What old sweets do you miss?

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1. Why do you miss them? They’re still very much available

2. Tootie Minties

3. Sherbet dib dab. You can still get them if you hunt for them. But I can’t do with the hastle of finding what shops still have them and how far they are

4. I was at a wedding just two weeks ago and they had a “sweetshop corner” at the reception which included flying saucers!

   As a child in Scotland there used to be “Irn Bru bars” which I don’t think you can get anymore (though happy to be proven wrong on that!) which were basically a flat, wide chew.

5. Marathons.

   Shut up, they were sweets to me.

   That a parma violets, I know you can still get them but a grown arse man has no place buy8ngbthem in a civilised society.

6. Tutti Frutti

   You can still get flying saucers btw. In shops, online, all over the place.

7. Mojos!

8. Apple Jacks. They were like a black Jacks but apple.

9. I miss the old packaging for Sherbet Fountains and Smarties.

   They just aren’t the same for some reason.

10. Texan bars, again I know it is a chocolate and I also seem to be the only person to remember them. They were lush…..

11. Dunno if they’re still available oe not but I haven’t seen Murray Mints for years.

12. Mars delight. Also, all the penny sweet things in general because I’m not going to buy them separately in dedicated £1 packets.

13. Mint chocstik

14. It’s chocolate but does anybody remember the Cadburys Spira?

15. Mingles. I like mint chocolate, so a selection of different kinds in a box was ace.

16. These might both be available but fizzy cola bottles and those banana sweets

17. The “Honeyduke’s Best Chocolate” bar that was sold around the time the first Harry Potter film came out. That thing was delicious.

18. Fizzy jerks

19. Highland Toffee bars. There are a few available from sweet shops online, but they’re not actually the same as the ones I had when I was a kid.

    They sold them at the cinema for the kids-only Saturday morning picture club, which makes me sound about 80.

20. Campinos

21. Drifter’s

22. Bursting Bugs were great

23. Aniseed Imperials. The Bassetts ones were discontinued ages ago but all the off brand ones also just disappeared from shops like B&M, Poundland, Home Bargains etc a few years ago. You can still buy aniseed balls so I make do with those, but the imperials were the best.

    Oh, and 80s Fruit Gums. These days they are a completely different sweet to what they were back then. I miss those little discs that were so sticky you needed a crowbar to separate your teeth if you tried to bite them.

    And for a really recent one, I miss non-vegan Fruit Pastilles. They changed the recipe to make them suitable for vegans and now they taste weird. Thanks vegans!

24. Cadburys Spira