poohbear 1,360 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Sweet tobacco still available...but silly price...it's more expensive than chocolates. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Wonderful idea putting the Decades on to Jigsaw Puzzles and Tins - even though I've no patience with jigsaw puzzles, I'd rather paint a picture. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beachbum 68 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 I loved Spanish Wood, as a kids we'd chew it for hours til it looked like a horses tail, great for spitting contests too, had some not long ago from a shop in Louth, it was horrible, has it changed or is it me?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 If I remember rightly, Swisskit was a white candy with lots of fruit and nuts in it, chewy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 PIGGY HAD SOME SPANISH WOOD AND KALI A FEW MONTH AGO BEACH BUM IT WAS SO HARD IT WAS IMPOSIBLE TO CHEW HE THREW IT AWAY. SEEMMED TO ME IT WAS RECONSTUTED LIKE A DOG CHEW NOTHING LIKE IT USED TO BE WHEN WE WERE KIDS. REMEMBER THE LITTLE SWEET SHOP ON MEADOW RD NEAR THE SCHOOL, CAN ANY ONE REMEMBER THE FLAVOURED STAWS WE USED TO BUY TO PUT IN OUR MILK AT SCHOOL STRAWBERRY , BANANA OR CHOCOLATE THEY WERE PINK YELLOW OR BROWN STRAWS WITH LIKE A PICE OF FELF RUNNING UP THE MIDDLE AND THIS WAS WHAT FLAVOURED THE MILK AT BREAKTIME Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Anyone remember some dudoos back then called: 'Jockey Club'? They were small and square and pastel colours, tasted scented; 6d a quarter. When I describe them, people just do not believe that they ever existed! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 are they the ones that were chalk looking and cut in the shapes of diamonds clubs spadesand hearts and were realy hard to chew Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Delicious Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Babs, re: 'Jockey Club': pale looking, delicate pastel colours, you didn't chew 'em, you sucked 'em or - at the risk of your teggies (teeth) - you crunched 'em! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beachbum 68 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 I remember the the sweet shop on Meadow Rd, think it was called The Tuck Shop, a favourite from there was a knickerbocker glory, on a Sunday my dad would stop there on his way back from sugarbeet and get tizer and vanilla ice cream, served together, yummy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Bazooka bubble gum, with cartoon of G.I. Joe on the inside of the wrapper. That was "Bazooka Joe" , you used to save up the comics, send them off for some amazing stuff. X-Ray specsand Sea Monkeys, the list goes on , but you get the idea !!!!................ Traditional sweet shop in Southwell (Suthell) mentioned on here somewhere. Just a few times !! And my favourites that you no longer see. Aztec and Texan bars. Aztecs were a bit like topic but instead of nuts they had raisins in them , Texans were nougat that "You chew reeeeeaaaal slow " ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 As kids my brother and I would have sixpence each to spend on 'sweeties',on a Sunday afternoon, in preparation to watch the movie on the 'steam telly'. My mum would buy a 1/4 lb of 'dairymaid' chocolate coated caramels. We finished our 'sweeties' way before the movie started,and dived into the 'dairymaid'. Mum would pull out a bag of 'Radiance' hazelnut caramels,which we kids did not like. Haven't thought of that in 55 years, thanks for the memory jolt. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Fynger 841 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 and to wash em all down 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Braddy 160 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 I remember buying large bubble gum in a sweet wrapper but what was it called? can't remember the name it was sort of roundish shape. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Teggies - there's a blast from the past! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Was it pink Braddy? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Mine is................................bubblegum I mean! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Hubba Bubba. ?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Braddy 160 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Can't remember the colour compo, and i don't think it was called hubba bubba. I can see it in my head but not the name . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 My mum and grandma hated to see me with a mouthful of bubble gum but I adored the sweet, pink stuff, especially when it was new and hard and you had to make it pliable, in order to blow bubbles. I well remember the day I learnt how to blow bubbles; to say I was ecstatic is putting it mildly, more like I was on Cloud Nine! I once blew a bubble so big O that when it burst, it covered my face! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 I remember buying large bubble gum in a sweet wrapper but what was it called? can't remember the name it was sort of roundish shape. I know the one you mean , it was in a blue, red and yellow 'twisty type wrapper', ie , you pulled on both ends of the wrapper and the sweet dropped out, but it wasn't "Hubba Bubba" though. I can't for the life of me remember what it was called though. (Bot the word 'Blo' spelt incorrectly comes to mind.) Hubba Bubba was a lot later (Late 70s) invention, that you could blow massive bubbles with. (I was never allowed chewing a bubble gum as a kid !) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Braddy 160 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Beefsteak you are spot on Been on google lots of bubble gum but not what i am looking for. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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