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Off Topic Retro Sweets

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  1. The Elfsborg Sparrow

    The Elfsborg Sparrow Well-Known Member

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    I always liked cola cubes.
     
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    Merry maids toffees
     
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    Fruit salad. Were they 2 for a penny? I think they were.

    And those candy cigarettes in the realistic looking little packets.
    Imagine trying to market them today <laugh>
     
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  4. The Elfsborg Sparrow

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    Fruit Salads were good, Black Jacks as well.
     
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    Bazooka Joe(s)
     
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  6. The Elfsborg Sparrow

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    With the cartoons with them.
     
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  7. The Elfsborg Sparrow

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    Aniseed Twists were decent, in small doses.
     
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    They use to be 4 for a penny in my day
     
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    Pennies were bigger back then. Like Wagon Wheels.
     
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    And mars bars were longer
     
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    Sweets had proper names too, like Marathon & Opal Fruits.
     
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    Pontefract cakes mmmmm!
     
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  13. Ponders Revisited

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    Black Jacks are vile. Yuck!

    I'm terrible for eating sweets (I'm a diabetic). I love Wham Bars, strawberry Bon Bons, and sherbert Dip Dabs. Yum!
     
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    I preferred the plain toffee bon bons
     
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  15. The Elfsborg Sparrow

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    Strawberry bon bons, yummmmmm.
     
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    Unless you go to the seaside you cannot find coffee ice cream, I used to love that with strawberrys.
     
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    Screwballs :emoticon-0148-yes:
     
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    From the ice cream van. And a handful of golf ball bubblegums.
     
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  19. The Elfsborg Sparrow

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    Not a sweet, but our Moderator's suits are very retro.
     
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  20. The Elfsborg Sparrow

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    Back to respecting the thread, Galaxy was always a nice chocolate, not too popular nowadays.
     
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