Favourite sweet - probably if you’re over 40

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DP & I have just been reminiscing about 1/2p sweets & sweets in the 70s in general.
Favourites were :
Black Jacks
Rosy apples
Fruit Salads

Bars of highland toffee that you had to break into pieces

I used to love Highland Toffee. Sixpence it was, in my mind.

I too was going to say '2 for a penny Black Jacks and Fruit Salads' too

Maybe we didn't have so much choice back then

I also used to like all the liquorish things - pipes, wands, Catherine Wheels etc.

Going into the "paper shop" and asking for 20p of cherry lips.

Cola cubes, vest sweet ever!

Sherbet pips

Yep, cherry lips for sure!

Closely followed by cinnamon lozenges. Sucking on a cinnamon lozenge made endless church on a Sunday bearable.

Pineapple rock
Fruit gums when they were hard and proper strong flavours (not like the bland soft ones today)
Tabs
Acid drops
Chocolate limes
Pineapple cubes
Candy cigarettes
Aniseed balls

I could never do pear drops because they shredded my palate.
I nearly choked on a Spangle so that’s off my list

Pineapple chunks
Spangled
Coconut ice

Bon bons

I'd forgotten pips. Yum.

Traffic lights!

Spangles not spangled

Brandy balls
Butter balls.

Callard and Bowser butterscotch in its paper and cellophane packaging. For posh.

They had these flat round oranges for 2p, same texture as white mice but yummy orange.
Mojos
Germaline bubble gum with tattoos in the pack with yellow faces on and I would use them on my tongue
And not sweets but Wheelz Nibbits onion and vinegar flavour or Mexican spice wheel shaped maize snacks.

Rainbow drops
Chewing nuts
American cream soda
Cola cubes

Anyone remember bones crisps? Loved them!

Yes - i’d Forgotten about the gum with tattoos.
Did anyone shrink crisp packets in the oven & make them into key rings (or just shrink them because everyone else was)

Shrimps, mushrooms (Malaco ones) chocolate tools and fish and chips (white choc)

Choc-lik - basically the dust from under the Smarties machine.
Kola Kubes.
Chocolate Limes.
Chocolate Peanuts.
Sherbert Lemons.
Kop Kopps.

Q

I loved Ice Cups chocolate in the '80s. I often reminisced about them so was delighted to find them in my local Lidl recently.
I bought them to show my kids but ended up eating them all myself.
They still feel cold on the tongue.

Gold rush

Floral gums
Cherry lips (the hard gummy ones)
Rosy apples
Rhubarb and custards
Cola pips
Pineapple cubes

Also, from the penny sweet counter:

Flying Saucers
Pint Pots - like cola bottles but in the shape of pints of beer and tasted like shandy
Cola bottles
Strawberry laces
Mint Mojos
Refreshers
Swizzles
Ice Cups, which were like little chocolates in a tiny foil cupcake case that were always inexplicably cold in the centre.

Strips of Chelsea whoppers.

X-post, Pinkkahori!