Sweets I miss

Oh yes! Flying saucers and those big bars of 'honeycomb'! Wonderful!

In my town of Conwy we have a sweet shop and it sells only the old fashioned sweets, there is always a customer in the shop.

A Texan bar took weeks to chomp through. Sooo good

I remember the Christmas luxury of Newberry Fruits when they were really fruity with a delicious syrup inside. Nowadays they are not a patch on the old ones.
I was brought up during the war when sweets were rationed and my mother used to make peppermint lumps from dried milk, peppermint essence and, I think, golden syrup because sugar was severely rationed. I wish I had the recipe for those. I found a recipe on line but it was nothing like my memory of them.

Barretts sherbet fountains

Oooooh I am slavering reading these posts. I remember the tattiess too. We didn't call them Tobermory tatties, we called them lucky tatties because of the hidden treasure, which was pure rubbish but they did only cost a penny. They were hard as stone. My main memories of childhood sweeties are pan drops and odd fellows in church - only one or two mind, but what a treat.

We used to have Butter Maple Brazils at Christmas and rum toffees. More recently I have loved liquorice toffee from Thorntons but they don't seem to do it any more.

Ooo yes, the milk tray bar. That was a treat as it was more expensive than the sweets in the jars. I too remember when walnut whips had a walnut at the bottom. They usually appear on the shelves at Christmas time in Wilkinsons. I always get my daughter some. I remember sweet cigarettes, bags of brightly coloured rice? chocolate chewing nuts, monkey nuts, sherbert pips, Spanish tobacco which was very sweet, liquorice in shapes of a pipe, catherine wheel, laces. cough candy, pineapple cubes, spangles, Old Jamaica chocolate bar, Roasted almond choc. Bar six. Coloured kali ( sugar crystals) which turned your dipping finger and tongue green, blue etc. Gobstoppers.

Jane 43, we used to call those liquorice flavoured twigs, Spanish Wood, and they were lovely.
Does anyone also remember:
Tiger Nuts.
Tiffin bars.
Frys 5 boys chocolate which had photos of a little boy displaying all kinds of emotions. My favourite.
Chocolate tools i.e.: spanners etc that cost 1d in old money.
3d ice lollies which we called Three D.
Shrimps, which had a weird texture, but we ate them regardless.
'Chummy Bags'.
If anyone remembers these, I would love to hear from them as so far, I have not met anyone that does. It was a little bag of sweets in a cellophane bag tied with a liquorice lace.
They were sold at shop near our school in London for 3d in old money.

Great thread. Lots of happy memories.

We used to call the twigs "sticky lice" don't know why. The van selling Household cleaning things had them as well as sweet false teeth! Ken Dodd's dad used to sell them as well with Aunt Sally which we blew bubbles with.

I loved Aztec bars, they had a malty flavoured layer like a Mars bar. Cherry lips, Palma violets, Bar 6, sugar mice (with a string tail) traffic light lollies that changed colour as you licked them. No wonder I had lost 4 teeth by the time I was 10

mabon1 I know exactly where that shop is. We visit Conwy often

There is a website I try not to look at that has lots of the old sweets that are still available. Beware it is hard to resist www.aquarterof.co.uk/

Jamboree bags had toffees in them and hard sweets. Lavender sweets were odd but nice. My cousins used to buy winter mixtures which tasted like cough medicine and my London nanny (dad’s mum) bought hard nut toffee on a tray broken with a hammer. You had to chew it for ten minutes to get it to soften so it was good value for money as it lasted so long. I loved toffee Poppets and then peanut Treets which have persisted as M and Ms. We still have Milky Bars, Caramacs and Marathons - though we call them Snickers now. Sherbet lemons and toffee eclairs were lovely and, as for sugared almonds, heaven, especially at the cinema where they lasted forever if you could just suck them and not give into crunching the outer coating.

Today I bought in the Mand M knockdowns something called deep chocolate coated caramels for 15p a bag as no one bought them at £1.15. (I bought all seven bags). They were delicious but caramel? Not. They were old fashioned chocolate covered toffee and took the dear OH’s crown off his tooth.

Just remembered:- hundreds and thousands coated chocolate buttons and iced gems.

Oh dear. Must be something wrong with me.

I was only wondering the other day if it`s still possible to get sugared almonds.
Scrabble, Sherbet Fountains are still around, but nowhere near as nice.

You can still buy retro sweets online. Go to 'quarter of.com many of the sweets mentioned here are in their list. The one thing I loved was lemonade powder.. not the stuff that's like coloured sugar, this was powder, like sherbet but you can't get it now. Makes my mouth water thinking about it.

Newberry fruits were my mothers favourites ,my dad always had a bag of Oddfellows in his pocket,I hadn't seen them for years and still haven't but I smelled them really strongly in a shop that sold scented candles .It took me back decades .

My kids loved having tea parties with iced gems when they were tiny. DH is still a great fan of Caramac when we're on a long car journey and flying saucers any time. I remember rainbow drops (buttons covered in hundreds and thousands) and loved kayli - a bag lasted ages when you dipped your wet finger in and sucked off the delicious crystals.

I managed to find a large tube of Caramac buttons for DGS last Christmas, he loved them, where can I buy more, or Caramac bars? I only found the buttons in the Christmas sweet aisles at a supermarket.

Lilyflower wonder we all have any teeth left at all isn’t it?
I never dare eat hard sweets, too worried about crowns, so expensive to replace! Your poor DH.
A friend once did the same biting into Toblerone.

Everlasting strip and plain chocolate Bounty bar.

Meltis fruits!

As a child, I used to enjoy picnic and crunchie bars and one that had a nougat centre but I cannot recall the name. Haven’t eaten a chocolate bar in decades!

I loved Spangles too!!
There was a small sweet shop near my childhood home, wonderful memories. She sold hard candy pyramid shaped sweets with liquorice in the centre. I think the outside was a blackcurrant flavour. Yummy!!
Cola cubes, strawberry bon bons with real toffee inside, tropical cubes, the list is endless.....
Thank you for the trip down memory lane ?

Oh Chewbacca YES Coffee Walnut Whips were the bees knees - I am salivating at the thought