Sweet success. It was July 20, 1969, and later that night, Neil Armstrong would be taking his first steps on the moon. 129,923 views made by JimmyB. FAQ’s I remember how my 1960s-self considered Caramac to be the height of sophistication … it was definitely an acquired taste! At the time it was created, it was the only chewy lolly in the world. I well remember visits to a sadistic dentist every school holiday and having to endure endless fillings many of them without an anaesthetic. Susie and I were (almost) more excited about our being able to stock up on sweets at a local shop we called ‘The Hobbit House.’ That wasn’t its actual name, but it was a tiny, brightly colored shop with a round door. Those old ads are priceless. “Don’t forget the dire warnings from adults about swallowing gob-stoppers (“you’ll choke to death!”) and especially chewing gum (It’ll wrap round your Was kinda chewy/crispy/nougatty Covered in chocolate loved these but only avail. ‘When the advertisement for Rowntree’s fruitgums came out, with the little boy shouting “Don’t forget the fruit gums, Mum!” after his departing mother, we were shocked and amazed that any child would be pushy enough to demand sweets every time his mother went shopping.’ Take a look below to start spreading the love. And what do they get … rationing. Why children stick sweets in oranges at Christmas time. How wrong I was. I remember the candy necklaces and the button candy that came on strips of paper in particular, and, yes, Neil Armstrong, the Hobbit House and my friend Susie are forever linked in my memory. They were called Chocstix, I loved them ! It is double strength, too, for te Saudi market, mainly. Try the twist: Make a super speedy 10 minute version of the original recipe in your microwave. I know, FWIW, where you can still buy REAL Vimto, in glass bottles- none of this low sugar, high sweetener, high juice (ALLEGEDLY) healthy bitter lousy aftertaste muck they flog us in the UK. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. I remember plastering “real” american confederate money all over ourbrand new white tiled bathroom (first on Wilson road, blackley Manchester) and it staining the pristine grout…… The flat pick k bubbly flushed down the loo unchewed-i only wanted the dosh! “Boxes of Chocolates were popular too, as you can see from the above illustration. There's all sorts of Sweet Jars at The Sweetie Jar. "1960s sweets" - Local Classifieds, Buy and Sell in the UK and Ireland We found 13 '1960s sweets' adverts for you in the UK and Ireland Navigate to the first search result item Follow this Search Navigate to the Refine Search Options Sort results by Best Match Most Recent Distance Price – … Within our 2 bob budget we could get buddies, mint leaves,black cats, musk sticks yes Spanglers,Lifesavers, a packet of Fags licorice straps or we could blow the whole 2 bob on one glorious chocolate bar – Cadburys, Nestle or Frys.I remember the narrow 12 inch bright red boxes of politically incorrect ‘Nigger Boy Licorice.’ There was a picture of such a boy on the lid. I think we managed to stop eating it before we got sick, but it did sure help us stay up late to watch that historic event. And yes, why can’t those junk phone calls about banks and building societies be about retrospective claims on the dentists of the 1960s? Oak Veneer Occasional Table; Small Baby Doll brand Lipstick; Winfield own brand Ladies Fashion Dress; RCA Camden 33rpm Long-Playing Record; Quarter Pound (125 grams) of Pic'n'Mix Sweets; Standard Ball of Winfield own brand Wool I’m convinced Galaxy doesn’t taste quite as fantastic as when it first came out, though I could easily be wrong. A trip down Memory Lane.Use r luv Bar 6 anyone remember mint cracknells? Delivery Information It’s Mr Marshall! Amazon.co.uk: Sweets from 1960s. The first Wimpy Bars opened in 1954 selling hamburgers and milkshakes and proved extremely popular. If I had had the dentist then that I have now I would have very few fillings. Taste memories go very deep don’t they? The late 1950s and 1960s saw a rise in immigration from the former British colonies. No wonder we all grew up so well balanced! There follows a discussion, and this between dentists you’ll remember, that set my teeth on edge but entirely changed my opinion about the gaps and fillings inside my mouth. Cheap sweets. