Wagon wheels, still going strong but simply because, they rock!!!

do you remember the lollies that were whistles ?
edinburgh rock do you still get that /

do you remember the lollies that were whistles ?
edinburgh rock do you still get that /

Yes, you can still get them. And yes, surely not far from where you live Al…

Unless you’re the wrong Big Al 🙂

Pacers OMG!!

Damn they were amazin’

coconut boost bars.

+1 on the proper double deckers with the solid base.

Also jelly tots are no longer jelly. They are made from modified starch and no longer have gelatine in them.

‘Modified starch tots’ – do not sound as nice 😯

A change of letter and we have Jordan and the hoards of faked boobed bimbo’s.

Discounting the ones that have had it done for medical reasons.

do you remember the lollies that were
whistles ?
They were whistle pops or Toot sweets.
How about Ice Breaker chocolate bars ?

Toot sweets?
From chitty chitty bang bang i do recall.

SWMBO reckons, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, not Chitty Chitty Bang Bang .I will pass on this one, Anybody else help out with this one .?

Deffo Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. there was a song.

Don’t waste your pucker on some all day sucker
And don’t try a toffee or cream
If you seek perfection in sugar confection
Well there’s something new on the scene
A mouth full of cheer
A sweet without peer
A musical morsel supreme!
Toot Sweets!
Toot Sweets!
The candies you whistle, the whistles you eat.
Toot Sweets!
Toot Sweets!
The eatable, tweetable treats!

Ha, thanks very much for that. Job done end of discussion ( SWMBO now pouring more wine, and now knows better . ) Cheers Sharki !

You tell her!

My wine is ever lasting tonight.

Try Toot Sweets Emporium, Fish Street, Shrewsbury .

Jamboree bags
Fruit salads
black jacks (4 for a penny, pre decimal)
Sherbet fountain

Nerds
Ring-pops

And Um-Bongo to drink

” Would you risk it for a SWISSKIT ?”

NUTTY Bars…..like a peanut covered finger of fudge.

🙂

Sweet Tobacco, used to love that! Also candy cigarettes.

Irn Bru bars…my teeth are hurting just thinking about them

The ‘candy’ necklaces with sweets on a bit of elastic were great too, although not so much for eating but for classroom warfare…i could ping them with deadly accuracy

Splicers?

No one I know seems to remember these.

Maybe just in the north east. Blimin lovely they were

(basically it was a giant opal fruit bar. Mucho wrongness )

Bar Six anybody? Alternative Kit Kats in reality
Also those dark choc bars with green crystally stringy mint stuff inside – cant remember the name tho’ – possibly made by Frys.

And an interesting story for you –
My Dad worked for Trebors when they invented Cool mints. We always had a garage full of sweets and the local kids used to pop in regularly to load up. The Cool Mints went down a storm one weekend with them. On Monday at school half the class were missing. Cool Mints now have a warning about the laxative effect if you eat too many.

rhubarb and custards

sherbert fountain

fizzlers

Texan Bar…….My Granny worked at the nestle factory in castleford – every Xmas we got a shoe box filled with the ‘misshapes’. I remember one year i got a texan bar that was actually 8 or 10 all stuck together with the chocolate on the outside only – must have kept me going until easter.

The bar has taken on legendary satus in the family, growing bigger and tastier with each telling! Also got a pontefract cake the size of a plate once too.

happy days.

+ 1 for nutty bar yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm