Taste nostalgia. Good or bad thing?

Memories are coming back now.Does anyone else remember the Horlicks and Ovaltine tablets which came in tins during the war? We used them as a poor substitute for sweets. The Horlicks were awful but the Ovaltine quite nice.

Fry's chocolate cream bars were what we used to take to Yorkshire for our Granny. She loved them and to her it was a treat. I saw them yesterday in Sainsbury's. Do you remember 5 boys chocolate?

I used to love those plain chocolate bars with pink coconut filling - I can't remember what they were called though.

You can still get batter scrapings [scraps as they call them] at our local chip shop !

What about a sherbet dip with a liquorice stick, or in the car on long journeys, Murraymints?

You lucky thing! We don't get any. They just chuck 'em away.

Wartime fried bread - just dipped in fat (preferably bacon fat) on ONE side, and that side just grilled brown....I still make it sometimes and it's delicious.

My daughter had Murraymints recently, must ask her where she got them.

Murray Mints are still widely available - most supermarkets sell them.

Pan Yan pickle? Mmm! Where's it gone?

I wish you could still buy potlucks tablets. Pretty sure grandson would like them. He is partial to a teaspoon or two of dry potlucks powder.

HORLICKS!!! Not potlucks! #soddingfire

Where did it get 'potlucks' from? And why?!

Potlucks? I thought for a moment I'd missed a sensory secret!

We used to buy 2oz of butterscotch tablets and 2 oz of poor bens, which were - like a mix of aniseed and liquorice, and pop one of each in the mouth to chew together. They were a firm gum and tasted really nice together! Anyone else remember them?

I also vaguely remember a chocolate bar called "Tiffin" which was a bit like KitKat but I think had raisins in as well.

I used to love fry,s chocolate cream too and my dad used to buy me five boys chocolate on a Friday as a treat when I was a child. Mishap the coconut chocolate you are talking about is a raspberry ruffle bar you could buy them by the quarter as individual sweets too. I loved those as well.

My daughter says there's a shop in Oxford High Street that sells all kinds of retro sweets. I can't identify it online but we're going to go there sometime!

AlieOxon don't know about the shop in Oxford but there is one in Abingdon and one in Bourton-on-the Water.
What memories the names of these choc bars bring back, the Fry's choc cream bars were my Mother's favourites. I think they were white inside, but I do remember a pale green marzipan choc bar.Tiffin was one of my faves as a child, with raisins and bits of biscuit in it.There were wonderful toffee bars called McCowans [rectangular bars] either plain toffee or best of all covered in chocolate. YUM.Also toffe, there were penny arrows, anyone remember them?I find that age brings a reduction in the sweetness of tooth, and nowadays I prefer good Belgian or swiss chocolate only, and not very often, but still remember the happiness and anticipation [ a bit like the 5 boys!] of waiting to be served in the local sweet shop.

I remember penny arrow bars, I loved them as a child but my teeth wouldn't be able to cope now!

Same with fruit salads.

Rockgran, thank you for that list. I'd forgotten what the five words were, but I do remember my father announcing 'annihilation' when they had all een eaten.

I remember dandelion and burdock 'pop' too and gob stoppers which (and I think I've mentioned this before) Sister Mary Fidelis said were vulgar and we must call them 'Big Balls' instead.

I've seen a retro sweet shop in Reading too, though I can't remember exactly where it is.

Penny arrows, bazooka joe.bubble gum, aniseed balls ,pineapple chunks, flying saucers, fizz bombs, candy shrimps. My local sweet shop used to sell 10pence mixed bags which consisted of 10 penny sweets - a little bag of heaven!

Something I bought in one of our retro sweetie shops was Creamola Foam, I loved the raspberry flavour one

I wonder if these "Retro" sweet shops are the same as I was talking of earlier ?
Which seems to be , they are franchised !
Who knows ?