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please help me find my favourite childhood sweets!

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orangegrape · 04/12/2017 20:57

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?

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Laurapickwick · 28/10/2018 19:32

Also they were smaller than sherbet pips.

Justyou · 28/10/2018 19:33

Remember floral gums - sweets that tasted like perfume wtf

Justyou · 28/10/2018 19:35

And firestoppers I think like HOT gobstoppers.

yawning801 · 28/10/2018 19:39

Maoam pinballs? They're pretty big but might trigger a memory or something?

Laurapickwick · 28/10/2018 20:06

Nope not maoam pinballs, these ones were hard, strange how not many people remember them or there name? Yea I remember fire balls, I’m sure u can still get them. Can’t remember the floral gums? Black jacks and fruit salads defo don’t taste the same!!!! In fact nothing really does :(

KittenOfWoe · 28/10/2018 23:14

Old thread, but think they were Cadbury's Trillions, now discontinued.

Laurapickwick · 29/10/2018 09:02

Yup that will be them,

TheWiseWomansFear · 29/10/2018 09:06

Pips?

TheWiseWomansFear · 29/10/2018 09:10

Ah just seen that's wrong sorry

Otterseatpuffinsdontthey · 29/10/2018 09:22

@IzzyBella333
That's what I was thinking too - couldn't remember their name - so thankyou.
These were lovely - eating these in 70's (by the handful!).

longwayoff · 29/10/2018 10:45

Distorted childhood memories. My son swears that when he was about 2.5 he saw my 20 year old sister eating Cat Food out of a tin with a fork. God knows what he actually saw Shock

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