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?

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Asinine you must be mid 30's?

That's hilarious manticlimactic

[microfight]

stranded bear I think you are 36

[EllenJane1]

Nearer 40, strandedbear. Sorry!

That fruity chocolate bar by Fry's was a Fry's Five Bar, I think. Made in Keynsham.

[DramaInPyjamas]

I miss Pyramint and Secret.

Maybe we shoud start a campaign like they did to bring Wispas back!

[exoticfruits]

It was the Five Bar-thanks.
All the parents who ban sweets ought to read your post microflight-I have never known a DC who didn't get them on the sly!

[MadameCastafiore]

LOGGERS!!!!!

[microfight]

Pyramints yum!

Yes, all parents that ban chocolate should definitely read my post. It wasn't that I was only allowed them occasionally like once every couple of weeks it was totally banned except probably Christmas and perhaps Easter. I felt hard done by and consequently went mad for hiding sweets, it became almost a mission. I had 2 friends whose parents also banned sweets and we became partners in crime for sneaking them ALL the time.
The friends I had who were allowed them on a Saturday for example ate way less than us!!

[exoticfruits]

I know so many people where the DC can look them in the eye and agree that they don't need sweets when everyone else know that DC is on the scrounge as soon as as they are out of view!
It is almost as bad when they force adult taste on the DC. I don't like the sweets I liked as a DC, and I didn't like my dark chocolate tastes as a DC. DCs tend to like the sweets that parents most like to hate-something to bear in mind when they are moaning about their DC being given sweets by a birthday DC at school.

[maighdlin]

flip pops and push pops i miss. also really miss secret bars. does anyone else remember them? i loved them but no one seems to remember them.

[microfight]

No I don't remember secret bars either, what were they maighdlin?

Yes exotic you are so right, I see this too. I recognise it straight away because I used to decline sweets in front of people all the time because I knew I wasn't allowed them, then as soon as parents had gone I'd scram to get as many in my mouth as possible

[DramaInPyjamas]

Secrets were basically a walnut whip (without the walnut) but in bar form. Loved them.

[DramaInPyjamas]

Secret

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Those secrets look yumm!

[Suchffun]

I loved secret bars too, and I find no one else ever remembers them. loved Biarritz too, the height of elegance!

[Asinine]

Microfight. Wrong. I am older than that! But post decimalisation...

[fedupandfifty]

I remember Black Jacks being 4 for an (old) penny, and loose sherbet being sold in a paper packet, sucked off a finger.

[exoticfruits]

I am the same era fedupandfifty!

[Cloudbase]

I used to love Cadbury's Gold Mine, Spangles, shrimps and black jacks. At school everyone used to get a quarter of Kola Kubes or sherbert pips, or Chewing Nuts (sort of toffee in chocolate but in the big jars so you had to buy a quarter). My favourite lolly was half mint ice cream and half chocolate and was called a Death Dalek!

[olderandwider]

I remember Lucky Bags - rubbish sweets and plastic tat inside, but Oh, the anticipation as you ripped open the packet.

The Penny Tray (1 old penny that is) - 4 Black Jacks/Fruit Salads for 1d.

Flying saucers, those round sherbert lollies in faded pinks and greens.

Shrimps, Milk Bottles, Fry's chocolate bars, Beechnut chewing gum.

How old am I?

[Cloudbase]

Around 40? (apols if younger!!). Ah, Lucky Bags!

[ChazsBrilliantAttitude]

Spangles, Space Dust [cgrin], curlywurlys, topic (what has hazelnut in every bite = squirrel shit TOPIC), black jacks, there were some bizarre gobstoppers that were really firey and I think they dyed your mouth blue, hubba bubba, kola kubes and the viciously acidic coke bottle sweets.

[Teachermumof3]

Pacers-they were lovely!
sherbert pips
cough candy twists
roller cola balls
chocolate cups
sherbert dip dabs
strawberry and creams
Everton mints
flying saucers
squidgy mushrooms
that stuff that popped and fizzed on your tongue
different coloured powders that you ate (it was probably just sugar, thinking about it)

I loved cola cubes and sherbert lemons best of all-I remember that after you'd sucked them for a bit, they'd get sharp edges that you'd cut your tongue on!

Ooh, I can taste them all now!

[ChazsBrilliantAttitude]

Teachermum
Fizzy stuff was Space Dust

I remember the crazy rumours that if you ate 3 packets all at once you would explode etc