Reminiscing about childhood sweets

Auntieflo

Was there a sweet mixture called 'Winter mix', or something similar? I used to like the clove taste. They were little pillow shaped, shiny hard sweets and stripey!

I remember them they were called winter mix and they were lovely. Can’t get them now. I don’t think…

Was there a sweet mixture called 'Winter mix', or something similar? I used to like the clove taste. They were little pillow shaped, shiny hard sweets and stripey!

Shrimps! Loved them! I bought some recently, but they’re half the size, seemed more sugary and not as much flavour. Apart from that, I enjoyed them 😆

Opposite my primary school there was a newsagents which had a special drawer containing inexpensive sweets for children - presumably you had to ask to see this drawer! My favourites were the tiny bars of Dairy Milk (wrapped in foil) and tubes of sherbet with a stick of liquorice in.

Penny Arrow toffee bars
Gob stoppers
Penny chews
Black jacks
Sweet cigarettes
Liquorice root - yuk
Lucky Numbers chocolates if I had enough money. I can still remember the words to the advert.

I loved Toffee Cups, the finger one. It was never the same, after they changed the name.

Another favourite was Golden Mint Spangles.

Ashcombe

Caramac bars were a novelty but no longer seen on sale.

You can still get it in places like, Home Bargains and B&M, Ash.

I’d still buy some flying saucers, if I ever saw any. Ditto a sherbet fountain.

I’ve seen Pontefract Cakes somewhere not long ago - and bought some, I still love liquorice!

ferry23, I remember the 1d bars of Cadbury’s, too.

Five Boys

Paynes poppets

and when we borrowed my Mum's brother's car to drive to Cornwall, those tins of boiled sweets that were considered a real treat. We never ever had them at any other time.

And I'm old enough to remember Cadbury's 1d bars which my Nan would buy me when we went to the United Dairies corner shop and served by a lady called Marj. (2d bar on special occasions )

Black Jacks and fruit salad chews. Five boys bars. Flying saucers. I always wanted a Jubilee Bag but mum said they were poor value for money. When I did eventually get one it was rather disappointing. I loved candy mice but they may have been seasonal (Christmas or Easter).

My favourites were sweet peanuts.
I'd suck them for as long as possible then bite hard to break the covering to get to the delicious salty peanut centre. 🙄
No wonder my teeth full of fillings!!!

Coconut mushrooms, sherbet lemons ,caramac and fruit salads . My husband loved herbals and Cadbury chocolate eclairs but did lose a filling once to one. He always had sweets in the car . The children used to take delight in finding daddies secret hoard. But they only had chocolate as a treat and we didn't buy them sweets. Once teenagers and had pocket money they did buy them occasionally. But never have fillings . Where I have and my husband had a mouth full.

Remember going into sweet shops and the toffee was broken up in front of you using a toffee hammer. Old sweet shops always had a lovely smell and those scales that only weight up to 1lb.

Yorkshire mixture/winter mixture/dolly mixture
cough candy
humbugs
aniseed balls
sherbet lemons
Cola cubes
Sherbet with lollipops
Gobstoppers so big they could have killed us kids!
My teeth are a disgrace thanks to these childhood favourites.

Duncan’s walnut whips. Sherbet lemons, gobstoppers that change colours and you had to keep getting them out of your mouth to check. Must have been sticky but I don’t think kids notice that!

Butternuts, eucalyptus drops,oddfellows, Edinburgh rock...

When we visited my Grandmother in Southampton my cousin would take me to a shop that made their own sweets, the chocolate fudge was delicious.

You can get Caramac from Poundland and from Iceland.

A tiny shop near us sold coconut squares which were marshmallow inside with chocolate and coconut on the outside. Probably about 2” square.

Also chocolate bananas. Lovely.

Ashcombe

Caramac bars were a novelty but no longer seen on sale.

Cadbury’s do a very thin bar of caramel chocolate which is very similar.

Caramac bars were a novelty but no longer seen on sale.

We always had spangles on long car journeys.
Still very partial to liquorice allsorts. Used to love dolly mixtures until I realised they always gave me a cold 🤦🏼‍♀️

I don't think Gobstoppers live up to their name any more.

Black bullets ...my grandad's favourite. Thornton's toffee a 6d bar of Cadbury's whole nut was a real treat. Pine apple chunks.

Flying saucers, wafer thin with sherbert inside.
Sherbert lemons
Love Hearts

Pear drops but they made my mouth sore if I ate too many.
Liquorice Pontefract cakes, do they still make them?
Five Boys chocolate bars.