forgotten sweets etc

[HIPPIEDAVE]

Wasn't sure where this would fit in on here, anyone remember Mint Bandits,Chapeeto's, Lute bars. Weird things I remember are Dark Secrets, chocolates filled with ice cream, and a football filled with ice cream. Also Angel Trumpets, TV's crisps, Terry's Chocolate Lemons. any weird ones you remember.

[Amethyst_Isle]

Anyone remember the Aztec chocolate bar ?

and no it is not a drinking place.

http://www.gimmethosesweets.co.uk/re....html:popcorn:

[wadsy]

I remember "rishy" crisps & "potato puffs". "Curly wurlys".

There was in ice lolly called "striker" & Francis Lee from Man City did the Ad

on TV.

[suzepulcheria]

Originally Posted by wadsy I remember "rishy" crisps & "potato puffs". "Curly wurlys". There was in ice lolly called "striker" & Francis Lee from Man City did the Ad on TV.

My mother-in-law used to send Curly Wurlys to my husband at boarding school, secreted between the pages of "Our Bible Story" magazine. She is a subversive. My Great Aunt used to bring me a bar of Fry's "Five Boys" choc when I was a teeny. The bars had five segments each with a boy's face imprinted on them, and filled with white minty cream. Yum.

[Harleybloke]

And those weird 'Pez' things that had the strange dispensers.

[Amethyst_Isle]

Originally Posted by Harleybloke And those weird 'Pez' things that had the strange dispensers.

I remember those monster's head's on them I think!!

[Gazza]

Spanish Gold sweet tobacco - imagine that being on sale now!

[Brigger]

Originally Posted by Gazza Spanish Gold sweet tobacco - imagine that being on sale now!

Hi Gazza,
It is available to buy at Aquarterof.co.uk & a couple more sites I`m sure, just Google it. It`s even on sale at our thrice weekly market from one of the sweet stalls, had some just last week, could`nt resist; but tastes really really sweet now as an adult.

[Gazza]

I don't beleeve it! Used to love that stuff.

How long do you reckon before a ban?

[DB7]

Originally Posted by Brigger Hi Gazza, It is available to buy at Aquarterof.co.uk

Bought some off there last year; this thread has prodded me to return down confectionairy memory lane.

[Brigger]

Originally Posted by Gazza I don't beleeve it! Used to love that stuff. How long do you reckon before a ban?

No ban; but you`ve to go outside to eat it now.

[CaptainWaggett]

Space Dust! It was the nearest I got to illegal drugs until...well, until I was a lot older than kids today. Lucky bastards

[booby trap]

When i first left school, i trained as a sugar boiler, hand making sweets for a small family firm that was 100 years old. Pinapple rock, Tom Thumbs, shurbet pips, rhubarb and custard, clove balls, soft center's, army and navy tabs, the list is endless, They taught me how to put the pictures of the different fruits, that run through fruit rock. That firm is long gone now, i wonder if there are many boiled sweet confectioneries, still making boiled sweet's the old fashiond way today?

[Jackdaw]

Originally Posted by CaptainWaggett Space Dust! It was the nearest I got to illegal drugs until...well, until I was a lot older than kids today. Lucky bastards

My kids used to give Space Dust to the family labrador!
She absolutely loved it, but her face used to go through all sorts of contortions until it had gone down - then she'd come back for more.
One of us "adults" would eventually come to her rescue.

[NappieB]

I remember the 1971 UK budget in which sweets were heavily taxed (along with booze and fags, but the latter got hit even worse in ensuing years). As a result, all candy bars shrunk by about 30% from pre-budget levels (to attempt to keep the price unchanged). The shrinkage continued albeit at a slower pace over the next two decades.

It might be instructive for our younger readers to learn that all candy bars were approximately twice their present size before 1971!