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What's your fave retro sweets

126 replies

summer788 · 13/12/2022 18:35

Mines is chocolate limes and fruit salads

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MrsBrandonspiano · 13/12/2022 19:27

Winter or Yorkshire mixture

BCBird · 13/12/2022 19:27

So much deliciousness in one thread🤣

LubaLuca · 13/12/2022 19:28

Sweet peanuts
Dolly beads/watches
Double Lollies
Sweet cigarettes

Yika · 13/12/2022 19:30

Sherbet dip

bizzywiththefizzy · 13/12/2022 19:31

There is a fantastic sweet shop in St Andrews that sells all these wonderful sweeties . I think I need to go there soon .😋

fatsinglereadytomingle · 13/12/2022 19:33

ABC letters, the really chalky ones
Sweet peanuts
Rhubarb rock
BonBons the old fashioned powdery ones

PritiPatelsMaker · 13/12/2022 19:34

Another fan of Pacers.

pursuedbyablackdog · 13/12/2022 19:34

Sherbet

Lemonlady22 · 13/12/2022 19:35

Retro sweets? Sweets from the 70s then?

MavisMcMinty · 13/12/2022 19:37

Sherbert dips! You can still find them in supermarkets’ sweets shelves, although I’ve only recently discovered this. My dog eats what’s left of the liquorice straw.

GellerYeller · 13/12/2022 19:37

Cola bottles when they were flatter and longer and not all squat and square like now!
Sherbet pips/Tom Thumb drops
Lion Sportmix or midget gems when the black sweets were still liquorice flavour
Choc limes
Blackcurrant and liquorice
Floral Gums
Milk chews
Spangles(remember old English flavour- they were all brown?!)
Double Agents-a tube of sherbet filled round boiled sweets. Toffee apple or strawberry and cream!

Jennywren1975 · 13/12/2022 19:38

Cough rock
Chelsea whoppers
Apple tarts

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 13/12/2022 19:43

Flying saucers

AnchorWHAT · 13/12/2022 19:45

Rowntrees butterscotch gums
aztec bars
jolly bars
sour apples

GonnaGetGoingReturns · 13/12/2022 19:46

Flying saucers, orange mojos, space dust.

my DM’s were pear drops and toffees eaten together!

AnathemaPulsifer · 13/12/2022 19:47

Flying saucers!

xalo · 13/12/2022 19:47

Sports Mixtures and Midget Gems

poormanspombears · 13/12/2022 19:49

Alphabet letter sweets

Bubblegum bottles but they have to be really sour and pull your mouth to the back of your head.

Runts

bizzywiththefizzy · 13/12/2022 19:51

xalo · 13/12/2022 19:47

Sports Mixtures and Midget Gems

They're not the same anymore are they? . I think you can still get the original Lion's recipe in some sweet shops though , or online .

MavisMcMinty · 13/12/2022 19:53

Anyway, a recent discovery of mine is “Stripes” by MAOAM - fantastic fruit-flavoured chews, thoroughly recommended.

Annabel073 · 13/12/2022 19:57

Cherry lips and floral gums - mixed up in the same bag

Eve · 13/12/2022 19:57

Sweet peanuts - but can’t get them anywhere ! I think they may have stopped making them 😒

KnottyKnitting · 13/12/2022 19:57

I love Dolly mixtures but so few places seem to sell them now.

Also used to love Cola Cubes, apple sours and rhubarb and custard.

millievanille · 13/12/2022 20:00

The white chocolate and raspberry flavoured skulls. They used to be in Wilko pick and mix but I can't seem to find them anywhere these days!

squirrelnutkins1 · 13/12/2022 20:05

Blackjacks!