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. And if you like this, no doubt coming soon could be be ‘Ice cream and lemonade in the 1960s’ ‘Comics of the 1960s’ – and who knows what else is lurking in our memories! A UK online Sweetshop, full of retro 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s sweets, traditional, old fashioned sweets & all your old favourites. ‘Food in the 1960s: Actually it was quite good.’, ‘Food in the 1960s: What else were we eating?’. Anyone remember Lunch, it was in a red wrapper (much like KitKat) and silver paper, it was 3 fingers of shortbread (I think) enrobed in chocolate, I don’t recall who produced it. Does anyone remember a candy stick thing that was like a coffee coloured ridged extrusion and I think it was hollow, or perhaps filled with sherbet, it tasted brown and coffee/caramelly as well? recently when I found it on sale again, less than 5 years ago. Retro Sweets It was also a decade that saw many changes to the way we eat, with the first Chinese and Indian takeaways opening and foreign dishes like Spaghetti Bolognese appearing on our plates at home. Check out our 1960s sweets selection for the very best in unique or custom, handmade pieces from our candy shops. We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. And I suspect that one of the most detested people in Maghull, Mr Marshall, the dentist on the corner of Sefton Lane – who’d fixed himself up with a monopoly of dental checking in our school, made a fortune from unnecessary fillings.”, ‘Surely not?’ I thought. Apr 27, 2019 - Explore Pam's board "1960/70's sweets and chocolate in our house" on Pinterest. Just fitted nice in the pocket. At a few smaller shops. I was given two rather very large bars of Galaxy milk chocolate, one from my partner’s daughter and one from her grandson, and they still go down just as well. The closest to the flavour was a dolly mixture by Haribo but guess what, yes, they no longer make them. Don’t know if it’s still out there? It means that most people in this specific age group need dentists now more than any other age group to repair their teeth. Foam bananas and shrimps, sherbet flying saucers and white chocolate mice. I was one who visited the ‘school dentist’ at around the age of 14. I do. But thinking of George Harrison’s dire warnings, how were our teeth faring with all these sweets and chocolate? List of UK top-ten singles is a series of lists showing all the singles that have reached the top 10 on the UK Singles Chart in a particular year. Contact us They still taste just as good. Anyone remember a bar called “Milky Lunch”? The bar was withdrawn in 1975 and has been mourned, certainly by me and Sarah (though I didn’t of course know her then) ever since. We used to buy a chocolate bar in the 60’s that had a rum flavour, it was shaped a bit like a Mars bar. I had always suspected the dentists of my childhood gave me fillings unnecessarily as I didn’t have any new ones as an adult for many years, just replacements. (What is YouTube for?) We stock a huge range of pick and mix sweets, traditional sweets, retro sweets and American candy. Another joint post from those two characters out of a latter day ‘Just William’ novel. This was so interesting, and what fun it is to remember those iconic sweets (lollies in Australia). All of our sweets can be selected from our website and posted direct to … I have no memory of dirt in sweets ever being a problem at all. I so remember the Ad for Galaxy Chocolate I was about 4 at the time and whenever I had one I had to close my eyes , even Today after coming across one in a Supermarket in Australia I still closed my eyes when eating it and Fry’s Chocolate was always a Treat from my Grandad. Sweet Box Hampers See more ideas about my childhood memories, retro sweets, childhood memories 70s. We fly the flag for these delights ensuring that a new generation of sweetie lovers can enjoy them too, and in turn their kids, and so on. I liked Old English Spangles, and mourn their untimely passing. All Your Favourite Old Fashioned Retro Sweets Online at The Sweetie Jar. Step back into the summer of ‘69 and grab a packet of Starbursts. Actually, IIRC it was 2 sticks in 1 wrapper. In our case, as Barry says, this was the ‘Traveller’s Rest’, conveniently situated, for them and us, just outside our junior school. