Chewing Nuts
Bon Bons
Sweet Peanuts
Sugared Almonds
Fudge

I hate sweets and chocolates now, but they were my favs when I was a kid !

Five boys chocolate,and the dreamy toffee with the picture of a cow on the wrapper.oh happy days,

Aww!

I was going to suggest chocolate bars as well

a lot are still available but a few have gornnnnnn   Fry's five centre fruit chocolate bar ? dont know if this is still available but I quite liked this one

Marathan is now Snickers .........  why did we need a name change ?

  lucky tatties  - yes remember them they were good

Lemon bon bons ... the really chewy ones they used to have ... not the soft ones you get nowadays ...

They are SUPPOSED to stick your teeth together ...

There's an Oil Company called Marathon  - maybe that had something to do with it MrsH

I dont know - they still taste as nice though - I  love nutty chocolate of all sorts

Victory V Logenzes  and Fishermans Friend

I had a Caramac yesterday,don't see them very often so had to do a bit of stock piling.They are a bit on the small side now,or is that just because i am a bit bigger

Maggie

I like Caramac too - but in small doses   being a sugar free house all chocolate seems a touch sweet and sickly now 

some of the bars are smaller now and a good excuse for 2 at a time I guess if you are a chocoholic

I made the mistake of buying diabetic choccie from Thorntons years ago didn't realise it had a really drastic laxative effect if you ate more than a couple of squares,i ate a whole bar,will leave it at that

Maggie

I can imagine  should put a warning on the packet really

OH is a diabetic and at first you try to go by the book and do things properly but thankfully we have friends who nurse and they advised dont buy diabetic products the only good you are doing is lining the shops tills - stick with sugar free and you are ok 

I bet that chockie bar was expensive too

marzipan fruits, loved making them with my children when they were small, mind you the bananas never looked quite right

I am a cook/chef,and responsible for residents with varying dietary needs,never buy anything diabetic,you are right it is a rip off,and even the experts advise against it,it is getting easier to be diabetic than it was years ago,but seems to be on the increase,which is very worrying.

Maggie

never heard of them   maybe because  I dont like marzipan very much 

the old fashioned turkish delight in the funny shaped boxes - I loved that - bit partial to a Fry's one as well covered in chocolate

yes it is on the increase and I do think some could be avoided if they controlled their intake a bit more - not all can do this I know but it is interesting sitting in diabetic clinics and listening and you so want to say things to help them - 20 years down the road we are still learning to live with it - the learning never stops I dont think

Spot on about the learning Mrs H,but it worries me that people don't undertand the long term consequences of not following the advice of the experts.I will get off my soapbox now and save it for work

Maggie

Back on topic Herbal Drops

Maggie

LOl @ maggiep - is a good and interesting subject though lol  maybe a blog ?

Army and navy drops

Blakemans Throat and Chest Sweets  - now I love these whether I have a cold or not and they are still available in all major supermarkets

pandrops ??

My faves were Sherbert pips

Others I remember are:

Cream Soda
Rainbow Crystals
Cop Cops
Rhubarb & Custard
Chocolate Limes

Oh & coconut mushrooms ... they were lovely ... available at M&S I think

we used to help run the monthly school disco and I used to be in charge of buying the supplies

first things to sell were always the Flying saucers and Love hearts 

[ this was for age groups 5 -11 ]  was so funny watching the very little boys open the love hearts to find the I Love You ones and give to the very little girlies ahhhhhhhhh  so sweet

Cough Candy & aniseed balls ( Which paved the way for me liking Pernod & Sambuca) and Spanish Wood.

Temple Ball

Bluebird toffee especially the liquerice flavour.Also the slabs of banana toffee

Maggie

Sweeties I stock up on when I go home are lucky tatties and soor plooms.

I also love Highland toffee and floral gums

Black bullets,  and I don't care what the manufacturer's or anyone else says,Wagon Wheels are not as big as they used to be.

Only just found this thread again! Has anyone mentioned pear drops yet? My all time fave!

They made the roof of my mouth sore so did cherry bitters and acid drops

Maggie

Ohh MRsH I haven't read the whole thread (sorry, will come back later and do that) for now I'll just tell you the ones I remember..

Flying saucers,
Black Jacks and fruit salads.
Everton Mints
Gob Stoppers
Pineapple chunks (me too)
swizzle sticks
and sherbert dips . (when you used to get a liquorice stick poking out of the tube not a lolly pop, though it always looked like a straight bananna to me, or a stick of dynamite,