Off Topic Retro Sweets

I’d completely missed this thread it was so far back !

Never ate a Caramac. Curly Wurlys were ok but not me favourite.

I used to love the ‘Amazing’ chocolate bars (loads of raisins and chocolate).

And slightly off-topic but I was gutted about a year ago when I went in search of some Branagans crisps only to find that they stopped making them a few years back .

 

Mcewan's Highland Toffee-mmmmmmmmmmm. Mind you, you could get an NHS dentist in those days.

 

Elf’s still chucks a curly wurly out on a Sunday morning after a heavy night !

 

Do you remember or ever had Merrymaid toffees- think they were covered in chocolate mmmmmmm !

 

Same as Highland Toffee then, except Highland Toffee had a picture of a highland cow on the wrapper!

 

Cola cubes
Aniseed Twist
Black Jacks
Coffee ice cream

 

Bazooka Joes

And those chocolate cigarettes in (kind of) realistic looking paper *** packets

 

Sherbet dips with the liquorice stick

 

should really post this into fesshole or something, but when we were kids (30+ years ago), we used to go up the newsagents and scoff the half penny sweets while filling the paper bag for the ones we were going to pay for.

felt bad ever since.

 

TRy a Rennies.

 

All confessions are treated in the strictest confidence

 

Use to do the same strawberry picking in Swanley - 2 for me and 1 in the pot , use to feel sick after a couple of hours and rarely eat them now

 

That's why you have an arched back,

 

At least you got your vitamin C.

 

Your backs not long enough to obtain an arch

 

I was partial to smarties when they came in a proper tube.
And those fizzy sweets like Pez, Love Hearts and Refreshers were nice too.

Haven't they had to re-name Love Hearts? Some politically correct nonsense...

My biggest confectionary sin (if you can call it that) was pinching the citric acid from my parents' wine making kits. It came in a granular form, looked a bit like white sugar.
Tasted like supercharged sherbet Lovely

 

I’d recommend these as a citric acid substitute…

https://www.giantbradleyssweetshop....gs5EAQYBSABEgLG-PD_BwE&variant=42751086428390

 

I've seen that for sale but never tried it...

 

You need to be sitting down before you try it