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.

Spira and Secret bars.

I think about them every day 😢.

Lucky bags
Tudor pickled onion crisps
chicken in a basket crisps
fruit salad
black jacks
flying saucer
puff candy
treats
smarties
toffee crumble lollies
big foot lollies

They were 1/2 pence each

Clove Satins
Cadbury's Border Eggs (with the chocolate filling that was less sweet)
Cough Candy
Kola Cubes
Thornton's cream toffee
Nutty Bars
Jelly Babies
Fry's Turkish Delight
Fry's 5 centre bars (with a different flavoured filling in each piece - strawberry. orange, lime etc)

Pear drops, rhubarb and custards, Parma violets, floral gums, cherry lips, cherry drops, fruit polos, fruit toffos, poppets, highland toffee, pyramints, secret bars, revels etc etc 😁

What a lovely thread, my favourites were cola cubes, pineapple chunks, strawberries & cream, pear drops, rainbow sherbet, floral gums, needlers sensations, treats, spira, cabana bars, fry’s five fruit centres. Juicy fruit gum, Anglo bubble gum, golden nuggets.

Something else - those small alphabet letters! A sort of chalky, fruity taste. Sooo nice and haven’t seen them for decades

What were those red and green apple sweets?

Rosey apples I think.

Yes!

Used to take those or Cola cubes to afterschool film club

I am sure they used to come in a little square box but can’t find them on Google.

Did anyone say curly wurly?

Love Hearts - still partake
Sugared Almonds
Original Toblerone
Igloo Lollies
Blackcurrant Mivies
Star Bars

You're correct they did come in a wee box and if I remember you pulled back cardboard tab and shook them out of the box.

Callard and Bowser - my Gran would always have a box of these-
The box was flat rectangular , inside was gold paper and each sweet was wrapped in gold foil
Butterscotch or Treacle Toffee

jaw breakers
wham bars
toffs the mixed ones strawberry bananas and mint
2 ounces of rainbow sherbert or lon sherbert in a little paper bag ended up with a coloured finger at the end of the day and a soggy paper bag!!
curly whirly when they were big
tooty fruties
fruit spangles
caramac bars
bubble gum that was like little bits of gold nugget came in a little cotton drawstring bag
bazooka bubble gum wrapped in a comic strip
sherbert pips
lucquorish pipes
sherbert fountain
bubble gum balls
rhubarb and custard sweets got a sore mouth at the end of the day
lemon bon bons
frys fruit or peppermint chocolate bar
fruit jelly's
fruit bon bons
chocolate limes
nut brittle
peppermints wrapped in blue and white wrapper think you could also get fruit ones as well
plastic long straws clear filled with rainbow sherbert could also get poured straws filled with lemonade sherbert
treats in a yellow packet

*coloured straws

Yes! I remember the little square box. So good

Lemon bonbons and the white ones!
Acid drops
Traffic light lollies
Texan bars
Rainbow crystals
Rhubarb and custard
Lemonade and orangeade Spangles
York Fruits
Wine gums
Proper Dairy Milk

I'm English and we were well into Wham bars as kids. I know they were Scottish but were definitely available and popular in England.

In fact, @MamaBobo I could just eat a Wham bar now!!

Blackjacks, those liquorice coils with a bobble thing in the middle (pink or blue aniseed flavour with bobbles all over), other types of liquorice. Probably loads more that I can't remember at the moment.

Cola cubes
toffee crunch
space dust
chocolate charoots

spangles
tootie Frooties

Nostalgia in a thread! So many memories. Dentyne chewing gum. Oddly I was allowed it quite young.

Apart from Spanish Gold Tobacco and sweet cigarettes? 😂

Spangles, and the fruity ones whose name I’ve forgotten.