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What were your fave sweets.
My fave sweets were Spearmint penny arrow bars. Fruit salads. Value for money at 4 a penny. Munchies My Dad was in the army and worked behind the bar in the mess and brought us munchies to eat on the way to school. mmm.
In the summer would rather buy peaches. Also liked pinapple chunks and those sour grape spuggies also hubba bubba great for big bubbles that spread over the face.

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Have a very sweet tooth, loved coconut ice, fruit salads, blackjacks, those coconut mushroom thingies, still like midget gems and parma violets, remember spearmint penny arrow bars. Surprised I still have all my teeth really ;D but my dad would only let us have sweets on saturdays. ;D

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Kendal mint cake, japs, sarsaparillas, aniseed balls.
None of them taste the same these days. :)

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kaylie and spanish, frys chocolate cream, pear drops, aniseed balls but what i enjoyed as well was pea pods.  Still eat pea pods.  Yum Yum

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used to love choc sticks, barley sugar sticks, black jacks, fruit salad,flying saucers used to melt in your mouth they did. fruit flavoured frys choclate cream packets of chewing gum out of machine fourth one was free. pineapple chunks were good but used to make my tongue very sore.the list goes on and on really loved those childhood days they go by far to quick.                     [smiley=lol.gif]

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The fruit flavor Chc was called five boys wasn't it. What were japs Cazzer?.

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Japs?

Think that's what they were called. Small square coconutty things, with a sort of coloured icing coating on the outside.

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japs were a pink colour if i remember rightly.

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Loved Spangles coltsfoot rock & cinder toffee

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Gobstoppers -  especially the "red hot daredevil" flavour.

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white mice and black jacks and fruit salads from the penny tray! yumm

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Choc lic was my favourite, however grew up and went onto midget gems and still eat these to this day

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Sherbert Dabs.....Made me cough
Pontifract Cakes..Made me regular :-[

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White mice and black jacks.
" YUK "
Fruit salads were o.k
black jelly babies are best. Always bite heads of first

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Those coconut choccie things were great.Still get them now.Luuvly

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Lucky bags anybody remember them.Call them kinder surprises now and they are chocolate and not paper.

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Caramel wafers. Even better these days covered in chocolate. mmmm

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you can still get lucky bags at woolies £1:99
lucky to afford them

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You can get cheaper ones. Some 99p then cheap crappy ones for around 50p.

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Pontifract Cakes..Made me regular :-[[/quote]



Me too!!!!   I loved em, still do but unfortunately can't eat them and be around other people :-[

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Gob stoppers. Changed colours as you sucked. Blackcurrant lollies dipped in water.

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what about raspberry ruffles and cocoanut mushrooms yum yum

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Screwballs...
Those ice cream thingies with the bubblegum in the bottom.
;D

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Anybody remember the Mambo things? Big pyramid things that were either frozen or drunk cold.I think they were called mambos.Not sure it is a long time ago

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Do you mean Jubileeys???

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sherbert fountins
had 2 today ;D

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[quote author=Mik_Dickinson link=board=nostalgia;num=1062791687;start=0#23 date=09/18/03 at 18:13:12]Anybody remember the Mambo things? Big pyramid things that were either frozen or drunk cold.I think they were called mambos.Not sure it is a long time ago[/quote]



;D  I remember those, always had em frozen though, and yes, they were called Mambos. When you got to the middle of them, they were too thick to bite through, you had to let them melt a bit.

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Definatly called jubilees. Orange in triangular waxy cardboardie packaging. nice too.

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lettie is not old enough to remember jubilees  :D
thats what they called them when we were young

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yup I remember mambo's ! we get the same things here called bibo's kids loveum

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jubilees... deffo :)

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Potato puffs and cheesetts after going to the swimming baths.

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And Bovril ;D

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Yuk! Hot chocolate for me.

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Or OXO :P

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Coffee. Not very nice.
oxo and bovril are for putting on your mash.

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;D   Jubilees, Mambo's sounds like same stuff different name, rather like Marathon/Snickers.

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Still call em Marathons and my kids give me funny looks no mater how much I explain.. ho hum...

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Same with Opal Fruits. Can't get used to calling them Starburst. ;D

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used to love milky ways but they have spoilt them now they have changed them.
Not nice. Why cant they leave things alone. :(

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my dad used to always by us a finger of fudge yes there you all go.... "a finger of fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat a finger of fudge is just enough untill...." OMG theres good commercialism for you, got to be 25 years since I heard that and I still remember all the words

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Mambos or Jubilees when you look at it in a retrospective way the sweet market isa lot like the music world.In a respective way that songs are rereleased and the youth of today think they are new.A lot of new named sweets are the same.Different name same product.Or is it just me

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a lot of the sweets are the same the names have been changed so that visitors to the u.k know what there buying  that's another euro issue. :-/

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wish they would leave things alone >:(

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why does this country have to go along with others, time to put the great back into brittain :)

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i agree there janet [smiley=lol.gif]

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[smiley=ello.gif] i agree to mick  wish  they would all  change to our names not the other way around  it was bad enough learning  the names first time around  without  trying to learn them again ;D

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but they think up such stupid names

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even jif has changed to cif. thats one for anne mick i dont think you men will know what jif is. ;D

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not being sexists here just stateing the obvious sorry guys :-*

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[quote author=janet link=board=nostalgia;num=1062791687;start=0#48 date=09/21/03 at 18:07:03]even jif has changed to cif. thats one for anne mick i dont think you men will know what jif is. ;D[/quote]
its a bag for posting fragile things in  :P

