Barton Bounty
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I work near the grants factory! You can smell the whiskey ??
Childhood sweeties
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meggymoo
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There was always a vending machine on the railway station that sold Five Boys. My OH doesn't remember them, therefore I am nuts!
Sealine
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I loved shrimps but I'd completely forgotten about them.
Barton Bounty
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And the wee mushrooms ?
meggymoo
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Loved Cabanas. I used to eat far too many of them when I was pregnant with my first child in 1979 - quite addictive. Another one no-one else seems to remember.
Elf On A Shelf
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Ah but are you sure it's sherbert and not a sneaky new way of trafficking drugs about ??
Elf On A Shelf
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Love a flying saucer! You don't see sugar mice much these days. Probably a good thing ??
Birker2020
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I used to work for a company who used to supply hand towel rags to them.
I used to go to Goods In and the blokes there would have a massive cardboard box covered over by more cardboard and the box was full of thousands and thousands of Cadbury Roses chocolate rejects. They told me to help myself so I'd grab an armful and stuff them down my coat, go through the gatehouse and the gateman would lift the barrier and I was off. I took them back to work and shared them with everyone. Naughty but everyone visiting Good In would be offered an armful. The blokes are most probably all dead now so I won't get them into trouble!
I visited the Cadbury Factory once with Mum, it was interesting.
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Barton Bounty
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Hahahha i didnt feel any effects at all so im pretty sure its sherbet! However my 18 yr old son was quite shocked when a wee packet of white powder fell out the freezer at him ???
Birker2020
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cobgoblin
Bugrit! Millennium hand and shrimp.
Milk Tray chocolates fused together in a bar that you had to break up.
Rainbow drops.
Sweet peanuts.
Cola cubes that made your tongue sore.
Mars bars were HUGE.
Rainbow drops.
Sweet peanuts.
Cola cubes that made your tongue sore.
Mars bars were HUGE.
The Fuzzy Furry
Old Timer
Blackjacks, milk bottles, foam bananas, sweet tobacco.
Can still get them all tho ???
Can still get them all tho ???
Elf On A Shelf
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Ew no! Rainbow Drops are the blandest, most boring, stale tasting things on the planet!
Elf On A Shelf
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Stranger things have happened ??
SOS
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My family loved the Mingles selection boxes. I get cravings for them sometimes.
cobgoblin
Bugrit! Millennium hand and shrimp.
The chocolate ones, or the puffed rice ones? I think they're both called rainbow drops or something similar.
Elf On A Shelf
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The multicoloured rice ones ?
cobgoblin
Bugrit! Millennium hand and shrimp.
The rice ones are a bit odd, I agree.
I meant the chocolate buttons covered in hundreds and thousands on the top. It was a bit like cooking chocolate but I loved them.
Birker2020
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Yes cheap chocolate that left a greasy film on the roof of your mouth but they were strangely addictive. The white chocolate ones are nice too.
They've been remarketed as Jazzles in a blue packet.
Birker2020
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Is sweet tobacco the same as candy cigarettes? I must have had a strange but strict upbringing as I was a bit rebellious, not only did I think I was cool amongst the younger kids in our group by sucking on cider and brandy ice lollies, I also used to think I was cool with a candy cigarette between my fingers.
Its a wonder I'm not an addict
Birker2020
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I love this thread Barton Bounty. Some of these sweets that have been mentioned, I'd forgotten about.
Barton Bounty
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Hehe me too! Oh the memories… i dont think you can every get penny sweets anymore!
Its all 2p or 5p lol
blitznbobs
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Or dime as they should be called
cobgoblin
Bugrit! Millennium hand and shrimp.
Is sweet tobacco the same as candy cigarettes? I must have had a strange but strict upbringing as I was a bit rebellious, not only did I think I was cool amongst the younger kids in our group by sucking on cider and brandy ice lollies, I also used to think I was cool with a candy cigarette between my fingers.
Its a wonder I'm not an addict
The sweet tobacco was shredded coconut covered in something brown. No idea what the brown stuff was.
Peregrine Falcon
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1/2p in my very early days!!!
Sealine
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Sweet tobacco looked like actual tobacco. I don't remember eating it as it looked horrid. I do remember pretending to smoke sweet cigarettes. It's amazing to think that tobacco and cigarettes were ever available as sweets.
Sealine
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That explains why I never tried it. I hate desiccated coconut. I couldn't eat a Bounty if you paid me.
Birker2020
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I know. But its the same with toy swords and guns. Caps that were bright red and you stuck in your 'gun' to make a noise or struck with a stone. Wouldn't be allowed any of that now.
cobgoblin
Bugrit! Millennium hand and shrimp.
Does anyone remember the toffee bars filled with banana flavour toffee in the middle, or the chocolate ones with vanilla. They cost 3d and lasted hours.
cobgoblin
Bugrit! Millennium hand and shrimp.
There really wasn't much gun or knife violence in those days. The gun and knife crimes seem to have taken off since such toys disappeared. Maybe they've got it wrong.