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.

Foam mushrooms
Traffic Light Lollies
Chewy Nuts
Scented pin cushions
Flumps

Chewing nuts
sweet tobacco
liquorice pipes
Pacers
Texans
Golden nugget chewing gum
Sherbet pips
Mojos - but I must be older than some previous posters as they were 2 for 1/2 pence
Moon pebbles

But my favourite were a pillow shaped rock sweet, either pink or yellow, with a fizzy sugar coating. They seemed about 2 to 3 inches long, but may have been smaller, and you bought them individually. No idea what they were called, and nobody else I know seems to remember them, but I loved them!

Nutty bars
Fruit bonbons in the pretty white floral wrapper
Crispets
Cola and Old English spangles
Sweet tobacco
Cola cubes
Pineapple chunks
Sour sherbet
Shrimps
Hubba bubba
Chewing nuts
Barley sugar

White chocolate mice and lemonade powder. I used to pour it on my hand and lick it off. My hand was stained yellow through the summer holidays.

Yes @Everythingsgroovy - me too 😁 Pacers were the best!

Other sweets I loved as a child (many fortunately still going):
Tootie Frooties
Double Dips
Dolly Mixtures
Rainbow Drops
Milk bottles
Mintola a bit later on

Yes! I couldn't remember the name of it but my best friend and I loved it. That and chocolate dip, already mentioned, like chocodust.

I forgot Toffos too... definitely loved the banana ones 😂

Not a sweet but "Cremola Foam"
small tin of fizzing powder - lemon, orange or raspberry . You added a spoonful to a glass of water,,,,or just ate the powder dry like sherbet

If you liked fruit toffos Home Bargains sometimes have banana toffee bars in for 35p which taste like the banana ones. Sadly haven’t found anything that tastes like the strawberry ones yet 😭

I loved a Milky Lunch bar too!

Fry’s Five Centres
Rowntree Nutty Bar
Stimorol chewing gum (sort of aniseedy, Dentyne was cinnamon I think?)
Double Agents
Floral gums
Sherbet Pips
Tom Thumb Drops
Cherry drops and I’m sure they had an orange/tangerine variant?
M and S boiled fruit sweets that included mandarin and grapefruit flavours.
Fruit Polos
Proper red liquorice that wasn’t sickly strawberry flavoured like it is today.Red Vines are similar but the texture isn’t the same.
Cola bottles when they were big and flat not the shape they are today!
To the PP missing Dunhills strawberries, they are now Haribo Strawberry Softies. Usually in stock in B and M, Home Bargains etc.

Also those hard boiled sweets that tasted of cloves, I think they were called cloves. My grandad used to buy them. And those lollies which were white with different coloured wavy stripes, they were bigger than kids lollies these days.

Who else remembers Pacers - same shape and texture as Opal Fruits, but mint flavour with green and white stripes. Also Mars Bars when they still had malt in them that you could taste. Milky Ways when the inside was darker coloured and not so "fluffy".

Yes - Pacers . Loved them . (Spearmint Chewits were a poor subsitute)

DoubleDeckers used to have a crisper base and a fluffier nougat

@Yamyamabroad I remember a green mint one that sounds similar. It was called the Anytime bar and I’m sure they did different flavours? It was quite big and chunky.

^ you need to click on that pic to see the bar on the right of the wrapper.

Pacers - stripey mint chews.

Highland Toffee - everyone in school would break up the toffee by whacking it on the desk!

Quirks. These were my favourite. Brown box, chocolate covered in a shell like Smarties but the shell was pastel coloured and matt, not shiny. This would be in the 80s.

Little Chef lollipops that you got given at the end of your meal.

I loved those! We didn’t have much money growing up and sometimes would go to the Little Chef for a treats. I liked their chicken, chips and coleslaw, followed by ice cream pancakes. Then the lollipop!

Haribo’s nostalgia mix of pineapple and cola cubes was a huge disappointment.

I LOVED the Little Chef lollipops.

I used to love pear drops and rhubarb and custard sweets.

Shrimps - were they bigger in the 70s or were my hands smaller?
White mice
Flying saucers
Sherbert pips
Fruit salad - 4 for 1p
Tooty frooties

To drink strawberry Cresta "It's frothy man"

And the necklace sweets.

I lived in the USA until I was ten and I loved the Three Musketeers bar - it was just like a big Milky Way bar but they never seemed as exciting.

I really think you might have it there! It was exactly that shape, flat on one side and round on the top. Where in earth did you get that photo? I've been researching for years 🤣
Thank you