[Closed] And the best children's* sweeties are...

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Drum Sticks, I bloody love Drum Sticks!

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Yup, although they are quite a chew so endurance can be an issue

What you need is the full on “teach your kids about taking cocaine” sweets...

Correct, which is why my favourite cycling jersey is:

I used to live just down the canal* from the Swizzels factory**

* a thing that you get in the North

** a thing that you used to get a lot of in the North, dam u Fatcha

Wrong. Everyone knows that Blackjacks and Fruit Salads are where it's at. 🙂

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IHN - awesome- want

According to my kids its this vile invention....

Strong contenders.

Refreshers or drumsticks... Its hard to choose between the two.

For those after the jersey:

https://www.scimitarshop.co.uk/products/refreshers-blue-cycling-jersey

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False.

And Drumsticks fans needen't be left out

https://www.scimitarshop.co.uk/collections/mens-cycling-jerseys/products/drumstick-cycling-jersey

Yeah, Blackjacks win.

Hmmm dunno. Used to see Swizzels from the back windows of my house. You could smell what was being made when you were near too.

So as that was all a bit much, i'm going for:

I still regret the passing of the Aztec bar

Little Chef lollies, every day of the week.

Do they still exist? Wham bars (proper bloody sized ones!) if I can't get a little chef lolly.

It's from this century, so it's going to be controversial, but these are fantastic:

Little Chef lollies, every day of the week.

This, my friend, is a very good shout.

Dobsons Fizz Bombs were very popular on Tyneside.  Not available nowadays, sadly.

You’re all wrong - flying saucers every single day

Good old filling removers (and creators) some of these.

Anyway, cinnamon gobstoppers. Still find the smell of cinnamon is an instant memory flashback for me.

And showing my age, half penny chews.

Shrimps!

The best, why they are the ones you've stolen from your own children.

Yes, I'm  monster.

When i was a kid i used to love foam mushrooms, as an adult i prefer a Mexicana cubensis mushroom.

Haribo Goldbears or Smurfs.

Hard to pass up on these.

I'm ordering some chewits and wham bars (which I had completely forgotten about) and I will share my findings.

Those white mice (not sure they are white chocolate) are vile. Them and the white buttons with sprinkles on them were about the only sweets I didn't like as a child.

If I had to pick one I'd choose gold bears

I must of been an odd kid, these were my favourites when I was young.

Those white mice (not sure they are white chocolate) are vile. Them and the white buttons with sprinkles on them were about the only sweets I didn’t like as a child.

The only sweets I actually disliked as a child were anything with coconut in (still don't like Bountys) and turkish delight. Not hugely fond of Ferrero Rocher either.

Oh, I forgot another candidate for best sweet: cola bottles, but only the ones that are quite thin and floppy, but very nearly see-through, which you don't seem to get these days now that Haribo have taken over the world. And a plus one for Wham bars, when they were A4 sized (as it seemed to me back then)

Belts or laces is the only question!

I love sweets!! From the archives of childhood I used to love Parma Violets, Foam Bananas and Curly Wurlys.

These days it's gotta be Maoam Pinballs FTW.

RM.

I just knew some sick **** would say parma violets and then two of the psychopaths turn up at once!

Beer bottles were my kryptonite.

I was always partial to a curly wurly or sherbert fountain but i seem to recall eating a lot of Catch chocolate bars.

edit: pineapple chunks were pretty good too

Amateurs.

Not sure what the British version of these were, but remember these.

Though the chocolate tasted shit.

Today I had a vimto flavoured chewit, it was rather delicious.

Not sure what the British version of these were, but remember these.

They're ace - they even have proper branding. I'm picturing a 9 year old asking for "20 chocolate B&H"...

Chewing Nuts

A bit left field but I always loved Bombay Mix. On s more normal note Highland Toffee bar.

Captain.

You'd love our local curry house.

Always get Refreshed after a meal.

