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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?


Yummy!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

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

French Fancy... said...

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.

Jean said...

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.

The Quizzical Observer said...

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

John Medd said...

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