Sweets from the past!

Mint Balls, kp choc dips, shrimps, those round chocolate discs with hundreds and thousands?

Mmm and that choco lick stuff? Loved that.

I don't remember these?

Oh yes! I loved it!!! You ate it by sprinkling it straight into your mouth even with the soggy corner it was delicious!

My H used to buy a box of space raiders and then sit and either watch movies or play his computer!!

Mmm do you remember bitza pizza crisps? Pyramint? Meanies? Thingies. What was the one and it was a choc bar with like bits of either mint or orange in, was it BITZ? You could get them gobstoppers in a hot flavour that burnt the mouth off you aswell they were red, then turned pink, then white. Jolly ranchers. Tab cola. I'll be back with more, this is one of my fave subjects!

Kola Kubes!

They don't seem very common but they sold them at our corner shop.

Basically imagine little balls of Fry's Mint Cream.

Meanies! Green packet! better than space raiders imo!

jazzies!!!

DibDab sherbet thingys, loved them!

Oh yeah! They were only 5p a packet too!

I LOVED the white chocolate ones of these (Jazzies). The pound shop near us sells them in huge bags and I am so tempted but I know I'd eat the entire bag, so I don't buy them ?

I used to love sherbet dip dabs, and a sour fizzy sweet I can't remember the name of.

Did any of you used to have a mobile shop that would come round (like an icecream van but it sold milk, bread, teabags and sweets), or was that just a northern thing?

They sound amazing! Drool. I could go a quarter of those bad boys now.

Yeah we did, but then I am northern. It was simply called the van. We had 2 stationary "the vans" too. One in the park round the corner, one at the top of the street. They would park up in the morning and drive off about 6pm. Most streets in Liverpool had one in the 80's. If your road didn't have a shop you would have a van/mobile, Hence Ron dicksons MOBY DICK MOBILE SHOP on Brookside!

We called it "the van" too. It didn't stay all day though it would just come round probably every few hours. It used to sell single fags to the older kids! Naughty!

Yes we had one too!!

Fave sweets (and still are) anything fizzy - fizzier the better!!! Shrimps, cola cubes, Wham Bars.......

Ours did this too! We called them "loosies" and they were 20p each. Terrible really. We thought it was great at the time though!

Haha that was it loosies!

We have these in Scotland, but they are ice cream vans with a shop bit too ? we also used to get a van selling glass bottles of juice!!

There were these bags of crisps, and they were tomato flavour and they were 5 or 10p a packet. Can't remember what they were called though.

We used to go to the shop, buy loads of them, go to the park, sit up a tree and eat them.

Oh, and Panda Pops!!

ETA: They were called Tangy Toms!

And, there was a time when you could get Cheetos in this country - they were amazing. Much better than Wotsits.

Chocolate fags.

I miss all the additives and colours the most - I used to get such a rush from them.

you still can!! we have an independant newsagents nearby where we get them, friends from uni have got me sending them pakcs of them ?

Oh my God, seriously?!?! At proper, English prices? Or ridiculous these-are-American-so-we're-going-to-charge-£5-per-pack-to-rinse-you-of-all-your-money prices?

Me and my sister used to walk to the shops and get them candy sticks that looked like cigarettes and pretend to be real cool and 'smoke' them. Makes me laugh now because I think smoking is the uncoolest thing ever, we were about 10 at the time though!

I have an addiction to these! My brother just got back from spain and brought me back 4 big bags ? the green football ones are amazing. I cant find anywhere near me that stocks them either.

Am I the only person who regularly consumes 10p crisps? ?

#theynowcost20p

Pint pots. We have a sweet shop (yum yums) that sells them, £1 a bag, along with other childhood favourites.

I used to like the petrified prawn 10p crisps.

The chocolate bars (I think made by Terry's)

Secrets-( with the chocolate moose type stuff in the middle)

Moments (the gooey/stringy caramel with the hazelnut in the middle)

Mmmm I used to love these!

Nom nom nom.

Not sweets but does anyone remember this?