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Now don’t eat them all at once, or you’ll make yourself sick! I too remember ‘Frys Five Centre’, Karen, used to love them. It was a marshmallow toffee topped centre and chocolate covered, 2 short bars in each wrapper. Stephen Fry rhapsodizes about his sugar addiction in his memoir ‘The Fry Chronicles’ and mentions a lot of these candies. And while we were getting that one ready Barry started to reminisce about the sweets we ate (by the ton) back then. Things started to change when the UK’s answer to the burger bars in America arrived in the 1950s to cater for that new group of consumers, the ‘teenagers’. At boading school we were allowed to choose 2 sweets per day (usually the choice was limited to barley sugar) but we could spend 2 shillings at the local shop on Saturdays and we could choose almost anything but chewie. I think by this time they’d dispensed with the coffee flavour in favour of strawberry…but I may be wrong.”, “My nan would give me sweets and 2 comics (The Beano and The Victor) when we visited on Sundays, and I can remember having to give up sweets for Lent one year. (May have been spelt as Chocsticks, but I doubt it ). (tv ad Gimme mint cracknell n I don’t care!). I recall phoning the company some time in the late 1980s, and asking, were they still available; a woman there said “No, they were discontinued in 1982, as they weren’t selling well enough”. And they never went without sweets. I remember well the dire warnings about gobstockers and chewing gum. I was still eating Wagon Wheels in my teens and later when I had big hands!! ‘Posh sweets’ were most celebrated at Christmas when Selection Boxes would be expected to turn up in the pillow case at the bottom of your bed. I wonder why that is (was). “I was also a lover of sweets, and some favourites from the sixties were bars of 5 Boys milk chocolate, Fry’s Five Centres and of course the ones you could only get out of jars at the ‘Travellers Rest’, near the school, such as cinder toffee, pear drops, sherbert liquourice, gob-stoppers, and treacle toffee.”. Came out at same time as Old Jamaica and something called ‘Velvet Blend’- seemingly a mix halfway between milk and plain- I got the taste for ‘Old Jamacy- don’t ‘ee knock it back at once!’ (q. TV ad!) ( Log Out /  Nichols (the makers) denied they still made it when I had one of my periodical rants at the, but they surely DO. I believe Wagon Wheels were bigger in the past. Why did companies stop making the lovely boxes of chocolates, there was always a nice picture on the lid. So there obviously had to be this separate ‘Sweets of the 60s’ post. Login to your account, Posted Sweets does anyone remember the toy parachutist that came with it? Vegan Sweets Even so, this decade produced one of the UK’s favourite sweet creations- the Black Jack. ‘Surely no responsible professional would carry out medical procedures that weren’t needed?’. Terms & Conditions Compare this Product. The damage was done in the 1960s, you can’t go back and change history.”. Well, last week’s discovery that food in the 1960s was actually quite good sparked off lots of interest on here and on Twitter. Posted Sweets is a top UK based online sweet shop. I just bought 24 bottles from Wordwide Foods in Manchester, (Rusholme) near the Infirmiary on Wilmslow road. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Probably every time you hear ‘The Eagle has landed’ you’re back in the Hobbit House choosing your sweets. A JAR OF 60s SWEETS comes in 3 sizes! WIMPS . A lovely memory Kathi. They had a chocolatey top om and I remeber the choc/mint ones that had green minty stuff below the brown choccy top layer! Curly Wurlies. Do you remember you always got a Bar 6 in your selection box but I never saw one sold separately in a shop. Drumsticks are raspberry and milk flavoured chewy lollipop. And we were. We stock a huge range of pick and mix sweets, traditional sweets, retro sweets and American candy. We endeavour to only source t very best old fashioned sweets, made by established British confectioners, often using traditional production methods. So did you have a load of sweets at the party? Glad to be of ecclesiastical service. As for drilling and filling I’m sure that was going on across the world in the 50’s and 60’s. Our list wouldn’t be complete without a traditional steamed pudding. And dentists as bullying sadists. 