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General => The Shed => Topic started by: ACE on July 12, 2007, 22:38:35
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Spangles,
palm toffee,
tiger nuts, (What were they made from?)
sherbet dab.
anymore favorites out there.
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black jacks
tuity fruity
gob stoppers ;D
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Sweet Peanuts
coconut mushrooms
toasted teacakes
caramac
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Flying saucers & Liqerice dips. Yum yum.
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troach drops
aniseed balls (@ 10 for 1d)
8)
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Magic wands, red liquorice, pear drops, cola cubes, fruit salad chews.... ;D ;D ;D
Flying saucers always gave me mouth ulcers!
2d bars of Cadburys chocolate wrapped in purple foil....... :P
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curley wurleys :P
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Texan bars
sweet tobacco - made from coconut
mmmmmmmm :P
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I have two huge bags of tiger nuts they are actually rhizomes from an invasive palnt.
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Sugar mice and sweet cigarettes!
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I have two huge bags of tiger nuts they are actually rhizomes from an invasive palnt.
Can you grow them then? A few of them in your mouth and you were chewing all day.curley wurleys :P
Sweet shop, not sex shop ;)
Love hearts,
They still sell them but the messages are a lot different today, hand them around and you would get done for sexual harrassment.
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Winter mixture; big, (not wrapped, of course) sherbet lemons and pear drops.
Best of all - penny (old penny, of course!) bags of 'dusties'. These were big paper bags of all the broken/sticky bits of sweets scraped and scooped out from the bottoms of all the jars! Bliss!
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I think I was about 8 when we could get sweets, as mother used to trade her sugar coupons for something more useful. But the memory of a parcel from my father who was still fighting in Malaya came one xmas is still there. There was a tin of toffees, and some tins of pears in syrup, when I smell tinned pears I am always reminded of xmas, so we still only eat them over the festive season.
Back to sweeties
Black jacks, licorish bootlaces, pineapple cubes (lost a few teeth to those)
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Sherbet dib dab, rhubarb and custards, cola mojos, Opal Fruits (now, sadly Starburst) pineapple & cola cubes, pear drops, strawberry laces. ;D ;D ;D
Bags of imperfect chocs from the cadbury factory. ;D
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sticky lice? spelling..spearmint chews, remember, honeycombed, cinder toffee, ;D
just remembered, cherry lips and those horrible smelling chewy sweets different colours and can't think of the nams, sweet ciggies, licquorice pipes, god, no wonder our teeth weren't very good, chocolate ciggies ;D ;D
loose sherbet, we used to make into drinks :o ??? ;D
and, don't start on savoury, picallilli butties !! ;D
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Hello
I have just done a order of some sweets i remember as a child
I use these 3 sites
http://www.retrosweets.co.uk/
http://www.britishcandy.com/nostalgic_sweets_retro_candy1990.htm
http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/
Or for bulk sweets
http://www.sweetsncandy.co.uk/index.asp
Cheers
Brogusblue
ps
my favorite was chocolate tools & the white chocolate fish & chips
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Pink puffy candy "prawns"
Chocolate covered Bananas
Flourey Chewey Milk bottles
Icing Covered individually wrapped square caramels.............Pink and white!
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ooo you can still get milk bottles, we loves them and buy them in Morrisons. mmmmmm.
We have brought sweets from www.aquarterof.co.uk before, but it is just awful for me as I start scoffing and can't stop! No good for my curvaceous waistline!
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picallilli butties !! ;D
I made some for my son's lunchbox at school, he would not eat them as he thought the cauliflower bits were brains, but then I don't blame him, horrible stuff, only beaten by green tomato chutney.
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Hello
I know the feeling once you start theres not stopping that's my weakness, I have been trying to find some sweets i used to buy them in a chemist they where called devon florals and i have just found a site that sell's them and purchased 10 packets ??? ::)
http://www.multipharmacy.com/shop/customer/product.php?productid=8973&cat=0&page=1
i love scented sweets like parma voilets and cherry lips and floral gums.
Cheers
Brogusblue
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Ohhhh Brogus, I have been looking for Devon Florals/Cashous for years.
My Nan used to keep a tin of them in her handbag, and she used to give them to us calling them dolly sweets!
Remind me of me lovely Nan they do.
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that's it, floral gums ;D
individual ice cream blocks in a cornet
this is NOT ME, ray remembers when ice cream used to come around on a bike with a bell :o :o :o ;D
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Ohhhh Brogus, I have been looking for Devon Florals/Cashous for years.
My Nan used to keep a tin of them in her handbag, and she used to give them to us calling them dolly sweets!
Remind me of me lovely Nan they do.
Hello
Doris Pinks When they arrive would you like me to send you a packet??
