Bring them all back. I was born in 73 so I think I've chewed my way through them all and I remember Space Dust and I don't know if anyone else remembers Gold Rush bubble gum. It came in a drawstring bag and was made to look like gold nuggets. Thanks for the nostalgic video ❤
Mackintosh's "Golden cup" anyone? A foil covered choccy confectionary shaped like a dog's bone and filled with tooth rotting soft toffee.... GORGEOUS !!!
I was born in 1955. My favourite sweets were milk bottles, sweet peanuts, chocolate limes, and Old English Spangles. I also loved the chocolate with the liquid lime centre in Milk Tray!
I mentioned the Dracula ice lolly that was sold in the 70s to two women in their 60s, but they couldn’t remember it. It was black on the outside and had a red jelly inside that looked like a tongue. I loved those.
There were other boxes of chocolates too. I can remember Good News, Contrast and Weekend boxes . I can remember long twisty sticks which were a sort of butterscotch with chocolate in the middle. The little corner shop near my primary school had a tray of sweets in the window, either 4 for an old penny or 2. I loved wrapped solid squares of a fizzy sweet in 4 fruit flavours, the pink foam shrimps and stretchy jelly snakes. There were threepenny Lucky Bags too which contained a few sweets and little toys. I once got a tiny green plastic bear which I loved. And the packs of chewing gum I think which gave free cards of the Monkees.
I remember all those sweets, fruit salad and black Jack's I bought a lot as they were only half pence each. I used to love the big gobstopper called 'Jawbreakers' too. Oh those simple slow paced days when it was sunny in summer and snowed in the winter.
Apparently, if you didn't know, jawbreakers are still around in different flavours. Available do corner shops. The huge ones are only one flavour I think. Used to be called gobstoppers 😂
Anyone remember Cherry Drops . They were hard boiled and (not sure ) soft centred ? Think they were made by Pascall / Murray . Had a much stronger flavour than cherry Tunes , and the round shape meant you could quite easily accidentally swallow them whole !
I remember. They still sell lots of these sweets at St Fagans Museum in south Wales . Cherry drops , sherbet pips . Army and navy , dried flies . All sorts they have .
I grew up above my mum n dads sweet shop,tobacconist,newsagent, in the late 60’s until the early eighties so I remember all of these incredible sweets n chocolate bars . I still have a couple of double agents badges 😊. I loved Texan Bars and Sugar Tots and Walkers Toffee and also Bluebird Toffee was my favourite and I’ve still got a little bluebird toffee hammer 🔨😎🙂😊 Loved King Kong chews and space dust but wasn’t so keen on spangles 😊😝. Also loved black jacks, fruit salad and Anglo Bubbly n Bazooka Joe 😜✨🙏💙thanks for the memories so much . I just lost my mum so this really bought back some wonderful memories as a child in mum n dad’s shop ! My favourite bar of all time that I wish would come back was rowntrees Nutty Bar 😋😋😋 Thanks again 😊
Fruit Polos were lovely, I miss them. My parents second house was an old closed village shop in the late 60's, in 1970 my mum opened it for the summer as a music festival was put on by Led Zeppelin, I remember the hippies coming to buy sweets and cigs etc, she kept it open a few years and when it closed as she had another kid, we got to slowly eat our way through the sweets and ice cream 🙂
I was born in 72. Weirdly, i don't remember spangles. Most of the others though. I remember the gold rush bubble gum too. It is lovely wandering down memory lane.
The McCowans toffee factory used to be close to Stenhousemuir FC's football ground. When we had an away game there some of the younger fans would disappear to apparently rake about in the skips looking for discarded factory seconds sometimes with success. Free toffee, a kiddies dream!
My grandmother used to buy nutty bars, covered in peanuts and a soft carmel centre i loved them, another bar i miss was pink panther bars made with real strawberries and i loved the milk tray bars yummy
Big fan of tooth looseners like Toffo and Highland Toffee. I recall Spangles having stronger flavours than others of its type. I know they're not lost, but I can get lost in a bag of Midget Gems even now.
I’m lucky I live near walkers nonsuch toffee factory , as a kid we used get all the seconds from a guy who worked there. Huge bags of toffees that couldn’t be sold
As someone that's (a little) over 50, this is my childhood flashing in front of my eyes here. I remember eating the assorted Toffos and ripping a filling out.