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no mick thats a jaffa bag, but there again that could be a biscuit with orange jam inside that would make a nice change from jam butties have to let happy one in on that ;D

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i will let you tell him janet
im in hideing from his other half  :'(

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[quote author=janet link=board=nostalgia;num=1062791687;start=0#48 date=09/21/03 at 18:07:03]even jif has changed to cif. thats one for anne mick i dont think you men will know what jif is. ;D[/quote]
Sorry Janet, I have to confess that i do no what this stuff is.For cleaning baths,tiles and other stuff.White creamy stuff i think it is.Been so long since i used it.13 years.Just how long i have been wed  :o

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that's why men get married mik, they cant possibly get through life without a good woman i dont know how single men cope, maybe thats why lots of men stay with there mum till marriage ;D

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I heard once that single men are jealous of married men but also vice versa.Normally on a Friday night just after the pubs have shut LOL!

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fruit salad penny chews and stardust and sherbert yum ;D

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anyone remember pink panther bars ?
They taste like  Mc D's strawberry milkshake!!!

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:D  I remember some sort of pink strawberry flavoured bar that was similar to milky bar (like strawberry chocolate) can't really describe it, but it was delicious. ;)

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Three main venues for your sweets; MACE on Hawthorn Ave. Ossy, one just up from St.Paul's that sold licorice bootlaces (still the best), black jacks, fruit salad & mojos (all 4 for a penny). Bags of saspirillas, coltfoots rock, rainbow sherbet and Victory Vs. There was a newsagent bang opposite the bottom part of St.Pauls that used to have a Beech Nut chewing gum machine on the outside wall. During school breaks we could buy cheese biscuits or chocolate fingers for a penny (that's pre-decimal guys!). When it went decimal we were offered penny wafers. And what about non PC purchases like tobacco sweets; packs of cigarettes with pink tips, chocolate cigars and sweet rolling tobacco in pouches. How did our teeth ever survive??

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theres  a little shop in haworth yorkshire  that still sells all the old sweets from years ago well worth a visit

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BOB  can you get me £10 worth of the old sweets for the party.
if so i will IM you with my address for you to send but i MUST get them before the party on the 14/12/03  ;D

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Not got nowt at Stockleys in Ossie Mills, Mick?

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thats a idea will have a look never thought of them thanks cazzer ;D

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They're famous for their sassies anyway!
They've got loads of stuff in there, mint cake & stuff.

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i just want some of the old ones we have been posting about for the party ;D

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If you want I'll pop up later this week and have a look, & see if they've got a list of their stock.

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thanks dont put your self out though ;D

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yea stockleys have a good stock( :-X) of old type sweets mmmm i luv  um  :D

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well then mez come to the party and see ;D

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hey just try & keep me away looking forward to it ::) :o ;D

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good ;D ;D [smiley=balloon.gif] [smiley=party.gif] [smiley=party.gif]

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Does anyone remember those plastic ball things that you could buy that were filled with ice-cream? I can't remember what they were called for the life of me.

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Screwballs!

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same to you lol

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I don't think so Grego. Screwballs had a cone shape and had a bubble gum ball in the bottom. http://www.parsicecream.com/Popsicle...0099_small.jpg The ones I'm thnking of were football shaped (but about tennis ball sizehttp://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/i...cons/icon9.gif) with a small lid that popped or screwed off. Inside was filled with fairly poor quality ice cream.

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Dont remember those at all!

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Yesterday, one of my colleagues re-applied her perfume, "Oh" say I "That smells just like those Cherry Lips we used to buy as kids".
"Oh NO" replies she "Couldn't stand the smell of those".

Yet another faux pas by Kate. Went as red as those sweets used to be, I can tell ya'.:o

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spangles......yummy

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Looked a bit like this but were opaque and smallerhttp://www.notcot.org/images/uploads...am%20maker.jpg

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never seen anything like those...well, not with ice cream in.

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A bag of Kali with an ha'penny spanish - yummy

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what about the ice-cream push ups remember those???:D

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or what about MOJO'S 2 for 1p half pence each!!:D:D

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Fruit salad and black jacks 8 for 1d when I was a kid..............

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I love aniseed balls-have not seen them up here,anyone know where i can get them from?

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Try the sweet stall inside the market hall, haven't seen them but they do have a good range, other than that Ossy Mills.

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i loved sarsaparilla tablets

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Ah yes, Margaret, but which sort ? ... the rainbow type which left yer palate without its top layer of skin, or the pink American Soda but had a tendency to give you flatulence :s_fart: :D

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kola kubes, pineapple chunks, been to ossy mills but dont seem to taste quite the same as they used toAttachment 8789


I remember i used to go to taylors at the corner where panack hairdressers is now in ossy, and used to get 2p ice lollys, shame they shut, theres never really any good toffee shops anymore!!:(

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There was only one sort in the 1940's - bright yellow crystals - made tongue and lips look jaundiced

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ohhhh i used to love american soda, havent had that for years with one of those kojak lollys you cant get anymore:mad:

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An ice cream cone with a Cadbury's Flake stuck in it. And at Christmas the selection boxes!!!

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cinder toffee love it getting stuck to my teeth

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:Banane57: mine was something called imps i don,t nowe if you rembber them they was like tiny spannish bits in a little tin

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oh yeh little pieces of hard liquorice, they ruddy horrible...lol

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coltsfoot rock n sarsaparilla tablets....u cant beat em!

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and....bettabars too!!

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ummmm lush im with you on this one ..:D but not so much the sasparella s.....

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http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/gfx/angl0001.jpganglo bubbly:D