Sweets that make your mouth water

[OldBlueLady]

Huh?? :unsure:

You're too young!

 

[number11]

There's a shop just off the high street by the back of Vic Circus that does old fashioned sweets (if its still open...?). One of the few places that does different flavoured sherbert, which is a vice of mine. Also, was driving down Hamstel Road on Sunday and noticed a shop that looked like it may be an old school sweet-shop...anyone confirm?

And whilst Wilkinson is generally full of scummers, if you are looking for an alternative to woolies pic and mix, their choice is pretty good and cheap. Ive often bought the weight of my head in pic n mix from there.

 

[BrettieAngell]

You're too young!

I'm nearly 32, thanks!

 

[OldBlueLady]

I'm nearly 32, thanks!

A mere whippersnapper!

1970/71 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ACaNwtY3UU

The chocolate bar came out about 5 or 6 years after, but using the name was enough to encourage me!

 

[Tinks]

A mere whippersnapper!

1970/71 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ACaNwtY3UU

The chocolate bar came out about 5 or 6 years after, but using the name was enough to encourage me!

Gosh, how sad. I remembered all the words to the song.
I too loved that programme and did indeed buy the chocolate bar because of it.

 

[The General]

Nice little sweet shop in SWF ... not that many of you will ever need to know that! Handy for me though!

 

[OldBlueLady]

Gosh, how sad. I remembered all the words to the song.
I too loved that programme and did indeed buy the chocolate bar because of it.

Lovely Peter Firth, and then he went off to do Equus (like Daniel Radcliffe did to escape his Harry Potter image).

 

[Rob Noxious]

Sweety Heaven

There's a shop just off the high street by the back of Vic Circus that does old fashioned sweets (if its still open...?). One of the few places that does different flavoured sherbert, which is a vice of mine. Also, was driving down Hamstel Road on Sunday and noticed a shop that looked like it may be an old school sweet-shop...anyone confirm?

And whilst Wilkinson is generally full of scummers, if you are looking for an alternative to woolies pic and mix, their choice is pretty good and cheap. Ive often bought the weight of my head in pic n mix from there.

Also, was driving down Hamstel Road on Sunday and noticed a shop that looked like it may be an old school sweet-shop...anyone confirm? (quote)

This sounds like it could be one frequented by our very own Southchurch Groyney... 'Sweety Heaven,' I believe?

 

[steveo]

Sweets that make your mouth water

Sugar mice. They also make your teeth rot.

 

[Crabby Shrimper]

Sweets that make your mouth water

Opal Fruits, they were made to do it!

 

[OldBlueLady]

Opal Fruits, they were made to do it!

Exactly - bring back the old flavours, don't want no blackcurrant rubbish - has to be orange, lemon, lime and strawberry!

Just found this as well

I remember doing this out of chewing gum wrappers! Blimey, maybe some things never do change after all!

 

[phsend]

Heres a good list...