1960s sweets new without tags but never been used having a major clear out hence cheap price of 12.99 Uk bidders only any bidders from overseas will be cancelled and payment is required within three days of the end of the auction Happy bidding If you had to describe sweets from the 70s one word you would not use is boring. EXCELLENT stuff. Just seen this, thank you oh Northern vimto warrior! Many of this age group had the drill, drill and more drilling treatment. So, thus vindicated, let’s end with a few more illustrations of sixties favourites. A UK online Sweetshop, full of retro sweets from 50s, 60s, 70s & 80s sweets, traditional, old fashioned sweets & all your old favourites. Knew it didn’t taste anything like back then, but hadn’t realised the reason is so basic. Yes, how could the same company get a variant of the same thing so disastrously wrong. View more posts. We sell sweet box hampers, sweet buckets and jars ideal for gifts, weddings and party’s. See more ideas about vintage sweets, childhood memories, 70s sweets. We stock a huge range of pick and mix sweets, traditional sweets, retro sweets and American candy. Sweets and chocolate are so boring these days. Born in The Sixties Retro Sweets Gift Selection Bo . type to search. PS Did Dracula enjoy a Black Magic casket (food for thought!). George Harrison’s ‘Savoy Truffle’ on The White Album namechecks some of the worst, as well as saying you’ll have to have all your teeth pulled out.”. Unit M62 Our Sweets Of The 1960s gift is ideal for anyone who was either born in or was a kid in the 1960s. As well as working with others to make the world a fairer and kinder place: http://asenseofplace.com. It’s not me or the sweets that are to blame. I know it Paula. Weekend were made by Mackintosh’s, and even I found them sickly and a bit weird- but would like to see them back! They were a brittle candy with a chocolate filling You could also get Aniseed Twist the same length too about 9″ long. I still have vivid memories of one particular occasion when I was hanging out with my best friend Susie Smart at her aunt’s house. Posted Sweets is a top UK based online sweet shop. Inside was a selection of different types of licorice straps i.e broad,twisted, tubular that lay glistening, ready for the feast. Mostly we wouldn’t buy ‘posh’ sweets from here, but loose ones, things where you could get, say, four for a penny (we’re in the old money here) like Trebor Fruits, Black Jack Chews and various flavours of ‘bubbly’ chewing gum. But intriguing because the back of the wrapper and the chocolate itself contained bizarre Edwardian looking images of said ‘5 Boys’ going from ‘Desperation’ to eventual ‘Realisation’ over tasting the chocolate and realising that yes, it was Fry’s. They had every kind of sweet imaginable, and we spent a fabulous hour or so loading up our paper bags with as much loot as we could afford. And lemonade, jelly and ice cream? avg. Sweet Shop Lashings of homemade custard are most definitely compulsory. Of course the manufacturers would only produce a limited number of certain cards which meant you had to keep on buying chewie to complete a set.”. Mint cracknell! Including this frightening news: “What he fails to mention is the over treatment by dentists to anyone who is now aged around 50 or 60 will have suffered in their younger years. Susie and I are still in touch, BTW. Sweet Jars The swinging sixties are associated with lollipops as depicted in the cult films Austin Powers, various scenes across the whole series show characters eating 1960s sweets. Unique 1960's Retro Gift ideal for those celebrating their 60th birthday! Time had caused me to forget – until now – that they were called the ‘Old English’ flavours. So my abiding memory of the ‘Travellers Rest’ is loads of chewing chomping kids going through their collections of football cards, saying ‘Gorrit, gorrit…’ until they found one they didn’t have and could swop for one of their own doubles. Posted Sweets is a top UK based online sweet shop. But there were always some horrible ones left over, the nougat ones with nutty bits  in our house. All those years and memories of your Grandad, all from 2 bars of chocolate. score: 69 of 100 (69%) required scores: 1, 48, 74, 83, 90 list stats leaders vote Vote print comments. Probably taken out the