[Food] Black Jacks or Fruit Salads

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

I'd take either. Talking of retro sweets, spangles were always popular and the vast choice of flavours.

Remember old english flavour?

 

[PTC Gull]

Fruit Salad. I will also add Opal Fruits especially Strawberry flavored. I also like Chocolate covered raisins (the heathen that I am)

 

[Diablo]

When i was a young lad in the 50s you could buy 960 of these for a pound ,when Decimalisation came in 1971 you could then only buy 400 for a pound. I think i wept. The spending power of my pocket money was reduced overnight.

Blackjacks for me............Indeed in the mid sixties you could buy 4 for an old penny...48 for a shilling and 960 for £1 or 20 shillings.

 

[The Pilsbury Echo]

End of thread...we have a winner...THESE WERE AND STILL ARE THE DOUBLE HARD BARSTARDS OF THE CHEW WORLD!...NICE LITTLE KICK TO THESE SUCKERS OR SHOULD I SAY CHEWS!

 

[dstanman]

There is no doubt that the flavour and taste of sweets today have nothing on those of the old days

 

[OzMike]

I like both, but they taste different now.
Parma Violets are good too, a bit of a Marmite thing.
I like Drumsticks and get them on the rare occassions I see them here and let us not forget Victory Vs.

 

[OzMike]

To this date I have never had a Refresher.

 

[The Pilsbury Echo]

To this date I have never had a Refresher.

OzMike...I wasn't sure which of your posts had me aghast the most?...who in their right mind likes parma violets (like sucking on soap) and Why have you not treated your taste buds to a refresher? Im started to think you are the sort of man who likes a fishermans friend?

 

[maffew]

Black Jack's. Both 10p mix classics though with couple of cola bottles and jelly cherrys.

 

[Blue3]

Would and have eaten both but when push comes to shove its back jacks for me

 

[mile oak]

I don't gamble (mugs game) so its a lovely fruit salad for me to include kiwi, cranberries, Granny Smiths and nectarines

 

[OzMike]

OzMike...I wasn't sure which of your posts had me aghast the most?...who in their right mind likes parma violets (like sucking on soap) and Why have you not treated your taste buds to a refresher? Im started to think you are the sort of man who likes a fishermans friend?

Correct, I like Fishermans Friends as well.
Will try a Refresher if I see one at the English Lolly Shop here.
I had my first Pot Noodle about 6 months ago and I am 63 years old, with some of my formative years being a student too.

 

[Questions]

Obviously Fruit Salads. I don't even know how this is a debate.

All Black Jacks are good for is making your tongue turn purple.

And pulling fillings out