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Hurghada Lady wrote:Ginger Beer!
nice ,my husband used to say it tastes like dish water Lol but i love it .
By the way i have always wondered how he knew what dish water tasted like :lol:


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Sherberts with a big liqorish in the middle of it .
And to this day Pear drops i love them took plenty out with me munching them on plane and cracking next to the pool :mrgreen: do not do your teeth any good ,and the others were Trebors .
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I loved spangles as a kid but my all-time favourite was Super Mousse which nobody else eems to remember!

Had a superhero moose on the cover, was similar to milky way ;)

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Oh my god 3d lucky bags yep im old enought o remember these, and yorkie bars , only cos they had the chunkiest chocolate, and yes i loved caramac's as well. :)
Does anyone remember treats, they melt in your mouth not in your hands the ad used to say.
Oh god youve all guessed it im a chocaholic mmm :P :P :P
Tried being an alcoholic but i kept falling over! ;) :lol:
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Christine wrote:Oh my god 3d lucky bags yep im old enought o remember these, and yorkie bars , only cos they had the chunkiest chocolate, and yes i loved caramac's as well. :)
Does anyone remember treats, they melt in your mouth not in your hands the ad used to say.
Oh god youve all guessed it im a chocaholic mmm :P :P :P
Tried being an alcoholic but i kept falling over! ;) :lol:
oh yeah i remember them ,do you remember OLE JAMAICAN it was bar of chocolate with rum flavour i was naughtly but it was so exspencive to have 50p it was in the 80s Lol i used to leave school and go to the shop and get it .Yummy,
And Bazzooka bubble gum with little messages in the wrappers and Gobstoppers ,sweet tobacco you must remember that ,and the chocolate flavoured cigarettes as if they was in a cigarette packet with the white paper wrapped round it it took me 2years to realise you could eat the paper :mrgreen:
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CocoaButter wrote:
Christine wrote:Oh my god 3d lucky bags yep im old enought o remember these, and yorkie bars , only cos they had the chunkiest chocolate, and yes i loved caramac's as well. :)
Does anyone remember treats, they melt in your mouth not in your hands the ad used to say.
Oh god youve all guessed it im a chocaholic mmm :P :P :P
Tried being an alcoholic but i kept falling over! ;) :lol:
oh yeah i remember them ,do you remember OLE JAMAICAN it was bar of chocolate with rum flavour i was naughtly but it was so exspencive to have 50p it was in the 80s Lol i used to leave school and go to the shop and get it .Yummy,
And Bazzooka bubble gum with little messages in the wrappers and Gobstoppers ,sweet tobacco you must remember that ,and the chocolate flavoured cigarettes as if they was in a cigarette packet with the white paper wrapped round it it took me 2years to realise you could eat the paper :mrgreen:

Wow!! I never even realised you could eat the paper!!!
What a wasted childhood I had!!!

I also loved Acid Drops.... if you ate too much of them the roof of your mouth would become raw and sore!!

Sweet tobacco... I loved that stuff!! It was like eating a horse-hair mattress!! When I think about the connotation now... it makes me want to throw up!!!

I love this thread!!!!! :D
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:lol: @suesue

i remember the fruit polo's ,and the white and pink candy mouses you could get ,even to this day .and the bracelet sweets and the knecklass sweets ,used to wear them for roller hockey and bite one off every time got a goal .
And the chocolate Icebreaker and starbar i still love them .
Trolli Hotdogs
Trolli Burgers
Teeth
ABC Candy Letters
Bananas - Barratts
Blackcurrant Millions
Black Jack Chews - Barratts
Bubblegum Millions
Candy Whistles - Swizzels
Candy Lipstick - Swizzels
Chupa Chup Lollipops
Cola Fizz Lollies - Posh
Cola Millions
Cola Pips
Cherry Pips
Drumsticks - Swizzels
Dolly Mixtures
Dolly Mix - Haribo
Dolly Beads - Swizzels
Dolly Watches - Swizzels
Fizzers Roll - Swizzels
Flying Saucers
Foam Mushrooms
Football Candy Sticks
Frosties Cola Roll - Barratts
Frosties Fruit Roll - Barratts
Fungums
Fruit Salad Chews - Barratts
Fishes - Maxons
Gobstoppers
Kola Kubes
Lemon Millions
Love Hearts - Swizzels
Love Hearts - Small
Milk Teeth - Barratt's
Mint Millions
Mixed Millions
Nougat - Barratts
Orange Millions
Parma Violets - Swizzels
Rainbow Dust Straws - Swizzels
Raspberry Millions
Refresher Original Chew - Swizzels
Shrimps - Barratts
Strawberry Candy Sticks
Strawberry Millions
Sugar Mice - Boynes
Sugar Pebbles
Vanilla Candy Sticks
Vimto Lollies
Yellow Bellies - Haribo

the flying saucers they were horrible but you kept going back for more . :mrgreen:
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Cocoa that is some list girl! :P :P but is it a sign of a miss-spent youth one asks :lol: Or were you a confectioner in another existance?? x
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yep I also remeber 3d lucky bags, choc cigarettes and 1d white mice!

Christine I also rember the original yorkie ad although I think i preferred the raisn and biscuit one ~

think ill go hunt down some choccie ~ see if anyone at work has some :lol:
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My mate and I used to have midnight snacks on Blackjacks and Fruit Salads, little h'penny sweets :D
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Did u make the blackjac ks soft enough to pull over your teeth to make it look like u were teeth missing, i did, very attractive :lol: :lol:
KH I ahve this big old chocolate cake just waiting to be eaten :P , but im resisting......................... so far!!!!
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Yep, that was the best use of Blackjack - I believe they're not allowed to sell them anymore - the old political correctness gone mad thing.

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God give me strength!
Bit like the Gollywog on the Marmalade jar i spose, its crazy.
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Best bit of all who remembers the halfpence lol i can remember saving them up to make a penny for sweetys ..
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Christine wrote:God give me strength!
Bit like the Gollywog on the Marmalade jar i spose, its crazy.
i still got mine :)
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I've still got farthings and threepenny bits - silver and copper ones
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Netyoda wrote:I've still got farthings and threepenny bits - silver and copper ones
me too ,thinking of making a buck or two :mrgreen:
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Half pennies :?: :?: :?:
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OMG.... I still remember farthings(a quarter of an old penny!!)

I think I'm definitely the granny of this forum!!!! :oops:
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Yes I remember the half p but that's boring sweets are more interesting altho you lot like different thinsg than me.
Well I have kids and I can announce that you can still get black jacks and fruit salads and you can even get extra large black jack chews but they are not as nice as the smallers ones.
Are n't treats more or less the same as minstrels?
Old Jamaica choc I sued to love that.
Don't you have any of those old fashioned sweet shops near you? You can get all the old favourite there but they cost so much more!!! There's even a retro sweet web site!

I like
sherbert pips
cola drops
pineapple chunks
rhubarb and custard
sherbet lemons
toffee bonbons
any sorts of toffee
pink shrimps
banana sweets

Can't stand those swizzles sweets or flying saucers.
What about cherry lips? I used to love those but got some recently and they tasted like soap. And as for those violet sweets ... gross

I want some sweets now!!!
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