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

Lucky Bags!

Always wanted the ones with the rubber snakes or the paratrooper in - although they always seemed to plumment when I dropped them from the top floor!

But what WERE the sweets that were in Lucky Bags???

Cadbury's contrast chocolates, half milk and half plain choc

Pricerite supermarket and green shield stamps. My mum used to collect those and would spend hours sticking them in the special book.

Didn't Green Shield try to relaunch a few years ago? Didn't work. Now we have Nectar instead.

RF

I miss (this is for the Germans and Forces brats out there) those tiny red lollies, on a green stick, that shopkeepers used to give us. they were cherry flavoured and yellow in the middle.

Lego - you could buy the 6+ blocks and 4 blocks loose in our Post Office - every so often Mum used to let me add a few pieces to my collection - built a lot of windowless towers!!

Mountain dew or Tab clear cola, neither very nice but also not forgotten.

>> those tiny red lollies, on a green stick, that shopkeepers used to give us. they were cherry flavoured and yellow in the middle <<

And called "Traffic Lights", IIRC.

RF

texan bars - they were chewy and fab!!! - and had a really silly advert!

From my smoking days - cigarettes with NSM - supposed to have been less harmful than your average smke - tasted disgusting and cost the same

Yep, traffic lights, they used to cut your mouth to pieces and were red so you did'nt notice the blood!

no, not Traffic Lights, RF (I loved those too)

these are still around, but not the same, they are about 5 cms long, the lolly part is about he size of a... oh heck, no idea. 20ct coin.

but I have had a fruitless search for proper gobstoppers

I used to like the orange Braniff jumbos.

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Spiderman when it was only on once a week. Whatever day it was on(can't remember now) you could always tell when it was 4.30 because there were no kids around.

I have searcched in vain for years for x-ray specs but cannae find 'em

I've got a single by them... wasn't the singer called Poly Styrene?

She's a germfree adolescent, cleanliness is her obsession...

I do, and now you've given me a craving I've no hope of satisfying .

There's a little shop in Bath that stocks many of the old favourites, displaying them loose in *real* glass jars. Last time I was there, I came away with bags of Pineapple Chunks, Flying Saucers, Everton Mints and Sherbet Fountains - not sure if they're generally available in the UK these days.

my mum's village shop has them too

Sho - I remember dem there lollies! Wow.

Well, i remember a chewy thing a bit like a fruit salad, but huge. There were often a couple of sherbert flying saucers (if you were really lucky)There was a a couple of things that alluded to being refreshers........but were in fact like chewing a piece of chalk And of course, the 'piece de resistance' the sherbert dib-dab. A lolly, but in a packet of sherbert so sour it'd drag your underpants into your nether regions.
There was also a toy so great, it'd be taken in to school next day and traded for a sick note to get out of athletics training.

*aside*

I once got a lucky bag without a toy in it. We returned the packet with a sad little letter, and recieved a BOX of toys from the company, and a letter of apology. This was in the days when people rarely complained in Britain about anything (even Hitler had only recieved a dirty look) No company could afford that sort of customer care these days.