Creamola Foam

Buttered Brazils and sherbet fountains were my favourites. Both are still available now, and I still love them, but I've developed a more 'mature' taste for dark chocolate, and lots of it!!!

I think you're quite right Supernana. Wagon Wheels also seem much smaller to me.

Five Boys' chocolate, Caramac (incredibly sweet but you still ate the whole bar), multi-coloured sherbert for dipping in a wet finger - the big jars looked like those fascinating coloured sand mementoes you can buy, Then there were flying saucers filled with air-light sherbert which covered your lips, arrowroot (how come a twig was so tasty?!), shoelaces of licorice and some vivid red stuff, and penny chews that stained your teeth for hours. Glad the memories are so vivid because my teeth couldn't cope now and all that sugar would make a direct transfer to my hips within 3 minutes.

We had a school tuck shop selling sweets! Penny arrows, mojos, (3 for an old penny!), jammy dodger biscuits (singly), fruit salads, drumsticks (my tooth came out on one of those!), hard foamy bananas and prawns.
Also does anyone remember chocolate digestives completely covered in chocolate wrapped in foil? - you could buy those at the tuck shop too! Not a piece of fruit in sight!
He he! How things have changed.

any body remember the pink spearmint bars with squares pressed in them ?also lime and soda boiled sweets that used to make my mouth sore, probably cos I was greedy lol
My mum used to give us cocoa powder and sugar in an envelope corner when she had no money for sweets, we dipped our fingers in like sherbert.
also my mum used to make the yummyest treacle toffee.
we never worried about E numbers lol we just got worms

I remember running to the local shop after my first course. Mam would give me the previous day's newspaper to wrap a brick of Eldorado ice cream in. Quick dash back home to eat ice cream and tinned peaches before going back to school. No school lunches for us.

Did anyone else have Mars Bars in slices? We did when we were small and our ice cream block came home wrapped in newspaper.......no fridge! Oh and Cadbury's Creme Eggs cost 6d!

dorsetpennt...when I was thirteen [1954] my father insisted that I wore ankle socks [which I removed when out of his sight]...didn't wear lipstick [which I smeared on when out of his sight] and he didn't wish me to have a bra [so I didn't for another two years] or Louis heeled-shoes [because he considered both to be too grown-up]... he wished me to remain as innocent as possible for as long as possible... a very good father and I loved him a lot. Of course, by the time I celebrated my sixteenth birthday, things changed, and I suspect that I was a little minx!

Ainseed drops, Spangles, Palm Toffee,pear drops,sherbet dips, all pocket money sweets to be eaten with Girl, School Friend and Girls Crystal. When I was fourteen I was allowed to buy Valentine which I thought a bit 'naughty' as men a nd women kissed. How innocent we were then.

Or have our hands got bigger ???

clover...doesn't everything?

You can still get Jubbly's but they seem smaller to me.

I used to love Rhubarb and Custard, Pineapple Chunks and Sherbert Lemons and Sherbert Fountains with the stick of licorice.

I had a thing for Victory V's. Used to chomp through an entire packet. Not too sure that it was good for me...but I'm still here! On to another subject - One day I asked my father if I could have anything to drink as I had spotted a bottle labelled Gin. I was about six at the time. Took a huge slug and then realised that it was turps. Didn't own up but drank a pint of milk, went to bed and was violently sick for hours...

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

I remember spangles they were gorgeous

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

So were wagon wheel!

Mars Bars were bigger in 1950

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

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?

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?

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!

Frozen Jubbly's - where did they go ?