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By *sGivesWood OP Woman
over a year ago
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Which confectionery did you have as a child? What do you miss that is difficult to find or not made anymore? I remember spangles, they were fruit flavoured fizzy boiled sweets. Can't get them any more. Caramac and Timeout are another two of my favourites but can't find them very easily. |
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"Which confectionery did you have as a child? What do you miss that is difficult to find or not made anymore? I remember spangles, they were fruit flavoured fizzy boiled sweets. Can't get them any more. Caramac and Timeout are another two of my favourites but can't find them very easily. "
Caramacs and timeouts are available in supermarkets quite easily xx |
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By *sGivesWood OP Woman
over a year ago
ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL |
"You can still get caramac up this way usually in B&M.
What about the good old Cadburys Aztec bar long gone "
Crikey, vaguely remember a technical bar what was in it, I'll look for caramac in our local b&m x |
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By *sGivesWood OP Woman
over a year ago
ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL |
"You can still get caramac up this way usually in B&M.
What about the good old Cadburys Aztec bar long gone
Crikey, vaguely remember a technical bar what was in it, I'll look for caramac in our local b&m x"
Aztec not technical lol |
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And m&ms were much better when they were Treets .the peanut ones were huge .
Bring back the old topic bar Mars .the ones with a whole hazelnut in every bite .not like today's topic bars .they're called find the bloody hazelnut |
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What were the green and white wrapped mild minty chew sweets that were like spangles?
I seemed to recall them being spangles but was corrected a while ago and its annoying me since..
Its like a part of my childhood has gone skew wiff.. |
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By *sGivesWood OP Woman
over a year ago
ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL |
"What were the green and white wrapped mild minty chew sweets that were like spangles?
I seemed to recall them being spangles but was corrected a while ago and its annoying me since..
Its like a part of my childhood has gone skew wiff.."
I remember them but can't remember the name. Pacers? |
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Who remembers Tudor Crisps (a canny bag of Tudor)?
Half penny Mojo's were a big favourite, as was the Texan Bar and those silver coloured gobstoppers which were apparently banned due to some toxic ingredient in the silver coating. |
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By *sGivesWood OP Woman
over a year ago
ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL |
"Who remembers Tudor Crisps (a canny bag of Tudor)?
Half penny Mojo's were a big favourite, as was the Texan Bar and those silver coloured gobstoppers which were apparently banned due to some toxic ingredient in the silver coating."
what was in a texan? I vaguely remember the ad. |
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By *sGivesWood OP Woman
over a year ago
ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL |
"A Sweet tobacco set for Christmas including a licorice pipe with red sprinkly bits to represent the burning end.
I remember eating Brown tobacco looking stuff it was chewy"
what on earth was that |
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"Aztec was shaped like a topic bar with a different coloured soft chewy type filling . "
it was a limited edition sweetie because of the world cup or some other tournament being played in the Aztec stadium |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"What were the green and white wrapped mild minty chew sweets that were like spangles?
I seemed to recall them being spangles but was corrected a while ago and its annoying me since..
Its like a part of my childhood has gone skew wiff..
I remember them but can't remember the name. Pacers? "
Yes they were Pacers |
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By *sGivesWood OP Woman
over a year ago
ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL |
"What were the green and white wrapped mild minty chew sweets that were like spangles?
I seemed to recall them being spangles but was corrected a while ago and its annoying me since..
Its like a part of my childhood has gone skew wiff..
I remember them but can't remember the name. Pacers?
Yes they were Pacers"
Yeh cut my head open with a knife trying to cut one, still got the scar lol |
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"Which confectionery did you have as a child? What do you miss that is difficult to find or not made anymore? I remember spangles, they were fruit flavoured fizzy boiled sweets. Can't get them any more. Caramac and Timeout are another two of my favourites but can't find them very easily. "
You can still get timeout morrisons got them the other day x |
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"What were the green and white wrapped mild minty chew sweets that were like spangles?
I seemed to recall them being spangles but was corrected a while ago and its annoying me since..
Its like a part of my childhood has gone skew wiff..
I remember them but can't remember the name. Pacers?
