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By * and M looking OP   Couple  over a year ago

Worcester

Let's keep it alphabetical again, so we will start with A.

Aniseed balls.

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By *ingu and The ApeCouple  over a year ago

The Igloo

Breakfast wrap (McDonalds).

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By * and M looking OP   Couple  over a year ago

Worcester

Coconut tobacco.

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By * and M looking OP   Couple  over a year ago

Worcester

Diam bars.

Haven't seen them in ages.

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By *bi HaiveMan  over a year ago
Forum Mod

Cheeseville, Somerset

Spangles

A

*apologies if there haven't been 15 odd posts taking care of the rest of the alphabet in the time it's taken me to write this.....

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS  over a year ago

Bristol


"Diam bars.

Haven't seen them in ages."

I'm sure you still get these in the shops

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By *om and JennieCouple  over a year ago

Chams or Socials


"Diam bars.

Haven't seen them in ages."

They’re still about

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By *ild_oatsMan  over a year ago

the land of saints & sinners


"Diam bars.

Haven't seen them in ages."

You can still get them in IKEA….

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By *r TriomanMan  over a year ago

Chippenham Malmesbury area

Everlasting Strips... although, I've still got one from 1972, I eat a bit each day and it's still going

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By *he love catsCouple  over a year ago

South Wales

Had some daim bars the other week, mint flavour one's they were.

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Hard liquorice

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Iced gems

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Had something reminiscent of child hood sherbet dib dab

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Spira

Makes me cry when I think of these

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By *ris GrayMan  over a year ago

Dorchester


"Diam bars.

Haven't seen them in ages."

Dime you mean

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By *ris GrayMan  over a year ago

Dorchester

Kersh

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By *andy 1Couple  over a year ago

northeast

black jacks

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By *C79Man  over a year ago

Caterham

Pacers

Fuse bar

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By *ild_oatsMan  over a year ago

the land of saints & sinners

Nestle’s Toffo

Cadbury’s Astros

Terry’s Pyramint

Mars Planets

Mars Peanut Banjo

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By *ild_oatsMan  over a year ago

the land of saints & sinners


"Iced gems"

Available in Tesco

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By * and M looking OP   Couple  over a year ago

Worcester

Gobstopper anyone?

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By * and M looking OP   Couple  over a year ago

Worcester


"Diam bars.

Haven't seen them in ages.Dime you mean "

Nope definitely Daim.

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By *ob Carpe DiemMan  over a year ago

Torquay

Amazin bars, back to the start of the alphabet, rum and raisin bars from the 70's

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Um bongo juice drink

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By *ris GrayMan  over a year ago

Dorchester


"Diam bars.

Haven't seen them in ages.Dime you mean

Nope definitely Daim."

really never heard of it

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By *icknmix500Man  over a year ago

South Gloucestershire

Cresta It's frothy man

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By *ob Carpe DiemMan  over a year ago

Torquay


"Diam bars.

Haven't seen them in ages.Dime you mean

Nope definitely Daim.really never heard of it "

Cadbury product

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By *ob Carpe DiemMan  over a year ago

Torquay

Drifter was discontinued, think they were reintroduced

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By *bi HaiveMan  over a year ago
Forum Mod

Cheeseville, Somerset


"Diam bars.

Haven't seen them in ages.Dime you mean

Nope definitely Daim."

From t'internet.

"Daim Bar was originally called Dajm bar when launched in its native Sweden in the 1950s, and was renamed Dime bar for the British market until 2005! It's now known universally as Daim."

So essentially the same thing.

A

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By * and M looking OP   Couple  over a year ago

Worcester


"Diam bars.

Haven't seen them in ages.Dime you mean

Nope definitely Daim.

From t'internet.

"Daim Bar was originally called Dajm bar when launched in its native Sweden in the 1950s, and was renamed Dime bar for the British market until 2005! It's now known universally as Daim."

So essentially the same thing.

A"

Go to the top of the class.

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By *hatCoupleNextDoorCouple  over a year ago

nearby

Secret Bar, think it was cadburys!

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Bandit biscuits

Heinz chicken and vegetable soup.

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By *allen Angels CplCouple  over a year ago

North East leicestershire

Fruit salads, lucky bags, spangles, Texan bars,chocolate limes.

Not that I have a sweet tooth lol x

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By * and M looking OP   Couple  over a year ago

Worcester

Mint cracknel and Caramac.

