Can I have a Quarter of?

Flibster · 14 Oct 2011 at 17:58

Fizzy cola bottles.

Got a great sweet shop locally that sells me them by the kilo.

Mark A · 14 Oct 2011 at 18:08

There used to be a toffee factory near me that did big 250g bags of boiled sweets for 50p. They also sold cinder toffee, think that was probably my favourite. Massive bags of it and it was usually made fresh that day.

Kosmiche · 14 Oct 2011 at 18:19

Pear Drops and Flying Saucers

Fuzz · 14 Oct 2011 at 18:21

White chocolate mice

OM bloody NOM

Lydzor · 14 Oct 2011 at 18:24

I can only remember having pineapple chunks and golf balls, but they were epic!

Hedge · 14 Oct 2011 at 18:32

Floral gums
Chocolate nibbles
Powdered chocolatey stuff
White chocolate skulls

All equally awesome

Substance · 14 Oct 2011 at 18:36

It's always been uncle joe's mintballs or choc lick for me, I still get mintballs sometimes, because they are produced locally the asda here has special offers on sometimes where they promote them

cosmos55 · 14 Oct 2011 at 19:32

Tom Thumb Drops and Sherbet pips.

pieplough · 14 Oct 2011 at 19:42

Pear drops and Kola Kubes were the best!

Reginald · 14 Oct 2011 at 19:47

Refreshers! Best. Thing. Evaar

Need a few flying saucers, white mice and those fizzy pink strips in there too.

I miss the tuck shop

malfunkshun · 14 Oct 2011 at 19:56

Aniseed balls and space dust (OK so space dust/pop rocks etc are packet items....but still)

Mark A · 14 Oct 2011 at 19:58

SuBsTaNcE said:
It's always been uncle joe's mintballs or choc lick for me, I still get mintballs sometimes, because they are produced locally the asda here has special offers on sometimes where they promote them

They import them to the US. I was watching a video logger who lives in California and saw a shelf with Uncle Joe's mint balls on

.

Paton · 15 Oct 2011 at 12:14

Lucky tatties anyday

Muban · 15 Oct 2011 at 12:35

Unfortunately not as lucky as they used to be !

vicisthebest · 15 Oct 2011 at 12:46

Toasted teacakes.

My OH runs a general store and they still do weigh-out sweets. REALLY popular as well.

rz30 · 15 Oct 2011 at 14:18

SAL said:
What where your favourite sweets back in the day?

You know the ones in the jar that the shopkeeper used to weigh and put in the little white paper bags.

Mine were: Bon Bons, Nutty Crunch and Tom Thumb Pips and Pearl Drops!

and aniseed balls, 1992 anyone ?

chameleon · 15 Oct 2011 at 15:56

I liked (or rather licked) Strawberry Bon Bons. At least until the nice powdery bit was gone. Was t as keen on the toffee bit in the middle.

Skull Crushers, but only the original ones where you could poke the eyes out n make the blood ooze out of the eyeholes. (can't possibly imagine why they were changed?

)

Oh n sherbet fountains. Ever sneezed when you have a mouthfull of this stuff? The resulting explosion and fallout cloud is most impressive.

Nowadays I like Jelly Belly beans. Expensive but bloody tasty.

GWillow · 15 Oct 2011 at 16:28

We have a sweet shop over the road from us that sells all these old sweets. As you walk in you're greeted with wall to wall shelves holding jars and jars of the all old style sweets.

It's a little bit like going back to my childhood whenever I walk in there.

I tend to come out with Strawberry BonBons and chocolate raisins. The waistline permits me from indulging too much.

Biohazard · 15 Oct 2011 at 16:29

red cola cubes and lemon bonbons.

plus pretty much everything else.

Deception · 15 Oct 2011 at 17:38

Craig1981 said:
I thought this thread was going to be about http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/ I've got stuff on them in the past. Good website for oldschool sweets.

I'm quite partial to sweet peanuts or peanut brittle.

Thanks for that, looking at the toffee crumble (nibbles) brought some nom nom memories!