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I remember walking to school 'smoking' those chocolate cigarettes and when it was cold you could see your breath for extra realism.

Refreshers are definitely up there, also I used to love a Liquorice Toffee sweet to as a kid, but can't remember the brand or name. Still partial to Parma Violets even now. Grew up near the Swizzles factory so they'll always be firm favourites. But also used to love these, though technically might not be categorised as sweeties....

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Oh yes I used to love Chewing Nuts.

Cola cubes.

Pineapple cubes.

Although the little chef lollies...

After an olympic breakfast. Bangin'

Hhmm M&S Percy Pigs

Nobody’s posted up the best ones so far...

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Flying saucers were mentioned on the first page 😉

I was rather fond of white mice or Haribo rhubarb and custard.

I was going to say flying saucers or chocolate covered candy bananas. But I'd not be unhappy with a bag of refreshers.

So many great suggestions.  Some additional ones.

- Sherbet Fountains

- Barrats Tabs

- M&S Colin the Caterpillar - cola flavour

- Orange Chewits.

- The chewy kind of Rhubarb and Custards - bit like a Fruit Salad...

- Sherbet Lemons

We are this far down and not mentioned yet>

might not be the BEST, but could be made to last for hours.

– The chewy kind of Rhubarb and Custards – bit like a Fruit Salad…

Yeah, that.  Even had their own theme tune - diddly dow, diddly dow, diddly dow-de-dow

Best lost adult sweet was the Cabana bar 🙁

Best current adult sweet is Riesen

I don't eat sweets any more, now I'm on the type2 naughty step 🙁 🙁 🙁

Love hearts

Chocolate limes

Cherry lips

Floral gums

Although my favourite was probably chewing nuts as mentioned a few times above.

Chocolate limes

Chocolate limes were singularly disgusting.  The lime bit was tolerable but the "chocolate" was a crime against confectionery.

Also, parma violets, they weren't sweets, they were breath fresheners for Victorian schoolgirls.

Also, parma violets, they weren’t sweets, they were breath fresheners for Victorian schoolgirls.

Agreed! Had one again a couple of years ago and had to spit it out it was so mingin.  Certainly an acquired taste!

These, on the other hand......

This is making me feel old rather than hungry. Cola cubes especially for some reason. Some repressed memory somewhere doubt

Strawberry Bon Bons

A bag of tesco sherbert lemons got me to the Lake District and back last weekend, I'm now going to buy some proper old sweets online! I remember every November time I used to love a bonfire toffee lolly that used to get sold at a local shop, it was immense. Looooove parma violets, have a packet in my cupboard and with the added beenfit that nobody else in the house likes them means they've been there for a week or two now!

Omg yorkshire mixture! I remember I used to pick out all the big fish!!

in fact end of thread, sugar mice!!!

Flying saucers were mentioned on the first page

So they were, I’d read through it a couple of times and missed it. Still stands up under close scrutiny, though!

Has no one mentioned wine gums (their my favourite)or jelly babies or are they not children’s sweets?

I was partial to a Pacer myself.

And the original Counters were well nice.

And Jap Deserts...

Paynes Poppets...

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You can still buy a lot of this stuff from “specialist” shops (cough)

The little sweet shop in Pately Bridge high st sells all this stuff.

Its a stop of our for Yorkshire Mix and 12 different varieties of Liquorice...

Any love for Mackintosh’s Toffo & Tooty Frooties?

Yeah those nasty choc paper cigarettes which you could exhale through and sugar type flour mix would gove that smoke effect.

Used to buy them from baker’s round the corner when I was like 7 yrs. took me another year to have my first puff on a real one that another kid nicked a pack of b&h gold from his father.

Got caught by a bobby and frogmarched home.

Which proves smoking is not cool nor clever

MR TOM’s might not be a sweet but they have nostalgia written all over them for me.

We all know that the best things in life come on threes.

Did anyone else get those beer flavoured gummy sweets shaped like pint glasses?