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Sweets when you were a kid.

helmccur — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:11:04 GMT

Hi, I am new to Club VAIO but it seems it's all technical stuff on forum. Can anyone remember their fave sweets as a bairn? Mine were splicers ... like a bundle of opal fruits mushed together and flattened into a bar. Also pacers which were like minty chewits.

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lyapple — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:32:02 GMT

Pineapple chunks; mojos; aniseed balls (Jumpy, behave ); and penny bars of Cadbury’s chocolate. My dad used to sometimes bring me a few penny bars on a Friday night when he came in from work and it was such a treat. Chocolate has never tasted so good since.

And welcome Nelly Doll. It's good to have someone posting fun stuff. Don't go. We need you!

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Gibbs- — Sat, 03 May 2008 19:33:21 GMT

Lol yeah i get what you mean! I almost feel like my questions are too dumb to post haha
Fave sweets were probably Fruit Pastells, but skittles, spogs, and chocolate was (and still is) always good lol

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Blencogo — Sat, 03 May 2008 19:53:19 GMT

Hi Nelly Doll and welcome.

Most sweets came from big glass jars when I was a kid - in fact you needed a Ration Book until I was about 5 years old.

It was the original 'pick-n-mix'. Most sweets like Blackjacks, Fruit Salads, Raspberry Drops, Gobstoppers, Sherbet Lemons, Shrimps or Toffees were ¼d (a farthing) each (four for an old penny) or things like Pontefract Cakes, Liquorice Allsorts, Hundreds-and-Thousands or Dolly Mixtures were sold in little white paper bags 'by the ounce' - I think 2oz. cost 1½d (a penny-halfpenny).

Wrigleys Chewing Gum came in little square packets of four lozenges and a new Wrigleys 'Juicy Fruity' Chewing Gum variety was popular for 1½d each.

Barratt’s Sherbet Fountain was a favorite for 2d, Fruit or Old English Spangles cost 3d as did the new Rowntrees Fruit Gums and Milky Ways and I remember when Mars Bars were 4d each - that's SIXTY bars for a pound!!!! How much are they now?

The expensive one was a tube of Smarties which cost 5d and that seemed quite a lot of money then (about 2p now).

Ice lollies were 1d and most shops made their own cylindrical lollies out of fruit squash - but they would go white when you sucked the flavour out. It was only a few years later that 'Orange Maid' lollies appeared made from real fruit juice.

Despite this, I still have all my own teeth!!

Re: Sweets when you were a kid.

lyapple — Sun, 04 May 2008 05:28:20 GMT

 I almost feel like my questions are too dumb to post haha

Don't worry, the questions don't come any more dumb than mine.

And Blencogo – you reminded me about spangles and about sherbet fountains. Weren’t they the ones with a liquorice stick? Used to love them. Sweets were off the ration by the time I was buying them, but it was still in the days when a 5 year old could safely walk to school without an adult. And, a little late being it’s now 4th May, I would just like to tell you all that I was the Queen of the May when I was 6 years old. :smileyblush: (It was downhill from there on. )

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Blencogo — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:54:15 GMT

Weren’t they the ones with a liquorice stick?

Yes Pandora and very popular.

Sherbert was a big favorite and could be bought loose in a paper bag with a boiled sweet lolly to dunk. It could also be bought in 'Flying Saucers' which were made of edible rice paper with sherbert enclosed.

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Thalamus. — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:58:34 GMT

Mojos, fruit salads and black jacks were my favourite..

I remember sherbet in white paper bags, didn't have a a lolly, instead I used my finger. Only problem was the sherbet used to dye my finger and tongue..

Blencogo you can still buy flying saucers and I think sherbet dips are still available as well..

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jumpsuit — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:04:43 GMT

I remember a bar called a 'delight.'
I was very undelighted when it seemed to disappear quite quickly after being released though.

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faithx — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:10:09 GMT

My favorite as a child and happens to still be is rhubarb and custard boiled sweets, and they used to come out of a glass jar too Blencogo Along with pear drops. I have a jar of rhubarb and custard that I got in Edinburgh last time I was up. And have the odd one now and again.

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angus1878 — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:20:07 GMT

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bethanie — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:08:25 GMT

hi nellydoll i remember peanut brittle bars they were gorg mmm

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tapjorsyl — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:38:38 GMT

Hey!Blencogo
there`s a little shop in Whitby north yorks still selling all those old favourites.last visit i was in their for a good hour picking a carrier bag full "happy days" tapjor.

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Bulbie — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:19:39 GMT

My favourite sweet was the flying saucers, but I liked the shrimps too. And sherbert always goes down a treat! And does anyone remember those toffee bullion bars? They came in a gold tray, and you often had to try and eat the toffee out of the tray because it wouldn't peel away, resulting in many a cut tongue and fingers! Those lollies as well, that come in a little round dish like that that a jam tart would come in, made of this red, clear stuff. Pan lollies they were called in my village. And there were other lollies too that I miss so very badly. I never knew what they were called, but they were good and big, almost the size of an a5 envelope, with a big dimple in the middle, and we're made from the stuff Edinburgh Rock is made of. Came in loads of different flavours, but our local shops only really got them in strawberry and mint, which was fine by me, those being my two favourites anyway!

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