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Here’s 20p - what’s going into your penny sweets bag?
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Right Fabbers, here’s a virtual 20p and a small white paper bag.
What penny sweets are you buying?
I’m gonna chuck in some foam strawberries, cola bottles, mojo’s, fruit salads, and a packet of those sweet cigarettes that you used to be able to buy in the 1980s 
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Foam Shrimps. Cola Bottles. Drumstick Lollies and Highland Toffee's please and the next available appointment to get my fillings put back in "
 ha yeah! Highland toffee, destroyer of teeth!! Do they still make that? Used to have a picture of an Aberdeen Angus on the wrapper if I recall properly! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Bazooka joe bubbly for the little comic strips that you could save up and send off for a gift. My sister got a camera once! "
Yes!!! I got a camera too, plastic crap but it worked!  |
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By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago
Hull |
"Bazooka joe bubbly for the little comic strips that you could save up and send off for a gift. My sister got a camera once!
Yes!!! I got a camera too, plastic crap but it worked! "
Yep all the photos had big red marks down the side I suspect where the light was getting in. My Mum still has some of them though  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"At least 40 pence worth...yes Mr that is 20p of sweets. "
my local shop used to random checks. They did me one time - I said there was 10p in there (these were the days you could get 3 or 4 mojos for 1p!) and I had exactly 10p in there.
They never checked me ever again! |
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"At least 40 pence worth...yes Mr that is 20p of sweets.
my local shop used to random checks. They did me one time - I said there was 10p in there (these were the days you could get 3 or 4 mojos for 1p!) and I had exactly 10p in there.
They never checked me ever again! "
I'm sure they always knew, but I was cute so  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Didn't think 1p sweets existed anyone
Old school eh
Yeah maybe they exist...just ones with red will all contain crushed dead Beetles
Noticed quite a few red and pink colour sweets...will all be cochineal.... getting that sicky feeling thinking about eating crushed beetle privates, brains, legs, shit all crushed together...to give you that lovely red colour.
Let's here it for natural colour in kids sweets... Beetles are a lovely thing compared to....I'll say no more. Clearly lots of sweet lovers here |
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"Aniseed balls. Used to buy them by the quarter. Pow.
Excellent ammo for a catapult, if I remember
This guy knows.
and Eco friendly so in theory it's not naughty to do this"
Gravel and stones were free and we didn't care or had even heard of Eco friendly back in the good old days |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Are we doing virtual prices? Otherwise I can only afford half a marshmallow!  "
Ha yeah, imagine we’re all still kiddies! I’m working on 1980 prices! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"White mice, foam bananas and strawberries and astro belts
You clearly got a thing for crushed beetle
Three those got dead Beetles in them..yum yum "
A lot of sweets contain gelatine. Gelatine, as Wikipedia tells us, is a mixture of peptides and proteins produced by partial hydrolysis of collagen extracted from the skin, bones, and connective tissues of animals such as domesticated cattle, chicken, pigs, and fish.
Mmmm they’re still delish though!
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Mojos
When I was a kid you got two for a penny
So you got more for your money
Also Anglo bubbly gum
And a bazooka buble gum because you got the transfer tattoo in it |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I think we all need to find a sweet shop or pick n' mix and fill our boots. There's an idea. A party with lots of sweets and all dressed in school uniforms....Fab does Wonka....coming to a venue near you soon!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"White mice, foam bananas and strawberries and astro belts
You clearly got a thing for crushed beetle
Three those got dead Beetles in them..yum yum
A lot of sweets contain gelatine. Gelatine, as Wikipedia tells us, is a mixture of peptides and proteins produced by partial hydrolysis of collagen extracted from the skin, bones, and connective tissues of animals such as domesticated cattle, chicken, pigs, and fish.
Mmmm they’re still delish though!
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You know your delight's in the sweet world
Yeah I was just talking about the colourings. Guess ok adults,but adults feed this shit to their kids |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I think we all need to find a sweet shop or pick n' mix and fill our boots. There's an idea. A party with lots of sweets and all dressed in school uniforms....Fab does Wonka....coming to a venue near you soon! "
be more like the old peanuts on the bar haha not for me but dig in..that bloke tucking in there just been for a shite, except earlier when I was in bog earlier,noticed taps don't work
Hmmm those nuts look inviting..yum yum |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"White mice, foam bananas and strawberries and astro belts
You clearly got a thing for crushed beetle
Three those got dead Beetles in them..yum yum
A lot of sweets contain gelatine. Gelatine, as Wikipedia tells us, is a mixture of peptides and proteins produced by partial hydrolysis of collagen extracted from the skin, bones, and connective tissues of animals such as domesticated cattle, chicken, pigs, and fish.
Mmmm they’re still delish though!
You know your delight's in the sweet world
Yeah I was just talking about the colourings. Guess ok adults,but adults feed this shit to their kids "
Way to ruin sweets for me you two 
Sometimes we are happy just to be ignorant to things and it would be better if you kept your "enlightenment" to yourselves  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"White mice, foam bananas and strawberries and astro belts
You clearly got a thing for crushed beetle
Three those got dead Beetles in them..yum yum
A lot of sweets contain gelatine. Gelatine, as Wikipedia tells us, is a mixture of peptides and proteins produced by partial hydrolysis of collagen extracted from the skin, bones, and connective tissues of animals such as domesticated cattle, chicken, pigs, and fish.
Mmmm they’re still delish though!