Amazin' Raisin bar - (cockney pie and mash type song) "Its amazin' what raisins can do/All that goodness and its all fo' you/You just 'ave ta do what ya gotta do/It's amazin' what raisins can dooooooooo... Oi!" Cadbury concoction of raisins and chewy stuff and rum. Yes, rum! 0% proof.
Aztec - Cadbury's incorrect, raisin-addled answer to the Mars bar - a simple concept that didn't last. Adverts filmed on location on an Aztec pyramid. Revived, all wrongly, of course - as the limited edition Aztec 2000 for a (very) brief period.
Bandit - bog-standard wafer biscuit with Bill Oddie 'gringo' advert. "You can't stand it with Bandit/Get your head off the floor/Great big bar Bandit is as big as a door!" Or something.
Bar 6 - Similar to Kit-Kats. Rather dull. The kind of confectionery product only ever to be found in workplace vending machines and canteens, along with ("Bridge that gap with...") Cadbury's Snack.
Blue Riband - As with Bandit, a dull, dull chocolate wafer, this time with Mike "Mr. Spooner" Berry warbling the tuneless song until distressed wife hands equally ****ed-off son the bar in question to take to Dad and get him to shut the **** up. Altogether - "I got those, can't get enough of those Blue Riband blues/Blue Riband's the milk chocolate wafer biscuit I always choose/When my woman treats me right/She buys me Blue Riband wafer biscuits crisp and light/I got those, can't get enough of those Bluuuuue... oh, thank you!"
Bone Shakers - bone shaped chalky candy pieces that came in different coloured coffin shaped plastic boxes. The sweets were tastless, but the coffins were ace.
Cabana - Cadbury concoction of the sick-making variety. Coconut, caramel and whole cherries encased in milk chocolate - oorgh, no more for me, thanks. Lasted for about a year in the early '80s. Ads, as with Trio, featured the Banana Boat Song, replacing "Day-o!" with "Cabaaaa-na!" to little marketing effect.
Cello - A sort of nutty Milky Bar which didn't take.
Football ground sweets - When I was much younger, my dad used to drag me to see Partick Thistle. At dull moments - of which there were many - you could buy strange confectionery from vendors with boxes strolling the terracing. They used to sell macaroon bars and tablet (like a Scottish version of fudge), which was fair enough, but also bizarre chocolate and chewing gum. The chocolate (IIRC) was made by "Star", and was very unpleasant, like cooking chocolate but much, much worse. The chewing gum tasted of spearmint, but lacked whatever ingredient normally holds gum together, and so turned to powder after about three chews. Totally unique to Scottish football, late '60s. Fortunately.
Freddo - Small thin Cadbury's Dairy Milk bars, with cartoon Freddo frog imprinted. Died out, then later reinvented, longer as Wildlife bars
Freshen-Up - chewing gum pieces that had thick liquid gloop in the middle. That wonderful liquid centre ran down your throat. The chewing gum part was pretty second rate, but the gloop was ace. (see "Bubbaloo" today).
Fry's Chocolate - With Turkish Delight ads back on our screens, is it too much to hope for a return of its chocolate cousins? Probably. The bog-standard bar (made 10% bigger in the '60s and hawked by cutprice Bond George Lazenby ("Big Fry! Big Fry! Big Fry!!!") with giant model bar), yes, but don't forget the Fry's chocolate cream bars. Orange and 'plain' varieties outlasted the classic five-segment Rainbow Bar - a multifruit flavoured choccy bar (Orange,lemon,lime,raspberry and... one other one). Lovely. TV ads featured a sophisticated country lady (UK equivalent of the Turkish madam?) chomping leisurely on her cream bar at an auction before coolly swooping in at the very last moment to buy the... whatever it was.
Galaxy Counters - disc-shaped chocolate blobs which had a giraffe on the packet. Much nicer than Cadbury's Buttons
Gambit - nowt to do with Fred Dinenage - it was a blend of Cadbury's milk and plain chocolate. Presumably the nature of the portion you bit into at any one time was the 'gambit'. Or perhaps not.
Gold Mine - Cadbury's milk chocolate with little Crunchie-like gold "nuggets" strewn throughout.
Gold Rush - Little sacks of gold - small fruity chewy sweets.
Grand Seville - Funny bar full of bits of orange peel. Cadbury equivalent in the same range as their "Velvet Mint", etc.
Hanky Panky - pre-Madonna, vaguely breast-shaped sweet popcorn which had Arthur Lowe in the TV ads, sat on a park bench beside a dolly bird indulging in double entendre. "Would you care for a bit of Hanky Panky?" SLAP! "I was only offering you a little nibble!" BIG SLAP!...etc.

