What "old" sweets can u remember from when u were a kid?

Question

wispa's whatever happened to them? Toffo's? What else was there?

Answer 1

sherbert pips, cola cubes, traffic light lollies, bazooka bubble gum, old jamaica chocolate, sherbert fountains, strawberry laces, rainbow drops, space dust, coconut mushrooms and flumps,,, yummi !! Dib Dab bags (sherbert & lolly ) Frys chocolate cream and fruit cream too .. Still have my own teeth after spending my school dinner money on sweets every day back then.. ( mum would have killed me if she found out!!!!). and have been hyper ever since .. wwwhhheeeeee !!!! :o)

Answer 2

Treets became peanut M&M's I think, so they are still around in a Starburst and Snickers renamed hell.

Don't know what happened to Wispa's. Toffo's I think are still around, although not sure for certain.

The original Fruit Gums (not Wine Gums) that were hard and brittle, not these newer ones that are soft.

Pacers were chewy minty sweets that looked like the Celtic football strip and were lovely.

Answer 3

sherbet flying saucer´s, yes toffo´s , all those big jar´s with the funny shaped sweet´s 20 for penny , those great big roll´s of liquor´s, `who would you give your last one to, although rolls are still around, don´t remember then now ,but stopped every morning at the shop before getting on the school bus, ah the good old day´s A Very Happy New Year 2007

Answer 4

Beech Nut chewing gum in a dispensing machine outside the sweet shop. The 'Penny Tray' which consisted of milk teeth, jelly snakes, fruit salad, jelly teddies, Anglo Bubble Gum(which was pink & huge and you could blow the best bubbles with). Yellow foam bananas similar to Shrimps. Gob Stoppers with an aniseed in the middle. Texan bars. Cadbury's Aztec Bars. Sugar Mice with a little string tail.
I loved coconut tobacco in the red pouch and last but not least -
Golden Nugget Bubble Gum which you bought in a little drawstring bag and was full of little yellow pieces of gum.
Happy Days.

Answer 5

weird i was just thinking about wispas the other day. forgotten about toffos but they were tasty. you noticed how limited the range is now? its almost like crisps where all you can get are walkers. ( not even nice crisps either) we should campaign!

Answer 6

Reggie Bars - Named for famous Yankee Reggie Jackson. It was a round type of chocolate pattie with caramel and peanuts - I absolutely loved them as a kid

Razzles - which actually you can still find but not in very many places - the candy that turns into a gum.

Fun Dip - Straight up sugar rush that had a white candy stick that you licked and then dipped into the bag that held the powdered candy

Pixie Sticks - Powdered sugar candy that came in a paper straw my favorite flavor was grape. I remember they used to have those giant pixie sticks in the drug store. You'd be bouncing off the wall for hours - we used to call it "kiddie coke"

Answer 7

Hi,

Janine on Dartmoor.Yes i am 27 and i remember to this day how excieted i was to visit the corner shop to looka t the big transparent jars of "sherbet"..yum.We even used to sneak off at lunch times at high school to get the sherbet which was weighed out and came ina paper bag.i MAY NOT EVEN LIKE it now,and it is a shame we do not have these corner sweet shops now.

let me know if you see any old sweet shops..also i amy hasten to add that your 50p went a long way back then.How old are you and what do you remember?

Answer 8

Shrimps - pink, fondant type things, Flying Saucers, Sherbert Dips, Pineapple Cubes, Cadbury's Lucky Numbers - similar to Roses etc - number 19 was the toffee filled chocolate!

Answer 9

well funny u should ask this question as only the other day my children were asking us what sweets we had in our day and reading threw the answers i would like to thank smee_1972 for the nutty bar could not remember what it was called but they were the Best
also Samantha the sweet baccy used to love that stuff
little me--- starbursted used to be called opralfruits and still are in my house..
the other thing we were telling our kids were about the corona bottles, used to take back to the pub to get money back for them...
sherbet in a bag were it used to make your fingers change colour, and fizz bombs but last and not least one thing do any one remember crispets cant get them any more (have tried) they were always in quarters out of the jars..
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happy new year to all..

Answer 10

do u remeber nerds? they were like tiny little balls of different flavoured sugar. Also you can still get wispa butr they are called dairy milk bubbly now and you can still get wham bars in ice cream vans. This website has loads of the good old sweets http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/

Answer 11

Refreshers, Lipsticks, Dipsticks and Cola Bottles