Favourite Sweets From Your Childhood
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Do You Remember?
Do you remember your favourite childhood sweets and the excitement of going to the local sweet shop and choosing from the vast array of jars on the shelves full of colourful mouth watering temptations? I remember this vividly, and often get cravings for the sweets from my childhood, purchased by the quarter, weighed on a big old fashioned metal scale pan and packaged into small white paper bags.
I only recently realised that many of these sweets are still available, and can be purchased online, either as a nostalgia trip, or simply because you think they would make a great gift for a friend or family member who remenisces over their childhood favourites.
I now want to take you all on a journey down memory lane, not only by listing all the sweets I can fondly remember at the age I am, (38), but also the sweets my parents remember, (now in their 70's), as well as other friends and family's favourites. In addition to this, where possible, I am going to put adverts on this Hub that relate to where you can still purchase these same sweets, and therefore experience the memories the flavours from your childhood will no doubt prompt. Please feel free to add your personal favourites to the comments section, as if I can find a source for them I shall edit this Hub to include them and show where they can still be obtained.
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585 Long Lasting Aniseed Balls
Current Bid: $35.31
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LEATHER EFFECT SWIFT CIGARETTE CASES HOLDER-Chocolate
Current Bid: $4.99
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Vintage Milk Chocolate "Cigarette" Penny Toy Bank
Current Bid: $19.00
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WONKA EVERLASTING GOBSTOPPERS 16 1.77 Ounce (49g) Packs
Current Bid: $15.19
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Black Comic "Liquorice Sticks" Postcard 1933
Current Bid: $6.00
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PEANUT BRITTLE Penut Brittle CANDY 10 OZ $5.00+SHiPing
Current Bid: $5.00
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World King Sized Candy Sticks 24 boxes
Price: $3.70
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Candy Cigarettes Pack
Price: $0.25
List Price: $18.00 |
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Stevia Sweet Recipes: Sugar-Free-Naturally
Price: $7.96
List Price: $13.95 |
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British WW 2 Boiled Sweets
Current Bid: $3.95
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Kirkland Signature Jelly Belly Jelly Beans 49 Flavors (4 Lbs)
Price: $17.95
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Life Savers Jelly Beans, 14-Ounce Bags (Pack of 12)
Price: $22.62
List Price: $32.28 |
The Sweets
Prepare your mouth to water, in no particular order here goes..........
Aniseed Balls
Aniseed Twists
Army and Navy Tablets (also aniseed flavour)
Cough Candy, (not so great, a bit like a menthol version of an aniseed twist, certainly looked the same)
Chocolate Limes
Sherbet Pips
Tom Thumb Drops
Flying Saucers
The Real Liquorice Sticks, (the actual roots from the tree).
Cinnamon Sticks
Peanut Brittle
Cola Fizz Bottles
Blackjacks
Fruit Salad
Gobstoppers
Sherbet Lemons
Pear Drops
Victory V's
Chocolate Coated Brazil Nuts
Uncle Joe's
Mint Humbugs
Mint Imperials
Love Hearts
Sherbet Dib Dabs
Sherbet Fountains
Chocolate Cigarettes
Candy Cigarettes
Candy Shrimps
Liquorice Boot Laces
Ice Breakers (great chocolate bar with mint chips in it).
Traffic Light Lollies, (changed colour as you sucked your way through the layers, just like a traffic light).
Fried Eggs, (I really didn't like these, but they were very popular).
