Fignon's Ponytail
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I remember these. I think you can still buy Quarterbacks...
[Food] Beloved sweets, drinks and treats from your past
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- Apr 19, 2018
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Me too. That was my chosen special birthday meal one year with chips and beans. Simple pleasures that make me nostalgic.
Stumpy Tim
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Used to love Sherbert Fountains. You can still get them in some places.
Brings back memories of going to Mr Bignalls sweet shop in Hurstpierpoint and devouring loads. He was roughly 150 years old and could barely speak, but he soldiered on
- Apr 19, 2018
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Wham bars - not the current version but the same thing when they first came out. The current one is a pale, rock hard imitation of the artificially coloured chewy sugar-bomb of glorious memory.
pasty
A different kind of pasty
Often pop into the Horsham one for cola cubes and pineapple chunksMr Simms the old fashioned sweet shop in Worthing went bust but has now re-opened selling all your old fashioned favourites.
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Mr Simms Sweet Shop Worthing, Worthing, West Sussex. 195 likes · 118 talking about this · 8 were here. We are a traditional sweet shop, where we will weigh out your favourites with a smile. In the...www.facebook.com
(Mr Simms operates a franchise model. The franchisee in Chichester went to the wall as well. Hopefully they have better luck this time around.)
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My father in law used to complain my daughter had something wrong with her because he couldn’t understand why she’d go insane and run around screaming at their house in the morning but nowhere else. We discovered that when they’d go and get the paper together at 6.30am before breakfast, he’d buy her a sherbet fountain to eat on the way back. She was about 4 years old and mainlining huge amounts of sugar on an empty stomach and he hadn’t made the link to her subsequent behaviour…
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RandyWanger
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Spaceraiders and Refreshers. Seem to recall 5p and 15p at the time.
Worried Man Blues
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Pear Drops, Pineapple chunks, Barley Twist ? Jamboree Bags.................Mignon Morceaux's tragic how they were lost!
I'd completely forgotten Mr Bignall! He was definitely the oldest man I'd ever seen.
I often see Sherbet Fountains at the British shops over here. Obviously they cost about $5 or something.
I used to like a Curly Wurly or a Chomp with the change from my school bus fare, back when they were 15p and 10p respecitvely and actually had some chocolate.
MTSeagulls
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The old Sunday afternoon desserts.
First it was tinned fruit and sterilised cream.
As we progressed up the social ladder it was Arctic Rolls but we knew we had really made it when it was Vienettas.
First it was tinned fruit and sterilised cream.
As we progressed up the social ladder it was Arctic Rolls but we knew we had really made it when it was Vienettas.
fly high
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Loved the sherbet in fountains but hated the liquorish dabs, binned them after getting out all the sherbet.
Loved sherbet flying saucers, think they were 4 for a ha'penny when I first had them.
Loved sherbet flying saucers, think they were 4 for a ha'penny when I first had them.
schmunk
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Shout out to Cuckfield Candy Store (run by Kevin "No Relation" Barber, an Albion STH), which used to do the stadium sweets until a couple of years ago. They have many of the sweets mentioned in this thread, plus some nice chocolates and a few cards and gifty things...
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Fignon's Ponytail
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Used to love buying these bubblegum packs on the way to school each morning. Had quite the collection at one point!
dolphins
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Some great shouts here but would like to add Amazin' Raisin - seeing as kids these days don't seem to like raisins for no obvious reasons, I can't see it coming back!