What sweets do you remember???

[stevie-p]

AZTEC BARS...MO JOs..BLACK JACKS ..SPANGLES...??? come on, lets have some more...

[swamp duck]

Spangles, I loved them, Cola cubes, Flying saucers and Rainbow crystals were great. It's a wonder any of us have any teeth left with all that sugar.

Galaxy counters were the dogs b's

I remember as a kid in the 70's you could get 4 Black jacks or fruit salads for 1p, so with your 10p pocket money it was straight down the corner shop for a copy of the Beano for 5p and a massive bag of sweets. Life was so much better then!

THE Katy I remember the banana sweets but have forgotten what they were called.

And why don't pink shrimps tatse the same anymore?

[madein1978]

Galaxy counters, thats something I remember from being 3! They disappeared about 1982 and I miss them to this day!! You still get them in Revels but I think they should be relaunched on their own,

[goldfish1]

One of my favourites was Bazooka Joe bubble gum with the little comic inside. I remember saving up wrappers and sending off for a Bazooka Joe T shirt. I wore it as often as possible and used to pester my mum to get it washed and dried quickly. We were in America last year and saw a shop selling the gum. It still has the wee comic inside.

Hated Old English Spangles - gads.......

[LondonOwl1]

Cadbury's Ice Breaker.

Mint Cracknell

Lemfizz sweets - square shaped like paving slabs.

I also remember Fizzy Spangles in Cola, Orange and Lemon. I didn't like Old English Flavour.

I remember Smiths Crisps have a Flavour called Savoury Vinegar flavour.

Why is it something you like, they decide to discontinue. They say due to poor sales.

I must have bad taste.

[catatonia]

Yes, THE Katy, I remember Black Sambo bubblegum too (it seems obscene to say the name). I remember during a particularly long and boring sermon in chapel, the girl next to me threaded some of it into another girl's long blond plait. Of course, it's impossible to remove. The next time we saw the poor victim, she was sporting a DA haircut. (For the uninitiated, DA stands for Duck's, er, bottom, because the short style was swept up at the back to resemble one.) Anyway, super duper stuff, if tenacious.

[yodak]

anyone remember pink panther bars (strawberry flavoured chocolate)? and what about potato puffs especially the cheese and tomato ones yummy.

Yeh Alibobs I remember buttersnaps, mmmm, and I think u r right, dime bars are the closest thing to them.

[yodak]

Double agents (strawberry flavoured boiled sweets with a cream filling)

[THE Katy]

Ahhh glad someone remembered those bubblegums, Catatonia. What a horrible person that girl was to purposely thread it into someone's hair,lol! And how awful it had to be cut off. My mum did manage to comb most out of my hair, took hours though - she was a bit sadistic, probably enjoyed punishing me lol. But yes, some still had to be cut out at the sides. It was probably made from ingredients banned today!

Yodak, I clearly remember the pink panther bars, they made my throat feel wheezy, like Treetops orange squash did. Gawd only knows what hideous additives those contained!

[thrunger]

You're gonna love this page, all you boys and girls born between 1955 - 1970 will have palpatations.

It took me right back to Millbrook, Southampton in the Summer of '69. ( That's a good title for a song..doh!)

http://tv.cream.org/specialassignments/bestbef ore/arksweet.htm

Happy reading. X