Childhood sweeties

[Barton Bounty]

There was hedgehog flavour! As if anyone would eat a wee hedgey ?

 

[The Fuzzy Furry]

I also remember working out it was more beneficial to buy 4 x blackjacks for a penny than to buy 2 ounces of them, as 3 pence got me 12 ? Shop keeper hated us!

Ycbm, yes I remember jamboree bags, usually a let down.

Scented satins were another, used to get them stuck in my teeth!

 

[tda]

Love a flying saucer! You don't see sugar mice much these days. Probably a good thing ??

You can sometimes get these in Home Bargains and the like ?

 

[Barton Bounty]

You can sometimes get these in Home Bargains and the like ?

They have massive bags in there ?

 

[ponynutz]

An old sweet shop in my town used to do liquorice mice that I can't find anywhere else!
They've shut now rip

 

[cobgoblin]

An old sweet shop in my town used to do liquorice mice that I can't find anywhere else!
They've shut now rip

https://www.justliquorice.co.uk/product/liquorice-mice-dropmuis/

 

[Smitty]

Honestly you lot, you know nothing??. I remember a halfpenny tray, where you could get 2 sweets, a Blackjack, Fruit Salad and huge amounts more that I have forgotten, or a Penny tray, where you could have 5 things. This was before decimalisation ??

There were enormous amounts of fake cigarettes ?. Some chocolate wrapped in paper that were heaven and came in a fake fag packet, then the sickly sweet ones that were a sort of sugar confection, the fake rolling tobacco and of course the liquorice smokers sets?

I still mourn the lime barrel in Cadburys Milk Tray, the bar of different Milk Tray fillings, 5 boys, Fry's bar with different fillings, kunzle cakes, and most of all, Burton's Potato Puffs, not strictly a sweet I know.

And I bet not one of you remembers a very short lived Cadburys bar that had an apple flavoured filling. Prob 55 years ago ?

 

[Barton Bounty]

I loved puffs

 

[Petalpoos]

@Smitty Can‘t say I remember the apple bar - but is it this one?

 

[Petalpoos]

Aztec! I had forgotten that one.

Eta - is a “ dipped flake” a forerunner of the Twirl?

 

[Barton Bounty]

Caramel tasted so much better in that wrapper

 

[Barton Bounty]

A texan! Toffos climpies

 

[Old school]

I can't remember the previous name of a Starbar. But when I was somewhere between 8 and 12 years old we had an add in Ireland for that bar. It was a girl out hunting who got hungry. She was offered the said bar, as they were going through a gate, I think. Does anyone else recall the add? Late 70s, early 80s. Can you imagine that type of footage being used now. It would cause uproar. Anyway, that's my contribution.

Edit: I was wrong re name. Found text below on Google search for Starbar

Originally known as a Starbar back in the 1970s, Cadbury decided on bringing the bar into the Boost family in 1985 when the product was rebranded as Peanut Boost. However, as the popularity of Boost bars waned, the Starbar name returned.16 Sept 2019

 

[ponynutz]

https://www.justliquorice.co.uk/product/liquorice-mice-dropmuis/

I love you.

 

[ponynutz]

Not technically sweets but does anyone remember the meaty flavoured walkers crisps that were in the black packet? They were amazing!

 

[Peregrine Falcon]

This thread is torture. I want to go and fill my boots in an old fashionned sweet shop and have a spira bar to drink my hot chocolate through!!!

 

[Barton Bounty]

Sorry ???

 

[Peregrine Falcon]

I'm on a healthy eating spurge too so it's making me drool as well.

 

[meggymoo]

Honestly you lot, you know nothing??. I remember a halfpenny tray, where you could get 2 sweets, a Blackjack, Fruit Salad and huge amounts more that I have forgotten, or a Penny tray, where you could have 5 things. This was before decimalisation ??

There were enormous amounts of fake cigarettes ?. Some chocolate wrapped in paper that were heaven and came in a fake fag packet, then the sickly sweet ones that were a sort of sugar confection, the fake rolling tobacco and of course the liquorice smokers sets?

I still mourn the lime barrel in Cadburys Milk Tray, the bar of different Milk Tray fillings, 5 boys, Fry's bar with different fillings, kunzle cakes, and most of all, Burton's Potato Puffs, not strictly a sweet I know.

