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

[Chicken Run]

Army & Navy Sweets
The guy in the sweatshop in Ladies Mile Road, on the corner use to sell you a quarter of Lucky dip which was a mix up of everything in the jar

 

[Chicken Run]

(Testing my memory a bit here) but I remember there was (70s/80s ?) a home made ice-cream shop at the bottom of Boundary (Station?) Rd. Owner used to mumble to himself a lot, anyway best ice-cream ever and never had better since.

Yep he had a little factory unit behind in the garden which are now flats

 

[Bring back Bryan wade!!]

Couldn’t beat these beauties…

 

[METALMICKY]

I was partial to a findus crispy pancake

Still available but under Birds Eye branding.

 

[dolphins]

Flying Saucers are also still available - seem particularly popular in Europe bizarrely enough, as my boys seem to have a knack of knowing where sells them. Certainly Tiger/Flying Tiger, which have outlets all over, sell them. Not sure if they do in the UK though.

 

[BN9 BHA]

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

I remember Burton’s Potato Puffs still on sale in the 90s, I used to eat 4 bags in a row.

 

[southstandandy]

Dib dabs

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Fuse bars.

 

[schmunk]

Flying Saucers are also still available - seem particularly popular in Europe bizarrely enough, as my boys seem to have a knack of knowing where sells them. Certainly Tiger/Flying Tiger, which have outlets all over, sell them. Not sure if they do in the UK though.

625g enough for you...?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Flying-Saucers-Sweets-Wedding-Favour/dp/B07HYBJT4L

 

[PeterOut]

(Testing my memory a bit here) but I remember there was (70s/80s ?) a home made ice-cream shop at the bottom of Boundary (Station?) Rd. Owner used to mumble to himself a lot, anyway best ice-cream ever and never had better since.

He was there since at least the mid-60s. I remember it well, definitely the best ice cream ever. It was a special treat as a youngster to get sent off to get a large bottle of cream soda and a big box of his ice cream, and bring it all back to make soda floats in my gran's kitchen. Happy days.

 

[dolphins]

625g enough for you...?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Flying-Saucers-Sweets-Wedding-Favour/dp/B07HYBJT4L

I'm amazed that's only 500 of them - they weigh bugger all! I'll let them know though...

 

[Robdinho]

Missing the old fashioned Irn Bru not the pish they sell now

Have you tried this? It's good.
https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/irn-bru-1901-750ml

 

[southstandandy]

And Texan bars

 

[W3 BHA]

Pacers
Corona fruit drinks in a glass bottle you get money from sweet shop if you returned the bottle
Tizer

Opal Mints - Pacers can get in the same bin currently being occupied by Starburst

 

[maffew]

 

[maffew]

 

[maffew]

I liked these with meatballs

 

[zefarelly]

I liked Toffo's and flavoured toffos

lost a few first teeth to them early 80's

those red boot laces were toxically tasty, as well as enamel damage from space dust and corona cherryade

its a miracle some of us have any teeth!

 

[maffew]

 

[Sorrel]

Christmas staple in my house during the 1980s. The only time of the year we ate them.
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I still have these each Christmas - and sometimes other times too.

I miss Fry's Chocolate Cream 5 flavours: