Creamola Foam

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...

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

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

clover...doesn't everything?

Or have our hands got bigger ???

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.

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!

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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!!!

The darker the choc, the better...

I remember packets of broken crisps - I used to live in Lincoln and the Smiths Crisp Factory was there. I also remember shrimps - they were lovely too. What about Tom Thumb Drops and Sherbert Pips ?

Oh yes, I remember the foil covered digestives. At one time I was running the school tuck shop and we sold those there.

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I vaguely remember another fruit drink powder around the same time as Cremola foam. I think it was called Eiffel Tower. I used to love eating it without water, dipping a finger in, which became stained, especially with the raspberry version.

I remember the 4 Blackjacks and Fruit Salad chews for 1 penny! I used to buy them at the station shop when I went to meet my Dad home from work (off the 5.15 from London Bridge!) I progressed to Lemon Sherbert sooked from a liquorice 'pipe' and then on to Honeycomb which, unbelievably, they sold in the school tuck shop - no wonder I spent so much time at the Dentist.....

Happy memories, I remember all of these

Whilst in the 6th form I used to stop at the sweetshop on the way home and buy lemonade crystals and a stick of hard liquorice to dip in. I always told the sweetshop owner they were for my little brother as I was too embarrassed to admit they were my secret pleasure.

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We did not have sweets during the war, and amongst my friends, Nippets were the only sweet you could buy off ration. Minute hard black sweet, the size of half a pea, with a flavour of liquorice. They were mainly a cough sweet. We have an old fashioned sweet shop in our town where they are kept in 7 pound jars on the shelf,

Yum, yum - yes I remeber Cremola Foam Crystals and the little metal tins they came in, we were not allowed 'fizzy' drinks but were allowed this as a treat.

Does anyone remember Chillo pink ice cream that you made yourself, oh it was so delicious. It was a lovely bright pink colour and was absolutely delicious. I liked the Fry's bars too and the Milk Tray block of choc with different flavours in one bar. Happy memories! x

my dad did not like holidays so we only went away once for a week in Blackpool. We stayed in a holiday flat and as a treat I was allowed a tin of red cremola foam- probably because it was cheaper than bottles of pop.