@@stuviewtv Oh yeah! had forgotten about those! I had a flashback to Cola Cubes (don't know f you remember those) they used to scrape the skin off the top of your mouth when you sucked them long enough.
My wee sis and I from our pocket money would have a pack of Toffo and Pack of Rolo between us. Mine's was Toffo and as a swap she would get one of my Toffo for one of hr Rolo's. Pretty amazing that I just remembered that. I was big fan of Tootie Fruities, Fruit Pastilles and Mint Tic Tacs. Also always had Bazooka Joe gum or Beech Nut Chewing Gum. Also thinking, did these pre-wrapped sweets put an end to the traditional sweet store. We had loads in town, great glass jars on shelves. Midget Gems a must by teenage years.
There’s something strangely compelling about your videos. The reverb in the room gives your voice a mesmeric lo-fi quality that I can’t get enough of. I’m not sure how much material remains for you to plough this particular furrow, Stu, but I don’t want you to stop. It’s fab!
That's fantastic to hear. Thank you so much for that. Lovely comments such as this are always an absolute tonic. I've got ideas for a few more so should be good for a little while yet!
Double agent sweets brings back memories I’d totally forgotten about them. The sweet cigarettes I always bought with my pocket money but the ones I liked the most were the chocolate ones and you could eat the paper. I also remember the chocolate cigarette sets which had a lighter and cigars. No wonder so many of us took up smoking back in the day 🙈. Excellent video as usual 👍.
Yeah, I remember white "chewy" ciggies (made from the same type of stuff as the "Pacers" wrapped in "rice paper" that you ate (well at least WE ate it). Another one I remember but no-one else I know EVER remembers were "cigars" made from a brown chewy type of foam which had a gold label wrapped around them like a "cuban cigar".
I wrote a poem about sweets and got first prize for it in college The time has come to vote on sweets. To choose the greatest sugary treats. As we revisit childhood shops. With flying sauces acid drops. Sherbert stuffed in cardboard tubes. Jelly babies cola cubes. Sherbert lemon chocolate lime. (The easiest sweet of all to rhyme) Drumsticks blackjacks penny chews. They made us a toffo we couldn't refuse. All these sweets where childhood fixtures. (Also wine gums dolly mixtures) But who will win this championship. Something old like Sherbert dip? I'm sure that retro sweets can do it. Fruit gum? Allsort? Maybe Chewit? Those days all seem long ago. We hadn't heard of haribo. We didn't have those new recruits. Like starburst (clearly opal fruits ) Skittles where unknown to us. As we sucked spangles on the bus. These days there's a lot of pressure. Of love heart tic tac and refresher. Time to get your forces mustered. Strawberry cream and rhubarb custard. By the end they will be one winner. And you won't have room for dinner. Enjoy the vote enjoy the sweeties. I hope you don't get diabetes.
My parents owned a sweet shop in Southend during the 60’s to the 80’s, so I remember all of these. I’m just upset that the Mars Bar has shrunk so much. I used to like the sherbet fountain with the liquorish straw. Unfortunately, I can’t get most English sweets since I moved to Florida in the 80’s. I used to love the toffee tray that came with the mini metal hammer because it was so hard to break.
Also miss the sweet shops with tons of plastic jars full of different sweets you pick, awww. It was heaven going in there and deciding what you could afford. :-)
Loved tooty fruiities these lots of them I miss loved the yorkie bar I k ow you can still buy these but back then they were really thick chocolate bars lovely thankyou for all the memories
I was born in 1969 and have therefore eaten many packets of all these sweets! I’m sure that they are the reason why I have so many fillings today! Thanks for this video, it brought back so many good childhood memories 😊
Bring back Spangles for sure. But I also remember Refreshers at 2p back in the late 70's, Betta bars, Flying saucers and there were cinnamon bubble gum chews with a liquid centre. I think Mars, Nestle or whoever could bring back 70's sweets as a nostalgia range and include original style packaging.
Magic ,as usual Stu .I loved Tooty Fruities and the minties as well as a kid .Toffo 's all the flavours were excellent. So many memories, cheers mate .
Cabana ruled. I remember it being one of the most expensive bars so was a real commitment to buy one vs more of ‘lesser’ sweets and choc. FYI there’s a lady on Etsy making homemade cabana. I haven’t tried yet….
