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Sweets We Used To Have

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Pixy Stix, skinny tube with sherbet inside I also recall the same sherbet being in a big jar that was sold into a small cone paper bag that you dipped your finger into or a cheap lolliepop.
 
How about that cheap candy we would hang on a Christmas tree and have to wait for 12 days after Christmas to get a pick off the tree, mean while you have already picked a couple of the back of the tree hoping no one would notice. the gold coins, bell shape, Santa, etc.
 
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Robert Ensor (bob) said:
How about that cheap candy we would hang on a Christmas tree and have to wait for 12 days after Christmas to get a pick off the tree, mean while you have already picked a couple of the back of the tree hoping no one would notice. the gold coins, bell shape, Santa, etc.
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yes and dont forget the sugar mice we hung on the tree :)
 
Spargone said:
The Palm brand was made like a six-penny bar of chocolate(!) i.e. marked out in squares but there were also bars about an inch-wide. A lot of these sweets were un-branded as far as we were concerned, sometimes sold by the farthing and weighed out or counted from the anonymous jar at the back of the shop. (The same might be true of biscuits, often sold loose from glass-topped bins in front of the counter. Just low enough to catch the eye of the child!).
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JohnO said:
Lyn, am I wrong in thinking that the banana streaked toffee was also available in relatively narrow, wrapped bars? I vaguely recall stretching out a softened bar, to twice its length, before scoffing it.
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Were the narrow bars of toffee called Arrow bars, cost I think 1d and came in different flavours.
Seem to remember peeling the paper off was quite tricky as it stuck to the toffee.
 
Does anyone recall "Everlasting Bar". A quite elastic, stretchy toffee bar with a slight taste of coconut to it. Not as good toffee as Palm but at 3d it was half the price.
 
Elmdon Boy said:
Were the narrow bars of toffee called Arrow bars, cost I think 1d and came in different flavours.
Seem to remember peeling the paper off was quite tricky as it stuck to the toffee.
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Gosh, thats a blast fromt he past, the Arrow bar, were they 1d? One of a rage of small bars of toffee, occasionally impossible to get the wrapper off.
 
apart from lubly jubly,there is a shop in the town here that sells all them, sweeties.i dont were he get them from. but sure are expensive.
 
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Ade,

The clue is in the description "orange drink" - 50% juice and the rest water, sugar, & preservative. And why it is relatively cheap. 100% orange juice is a bit more expensive, but contains a lot more nutrients.

I see that Refreshers have changed shape and packaging too.

Maurice.
 
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My nan had a caravan down at Bewdley years ago, as kids our treat was a trip to teddy greys the sweet shop at the bottom of the high street, I can still remember the smell inside that shop and what seemed like ages looking at all the jars before you made your choice of which sweets to buy and what would last the longest, and of course the shop is still there today selling its lovely wares
 
Ade. There's a shop in Broadstairs that's been there years,love to pop in and just smell the aromas.The lady knows me now after a few years.Afew weeks ago treated myself to 2 Liquorice Twist Sticks about 8 ins long
 
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Elmdon Boy said:
Were the narrow bars of toffee called Arrow bars, cost I think 1d and came in different flavours.
Seem to remember peeling the paper off was quite tricky as it stuck to the toffee.
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Elmdonboy I remember those about an inch wide and 4 or 5 inch long , yes that paper was a nusisance
 
Edifi said:
Don't know,Has anyone mentioned TROACHE DROPS
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Yes early on in this thread you can still get them at the black cou try museum. Talking about sweets, on a back road from Bromsgrove to Halesowen there is closed down factory was this Bluebird?
Bob
 
Bob Davis said:
Yes early on in this thread you can still get them at the black cou try museum. Talking about sweets, on a back road from Bromsgrove to Halesowen there is closed down factory was this Bluebird?
Bob
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If you were heading towards halesowen and that factory was on the left side good chance I I recall not long after passing the factory you came upon a island (roundabout)
 
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