Eighties Chocolate Bars

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Can't remember the names and it's bugging me -

First one was in a shiny blue wrapper, rectangle shape similar to dairy milk size/shape but a bit thicker, and was milk chocolate with a runny strawberry filling.

Second one was a small bar the shape of half a sausage that has been cut in two length ways, and was milk chocolate with a really runny caramel filling, I think it had the word silver in the name maybe.

Nutty bars and Texans were the best!

My absolute favourite. The memories coming back are awesome. Chocolate was so much nicer with more choices and it isn’t just a case of nostalgia and changing taste buds.

Topic was discontinued last year 😒

Still can't find a pic of Cadburys Silk, but found Terry's Pyramint, remember them?

Agree Fry's used to be much more fondanty @LadyVictoriaSponge

I'm not sure how to add images properly, but I think I found it by googling 'silk bar 1980s'

This is a great website. Good for presents and nostalgia.
His blog is full of memories and retro stuff.

https://www.aquarterof.co.uk/80s-sweets

Nutty lover here, the closest approximation of the delight that was the Nutty bar is a US candy Pay Day. It’s not quite the same, but I do get a flash of brown nylon & orange loon pants on the rare occasions I have one (damn you diabetes 😂).

Now, if anyone knows a striped spearmint chew that mimics the glorious, yet extinct Pacers…

One of the saddest things (and I say that as a crunchy earth mother type who is all about ecological doings) is the destruction of the cellophane Quality Street wrappers. With no word of a lie, it was holding up the coloured pieces & looking through at the fairy lights as a child that got me interested in lighting design, which led to work experience as a teen, into theatre studies, a degree with QTS in drama, theatre teching & stage management to pay the bills, meeting son’s Dad & eventually my now DH too!

All through the wonders of those cellophane wrappers.

The combination of dark chocolate and quite powerfully minty mint (almost toothpaste strength) in a Pyramint made for quite a grown-up chocolate experience in my memory.

Loved a pyramint and golden cup.
Secret bar and a spira where also favourites.

Terry's Neapolitans - individual chocolates of different flavours ( orange, plain, milk , coffee etc) wrapped in paper. In a box.

My grandfather died when I was 14 but I remember he always had a box in the desk by his chair. I would sit on the edge of the chair and he would scoff them with me... it was our thing!

My other grandfather had a similar chair/ desk set up. But we would eat jam butties ( no crust - cut into quarters)

Funny what you remember

I'd give anything for a Cadbury's Spira right now... how can they still sell Twirls when Spiras were so much better?! Buy now they'd be doing Oeanut Butter Spiras and Caramilk Spiras... oh why???😩

I miss the Pyramint, Secret, and Spira.

Ooh. Memories of sixth form, using a Spira as a straw for my vending machine hot chocolate. Had to time it right before it melted!

Nothing beats a Wham! bar for removing fillings though. Highland toffee and Fruit Salads were pretty close runners up though.

I found a Refreshers bar in our local “Old Tyme” candy store the other day, deep in the Canadian Rockies!

Ovaltine chocolate bars. They had crunchy bits. Nobody else seems to remember them though!
Loved Spira bars and Flytes(?) too.

Coconut boost - grandad used to buy me one after we had pie, mash and liquor on a Saturday

Goodness, in my head Flytes seemed much older than the nineties!

Lovells Milky Lunch for me, please.

I love this story!

Not the best image but here:

Rowntrees secret I'd sell my soul for 😂

It might have only been sold in certain places and then discontinued.

I used to buy Twirls in Newcastle whilst at university and then tried it buy one in the Midlands and they had no idea what I meant. Only later were they sold nationwide.

Dairy Milk Silk is sold now in hot countries. It doesn't melt as fast.

Drifter and Cabana were my favourites 😋.

I remember collecting the wrappers, l think you sent them away and got a small prize or something. I remember scouring the streets for empty wrappers if l didn't have enough.
Also at my local corner shop they sold Toffee Logs and Bubbleys. (Chewing gum)
I lost a loose tooth whilst chewing a toffee log.

@Soundsthesame I remember Ovaltine chocolate bars! My mum loved them. And Neapolitans. I loved Nutty bars too.

Anyone remember a chocolate bar that was a hard almost honeycomb texture strawberry filling covered in chocolate? Been trying to remember the name of it for years.

and I still miss the foil wrapped chocolate bars and sliding it out from the paper cover.

A pack of Rolos were the ‘grown up chocolate’ in our house.
Even nicer if they were stored in the fridge.

Toblerone was the exotic treat!