. E. Bourne says:
does anyone remember Chocsticx and barley sugar twists. they were long sticks and the chocstix was a sort of hard caramel with a tube of chocolate running through the middle.
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In reply to an earlier post on 20 May 2009 19:29:51 BDT
A. D. Smith says:
I remember Blobs lol lol Fizzy cola, strawberry and cream to name but a few

The chewing gum you're thinking of was called 'Freshen up' and the flavour was a cinnamon that left the roof of your mouth tingling!
Aztec bars were both a mix of milk and plain chocolate if my memory serves me correctly and I used to love em! Another bar I liked was made of coconut and had cherries in then covered in milk chocolate, was it called 'Kalimba'? or something similar
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Posted on 24 May 2009 13:13:18 BDT
Dean Fuller says:
TREATS (Yellow Packet)
TOFFO (esp. the flavoured ones)
NUTTY BAR
STARBAR
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Posted on 25 May 2009 13:29:29 BDT
S. Broughton says:
I loved Spangles as well as Banana flavoured chewits which they seem to have stopped making.
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Posted on 25 May 2009 17:48:27 BDT
mike says:
there used to be a bar made by cadburys cant remeber the name it was something like woosh zoosh but was chocolate with a strawberry marsmallow centre ther were lovely and i no they are not sweets but anyone remeber the jaws crisps in spicy tomato flavour oh the memories
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In reply to an earlier post on 26 May 2009 11:45:11 BDT
C. Hawkeswood says:
Cheers A.D. they must have been made by the toothpaste company, they tasted identical to Close Up paste (my mum made me use it,no orange flavour kiddy paste for me)
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Posted on 26 May 2009 14:42:45 BDT
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Mr. G. Henderson says:
To add to the above 'assortment' (sic) I remember-
....Carols ( mostly caramel inside)
Merols which were hard sweets, butterscotch flavour -might be only from Scotland as my English wife doesn't know these !
plus ....Amazin bars,
Whisp bars ,
Jolly bars (small nougaty bars with fruity bits inside- around in the early 1970's)....
........... not forgetting ...
Cadbury's Toffee buttons;
Fry's Punch bars;
Cadbury's Extra bars (soft caramel centred chocolate)
and Millar's Goosberries (hard 'sucky sweets with soft centres, possibly Scottish also)
......and last but not least .. Maynards Jelly Beans...all bad for the teeth but great.
How sad is all that! Cheers.
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Posted on 26 May 2009 16:22:06 BDT
Big Figure says:
Anyone remember Sour Fruit chewing gum?
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Posted on 26 May 2009 19:46:31 BDT
K. Morris says:
I loved the Pink Panther bars, LOVED Texans - does anyone remember Gambits? There were a layer of dark chocolate on a later of milk as far as I can remember.
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In reply to an earlier post on 26 May 2009 20:23:02 BDT
A. thomas says:
they were definitely Fry's and they were called 5 boys, strawberry, orange, lemon lime and raspberry, they were awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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In reply to an earlier post on 26 May 2009 20:27:12 BDT
A. thomas says:
oh god yes, i used to love ice breakers, very minty! why are all these wonderful chocolate bars no longer available? if they can bring back wispa, they can bring back ice breakers (and 5 boys)
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Posted on 26 May 2009 20:33:43 BDT
A. thomas says:
anyone remember a strange orange flavoured chocolate bar with a cartoon strip included, i think it was something like conks and robbers, can't remember if i preferred the chocolate or the cartoon strip!
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Posted on 26 May 2009 21:40:55 BDT
Bluey says:
I used to like a chocolate bar called Secret. This was sometime in the early-mid 90s. It had thin trails of chocolate piped over the top and that's all I can really remember about it. The other thing I remember is my mum taking me to the newsagents to buy one and the newsagent saying that they were discontinued!
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In reply to an earlier post on 27 May 2009 10:06:17 BDT
Page Turner says:
Yes, Big Figure, now that you've mentioned them I do remember sour fruit chewing gum, but my "too sweet tooth" detested them. I think I'd probably appreciate them better now.
I was reading a great book by Alex Kava recently and the soft drink TAB was mentioned, I have a vague recollection of it, can anyone help improve that, also is it still available in the U.K. and Ireland.??
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Posted on 27 May 2009 20:50:25 BDT
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Mr. M. P. T. Palmer says:
"Jolly jelly Junglies, you build them up in piles!" It really needs the irritatingly catchy tune: animal-shaped jelly sweets that came in a cube with pictures of jungle animals. Circa 1970, at a guess. I think they were quite expensive, not really pocket-money sweets.

Also some plastic animals that came in two parts: you could create mutant hybrids by swapping the forequarters of, say, a lion, with the hindquarters of, say, a giraffe. They came mounted on a card with a stick of either chewy toffee or a rather nasty "fruity" chew bar.
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Posted on 27 May 2009 20:57:45 BDT
Mr. M. P. T. Palmer says:
And edible Thunderbirds: they were like Candy Shrimps but in a variety of different colours and shaped like Thunderbirds craft.
And stickers that came with a flat piece of pink bubble gum: "Mickey Takers" was one series, another was called "Ringer Dingers (for your fingers)" {you wrapped them round your finger}, another had monsters and a set of name stickers so you could name them after your friends. And of course there were cards that came with gum: Batman (blacks, red, blues, real photos and "Riddler's Riddle" with a decoding device), Thunderbirds (only b+w), Tarzan, Yellow Submarine, Monkees, Planet of the Apes etc.
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In reply to an earlier post on 28 May 2009 19:40:39 BDT
Ms. Hw Brand says:
Oh yes, how I loved those Aztec bars.....and milkmaid bars, sherbet fountains,Fry's five centres,acid drop spangles....Penny Dainties, sweet cigarettes..licqorice shoelaces....parma violets.....floral gums.....Lees macaroon bars...the' Penny tray' pic n'mix....Oh happy childhood days!
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