Sweets from childhood!

I've just been chomping through (with help from my son) a bag of candyfloss. I haven't had that for years.

It got me thinking about sweets from childhood. Pineapple cubes, rainbow drops (chocolate buttons covered in 100's and 1000's) cough candy and so on.

What sweets do you remember from the past?

 

I still eat Victory Vs & Fishermens Friends (Fishermen need friends)

Cracked the art of making Honeycomb last Christmas

Like Marley, I miss the Spanish Sweet Tobacco, not PC anymore I guess.

 

Pacers, now there was a chewy mint.

 

Guess again. see Here


Sheal, why not make your own candyfloss? click me

 

Can you still buy Victory V's ? They always made the end of your tongue red raw.
I loved "Edinburgh Rock" , only ever had it a few times. Then there was "Uncle Joe's Mint Balls" , all sticky and minty menthol . Chorus below courtesy of Mike Harding - now whatever happened to him.

Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls keep you all aglow
Give ‘em to your Grannie and watch the beggar go
Away with coughs and sniffles, take a few in hand
Suck ‘em and see, you’ll agree
They’re the best in all the land!

 

Blimey, £1.87 a quarter for the Spanish Tobacco, didn't know they'd taxed that like the real stuff Watergarden:D

If you'd listen to Radio 2 Harry, you'd know exactly where Mike Harding had gone, he's a Folk D.J. in the evenings

Flying Saucers, I like them

 

Gold Nuggets. Rainbow Sherbert ( or Cayley, as it was called down here ).:D

 

Gob stoppers, those sweets that looked like monkey nuts but were all sticky and sweet.
Kola cubes, aniseed balls, penny chews, those pink prawns, 4 for a penny.
Caramac, frys chocolate cream along with bar that had 5 different fruit centres.

 

Still love Fry's Peppermint Creme but can't get it here (I am a peppermint freak, tea, mints ...) .. but always my favourite will be Licorice Allsorts .. but I also love Wine Gums ....

 

Oooohh! Everything you have all mentioned and from being very young, i really liked candy cigarettes, sherbet fountains & cherry lips! ... and i still have all my teeth! :D

 

I wasn't given many sweets throughout my childhood but I remember some small flat sweets made of what I could describe as hard sugar but the best part is that they came in so many colours.
Other than that fruit jelly sweets and other hard sweets quite big.
In Italy you would hardly find unwrapped sweets, so the colorful wrapping paper was part of the excitement.
Nowadays one of my favourite is some small fruit sweets that have a spherical shape and they come in pack of about eight (you squeeze them out of the pack like medicines and they sell them in pharmacies) . Unfortunately I find them only in Italy.

 

Candy cigs and Barrats sherbert fountains! Also, yellow lemonade powder which took the surface off your tongue before you'd eaten half the bag. Coconut mushrooms. Acid drops. Horlicks sweets - left some by my bed and a mouse came and ate the last one in the night. Ah, happy days!