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Ice Breaker - Mint bits in chocolate - see also mint cracknel.
Ipso - rivals to the Tic Tac empire, came in a square plastic box which for some reason you could stick Lego bricks to. Rotten, sub-Lilt, "calypso" advert. ""Ipso Ipso, Ipso calypso/So refreshing, lots of
flavour..." "Come one, you'll miss your train!"
Lemfizzes - intensely fizzy miniature paving stones. Haven't been seen for years.
Liquorice Imps - vile tiny pieces of spicy liquorice that came in a tiny box.
Logger - log-'shaped' chocolate bars in plain, fruity and nutty varieties. Very short ads -
Lumberjack: "I truly love a Logger"
Lumberjack's 'babe': "What, love one more than me?"
Lumberjack: "The Logger that I truly love's got marks on, like a tree!"
Marathon - to all intents and purposes defunct these days (don't mention that stupidly-named Transatlantic imposter). The Cheggers-fronted TV ads, with their vox pops from cab drivers and the like ("It's nuts, nugget (sic), milk chocolate... in between meals it's faaahntastic!") and tempting animated "comes up peanuts - slice after slice" bar cut-up, meant more to the good folk of this country than any weak double-entendre beginning with 's'. It's not too late to reconsider, you know...
Milk Tray chocolate bar - A bizarre choccy bar made up of the most popular Milk Tray chocolates of the time.You had to very carefully break off the one you wanted , making sure you didn't get a bit of Turkish Delight with a bit of Strawberry Cup.
Mint Cracknel - Chocolate-covered shards of mint-flavoured car windshield made in two seperate halves, similar looking to a Dime bar. Ads had a skiing theme (that was 70's orignality for you. Ice/snow/mountains/winter sports etc = any kind of mint choccy bar or toothpaste) and also Noel Edmonds, though possibly not together.
Mintessa - Dual-bar delight from Terry's of York featuring dark chocolate rippled over mint cream with mint crunchy sugary bits throughout.
Nunch (became Nudge) - Peanut butter chocolatey thing, now Starbar and/or Peanut Boost.
Nutty - 'The peanut-covered ****' simlar to Picnic, but came in a sort of brown-tinted transparent wrapper. Ads by Kenny Everett displayed an odd grasp of the laws of physics - "Rowntree's Nutty has so many nutty bits, it won't stand up on its end!"
Pacers/Opal Mints - The minty spinoff from the Fruits of the same name came in green and white-striped wrappers (the actual chewy sweet was a sort of pale bluey green colour) and later (as Pacers) the actual mint was striped. Spearmint flavoured, or rather, tasted like a tube of Colgate toothpaste dissolved in a swimming pool - dull, weak-as-hell mint flavouring. Ads for the relaunched pacers had various sportsmen and women (why?) suddenly being endowed with a Celtic-like stripey outfit on chewing. "Stripes?" After that they went for good some time in the mid '80s.
Picnic - caramel and nuts (as advertised by cuddly Kenny Everett in the '70s - "Cadbury's Picnic has so many nutty bits it won't stand up on its end! Look!" (cue bar falling over) - repckaged as Lion Bars. See also Rowntree's rival Nutty bar.
Pink Panther bars - franchised strawberry-flavoured chocolate. Pink coloured.
Prize - Rowntree-derived chocolate/raisin/fudge bar which flourished aroung the turn of the '80s. TV ads featured a stereotypical cartoon boffin.
Quirks - minty chocolate round things.
Rocket Pops - Easily the most dangerous lolly-type thing ever to baffle the Canadian confectionary market. Long, sharp, and pointy, but not shaped like any rocket known to man. Predictably colored green and red ('kids love them flavours', sez the ad wizard), with some weird waxy thing at the bottom.
Sherbert dib-dabs/fountains - Barrat, of that ilk. The fountains (minimalist yellow paper tube full of sherbet with one woefully inadequate licquorice stick in the centre as edible 'cutlery') and the slightly more flavoursome dib-dabs, with the cardboard lolly which always got soggy.
Skippy - No, not tasty bite-size morsels of our Australian kids favourite, but chocolate-covered chewy toffee and biscuit.
Space Dust and Pop Rocks - still popular in the US, now enjoying a Crunchie-enhanced resurgence in the UK. Urban legends about heads/stomachs/pet dogs exploding due to an overdose of these mixed with a soft drink of your choice were rife.
Spanish Gold - Picture it, 1980ish Roman Road, Middlesbrough, freezing cold, Sunday morning, pocket money to spend,already selected Roy of the Rovers & 2 bags of Golden Wonder, what else sould I get with my remaining change, there, just below the Frys Chocolate Cream, it caught my eye, a small rectangular red packet, supposed to resemble an old seafaring type blokes brand of tobacco. Open up the pack and you are greeted with some brown wormy looking stuff that was trying to look like tobacco, not particularly appealing to a small child but the taste, sweet as sugar (that would probably have been the sugar) with perhaps a hint of coconut, oh the taste...