Barley Sugar
Liqourice Comfits
Sherbet Dib Dabs
Sherbet Fountains
Kola Kubes
Parma Violets
Yellow Bananas
Chocolate Covered Bananas
Toffee Bonbons
Strawberry Bonbons
Lemon Bonbons
Milk Bottles
Jelly Beans
Coconut Mushrooms
Wham Bars
Space Dust
Candy Necklaces
Cinder Toffee
Treacle Toffee
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Wonka SweeTarts Giant Chewy, 1.5-Ounce Packets (Pack of 36)
Price: $22.33
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Candy Sweet
Price: $0.99
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Charms Sweet And Sour Pops - 48 Lollipops/Box
Price: $5.97
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SWEET TOOTH Jobs Candy Mold Chocolate
Price: $2.29
List Price: $4.99 |
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Hubba Bubba Bubble Tape, Awesome Original, 2.0-Ounce Jugs (Pack of 24)
Price: $21.07
List Price: $28.56 |
Sweet Peanuts
Imps
White Chocolate Fish and Chips
Rhubarb and Custard
Foam Mushrooms
Flumps
Chocolate Tools
Drumstick Lollies
Chewits
Chocolate Mice
Whistle Pops
Gold Nuggets
Jazzies
Jelly Tots
Tutti Frooties
Poppets
Rainbow Drops
Refresher Chews
Swizzels
Milk Teeth
Coconut Ice
Rosy Apples
Pineapple Chunks
Everton Mints
For those sweets that you can't find a source for on this Hub, I have managed to find outside sources by looking online. Take a look at my links section to see where you can get hold of your old favourite sweets.
Online Sweet Shops
- The UK\'s Number One Old Fashioned Sweet Shop Next Day Delivery | Best Retro Sweets | British Old Fa
Sweet Heaven Online the Traditional Old Fashioned British Retro Sweet Shop, The best retro sweets, corporate, Weddings, Engagement, Valentine, Baby, hampers, promotional gifts, Aquarterof, Christmas, halloween, Traditional, old-fashioned sweets from - A Quarter Of, the Best Sweets Ever, Retro Traditional, Old-Fashioned Sweets - UK Online Sweetshop
The best sweets ever! A Quarter Of is the fun, nostalgic, quirky, old-fashioned sweetshop on the internet. Crammed with over 700 of your favourite traditional sweets from your childhood - nostalgic, retro favourites like Sweet Tobacco, Space Dust a - UK Sweet shop and traditional english confectionery and sweets - Village Sweet Shop
Village Sweet Shop stocks many different types of traditional sweets ranging from Old Favorites to Old Fashioned traditional english sweets with a constantly growing selection of mail order confectionery. - The Old Sweet Shop, a traditional english sweet shop online
We are one of the few remaining traditional sweet shops left in the UK, and offer a wide range of boiled sweets, candy, chocolate, liquorice, and many other old fasioned and modern sweets. - Penny Sweet Shop - Traditional English Sweets and Unique Gifts UK
Traditional english sweets available to buy online
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Comments
Good days that I remember well Steve. Remember "Bazooka" Bubble Gun, that was so hard to chew it used to make your jaws aches!
Yes, I remember them and I've been remembering some other sweets like Sour Grapes bubble gum, Everlasting Strips, Lucky Bags, and then in high school we had tuck shop and wonderful Chelsea buns and Chipmunk Oxo crisps. These were some of the things I did enjoy in my schooldays!
My friend and I use to push our doll buggaies and smoke Candy Cigarettes. We thought we were so big. Enjoyed your hub.
Mmmm sweeeet sweeeties!!
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I used to love star dust! it was a powdery like substance that made your face go all funny bcos it was soo tingly!
I remember Star Dust, it was much the same as Space Dust and popped in your mouth. Do you remember how Space Dust used to pop so violently sometimes it actually hurt your mouth?
The names are different here in the states, but the candy is the same. I remember when you could buy a package of 5 small peanut butter cups in a vending machine for a nickel. I still love peanut butter cups.
Takes me back to the penny candy days when we exchanged empty pop bottles for candy at the store.
Hey I used to take back the coke bottles too and use the money for sweets. You used to get 5p for a small bottle and 10p for a large bottle.
Dafla, I never liked the peanut sweets, but loved anything with aniseed in it. I remember vending machines that gave out aniseed balls for 1p though.
