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317 replies

BitSilly · 21/09/2025 17:45

chewy cola cubes!

I'm just off to the corner shop, can I get you anything?

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NoisyLittleOtter · 21/09/2025 20:23

AndStand · 21/09/2025 20:20

Rainbow Crystals please

Oh I loved this! Basically sour sugar!

Raahh · 21/09/2025 20:43

Pear drop (proper ones, not the big one that taste too sweet), licorice comfits (not torpedos) or aniseed balls.

Thank you.

Grin.

(I really like sugared almonds, but they are a bit pricey).

Raahh · 21/09/2025 20:46

Also - in the time machine- proper midget gems, in the old days they were a bit harder , and thet black ones tasted a like licorice. (Not like the rubbish ones today- that have been renamed mini Gems lest any one get offended. I'm 4ft 8. Bring back Midget Gems Grin).

Aintgointogoa · 21/09/2025 20:51

Moroccan zero zero please.....🫠

TheExcitersblowingupmymind · 21/09/2025 20:59

Aintgointogoa · 21/09/2025 20:51

Moroccan zero zero please.....🫠

Naughty.😁

hmmnotreallysure · 21/09/2025 21:06

Chewing nuts please!!

Sub2Mumma · 21/09/2025 21:27

Original rhubarb and custard sweets please

TeddyOatmeal · 21/09/2025 21:45

Yorkshire Mixture with a fish!!

BitSilly · 21/09/2025 21:49

Does anyone remember those iced cup thingies, basically pure chocolate icing in fancy shiny foil cups, they were my sister's favourite.
Gives me toothache just thinking about them 😬

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BitSilly · 21/09/2025 21:49

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HeathenPlayingHouse · 21/09/2025 22:22

Some sherbet pips, Mint Yo-yos and a Panda pop for me please!

And some decent pint pots- the texture is always wrong when I buy them!

Whosmakingdinner · 21/09/2025 22:44

An arrow bar, a curly wurly, a chocolate log, a sherbet dip and a lucky bag for me please !

UnctuousUnicorns · 21/09/2025 22:59

To think we used to be able to walk into a corner shop with 10p and leave with a bar of chocolate, a bag of crisps and a comic. God, do I feel old. 😩

HouseofDreams · 21/09/2025 23:00

Coconut mushrooms!

Vitriolinsanity · 21/09/2025 23:02

Cough candy

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TheExcitersblowingupmymind · 21/09/2025 23:27

Crisps 2p
Curly curly 3p.
13p for a mars was a chunk of money.

Jakadaal · 21/09/2025 23:39

Midget gems and coconut mushrooms please! If they have a tin of Imps that would be perfect as
well
😉

bigsisteriswatchingyou · 21/09/2025 23:43

Anytime bar (1972)

bigsisteriswatchingyou · 21/09/2025 23:44

Jamboree bag from Woolies

bigsisteriswatchingyou · 21/09/2025 23:51

A quarter is 4 ozs

bigsisteriswatchingyou · 21/09/2025 23:53

Does anyone remember Teacakes? Round chewy fudgey toffee sweets

BitOutOfPractice · 22/09/2025 07:14

bigsisteriswatchingyou · 21/09/2025 23:53

Does anyone remember Teacakes? Round chewy fudgey toffee sweets

I asked for a quarter of them a few hours before you!

are you from the West Midlands? I’m starting to think they are local to where I grew up.

madaboutpurple · 22/09/2025 07:23

I have not come across teacake sweets, in fact I am going to be asking google about a lot of them. Reckon a lot are regional only and I have not come across them.