Striper - Rowntree-made chewy, striped thing with a different pseudo-fruity flavour in each stripe. "Four times the flavour, four times the chew!" ran the multi-coloured wedding advert.
Stroodles - Tiny disgusting chocolate-covered apple pieces (like grit) from Cadbury's, packaged in a very tasteful red apple-shaped packet.There was a bit of an advertising spat over Stroodles. Mr. Sheen was launched around the same time (or a new campaign at least), with the line "Cleans Oodles of Things". Said apple-shaped packets were said to contain "Oodles of Stroodles". Upshot was that Mr. Sheen lost the copyright battle, and suddenly "Shined Umpteen Things Clean" instead.
Summit - picture of a mountain peak on the wrapper funnily enough. nougat and cherries and some other stuff.
Superman 'sweet' cigarettes - And other makes, but this was the most prevalent. Withdrawn after the heroic one claimed 'he never said yes to a cigarette'. There were two types of chocolate cigarette as far as I remember - chocolate-centered, and ones with pink, sweet, chewy inner bits. They came in american style fag packets more often as not, exactly ciggie size and shape, and were each covered with white rice paper. See also the ones that came with picture story cards of the lizard-like "Volgons"...
Sweet necklaces and watches - made up of a thin piece of elastic threaded with these rock hard Love Heart type sweets. Excellent weapons when holding the sweet between your teeth and stretching the elastic in a catapult fashion, biting hard and firing at people, cars or low-flying aircraft.
Swizzel's Double Dip - from the mighty Swizzel/Matlow empire, with patented "Swizzel Stick" and those two kids on the packet. Also gave rise to the Swizzade drinkie offshoot. Free packet given away with Buster comic on the occasion of its merger with Jackpot.
Texan - infamous chewy bar ('Sure is a mighty chew') of chocolate-covered nougat' which you could stretch to the floor whilst still attached to your teeth. Red Indian (as was)/Mexican firing squad-baiting TV adverts ("Hold on there, bald eagle! You wouldn't light that fire until I open my Texan Bar, would ya?") are the stuff of legend.
Tiffin - another one which is made now, but was made years ago, phased out, and then re-introduced.
Traffic Lights - red lollies with orange and green strata underneath. The idea being, of course, that they would change colour as they were sucked, and therefore resembled traffic lights, or at least some sort of spherical, layered traffic light. They didn't work anyway - getting the layers off evenly would have taken a very methodical sucker indeed.
Treets - Ousted by the dreaded Transatlantic M&Ms in the '80s. Came in three varieties - peanut (yellow bag), toffee (pale blue bag at some point) and chocolate (brown). near-spherical chocolate/nut/toffee lumps, "sealed in a crispy shell". The "cred" kids version of Poppets and such - very adult-type sweets in little cardboard boxes with a cereal-box-style opening at the top. Could be stored in the inside pocket of your suit without any risk of stains.
Trio - three-segment bicuit/chocolate/toffee bar with animated hippy band in the ads featuring silent guitarist, mellow bongo player (voiced by Derek Griffiths) and "too loud!" vocalist Suzie, in pastiche of the old Stan Freberg "Banana Boat Song" routine. John Peel did the voiceover in his first ad work ("No three things are quite as good together as the three things in Trio").
Trumpton/Camberwick green toothpaste - Pink in colour. Before the days of fluoride. No medicinal purpose whatsoever. Came in various flavours, such as blackcurrant or raspberry.
Wham! bars - Long pink chewy things with bits of yellow and green fizzy bits according to flavour. Also the highly addictive Wham! chews.
Whistle Pops - a twist-wrapped lollipop that was moulded like a whistle and, indeed, whistled, a la Chitty Chitty Bang bang "toot sweets". They were about 10p, from the days when regular lollipops were about 2p-5p, so they were very much an upscale option.

