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Old 09-06-2011, 23:46
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Wham bars are much smaller now, I would love to see an original 80s wham bar and compare it to ones they sell today..they seem to be made differently too
I think your right. Everything these days has got smaller. Also I don't remember coming in so many flavours. Not that I am complaing about that. Variety is is the spice of life
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Old 09-06-2011, 23:49
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Old 09-06-2011, 23:50
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Old Jamaica is lovely. I've only seen it in massive bars though. Have they always been this way?
Yep, always big bars, and there was another one which was great, fruit and biscuit called Tiffin!
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Old 09-06-2011, 23:56
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Edinburgh Rock...I can eat bags of the stuff in one sitting
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Old 09-06-2011, 23:58
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Edinburgh Rock...I can eat bags of the stuff in one sitting
Stop! I have some....... shit! Gonna have to.....



..............mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm........

He got me some Soor Plooms an all!
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Old 10-06-2011, 00:02
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Greys Herbal Tablets
You must be from the West Midlands then? I love the smell from the Grays factory when they are boiling their Herbal Tablets. You can smell it for miles. Have you tried thier Troach Drops?
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Old 10-06-2011, 00:06
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I've never heard of these. What did they look like?
They were thin square shaped fruit flavoured boiled sweets with a clear wrapper with a twist at one end of the wrapper.
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Old 10-06-2011, 00:09
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They were thin square shaped fruit flavoured boiled sweets with a clear wrapper with a twist at one end of the wrapper.
I remember those! Loved 'em!


Pascals fruit bonbons mmmmmmmmm
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Old 10-06-2011, 00:28
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Sherbet flying saucers for sure! Used to eat them two at a time...
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Old 10-06-2011, 00:29
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Fizzers! Tiny sherbety sweets. Round but with concave top and bottom so that if you sucked, they stayed stuck to your tongue

Anybody have any memories of a fruity/fizzy, 1 inch square, thinish, sweet. I think you were supposed to dissolve them in water to make a fizzy drink but my memory might be wrong......they have a unique place in my memory as I once took one, without paying for it

I couldn't eat it....had to take it back next day and it took forever to get the shopkeeper to go out the back so I could put it back in the box...

What an admission ....
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Old 10-06-2011, 00:45
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Back in '70's my granny's sister's husband (my great uncle) owned a sweet shop/newsagents in Chichester.

It was a real old fashioned place, with all the sweets in massive jars on shelves, and old fashioned scales to weigh them out.

People would come in and buy sweets by weight, and take them away in a little paper bag (or big one if they were greedy!)

Whatever sweet you could think of, he had in a jar, he was a bit like a real life Willy Wonka.

Bit of an irony that I didn't like sweets, or chocolate, never have.

I think it amused him; that a small boys dream would be to have the run of a sweet shop, which I did, but that I didn't want anything there.
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Old 10-06-2011, 09:43
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Sherbet flying saucers for sure! Used to eat them two at a time...
I think Flying Saucers are a great sweets. They are so light you don't feelguilty when eating them!
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Old 10-06-2011, 09:44
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Old 10-06-2011, 09:53
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Old 10-06-2011, 10:11
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I miss barley sugars. You can't find them for love or money. Although, I am sure you can get them online.
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Old 10-06-2011, 10:18
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I miss barley sugars. You can't find them for love or money. Although, I am sure you can get them online.
http://flic.kr/p/9RWgAF You can get them here. Barley Sugars are great!
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Old 10-06-2011, 10:19
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Aztec Bars,there's a blast from the past!.Do you remember Ice Breaker chocolate as ?.Came in aan electric blue wrapper.
Ooh, yes, late 70s to mid 80s. (Cadbury's plain chocolate with mint cracknel, for those that are wondering).
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Old 10-06-2011, 10:20
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Aztec Bars = Cadbury's answer to the Mars Bar. Did they taste like Mars bars too?
More than they did of Aztecs, certainly.
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Old 10-06-2011, 10:22
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Old Jamaica is lovely. I've only seen it in massive bars though. Have they always been this way?
Used to be 100g bars when first introduced in the 70s, but Cadbury's, god bless, do keep bringing them back. Also at the same time they had Grand Sevilla bars, bournville chocolate with orange flavouring and candied orange peel bits - haven't seen that for a while though.
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Old 10-06-2011, 19:18
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Used to be 100g bars when first introduced in the 70s, but Cadbury's, god bless, do keep bringing them back. Also at the same time they had Grand Sevilla bars, bournville chocolate with orange flavouring and candied orange peel bits - haven't seen that for a while though.
You seem to know a lot about sweets. I envy your knowledge!
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Old 10-06-2011, 19:29
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My favourite was always Lucky Tatties, but I never see them anywhere now!
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Old 10-06-2011, 19:30
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Cola Cubes... nowhere around my area seem to do them now-adays though .
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Old 10-06-2011, 19:44
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My favourite was always Lucky Tatties, but I never see them anywhere now!
I have never heard of these before. What are they like?
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Old 10-06-2011, 19:45
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Cola Cubes... nowhere around my area seem to do them now-adays though .
Cola Cubes are awesome, I like the chewy bit in the middle
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Old 10-06-2011, 19:48
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Cola Cubes are awesome, I like the chewy bit in the middle
Same, I used to have them at least twice a week... now I've not had them for nearly two years... .
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