Yes they were Pacers
Yeh cut my head open with a knife trying to cut one, still got the scar lol"
WTF?  |
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By *sGivesWood OP Woman
over a year ago
ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL |
"What were the green and white wrapped mild minty chew sweets that were like spangles?
I seemed to recall them being spangles but was corrected a while ago and its annoying me since..
Its like a part of my childhood has gone skew wiff..
I remember them but can't remember the name. Pacers?
Yes they were Pacers
Yeh cut my head open with a knife trying to cut one, still got the scar lol
WTF? "
Lol I was playing hospitals with my brother, sister and cousins. I was trying to cut them up like pills  |
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By *sGivesWood OP Woman
over a year ago
ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL |
"Which confectionery did you have as a child? What do you miss that is difficult to find or not made anymore? I remember spangles, they were fruit flavoured fizzy boiled sweets. Can't get them any more. Caramac and Timeout are another two of my favourites but can't find them very easily.
You can still get timeout morrisons got them the other day x"
single or multi pack? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Which confectionery did you have as a child? What do you miss that is difficult to find or not made anymore? I remember spangles, they were fruit flavoured fizzy boiled sweets. Can't get them any more. Caramac and Timeout are another two of my favourites but can't find them very easily.
You can still get timeout morrisons got them the other day xsingle or multi pack? "
Tesco and coop do timeout |
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By *sGivesWood OP Woman
over a year ago
ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL |
"Which confectionery did you have as a child? What do you miss that is difficult to find or not made anymore? I remember spangles, they were fruit flavoured fizzy boiled sweets. Can't get them any more. Caramac and Timeout are another two of my favourites but can't find them very easily.
You can still get timeout morrisons got them the other day xsingle or multi pack?
Tesco and coop do timeout"
Thanks xx |
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"Which confectionery did you have as a child? What do you miss that is difficult to find or not made anymore? I remember spangles, they were fruit flavoured fizzy boiled sweets. Can't get them any more. Caramac and Timeout are another two of my favourites but can't find them very easily.
You can still get timeout morrisons got them the other day xsingle or multi pack? "
Multi pack x |
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By *sGivesWood OP Woman
over a year ago
ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL |
"Which confectionery did you have as a child? What do you miss that is difficult to find or not made anymore? I remember spangles, they were fruit flavoured fizzy boiled sweets. Can't get them any more. Caramac and Timeout are another two of my favourites but can't find them very easily.
You can still get timeout morrisons got them the other day xsingle or multi pack?
Multi pack x"
Yummy, don't think I'd stop at one though lol  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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curly wurly , lemon bon bons , sherbert dib dab , black jacks , gobstoppers , bubblicious and toffee strip were my weekly treats
can still get yesteryear sweets , just google them , there all still for sale |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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There’s loads of old style sweets shops popping up. Mostly in cities or shopping centres.
You can go and indulge in some sweet childhood nostalgia and have them bend you over and give you a royal good shafting on the price to top it off |
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"There’s loads of old style sweets shops popping up. Mostly in cities or shopping centres.
You can go and indulge in some sweet childhood nostalgia and have them bend you over and give you a royal good shafting on the price to top it off "
I'm sure thats how the creepy old newsagents use to serve them anyway lol |
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"What were the green and white wrapped mild minty chew sweets that were like spangles?
I seemed to recall them being spangles but was corrected a while ago and its annoying me since..
Its like a part of my childhood has gone skew wiff..
I remember them but can't remember the name. Pacers?
Yes they were Pacers
Yeh cut my head open with a knife trying to cut one, still got the scar lol
WTF?
Lol I was playing hospitals with my brother, sister and cousins. I was trying to cut them up like pills "
as you do!
using your head for the chopping board? |
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"A Sweet tobacco set for Christmas including a licorice pipe with red sprinkly bits to represent the burning end.
I remember eating Brown tobacco looking stuff it was chewywhat on earth was that "
Spanish gold sweet tobacco just googled it it looks like worms probably would hate it now but remember it being yummy |
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"A Sweet tobacco set for Christmas including a licorice pipe with red sprinkly bits to represent the burning end.
