General Chat

flying saucers and space dust

Darren, This is purely for the oldies. When sweets were on the ration, you could get four Uncle Joes mint balls for an old penny. The last one would be sucked into nothingness right at the end of the two hour film show. Then a bag of chips for less than one new penny - but that,s another story. Happy days.

Bon Bons, 4p a quater they came in white yellow and pink. yum yum.

There's a place near us called Botany Bay.... it's just off the M61 nr Chorley, Lancs. It like a huge museum filled with concessions/shops of items from the past...... One of them is an old fashioned sweet shop, they sell just about everything in there and most of the sweets that have been mentioned so far. Does anyone remember buying hard liquorice sticks and a qtr of Kaylied? (can't spell it) it was a sort of crystalised sherbert. I remember too a little box the size of a match box filled with tiny little hard square sweets tasting of liquorice.... now what they called ... Imps or something. Who remembers Jelly Tots - of course - but there were also Tiger Tots, Teddy Tots and Candy Tots.... my husband can even sing the advert with all the words..... How sad is that lol Gaynor :-)

Does anyone remember Jap Desserts ? They were similar to the square sweet you got in Dolly Mixtures but much bigger. (I suppose the PC brigade outlawed them - pity, they were yummy...)

There used to be a sweets brand,'Pascall's' I fell in love with the picture of the girl on the advert for them........

There is a newly opened shop in Folkestone selling sweets by the quarter. They seem to have alot of the old fashioned ones, in the newspaper report, - I'll take a look, when I'm in town. What with that and 'The Rock Shop', where you can watch lettered rock being made, the dentists will be doing a roaring trade around here. Did anyone have shaped sweets? Dad used to bring us 'fish and chips' sometimes. I think they were peardrop flavoured.

Yes cherry lips thats them.

Yay, Elizabeth, thats the one. Lol. Blimey Im not 50 yet and the grey matter has turned into a slushy mush. Maggie

Those flying saucer thingys they use to stick to your tong LOL.And Black Jacks yummy. Debs.

Maggie I think they were called humbugs

Yes, remember those too Margaret, sherbert pips, ate loads of those! :))

I used to love a giant triangular shaped gobstopper type thingy. It was a golden brown colour with darker brown stripes, once you had crunched the hard bits off it was full of a lovely thick chewy toffee. Have no idea what it was called, and for a sweet it was quite expensive at least 6d each or was it 3d. Also those tiny little boiled sweet 3d a qrt. Think they where called pips or something like that. Sorry must be getting old, my brain refuses to work. Maggie

Lemonade crystals for making drinks, put on your tongue sour and fizzy! :)) gobstoppers and aniseed balls kept changing colour, Bubbly bubble-gum!

Pineapple chunks & pear drops - made your tongue sore! Flying saucers - used to buy them at the swimming baths along with coffee ice cream with the money Mum gave us for a hot drink! mmmmmmm My grandchildren bought me a huge bag of flying saucers for Christmas, then HAD to help me eat them! LOL Fruit salad and Black Jacks - 4 for 1d Tom Thumb drops - all stuck to the paper bag after a while! Frozen Jubblies - 4d each but lasted ages. Jubilee Bags - full of 'exciting things for boys and girls' LOL Sweet Tobacco - was it called Spanish Main? Strands of coconut covered in something brown, but delicious. Spangles - I liked the red ones best. Orange Smarties - not from childhood, but now. Only the orange ones mind! LOL Nearly forgot the pink shrimps - don't taste the same today though! Sue xx

Pontefract cakes, basset liquorice sticks and catherine wheels, sweet tobacco. Uhmmm Darren - were they cherry lips?

no bells ringing here

hey can anyone remember hanky pankies,a kind of popcorn snack.

what where the ones shaped like lips? little red things and very sweet?

Black Jacks and Fruit Salad chews and Trebor Chocolate Tools (little solid choclate hand tools...saw, hammer etc... Viv