poisonous additives. I used to let my kids have 20 pence worth after school on a Friday. But thinking about this nightly gift of a packet of sweets: after our tea, and after something like apple pie and custard; you have to remember that on the way home from school we’d ALREADY been to a sweetshop, much like the one illustrated at the top. Anyone out there remember it? So Roger, here may have been a ‘wily inside forward’ or, more likely ‘a reliable poacher.’, “When you think about it, the marketing for bubble-gum was fantastic, because once you’d started collecting the football cards, you had to have the complete set. The chocolate bar everyone mentions from the 60s, and earlier (and Barry duly did) is Fry’s ‘5 Boys.’ Nice though, from my memory, perfectly ordinary milk chocolate and no better than any of the Cadbury’s alternatives. Yes must agree not as delicious as childhood but not bad. Everyone wanted to collect the set. Glenmore Business Park ( Log Out /  Because over on the Dentist Forum (yes, there is one, I checked) you’ll find this discussion about the Drill and fill mentality of the 1960s. Another mystery from that era: how certain types of chocolate bar (I’m thinking specifically of Bar 6 and Cadbury’s Wafer here) survived as items to purchase in theatres and cinemas for the intermission, long after they had disappeared from ‘ordinary’ retailers. I think you’re right and that in fact many other classic favourites were bigger in the past. Swizzles Love Hearts Mini Rolls (Pack 8 Rolls). Love hearts, sherbet lemons, wine gums and much more. Well, Lording it over an empire reflected clearly and unfeelingly in children’s sweets? All of our sweets can be selected from our website and posted direct to … I was tempted to complain ‘we don’t all have big mouths’. I rated chocstix very highly. But one thing I wanted to bring you in this post was the ‘Galaxy Dark Room Test.’ Launching their competitor to brand leader Cadbury’s, Galaxy had this ludicrous TV advert: Sadly a thorough scout of the internet has failed to find this gem. ( Log Out /  NOT FOR BABIES . You’re the first person I’ve ever known to like Olde English. I am coming late to this party (with my keg of Party 7, of course), but have to admit that I smiled a smile of recognition at your comment about the ‘wrong’ type of Spangles – so true! Oooohh I can still taste all those sweets, especially the Spangles. They had a choco like filling. Also why did Bassetts change the dolly mixture around 1962? Please just bring them all back especially the cordial and cream bars. Because don’t forget, by the time he starts his drilling, we’ve only had our ‘big teeth’ for two or three years. ( Log Out /  Again clever marketing, especially ‘The Lady Loves Milk Tray’ TV adverts. I used to live just round the corner from Deyes Lane, in Hillary Crescent. Try an Asisn shop, around Ramadan time (June) you may get lucky. I remember the ‘checkup’ and being told ‘ don’t be soft boy, open your mouth’. (2) 2 product ratings - Gibsons "1950s Sweet Memories" 1000 Piece Quality Jigsaw (G7002) Complete - Used 1960s Price Quiz Can you guess the price of these items in 1969? Looks like Old English Spangles were about as unpopular as blancmange! Add to Wish List. 1960s sweets saw a boom as sugar rationing had only ceased a decade before. Learn how your comment data is processed. There’s something else being dredged up from my 1960s memory too, Highland Toffee and another chewy stick type thing with lumps of fruity jelly in it … a D bar or Double D? There are bags full of sticky toffee, flying Saucers, Wham Bars, liquorices, Flumps, Fruit Salads, Black Jacks, Candy Shrimps, fizzy cola bottles, Parma Violets, and Refreshers to name but a few. you are right they was bigger wagon wheels i remember my nan buying me a pink one one year about 1973 i loved it and i also loved frys fruit centres lime strawberry rasberry pinnaple orange them are the flavours i remember eating when i was about 4 1969 i dont remember coffee or blackcurrant its a pity they dont still do them i loved them my fave. How many have you tried? Chichester For those of us who used to trek from Melling to Deyes Lane Secondary Modern School, there was a small sweet shop by Maghull Station … in the buildings that still resemble huts (opposite The Great Mogul pub). But it wasn’t to last and the stock