Treats that are no longer available

Oh Grannygangan I loved Spanish Gold too. Also the little cloth bags with little yellow nuggets of chewing gum in them, it was like little bags of gold. Rancheros crisps and Whoppers. Pocket money lasted for ever in those days lol

Thanks Moggycuddler and LinAnn52, glad to know I wasn’t imagining it. My early childhood years were spent in Liverpool so I was wondering if it was something particular to that area.

Does anyone have childhood memories of curly wurly bars ? My next door neighbour showed me some she had bought online for her little nephew and we were both shocked at how small they were. Were we just small children or am I right in thinking these used to be huge !!!

widgeon3 the only Lion bars I know are still sold, but they’re a chocolate coated bar rather than a loose sweet sold by weight.

There's an online store called aquarterof.co.uk that sells loads of retro sweets.

Well thank you so much notspaggetti I am going to order some and see if they still taste the same ?

Mojos, blackjacks, fruit salad, penny arrow bars. Does anyone remember the jubbly drinks you used to get in a triangular shaped carton ? We used to put them in the freezer in the summer to make a whopping lolly ice - the cherry flavour was my favourite.

Potato puffs, they used to sell them at school break time 3d. They also sold wagon wheels which you can still get.

Cadbury bar six was my favorite chocolate bar but I also loved the 1d golden cups. I really really miss greasy potato puffs too. Anyone remember toasty toppers? The chicken and mushroom can was my favorite supper on toast.

I love the occasional Caramac. Available in Farmfoods and usually Co-Op’s.
I wish Aztec bars were still available, they were my favourite.
Making me fancy chocolate now and I’m dieting so must be strong.

I used to love Butter Brazils but haven't seen them for years. It's probably just as well as I am diabetic!

Coffee walnut whips, haven’t seen them in ages but I REALLY desire one now

Does anyone remember Little Imps? Tiny squares of liquorice in a minuscule box. They were bitter and I didn’t really like them but if my brother had them, I wanted them too! I do remember the wagon wheels that were sold at school were the size of tea plates and like curly wirly bars they have either shrunk dramatically or I have grown!

I would sell my Husband for a Cabana bar

M&S used to do coffee walnut whips, or their own version. I bought them 2 or 3 years ago. Not good though. The cream inside was awful.

grandmajet

Can you still get Caramac anywhere? I used to love it. I want some now please!

Caramac - something very strange about that chocolate bar!

I haven't had one since childhood but do remember being faintly repulsed at the taste compared to say Cadbury's Dairy Milk, but couldn't resist buying one with pocket money every now and then, to torment myself

Fast forward many decades - a few months ago in M&S I bought a small tub of Marmite cream cheese(!). I'm not a particular fan of Marmite so don't know why I bought it.

Anyway, the stuff tasted and looked like Caramac - and again I was repulsed but couldn't resist it, and ate the whole tub in one sitting. Very odd behaviour on my part

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Yes, I remember Little Imps. I didn't really like them either.
I was given 1½d bus fare each day; I would walk so that I could spend it on sweets! I used to get a little finger of Cadbury's chocolate for 1d and a Fruit Salad and a Black Jack for ½d. You can still buy the latter two in packets.
Barmouth biscuits, jaylucy- I used to love them and now I really want some! Another favourite were Lemon Puffs- anyone know if they are still available anywhere?

Anyone remember when smarties came with a mixture of plain and milk chocolate centres? And the orange ones were orange flavoured? My sister and I used to have a tube to share, and we counted them so we each had an exact share of the different colours!

I used to love a chocolate bar filled with very soft caramel and wrapped in shiny red foil, it was a strange shape. Any one remember what it was called, or more importantly, are they still made?

So many yummy things here that I'd forgotten about! I do remember Potato Puffs - we used to get them in the tuck shop at school, and every so often you would get one full of fat - yuk! Nux bars too - I loved those! My favourite though was Coffee Crisp, which weren't around for very long and presumably not very popular, but I loved them!

Lime barrel, nutty heart and exotic delight. ... Milk tray flavours I miss. In fact it doesn't really bear much resemblance to the Milk Tray I remember from the 1960s.

Does anyone remember Sharps Whisp bars? They were a pale, close-textured honeycomb topped with soft caramel, and all encased in milk chocolate. I loved them in the late sixties.

I used to love nestles fruit pastels. They would come in big jars and you would ask for four ounces. Also weekend chocolates and frys five fruit bars.

Hildegard, thank you for starting this lovely thread. I have just remembered we always had a tin of Lucky Numbers at Christmas, during the fifties. A real treat! I also remember buying some wonderful savoury crispy pancakes from the M&S chilled cabinets, in the late eighties/early nineties. Our favourite had a filling of cheese and ham.

Squiffy

Vienna biscuits - expensive, so a very rare treat! - which were triangles of dark chocolate covered wafers. Ooh, I can still taste them now!

My grandmother used to buy them as a treat ( for my Dad!) when we visited.