Childhood sweets you loved - a nostalgic thread.

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Inspired by the Sweets you used to hate as a child thread, I thought I’d start one about the sweets I loved as a child (and probably still love too).

Chocolate cigarettes - they has edible paper round them and came in a pack that looked like a real cigarette packet.

Anything coffee flavoured.

Swizzels double lollies.

Walnut whips - and the coffee walnut whips in particular.

I’m sure there are more - my memory is not as good as it used to be - even for sweets.

going to the corner shop and buying a quarter of something and it being measured out! Quarter of cola cubes every Friday night for me in the 80s

Strawberry laces, those pink chewy shrimps, Palma violets, those little chewy cola bottles, flying saucers, those hard sweets that were half pink and half yellow - is that pear drops? Also chocolate eclairs (the sweet not the choux bun), chocolate covered toffees, those little white chocolate rounds that were covered in hundreds and thousands on one side. I'm sure I'll think of others.

Tom Thumb drops or Sherbet Pips.
I used to ask my friends to pick up a 2oz bag for me (dm didn't like us having sweets) and keep them in my pocket at school. They were small enough you could get away with quietly eating them in lessons.

Also the liquorice wheels with the sweet in the middle. They used to sell them for 2p at the tuck shop, and you could unravel them, and then pull them into two and make them last for ages.

Chocolate covered coo candy.
Tooty fruities
Dolly mixture's
Space dust not for the flavour just for the sensation of it.

10p Wham Bars were readily available in all corner shops in SW London throughout the 80s and 90s!

Wham bars were readily available in my bit of Humberside/East Yorkshire.

I remember using Spira’s as a straw for vending machine hot chocolate in the sixth form but you couldn’t suck for too long as the innards melted and collapsed.

Sugar mice with a string tail
White chocolate mice
Spanish tobacco ( strips of sweet brown coconut)

Cabana bars!

Another London-based Wham bar fan here!
Also:
Chocolate limes
Cream Line toffees
Tooty Frooties
Fruit gums and wine gums before they were reformulated as vegan
Bonbons - lemon, strawberry or toffee
Fruit Salad and Blackjacks (when they were 0.5p each)
Opal Fruits

I came on here to say Wham bars and I grew up in SE England

I also loved 10p mix ups, especially with foam shrimps. And you used to be able to get rolls of toffees that came in different flavours. Oh and Cherry Drops!

Shrimps, flying saucers, black jacks, fruit salads, fizers and I loved the cigarettes with the red ends

@Natsku wow you've taken me right back there ❤️❤️

Sweet tobacco

Choc nibbles
Strawberry and cream chubba chubba lolly
Brain licker
Jaw breaker

Yes! Callard and Bowser's - what a great name!

Yes to the shitty fake choc - ice creams and mice!!

I meant spanish tobacco

In the summer, there was an ice cream van that parked up in the car park where all the school buses picked us up at the end of the day. I never had enough money, but if you did, you could buy a Screwball icecream, which had bubblegum at the bottom of it. At the age of 11, I thought this was the height of sophistication.

I stand corrected on the Wham Bars!! I remember taking some to a Guide Event and they were a huge novelty. Clearly they spread!

I’ve had a few glasses of wine and I misread the thread title as ‘childhood sweethearts’. I came on expecting to hear people reminiscing about their year 9 boyfriend. Can’t decide whether I’m disappointed or not.

But also I used to love fruit salad sweets, when they were rectangular shaped. Not the same now.

Wham bars
spearmint pips
shrimps
mojos
the 2p mojos with sherbert inside
walnut whips that were piped and not moulded
strawberry laces
rice paper

Oh and salt and vinegar mini chips

Space Dust - i loved this!

Tootsie frooties
Frosties sweets
Toffos
Spira
Nuts About Caramel bars
Fruit polos

Mojos 😍😍 I'd forgot about them!
I've just bought some of these, I loved them when I was young... Surprise surprise, they just don't hit the same way and taste different as an adult... But still nice enough!
I loved choc dip, it was like smashed and smushed up smarties and was weighed and put into a paper picNmix bag. A glass of milk with a teaspoon of chocdip was magnificent.