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If you were marooned on a desert island for a month ...

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ScreamingValenta · 31/01/2019 17:18

... and could have a month's supply of just one childhood sweet to live off, what would you choose?

I'd go for Sherbet Fountains.

I should add, you also get a supply of drinking water, toothpaste and a tooth brush!

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ShatnersBassoon · 31/01/2019 17:20

Double Lollies or Fizzers. I love chalky sweets.

BaronessBomburst · 31/01/2019 17:21

I'd go for peanut brittle. Not my favourite but it might fill me up!
I used to like those rhubarb and custard chews, and Black Jack's.

BaronessBomburst · 31/01/2019 17:22

Sorry. The apostrophe was added by autocorrect.

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ScreamingValenta · 31/01/2019 17:22

Possibly relatively nutritious too, Baroness!

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Floralnomad · 31/01/2019 17:23

Fruit gums , I’m in my early 50s and I eat tons of them per year .

Disfordarkchocolate · 31/01/2019 17:23

Parma violets, the small ones. I love them

SandyDays · 31/01/2019 17:23

Jelly beans! Lots of variety of flavours 😁

GetSchwifty · 31/01/2019 17:27

Percy pigs or haribo strawberry softies

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ScreamingValenta · 31/01/2019 17:27

Ah! Cunning, Sandydays!

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Sausagefingers9 · 31/01/2019 17:28

Wham bars

SandyDays · 31/01/2019 17:29

Ooh I loved wham bars not had one for years!

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ScreamingValenta · 31/01/2019 17:34

A Wham bar would end up with lots of sand stuck to it by the time you got to the end of it! Grin

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Knicknackpaddyflak · 31/01/2019 17:39

Ooh. I saw the thread title and thought yes please!!

Fry's Turkish Delight. The proper stuff. When it used to be a BIG bar. (or possibly I was smaller.)

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ScreamingValenta · 31/01/2019 17:42

The advert for Fry's Turkish Delight brings back such a feeling of 70s nostalgia.

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Justonedayatatime11 · 31/01/2019 17:49

Another one for swizzles mega double lollies. I have 2 massive retail size boxes hidden in my wardrobe, they're my guilty secret!

strawberrypenguin · 31/01/2019 17:54

Black Jacks! Not had those for years. Used to love getting a mixed bag of those and Fruit Salads (don't know why they always came together but they did)

Parky04 · 31/01/2019 17:57

Pacers. Best sweets ever!

Kpo58 · 31/01/2019 17:58

Pic n mix!

(But not the crappy Candy King ones that you find everywhere now)

HildaZelda · 31/01/2019 17:59

Taz bars, or caramel Freddo's as they're called these days. They taste horrible now though thanks to Mondalez taking over Cadbury and shoving tons of palm oil into their chocolate.

DontGoIntoTheLongGrass · 31/01/2019 18:00

Milkybar choo. Hands down.

ShakeYourTailFeathers · 31/01/2019 18:00

biscuit Munchies

Piewacket · 31/01/2019 18:35

Bounty (Milk chocolate, not plain). (though if there are coconuts on the island it might prove too much of a good thing.)

iklboo · 31/01/2019 18:38

Cherry lips or floral gums

ChampagneCommunist · 31/01/2019 18:39

Flying saucers. They are still wonderful

Lollypop27 · 31/01/2019 18:42

Cadbury’s mint crunch like it used to be 25 years ago.

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