Black jacks and Anglo bubblies
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Black jacks and Anglo bubblies
The thread about the price of a twix at the Turf got me thinking about popular sweets of the 70's. I used to buy them by the quarter from a shop in Peart Street off Colne Road and my favourites were Anglo bubble gum and black jacks.
Whatever happened to kaylie (the sweets). What were your favourites if you were around back then?
Whatever happened to kaylie (the sweets). What were your favourites if you were around back then?
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Proper sasparilla tablets that used to stick your teeth together.
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Pacers are the sweets that always immediately spring to mind when this topic is discussed. They were awesome.
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Re: Black jacks and Anglo bubblies
Used to love them - but when I started going on the Turf my granddad always had a bag of Riley's Chocolate Toffee Rolls.KLClaret wrote:Proper sasparilla tablets that used to stick your teeth together.
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Sasparillas were definitely up there.
Love the packaging for the chocolate toffee tolls.
Love the packaging for the chocolate toffee tolls.
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sarsaparilla drops had a stable mate which were bluish green coloured- acid drops. I'm not sure if they made it into the 70s when "acid drops" took on a whole new meaning but I liked them in the 60s as an alternative to the red sarsp ones.
From the 60s, my favourite pocket money sweets were penny (1d) arrow bars, various flavours, very chewy.
The OP is talking 70s and the favourite sweets I remember from late 70s are "chewing nuts"; not nuts at all but very hard caramel with chocolate coating, in the shape of a nut. Really chewy.
Otherwise, always liked anything liquorice- 1d spanish sticks, pontefract cakes, liquorice tablets etc.
From the 60s, my favourite pocket money sweets were penny (1d) arrow bars, various flavours, very chewy.
The OP is talking 70s and the favourite sweets I remember from late 70s are "chewing nuts"; not nuts at all but very hard caramel with chocolate coating, in the shape of a nut. Really chewy.
Otherwise, always liked anything liquorice- 1d spanish sticks, pontefract cakes, liquorice tablets etc.
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I worked on the redesign to Anglo Bubblies back in the 80's. Kept it fairly true to the original shop display packaging. 20 years later, I came up with the name for Haribo 'STARMIX'. Sales went from £250,000 per year to £35,000,000 across Europe.
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I also liked Bluebird toffee bars that came as I recall with a small metal hammer.LeadBelly wrote:sarsaparilla drops had a stable mate which were bluish green coloured- acid drops. I'm not sure if they made it into the 70s when "acid drops" took on a whole new meaning but I liked them in the 60s as an alternative to the red sarsp ones.
From the 60s, my favourite pocket money sweets were penny (1d) arrow bars, various flavours, very chewy.
The OP is talking 70s and the favourite sweets I remember from late 70s are "chewing nuts"; not nuts at all but very hard caramel with chocolate coating, in the shape of a nut. Really chewy.
Otherwise, always liked anything liquorice- 1d spanish sticks, pontefract cakes, liquorice tablets etc.
There were small beige coloured sticks of rock that were liquorice flavoured in the 70's but I can't remember what they were called.
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Holmeclaret: Closest I can think of its Coltsfoot Rock but that was a bit more spicy than liquorice. I liked those!
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These were from the 80s and were quite possibly the weirdest and most disgusting things I ever ate. Didn't stop me buying loads of packets of them though. Cola flavoured ET biscuits.
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Asda has an offer on black jacks, 5 packets for a £1 instead of 35p each, I am still enjoying black jacks and fruit salads
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Another thumbs up for coltsfoot rock from me. On the bubbly front I liked the packs of Bubble Balls from DoubleBubble. Always looked out for the packs that had a black one in.
Also proper midget gems where the black ones were liqourice not black currant.
Also proper midget gems where the black ones were liqourice not black currant.
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Those are the very chaps!claretdom wrote:https://www.aquarterof.co.uk/coltsfoot-rock.html
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Sports mixture - proper wine gums and properly shaped in the form of sporting apparatus
and stuff, like yeah innit !
and stuff, like yeah innit !
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Just remembered Bazooka bubble gum - straight from the states, or so they would have
you believe, with a tightly folded piece of waxed paper inside with a cartoon on about
some all American kid in a baseball cap (before baseball caps were seen over here)
you believe, with a tightly folded piece of waxed paper inside with a cartoon on about
some all American kid in a baseball cap (before baseball caps were seen over here)
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What was the chewing gum where it had a tattoo transfer inside, remember licking your arm then having various tattoo's
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I always did picture you as an arm-licker, glad it's been proven correct.claretdom wrote:What was the chewing gum where it had a tattoo transfer inside, remember licking your arm then having various tattoo's
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A trip down memory lane - all you need to know (nearly), featuring, inter alia, Black Jacks and Fruit Salad.
Feast your eyes on this little lot.
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Feast your eyes on this little lot.
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What were those Branch like things we used to chew on called?
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UpTheBeehole wrote:I always did picture you as an arm-licker, glad it's been proven correct.
Better an arm than an arse I guess
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Licorice root, spelled the American way.Steve1956 wrote:What were those Branch like things we used to chew on called?
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You should give it a go, they love it
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Tasted shite but everyone chewed one in the 60sFunkydrummer wrote:Licorice root, spelled the American way.
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That's perfectly true , but they were popular because they were long lasting sh!teSteve1956 wrote:Tasted shite but everyone chewed one in the 60s
and value for your brass.
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Think this was more 90s but still miss Cadbury s spira why the hell did they discontinue it..
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Wasn't that bazookas? I remember the tranfers but I can't say I thought much of the bubble gum.claretdom wrote:What was the chewing gum where it had a tattoo transfer inside, remember licking your arm then having various tattoo's
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I'm sure Curly Wurleys were longer then. 3p each from the bus station newsagents.
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Spangles
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5 for a £1vinrogue wrote:Asda has an offer on black jacks, 5 packets for a £1 instead of 35p each, I am still enjoying black jacks and fruit salads
eeee lad they were 4 for a penny in my day!
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Got to be packs of Spanish Gold, coconut strands rolled in brown sugar made to look like a pack of rolling tobacco!!Also, Everlasting strips, predecessor to the curly wurly and minus the chocolate. There was about 20 american kids sat in front of me on Tuesday night watching the match in JHL stand. Some came back at half time with bags of sour Haribos. You should have seen their faces. Probably first time they've tasted owt sour!
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Texan! What a mans gotta chew! A mans gotta chew!!!
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A Willie Wonka Dinasour egg. Took a month to eat
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Loved these
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there were them TICS in a little blue and white tin...
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Just remember when buying Midget Gems, Wine Gums and Sports Mixture to buy proper Lions ones... not those horrible Maynards knockoffs