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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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justasking111 · 10/09/2021 22:02

This??

Help me remember the name of this 70's sweet!
Hugoslavia · 10/09/2021 22:05

My only thought was a wham bar or a refresher bar.

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KittenKong · 10/09/2021 22:06

@Mozzers

My first thought was that it was a Texan bar as well. Wasn't the catchphrase - "Texan, takes time a chewin'"?
A man’s gotta chew what a man’s gotta chew...
CliftonGreenYork · 10/09/2021 22:06

Definitely sounds like a Splicer. I lived in Glasgow in the 70s and they were very popular.

KittenKong · 10/09/2021 22:06

@justasking111

This??
I loved Super Mousse. Like a Milky Way but nicer.
justasking111 · 10/09/2021 22:08

Loot?

justasking111 · 10/09/2021 22:09

Pictures

Help me remember the name of this 70's sweet!
BarryTheChopper · 10/09/2021 22:09

I remember those! It was a Striper bar. It was something very similar if not this. Each stripe was a different flavour.

Help me remember the name of this 70's sweet!
Hugoslavia · 10/09/2021 22:11

Striper bar?
snap and crackle bar? By swizzler

Cassimin · 10/09/2021 22:13

Did it have chocolate on?
Trophy which became banjo?
I still remember the song from the advert!

bushtailadventures · 10/09/2021 22:13

@ZaraCarmichaelshighheels

Candy puff bar?
I've been trying to remember what the mint one was called for years, thank you for posting the picture. I loved those, so much sweet for your money, important when you were a kid in the '70's Grin
YesIDoLoveCrisps · 10/09/2021 22:14

I also think a Wham Bar

Hearditonapodcast · 10/09/2021 22:16

Striper or Splicer sound the most likely, thank you!

Sadly there's no hope of getting them these days Sad

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Hugoslavia · 10/09/2021 22:17

Drumsticks chew bar? Bubblegum flavour was blue and red stripes.
Striker?

PainterInPeril · 10/09/2021 22:19

@Hearditonapodcast Sounds more like a tube of toothpaste!

YesIDoLoveCrisps · 10/09/2021 22:25

If you want to find one to give him and don’t have any success you could probably go to a retro sweet shop and find similar colours or types in the pick and mix and give him those instead.

ZaraCarmichaelshighheels · 10/09/2021 22:30

Glad to be of service bushtailadventures Smile

MargaretHooper · 10/09/2021 22:39

I'm Scottish and I remember something that was just called a Nougat Bar. I don't remember the maker being Barratts - but it was like this - pink and white stripes: www.aquarterof.co.uk/barratts-nougat?gclid=CjwKCAjwhOyJBhA4EiwAEcJdcQt_YLrKWTAuk3GFE63jHLGwQ04mmlQj3ZT9gAY2hx8bX6Z-PIozmxoCnQQQAvD_BwE

WhereYouLeftIt · 10/09/2021 22:41

Any of these?

www.aquarterof.co.uk/chewy-soft-bars-wrapped

WhereYouLeftIt · 10/09/2021 22:42

It didn't have chopped nuts in it, by any chance?

KidneyBeans · 11/09/2021 06:36

@Hearditonapodcast

Striper or Splicer sound the most likely, thank you!

Sadly there's no hope of getting them these days Sad

You sure it's not the stripes bar I linked earlier?
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