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

[microfight]

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?

[microfight]

Oh yes Nutty's yumm!

[swingingcat]

Cinnamon flavoured tic tacs, pacers and a qtr of devon creams.

[KurriKurri]

Now you mention crisps - does anybody remember Smiths Crisps?, they came with a twist of blue paper full of salt in the bottom. (And when I was young they only came in plain - or so my mum insisted. )

[HappyCapybara]

kurri you can still get Smiths salt n shake crisps in Sainsburys.

[KurriKurri]

Can you?, well I never knew that - I thought they'd gone bust years ago - I shall have to look out for them.(and buy several packets, and scoff them) [bugrin]

[galois]

wham bars
pyramints
bitz bars
2oz of lemon bon bons for 15p

[HappyCapybara]

Kurri, sorry, I actually got it wrong, they're not Smiths Salt n shake but Walkers

[shrinkingnora]

Tasteslikepanda- I remember maverick bars. I was mourning them yesterday- best easter egg I ever had was one that came with two maverick bars.

[EllenJane1]

Walkers have bought out Smith's and the Salt 'n' Shake brand.

Do you remember Golden Wonder and Smith's had salt and vinegar in blue and cheese and onion in green. Walkers crisps packet colours still seem wrong.

[microfight]

yes Ellen Salt and vinegar should definitely be blue

[friendlymonica]

oh i luuuved bitz bars and gambits!I also remember cock-a-leekie crisps and savoury straws....mmmmmmm.
Not a sweet as such but who remembers Cremola Foam?

[EttiKetti]

Fish N Chips crisps - well savoury snacks really, they were crunchy hollow crispy fish n chip shaped, reallllllly salt and vinegary!

Also Nutty bars, LOVED those.

Sherbert pips, bet you can still get those.

And Golden Nuggets, little cream drawstring bags with a camel on them and tiny little chewy pieces of (toffee?) inside..

[EttiKetti]

No.....not a camel a cowboy type person, and it was bubble gum! not sure where camel and toffee came from :o

[ItsallabouttheBunnyBunnyBunny]

I remember pacers from when I was very young. I still wonder why they were discontinued.
What were the sweets with a tattoo inside the wrapper? My dsis and I thought we were really cool with those on!

There is a retro sweet shop near me, does mail order too I think, called Bah Humbugs (my dc all call it Hah Bumbugs - they get all excited about flying saucers)

[TigOEUFeet]

Wham bars and highland toffee bars
2oz of sherbet in a little paper bag for 10p
Rainbow drops

[SillyOldHector]

Bazooka Joe bubblegum, Count Dracula ice lollies (black with red goo in the middle) and Spanish Gold sweet tobacco.

All bought on saturday morning before watching the Doubledeckers, Banana Splits and the Arabian Knights.

[exoticfruits]

There are some DCs today who won't be able to reminisce with their peers in years to come because sweets were banned! (or they were only allowed high class chocolate)

I remember sherbet fountains, gobstoppers and the highland toffee. There was a Fry's chocolate bar with different fruit flavours in each piece-can't remember the name.

[manticlimactic]

microflight you were spot on! I had originally put that gordyslovesheep was right with 38 but then remembered I was indeed 39 when I saw your answer.

Ah, mojos two for 1p. I remember spending half of my bus fair (2p!!) at the shop next to the bus stop on the way home from school

[microfight]

exoticfruits
Actually I was one the kids never allowed sweets, although I remember scoffing all the sweets mentioned here all the time.

I am living proof that the banning children from eating sweets normally has the opposite effect!
I would beg, steal and borrow and kept myself in a flow of the banned substances and ate in secret whenever I could .

[Asinine]

A quarter of lemon pips for 15p, and 4p curlywurly (they used to be a lot longer)

[Asinine]

And something called a half p chew

[Riddo]

Pacers
Rhubarb and custards
A bar which was fudgey in the middle and covered in peanuts - I can't remember what it was called.

I can remember when a creme egg cost 4p which was nearly half my pocket money

[Riddo]

and space dust, how could I forget that [bugrin]

[shakey1500]

I miss Texan bars :)