Sweets when you were a kid.

[helmccur]

Hi, I am new to Club VAIO but it seems it's all technical stuff on forum. Can anyone remember their fave sweets as a bairn? Mine were splicers ... like a bundle of opal fruits mushed together and flattened into a bar. Also pacers which were like minty chewits.

[lyapple]

Pineapple chunks; mojos; aniseed balls (Jumpy, behave ); and penny bars of Cadbury’s chocolate. My dad used to sometimes bring me a few penny bars on a Friday night when he came in from work and it was such a treat. Chocolate has never tasted so good since.

And welcome Nelly Doll. It's good to have someone posting fun stuff. Don't go. We need you!

[Gibbs-]

Lol yeah i get what you mean! I almost feel like my questions are too dumb to post haha
Fave sweets were probably Fruit Pastells, but skittles, spogs, and chocolate was (and still is) always good lol

[Blencogo]

Hi Nelly Doll and welcome.

Most sweets came from big glass jars when I was a kid - in fact you needed a Ration Book until I was about 5 years old.

It was the original 'pick-n-mix'. Most sweets like Blackjacks, Fruit Salads, Raspberry Drops, Gobstoppers, Sherbet Lemons, Shrimps or Toffees were ¼d (a farthing) each (four for an old penny) or things like Pontefract Cakes, Liquorice Allsorts, Hundreds-and-Thousands or Dolly Mixtures were sold in little white paper bags 'by the ounce' - I think 2oz. cost 1½d (a penny-halfpenny).

Wrigleys Chewing Gum came in little square packets of four lozenges and a new Wrigleys 'Juicy Fruity' Chewing Gum variety was popular for 1½d each.

Barratt’s Sherbet Fountain was a favorite for 2d, Fruit or Old English Spangles cost 3d as did the new Rowntrees Fruit Gums and Milky Ways and I remember when Mars Bars were 4d each - that's SIXTY bars for a pound!!!! How much are they now?

The expensive one was a tube of Smarties which cost 5d and that seemed quite a lot of money then (about 2p now).

Ice lollies were 1d and most shops made their own cylindrical lollies out of fruit squash - but they would go white when you sucked the flavour out. It was only a few years later that 'Orange Maid' lollies appeared made from real fruit juice.

Despite this, I still have all my own teeth!!

[lyapple]

 I almost feel like my questions are too dumb to post haha

Don't worry, the questions don't come any more dumb than mine.

And Blencogo – you reminded me about spangles and about sherbet fountains. Weren’t they the ones with a liquorice stick? Used to love them. Sweets were off the ration by the time I was buying them, but it was still in the days when a 5 year old could safely walk to school without an adult. And, a little late being it’s now 4th May, I would just like to tell you all that I was the Queen of the May when I was 6 years old. :smileyblush: (It was downhill from there on. )

[Blencogo]

Weren’t they the ones with a liquorice stick? 

Yes Pandora and very popular.



Sherbert was a big favorite and could be bought loose in a paper bag with a boiled sweet lolly to dunk. It could also be bought in 'Flying Saucers' which were made of edible rice paper with sherbert enclosed.

[Thalamus.]

Mojos, fruit salads and black jacks were my favourite..

I remember sherbet in white paper bags, didn't have a a lolly, instead I used my finger. Only problem was the sherbet used to dye my finger and tongue..

Blencogo you can still buy flying saucers and I think sherbet dips are still available as well..

[jumpsuit]

I remember a bar called a 'delight.'
I was very undelighted when it seemed to disappear quite quickly after being released though.

[faithx]

My favorite as a child and happens to still be is rhubarb and custard boiled sweets, and they used to come out of a glass jar too Blencogo Along with pear drops. I have a jar of rhubarb and custard that I got in Edinburgh last time I was up. And have the odd one now and again.

[angus1878]

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