Sweets and drinks you miss...

Passenger

Nestle Chocolate Pretzels. Remember them, they also came in white chocolate too.

cute_cow

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

anyone remember vice versas? they were lovely

+1 on that! Loved them!!

Kevster

Holy crap - yeh - I used to love Dan Bars! They were orange and had those black gritty bits in them that were very sweet/sour or something... ...yummy.

sensitive_soul

HB BOOMI ice pops, they were like mini fruits make of frozen juice in a skewer like a kebab, little strawberry, little lemon and a little orange, mmmm.

Lazer bars, hard hard toffee with this white chocolate flavoured coating

Gold Bullion, little alluminium cases filled with gold (toffee)

NERDS, little boxes divided in 2 filled with incredibly sour candies

sentiments- these little toffees with chocolate in the middle, like eclairs but NICER and they came in a bag.

Pop rocks, you can only get them in America now

CHocolate covered pretzels-only in America now but were out here in around 1999.

MIdnight Marsbars, with black chocolate

Blitz Bars-2kinds one mint and one orange

Terrys Pyramint, dark chocolate pyramids filled with gooey mint findant

Flipper marshmallows

Caramacs, caramel flavoured chocolate, only in the UK now.

Passenger

Apparently the makers of Dan Bars, McCowans, have gone bust but maybe another confectionary company will take them up but who knows.

watna

enda1 wrote: »

Top Decks.

Wine gums by the pound. (for 1 pound 60)

Sparkles (the ice pops from HB) for 10 then 12p

Penny sweets (apple jacks, postman pats etc.)

You can get Top Deck in a South African shop in Dublin. The shop is off Jervis street. The name begins with J but I can't remember it.

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

anyone remember vice versas? they were lovely

Goddamnit, they were the best. I've said a number of times on this forum I want them back.

There was a big hoo-haa in the news here in NZ recently about some iconic kiwi sweets that were being taken off the market. It meant nothing to me but loads of people were upset about it. I guess it's what you grow up with!

dSTAR

Des wrote: »

I miss Cherry Ripe from Australia

Again, from Australia, Burger Rings, lovely snacks they are.

I don't think Cherry Ripe are all that. Maybe its the coconut that doesn't really do it for me. As far as Burgers rings go I reckon they taste exactly the same as Burger Bites only they are in ring form.

Gimme Irish and English choccie and chippies any day. There is so much more selection over there than there is here. No Johnny Onion Rings, Skips, Tayto Spring Onion Crisps, Monster Munch, Bag o' Bones or Scampi Fries which were some of my favourites from back in the day :-(

spinandscribble

oh i'd do anything for apple jacks, black jacks or candy popcorn. does anyone know of any websites to get them???

homerun_homer

Does anyone remember Quatro bars? They were 8 blocks of chocolate with different soft centres in each pair (4 different flavours in all). One was minth and the others were.. can't remember, Orange maybe.
Anyway, they were around when I was really young and anytime people get nostalgic of old sweetws I think of them, top of the list.

That and He-Man jelly.

Ckal

square_igloo wrote: »

Astros - anyone remember those? They were NYOM!

Oh feck! I have been wondering what these were for months! These were my all time favorites.

europerson

I loved Astros too. Yum.

yerayeah

I used to love getting the blackjacks that came in little rectangular pieces for 1p and drumsticks for 5p. Especially when the wrapping paper didn't stick to them!! Still remember the intense pride I felt upon eating around 25 drumsticks in one day:D

Mimibear

Passenger wrote: »

Nestle Chocolate Pretzels. Remember them, they also came in white chocolate too.

Oh good god they were tasy, so were astros...why do they get rid of the good things!!

luckyfrank

Apple jacks and postman pats

I aslo loved paydays

Anyone remember them ?

winda34

Anyone remember

Fizzle Sticks
Toffee Logs
3p Chocolate Mice....(that would keep you chewing for 6 hours non stop)
Orange Aeros (God I loved them)
Pacers
Beano's
Milk Teeth.

Wexford Girl

Woppa's
Postman pats
Blackjacks
Apple jacks

RxQueen

zomg , woppa's nyom

also miss the king popcorn you could get , remember the coloured one??

thing i miss the most is the way you could ger penny jellies back in the day *sighs*

Chong

I miss Club Shandy, and I also miss secret bars hmmmmmmmmm.

I also miss how chocolate used to taste nice.

winda34

Chong wrote: »

I miss Club Shandy, and I also miss secret bars hmmmmmmmmm.

I also miss how chocolate used to taste nice.

Secret bars ring a bell, what were they like?

I really miss Pub crisps.....bag was always full and they had a special taste!

Chong

winda34 wrote: »

Secret bars ring a bell, what were they like?

I really miss Pub crisps.....bag was always full and they had a special taste!

Check it out :

http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=4072

Also agree on pub crisps , there was defo something about them, on the odd occasion when I was younger and my dad took me to the pub with my grandad, id always get a cidona and a pack of pub crisps hmmmmmmmm.

brettmirl

winda34 wrote: »

Anyone remember

Fizzle Sticks
Toffee Logs
3p Chocolate Mice....(that would keep you chewing for 6 hours non stop)
Orange Aeros (God I loved them)
Pacers
Beano's
Milk Teeth.

Used to love all those (esp Fizzle Sticks) except the Orange Aeros.

You can't get the proper Milk Teeth (the ones with powder on them, not the foam ones) anymore as the factory that made them flooded a couple of years ago and never re-opened

kerno

square_igloo wrote: »

Astros - anyone remember those? They were NYOM!



And Wispa Gold, of course!

If I ever leave Cork, I'll miss Tanora. Apparently there are only very few places outside Cork that sell it (just because the yummy tangeriney goodness might be a tad carcinogenic.)

I loved thoes Astros...

wolfpawnat wrote: »

Oh top decks ~ I really miss them
Vanilla Coca Cola
Penny Sweets
Cheap Bars like Bruisers and Dan Bars
Question actually how have we our teeth still in her heads???

It was the nicest flavour they did.. Why was it such a bad seller? :mad:

ladyella

+1 for Secret bars.... mmmmmmmmmmm

MJOR

smiley bars
alien spacers

Carroller16

Passenger wrote: »

10p mix-ups.

AKA tenpenny bags

Carroller16

touchdown bars, nerds & dweebs, fini boom

nevershutsup

penny sweets
dan , wham, bruiser and roy of the rovers( love them all every w/end in work)
wispa mint- why hasnt that come back
astros
sours
milk teeth
dip dips(still available)
chomp bars
maccaroon bars

bit of a sweet tooth ...

Hande hoche!

Vanilla coke
Astros
Whispa gold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFlRmrVvk24

rainbow kirby

Astros
Top Deck (I had one in London last March, but it was either a South African or Aussie import - bought at CyberCandy)
Vice-Versas
Inspirations chocolates, especially the easter egg with the drawers of chocolates under the egg
Wispa Mint

ontour

Oh I used to love them chocolate pretzels I could never understand why they got rid of them salty chocolately godness!, wispa gold-why didnt they bring them back?
Nerds, 10p bags of penny sweets when there was nice sweets!
Anyone remember the bags of 5p crisps they were delish, used to get 50p on a sunday after mass and buy ten bags there was maybe 5 different varieties then savour them for days.