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.

Golf balls

No,no they were hideous 🤮

There were crisps called "49ers" , shaped like a wheel off a wagin - reformed potato snacks rather than crisps.
They were pickled onion flavour ....one packet slipped down a treat but left you craving a second . If you were foolhardy enough to indulge you lost the feeling in your mouth .
Sadly not available now

Spanish Gold
Brazil nuts in butterscotch
Fry's chocolate
Revels
Raspberry ruffles

Irn bru bars from barrs - not the wham dupes

My friend was secretly eating a Wham bar during orchestra practice, got her wobbly tooth stuck in it and was in quite some difficulty! The teacher was furious that she was eating sweets while she was crying with the sticky Wham bar attached to the tooth…

Brazil nuts in butterscotch- aka Buttered Brazils, My Mum loved them.

Ice cream gobstoppers

For actual sweets, I only really liked peppermints. Mint imperials or Fox's Glacier mints.

Sherbet fountain was nice but I had to throw the liquorice away because I hated it.

Creme eggs when the foil used to be green and red!

Fry’s Five Centres - they sold this in the shop at the swimming pool so I’d have this after swimming on a Saturday.

Pacers - spearmint chews. Very nice.

Sweet peanuts - kind of peanut brittle encased in a sugary coating all in the shape of a monkey nut. I reckon you could still find those in an old fashioned sweetie shop.

Golden cup - I had forgotten I loved this until a PP mentioned it.

Some sort of box of chocolates I can remember being given sometimes called Weekend ! They were kind of OTT by today’s standards I think. Also old fashioned Quality Street with all the old discontinued ones. I’m showing my age now.

Golden cup was ace as long as the foil wasn't sticking to any caramel.

Toffee crumble from the corner shop on the way home from school

The Cadbury’s vending machine where you put 2p in and out popped a tiny bar of dairy milk. I’m not sure if I ever had one or I just dreamed about it so much if felt real but I do remember the pain of never getting my a refill when it ran out.

Parma violets

Bazooka Joe bubblegum which came with a tiny comic strip to unfold and read

Gold Nuggets bubble gum in the little cloth bag. Not to be confused with Golden Nuggets breakfast cereal. Both were great. I had a lot of fillings as a child ( although that might be due to full sugar Coke and Ribena )

Oh and how could I forget : Pez in the cute little hand held dispensers which had funny heads. Do they still make Pez ?

Loved the exact same! And marshmallows.

M&S used to do a layered bar that I loved…

Trebor Softfruits
Mint Toffos
Bruiser bars from the tuck shop
Sweet peanuts

Sweet Peanuts, loved them, especially the nutty middle!

DS, aged 5, gets Pez. Sweets are still the same!

Aztec Bar

Omg toffee bonbon

Tabs, foam shrimps and bananas, lemon bonbons, crumbly mints

Parma violets, they are still lovely. A friend tells me they would be like eating a perfume and cannot stand them.

I have never been a huge fan of sweets but my favourites were white mice and boiled sweets like the travel ones or lemon sherbets.

Shertbert lemons
Shertbert oranges
Lemonade powder
Rose buds
Fudge