If you were a child in the 70s...

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What were your favourite sweets?

It's my mums 50th birthday next week and I am doing little sweetie bags for her surprise party.

I want to include retro sweets she would have loved when she was a child, so far I have

Liquorice torpedos
Flying saucers

And then I'm stuck!

The mint chews with a stripe

Fruit salad and black jacks
Curly wurly
Sherbert pips
Kola kubes

Refreshers
Fruit salad chews
Space dust

They were pacers @plus3

Spangled , fruit bursts though were called opal fruits . Cola cubes. Sherbet fountain

They were Pacers! I liked Spangles, Toffos, Poppets, Opal Fruits, Fruit Gums, chocolate mice, chocolate truffle things in foil cases, Cola Cubes, Pineapple Chunks. Jazz Balls, Dolly Mixtures.

Spangles not spangled

Candy cigarettes
Gold nuggets chewing gum

mojos, cola cubes, pear drops, blackjacks, fruit salad,spangles,pacers, double dips, space dust, liqorice dip,

This is so helpful everybody thank you! I'm filling up my amazon cart as we speak 🍬

There used to be a website called AQuarterOf and I think they did hampers for each decade?

MyOtherProfile has nailed it for me. She missed out sweet cigarettes though!

Dewdrops
Parma violets
Sherbert pips
Pear drops

Coconut mushrooms are my mums favourites

Oh mojos used to be 3 for 1p 😃

Bon bons
Texas bar
Raspberry ruffles

And candy sticks were sweet cigarettes

Foam shrimps and chocolate white mice

Candy shrimps! And cadburies cream eggs, they were MASSIVE and didn’t tast of wax!

Black jacks
Fruit salads
Refreshers
Refresher chews
Sherbert fountain
Frys 5 centre bar
Frys mint bar
Pineapple rock
Cola cubes

Aniseed balls

Galaxy counters, space dust, rhubarb and custard Penny chews, jelly babies, bubblegum, Smarties in boxes not tubes!

Foam shrimps
Foam bananas
Candy cigarettes
White chocolate mice

Foam shrimps and foam bananas.

Foam shrimps, foam bananas, fizz bombs, flying saucers

Caramac