Retro Sweets

[NewFred]

I've just eaten half a bag a few sugared almonds.
I have not had these for years, maybe even decades! I'd forgotten how moreishly crunchy and addictive these bad boys are.
Also rather partial to those weird flying saucer things, that are supposed melt but in reality, kinda half dissolve and get stuck like you're shedding skin.
Those sherbert fountain things, with the liquorice... I want to say wand (correct me if I'm a wrong 'un) also get an honorable mention.

What are your faves sweets from childhood?

Cream line toffees . Absolutely amazing!

Does anyone remember Pyramints?

It was a delicious ombré effect chocolate bar! 😍

Tablet! Or Parma Violets if I haven't got any tablet...

I love a blackcurrant and liquorice

Tablet is quite easy to make , if your a sort of cook . Bear in mind you will have to control yourself or you will make yourself like a sick child 😁.

My favourite.

Hell yeah!

Tiny alphabet chewy sweets different colors and so sweet until they changed the recipe and made them all hard and horrible!

Fireballs bubblegum

Nonsuch Brazil nut toffee cups from Sainsbury's

Blue Raspberry fizzbombs

Chocolate limes

white choc fish n chips

Spangles

My dad had a newsagent's /post office in the 60s/70s/early 80s.

Japps's Desserts ( sugar coated cubes ) were very popular as were cough twists, Victory Vs, Foxes Glacier Mints , Coconut Mushrooms, herbal tablets... I could go on and on.

As to children... chocolate covered banana foams were really popular as were flying saucers, fruit salads, Bazoukas , filled liquorice tubes, foam shrimps and so much more.

Oh how our teeth rotted!

Foam mushrooms. The Malaco ones not the ones in tesco.
Shrimps

Cola cubes, pineapple cubes, fruit salads and rainbow crystals mmmmmm. Does anyone else remember asking for a 10p mix and getting a whole paper bag full of sweets? We have an old fashioned sweet shop not too far away, my husband loves it and buys pear drops and rhubarb and custards.

Some tremendous shouts!!!

Choc lick
Choc nibs
Monkey nut shaped sweets with bits of nuts in
Roy the rovers bar
Chocolate highland toffee bars

My absolute faves - the original beer bottles!

@CatsLikeBoxes “rectangular butterscotch sweets in a textured silvery wrapper” - I’d forgotten those - I used to love them. In fact there were two types we used to get, Callard & Bowser’s were a long bar with a notch across the middle, wrapped in silver, and Keiller’s were shaped like a brick with a slightly tapered top, wrapped in gold.

Chelsea woppers

me neither. I'm not even gonna look that up 😄

Oh really, I'm in Australia now, wonder if I can get some delivered here 😁

Our sweetie shop had a really high counter and the woman who worked there was tiny. I’ve never managed to get to 5 foot myself, so that was interesting. Used to pop in on a Saturday for a quarter of Crispets. Anyone remember them?

@RustyBear I bought some butterscotch sweets somewhere like m&s and they were such a disappointment in comparison to the glorious butterscotch of old!

Yes to all of the above.

We have a retro sweet shop nearby and it's amazing! Not as cheap as they were when I was little though. 20p would get bugger all, whereas I used to spend hours in my local paper shop choosing my 20p mix!

I mourn the loss of the Cadbury's Spira. They were amazing!

Also those potato puff crisps (Burton's I think), particularly the salt and vinegar flavour.

Do they still do Transformers crisps? The ones with a sort of T shape thing and then circles and you could make it into a car. I used to love the spicy flavour.

Pineapple cubes
Halfpenny Spanish, the hard sort & rainbow mix to dip it in.
Cinder toffee, some chocolate covered.
Barley twists
Sour apples
Liquorice torpedoes
Spearmint bars
Old fashioned treacle toffee that came in a little metal tray with a miniature toffee hammer.
Nut brittle

I lived with my DG who owned a sweet shop. She made ice cream to sell from cream, butter, sugar & vanilla pods.