Mumof3, those chocolate sweets you mentioned were called Galaxy Counters. I used to love them when I was a kid, as well as Pacers and Fizzy Spangles, Jubblies...and just about everything else in the sweet shop!
Thnx Aprilis- that's what they were.I sometimes just buy revels to have the 'counters' out of them. I was banned from spangles as I choked on one in the middle of M&S when I was 6, and my mum never let me have them again.