Sweets you really miss.

10p mix , with fried egg , shrimp , proper cola bottle (full o sugar)& a fancy 2p chocolate cupcake

banana OBV

Lemming twist
Milk chocolate otters

Used to like chewing on liquorice root, haven't seen that for decades.

Proper Cola Cubes

Otters?

You used to eat Otters?

payne"s poppets out of them machines they used to have in railway stations

Sorry, that should have read
'Any otters'.

I ran a race night at Paynes Poppets factory social club a few years ago, terry. somewhere near Croydon.
Dave Swindlehurst was there (a name I forgot to drop on the other thread). He was managing a local non-league club at the time.

I think they (Paynes poppets) still exist.

hmm Poppets were nice , nice little fancy box too !

Riley's chocolate toffee rolls. Died sometime in the 60s. Taken over by Callard and Bowser and weren't bad but not the same. Don't think they exist now.

they do studyform in old fashion sweet shops so ive been told which is good news,yes little red ones mac

I've seen Paynes poppets in Home Bargains stores, I think. Although I don't recall seeing the Mint ones.

don't remember the name but a nice old man used to give them to me outside the school gates

Nutty bars, they have pay day's in the states but not the same imho

5-4-3-2-1. more for the advert than anything else

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezLzflX6r5Q&feature=kp

KitKats without the putrid new Nestle chocolate.
Milky Ways are a good shout.

I used to love Whoppa bars.

Many from 'Blue Bird' but especially their Caramel Crunch toffees - which had a buttery, caramel shell on the outside and a sticky toffee inner. Just the best sweets of all time.

Here's the Blue Bird Wiki piece:

"Blue Bird Toffee is a brand of toffee, founded in Worcestershire, England, in 1898 by Harry Vincent.

Vincent had similar ideas to Cadbury and the Frys with regards to the workplace being a pleasant environment to work.

Vincent's toffee was originally called Harvino, but after watching Maeterlink's play 'The Blue Bird of Happiness' he renamed the product Blue Bird.

Bluebird Toffee left their West Midlands site in October 1998, and the company now trade in Hull as part of Needler's.

Needler's changes name after acquiring Blue Bird to become Needler Bluebird. In 2002 Needler Bluebird was purchased by Ashbury Confectionery and discontinued all lines previously made by Needler's and Blue Bird.

Ashbury donated the company's collection of historic Blue Bird packaging to the Black Country Living Museum."


It was a real shame that such wonderful toffees were lost to the public forever.

STUDYFORM   08 Jun 14 20:36 
I used to love Opal Mints. The were Opal fruits less popular sibling, White with green stripes as I recall.

Weren't these called Pacers?

That is a good Q roger, they may have become Pacers before the end of their being, yes.

paynes poppets .. in the 60-70s they had a factory at tower bridge just a few yards from tower bridge police station,and in the hot summer days the women who worked on the production line would have the doors open to cool the place down , as kids we would sneak in and take as many packets as we could get our hands on ,the  mints ones, green mint filling with plain choc outers were a favourite ,they also had fruit ones all colours with a softish chewy  centre ,also had the peanut ones and raisens all in those little flip boxes that you pushed  out the opening ..........with your fingertip , anyone remember mint cracknel bars .....milk chocolate outer with green mint centres that seemed like splinters........lovely stuff !

Proper mars bars, you could build houses with that disgusting glue filling they use now.

Good shout with the new kit kats, horrible taste.

Anyone remember Spangles?

I was an absolute fiend for chocolate limes and blackcurrant liquorice sweets.

Texan Bars

I liked MB bars but mainly because they were so cheap.
Another favourite was sweetie cigarettes.

I remember spangles pp. Individually wrapped which created a trail to follow the litter louts.

STUDYFORM   08 Jun 14 20:36 
I used to love Opal Mints. The were Opal fruits less popular sibling, White with green stripes as I recall.

Weren't these called Pacers?

Originally called Opal Mints and re-branded as Pacers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacers_(confectionery)

Anyone remember 'Cobana' or something like that...Coconut and dried fruit combo??

Mint Cracknell

cobana or cabana they were nice. Better than bounties imo.
I loved fry's five centres, strange how they keep the fry's cream which are nowhere near as good.

you can still buy pear drops and theyre as good as any imo too.

cabana was my favourite treat as a youngster milk chocolate outer  pink and white moist coconut with a soft caramel and cherrys inside ......feck knows why they stopped making it ?

benny you can still get those Texan bars ,I bought a box of the buggers while on holiday ! 144 in the box ,, nostalgia trip !the kids loved em ,didn't last long tho!

You can get every sweet, chocolate bar et

You can get every sweet, chocolate bar et

You can get every sweet, chocolate bar et

You can get every sweet, chocolate bar et

You can get every sweet, chocolate bar et

You can get every sweet, chocolate bar et

Bloody laptop freaking out again

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/

Agree with Foyleswar, the cabana bar was my favourite. It was only made for a very short time in the early 80's. It had a very good and colourful tv advert so I found it a surprise they would put so much money into it and then stop making it after such a short period. It was a cross between a bounty bar and a topic for anyone who has never had the pleasure of a cabana bar. Not sure if its true but I read they stopped making it as it was too expensive due to the price of making it with so many ingredients especially coconuts which went up in price.