You know your delight's in the sweet world
Yeah I was just talking about the colourings. Guess ok adults,but adults feed this shit to their kids
Way to ruin sweets for me you two
Sometimes we are happy just to be ignorant to things and it would be better if you kept your "enlightenment" to yourselves "
Knowledge is better than living in the dark. You are what you eat. I wouldn't eat anything without knowing what's in it, but that's me, not you.
I'm sure your intelligent enough to realise you have the facts, rather than live in the dark.
You can now make your own informed decision on continuing to eat shite or not.
People should wake up a little. This stuff will kill you |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yummy!
Fizzy cola bottles
Beer bottles
Foam mushrooms
Jelly crocodiles
Shrimps
Sour snakes
A bubblegum or strawberry Jawbreaker (an expensive treat at 5p ) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"White mice, foam bananas and strawberries and astro belts
You clearly got a thing for crushed beetle
Three those got dead Beetles in them..yum yum
A lot of sweets contain gelatine. Gelatine, as Wikipedia tells us, is a mixture of peptides and proteins produced by partial hydrolysis of collagen extracted from the skin, bones, and connective tissues of animals such as domesticated cattle, chicken, pigs, and fish.
Mmmm they’re still delish though!
You know your delight's in the sweet world
Yeah I was just talking about the colourings. Guess ok adults,but adults feed this shit to their kids
Way to ruin sweets for me you two
Sometimes we are happy just to be ignorant to things and it would be better if you kept your "enlightenment" to yourselves "
Gelatine is really good for you though |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I only got 3d (old pence) for school and for that I got 4 black jacks, a penny arrow (toffee bar), and a penny gobstopper, and all that for what would be 1p in new money, OMG I feel old. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I used to get 20p on a Monday when we went swimming with the school used to get a marathon packet of crisps and spend the rest on black jacks and fruit salads at 2 for 1p good old days |
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Black Jack
Fruit Salad
Flying Saucer
Sponge Banana
Spearmint Chew
Chocolate lime
Sherbert lemon
Monkey nut
Hubba Bubba
Fizzers
Cherry Lips
Gob stopper
Refreshers
Pink Shrimp
Fried Egg
milk bottle
Parma Violet
Liquorice
Coconut mushroom
mo jo
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Depends if were spending it now in 2018 or in 1980 where we had half penny sweets. Which are 5p now! Do they even do 1p sweets now?"
good point fella... most are at least 5p a sweet.. shows ya how much times have changed.. every thing is day light robbery, walk into a newsagents and you've done a tenner on a sandwich n packet of crisps! |
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By *i1971Man
over a year ago
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Back in the day, used to get
Pink shrimps ×4 for 1p
Foam bananas ×2 for 1p
Black jacks ×4 for 1p
Fruit Salad ×4 for 1p
Traffic light lolly 2p
Sherbet to dip the lolly in only a few pence
Sherbet fountain ( liquorice straws never did work) think they were about 5p
Cola cubes & pear drops - could get loads for 10p
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Depends if were spending it now in 2018 or in 1980 where we had half penny sweets. Which are 5p now! Do they even do 1p sweets now? good point fella... most are at least 5p a sweet.. shows ya how much times have changed.. every thing is day light robbery, walk into a newsagents and you've done a tenner on a sandwich n packet of crisps! "
I always thought.. When they got rid of the half penny these sweet company manufacturers profits doubled overnight lol |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"See the OP being a bit tight with the 20p. Should have a least a quid.  "
ha I said way back up there ^^ that my base was 1980s prices!
Although 20p would have been a fortune to me back then - 10p was the actual standard I used to get! |
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By *p4funCouple
over a year ago
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"Didn't think 1p sweets existed anyone
Old school eh
Yeah maybe they exist...just ones with red will all contain crushed dead Beetles
Noticed quite a few red and pink colour sweets...will all be cochineal.... getting that sicky feeling thinking about eating crushed beetle privates, brains, legs, shit all crushed together...to give you that lovely red colour.
Let's here it for natural colour in kids sweets... Beetles are a lovely thing compared to....I'll say no more. Clearly lots of sweet lovers here"
Was a light hearted trip down memory lane as i read it lol.... but thanks for your input (noted ) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Cant get anything for 20p these days, i remember a fredo was about 5p now there about 30p
My favs... fizzy cola bottles, golf balls, eye poppers, fizzy half blue half pink bottles, flying saucers, fizzy watermellon and peach thingys, twist n squeeze, the ice cream with the ball of chewing gum at the bottom, fire balls, jaw breakers, wham bars, refresher bars, black jacks and fruit salads... yum |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"See the OP being a bit tight with the 20p. Should have a least a quid.
ha I said way back up there ^^ that my base was 1980s prices!
Although 20p would have been a fortune to me back then - 10p was the actual standard I used to get! "
Cool got the half penny sweets then |
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"Oh and who remembers the Carona man and the limeade and cherryade?
The Corona van with the large bottles of dandelion & burdock for a Sunday treat. Am sure very few will remember that! "
We had the Corona van used to get money back for the bottles too |
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Kola Cubes (How many times did I cut the roof of my mouth sucking these!)
Lemon Sherbets (Ditto!)
Mojos (3 for 1/2 a penny!)
Space Dust (I once has a dog, who just loved sticking his wet nose in the packet and then freaking out and jumping like a dog possessed - then he'd come back for more. Just nuts!)
Spangles (Cola and Orange where my favourites)
Great thread!
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Some Lazers bit like a long thin Cola Cube, an ice cream cone with marshmallow & sprinkles on instead of ice-cream, and some cola-bottles that I was convinced you could tip up and "drink" or suck the brown cola bit out  |
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