I remember eating Brown tobacco looking stuff it was chewywhat on earth was that
Spanish gold sweet tobacco just googled it it looks like worms probably would hate it now but remember it being yummy"
We had this stuff back home - it was strands of coconut covered in brown sugar. |
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"A Sweet tobacco set for Christmas including a licorice pipe with red sprinkly bits to represent the burning end.
I remember eating Brown tobacco looking stuff it was chewywhat on earth was that
Spanish gold sweet tobacco just googled it it looks like worms probably would hate it now but remember it being yummy
We had this stuff back home - it was strands of coconut covered in brown sugar."
I've googled it and you can still buy it  I'm tempted it's coconut with chocolate dust on it |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"A Sweet tobacco set for Christmas including a licorice pipe with red sprinkly bits to represent the burning end.
I remember eating Brown tobacco looking stuff it was chewy"
That was called sweet tabacco. Was basically coconut covered in chocolate and dusted in chocolate powder. Looked quite realistic.
I remember chocolate cigarettes which looked quite convincing. You could even eat the paper covering!
Caramac, Topic and Cadbury caramel full size bars and share size bars are still sold in all my town shops including Asda. |
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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago
Shrewsbury |
"Which confectionery did you have as a child? What do you miss that is difficult to find or not made anymore? I remember spangles, they were fruit flavoured fizzy boiled sweets. Can't get them any more. Caramac and Timeout are another two of my favourites but can't find them very easily. "
Morrisons have them in |
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"A Sweet tobacco set for Christmas including a licorice pipe with red sprinkly bits to represent the burning end.
I remember eating Brown tobacco looking stuff it was chewy"
yes I liked the brown tobacco stuff. old jamaica chocolate bar, frys chocolate, nestles dairy crunch bar. |
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"A Sweet tobacco set for Christmas including a licorice pipe with red sprinkly bits to represent the burning end.
I remember eating Brown tobacco looking stuff it was chewyyes I liked the brown tobacco stuff. old jamaica chocolate bar, frys chocolate, nestles dairy crunch bar."
ooh old Jamaica mmm |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Pink panther bars
Splicsr.. A fruit chew thing
Nutty Bar
Gold rush.. A teeny vag of nuggets that were chewing gum
Chewing nuts
Proper brown filling milky ways |
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By *sGivesWood OP Woman
over a year ago
ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL |
"A Sweet tobacco set for Christmas including a licorice pipe with red sprinkly bits to represent the burning end.
I remember eating Brown tobacco looking stuff it was chewyyes I liked the brown tobacco stuff. old jamaica chocolate bar, frys chocolate, nestles dairy crunch bar.
ooh old Jamaica mmm"
mmmm rum and raisin |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"You can still get caramac up this way usually in B&M.
What about the good old Cadburys Aztec bar long gone
Crikey, vaguely remember a technical bar what was in it, I'll look for caramac in our local b&m x"
Don't try the caramac buttons, they taste nothing like 
Sweet tobacco, space dust, a variety of liquorice, loved the hard besetti sticks  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"What were the green and white wrapped mild minty chew sweets that were like spangles?
I seemed to recall them being spangles but was corrected a while ago and its annoying me since..
Its like a part of my childhood has gone skew wiff.."
Opal Mints. They still do the fruit ones as Starburst.
I miss Olde English Spangles.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"coincidentally, i've just bought a big bag of flying saucers...hadn't seen them for years!
they taste like holy communion!"
As a good catholic boy lol
Never had sherbet tasting holy communion but I know what you mean.
My fave of all time apart from choc limes sweet mushrooms frys multi flavoured chocolate cream bars and rasberry ruffles has to be the hard liquorice sticks that were flat on one end and you had to nearly break your teeth on gnawing through it... yum yum lol |
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"A Sweet tobacco set for Christmas including a licorice pipe with red sprinkly bits to represent the burning end.
I remember eating Brown tobacco looking stuff it was chewyyes I liked the brown tobacco stuff. old jamaica chocolate bar, frys chocolate, nestles dairy crunch bar.
ooh old Jamaica mmmmmmm rum and raisin "
Oh god forgotten about Old Jamaica mmmmmm
what about Cadburys Tiffin
Or I remember a Cadburys Milk Tray bar where you had all the milk tray chocs in a choc bar including if I'm remembering rightly a lime flavour barrel together with the usual strawberry and orange creams turkish delight and I think a coconut one...anybody remember this one? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Most of the sweets mentioned are still readily available in a lot of shops. Not the same size and double the price
Cadbury coconut boost. They don't do it anymore and a few years ago there was a Facebook campaign to get it back. Must have failed |
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"A Sweet tobacco set for Christmas including a licorice pipe with red sprinkly bits to represent the burning end.
