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And inspired by yet another poster in another thread...
Rosie wrote: Pacers. Those chewy minty sweets that tasted alot like chewy rennies when I come to think about it!!! Ofcourse what sweets you don't see anymore could be a whole other thread!!!
Rosie doll, can I add an Amen to that?
With that, for some odd quirky reason, what the Helen of Troy ever happen to candy jewelry!? Is that still around at all?? 
I miss those...
Creamola Foam
A sort of powdered lemonade. It was astonshingly good in battle against hangovers, nothing else has the same argon LASER like ability to cut through the donkey shite in yer gob.
Apparently the company who made it, also made some other famous thing, and were bought out by $GREEDY_CORPORATE_SCUM_CUNTS to get that recipe. In the process, it is believed that the original recipe for creamola foam was lost.
there's a couple of retro-sweetie sites, me nearest and dearest is always scanning them.
Ermmm one of them is called "aquarterof.com" I think.
There used to be a thick Hershey chocolate almond bar that came in a gold wrapper. I think it might've been called Pot of Gold. Anyhow, I cannae find them anywhere for the past few years. There were also these cookie dough candy bars (Keebler? Nabisco?) I can't remember what they're called but I haven't seen them in over 6 months even though they haven't been around that long. I'm not into hard candy, so I'm sure there lots of it that you don't see anymore and I just haven't noticed.
Read an interesting thing about Hershy bars once. Apparently they taste a bit sour (especially to the non-US pallet) because back in the day, and because the US is such a stupendously large place, milk would never make it to the choccie factory quite as fresh as it should. When dairy logistics improved, the sour taste had to be engineered back in because people had gotten used to it.
Had my first taste of a Hershey in Chicago.....spat it out so hard it broke a window on the 83rd floor of Sears Tower 
10p mix up bag..........which always included Black Jacks and Fruit Salad.............
Maybe a Flying saucer........
And on a good day...........a Refresher......and even a liquorice Catherine wheel!
'Sunshine' Valley Music Junkie wrote:
With that, for some odd quirky reason, what the Helen of Troy ever happen to candy jewelry!? Is that still around at all??
http://www.prezzybox.com/products/index.aspx?pid=3578&pid=&TID=102&gclid=CIqrkK2O0osCFSQsFQoduR0MaA
Leggy D wrote:
'Sunshine' Valley Music Junkie wrote:
With that, for some odd quirky reason, what the Helen of Troy ever happen to candy jewelry!? Is that still around at all??
http://www.prezzybox.com/products/index.aspx?pid=3578&pid=&TID=102&gclid=CIqrkK2O0osCFSQsFQoduR0MaA
Holy FAC'n E.G.G....
So THAT's where all the candy bracelets have gone.
Kath wrote: 10p mix up bag..........which always included Black Jacks and Fruit Salad.............
Maybe a Flying saucer........
And on a good day...........a Refresher......and even a liquorice Catherine wheel!
I sell all of that plus candy necklaces.
pacers??? aren't they the same as spree??? sweet on the outside- sour-ish on the inside... what about freshen-up gum, with the liquid center... my personal fave...
Barnone candy bars, candy soda bottles, ring pops, fruit-by-the-foot, and fire balls all seem to have disappeared.
some of the Willy Wonka candy, especially the Oompa Loompas, basically a large peanut butter M & M.
Marathon Bars...but I have just discovered that Cadbury makes something called a Curly Wurly that is the same thing...
space dust and peanut boost, tho they were never as good as the ever popular biscuit variety
Burt Reynolds wrote:
Kath wrote: 10p mix up bag..........which always included Black Jacks and Fruit Salad.............
Maybe a Flying saucer........
And on a good day...........a Refresher......and even a liquorice Catherine wheel!
I sell all of that plus candy necklaces.
.......red liquorice boot laces
What's happened to scorched peanut toffee bars?
Why is it that nothing tastes the same anymore? Things I remember being yummy as a child taste bland these days. A few that come to mind are Yo Yo biscuits, Wagon Wheels, Chokito bars and even the girl guide biscuits are crap now.
Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: Marathon Bars...but I have just discovered that Cadbury makes something called a Curly Wurly that is the same thing...
We used to get Marathon bars and they turned into Snickers. Curly Wurlys are absolutely lush. Thin toffee in a swirly shape coated with cadburys chocolate. I've pulled many a filling out with them! 
Leggy D wrote:
'Sunshine' Valley Music Junkie wrote:
With that, for some odd quirky reason, what the Helen of Troy ever happen to candy jewelry!? Is that still around at all??
http://www.prezzybox.com/products/index.aspx?pid=3578&pid=&TID=102&gclid=CIqrkK2O0osCFSQsFQoduR0MaA
Never had them as a kid Dave . . . which Newsagent did you go to???
Doctor? wrote: Read an interesting thing about Hershy bars once. Apparently they taste a bit sour (especially to the non-US pallet) because back in the day, and because the US is such a stupendously large place, milk would never make it to the choccie factory quite as fresh as it should. When dairy logistics improved, the sour taste had to be engineered back in because people had gotten used to it.
Could this explain my lifelong addiction to lemon juice?? 
This blue-eyed boy that wants to be wrote: Barnone candy bars, candy soda bottles, ring pops, fruit-by-the-foot, and fire balls all seem to have disappeared.
Bar None! Thank you! I used to LOVE those suckers! I knew there was some great candy bar of the past I was forgetting. 
This blue-eyed boy that wants to be wrote: Barnone candy bars, candy soda bottles, ring pops, fruit-by-the-foot, and fire balls all seem to have disappeared.
I think we used to have fire balls too, but they were called "red hot jaw breakers" . . . loved them. Kids today don't have any fun. It only takes one kid to almost choke on a sweet and it's ruined for everone! 
Rosie wrote:
This blue-eyed boy that wants to be wrote: Barnone candy bars, candy soda bottles, ring pops, fruit-by-the-foot, and fire balls all seem to have disappeared.
I think we used to have fire balls too, but they were called "red hot jaw breakers" . . . loved them. Kids today don't have any fun. It only takes one kid to almost choke on a sweet and it's ruined for everone!
Actually, you don't see jawbreakers around much anymore. But, fireballs, from what I remember, were the size of gumballs and were a dark pinkish-reddish color and tasted like cinnamon.
Giant bubblegum eggs, solid. You had to gnaw off a chunk and chew it. Ah, preschool with Bobby Drew.
