can you determine ones age by the sweet/candy nostalgia they have

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I feel all nostalgic thinking about Texan bars and parma violets, we also ate candied cigarettes complete with red tips and after a few pretend puffs they were munched down with much enjoyment. I was born in the late 60's Anyone else have any candy nostalgia?

[FabbyChic]

Miss Texans, I was born early 60's

[ikilledBosco]

I remember Fizzle Sticks < 70's child> they were my favourite I craved them when i was pregnant on dd (5yrs) but couldn't find them anywhere .

[microfight]

Oh! just remebered another one chocolate tools, 5p each I seem to remember. [busmile]

[EllenJane1]

Black Jacks and Fruit Salads. Wrigley's Spearmint gum, gum, gum. Sherbet Fountains and Dib Dabs. Mice with string tails. (Can you tell my age, yet?)

[dexifehatz]

Bullion Bars,which came with stiff foil that ripped your fingers to shreds!
Aztec Bars,Ice Chocolate Cups...

[KurriKurri]

parma violets, spangles, everlasting sticks, Victory 'V's (consumed many while waiting for train to school - I think they were made of chloroform) Licorice pipes, tom thumb drops.

born in the late 50's (when you could buy all of the above and still get change out of a ha'penny )

[EasterEggsHaveNoCalories]

Anglo bubbly bubble gum, cola cubes, proper lemon Bon bons, lemonade dip dabs, Chelsea whoppers (70s child)

[microfight]

Ellen Jane are you 40?

[microfight]

Victory V's ha ha!! Yes they were made of something chemical.

[EllenJane1]

Boo hoo, mid 40's, yes.

[CointreauVersial]

Who in their right mind actually chose to eat Victory Vs? They tasted like solidified creosote.

Ditto Parma Violets, like sucking grandma's lipstick.

But sweet cigarettes - oh yeah! Look at how cool I am.

[gordyslovesheep]

Pink Panther Bars, Shrimps, Fruit Salads and Parma Violets - born 1970 !

[microfight]

And not forgetting those pink and white ice creams called funny faces

[4madboys]

you can still buy the fake cigarettes sweets, they come in a spiderman box! ditto black jacks and fruit salads and the sherbet dib dabs.

parma violets are gross

there is a website that sells all this kind of stuff, i foget the name of it, but have ordered from them before and i am lucky that we have a little old fashioned sweet shop near us that sells it all and you get to buy them by weight etc and they come in little paper bags, great when i want to treat the kids-myself...

[gordyslovesheep]

black jacks etc are smaller though

a qualter of is one of those sites

[gordyslovesheep]

Qualter - cava fingers - quarter

[microfight]

Wow they still sell sweet cigarettes, thought they were banned?

[microfight]

I loved Parma Violets BTW

[A1980]

My favourites were Tiger Tots and Bunny Tots.

The only ones from the "tots" series to survie are Jelly Tots and they're horrible.

No point asking you to guess my age. My screen name is a dead giveaway.

[KurriKurri]

microfight - they call them candy sticks now

[microfight]

Aaah! so they probably don't have the coloured tips to make them look like they are proper fags

[microfight]

Anyone remember those whistles made of hard powdery sugar, you could suck them and blow them!

[TastesLikePanda]

I miss Maverick Bars - they were my absolute best chocolate bar ever... nobody has even heard of them these days (sob)

[spanieleyes]

In addition to candy cigarettes we had what was,I think , called Jamaican Tobacco. It was like ready rubbed!

[gordyslovesheep]

oh yes I loved sweet tabacco - and we had sweet cigs that where chocolate and covered in sugar paper with 'filter tips' !