Oooooh clever! How close are they? How many out of ten do you give yourself ? Do you use glacé cherries or dried sour? Something else maybe? @@julesb7707
Hi everyone wants the cabana bar back. I don't know what it was taken off the shelves in the first place. There must be literally hundreds of discontinued chocolate bars and sweets that should never have been taken off the shelves
I loved toffos and fruit polos, but my favourite was tootie frutis and I actually thought they’d gone a long time ago, but discovered them again when my daughter was having swimming lessons back in 2004, so like the dutiful parent got her addicted to them as well. 😂
Absolutely glued to your nostalgia trips as i find as I get older (now early 50,s) these memory lane trips become fascinating. Must admit, pretty much liked all of the sweets you reviewed 🙂
I used to love getting a quarter, now that'll bring back a few memories, of Callard and Bowsers Creamline Toffees from my local sweet shop while on my way home from school.
Fan bleedin tastic. Makes me feel old as buggery. Remember All the different flavour toffos, my faves were liquorice and the mint. I even remember Opal mints, one of my faves. Oh hell, blobs yum. 😊
I remember Glees which were a bit like tutti fruti ( another favourite) but oval/round a bit like Skittles. My all time favorite, sadly no longer with us, Mint Cracknel. Would love to taste that again
Hey Stu, I really enjoy all of your uploads. Really transports me back to a time when life was simple and uncomplicated... Keep up the great work. Always look forward to new videos - puts a smile on my face every time...
WOW, I was born in 1946 and your videos really take me back. I remember some of the sweets from this episode but a couple stick out that weren’t mentioned probably because I don’t think they lasted long. My aunt had what we now call a corner shop in the early 1950’s and took me to a Confectionary Exhibition at a large hotel in Leeds. She concentrated on the sweets, biscuits and cake sections, an Aladdin’s Cave to a 5 - 6 year old after years of sweets on ration, although with two aunts with shops, cough, I didn’t go without. As a youngster I was given lots of free samples, the two I remember were Penny Arrows and Pez. I came home with two carrier bags full of the full range of Penny Arrows and Pez tablets complete with half a dozen Pez Dispensers. Pez were little oblong tablets of various flavours which you loaded into the dispenser, when you pressed a catch on the side a tablet was ejected, my brother and I were kept in sweets for months. My aunt also came home with lots of confectionary items some of which she passed on to my mother.
I remember a fruit flavoured product called Frosties that were similar in size to Fruit Pastels, but were a hard candy with a sugar coating. The packet was about half the length too. There was also a cola flavoured variety, but I don’t recall the name
The one I miss is "Spanish Gold", it was shreded coconut dyed brown to look like tobaco and loded with sugar, it even came in a pouch that looked like a tobabco pouch.
That sure looks like a young Nicholas Lyndhurst at the beginning of the Spangles advert. I had an instant memory of being at school when the space dust packet appeared on screen! I remember the double agent logo but not the sweets lol. Boy did I love toffos. I'd totally forgot about the Ipso's! I had a few of those boxes in my Lego box (which was a cardboard box from a chippy, they used to have great big block of lard in them)
Old English flavour Spangles, McCowans Highland Toffee and Mint Toffo were my favourites. I remember Promise bars and Tiffin bars, but they were more of a 60’s thing, still nice though 😋😋
@@harpersmythe658 You can easily find them online, I’ve had the new version but I don’t remember the original so I can’t say if it tastes the same or not.
Fantastic trip down memory lane Stu! I'd completely forgotten about Secret Agents, I used to have some of those badges. I've realised I'm old enough to remember Opal Mints, before Pacers! Your mention of sweet cigarettes reminded me of sweet tobacco (grated coconut in a pouch).
Was quite partial to a Cabanna (Coconut, Caramel & Cherry, like a Bounty crossed with Mars bar). Presently addicted to School Chalks (peppermint liquorice). I know, I got problems, my confectioner says I'll be ok so long as Tovali stays open.
Such GREAT memories Stu. I was a Pacer fan for sure. On the subject of Candy Cigarettes, my brothers and I used to get the chocolate and paper wrapped ones in a soft pack - you could eat the paper they were rolled in too. One final memory which your video brought to mind was Golden Nuggets. random chunks of yellow/gold bubble gum in a cotton draw-string bag. I used to use the empty bag for my Action Man :)
I my dad worked at the Bubble Gum factory (as we called it!) in the 1970s and we had a pretty endless supply of Bazooka Joes and Gold Nuggets! I too used the little drawstring bags for my Pippa Dolls 😂
Wow. Yes I remember golden nuggets. Thanks for jogging that memory from my aging brain. I used to get the candy cigarettes too. If I remember correctly they were coloured red at the end so it looked like they were alight.
