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

And those toffee balls that were white on the outside, coated in a layer of powdered sugar.

Toffee bon bons.
What I likes was in our corner shop, they would weigh you out the right amount of sweets for the money you had - so if you didn't have enough for 'a quarter' or even 2oz, they'd let you have what you could get for your money

Sherbert Pips. I have recently discovered a shop near me still sells them.
They are like crack to me!

Callard & Bowser nougat in the pale blue box, the height of luxury!

Hoping Dad would give Mum a box of Weekend, there were loads that she didn’t like.
But if he brought Terry’s All Gold, you’d be lucky to get a caramel or a coffee cream!

The very best were oblong sugar shells filled with a sort of fruit paste, the wrappers were white with a picture of the fruit, folded into pointed ends, no idea what they were called, but they were a huge treat.

Bazooka bubble gum
The one that smelled of germoline
Aniseed balls
Aniseed twists
Chocolates that now the closest thing is galaxy counters - can't remember what they were called but think there was a giraffe on the packet
Cola bottles

Texan
Cabana

@MrsMartinRohde - yes ! What were the germoline sweets ?
Loved Zubes for a sore throat but now gone

The very best were oblong sugar shells filled with a sort of fruit paste, the wrappers were white with a picture of the fruit, folded into pointed ends, no idea what they were called, but they were a huge treat.

Yes — I remember those! We’re they just called fruit Bon-Bon’s?

Like these but the wrappers were white?
www.amazon.co.uk/Lutti-Fruit-Bonbons-500g-bag/dp/B00404MZQY?tag=mumsnetforum-21

Cola bottles. But only the fizzy ones.
Otherwise, there were so many sweets I didn't really like much, I just ate them because they were there and I didn't hate them.
Flumps were fun to squish and stretch, but like a lot of the other penny sweets, they tasted bland.

I was more into chocolate and Skips.

Actually were they more like this?
www.amazon.co.uk/Trefin-Belgian-Boiled-Sweets-Vienna/dp/B01AL73LG6/ref=pd_sbs_325_5/261-0360189-6753347?psc=1&pf_rd_p=18edf98b-139a-41ee-bb40-d725dd59d1d3&_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_wg=i473r&pf_rd_r=Y7SZSP26A8YTBNP1Q52J&pd_rd_i=B01AL73LG6&pd_rd_w=1t5IM&tag=mumsnetforum-21&refRID=Y7SZSP26A8YTBNP1Q52J&pd_rd_r=18f10e38-2a72-11e9-be8b-3f319a6e7e3f

Yes, I remember those Bon Bons too, in the white wrappers. They were nice. Can't remember where they were from, but I don't think they were sold in the little newsagents that had the usual sweets, or at school.

I loved fruit bonbons
Bit more 90s but those gummy bugs with 'gory liquid guts'

Fruit bonbons

I loved those green turtles that were bubblegum flavour. And fuzzy peaches.

Vice versas
I’d forgotten all about pint bottles too.

Pear drops
Banana split toffee
Chewing nuts
Aztec

Soor plooms! My cheeks are tingling just thinking about them

They were called Pascal's Fruit Bonbons! I loved anything fizzy from the penny/half penny tray or the little swizzles ones in a packet. Loved more or less all sweets and chocs as a kid in the 70s/80s. I remember trying to shrink down a packet of Monster Munch in the oven and the kitchen filling up with horrible, probably toxic, smoke!

Those small, hard, round, lollies on paper sticks. Multi-coloured pastel stripes and a chalky texture. Good for dipping in a bag of sherbet.

And Supermoose bars.

Sherbet fountains, flying saucers and sherbet pips.
Black Jacks.
Aniseed balls.
Liquorice, especially the 'spiral' of liquorice 'tape' with the round sweet with the little bobbles (!) (as you get in Liquorice Allsorts) in the middle.

In my tween/teen years I developed a taste for Edinburgh Rock. Also there was a sweet, I think made by Trebor, which was along the same line as Extra Strong Mints but they were cinnamon flavour.

Anyone remember Banjo. Chocolate wafer with nuts on top. I really want one of those.

Rainbow crystals
It was just pure multicoloured sugar, always looked so pretty in the jar in the sweet shop. Used to get 2 ounces each morning on my way to school and used my finger to dip in.

Does anyone remember Terror Eyes? They used to be like giant eyeball chewing gum.

Also Meanies, 5p crisps pickled onion flavour.
Bensons crisps, either spring onion or bacon&brown sauce flavour.

Yum yum yum!

Space dust!

Old fashioned black licorice that's brown in the center.

And, lavender chewing gum

www.aquarterof.co.uk