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can you remember the sweets we had as kids are no longer out there LIKE BULL EYES AND COUGH CANDY CHUNKS XXX OH AND STRAWBERRIES AND CREAM BOILED SWEETS

There's a website you can buy these from still I think - it's called something like www(.)aquarterof(.)co.uk

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH PAUL THANKYOU I LOVE THE BULLS EYES AND OH ERM THE COUGH CANDY X THANX DO YOU EVER REMEMBER THE BARS OF MILK TRAY YOU USE TO BE ABLE TO BUY XXXXX

Kayleigh sherbet in twisted bags. Tom thumb drops, Pineapple cubes!

paul got it thanx penny sweets it is called xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

lion bars mmmmmmmmmmm full of nuts xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

yeah I remember them. and those fry's chocolate creams bars with several different flavours (that all tasted the same) By the way I think the correct terminology is cough candy TWISTS, cola cubes and pineapple chunks lol

Val Can still buy pineapple chunks , rhubard & custard sweets , sour apple sweets , Cough candy and stawberry & cream boiled sweets. I only know cos we had some of each of these when we worked in November Jan

Yes! yes! I remember those Milk Tray bars. They had Turkish Delight, soft caramel, a minty thingy and I'v forgotten the rest?. I was so excited to think someone else remembers them.xx

In Belfast there is a shop that sells sweets from the jar, l bought a bag of bulls eyes, l was gutted they did'nt taste the same as l remembered them lol I loved the olde english spangles and there was a candy stripe spangle a minty one with pink stripes. Can anyone remember a long twisted glucose stick it cost 3d and lasted for ages, a poke of raspberry sherbert that left you with a pink finger umm. Anne

val we have an old fashioned shop where we live.is 1oo years old.it's called gilberts and i t sell all the sweets you can think of in quarters.they have the old fashioned scales to measure it outxxxx(:

Yeah Bryan l remember the crisps with me it was smiths crisps and warm coke, it was heaven. Anne

Another site is bagofsweets(.)com I loved toffee crumble mmmmmmmm

The sweet shop by the castle at Battle in Sussex still does loads of the old fashioned sort.

Thanks Bryan, l just knew somehow that you would know the name of them lol Anne

Lemonade dippers was my favourite, the yellow sherbit and red lollies. I have been searching for years for these. Everywhere I go I go in different shops but no luck.

Black jack and fruit salad chews - 8 for 1d that shows my age! Mars were 4d and and BIG and when curly wurlies were invented they were as long as my arm jess

Can you still get liquorice laces, Pear shaped boiled sweet lollies, toffee DAINTYs? Deanna Yummmmmy :O)

My hubby used to get cough nomores. In Ireland. Deanna