market crash of 1929 led to a great depression and world wide economic crisis. Of course chewing gum was strictlyforbidden at boarding school,in fact there was always a faint tinge of it not being ‘quite nice’ to chew gum. It felt like eating a little piece of history. MIXED SWEETS Vast banks of penny sweets under the glass counter at the local sweet shop/tobacconist (or high on the shelves behind the shopkeeper); the little white paper bag and the decision of whether to allow the shopkeeper to choose your sweets … Now, I have been told that they only seemed bigger because I had smaller hands. But since you couldn’t see who you were going to get ’til you opened it, everyone had loads of swops. All quite educational. Yes, is a great shame they no longer make them. I think they were 2d each. Iconic sweets from the 60s include Candy Shrimps, Aniseed Balls, Catherine Wheels and Gumballs. So what does this mean? Add to Cart. Barry Ward and Ronnie Hughes rejoice in the sweets of the 1960s in north Liverpool. Where have the boxes of weekend and white heather chocolates gone does anyone remember them also lucky numbers. Oct 23, 2019 - Explore Keith Larner's board "English sweets/snacks of the 60s/70s" on Pinterest. We sell sweet box hampers, sweet buckets and jars ideal for gifts, weddings and party’s. Remember your favourite 60s sweets? I was put off the dentist from that moment on but the only problems i have had from age 55 onwards have been due to the fillings carried out then which I fully believe were unecessary. Though I too hated Mr Marshall and the yellow dental appointment cards when they were handed out at school. Please does anyone remember a chocolate bar called duet from 60s/70s seem to remember it was out the same time as aztecs but can’t remember who made them. And yes, many a chocolate bar would end up having a half life in selection boxes long after they’d left the shop shelves – Cadbury’s Snack, Take 5 – making you wonder how old your average selection box actually was? Far too much bland rubbish about these days, and it will get MUCH worse, you mark my words. Thank goodness Fry’s chocolate bars are still available at a very few shops – you can get orange cream, peppermint and the one that is white. Another joint post from those two characters out of a latter day 'Just William' novel. A useful fallback for dads on their wives’ birthdays , anniversaries or, again, Christmas (I don’t think the commercialisation of Valentines Day had begun then). A lovely jigsaw to do, even if it did remind me how much of a sweet tooth i have. And whilst scouring the internet for images to illustrate our words I immediately found this gem: Spangles, though were the quintessential 60s sweet. Penny Sweets They were created by the Swizzels-Matlow Company in 1957, Derby, England. The sweets were kept in a tin for the 40 days of Lent, and then eaten in a frenzy on Easter Sunday, with the inevitable consequences.”. I remember those circa ’68/9 ish? But how we loved it and what a treat to score some clandestine chewie. Barry again: “No wonder I’ve got loads of fillings. They also did a short lived Lime Cracknell. Classic collection of 1960's Retro Sweets. Soft, rummy raisin thing dipped in plain choc with slightly lighter choc swirl decoration. Many of the brands that are popular today first appeared on the shelves in the 1950s. Some nights though, when presented with your packet of sweets after tea (this really happened) you’d find you had the wrong kind of Spangles: “Apart from the fruit flavoured ones, weren’t there some that tasted like cough medicine ?”. A box cost 2/6 and sometimes two of us sugar craving girls would pool our money to share one. We sell sweet box hampers, sweet buckets and jars ideal for gifts, weddings and party’s. The timeline shows the first records of humans eating sweets are … Add to Wish List. Your personal data will be used to support your experience throughout this website, to manage access to your account, and for other purposes described in our privacy policy. ‘Boiled vomit’ is still my opinion. The best sweets are those penny sweets from the newsagents (in fact when I was a child you could get halfpenny ones!). And get that strap line? I always hated Caramac though! Hi I’m sure I Rember a chocolate bar could bliss it was a long bar at cut into segments that resembled an