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Retro Sweets, Chocolate and Crisps


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On 02/12/2018 at 22:05, Ploggy said:

Probably not, mate.  Penknives were really popular in the eighties for some reason.  And those Rambo knives with the compass on the top of them. :)

Found a couple more.  Most of these photos came from Pintinterest, by the way.  Loads of great pictures on there from the eighties.

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wrigleys did a packet the same but called Beech Nut I think

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Barr drinks 1970's

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And don't forget the Barr bottles with the hand it back red tops, when empty take it back to the shop and get 10p back per bottle. Now that's recycling back in the 70's

My old man would save enough bottles, than when we was broke trade them in for some fags.

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Plus the classic tizer ads

 

Dont blame me if you watch the 2nd ad and start humming it in your head.

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Pacers/Opal Mints.

Originally known as Opal Mints, they were plain white coloured chewy spearmint flavoured sweets, launched as a sister product to Opal fruits. The product was subsequently relaunched as Pacers around 1976, and later, three green peppermint stripes were added to the sweet.

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On 18/12/2018 at 20:34, evo1 said:

Barr drinks 1970's

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And don't forget the Barr bottles with the hand it back red tops, when empty take it back to the shop and get 10p back per bottle. Now that's recycling back in the 70's

My old man would save enough bottles, than when we was broke trade them in for some fags.

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Plus the classic tizer ads

 

Dont blame me if you watch the 2nd ad and start humming it in your head.

The 2 security guards are the 2 skinheads in the Young ones trying to get into the party

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On 01/12/2018 at 11:22, char042102 said:

lol you beat me to it Reg,I didn't check through the thread properly and just posted the alphabet sweets / abc letters regardless.

took me 2 hours on paintshop pro to do the "Desert Island Retro" hidden within.

anyway here's some more sweeties from the day folks

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I thought the lollipops were originally called whistle pops and  you could only get them in places like the chemist lol 

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21 hours ago, 1969kappa said:

I thought the lollipops were originally called whistle pops and  you could only get them in places like the chemist lol 

Yes your right i remember  going into a chemist and this was the only place i seen them as well.

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On 29/12/2018 at 20:00, evo1 said:

Selection Boxes 70s-80s

Been as its Christmas and my two had a few selection boxes, they have become (like everything a rip) as the bar of chocolate are not even full size.  Not like the good old days.

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They don't make selection boxes like that nowadays, evo, as you say, they are a rip off now. I fondly remember those bags of Treets/Texan bars & Spangles.

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I loved Treets. But I remember them as chewy soft toffee/caramel in a crunchy shell.

In the USA they do M&M caramels which are very similar. I brought some large boxes back from Vegas. 

Treets came back briefly in the 90s. I remember getting some packs at Paddington Station. I think they were in a dark blue bag.

Dont remember Womble bars though. 

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14 hours ago, wearecity said:

I loved Treets. But I remember them as chewy soft toffee/caramel in a crunchy shell.

In the USA they do M&M caramels which are very similar. I brought some large boxes back from Vegas. 

Treets came back briefly in the 90s. I remember getting some packs at Paddington Station. I think they were in a dark blue bag.

Dont remember Womble bars though. 

Can remember the yellow bags very well and yes, i think the closest to these peanut ones are the M&Ms.  As for the toffee ones just cant remember anything of them.:mess_33:

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