I really miss bovril flavoured crisps when we had been to the local baths bovril crisps and a cup of bovril my favourite treat bar six chocolate wafer bar fantastic shandy bass or top deck cans of pop.
My dental cavities were weeping with nostalgia!!! Thank you SO much for this blast from the past! I remember that in a packet of clear fruit Spangles, every so often you would discover an opaque one which was a mint. The kudos of finding one of these and the competition between us kids for that 'special' spangle was like searching for a Wonka Golden Ticket. God, what simpler pleasures we had as kids in the 70s!!
Excellent trip down memory lane!❤️ Four Fruit Salad chews or Black Jacks for 1d! Loved Magic Wands and Liquorice Sandwiches, Chocolate covered Bananas, Spangles, Milk Bottles, Milk Mice!❤️😁
I used to buy a quarter of sherbet pips, rhubarb and custards , pear drops , sherbet lemons, traffic light lollys. etc, The loose sweets that were in massive jars on the sweetshop shelf ,, all clumped together, weighed out by the sweetshop lady or man . Then 3 fillings at the dentist 😂😮❤😢
My favourite was the Rowntree NUTTY bar, which was a roll of fudge coated in soft toffee and smothered in halved unsalted peanuts. There would always be some loose peanuts in the bottom of the wrapper to pour into your mouth at the end.
Love these trips down memory lane. Question for anyone in the UK, can you still get Frosties? They were hard frosted boiled sweets with a chewy center. They were 5p and came in a small roll 🤔
Another melancholy trip down memory lane Stu. I enjoy your uploads yet always feel a little sad after as I miss those days terribly. Does anyone remember Fresh n Up? They were a square shaped chewing gum with a liquid centre.
I loved spangles and Tooty Frooties, pacers were also nice. Toffos were okay but a little boring although I did like the banana ones. The secret agents ones were okay but there were so many similar hard boiled sweets about that I only had them a few times. As for the sweet cigarettes I thought they tasted awful and always dried your mouth out, but it didn't stop me eating them and all because of the picture cards 😂... UFO, Doctor Who, Captain Scarlett, I loved them collectors cards. 🙂
Great video, as ever: I can just taste Pacers now! I remember a sweet called 'Bon-Bons'. They came in a big bag, were covered in a yellow, semi-crunchy sherbet coating, and had (I think) a chewy chocolate centre.
They're one of my mum's favourites. The plain ones with toffee centres are white, the lemon ones, unsurprisingly, are yellow, and there are pink strawberry ones as well. You can still get them from some of the online sweet shops, i buy her some every so often. Think I preferred fizzbombs over bon-bons though, especially the blue ones, although they ripped your mouth to shreds if you had too many.
What a trip down memory lane for me. I loved all the sweets mentioned, but my best ever favourite was a sweet called spearmint chews they were pink in colour, had a hard shell and soft chewy centre. 1/4 of those once a week was a great treat.
Another great video having me remembering what I’d forgotten! I wasn’t aware polo fruits had bitten the dust and I actually bought some tooty friuties the other day in B&M!
I will always miss my tooty fruitys. I remember eating them at school and I used to share them. I used to pretend that they were indigestion tablets. Precious memories.
Loved assorted toffos and old English spangles. I remember a pineapple or fruit chew late 60s about the size of a refresher chew the old rectangular ones not the flat things I thought it was maccowans but I would only have been 4ish at the time. Loved a nutty bar but with all the peanut allergies these days doubt they will make a come back. Also from the pennies selection in the sweet shop I remember rowntree snakes similar to a fruit gum but slightly softer giving extra stretch when pulled, they were 4 for 1d or 2 for 1d for the larger ones.
I used to like some hard toffee that you used to buy in quarters. It tasted similar to Werthers. I'm sure it was called Invalid toffee but when I mention it to anyone they just look at me gone out and nobody remembers it.
I remember Tray toffee, which they hit with a hammer and weighed out for you. That came in various flavours, like chocolate and fruit and nut, and walnut. Is that what you are thinking of? The plain one was a bit like Werthers. We always had to get a quarter of one of them for my dad and a quarter of mint imperials for my grandad when we went to town. Does anyone remember Beeches block chocolate (Not the Grand National Fence!) That was the same, in a tray and broken up with a hammer. Really thick, and you couldn't speak or chew for ages with a chunk of that in your gob! You had to let it dissolve down to manageable.
