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

Uncle Joes Mint Balls! I loved sweet peanuts too

Black jacks
Pontefract cakes
Aniseed balls
Sherbet fountains

Oh, & rhubard & custards!

Chocolate limes are still my favourite - my sister gave me two packs last night as they are two for a £1 in Tesco. I love my sister

But also pineapple cubes, orange fizzers and sherbet pips

I can still destroy a bag of black jacks and fruit salads! Soooo good.

Parma violets
Spangles
Lions midget gems
Rainbow drops
I could do a very long list, I love sweets.

Arrow Bars (otherwise known as penny arrow bars because they cost a penny!). They were all different flavours - toffee & banana was my favourite.

Clarnicos peppermint creams far too sweet now.
Frys 5 boys
Flying saucers
Coconut tobacco
Mojos
Sherbet Pips
Milk bottles
The list is endless. In the 60s I used to meet my lovely dad from work on Friday night and we used to splurge in the sweet shop. Both my mum and dad were big sugar eaters until the day the died. Strangely, since about 15 I don't really have much of a sweet tooth.

Sweet Peanuts that you used to buy by the quarter. They were peanut shaped, hard caramel shells with chopped peanut with a little salt in the centres. You can still buy sweets called Sweet Peanuts that look right but the centres aren’t proper nut and salt anymore.

Also you used to buy something that looked like a long barley sugar twist but was actually a hard butterscotch shell on the outside with a compressed centre of hard chocolate. I am salivating remembering it. In my head they cost 2p just after decimalisation.

My mum used to buy these things I remember as desert creams, although clearly that can't be right. Maybe it was dessert creams?

They came out of the jars, they were fondant sweets in different colours, and they had a shape on top that reminded me of a sandcastle or a jelly mould (if that doesn't sound completely ridiculous). I've been trying to find them again for years.

We used to have these cheap chocolate pandas which were the sort of chocolate White Mice were made of, but they were flat, milk choc and white choc in stripes. I went through a fad of eating a bag of 10 every day one summer holidays!

Pineapple chunks
And butter scotch sweets , the ones you can only get in news agents x

SoundofSilence Were they Friars crystallised fondant creams?
I remember them with flavours like lemon and rose.

Pascall fruit bon bons

Yes, that's the very thing, a lovely childhood memory there. Apparently they are still available in Australia.

Love so many of these .... why can't we buy sweets from a jar anymore?

I used to love going to our corner shop "as my Nan called it" it was my after school treat everyday, I used to splurge 10p daily and get a huge bag full of goodies. I especially loved the day-glow bright coloured sugar you could buy from the jars, can't remember what it was called and the cola cubes.

Treasure Island Sweets sells a lot of the sweets mentioned on this thread.

Sherbert pips - my shop had them in all different flavours. My fave was the cola cube flavoured ones.

Mojo chewy sweets - banana or mint.

Toffos

Winter mixture

Aniseed balls

I am 'young' enough to remember the black jacks and fruit salad when you got a whole bag of them for about 2p or was it 2d???

I saw some this morning and was tempted but thought how annoyed I would be at paying ppp for them.

Loved spangles as well and parma violets and those sweet necklaces and the coconut tobacco (how inappropriate!)

I remember some other fruity sweets I loved by have long disappeared; they were Cravens Fruit something with a hard boiled sweet shell and a soft centre. Last spotted around 1987 in Reading uni campus shop. God, I loved those, wish they'd bring them back!

who knew that that would be the actual size of your average packet of crisps in 2019!

😂

Anyone remember the little fruit flavoured jelly snakes? I think they were called wrigglers or something similar. I luuuuurved the blackcurrant ones.

Space dust (orange flavour)
Callard & wotsit butterscotch
Gummy snakes
Neapolitans

We have traditional sweet shop in town. We went today after school. DS2 has edible paper

Golden Cup - I know it’s not a “sweet “ but it should be brought back immediately.

A few PPs have mentioned Pontefract Cakes (I'd mentioned up thread that I loved/love liquorice) and that's just reminded me that I once went on holiday to Spain with a schoolfriend and her parents - friend and I must have been about 15yo. Her mum took bags of PCakes just in case any of us got a dicky tummy from all that nasty forrin food! Needless to say I thought she was daft (I'd spent the first 10 years of my life living abroad anyway) so I ate my entire ration of PCakes within about 3 days. Friends mum wasn't amused - my tummy was fine

I remember the proper sweet peanuts! I loved those!

Also sherbert pips - did anybody else go back to them the next day and find they'd coagulated into one large knobbly lump that you had to pick free from the shreds of paper bag and knaw lumps off?