almond shape filled with a sort of whip cream. Like you, I don’t recall coffee or blackcurrant, when I bought them (in the 1960s and early 1970s), were the five flavours you mention in your comment, lime, strawberry, raspberry, pineapple, and orange. We may have eaten sweets but our meals were healthy and we didn’t have lots of snacks in between. Hence my fear of dentists took about 40 years to die down thanks to a more enlightened approach to dentistry. But I’m sure it happened. ‘Old’ whatever – I hated them! Change ). If many of this age group had only visited a dentist occasionally in their childhood, perhaps only when in pain, they would have had less unnecessary treatment and their teeth might be in better shape now. Save even more on our multi buy option where you can mix and match across our decades, or order bulk qty's. It wasn’t unusual as a child to visit the dentist for a check up in the 1960s and be told “that’s 10 fillings you need”. Simply hover over an item to see its price. This is a list of brand name confectionery products.Sugar confectionery includes candies (sweets in British English), candied nuts, chocolates, chewing gum, bubble gum, pastillage, and other confections that are made primarily of sugar.In some cases, chocolate confections (confections made of chocolate) are treated as a separate category, as are sugar-free versions of sugar confections. Rubbish! Was looking for the Galaxy dark room test as an illustration for a Sermon on Christmas eve and came upon this blog – thank you for doing he research and showing there are no youtube clips but more, thank you for the memories. They were such a lovely flavour and even though only five, I remember being bitterly disappointed when I discovered the change. The 1920s & 1930’s was an era of extremes. heart”). Carefully crafted into a beautiful gift pack, every pack is individually hand assembled by us at Sweet and Nostalgic. There was another extruded type thing that was chewy but had bits of fruity jelly in it, my childhood memory had filed that, in triplicate and with carbon paper, under Double D. These, my friend, were Trebor ‘Chocstix’. A variation on straightforward bubble gum was Football Cards. That would be Cadburys’ “Special Recipe”, then. Barry Ward and Ronnie Hughes rejoice in the sweets of the 1960s in north Liverpool. Brain Blasterz Bitz - 2 Packs "WARNING! That’s exactly how I felt: the fruity selection (which, as you rightly point out, probably never bothered a fruit tree) was fine, but the ‘cough-sweet’, ‘brown’ selection – ugh! Considered by me and all my friends to be as staple a part of our diets as potatoes and milk. But yes mate, there were some that tasted more like medication, yuk. Toffee apples were the biggest sellers, with sticks of nougat and liquorice strips also disappearing fast. Spend time looking through the hundreds of sweets and confectionery products that we stock. Compare this Product. The Christmas tradition that only got going in the 1960s. They also made a similar shaped thing called just what I don’t recall, out of barley sugar. Basically just boiled sweets but in an assortment of fruity ‘flavours’ that I suspect had never bothered a fruit tree. Also boxes of Weekend variety of fondants n candy really sweet n sugary.Cant remember who manufactured em.Oh t b young again! All of our sweets can be selected from our website and posted direct to your door. The 1960s was a great time to be a kid, particularly when you had pocket money to spend at the sweet shop. Proof? £1.99 Ex Tax: £1.66. Well, there you are. Wasn’t ‘old jamaica’. I once liked Galaxy chocolate very much, but now the taste has changed because it is not made with full cream milk anymore, now with skimmed milk powder, Yuk. They used to boast about ‘creaminess!’ I’d rather have 2 full fat pieces than a whole bar of skimmed milk. Drumsticks. See also the other parts of this trilogy: ‘Food in the 1960s: Actually it was quite good.’ and ‘Food in the 1960s: What else were we eating?’, Plus ‘Food in the 1970s: What went wrong?’, Writing about life, Liverpool and anything else that interests me. With Britain struggling to recover from the former British colonies a similar shaped thing called just what I don t!, citrus zest and juicy currants for a burst of flavour of sweets the... 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