Sweets you had as a child

Treacle

Treacle

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Now that most shops are opening, it came to mind the newsagents near me that sold, what I would describe, as sweets from the past those big glass/plastic jars. These are some I can remember from my childhood. Don't think some of them are made now.

fruit salad
black jacks
helter skelters
sherbert dabs
humbugs
liquorice
parma violets 😛
cough candy
sherbet lemons
toffee in trays with a hammer to break it up (granddad love that, how he managed to eat it is a mystery, he had false teeth) :ROFLMAO:
gob stoppers
love hearts

That's it for now. 🍭🍬
 

Treacle said:
Now that most shops are opening, it came to mind the newsagents near me that sold, what I would describe, as sweets from the past those big glass/plastic jars. These are some I can remember from my childhood. Don't think some of them are made now.

fruit salad
black jacks
helter skelters
sherbert dabs
humbugs
liquorice
parma violets 😛
cough candy
sherbet lemons
toffee in trays with a hammer to break it up (granddad love that, how he managed to eat it is a mystery, he had false teeth) :ROFLMAO:
gob stoppers
love hearts

That's it for now. 🍭🍬
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yep all of the above were available when I was a kid...

I loved Pacers ( Mint opal fruits basically) ..

Chocolate tiffin bars.......
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Mint Liquorice allsorts..
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Good thing I didn't get the opportunity to get sweets very often when I was a child otherwise I'd have no teeth left now
 
Oddly enough my mom used to make treacle toffee. She’d make it for Guy Forks day which got switched to Halloween when we moved to Canada.
Sponge toffee was always good but toffees were so hard on the teeth. I’ve successfully pulled a few fillings out.

Black balls
Sugar coated Strawberry candy
Caramels
Jube jubes
Wine gums
Jelly beans
Liquorice
Fizzy wafers.... we used to get these and they were a bit on the sour side but really good . There were watermelon, lime, tangerine and banana flavours. They were really good.
 

Being addicted to sweets herself, my mother actually would provide me with a Milky Way, Three Muskateers, or Hershey bar with many lunches. Back then, candy bars cost 5 cents, and were larger than those sold at almost twenty times the cost today! For a penny, you could get a large gumball or several small ones from vending machines positioned strategically by most store exits..
 
When I went to visit my city grandmother she would take me downtown. We always walked down and took the bus back home.

Usually, we stopped at the candy counter in one of the department stores or at the Planter's Peanut Shoppe for a treat.

One of my favorites was cream filberts, we called them snowballs or mothballs.

I also enjoyed the giant gumdrops or orange slices, nonpareils, and bridge mix.

We never bought more than a quarter of a pound which in some ways seemed to make it even more special as a treat to be shared and savored on the bus ride home.

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OMG, we had a little grocery store near where we lived when I was a child and we'd buy candy there. I don't remember the names of the particular candies but they had quite a variety considering it was a small store. We weren't always fortunate to buy candy that often; I really don't know if it was because of the sugar or what.
 
Nothing like a walk down memory lane on a Sunday morning! LOVE it!

Sweet Tarts
Lik-m aid (Fun Dip)
Hot Tamales
Red Hots
Bottle Caps
Candy cigarettes
Garbage Can-dy

And many, many more!
 
Thanks everyone. These pictures etc are bringing back some great memories of sweets from the past
Aunt Marg said:
Nothing like a walk down memory lane on a Sunday morning! LOVE it!

Sweet Tarts
Lik-m aid (Fun Dip)
Hot Tamales
Red Hots
Bottle Caps
Candy cigarettes
Garbage Can-dy

And many, many more!
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Bottle caps and candy (Sweet cigarettes) are what I remember from your list.
I can remember the sweet cigarettes, and holding them and putting them in my mouth pretending I was a grown up. I think the end bit was red to suggest it was alight!!!!!!My grandfather smoked and it wasn't the sweet cigarettes, had it been he would not have set light to the cushion he had for his back when he took us for a drive in the car. Grandma shouted at him to pull over as it was smoking. All kids had to get out, cushion was trampled on and definitely put out and thrown in a waste basket at the side of the road. Such memories and i'm here to tell the tale :ROFLMAO: :D . Apologies I digress. He did take to polo mints when he gave up smoking (had to) at age 70.
 
Treacle said:
Thanks everyone. These pictures etc are bringing back some great memories of sweets from the past

Bottle caps and candy (Sweet cigarettes) are what I remember from your list.
I can remember the sweet cigarettes, and holding them and putting them in my mouth pretending I was a grown up. I think the end bit was red to suggest it was alight!!!!!!My grandfather smoked and it wasn't the sweet cigarettes, had it been he would not have set light to the cushion he had for his back when he took us for a drive in the car. Grandma shouted at him to pull over as it was smoking. All kids had to get out, cushion was trampled on and definitely put out and thrown in a waste basket at the side of the road. Such memories and i'm here to tell the tale :ROFLMAO: :D . Apologies I digress. He did take to polo mints when he gave up smoking (had to) at age 70.
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I used to be really stylin', for my mom used to give me her empty cigarette packages, and that's where I kept my candy cigarettes!
 
Another I remember... Pop Rocks crackling candy!

And who can forget Candy Necklaces?

And what about, Smarties Sugar Candy? They had a sort of fizzy effect about them when you chewed them.

Smarties, a Halloween Favorite, Remains a Sweet Family Business ...
 
I tried most of the above mentioned. I usually picked up a box of Good and Plenty when I went to a Saturday afternoon movie. Other than that, my favorites were always licorice and vanilla ice cream. Fruit was basically all my parents permitted whenever we wanted a sweet.
 
Nope. There was a little grocery store across from the grade school where all the kids would buy the candy cigarettes, the wax lips. stc. Nope. I'd save my allowance for the Saturday matinee and a Milky Way candy bar! That's the only candy I liked!
 
It's funny but growing up I really didn't enjoy sweets,not even ice cream. I did like root beer soda but nothing else. My sister loved all sweets. I didn't enjoy them until later years when I got diabetes. Now I love all sweets.
 
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