h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

There's alot sweets you can't getanymore and some you can still buy my fondest memories are.

1) bulls eyes
2) sherbet dip dabs
3) milkshake bottle jellies
4) bon bons
5) moe joes
6) mushrooms
7) licorice sticks
8) sherbet strawberries.

what were you favourite sweets?

Pineapple Chunks
Pear Drops
Black Jacks
Jamboree Bags and cos we owned a paper shop sometimes I was allowed a buttered brazil

Cookeiat snap my dad owned alot of shops too

butter scotch
winter mixture
cough candy
candy twist
bon bons those boiled sweets with wrappers on.

Spangles! They used to cut the roof of your mouth if you ate too many, but the orange ones were worth it

The ones I can't remember the name of, but they looked like little pillows and were fruit flavoured.

Sherbert Pips

jubblies

Strawberry millions
and choco nuts were lovely except they were too chewy

Do you remember those violet things you ate to make your breath smell nice.?

Spangles!! I had forgotten about the damage they did to the roof of your mouth but they were good specially the butterscotch ones that came out later.

Smarties I loved smarties specailly the orange and light brown they tasted different.

Parma Violets. You can still get them.

Midget Gems - (they used to be harder and tastier than the rubbish chewy jelly ones you get now)
Cherry Lips
Chewing nuts
Tom Thumb Drops
Gold Rush (Chewing Gum in the shape of gold nuggets in little cloth sacks)
Spanish Tobacco
Space Dust
Mojos and Blackjacks
Chocolate Cigarettes
Flying Saucers
Milk Teeth
Cinder Toffee
Cream Soda sherbet
Freddo the Frog chocolate
Texan Bar
Toffos
Cherry Drops
Cracker Jack popcorn
Ringos crisps

Not all at the same time, but I'd manage to get most of these for my 25p a week pocket money, ooh, and a comic

Same here probably didn't even get 25p I was before decimalization your actual shilling. One Bunty comic and a Jamboree bag and I was set up for the day.

You could get 3 jellies for 1 1/2p and they don't do bullets any more those were bullet shaped gum.

Have you seen the size of gob stoppers these days. Wouldn't stop my gob for long.

I know gobstoppers use to be huge round things and the one's they have now are tiny.

Cola cubes
mishape jellies

cola cubes
sherbert lemons
walnut whips very very special treat.
4 fruit salads for one penny.

Blackjacks

Strawberry chews

opal fruits

chewy nuts

CHOCOLATE COVERED PEANUTS. I WILL MAKE MYSELF SICK WITH THEM EVEN NOW

Chocolate raisins

frys peppermint cream

frys turkish delight

frys fruit bar

star bars

curly wurley

rainbow drops

chewy mints

Shandy flavoured ice lollies and then pretending to be drunk when you had eaten one with your friends.

Teddybear lollie ices

Hundred and thousands ice cream

Neopolitan bricks
Frozen jubblies
Strawberry Mivi's

choco mint ice cream

twister lollie ice pops

mr freezes