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By *eah BabyCouple  over a year ago

Cheshire, Windermere ,Cumbria

Rowntree’s nutty bar

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By *4bimMan  over a year ago

Farnborough Hampshire

i dont see that stuff you use to squeeze out on to ice cream and it went hard.

was it called ice magic?

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By *sm265Woman  over a year ago

Shangri-la

Seeing as the alphabet has been abandoned...

Texan bars

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago


"Mint cracknel and Caramac."

They still sell Caramac bars in the garage just down the road. Now you've reminded me I may go get one tomorrow

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By * and M looking OP   Couple  over a year ago

Worcester


"i dont see that stuff you use to squeeze out on to ice cream and it went hard.

was it called ice magic?"

Stay Hard?

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By *iger4uWoman  over a year ago

In my happy place

Milky ways with the brown centres

Pink panther chocolate

Golden nugget... ablittle bag of chewing gum pieces

Football chews

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago


"Seeing as the alphabet has been abandoned...

Texan bars "

Time sure goes slow when you're chewing a Texan .

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By *eforfuncplCouple  over a year ago

Morecambe

MB bar

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By * and M looking OP   Couple  over a year ago

Worcester

White mice.

Sweet cigarettes.

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By *andy 1Couple  over a year ago

northeast

love harts

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By *archelCouple  over a year ago

A field somewhere

(Cadburys) spira.

I don't know why, but it always tasted better than a plain old dairy milk.

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple  over a year ago

Leeds

Vice versa's I used to love those.

Mrs

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By *xtcMan  over a year ago

b ham

Old Jamaica rum chocolate bar

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By * and M looking OP   Couple  over a year ago

Worcester

Hubba Bubba

Bazooka Joe

Liquorice laces.

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By * and M looking OP   Couple  over a year ago

Worcester


"Nestle’s Toffo

Cadbury’s Astros

Terry’s Pyramint

Mars Planets

Mars Peanut Banjo

"

Weren't Toffo's made by Rowntrees?

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By * and M looking OP   Couple  over a year ago

Worcester

Do they still make Caffreys?

It's one of the few beers that used to turn Mr M into a lunatic.

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By * and M looking OP   Couple  over a year ago

Worcester

Also Castlemain XXXX.

Remember the ads?

"I think you over did it with the Sherry"

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By *ormerWelshcouple2020Man  over a year ago

Stourbridge

Cadburys Bar Six

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By *an hjCouple  over a year ago

Stowmarket

Weekend chocolates

Pontefract cakes

Coconut mushrooms

Jamboree bags.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman  over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Polony

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Sweet tobacco - coconut covered in brown sugar

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

I want to say cambino sweets but I’ve probably got that name wrong

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By *ornucopiaMan  over a year ago

Bexley

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By *ornucopiaMan  over a year ago

Bexley

"

From t'internet.

"Daim Bar was originally called Dajm bar when launched in its native Sweden in the 1950s, and was renamed Dime bar for the British market until 2005! It's now known universally as Daim."

So essentially the same thing.

A"

I thought they originated somewhere in the South Pacific, where the slogan was:

"There is nothing yo can naim which is anything like a daim".

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By *orny PTMan  over a year ago

Peterborough


"i dont see that stuff you use to squeeze out on to ice cream and it went hard.

was it called ice magic?

Stay Hard? "

Yes, well nearly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rfL9d4MDJY

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By *londebiguyMan  over a year ago

Southport

Jacobs Jamboree

Dundee biscuits

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By *929Man  over a year ago

newcastle

Bovril crisps why the fuck did they ever get stop being made

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By *orny PTMan  over a year ago

Peterborough


"Bovril crisps why the fuck did they ever get stop being made"

Because marmite took over.

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By *ormalfornorfolkMan  over a year ago

Norwich

Bar six

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By *orny PTMan  over a year ago

Peterborough

I have a great book called "The Great British Tuckshop" by Steve Berry & Steve Norman ISBN978-1-906321-45-1.

Golden Wonder also had OXO flavour to take on Smiths, with Bovril

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By *orny PTMan  over a year ago

Peterborough


"Jacobs Jamboree

Dundee biscuits"

I miss them.

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By *andy 1Couple  over a year ago

northeast

tooty fruity

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Lilt, Marathon and Opal Fruits

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