Classic Sweets, Crisps and Fizzy Pop!!

[Milky Tears]

With news that Cadbury's Wispa is making a comeback, it's time for a "Classic Sweets, Crisps and Fizzy Pop thread...

Bring on those lost classics!!


Hedgehog Crisps, Creamola Foam, Chelsea Whoppers As Big As Your Face, Wham Bars, Top Deck, Aztec Bars, Wagon Wheels That Were Toooooo Wide, Bazooka Joe Bubble Gum, Alpine, Fish 'n' Chips, Macaroon Bars As Tall As A Very Tall Man, Texan Bars, Cabana, TaB Clear, Cresta or Spangles!?




TV Cream "Lost Sweets, Drinks and Confectionery" Feature

Massive Defunct Sweets thread (with pics) on the Do You Remember? site.

Buy some of them from the excellent A Quarter Of website.

Also available from Retrosweets.co.uk or British Candy.com and Feel Sweet.com.

More memories with "Whatever happened to...?


My favourites were the green E.T Biscuits!!




Bring me your memories of school day sweet shops?


CAN I HAVE A BOTTLE OF RED KOLA AND A 10P MIXTURE PLEASE, MISTER?

[SiHart]

The Green ET biscuits were vile Cola flavour as I remember. Yuck!
I liked Pacers- chewy minty sweets. They were really yummy and discontinued after a year or so in the early 80s.

Si xx

[Dave Tudor]

Ah yes! Pacers were white with green stripes, weren't they? I remember the advert with people eating them, and green stripes appearing on their clothes - such imagination!

Anyone remember Nutty bars? They were basically a load of peanuts glued together with toffee or caramel or something. They were lovely, but tough to eat!

As were the old style Creme Eggs if I remember. The chocolate was quite hard, and I actually pulled out a loose tooth eating one once! Also, they were definitely MUCH bigger in those days.

I miss Treats, too. There were toffee and peanut varieties, if I remember, the latter of which survives today as Peanut M&Ms - although it's not the same!

I also miss the original McCowan's Highland Toffee. It was gorgeous, and, again, near impossible to actually eat. I did have one the other week, but it's nowhere as nice, and it's smaller and chewier. Where's the fun in that!?

[Andrew Curnow]

I also miss the original McCowan's Highland Toffee. It was gorgeous, and, again, near impossible to actually eat. I did have one the other week, but it's nowhere as nice, and it's smaller and chewier. Where's the fun in that!?

With the picture of a hairy highland cow on the front? Ooh, yes they were lovely.

And Bazooka Joe (as James mentions in his post above) were nice too.

I still yearn for Floral Gums (might be Floral Gems) which were ever so tiny jelly sweets that tasted of soap. Gorgeous stuff!

[Dirk Gently]

Ah yes! Pacers were white with green stripes, weren't they?

I thought they were Green with white stripes?
I used to love Star Bars. It was like peanut butter wrapped in toffee & then chocolate. Mmmmmmmmmm.

[Wayne]

God, i used to love these!

[Dave Tudor]

I vaguely remember Texan bars - did they have nougat in them? As for Star Bars, you can still get them in certain shops - just keep you eyes peeled!

Does anybody remember Ovaltine bars? They were lovely and malty, and seemed to be available for about a week in the very early eighties!

[Jeff]

My favorite candy as a kid was possibly Pop Rocks (Space Dust in the UK). They are still available, I think. In case they weren't that popular it was a candy that you poured in your mouth and it popped and fizzled and felt weird. We used to have them and then chase them with Mr. Pibb or Dr. Pepper...

Another contender would have been Nerds.

[Perry Vale]

Ah yes! Pacers were white with green stripes, weren't they?

Weren't they rebranded as Opal Mints for a while?

[Rob McCow]

Yuk! I don't like the sound of Ovaltine bars or Opal Mints! They sound like experiments in badness to me.

Pop Rocks / Space Dust sounds very trippy. You just couldn't market that stuff today, I would think.

I also miss the original McCowan's Highland Toffee.

Hmm... McCowan's eh? You could be onto something there.

[Jeff]

Pop Rocks / Space Dust sounds very trippy. You just couldn't market that stuff today, I would think.

I'm pretty sure it's still available.

[Lord President]

I'm pretty sure it's still available.

It is still available. The greatest thing you can do is to fill your mouth with a whole packet of Space Dust and then, with your head tilted back, top it up with Diet Coke. It's hilarious!!!!!!

[Jeff]

It is still available. The greatest thing you can do is to fill your mouth with a whole packet of Space Dust and then, with your head tilted back, top it up with Diet Coke. It's hilarious!!!!!!

I'm aware of some better things that have been done with it, but they would have to be described in the Temple.

[Milky Tears]

Has Jeff been getting his Pop Rocks off by rubbing Space Dust all over his winky?

[Jeff]

Um.. no. And that's not how it works anyway.

[shada pavlova]

I tried snorting a whole Sherbet Fountain yesterday.

...Funnily enough, I can't remember much of the following few hours.

[SiHart]

Do the youngsters of today still try that? Gosh!

Si xx

[shada pavlova]

According to eyewitness accounts, I spent a lot of that time shouting "Spuds Away!".

Make of that what you will.

[SiHart]

I suspect the sugar!

Or someone putting it on

Si xx

[shada pavlova]

Not a bit of it!