And I bet not one of you remembers a very short lived Cadburys bar that had an apple flavoured filling. Prob 55 years ago ?

Relatives of mine worked at Kunzles. (honestly, some working at Kunzles, some at Cadburys - I stood no chance!) I still have a Presentation Box of Kunzles chocolates, from about 1960 I think, still sealed up. I'd love to open them to see what they were like, but on the other hand it seems a shame. Remember Showboats? And the little chocolate sponges covered in chocolate, whose name would never be allowed now?

 

[Smitty]

@Smitty Can‘t say I remember the apple bar - but is it this one?

It absolutely is?. Clever you, but I want one now ?

 

[Smitty]

Relatives of mine worked at Kunzles. (honestly, some working at Kunzles, some at Cadburys - I stood no chance!) I still have a Presentation Box of Kunzles chocolates, from about 1960 I think, still sealed up. I'd love to open them to see what they were like, but on the other hand it seems a shame. Remember Showboats? And the little chocolate sponges covered in chocolate, whose name would never be allowed now?

It was specifically Showboats I was thinking of. We used to call them Kunzle Cakes. Lucky you having relatives working at 2 chocolate emporiums, I presume they shared their good fortune ?. A box of chocolates would never have lasted a week in our family, let alone 60 odd years. Is there any chance of a photo (I couldn't do one!!). I have googled Kunzle since this thread and it seems they had a string of restaurants and their own pig rearing facility.

I don't remember the chocolate sponges, but can guess at a racist name?

 

[Barton Bounty]

I'm on a healthy eating spurge too so it's making me drool as well.

My dad used to always say… ‘a little bit of what you fancy does you good’ ?

 

[meggymoo]

It was specifically Showboats I was thinking of. We used to call them Kunzle Cakes. Lucky you having relatives working at 2 chocolate emporiums, I presume they shared their good fortune ?. A box of chocolates would never have lasted a week in our family, let alone 60 odd years. Is there any chance of a photo (I couldn't do one!!). I have googled Kunzle since this thread and it seems they had a string of restaurants and their own pig rearing facility.

I don't remember the chocolate sponges, but can guess at a racist name?[/QUOTE

I can take a picture of the box of chocolates if anyone can put it on here for me. I have had detailed instructions in the past but failed miserably! To be fair we found the chocolates when we were clearing out my uncles flat when he died and I just couldn't bring myself to throw them away. If I had had them from new, they certainly wouldn't still be around. Yes the name of the chocolate cakes had two 'g's in them. If I ever hear that word, I only think of cakes.

Yes there was always a supply of Cadburys mis-shapes and Kunzles cakes! Though I do remember the Showboats as being rather sickly, but it was worth it for the square chocolate case they were in!

 

[ycbm]

I still mourn the lime barrel in Cadburys Milk Tray

Me too ?. And lime milkshake and the lime segment in the Frys bar ....

 

[timefort]

Shrimps, flying saucers, chelsea whoppers, jelly rings, the wee bit of chocolate in a foil that u peel back and ate ?

And jelly snakes/lizards with soft bellies. I'd forgotten about the chocolate in foil - there was something very special about that bit of chocolate in foil!!

 

[Barton Bounty]

And jelly snakes/lizards with soft bellies. I'd forgotten about the chocolate in foil - there was something very special about that bit of chocolate in foil!!

Chocolate cups! I forgot those lizards,

 

[Crazy_cat_lady]

I remember those! They were really nice chocolate too, and I remember boxes of chick and bunny shaped ones at Easter as well.

Yes they did didn't they!

 

[twiggy2]

Pontefract cakes
Gob stoppers (many would argue they were/are a necessity for me)
Sweet peanuts
The soft bannanas
Wine guns and midget gems that actually tasted of something

 

[Sealine]

There was hedgehog flavour! As if anyone would eat a wee hedgey ?

I was told many years ago that travellers eat hedgehogs. Apparently they pack them with clay and put them in the fire. Once cooked the spines fall out with the clay. I'd like to think no-one eats hedgehog these days.

 

[Barton Bounty]

I was told many years ago that travellers eat hedgehogs. Apparently they pack them with clay and put them in the fire. Once cooked the spines fall out with the clay. I'd like to think no-one eats hedgehog these days.

No defo not ?