Sweets from your childhood...

stunter ant

I was thinking about.....well sweets!! As you do

And there are loads that dont seem to be around anymore

Nerds..anyone remember them?

Crackling Candy...the stuff that exploded in your mouth!!

Anyone else miss sweets from there childhood??

cat_with_no_tail

Wham Bars
Cola Bars
Highland Toffee Bars
Penny sweets that actually DID cost a penny each

stubs

Chewing nuts. They were little balls of the stickiest toffee ever made coated in fake chocolate. They cost 2d (thats 2 old pre decimal pence to you younguns) for a quarter pound bag. They would keep you happily chewing for hours and they would rip out any loose fillings or milk teeth. I am sure they were made by the same company who made the silver stuff for filling teeth, if not they kept them in business.

stunter ant

Cat With No Tail wrote:

Wham Bars
Cola Bars
Highland Toffee Bars
Penny sweets that actually DID cost a penny each

Haha Wham Bars, Cola Bars and Highland Toffee Bars are all still well stocked in my local garage 10p each but there much smaller these days

montevideoguy

Irn bru bars ....result

Beardface

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/

Remember no more people, childhood sweets a plenty

(I've got rainbow drops, highland toffee bars and space dust at home at the moment, and always get some jelly beans from there too)

Kitty

I ordered from them the other week for my boyfriends birthday, was so tempted to order myself a load of stuff too.

Beardface

Kitty, I gave in to temptation waaaay too easily when I saw what they had to offer

sheepworryingbhoy

Lucky Tatties. They looked like a lump of dried mud (tasted much the same) & came with a small plastic toy buried in the middle. Now there's one for the HSE......

stunter ant

Stav83 wrote:

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/

Remember no more people, childhood sweets a plenty

(I've got rainbow drops, highland toffee bars and space dust at home at the moment, and always get some jelly beans from there too)

Holy cow!!! Im almost lost for words! Thank you for this amazing link you send us Stav...its like all my dreams come true

cee

Chelsea Whoppers! not seen them for years.

Beardface

Haha, more than welcome Ant..

On another note, if you like random foreign goodies, try:

http://www.cybercandy.co.uk/aaasmt/

(Yes, I have a sweet tooth..)

Anonymous

I actually have some popping candy in my car.

Northwind

Curly Wurlys. Sure, they're still around but it's not the same, they used to be the size of a stepladder and now they're tiny.

MacAndCheese

Stav83 wrote:

Haha, more than welcome Ant..

On another note, if you like random foreign goodies, try:

http://www.cybercandy.co.uk/aaasmt/

(Yes, I have a sweet tooth..)

The actual shop Cyber Candy is 2mins walk from work here in Brighton - excellent American import sweets - chocolate covered pretzels anyone?

Anonymous

Northwind wrote:

Curly Wurlys. Sure, they're still around but it's not the same, they used to be the size of a stepladder and now they're tiny.

They're not curly wurly anymore either. They're just some lame zigzag pattern.

Beardface

I still miss the days when Snickers were Marathons and Starburst were Opal Fruits..

I swear they tasted better back then... and, give me back my king size mars bar, sod this 'duo' crap!

Wooliferkins

Super Moose bars. Like Milky Way only better. The question of size is interesting; it is often said that sweets were bigger (wagon wheels etc) but were we just smaller? UK chocolate bars Mars Twix have been increased in size to fit in with the US bigger is better mantra, "10% more!!" Like it's a good thing. A little of what you like.........

Anonymous

Wagon wheels and curly wurlys really were much bigger.
As for king size mars, they still sell them here.

Beardface

yeehaamcgee wrote:

As for king size mars, they still sell them here.

Guess it takes a while for deliveries to get to the moon..

Wooliferkins

That's because the Toast King has a monopoly!

Anonymous

aye. that it does.

supersonic

Fireballs and jawbreakers.

chubby666

Pacer's , Spangles and fruit Polo's

supersonic

Fruit Polos! Always used to melt into a big gloopy tube thing.

stunter ant

Northwind wrote:

Curly Wurlys. Sure, they're still around but it's not the same, they used to be the size of a stepladder and now they're tiny.

Whats happened to curly wurlys is an outrage.......thatchers britan!! :evil: