I remember black jacks and fruit salads for eight a penny.
I don't remember peanut cracknell, but I used to love mint cracknell, which was chocolate with this crisp green strandy stuff in the middle.
Anyone remember prawns - pink things shaped (unsurprisingly!) like prawns, that tasted of nothing in particular but were a bit like chewy marshmallow in texture.
And then there were picnic bars - waifer, toffee, and raisins, all covered in chocolate.
And then there was that red and black licorice stuff, which round my way was known as "shoe laces".
pear drops?
Was there something called a star bar, or did I just imagine that?!
Picnics still exist-at last in miniature heroes. Yep, remember Star bar You can still get pear drops As well as prawns there were those banana flavoured ones You could get a mixed bag in my day for 5p(at least 15 sweets)
Sorry mate that sounds really rude!! im new to this e mail game, and its hard to get the tone right From the abuse i get when i go running, i didnt think that many ran in Wales. The marathon was full of non welsh best not to have marbles if you live in a country where there are 8 days in a week and there are funny words on the road signs Half and half is a good welsh thing though
You used to get hard blue/purple sweets the size of rhubarb and custards called army & navy. I've searched for them for years, then this summer I was visiting the in-laws in York and found them - yippee what a blast from the past!!!
My mam had to ban me from eating sherbet fountains as I would suck the sherbet up through the straw and immediatley choke on the dust - every time I just wouldn't learn! Also she told the man in the shop not to sell me bazooka joe's as i put loads in my mouth once then pulled it out in a really long string and wrapped it round my head. - one skin head later the gum was removed, and I've never touched it since!
Anyone else noticed that Cadbury's have taken the nasty slithery coffee creams and strawberry creams out of the Roses selection? Unfortunately, they've also removed my favourites, Bournville miniatures.
I think Golden Cup got rebranded. Did it become Galaxy Caramel or am I mixing my multinationals?
I think revels are still around - I keep thinking of the advert on TV of the china mand and english man naming the flavours at the table, like playing Russian roulette (or that's what I thought it was like)
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Texan bars were the mutts nuts, and how I miss then so,
I remember Blobs - strawberry and cream were my faves. I ate them for about a year and saved all my wrappers to get a frisbee called a Blob Disc.
Yorkshire mixture
Sigh
I remember black jacks and fruit salads for eight a penny.
I don't remember peanut cracknell, but I used to love mint cracknell, which was chocolate with this crisp green strandy stuff in the middle.
Anyone remember prawns - pink things shaped (unsurprisingly!) like prawns, that tasted of nothing in particular but were a bit like chewy marshmallow in texture.
And then there were picnic bars - waifer, toffee, and raisins, all covered in chocolate.
And then there was that red and black licorice stuff, which round my way was known as "shoe laces".
pear drops?
Was there something called a star bar, or did I just imagine that?!
Iain
You can still get pear drops
As well as prawns there were those banana flavoured ones
You could get a mixed bag in my day for 5p(at least 15 sweets)
When I were young......
When crisps were tuppence a bag (feed the birds, should be on song thread)
Actually, not really. Geordie living in wales. Identity crisis.
Losing marbles
Send help.
Hope its not near me, you sound a bit odd
Im from Yorkshire originally
im new to this e mail game, and its hard to get the tone right
From the abuse i get when i go running, i didnt think that many ran in Wales.
The marathon was full of non welsh
best not to have marbles if you live in a country where there are 8 days in a week and there are funny words on the road signs
Half and half is a good welsh thing though
how do you know Im blonde
Do you know me?
York is a great place for sweeties, its where i grew up
How about cough candy twist
Boom boom !!!
I'll be OK later..
Paynes Poppets!!!
what about Golden Cup and Fry's cream ( I have a feeling you still get them though)
Also she told the man in the shop not to sell me bazooka joe's as i put loads in my mouth once then pulled it out in a really long string and wrapped it round my head.
- one skin head later the gum was removed, and I've never touched it since!
Loved Golden Cup!!!
I think you can still get Fry's but not by Fry's any more...
I think Golden Cup got rebranded. Did it become Galaxy Caramel or am I mixing my multinationals?
Whizzy
Like Wagon wheels, tastes devne but makes me chuck.