Ok it’s ttqt and today question come from a chat I had last night reminising about childhood sweets no longer around with @gavinsblog so my question is what sweet brings back fond memories that ain’t around no more!!!
stretchneil Those sour apple drop things that used to make me salivate for hours and scrunch my face up!
karenquinn A fun one it seems! All the sweets I liked are still around I’m not that old, unlike grandad mcawillliams! ok I’ve thought about it and there’s a few. Clove rock which my great aunt used to give me. Silvermints from my granny, rhubarb and custards. Strawberry Toffee bonbons. Huge lumps of fudge. 10p mix ups. Refresher bars, kola kubes, White mice, fish n chip sweets, giant chewy strawberries, sour key shaped chews, golfballs, highland toffee bars. Bubblys.
prendio2 I was chatting about refresher bars just last night.. mmm filled with delicious sherbet… don’t think they’re around any more. That conversation lead naturally to stinger bars but I was never really into them.
emilytully Fizzlesticks. Daffy Ducks - they were liqorice and you just can’t get that anywhere anymore. YUM!!! Space dust, y’know the stuff that crackled in your mouth….I was a fat kid, obviously 
Refreshers the chewey ones. Would you believe I’m the biggest heath food freak now! I wasn’t actually allowed sweets as a kid, at all!! This is fantasy!!
darraghdoyle The real black jack penny sweets, the ones with the gollywogs on wrapper that made your tongue black. The sweet made your tongue black, obviously… I know a girl (who shall remain anoymous) who was convinced flying saucers (sweets with sherbet) was actually the host in Mass they used them in school to practise for first holy communion and she assumed the sherbet was jesus dissolving on her tongue, absolutely disgusted to find out that it wasn’t so. I thought it was brilliant. You’d have had record numbers for communion!
grannymar Flash bar cost 2d…very expensive twice as much as a sailors chew.
joescanlon Hmm.. Are the golf balls still around? That’s one that always brings me back to primary school, great question - I’ll be talking about it all night with family… Wham bars, edible paper etc.
Araldia Sherbet Fountains. But I had to share the licorice as its yucky!! Thank goodness for online confectionary stores!
cloudsteph Black jacks, their cousins the apple jacks n pear drops
irishstu Starbars and Doubledips
threnn Dip Dabs, kola kubes and those 5p fizzy cola lollipops.
sophierobbins Long thin strip of hard candy in green sour apple flavor, forgot what it was called…ref sweets talk LOL
icedcoffee Hmm many that are barely available today, the animal bar (nestlé). most sweets from quality st remind me of christmas, I enjoy the bourneville choc in quality st (I think) though had never bought a full bar until today, it was yummy
celineon Oooh a childhood sweets qs, love it @mcawilliams. Sherbet Dip and those cola sweets with sherbet in the middle.
Distantrambler As for sweets cola bottles, ordinary and not the large ones
bigstevie1275 Sweet called chelsea whoppers they where like a liquorce flat brown chew thing always had them at break time can’t get em now.
goodonskis Spangles I’d pay £5 for just one packet now!
IreneFisher Fizzy chewits, especially the blue ones. They would make my face spasm they were so fizzy. Mouth watering just thinking of them.
Great selection of all things sugar for us all to ponder over, of course the sweet my self and Gavin ended up on last night was the Wham bar which was a mental pink chewy yolk with hard fizzy bits in it! I am telling you the amount of toothaches from it!!! others that no one seemed interested in were texan chocolate bar, macaroon, cadburys fuse(the bar made out of left overs) I know there are loads of other ones just aint coming to me now!
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Brilliant TTQT - loved seeing some of the replies coming in!
Just to prove I was first in line!
I remember spangles and also when you only got Mars Bars from England!
I think Spangles became a health hazard!
Cheers guys and gals, have to say the answers were brill, lots of great memories brought back, Grannymar quite a few of those treats had very bad E numbers in them the fizzy kola lollys had E123 Amaranth which is derived from the small herbaceous plant of the same name. A purplish-red (blackcurrant) synthetic coal tar or azo dye found in ice creams, gravy granules, jams, jelly, tinned fruit pie fillings and prawns and packeted cake mixes, soups and trifles.
It appears to cause allergic and/or intolerance reactions, similar to nettle rash, particularly amongst those with an aspirin intolerance or asthmatics. can provoke asthma, eczema and hyperactivity; it caused birth defects and foetal deaths in some animal tests, possibly also cancer.
Not recommended for consumption by children, yet was found in nearly all those fizzy cola sweets!!!
loved spangles but what i liked most was original tayto crisps which were plain and in a wax type bag with a little pouch of salt oh my god shows how old i am.
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