Childhood sweeties

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 ?
 
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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
 
Smitty said:
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 ?
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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?
 
meggymoo said:
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?
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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?
 
Smitty said:
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!
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