I used to love toffee Treats. The peanut and chocolate Treats seamed to turn into M&M’s but they didn’t ever taste the same. Toffee Treats were really chewy with a crisp candy shell, delicious 😋
It's not really fair that M & Ms spawned such a huge phenomenon when Treets were here before them. You are right about the ones filled with caramel, they were fab.
Frying Pan Lollies, Rhubarb Rock, Penny Dainties and little wrapped caramels called Hobo (Banana was my favourite). Cornish Mivi ice lollies, Chocolate Tools, MB Bars, Pink Panther Chocolate....I want to go back to the 1960's and 70's. 😀
I was a huge fan of Toffo especially Banana flavor, i was not a huge fan of Spangles, but Tutti Fruiti and Pacers yes please, thanks for another great trip to good old innocent and happy times.
I lived in a village in the mid 80s, back then a lot of weekly comics were delivered with the Saturday newspapers and one week we were all waiting eagerly for the Beano as that week as there was a nice big free chewy bar with it, as a seven year old that was very exciting because basically I lived for sweets at that age, anyway all the kids on my street were devastated as non of us got the free chewy bar? There was a sign printed on the comic saying “Free chewy bar” with just a tear in the comic where it should have been. It later turned out the young lad who sorted the comics out at the newsagents for delivery had literally pilfered all the chews out of the comics and scoffed the lot himself! The lady at the newsagents after a brief investigation eventually let us all the kids come down to the shop and we all had a 25 pence bag of penny sweets each 😊 They were the days! I loved Wham bars by the way.
OMG!! I forgot about some of them!! Oh man do I miss them especially Pacers footie frooties and spanles 🤦 can't stan them horrible jelly sweets they have today!! This brought back memories of the taste 😔 they were really popular back then why they got rid is ridiculous nothing comes close these day! Thankyou for the trip down memory lane! 💪👏👏
great video! i'm 58 and fondly remember my 70's childhood and all the sweets i enjoyed, i vividly recall some of the stuff you talk about whereas some of them like the dandies i have no memory of!
does anyone else remember the chocolate cigarettes? they was basically chocolate with white rice paper wrapped around it.
Yes, the chocolate always tasted greasy! Lol
Yeah could find them in the pick n mix section in the sweet shops 😁
They were awful. About as chocolate-y as cucumber.
They had names the parodied real cigarette brands.
I remember the paper being more normal paper, not rice paper (as used to be on the bottom of nougat pieces my dad got us).
Bring them all back. I was born in 73 so I think I've chewed my way through them all and I remember Space Dust and I don't know if anyone else remembers Gold Rush bubble gum. It came in a drawstring bag and was made to look like gold nuggets. Thanks for the nostalgic video ❤
My pleasure. Thanks very much for watching!
Yeah i remember those lol.
Gold Rush. I remember. Gritty and flavourless. I'd still go back.
Omg I do remember them lol. Oh I got through a few bags of them even though they were pretty nasty looking back 😅
There is an old fashioned sweet shop in lincoln that had some gold rush bubble gum when i was last there pre covid!!
Mackintosh's "Golden cup" anyone? A foil covered choccy confectionary shaped like a dog's bone and filled with tooth rotting soft toffee.... GORGEOUS !!!
Oh yes, Golden Cup was great!
Tooth rotting!!!😂😂😂😂😂
Very sickly though
Not a sweet but, toffee and mallow eggs, anyone?
I remember lucky bags and bazooka joe chewing gum.
I was born in 1955. My favourite sweets were milk bottles, sweet peanuts, chocolate limes, and Old English Spangles. I also loved the chocolate with the liquid lime centre in Milk Tray!
I mentioned the Dracula ice lolly that was sold in the 70s to two women in their 60s, but they couldn’t remember it. It was black on the outside and had a red jelly inside that looked like a tongue. I loved those.
Yes, it was lime barrel I think! They were much better then, than now
There were other boxes of chocolates too. I can remember Good News, Contrast and Weekend boxes .
I can remember long twisty sticks which were a sort of butterscotch with chocolate in the middle.
