Sweets I miss

I used to love Caramac, it is nothing like it used to be. Frys 5 centres was another favourite.

Funnily enough I've just bought a jigsaw of sweets and chocolates from the 1950s. Olde English Spangles are on it (my favourite too) and Caramac and Fry's 5 Centre chocolate. Other's are Cadbury's Coffee Dessert (don't remember that one?); Sky Bar; Frollies and Crackerchoc. The poshest looking are Rowntrees Milk Motoring (?), Bolero and Terry's Devon Milk. We were a very poor family so Spangles were a rare treat or the small size (4d) of Crunchie bar. When did they stop doing 2 sizes of Crunchie bar, anyone know?

Amazin Raisin Bars anyone?

There was a great bar of choc called Tiffin, anyone remember that?
Also a choc bar with a lemon filling, and a green pepermint filling choc bar, all by Fry?

Our treat when young was a caramac and I still buy them occasionally when I have forgotten what a huge disappointment they are now!

You can still get Fry's Peppermint Creme lemon. But not the lemon one!

And I do remember seeing Tiffin but I can't remember having it.
I can remember seeing Smarties in a little box, rather than a tube. And Jelly Babies too. Can you?

You can still get Caramac and at christmas our local supermarket had caramac buttons in a tube. I loved that too. Less keen on the Frys bars

I LOVED Tiffins!!

Cough drops and pear drops. Frys mint bar. I doubt I could eat one now but I used to love those and spangles. Sherberts drops in a little white bag from the sweet shop. Lovely ?

Walnut Whips when they had a walnut at the bottom, inside the mallow, and on the top. Such heaven!

Terry`s Neapolitans, not all that cheap, so only an occasional treat, wish I could still get them. Oh, and Nestles Triple Bar, 3 layers of milk, white and dark chocolate, lovely.

I remember buying Fry's 5 Boys chocolate bars. I used to visit a little shop run by an older lady called Mrs Thorpe. She sold bread, sweets and chocolate and cigarettes. She sold sweets in jars, sherbet dabs, and barley sugar sticks. There was also another stick, light brown in colour and tasting a bit like Werther's originals, and running down the centre there was chocolate. I don't remember the name, but I can almost taste it, just writing about it.

Nux

Nux! That's on my jigsaw too!

I adored the Nestles triple bar Callgirl And Cowans chocolate toffee bar. Fruit pastilles. I was just thinking today how I never chew toffee now as my teeth might not cope well. ?
We had whoppers in N Ireland. only one penny. chocolate coloured fudge type bar.

Fry’s 5 boys used to be sold in vending machines on station platforms. Next to the one where you could punch out your name on a thin strip of metal.

Trevor Chews, fruit salad flavour.
Holland's Penny Arrows, long thin bars of toffee in assorted flavours.
Ross's Puff Candy, similar to Crunchies but an irregular shape.
All real tooth-rotters...

A quarter of broken chocolate in a paper bag - 6d I think! A rare treat after swimming on a Saturday!

I remember all of the above, penny arrow bars bring back childhood memories.
Also Victory V gums and lozenges, aniseed balls, some coloured crystals which dissolved on the tongue - I can't remember what they were called.
Rhubarb and custard sweets, pear drops. Happy days.

You can still get walnut whips in M&S. And pear drops still around

I had forgotten about sherbet pips and Neopolitans.

Just remembered Poppets in little boxes. I liked the toffee ones and the mint ones

You can still buy Poppets in the little boxes. I remember Lucky Numbers chocolates, boxes of Weekend chocs, Tiffen bars and I seem to recall a delicious bar called Lush I think. Penny chews, milk chews, fruit salad, black jack's.. many more.

I miss all sweets!!!
Can't eat them as make me gain weight.
Can't eat them as worry bout my fillings and teeth.
Use to love toffees covered in chocolate, called Merry Maids I think.

I love those chocolate covered toffees as well travelasfar they sell them here with plain chocolate. Unfortunately I broke a tooth eating one so have had to give them up.

Penny Arrow bars, Black Jacks (4 for 1d), Fruit Salad (4 for 1d), Flying Saucers, Sherbet Dabs, Coltsfoot Rock (1/2d) Barley Sugar sticks (3d). Them were the days!