Sweets I miss

You can still get sugar mice.

A regular treat of mine is a bag of Mint Poppets. You can get them for £1 a bag (equivalent to 4 small boxes approx) at places like Farmfoods, pound shops etc., The Range have big boxes for £1 and BM Bargains sell them for only 79p. Delicious.

I’m having to make do with aniseed balls at the moment.

When I was a child, I always loved those sugary pretend cigarettes. Lots of adults used to smoke in those days and I used to love to pretend to smoke. I used to lick the red coloured end to make it look like the cigarette was alight.

I used to like sugar mice but I don't think they make them any more.

Did anyone else get Ewbanks liquorice selection boxes at Christmas, rather than chocolate? There`d be a pipe,
a Catherine wheel, shoelaces, all sorts of novelty items.

Oh annep. you do not know what you have missed.
2 Walnuts in a single walnut whip.
Simply the best.
Never heard of a Duncans selection box. What did it consist of ? Is this an english box of confectionary ?

1974cookie I don't remember those but I do remember getting a Duncans selection box one Christmad. Best selection box ever.

I alao lusted after those large boxes of chocs with pictures of kittens or thatched cottages with a ribbon tied around them, but sadly they had all vanished by the time I grew up and had the money for them.

What happy sweetie memories! I used to think it would be wonderful to be grown up and ask for half a pound (weight)
Of sweets from jars ( a pound was unimaginable) as the most I ever got now and again was a quarter.
Usually I spent my school busfare on frother bars, penny arrows, black jacks, fruit salads and Cowans toffee bars.

Beau and Camelotclub thank you for the info on Caramac.

Ooooooooh reading this post is making me drool!!! We have an 'old fashioned' sweetshop near us and I think I may have to go there tomorrow. I have a sudden yearning for Frys Five Boys, Sherbet Dips, Fruit Salads, Black Jacks, Sugar Mice, Chewing Nuts, Barley Sugar Sticks, Coconut Ice, Licourice Laces - I could go on and on........

lemongrove, I saw Caramac buttons and bars in Tesco today so you're in luck ?

I was trying to think of the name - it was kayli thank you whoever remembered that.
I do remember iced gems and someone choking on one at a party.

Does anyone remember Duncan Walnut whips?
They were different in that you also got a walnut inside as well as on the top.
YUM !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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

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 ?

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!

Meltis fruits!

Everlasting strip and plain chocolate Bounty bar.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

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.