Cheers
Brogusblue
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was also going to say have a look at http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/ someone from that company was talking on my local radio station the other afternoon - made your mouth water :P
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pacers (I think?!?) squidgy square minty things that had liquid in the middle
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Hello
Norfolklass yes they where called pacers i have just found this site about sweets
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A546040
Cheers
Brogusblue
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Brogus, thank You for the offer :-* :-*! You enjoy em all to yourself , and I am sure you will;D ;D
Might buy some myself to give to my Mum and sisters to remind them! ;D
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Hello
No problem doris pinks, This is a great subject i am a bit of a sweet person they don't seem to do sweets now like they used to. They are saying sweets are bad for you and they are so expensive i am only a youngster of 34 and i remember a £1 note of sweets would last me a while especailly the 1/2p chews and sweets.
I am glad that we can get our fix of old fashion sweets on the net.
Cheers
Brogusblue
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.... pineapple cubes (lost a few teeth to those)
Pineapple cubes! That brought back memories.
Penny Arrow Bars (toffee strips that actually cost 1d)
Dolly mixtures
Horlicks tablets (does anyone remember these? They were like Refreshers but malted milk flavoured)
Sharps Kreemie Toffees
Toffee Rex
Butterscotch in a block
And there were posh sweeties at Christmas ...
Orange and Lemon Slices
Meltis Newberry Fruits (Grown ups thought these were a great treat. Most children thought they were disgusting.)
Buttered brazils
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I love sweet me
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r111/stumpinsci/Picture067.jpg)
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Whoo Hoo, I will have to order some nice old fashioned ones from those sites.
For the grandchildren, naturally.
Oops me nose has started to grow.
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you reminded me, davy1, liquorice comfits, love 'em..licquorice whirls, with the nasty thing in the middle ;D
sugared almonds at christmas ;D
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Lots of memories flooding back now.
I always buy my OH a packet of lovehearts on valentine's day - a few years back though I discovered this site:
https://www.lovehearts.com/searchresults.asp?search_type=prod_cat&prod_cat_id=13
They also do custom packet of love hearts - I wonder if they'll do "Congratulations on your MBE"!!!!
Kathi
Oooh - anyone remember Lord Snooty Ice Lollies - my Fave! ;D
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You just reminded me that i have two pkts of love hearts in the fridge
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Davy - Shall I PM you my Address? ;D
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OH three pkts of toffee pop corn and two Brazil nut toffee in the cabinet, hidden of course
WHO started this thread
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Hello
Just walked the dogs and on the way i nipped in a purchased a curly whirly i haven't have one for years but reading this post i had to have one :P :P :P
I noticed they where selling jawbreakers & fireballs is it me or they a lot smaller than they where.
Cheers
Brogusblue
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wow
heres my list
serbet pips
metal micky balls
any black liquorice
rice paper
chocolate bananas
fizzy cola bottles
pineapple and cola cubes
penny leg - ( stick of rock with toffee tasting coating )
spearmint chews
sherbet dips
anything chocolate
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wow
heres my list
serbet pips
metal micky balls
any black liquorice
rice paper
chocolate bananas
fizzy cola bottles
pineapple and cola cubes
penny leg - ( stick of rock with toffee tasting coating )
spearmint chews
sherbet dips
anything chocolate
Cambourne7 was the metal micky balls silver in colour and was like a small gobsucker and cola flavour.
Cheers
Brogusblue
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Cambourne7 was the metal micky balls silver in colour and was like a small gobsucker and cola flavour.
Cheers
Brogusblue
and when you eventually got to the middle you were left with a tiny brown seed (an aniseed???)?
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Ace, yes you can grow Tiger Nuts, there are instructions if you Google,would you like some to grow,I have loadsXX
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I remember spanish wood (liquorice flavoured). Satin cushions. Kp nuts 2d a packet. milk tray bar of chocolate. Imps were little black sweets that you could suck in class and no one would know. Throaties were my favourite. I'm gettin all nostalgic now. Remember going down Walthamstow high street on a Saturday when I was in the convent and buying a glass of sarsparella wine for 3d. With the 6d left over we could go into the Bell Corner picture house for 6d if we told them we were from the convent, They could see where we were from cos we all had the same clothes on. Those were the b***y days eh!
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i am only 21 plus vat, and i still have my ration card and remember using it to get sweets...................Stop laughing
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cop cops & sweet tobaco. All my other favourites have covered.
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Does anyone remember 5 Boys Chocolate with the facial expressions, and the Cadburys chocolate from the penny tray that was about 5 inches long and about an inch wide, very thin.It came unwrapped!! I think I was weaned on that.
My favourite was the 4 inch long hard black liquorice that was thinner than a pencil. It came loose in a purple box at 1/2d each, there were even leaves in the box with it, we would dip it into lemonade crystals , you got 1/2 ounce weighed out into a pointed paper bag. It was a bitter as the devil and you sucked it to a sharp point. I have tried for years to find it but no use.