The little corner shop near my primary school had a tray of sweets in the window, either 4 for an old penny or 2. I loved wrapped solid squares of a fizzy sweet in 4 fruit flavours, the pink foam shrimps and stretchy jelly snakes. There were threepenny Lucky Bags too which contained a few sweets and little toys. I once got a tiny green plastic bear which I loved. And the packs of chewing gum I think which gave free cards of the Monkees.
The milk bottles ' lovley ' i just use my imadgination now 😫👀
born in 65 so remember most of these..so lucky to have lived through the 70s...Awesome decade..for kids anyway😂
Yes, absolutely 😊
Way better than this BS world we live in today😢
I remember all those sweets, fruit salad and black Jack's I bought a lot as they were only half pence each. I used to love the big gobstopper called 'Jawbreakers' too.
Oh those simple slow paced days when it was sunny in summer and snowed in the winter.
Great days.
Apparently, if you didn't know, jawbreakers are still around in different flavours. Available do corner shops. The huge ones are only one flavour I think. Used to be called gobstoppers 😂
You can still get fruit salads!
Fruit Salads, pineapple and raspberry. A flavour I couldn't decipher until I bothered reading the wrapper.
This is a BRILLTASTIC look back. I probably had lots of these sweets back then which explains why I keep my teeth in a glass by the bed overnight. ❤
Thanks as always!
Pacers and toffo should definitely make a comeback.
Anyone remember Cherry Drops . They were hard boiled and (not sure ) soft centred ? Think they were made by Pascall / Murray . Had a much stronger flavour than cherry Tunes , and the round shape meant you could quite easily accidentally swallow them whole !
Cherry drops can still get them
Home bargain
They were really sour if I remember
Yes they are hard no soft centre
Can still buy cherry drops
I remember. They still sell lots of these sweets at St Fagans Museum in south Wales . Cherry drops , sherbet pips . Army and navy , dried flies . All sorts they have .
Who remembers the Cabana chocolate bar? and Old Ship sweet tobacco?......these old ads really bring it back 😁
Tobacco made with coconut yummy
I remember the sweet tobacco. It came in a pouch to mimic loose tobacco and was called Spanish Gold
Yes I remember that like hand rolling tabacco very sweet. Obviously it’s been many many years since I’ve had these confectionery 71 now.
Love cabana
Sweet tobacco, how is that not on the video?
One of the earliest sweets i can remember were Mojos, they were wrapped chews similar to opal fruits and were sold separately for half a penny each.
Mint Cracknell. I miss it almost every day. (Apart from razoring your soft palate occasionally on the harder shards.)
That REALLY hurt
I Cut my tongue on a bar of them ❕🏴👍🏻
I grew up above my mum n dads sweet shop,tobacconist,newsagent, in the late 60’s until the early eighties so I remember all of these incredible sweets n chocolate bars . I still have a couple of double agents badges 😊. I loved Texan Bars and Sugar Tots and Walkers Toffee and also Bluebird Toffee was my favourite and I’ve still got a little bluebird toffee hammer 🔨😎🙂😊
Loved King Kong chews and space dust but wasn’t so keen on spangles 😊😝. Also loved black jacks, fruit salad and Anglo Bubbly n Bazooka Joe 😜✨🙏💙thanks for the memories so much .
I just lost my mum so this really bought back some wonderful memories as a child in mum n dad’s shop !
My favourite bar of all time that I wish would come back was rowntrees Nutty Bar 😋😋😋
Thanks again 😊
I loved Nutty too. Made a change from the choccy bars. Thanks for the memory jog.
So glad the video brought back such wonderful memories for you.
Do you remember black cat bubble gum ?
@@witchelm3734 yes I do ☺️🤘
News, con, tob shop! I was about 12 when I got it !! 😂😂😂
Fruit Polos were lovely, I miss them.
My parents second house was an old closed village shop in the late 60's, in 1970 my mum opened it for the summer as a music festival was put on by Led Zeppelin, I remember the hippies coming to buy sweets and cigs etc, she kept it open a few years and when it closed as she had another kid, we got to slowly eat our way through the sweets and ice cream 🙂
Must have been great eating your way through all that.
@@stuviewtv Oh was the best, so much ice cream and choc bars, as a kid I was so happy.....till it all ran out 🙄
I was born in 72. Weirdly, i don't remember spangles. Most of the others though. I remember the gold rush bubble gum too. It is lovely wandering down memory lane.
I loved traffic light lolly pops.