 

[jassyfa1]

Spanish Gold - Picture it, 1980ish Roman Road, Middlesbrough, freezing cold, Sunday morning, pocket money to spend,already selected Roy of the Rovers & 2 bags of Golden Wonder, what else sould I get with my remaining change, there, just below the Frys Chocolate Cream, it caught my eye, a small rectangular red packet, supposed to resemble an old seafaring type blokes brand of tobacco. Open up the pack and you are greeted with some brown wormy looking stuff that was trying to look like tobacco, not particularly appealing to a small child but the taste, sweet as sugar (that would probably have been the sugar) with perhaps a hint of coconut, oh the taste...

I thought Spanish Gold was some sort of aphrodisiac

 

[A Century United]

www.aquarterof.co.uk

arguably the best site on the internet......

A simple site but Harbouring (sic) some great sweeties:

The Highland Candy Company

 

[A Century United]

When I was a lot younger my brother used to take me to the Footie with him. We would walk along Fairfax, and stop at the Sweetie shop to buy our programme. Also an essential accompanyment to the game was a bag holding a mix of Sweet Peanuts (still available, bought some in Nairn yesterday) and "Toffee Crunch". This was a small brown hard sweet, shaped like a "twisted pillow" (Golden Humbugs still come in that shape) and (suprisingly) sort of Toffee flavour.

Boy do I miss Toffee Crunch!

:'(

 

[Firestorm]

Lovely Peter Firth, and then he went off to do Equus (like Daniel Radcliffe did to escape his Harry Potter image).

And also Brinsley Forde is the lead singer of Aswad

http://www.thedoubledeckers.com/now.htm

http://www.thedoubledeckers.com/

 

[Rob Noxious]

...appearing on 'In A Broken Dream' at some stage is a discussion of the relative merits of wine gums in an old-fashioned sweet shop. A rhomboid claret rules ok...

 

[Lord Football]

There's a shop just off the high street by the back of Vic Circus that does old fashioned sweets (if its still open...?). One of the few places that does different flavoured sherbert, which is a vice of mine. Also, was driving down Hamstel Road on Sunday and noticed a shop that looked like it may be an old school sweet-shop...anyone confirm?

And whilst Wilkinson is generally full of scummers, if you are looking for an alternative to woolies pic and mix, their choice is pretty good and cheap. Ive often bought the weight of my head in pic n mix from there.

No its shut. They couldn't afford the rents have moved their business to netbased. Not that I went there often enough for them to tell me their business plans!!

I only wish I could find the business card they gave me....


I believe there is a similar shop down Hamlet Court Rd. I may go and investigate later today...

 

[canveyshrimper]

No its shut. They couldn't afford the rents have moved their business to netbased. Not that I went there often enough for them to tell me their business plans!!

I only wish I could find the business card they gave me....


I believe there is a similar shop down Hamlet Court Rd. I may go and investigate later today...

I am not sure if it's still there, but there was a specialist sweet shop on Leigh Broadway, sold all the classics from cola cubes to pineapple chunks, and most in between.

 

[number11]

No its shut. They couldn't afford the rents have moved their business to netbased. Not that I went there often enough for them to tell me their business plans!!

I only wish I could find the business card they gave me....


I believe there is a similar shop down Hamlet Court Rd. I may go and investigate later today...

Pity, but sign of the times I guess. I think they originally had a smaller shop within the walkway of Vic Circus, did quite well and so moved to quite a large shop round the corner.

Let me know how the investigation goes!!