please help me find my favourite childhood sweets!

[orangegrape]

i've been trying to find them for years but never have any luck. used to get them in the late 90's. they were really small hard round sweets (about the size of mini smarties?) bright colours and fruit flavours.

i can remember eating them out of a paper bag so i think they were either from a pick and mix or in a big tub in the corner shop.

dm said she thought they were called "millions and trillions" but any google search just brings up millions.

anyone got any ideas?

OP I kind of think your DM could be right about millions and trillions but I can't find any reference to them. They were a little bit bigger than those silver balls you can get to decorate cakes.

They used to sell them in 20p machines! And you had to put a bag under to catch all of them.

I dont think they make them anymore.

While we're at it does anyone remember the Ru-bar??!

It was a sweet Rhubarb chewy and thin bar about as wide as your thumb is long and just a bit shorter than a Wham.

We only ever got them at a campsite in Leyland and never saw them anywhere else since :'(

Like these?

pinballs ?

Small gobstoppers?
www.amazon.co.uk/Kingsway-Small-Gobstoppers-x-50/dp/B00C2DWQYG/ref=pd_sbs_325_3?psc=1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mumsnetforum-21&refRID=39CSFG139Q2W86NGJ2XS

www.oldestsweetshop.co.uk/buy-sweets/boiled-sweets/fruit-flavour/fizzy-wizzy-balls

fizzy wizzy balls

Fruit trillions. Can't find a picture, but like teeny tiny gobstoppers, about 3mm across. I remember asking my dad if he wanted some once - her was sleeping in his chair (head back snoring) he made a grunting sound so I helpfully poured some out of the bag into his open mouth

Anything on here
www.aquarterof.co.uk/gobstoppers.html
I always hated aniseed balls but still put a few in to make my bag of penny sweets last longer.

@orangegrape they sell the everlasting gobstoppers as above in Poundland

Numpties?
I remember eating these a lot in the mid nineties, approx 1cm, round, brightly coloured, hard but crunchable...

Tom Thumb Drops?

it's sounding like fruit trillions! shame i can't find anything on google about them at all

They look too big in the video on here

www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/record/96970c8b-db38-4bcf-9252-0528c4e02c79

When I was a kid I saw a baby guinea pig and it was square.

I definitely saw the baby guinea pig because my mum was there and we were looking after the neighbours pets whilst they were on holiday.

It was only when I was in my teens that I asked my mum why baby guinea pigs were born oblong, when I found out that it wasn’t that shape at all and they absolutely weren’t born square.

I’m just saying that kid memories don’t always get it right.

So, I’m saying that it’s needs or everlasting gobstoppers. 😀

Although I’ve just googled ‘baby guinea pigs’ and they do look pretty square.

I’m so confused.

these? Wonka Original Spree https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003TRV9Y2/ref=cmswwrcppapi_8PCjAbVK0CN1E

Jawbreakers

I still miss Aztec bars.

I want some Climpies now.

We used to get something like pips but bigger and slightly sugared in quarters from the local shop. There were jars of different colours plus one which was mixed so you could mix and match favourite flavours. Often look in 'old-fashioned' sweet shops for them...

I know you say they are completely round, but what about Sprees?

Is it the sweets in this as OP? (Cadbury's Trillions)
www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/record/96970c8b-db38-4bcf-9252-0528c4e02c79 (sorry it's not clickable, can't remember how to do it from my phone)

Have you checked www.aquarterof.co.uk

Where do you live Op? There are still a few old fashioned sweet shops dotted around the country, if we know your general area then someone may be able to suggest one you can visit?

I know exactly what you are talking what you are taking about, the were always bought in paper kind of shops, and were called trillions, as small as sherbet pips, I only knew one place that sold them and have looked and even asked people I went to school with but nobody knows, I googled them and it took me to this forum!!!