I remember eating Brown tobacco looking stuff it was chewyyes I liked the brown tobacco stuff. old jamaica chocolate bar, frys chocolate, nestles dairy crunch bar.
ooh old Jamaica mmmmmmm rum and raisin
Oh god forgotten about Old Jamaica mmmmmm
what about Cadburys Tiffin
Or I remember a Cadburys Milk Tray bar where you had all the milk tray chocs in a choc bar including if I'm remembering rightly a lime flavour barrel together with the usual strawberry and orange creams turkish delight and I think a coconut one...anybody remember this one?"
yes I do, the lime one was amazing |
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"coincidentally, i've just bought a big bag of flying saucers...hadn't seen them for years!
they taste like holy communion!
As a good catholic boy lol
Never had sherbet tasting holy communion but I know what you mean.
My fave of all time apart from choc limes sweet mushrooms frys multi flavoured chocolate cream bars and rasberry ruffles has to be the hard liquorice sticks that were flat on one end and you had to nearly break your teeth on gnawing through it... yum yum lol"
liquorice oar made your teeth Brown |
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"A Sweet tobacco set for Christmas including a licorice pipe with red sprinkly bits to represent the burning end.
I remember eating Brown tobacco looking stuff it was chewyyes I liked the brown tobacco stuff. old jamaica chocolate bar, frys chocolate, nestles dairy crunch bar.
ooh old Jamaica mmmmmmm rum and raisin
Oh god forgotten about Old Jamaica mmmmmm
what about Cadburys Tiffin
Or I remember a Cadburys Milk Tray bar where you had all the milk tray chocs in a choc bar including if I'm remembering rightly a lime flavour barrel together with the usual strawberry and orange creams turkish delight and I think a coconut one...anybody remember this one?
yes I do, the lime one was amazing"
Glad i'm not the only one...not imagining things after all |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Does anyone remember mint cracknell, at least I thing that's what it was called"
I can still remember the taste, smell and sound of a mint cracknell. I lived Old Jamaica too. |
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"Creme egg ... How do you eat yours? "
Flimsy things now. Back in the day it took forever to gnaw through the incredibly thick chocolate at the top. It was like winning a good medal when you eventually made it through to that gorgeous creamy centre. Now the mearest knock and they break apart. Just not the same. |
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By *uicy jonesMan
over a year ago
near a big hill in s/ shropshire NOT in |
"Which confectionery did you have as a child? What do you miss that is difficult to find or not made anymore? I remember spangles, they were fruit flavoured fizzy boiled sweets. Can't get them any more. Caramac and Timeout are another two of my favourites but can't find them very easily. "
I have a full box of caramac  ,,,
Nom nom nom |
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By *i1971Man
over a year ago
Cornwall |
I used to like Fry's mint creme bar, & thought they were discontinued long ago. Found them a few weeks ago but I think the memory was better than the taste ( although they could have changed recipe I suppose) |
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"Which confectionery did you have as a child? What do you miss that is difficult to find or not made anymore? I remember spangles, they were fruit flavoured fizzy boiled sweets. Can't get them any more. Caramac and Timeout are another two of my favourites but can't find them very easily. "
you can get caramac and timeout where i live |
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"Does anyone remember the plain unflavoured crisps that came with a little black sachet..? Empty the sachet into the bag and shake to flavour the crisps"
Salt and shake you can still get them were we live
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By *sGivesWood OP Woman
over a year ago
ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL |
"Which confectionery did you have as a child? What do you miss that is difficult to find or not made anymore? I remember spangles, they were fruit flavoured fizzy boiled sweets. Can't get them any more. Caramac and Timeout are another two of my favourites but can't find them very easily.
I have a full box of caramac ,,,
Nom nom nom "
Pfffttt I could dislike some people...  |
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