Creamola Foam

I loved a sweet called, I think, a spicy potato. It was a soft type of White rock covered in Brown spice, shaped like a small potato and had a small plastic toy inside which created a collection and pinned to blazer lapels.

Thanks Rosiemus,
I'm off on a Caramac hunt this very minute!

Just remembered sweet tobacco!!! Brown coloured shredded coconut in paper packets. Can you imagine today's yummie mummies giving it to their children. Why is it that when we think of all the sweets we had as children-over 50yrs ago-we can still taste them?

I bought some Caramac Ice Cream Bars last week - but they didn't taste at all like Caramac !!!!

Oh sweet tobacco- I'd forgotten all about that! Just needed a liquorice pipe to go with it!

Magsie - what colour bobbles do you want on the end of your liquorice pipe?

Mmmmm Fullers walnut cake, a real luxury, and highland toffee and sherbert pips (you could eat them in class as they were so tiny)

A lot of these old sweets are on www.aquarterof.com...have used it for silly presents for husband who has very sweet tooth still....hes lucky to have teeth still!

Twizzle- red bobbles please!

As a small child in '46 the "gang" clubbed together and bought a gobstopper for a penny. We took it in turns. Nice! I loved liquorice wood and pear drops. The day sweets came off rationing was a big event. Queued along the street for shop to open and chance to "go mad"and went home with a bag of Sherbert Lemons, a Mars bar AND a tube of fruit pastilles...Mother had the black one!

supernana - you really were a lucky little girl having all those goodies.
I really liked Sherbert Lemons, did they used to cut your tongue?
I also loved pineapple chunks.
nanapippa - Sherbert pips, so yummy, and you got so many in the bag.

twizzle...we had to share with lots of people but I shall never forget having a whole Mars bar to myself...magic!

my daughter brought a tin of 'creamola foam' to our easter gathering it wasn't the real one but one someone was selling as close substitute.
verdict was that it wasn't nearly as good to me it tasted sweeter what a disappointment. I loved penny daintys, milk chews, frying pans and lucky tatties

At school (in the early 50s) we used to pass each other Horlicks tablets under the desk. Ovaltine tablets were yummy too. Not sure if you can still buy them? My husband had a friend who could make a Mars bar go round the whole class by shaving off thin slices with a razor blade.

Frozen Jubbly's - where did they go ?

Coming out of school and buying kali in different rainbow colours, poured into a paper cone-bag - dipping my finger in and watching it (my finger!) change colour! And I still can't resist flying saucers!

Flying saucers, gobstoppers, rainbow sherbert, Palm Toffee, Blackjacks, sherbert fountains, sherbert lemons and honeycomb, home made toffee (burnt!), Fiveboys, bananas, barley sugar twists... cremola foam was nectar on hot days; I must have some! Bubble gum always tasted vile but that sickly plastic flavour was worth it for the enormous, thin bubbles that burst and stuck all over your face. Why have I still got all my own teeth?

I too remember Cremola Foam in it's little yellow tin. What about Kalai? (spelling)? You tipped it out of a rapidly-growing-soggy paper bag onto your palm after, at first, being content to just dip in your finger. You then pretended you had been smoking because of your yellow fingers.
What about the little tins of Horlicks tablets?

Anyone remember Dairy Milk in a bar? The lime barrel was always squashed and sticky!

Mars Bars were bigger in 1950

So were wagon wheel!

I had completly forgot about old english spangles, they were lovely, yes ice breaker i remember that.

My mouth's watering. What a treat all those sweeties were. Chewy milk bottles - remember those? Walnut whip with a walnut on top and one inside when you got to the bottom. Licorice roots and fruit salad at four for a penny, chews at a halfpenny each or a refresher chew for a penny. If we met my nana in the street she'd give us money for a lucky bag. My favourite sweets in the winter were kop kops, delicious. Whenever we went on a coach trip (we called it a 'sharra' in Manchester, short for charabanc) my mum always gave me barley sugar sweets to stop me being travel sick - they never worked and I've always hated them. Yuck.

I remember spangles they were gorgeous

What about 'shrimps'? I can remember buying them after school - think they were 4 for a penny!!