Old English Spangles were my favourites 😊
Loved tooty fruities and spangles ❤ i used to love those sweets on elastic as a necklace, you could wear them and eat them at the same time 😂
Aye remember them pastel coloured hard little "beads" on the elastic. Sis wore them as a necklance, we wore them doubled up as a "bracelet".
@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 yes that's them 👍loved that idea as a 'bracelet' bet your sis wondered where all her necklaces were going 😂
The McCowans toffee factory used to be close to Stenhousemuir FC's football ground. When we had an away game there some of the younger fans would disappear to apparently rake about in the skips looking for discarded factory seconds sometimes with success. Free toffee, a kiddies dream!
My grandmother used to buy nutty bars, covered in peanuts and a soft carmel centre i loved them, another bar i miss was pink panther bars made with real strawberries and i loved the milk tray bars yummy
Big fan of tooth looseners like Toffo and Highland Toffee. I recall Spangles having stronger flavours than others of its type. I know they're not lost, but I can get lost in a bag of Midget Gems even now.
Lol@@krankinkogs
@@krankinkogs... true, I remember one pulling my only filling out at the time. It put me right off Toffo and toffee in general.
I’m lucky I live near walkers nonsuch toffee factory , as a kid we used get all the seconds from a guy who worked there. Huge bags of toffees that couldn’t be sold
Lol. Toffo's were notorious for pulling tooth fillings out👍👍
And teeth 😮
Toffos we're my absolute childhood 😍😍😍😍
Even peeling off the waxy wrapper around each sweet was a joy
As someone that's (a little) over 50, this is my childhood flashing in front of my eyes here. I remember eating the assorted Toffos and ripping a filling out.
I love Tic Tacs too. The orange and lime ones are my favourite.
@@stuviewtv Oh yeah! had forgotten about those! I had a flashback to Cola Cubes (don't know f you remember those) they used to scrape the skin off the top of your mouth when you sucked them long enough.
@@kennethmacgregor-Gregorach yes and coconut t cakes, were yummy
Oh dear!!!
I've had a flash back to Sherbet Fountains chocolate logs and Mojo chews which were 2 for a penny. I loved Friday when I got my pocket money ❤
Another wonderful nostalgia fest, in a world that's slowly falling apart your videos take us back to much simpler, happier times.
That's great to hear! Many thanks. Glad you enjoy the memories!
My wee sis and I from our pocket money would have a pack of Toffo and Pack of Rolo between us. Mine's was Toffo and as a swap she would get one of my Toffo for one of hr Rolo's.
Pretty amazing that I just remembered that. I was big fan of Tootie Fruities, Fruit Pastilles and Mint Tic Tacs. Also always had Bazooka Joe gum or Beech Nut Chewing Gum.
Also thinking, did these pre-wrapped sweets put an end to the traditional sweet store. We had loads in town, great glass jars on shelves. Midget Gems a must by teenage years.
I get more nostalgic every year. It’s great watching these memories. Thanks Stuveiw-TV
So glad you ere enjoying the nostalgic memories. Many thanks for watching.
I loved Tooty Frooties and Glees.
Nicholas Lyndhurst in the Spangles advert.
I thought that was him
I forgot about tooty fruities, so chewy & sweet crispiness on the outside
Well spotted. Did you guess who the girl was ? Pretty sure it was the little girl off The Double Deckers...Debbie Russ I think.
@@andystreet4022 I wasn't a DD devotee so wouldn't know.
There’s something strangely compelling about your videos.
The reverb in the room gives your voice a mesmeric lo-fi quality that I can’t get enough of. I’m not sure how much material remains for you to plough this particular furrow, Stu, but I don’t want you to stop. It’s fab!
That's fantastic to hear. Thank you so much for that. Lovely comments such as this are always an absolute tonic. I've got ideas for a few more so should be good for a little while yet!
@@stuviewtvyeah, I'm enjoying them as well, I've not watched the crisp one yet.
Double agent sweets brings back memories I’d totally forgotten about them. The sweet cigarettes I always bought with my pocket money but the ones I liked the most were the chocolate ones and you could eat the paper. I also remember the chocolate cigarette sets which had a lighter and cigars. No wonder so many of us took up smoking back in the day 🙈. Excellent video as usual 👍.
Yeah, I remember white "chewy" ciggies (made from the same type of stuff as the "Pacers" wrapped in "rice paper" that you ate (well at least WE ate it). Another one I remember but no-one else I know EVER remembers were "cigars" made from a brown chewy type of foam which had a gold label wrapped around them like a "cuban cigar".
