Old sweets they don't seem to do anymore

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  1. KamikazeCo-Pilot

    KamikazeCo-Pilot Well-Known Member

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    Was chatting with a mate about it the other day and we both said we liked Texan bars (not pubs in Texas..). Used to really like em. Anyone got any others?
     
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    I remember going to the match with my Dad as a kid and he'd often have a packet of Pacers. They were Opal Fruit-shaped sweets but mint flavoured, I think with a stripe through the middle but I might be wrong. God only knows what crap was in them.
     
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    Black jacks (for obvious reasons ) used to get four for old penny .
    Bazooka joes chewing gum .
     
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    KamikazeCo-Pilot Well-Known Member

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    I think I remember them. Were they chewy?
     
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    Bliss bars

    walnut whips. They may still do these, but just a quarter of their original size
     
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    Spangles, & Fruitangs.
     
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    Sherbert Dips
     
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    That's right they were white with 1 or 2 green stripes, presumably the spearmint flavouring. Other than that as you say they were exactly like Opal Fruits.
     
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    Nutty
     
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    Cabana bar, coconut and cherries in milk chocolate.
     
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    They were fantastic.
     
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    Wagon wheels arnt as big now, tiny in comparison.
     
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    They still sell black jacks buy them all the time.
     
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    Bar six bit like a kit kat
     
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    I loved these in the 70s. A variant on Love Hearts. Dammed if I can remember the name...

    sweets.jpg
     
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    Yes. Here they are:

    upload_2020-8-30_19-48-53.jpeg
     
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    Tiffin
    Fry's five boys.
    Fry's Chocolate cream.
    Barley sugar sticks

    And from about 10 years ago they changed the lickorice flavour to blackcurrent in Sports mixture, although whatever the flavour they were the dentists Friend as they were brilliant at removing fillings.
     
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    Toffos were nice too. I especially liked the chocolate, strawberry, and banana flavoured ones.
     
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    They were originally called Opal Mints before being rebranded as Pacers. Marathon bars were renamed Snickers about the same time I think.
     
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