In fact, how many of us remember the penny tray.
My Mum used to give me sugared almonds, but I didn't like the nut,I would suck all the sugar off and my friend Conniethe middle!!!
Oh Memories,I think I will start a thread about the games we played.
XX Jeannine
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Melbourne! Horlicks tablets - soooo good, all malty and crunchy and got stuck in your teeth. :P :P
They used to sell them in the chemists but I haven't seen them for years. Do they still make them?
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like the sound of horlicks tablets as I do like to eat horlicks with a spoon! :P
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When I was little I used to love everlasting toffee, penny chews, those flying saucers with the sherbet in them. I can still remember the taste of bubble gum as well. Old people used to eat a lot of victory v's. This makes me sound really old but you could get a lb of sweets for 2 shillings thats ten pence in new money. :P busy_lizzie
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When I was litle nipper I love real liquorice root, sour apples, shertbut lemons, devon cream toffee and rileys chocolate covered toffee rolls. Sweets where ration in those days and I had to be patient as everything was on coupons, I think I was 5yrs old before I first tasted icecream which was given to kids in our town via the back window of the pit office (black market outlet)and I was 7yrs old before I tasted a banana
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I tell you something we did not have, werthers! What a load of bull that advert is.
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double agents
aztec bars.......tv advert terrified me :o
mint cracknell
lord toffington / fab ice lollies
mb bars
fondant teddybears......very expensive :(
chelsea whoppers
........just for starters ;)
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Pippa Greenwood on GQT today mentioned another one................
BON-BONS !! Remember icing sugar covered French Bonbons?
Loved them 8)
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yes Brogusblue & norfolklass your right
i always though bon-bons were a little over rated
oh and there was army and navy drops? anyone rememeber them?
I had a job in a corner shop, one of my jobs was to pre-weigh qtr bags of sweets. It was great weight 2 bags and eat one sweet. :-)
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Toffos, all different flavours!
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Toffos, all different flavours!
Yes! Forgot those EJ - brill.
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Acid drops - always on journeys to stop you feeling sick. And barley sugar Spangles. At Christmas sort of boiled sweets in the shape of little oranges, I choked badly on one when I was about 3 & alone in my room - my little life was flashing before me when I suddenly vomitted & out it shot. :) Never, ever gave my kids boiled sweets. :)
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Oh Marymary - that bit about choking on boiled sweets rings a big bell. Was visiting a sister once and her three year old was sucking on a lolly on a stick, you know the ones that are like a ball on the end of a little white stick? He went running, tripped and it went down. The wrong way. We realised something was wrong when he didn't cry after being picked up. It wouldn't come out, couldn't even see it, but he wasn't breathing. Fortunately, didn't really think much, just plunged my (thankfully then slim) hand down his throat and just about felt the stick and yanked it out. I cannot see a child with one of those lollies even now, 18 years later, without going and warning the mother about what happened to us.
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i remember horlicks tablets, pacers, sweet tobacco but two i remember and i have never found anyone else who remembered them are
counters they were chocolate round on both sides but flat if that makes sense the same as the all chocolate ones in a revels packet
then there was some kind of long round roll like a log that had been rolled in peanuts, i cannot remember at all what it was called though
did anyone else ever make the mistake of inhaling whilst eating a flying saucer? not a pleasant experience :o
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;D ;D ;D@ Deb. Done that and also coughing whilst eating sherbert fountain. ;D
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parma violets ;D
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parma violets ;D
Yummy, i love parma voilets i find that they are getting hard to find
Cheers
Brogusblue
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Oh Marymary - that bit about choking on boiled sweets rings a big bell. Was visiting a sister once and her three year old was sucking on a lolly on a stick, you know the ones that are like a ball on the end of a little white stick? He went running, tripped and it went down. The wrong way. We realised something was wrong when he didn't cry after being picked up. It wouldn't come out, couldn't even see it, but he wasn't breathing. Fortunately, didn't really think much, just plunged my (thankfully then slim) hand down his throat and just about felt the stick and yanked it out. I cannot see a child with one of those lollies even now, 18 years later, without going and warning the mother about what happened to us.
Jenny, what a terrible thing to happen - thank goodness you acted as you did. dangerous things sweets. :)
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I'm sure I've seen parma violets somewhere like Woolies pick n mix. They are about. I'll ask OH because he loves them.
Toffos ...original flavour
Highland Toffee
and I was absolutely gutted when hoping to get my teeth stuck together by fruit gums to find that they are much softer now.
Refreshers.
