[Food] Beloved sweets, drinks and treats from your past

[BBassic]

Black jacks and fruit salad as well as aniseed balls

I remember detesting Black Jacks but absolutely loving Fruit Salads. Then one day something switched and all of a sudden Black Jacks were unbeatable.

 

[North of Robertsbridge]

Walters Potato Puffs. Last spotted around 40 years ago in a vending machine on Staines station and I think they had been stuck in there for a couple of years

 

[Justice]

I remember having fresh Sprats dipped in flour and fried for a treat as a kid.
COD I miss those days

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

I loved the Texan bar. - " A man's gotta chew what a man's gotta chew".

 

[Tubby Mondays]

Cabanas

 

[Tubby Mondays]

Another vote for a Topic

Which are still available

 

[Hudson Hawk]

The old fashioned toffee crumble. Not the rubbish they sell today.

It did make a brief comeback in a couple of sweetshops but disappeared again and replaced by the choc nibbles stuff.

I am pretty sure the proper stuff is just mashed up Twix. Maybe it was made from the spoil in the manufacturing process, and now they have refined it so no waste.

 

[jcdenton08]

Apple crumblies from Marks and Spencer, Brannigan’s crisps, ice cream flavour chewits, Gino Ginnelli tutti fruitti ice cream

 

[Perry Milkins]

What happened to sour cream and chive nik naks?

 

[Yoda]

Cadburys Drifter
Apple Tango (WITH SUGAR)
Lemon Tango
Blackcurrent Tango
Brannigans Crips (could still get them until a few years ago)
Fruit Polos

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Mr Grigg from Griggs Newsagent, 4 Clyde Road where I used to buy all my sweets in the 60’s. Most stuff came in jars of which he had a huge selection.

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

Sugar mice and sweet tobacco.

 

[maffew]

I was partial to a findus crispy pancake

 

[maffew]

Cadburys Drifter
Apple Tango (WITH SUGAR)
Lemon Tango
Blackcurrent Tango
Brannigans Crips (could still get them until a few years ago)
Fruit Polos

Good shouts. Especially fruit polo's and brannigans

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

Walters Potato Puffs. Last spotted around 40 years ago in a vending machine on Staines station and I think they had been stuck in there for a couple of years

Used to get them in the Tarring High tuck shop.

 

[Insel affe]

 

[AK74]

Trio bars

 

[Cordwainer]

Toffos.
The filling removing b@stards.

 

[rippleman]

Mr Simms the old fashioned sweet shop in Worthing went bust but has now re-opened selling all your old fashioned favourites.

Mr Simms Sweet Shop Worthing | Worthing

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(Mr Simms operates a franchise model. The franchisee in Chichester went to the wall as well. Hopefully they have better luck this time around.)

 

[AK74]

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