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Help me remember the name of this 70's sweet!

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Hearditonapodcast · 10/09/2021 21:19

From DHs childhood. He's beginning to think he imagined it. Here's what he can remember...
It was a bar, not individual sweets in a packet.
It was chewy, like nougat texture maybe or fondant.
Possibly a blue wrapper.
He thinks it might have been called Stripe?
Was possibly red, white and blue stripey.

This was in Scotland, late 70s, early 80s.
He had a very traumatic childhood and doesn't remember much before he was 8, but he does remember this sweet that he used to get on a Saturday from his dad. I badly want to find it for him, or at least find out what it was really called but I've had no luck on the Google.

If anyone can solve this, mumsnet can!

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Lavendersquare · 10/09/2021 21:21

Was it possibly a Texan Chew Bar?

Help me remember the name of this 70's sweet!
TyneTeas · 10/09/2021 21:21

Texan?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texan_(chocolate_bar)

MrsJackRackham · 10/09/2021 21:21

Was it a Splicer?

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Hearditonapodcast · 10/09/2021 21:27

Definitely not a texan chew, there was no chocolate. Possibly streaker, it's really hard to find a picture of the bar itself!

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ZaraCarmichaelshighheels · 10/09/2021 21:27

Candy puff bar?

Help me remember the name of this 70's sweet!
Help me remember the name of this 70's sweet!
Hearditonapodcast · 10/09/2021 21:27

I mean splicer, not streaker

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SquirryTheSquirrel · 10/09/2021 21:27

Wham bar?

Mozzers · 10/09/2021 21:28

My first thought was that it was a Texan bar as well. Wasn't the catchphrase - "Texan, takes time a chewin'"?

ZaraCarmichaelshighheels · 10/09/2021 21:29

Not candy puff then as that had chocolate on it.

CiaoForNiao · 10/09/2021 21:31

Wham bar was my first thought. But no idea if they were around in the 70s.

leavesthataregreen · 10/09/2021 21:33

This is the Splicer bar

Help me remember the name of this 70's sweet!
LaurieSchafferIsAllBitterNow · 10/09/2021 21:33

could it have been something from Tunnocks, or Lees?? You say Scotland, so they might be worth looking at.

SquirryTheSquirrel · 10/09/2021 21:34

@CiaoForNiao

Wham bar was my first thought. But no idea if they were around in the 70s.
They were definitely around in the 70s and the wrapper was dark blue in those days, but they were pink rather than stripey.
SirChenjins · 10/09/2021 21:35

Super Mousse? Although that had chocolate on the outside

DementedPanda · 10/09/2021 21:36

Omg! The candy puff bar brings back memories. I was born late 70s and had forgotten about them from my childhood

MissyB1 · 10/09/2021 21:36

Arrow? I’m sure I remember a long chew in a blue wrapper called that, it had a minty flavour.

gardeninggirl68 · 10/09/2021 21:36

Nutty bar?

ZaraCarmichaelshighheels · 10/09/2021 21:37

@DementedPanda

Omg! The candy puff bar brings back memories. I was born late 70s and had forgotten about them from my childhood
I loved them as a kid! I remember them being enormous!,
SirChenjins · 10/09/2021 21:40

Bazooka?

KidneyBeans · 10/09/2021 21:48

@Hearditonapodcast
Moam Stripes bar

www.hancocks.co.uk/maoam-giant-stripes-strawberry-chew-bar-10p

KidneyBeans · 10/09/2021 21:52

@Hearditonapodcast
If it is the stripes bar I linked above, the big ones are harder to find now - I remember them from when I was a kid too. But moam/haribo do small variety packs instead

GoodnightGrandma · 10/09/2021 21:54

There was a nougat bar, but I don’t remember what it was called as I never got it.

Silkiescatz · 10/09/2021 21:58

The one I remember was this Barratt Chewy Nougat

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/293944486927

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