Midget gems
What was the sweet that you unwrapped and there was a mini cartoon strip in the wrapper. Was it a bubble gum? Yes! I've remembered- it was Bazooka Joe
There is a sweet shop in a suburb of Newcastle. It is painted that blue that shops to be painted in..especially fish n chip shops. It's all old and flaky. The windows are lined with jars and jars of sweets. When you go in, it has brittle dirty old lino on the floor and a lone wooden chair with more flaky paint ! The sweets are measured out into an old weighing machine. Remember the sound of the sweets getting poured into the metal dish? It is a real time capsule and I hope it never changes. Doesn't sell anything else other than some milk,pop and packet bread. Wish it was mine ;D
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You still get parma violet (gross) in selection packs. My kids hate them so save them up to give to nanna. ;D
Used to love going into the sweet shop on the way home from school, sounds a lot like yours Heldi. Mine was called The Candy Shop, and behind the counter were jars and jars, all filled with multicoloured, multiflavoured delights. Sweet peanuts were always my fave, followed by a hard butterscotch that was cut on an angle so were like twisted cubes, very tricky to suck. Mum loved cough candy and anniseed balls (gross) and my sister loved strawberries and cream. ;D Happy days.
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Got to join in, mouth watering ;D
Palm Tree toffee, wrapped in blue waxed paper. Marshmallows, but they don't seem to taste the same now. Mars bars were a rare treat, one would be cut into little slices and shared between us sisters. Did Rolos have gold paper wrapped round the last one in the roll, or was that just something my dad did? Also, did walnut whips have a walnut inside as well as on top? The sweets I hated most were wintergreen I think they were called, my grandma used to have them, just the smell made me feel sick.
Shirlton's memories of the High street ring a few bells, sometimes we went to Rossis ice-cream parlour. Mostly we used to go to a tiny sweet shop in Wood Street, Walthamstow - the chap there sold all sorts of tobacco as well as sweets, the shop smelled glorious. It stayed open long enough for me to take my eldest boy there when he was small, but closed shortly after. He still remembers it.
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Agree with you Jennym!
Recalling after school visits to Mrs Abel's shop and the delicious process of choosing.....fruit salads, blackjacks, those long curly red things, gob stoppers, sherbet dabs, 'cigarette' packets, red and black berries, STRAWBERRY SHERBETS - BLISS.... so many...
I still love Parma Violets (easy to get round here) and with all this talk.....off to get a pear drop......yummy! (Our farm shop sells fab pear drops in jars). Now if they stocked strawberry sherbets.....
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What was the sweet that you unwrapped and there was a mini cartoon strip in the wrapper. Was it a bubble gum? Yes! I've remembered- it was Bazooka Joe
oooh, I remember bubble gum that came with a tattoo that you licked and stuck on your arm as well!!! can't remember what it was called though...
did anyone else ever make the mistake of inhaling whilst eating a flying saucer? not a pleasant experience :o
I once swallowed a refresher whole and it got stuck halfway down, and I had to wait for it to fizz itself smaller – that was quite painful!
ahh, those were the days ;D
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nobody remember my peanut covered log thingy then perhaps i was dreaming it?
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Read this again and again. I have always liked my sweeties, still do. I am haaving trouble buying Fruit Polos. I buy them in bulk when I can spot them. I liked Spangles, fruit, old fashioned, acid. Nice. I remember liking Skippys and had one every morning when i first started work. Also, Aztec bars, mint cracknell. Penny daintys, Lucky Tatties, rhubarb rock. :D :D :D :D :D
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Debster, I'm always asking people if they remember what you are describing! Can't think what it was called tho! Ialso remember counters...used to love them! :P
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Greenwizard - Lord Toffington, I remember them, I thought they were called Lord Snooty, but now you've said the proper name, it's all coming back to me, they were toffee flavoured, and had a slighlty toffee texture - Ahhhhh Bliss!!
I too choked on a boiled sweet when little, we were on holiday, and I had "breathed in" a boiled sweet, my Mum picked me up by my feet, and bashed me on the back until the sweet shot out, I guess I was about 4 or 5!
Great thread this, really enjoying it
(found an olde sewwt shop in Sherinham at the weekend, bought Kola Kubes, Rhubarb & Custard and Apple & Custard)
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i remember horlicks tablets, pacers, sweet tobacco but two i remember and i have never found anyone else who remembered them are
counters they were chocolate round on both sides but flat if that makes sense the same as the all chocolate ones in a revels packet
then there was some kind of long round roll like a log that had been rolled in peanuts, i cannot remember at all what it was called though
did anyone else ever make the mistake of inhaling whilst eating a flying saucer? not a pleasant experience :o
Hello Debster
Did it have a fudgey middle if it did i think it was called nutty bar as my postie she was telling me about the sweet she missed and it sounds very simular.
Cheers
Brogusblue
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i think it had a soft centre but cannot remember the name not sure if it was a nutty bar when i think back it looked a little gross