Sweets you had as a child

Capt Lightning said:
SPANGLES!! Especially 'Old English' flavour. Then there's the Scottish favourite, Coulthard's Candy and Mr's L's favourite, Everton Mints.
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which we weans called Cooters candy... my brother is called Al, so you can imagine he had that song sung at him all his childhood... :LOL:

ETA...for this who don't know...this is a Traditional Scottish song about Coulters' candy..

Coulters Candy

Ally, bally, ally bally bee,
Sittin' on yer mammy's knee
Greetin' for anither bawbee,
Tae buy mair Coulter's candy.
Ally. bally, ally, bally bee,
When you grow up you'll go to sea,
Makin' pennies for your daddy and me,
Tae buy mair Coulter's Candy.
Mammy gie me ma thrifty doon
Here's auld Coulter comin' roon
Wi' a basket on his croon
Selling Coulter's Candy.
Little Annie's greetin' tae
Sae whit can puir wee Mammy dae
But gie them a penny atween them twae
Tae buy mair Coulter's Candy.
Poor wee Jeannie's lookin' affa thin,
A rickle o' banes covered ower wi' skin,
Noo she's gettin' a double chin
Wi' sookin' Coulter's Candy.
Meaning of unusual words:
bawbee=Once a silver six penny coin, in the days of Scottish coinage, now only a half-pennny.
rickle=heap
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MickaC said:
Other than all of what you all have shared.
Shoestring licorice
Jawbreakers
Pixisticks
MacIntoshes original toffee.
Black licorice
Chocolate covered marshmallows
CHOCOLATE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now i have a sugar crave.....must go find some candy and CHOCOLATE.🍥🍭🍬🍫🍩🍪🌰🍢
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I've never heard of chocolate covered marshmallows, but I've always liked the ones that have toasted coconut on the outside.
 
I remember some sweets from childhood more due to the circumstances of the sweets than the candy itself. My dad took me to the Rose Bowl in 1963 when I was just a little over 5 years old. He and my mom had planned to go because their alma matter was playing that year but she got sick and couldn't go. The only thing I remember about the game was being in the stands and having a woman give me a Hershey bar. I also remember the first time I bought a Hershey bar from the store with my own nickle.

Another sweet memory was my father introducing me to his favorite candy, Rollo. I used to enjoy them for years and would get them from time to time before coming up with my own preferences.
 
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Musk Stix or Penny Sticks as we knew them were a long tube of hard fondant which you could suck on all day
I also like bubblegum and would stuff 4 in my mouth at a time and I blew some pretty good bubbles
I don't recommend this if you wear glasses because the bubble can pop all over the glasses :mad:
Try getting that off ☺
The only way I found was to put an ice cube on the stuck on gum and wait for it to harden then gently scrape off
 
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. 🍭🍬
Bonnie said:
two things I remember enjoying ... 1) fruit flavored wax coke bottles
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and 2) Bonomo turkish taffy .. I liked vanilla best.


Can still buy these things ... at old fashioned candy websites.
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Five Below stores still sell Turkish Taffy,also a fav,never have seen the nik-l- mild above anywhere.
cracker Barrel also have an old time candy selection.
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I remember "Flavor Straws" (I think that's what they were called). You stir them in milk & it turns it into chocolate or strawberry milk.
And there was also another straw that was filled with some type of sour powder (forgot the name).
 
When we were little there was an old man that used to pick up the full cans of milk from the local farmers in the morning and take them to the local creamery. In the afternoon he would return the empty cans, that had been scalded clean with live steam, in time for the evening milking. We didn't have dairy cows but the old man used to bring us milk cans filled with hot water from the creamery in the summer when our well ran dry so my mother and grandmother could do laundry on the back patio using the old wringer washing machine.

The old man always had a supply of Atomic FireBalls and Jaw Breakers for the kids that he met along the way. No matter how hot the fireballs were it was a rite of passage to be one of the big kids that took a fireball instead of being a little kid that got a jawbreaker.

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It's interesting how some little things find a place in our memory that lasts for a lifetime.
 
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I've seen a number of spellings of the gentleman who invented "Cooters Candy" - Coulter, Coultard etc... But yes, it was colloquially known as Cooters Candy. The song was written as one of the very first "advertising jingles" in the 1840's. You can buy a modern version of the candy ( based on what is known of the original) from some 'retro' sweet shops.

 
My glucose is rising just reading this thread. I'd better leave! :D But not before I say I really liked brown licorice the best.
 
Aunt Bea said:
The old man always had a supply of Atomic FireBalls and Jaw Breakers for the kids that he met along the way. No matter how hot the fireballs were it was a rite of passage to be one of the big kids that took a fireball instead of being a little kid that got a jawbreaker.

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It's interesting how some little things find a place in our memory that lasts for a lifetime.
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Forgot about those! I loved the fireballs!
 
Mom used to buy candy from the Japanese store that I wish I could buy now, but I don't think they make them anymore. They were hard, round, red/white striped with a cinnamon flavour.

We used to love Xmas ribbon candy, and I loved black liquorice - then, and now.
 
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