1970 s sweets - remember?

Question

anyone remember spangles ? what other sweets do you remember but dont see any more ??? and why did spangles only ever have one cola one in the packet ?

you can still get chewits

and what about penny arrows and the caramel bars with a picture of a long haired cow on them ? what were they called

Answer 1

How about Banjo! And the drink called Quotro?

Answer 2

I'm going to start a bring back Spangles Campaign !
I remember the mcgowans toffees you could buy for a penny and they semed to huge and you'd be chewing them for ages,chelsea whoppers oh and the bubble gum called bubbly (think they are still available but not as good) and those lollipops of red brittle sugar candy in a little foil tray that used to have some many children cutting their mouths *sigh*
good times

bring back Spangles !!!!

Answer 3

Do you remember, the acid drop spangles. What about Parma Violets. The large penny chews, or the Mixed fruit, and black jack chew.Gosh there`s a lot if you think about. Maybe the ordinary spangles, only had one cola a packet, because it was harder to manufacture the colouring and taste.There are a lot of sweets which changed their names,

Answer 4

Spangles were square boiled sweets, bought in a paper tube with individual sweets cellophane wrapped. They were manufactured by Mars Ltd in the United Kingdom from the mid-fifties to the early eighties. They were distinguished by their rounded corners and a circular depression on both sides, into which one would slide one's tongue when sucking them.
The regular Spangles tube (labeled simply "Spangles") contained a variety of translucent, fruit flavored sweets: strawberry, blackcurrant, orange, pineapple, lemon and lime.
The sweets were individually wrapped, originally in waxed paper; later in cellophane. The tube was a bright orange-red color, bearing the word "Spangles" in a large letters. In the seventies a distinctive, seventies-style font was used.
Old English Spangles
The Old English Spangles tube contained traditional English flavors such as liquorice, mint humbugs, cough candy, butterscotch and pear drops. One of the flavors was an opaque mustard yellow color, and one was striped.
The sweets' individual wrappers were striped, distinguishing them from regular Spangles. The tube was black, white and purple, and designed for a more mature and specific clientele than the regular variety.
Mystery Spangles
At one point a mystery flavour was released where the wrappers had question marks on them and one was invited to guess the flavor. It is not known whether this flavor was ever officially revealed.
Spangles were discontinued in the early eighties, and briefly reintroduced in 1995. There are many nostalgic refrences to them on Internet message boards from children who grew up with them in the sixties and seventies, now middle-aged.
Today the Tunes brand is the only remaining relative of the Spangles brand, sharing the shape and wrapping of the original product.

Answer 5

As a oldie I could remember quite a few if I put my mind to it but they have'nt come to mind yet but I do remember spangles and there were some thats meant to make your mouth water. There was the lion bar which was hard to get your teeth into. There was sherbut lemons. Dolly mixtures...Love hearts...French sugared almonds and fruit polo's.

Answer 6

Spangles... oh yes... lol... (must be a age thing Im 38)
I remember them being fruit flavored sweets: strawberry, blackcurrant, orange, pineapple, lemon and lime. I dont remember cola flavour!? ( I feel robbed now... lol )
Do you remember when they released the mystery spangles?...the wrappers had question marks on them... such fun trying to guess the flavours... (how sad we were in the 70's!... lol )
I used to love the penny sweets... chocolate tools... shrimps..black jacks...fruit salad...white mice....milk teeth...flying saucers.... dibs dabs....
10p would buy you a bagfull... we didnt care about all the E-numbers and sugar rush...and our parents werent bothered as there were plenty of national health dentists then!.... lol

Thanks for the question... it brought back many a good memory!

Jen x

Answer 7

texan bars, i have tried the ones they make now and they are disgusting,
wispa bars, i remember when i used to deliver the free newspapers and there was an offer of 3p off them and i spent ages cutting the vouchers out of all the spare papers, i lived for weeks on wispa bars, and 5 4 3 2 1 chocolate bars
and the toffee was called highland bars, or the minature ones were called butter milk dainties, i think!

Answer 8

a chocholate bar called texan it had a chewy caramel filling,also mo jo s penny sweets and a bazooker bubble gum that had a little tiny comic inside and it was a penny,american hard gums,they were in the jar the shop would weigh out how much you wanted.welsh humbugs,and a monster bag that had all broken up choclate inside (god those were the days )

Answer 9

4 for a penny sweets - black jacks, fruit salads or two for a penny - shrimps, flying saucers. Oh! the memories ....!

Chocolate logs, peanut brittle, milk mice. As mentioned before, most probably lots of e numbers but did we care? Course not! I've still got my teeth, too!

Bubble gum from the machine on the sweet shop wall - when the arrow onthe handle was pointing towards you, you knew you got an extra one!! Does anyone remember that?

Sweet tobacco - it was coloured coconut strands - called spanish gold or something like that!

Licorice shapped like a smokers pipe with hundreds and thousands on it!

Jamboree bags - who remembers them? Jubbly's - frozen juice. I know you can get them now but in the 60's and 70's they were huge (or was it that our hands were little). And, were Wagon Wheels much bigger then??

Answer 10

No, i don't be attentive to that candy; I undergo in recommendations Whip n' relax from back then. It got here in a field with 2 packets or so, and you in basic terms whipped it up ! It replaced into particularly scrumptious with Fruit Cocktail! Sorry approximately your dinosaur candy, inspite of the shown fact that! It sounds stable. before everything i presumed you have been speaking approximately those English toffee candies!

Answer 11

Sweets From The Seventies