So much candy I have never even heard of. But they all look so good. I think I will try some of these. Candy made from aniseed seems strange. But it sounds like everyone likes it. Thanks.
Hi Jim10, Do try the aniseed sweets, especially aniseed twists and aniseed balls as they are addictive and very delicious.
Thanks for your comment too.
I think my sweet tooth just returned at the sight of all those lovely goodies :D I can remember getting Whistle Pops from the doctor's surgery if you were good during a checkup :)
So many that I remember from my childhood - although where's Choc-Lick on the list? ;)
Nowadays I may have a sneaky Kola Kube now and then - and there's a lovely little shop in Lincoln that still sells sweets by the jar, I try and visit it every year when I return for the Christmas market :)
Hi Chris, thanks for your feedback. I remember whistle pops very well, although our Doctors only gave us Jelly Babies as rewards, the whistle pops we had to buy in shops ourselves. I don't remember Choc-Lick though.
Good hub
Thanks Himachal, glad you enjoyed it.
haha candy shrimps caught my eye. most of those aren't familiar to me, but they look good! :D
mmmm, delicious weren't they!
For all your Old Fashioned Sweets Online.
Great looking shop in the picture above, where is it?
To be totally honest I have no idea Richard, but there are plenty others like them around. Easiest way to find them is to search Google images for things like "nostalia sweet shops" etc, then when the pictures come up find a picture such as the one above and click on it, then click on the link below the image that shows the site where it was originally used.
all of those sweets are making my mouth water had a look for some pictures of nostalgia sweet shops
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_azWmV5p47Rs/SNvuIGsnp-I/
That’s about the only one i could find but the site it’s linked to hasn’t got any place names
Thanks for the link Sweet Tooth, hopefully people can order online from them anyway.
Wow what a sweet hub ;) Some of the ones that I remember are not on your list: MaryJanes, Candy Buttons, and Jaw Breakers.
Hi LG, I acutally don't remember those ones, unless we didn't have them over here. Great to hear from you by thr way.
They are sold or were sold in the US in the 70's. I remember walking a mile and a half to the corner store and buying them and a soda for the walk home.
I wish I had got to try them LG.
I forgot one other one....Good and Plenty.
Jaw Breakers were large balls of hot cinammon candy. MaryJanes were like taffy but sort of like a peanut butter in the center. Which reminds me of another one--Bit O' Honey another taffy candy. Candy buttons were just drops of candy on a sheet of paper and you could get them in rolls. Good and Plenty were licorice inside a hard candy shell.
Well we didn't have Jaw Breakers, Bit O'Honey, Candy buttons or MaryJanes here, but "Good and Plenty" sound very much like Liquorice Comfits or Liquorice Torpedoes that we did have over here, and were one of my favourites.
I love buying old fashioned retro sweets. It reminds me of the good old days. I use Sweet Heaven.
actually,i've never tasted these kind of sweets
They are lovely, you should order some as they aren't expensive. I just had a big box of them sent to me from Sweet Heaven (link above), and they really bring back memories for me. Yummy :)
I found a site for you to browse of all Cnady we ate as kids. This is page one:
Thanks LG, will definitely take a look at this :)
Bard of Ely says:
16 months ago
So many sweets I remember there Cindy! I used to love Flying Saucers, Black Jacks, Shrimps, Golf Balls, Aniseed Balls, Gobstoppers, Rainbow Drops, Licorice Root (or Spanish Root as we also called it), and by the quarter Halls Winter Mixtures with the clove flavour ones, Sherbet Lemons and Rum and Butter toffees, not forgetting Chocolate Eclairs! And I used to buy hundreds of bubble gums that had free cards like Flags of the World and the Outer Limits. That sort of stuff was incredibly important to me as a kid! lol Those were the days!
Space Dust was much later in the punk rock days - I remember pinning empty packets on my jacket because I thought that looked punky!