Birker2020
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Yes I remember, yummy but sickly.
They didn't have that artificial taste in those days that modern day sweet have because sweets used to contain sugar which as we now know is bad for you.
Childhood sweeties
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They didn't have that artificial taste in those days that modern day sweet have because sweets used to contain sugar which as we now know is bad for you.
Birker2020
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I honestly think its the American influence, where gun crime is so rife in America.
We see so much more violence on telly nowadays and most of it is American based drama. In the days when we just had three or four channels gun and knife crime was really shown on TV. We used to get American based programmes, a favourite of mine was The Dukes of Hazard and CHIPS but I don't remember much guns and certainly no knives.
asmp
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I also used to like Cadbury’s Fuse bars, which I gather are still made in India!
Barton Bounty
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Oh i liked them! They had raisins didnt they?
asmp
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DressageCob
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I miss spira bars.
and those little space theme bag of chocolate. Astros I think they were called.
and those little space theme bag of chocolate. Astros I think they were called.
Fjord
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I used to like the sweet tobacco, plus chocolate candy cigarettes, they had a paper wrapper that made them look like a roll up. And Pacers, I miss Pacers.
Petalpoos
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I remember when Old Jamaica chocolate bars came out and we all thought they were very sophisticated. I was 11 and stole (I know, dreadfully ashamed then and now) 4 or 5 of them from the corner shop behind the school for a dare. I then ate all of them for lunch and spent the afternoon sitting in a hot classroom feeling desperately sick. I guess I got my comeuppance and have never touched one since then.
SilverLinings
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I was surprised to see that candy cigarettes were still sold in the very late 90's (a child I babysat had bought a packet) bearing in mind that the dangers of smoking had been known for a few decades by then, and it was only a few years before the public smoking ban. I remember trying them once as a child but thought they mostly tasted like soggy cardboard so maybe they worked to put children off smoking!
Some of the name changes of sweets seem a bit bizarre as surely you buy them based on whether you like the taste or not? e.g. Marathon to Snickers, and Opal Fruits to Starburst (I still call them opal fruits, starburst seems a bit of a childish name IMO, although admittedly opal fruits is a bit bizarre!).
J&S
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My earliest memories are of sugar mice and also sugared almonds. When I was at a weekly boarding school we had tuck boxes and had had our sweets handed out to us and we would go off to our "dens" to eat them. It was all a bit different then, a Mars bar would be opened at one end and slices cut off, we just had one slice at a time! Only one square of chocolate was allowed. I think it made me a chocoholic, I have to eat a whole bar at a time now.
Barton Bounty
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Ohhh thats right!
PurBee
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Reminds me of the dark comedy film ‘Lava’, featuring a socially challenged duo who end up getting into bother with a drug dealer. They find a bag of coke, unsure what it is, and they dib their fingers into it, one saying “it’s a lot like dib dab”.
Throughout the film they’re asking the other for more of the ‘dib dab’. Hilarious film featuring leslie grantham ?
I loved wagon wheels in the 80”s. They were really big! Somehow they‘ve shrunk over the years.
Those red long jelly strips that had a coating which would sting the tongue were a favourite. Powdery bonbons too!
ycbm
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Is global branding, I think. I first saw a Snickers bar in Athens and thought "surely that's a Marathon? " and not long after the name was changed in the UK to match.
Sweet changes I remember are
Marathon to Snickers
Opal Fruits to Starburst
Opal Mints to Pacers
Chocolate Treats to Minstrels
Dime to Daim
Any more?
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ycbm
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Anyone remember Swisskit or Jamboree bags?
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SilverLinings
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Ah, yes, the international branding thing makes sense
I had forgotten about Chocolate Treats, and I still get annoyed by Daim, I mean that's not even a proper word!
Barton Bounty
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I thought treats were peanutty just shows how much i know ?
Sussexbythesea
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They used to have Toffee Treats and Peanut Treats and I think Minstrels were a totally different make I’m sure they were around at the same time.
Elf On A Shelf
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Crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside, Armadillo!
Soft on the outside, crunchy on the inside, Dime bar!
cobgoblin
Bugrit! Millennium hand and shrimp.
I loved Jamboree bags but I can't remember what was in them. There was a stupid toy and the rectangular lollipop, surely there was more ?
ycbm
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Minstrels was the rebranding of chocolate Treets, I read. There were 3 kinds of Treets, peanut , toffee and chocolate. Peanut Treets got replaced/pushed out of the market by M&Ms.
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blitznbobs
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Jif to cif
…. Not quite a sweet treat but in the same vein
…. Not quite a sweet treat but in the same vein
Errin Paddywack
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My all time favourite was the original enormous Mars bar. The modern ones are nothing like. The original one was a meal in itself.
dunthing
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I still have a Callard and Bowser box from years ago. Mine doubles as a pencil box
Crazy_cat_lady
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Citrus polo's were incredible. Sadly they've stopped making them
There used to be an ice cream, in a pink cardboard push up tube with a pink stick coming out of it that had an image of Minnie mouse on the packaging but can't for the life of me remember what it was called. The ice cream itself was pink
There used to be an ice cream, in a pink cardboard push up tube with a pink stick coming out of it that had an image of Minnie mouse on the packaging but can't for the life of me remember what it was called. The ice cream itself was pink
Crazy_cat_lady
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Crazy_cat_lady
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I can also remember my gran giving me a box which had lots of tiny chocolate figurines in it, I think they were Peter rabbit ones so they were in the shape of Beatrix Potter characters in white and milk chocolate.
It's bugging me I can't find images of them or the ice cream I mentioned above
It's bugging me I can't find images of them or the ice cream I mentioned above
SilverLinings
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I remember those! They were really nice chocolate too, and I remember boxes of chick and bunny shaped ones at Easter as well.
SilverLinings
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Also, Easter eggs with the treat (such as Smarties or small chocolate eggs) were sealed loose inside the egg, rather than in a packet.
Quigleyandme
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Gosh Birker, I have a craving for fruit salads and blackjacks now. I’ve never heard of Tudor crisps. Some interesting flavours there!