Saturday, 27 March 2010

Sweet tooth. What were your fave sweets of your youth?

When I was a boy and teenager (1960s and 70s) I used to love Old Jamaica chocolate bars and those fizzy flying saucers and Aztec bars as well as gobstoppers and aniseed balls. As a little boy growing up in Derby UK sweets were called tutoos.  What were your faves and from what era?
Old Jamaica only 9p!

Licorish Allsorts. I loved the blue ones


Fizz fizz fizz! mmm, orange tongue!


Do you recall the advert on the telly for this?


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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous28 March 2010 at 11:37

    Growing up in the US, we had completely different candies than you. But I did love my red licorice and anything chocolate!

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  2. French Fancy...28 March 2010 at 11:43

    I loved pineapple chunks and aniseed balls. As for space dust, I had some quite recently - I bought my ma-in-law a retro pack of sweets from A Quarter Of. Fabulous.

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  3. Jean28 March 2010 at 12:42

    My favourite was those little white chocolate buttons with hundreds and thousands stuck on top. I think you can still buy them.

    Oh, and sherbet fountains.

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  4. The Quizzical Observer28 March 2010 at 21:05

    Oh god, I loved Old Jamaica! I liked those flying saucers too. Sherbert dibdabs... dearie me.

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  5. John Medd28 March 2010 at 22:48

    In no particular order: Arrow Bars, Fruit Salads, Bar 6, FAB lollies and Caramac (still going strong but no longer housed in 70s packaging).

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