Favourite sweet - probably if you’re over 40

[AnotherDrearyDayInParadise]

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

Pez sweets (in weird plastic dispensers)
Toffetts (only sold at cinema)
Pastel coloured sweet necklaces on elastic
Sweet cigarettes (oh dear)!
Fruit salads (8 for a penny in my day, and I'm pretty sure it was an old penny)
Bon Bons (the sort you bought in glass jars, that covered in icing sugar)
Caramac

When I was a bit older, my favourite chocolate bars were called milk sandwich or plain sandwich. Size of a normal bar of chocolate, but in 3 thin layers. Either milk, plain, milk, or (my favourite) plain, milk, plain.

YY to ice cups.
Highland Toffees
Toffos
I'm sure I'll think of more

Mine: herbal tablets, cough candy twist, chocolate limes, blackcurrant and liquorice

Toffee crunch. Proper toffee crunch, made by Trebor Bassett.

I wish they’d start making it again. I’d buy as much as they could produce - it was bloody beautiful.

Anglo bubblys
Sweet monkey nuts.
Love hearts.
Cola cubs
Cola bottles.

Payne’s Poppets
Penny Arrow bars
Treets
Walker’s Tofees
Flying saucers
Cadbury’s Bar Six
Rainbow sherbet
Spearmint bars
Cadbury’s Tiffin
Lucky bags
Toffee whirls
Tootie Frooties
Mackintosh’s Golden Cup
Opal fruits

are you in the uk spinabifidamom
they also have loads of the other too.e got a lovely little package from them and they came in cool wrappings.

www.oldestsweetshop.co.uk/aniseed-balls

Chocolate limes, sherbet lemons, bonbons, flying saucers ( which I can buy tubs of here in Belgium), fizzy cola bottles, sherbet dippers, Parma violets, strawberry laces.

Bar 6, from the vending machine at school. Cira 1984...

Mint Cracknel - ripped your mouth to shreds!

Nutty bars and nutella that used to come in a little tub with a spatula.

Oh god, now some of you have reminded me of more!

yy to Pez in the dispensers, cough candy twist and that Mint Cracknel

Fruit salads
Black jacks
Lemon Bon bons (strawberry a close second)
Rhubarb and custards
Lemon sherbets

Wham Bars
Toffos
Treets (yellow packet - old version of Peanuts M&Ms)
Sherbert Lemons

I loved loose sherbet which was in those very large glass jars and came in so many flavours. We actually bought it by the penny and it was spooned into long cone-shaped white paper bags. We just dipped a wet finger in it. It can't have been very hygienic but it didn't kill us!

@kateandme

Yes I am. Thanks for the link. I’ve been trying to find aniseed balls for ages now.

I also loved opal fruits.

Foam bananas
Parma violets
Opal fruits
Mint imperials
Strawberry Bon bons

My favourites were,

Pacers (green and white striped chewy sweets)
Cherry lips.
Golf balls, mini golf balls (including dimples) that were chewing gum.
I lived off loose sherbet I'm still amazed I have any teeth left

Oh what a lovelt trip down memory lane!
Pacers
Spangles
Toffee bonbons
Toffos
Pear drops

Pebble sweets
and nuts in slabs of something or other - toffee? I was rock hard, break your teeth style. I'm annoyed that I can't think of the name now.

Nut brittle!

I remember sherbet in the paper cones too!
Also fruit salads, 4 for a penny.
Yes, I'm ancient.

@Greenteandchives - Black Bullets - yes! for years (on and off, I'm not obsessed) I have tried to remember what these were called. Also brought up in the northeast, think they were region specific

also: Toffos, the mixed ones, banana, chocolate and strawberry, and the mint ones

not 70s but Fuse bars, Spira, Riva and my favourite, the Gambit, which was a solid chocolate bar, a blend of Dairy Milk and Bournville, from c. 1984-85. much missed

I loved the Fry's fruit creme (thought it was very sofisticated), Spanish tobacco and Galaxy Counters. Also some milk chews we used to get at the Saturday morning pictures.

And I have only just discovered after 50 odd years that the sweet I called sherbert DIB Dab is actually DIP Dab! Shocked