Heston a Tangle Twister is surely a 90s lolly not 70s

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Am sure nobody else cares but am watching this on channel4+1 and he is making a 70s feast. Think he is cheating a bit as his recreations of 70s ice lollies are not all from the 70s... sure Tangle Twisters came out in the 90s! I am so sad

I wondered that too. But maybe they were just brought back in the 1990's.

Weren't they called something else in the 1990's?

Twister was a 90s lolly and was named by a mumsnetter called tigermoth.

they were for sure around in the 70's.

same as fabs.

i take it you were not a 70's child! god im old...

In the 80s there was a lolly called Tongue Twister.

Then a girl went onto Jim'll Fix it and her wish was to make a lolly, they invented the Tangle Twister (changed colours and flavours basically) and Walls launched it. It took off and replaced the tongue twister.

So it is a 80s lolly.

(by the way, I am not a walls worker, the girl on Jim'll Fix It or indeed Jimmy Saville. I just have an encyclopaedic memory for useless shite)

Wiki says 1982 was the year twister launched

I am alas a 70s child! Glad I am not the only one with a memory for the useless. I stand corrected though about its creation date!! I do remember a Tongue Twister now you mention it (more pink no green). I think I personally only discovered Tangle Twisters circa 1992 - knew they weren't around in the 70s though. Don't know why I have Heston on - find him really annoying!

What Getorf said. I thought I was the only one to remember that!

vicar hangs head in shame and rides off on her budgie bike....

i always used to go and buy a fab lolly every night for 20p from the shop a mile up the road, owned by david the lovely friendly shopkeeper who patched up my knees when i fell over.

so my disclaimer is i didnt buy twisters. i bought fabs. and they are smaller now a days. or i am bigger.??

A mumsnetter invented the name Tangle Twister

Ah, I've been beaten to it!

I used to like Raspberry Mivvis (bumpy on the outside) but remember the ice cream van man getting very annoyed with me for not having quite enough money one time but letting me have one anyway! Also remember going to the corner shop where another grumpy man (had money this time so no excuse) would, begrudgingly, cut off a section of a vanilla block and put it between 2 wafers.

Heston is still doing annoying creations in the background...!

I'm glad the Twister thing has been cleared up! DH and I were pretty sure that they hadn't been around in the 70s.

I am also incredibly ancient and remember Fabs and Zooms (although I remember them being called Rockets). Sometimes they did cards you could collect; they were in a little envelope inside the wrapper, and were always a bit sticky.

ONESTEP - my mum never let me have a vanilla block between 2 wafers because most of it ended up all down my front. We definitely had the same grumpy sweet shop man though

Oh, and I still love a strawberry Mivvi

My first job (aged 11 ) was in an ice cream shop. I got paid £1 an hour.

I was allowed to have as much Ice cream, Mr Whippys or Sush Puppies as I liked.

My faves were tutti frutti ice cream, chocolate flavoured Mr Whippy and blackcurrant and clotted cream flavour ice cream. Amd the blue Slush Puppy.

My Whippies used to cost 30p iirc, with a flake an extra 5p (this was 1990).

That was a great job.

GetOrf you must have been the envy of all your friends!! (wow 11 was early tho!)

Jeff I suspect my sweet shop man was so grumpy because he spent much of his time up and down steps with all those different sweet tubs whilst we dithered about whether to have a quarter of rhubarb and custard/strawberries & cream/pineapple chunks/cola cubes!

Onestep - I think they used to get a bit pissed off at the amount of Fruit Salads that used to get nicked too .

I used to work in a kiosk that sold ice creams and if my memory serves me correctly:
twisters were long thin green ice lollys that didn't taste particularly nice.
Tongue twisters were vanilla and strawberry ice cream in a twist with a chocolate centre, then Tangle twisters were launched which were more sorbet than ice cream -were vanilla ice cream twisted with green sorbet with a red sorbet centre!
Oh how sad am I !
Do they still make Tangle twisters -they were my fave!