I wrote a poem about sweets and got first prize for it in college
The time has come to vote on sweets.
To choose the greatest sugary treats.
As we revisit childhood shops.
With flying sauces acid drops.
Sherbert stuffed in cardboard tubes.
Jelly babies cola cubes.
Sherbert lemon chocolate lime.
(The easiest sweet of all to rhyme)
Drumsticks blackjacks penny chews.
They made us a toffo we couldn't refuse.
All these sweets where childhood fixtures.
(Also wine gums dolly mixtures)
But who will win this championship.
Something old like Sherbert dip?
I'm sure that retro sweets can do it.
Fruit gum? Allsort? Maybe Chewit?
Those days all seem long ago.
We hadn't heard of haribo.
We didn't have those new recruits.
Like starburst (clearly opal fruits )
Skittles where unknown to us.
As we sucked spangles on the bus.
These days there's a lot of pressure.
Of love heart tic tac and refresher.
Time to get your forces mustered.
Strawberry cream and rhubarb custard.
By the end they will be one winner.
And you won't have room for dinner.
Enjoy the vote enjoy the sweeties.
I hope you don't get diabetes.
Brilliant well done 👏
Love it!
😊
👏🏼💐👏🏼🏅👏🏼💐👏🏼
Fantastic 🎉.
My parents owned a sweet shop in Southend during the 60’s to the 80’s, so I remember all of these. I’m just upset that the Mars Bar has shrunk so much. I used to like the sherbet fountain with the liquorish straw. Unfortunately, I can’t get most English sweets since I moved to Florida in the 80’s. I used to love the toffee tray that came with the mini metal hammer because it was so hard to break.
Also miss the sweet shops with tons of plastic jars full of different sweets you pick, awww. It was heaven going in there and deciding what you could afford. :-)
oh yes - remember lemon, strawberry and white bonbons with the powder
Loved tooty fruiities these lots of them I miss loved the yorkie bar I k ow you can still buy these but back then they were really thick chocolate bars lovely thankyou for all the memories
I was born in 1969 and have therefore eaten many packets of all these sweets! I’m sure that they are the reason why I have so many fillings today! Thanks for this video, it brought back so many good childhood memories 😊
Glad you enjoyed the memories. Many thanks!
Same here lol
@@steunited1969me too 🙈😂
my most missed sweet was a Nutty Bar, it was nuts with like a fudge type center i think.
Absolutely loved them 👍
CENTRE! CENTRE!CENTRE!CENTRE!CENTRE!
Bring back Spangles for sure. But I also remember Refreshers at 2p back in the late 70's, Betta bars, Flying saucers and there were cinnamon bubble gum chews with a liquid centre. I think Mars, Nestle or whoever could bring back 70's sweets as a nostalgia range and include original style packaging.
I would love to see that. A nostalgia range would go down really well I'm sure.
Magic ,as usual Stu .I loved Tooty Fruities and the minties as well as a kid .Toffo 's all the flavours were excellent. So many memories, cheers mate .
Many thanks as always!
You can still get tooty frooties
Absolutely loved fruit toffo’s and fruit polo’s “ put 3 flavours in your gob at once “ epic 😋
Why can you buy Toffos in the UAE ?
I still crave the original Rowntrees fruit gums which came in boxes. Vile now.
i agree, now theyve made them 'vegan' they are horrible, same as Fruit Pastels, they are vile now too,
I remember those, always bought a box at the cinema & got one in my xmas stocking too, you're correct, they're not the same now, nothing is.
And fruit pastilles
Agreed - a box of them could last you all evening. These days they are soft like wine gums
Fruit shapes in the box, in contrast to the knobbly flat bottomed pastilles in the tubes. They were a lot harder back in the day.
How I wish cabana would come back ...I loved seeing those bay city rollers cards I was obsessed with collecting those.😊
I said that about Cabana too, my fave ever bar.
Cabana ruled. I remember it being one of the most expensive bars so was a real commitment to buy one vs more of ‘lesser’ sweets and choc. FYI there’s a lady on Etsy making homemade cabana. I haven’t tried yet….
@@aclubcalledRAGE I also make my own version…just for myself though! 😁
Oooooh clever! How close are they? How many out of ten do you give yourself ? Do you use glacé cherries or dried sour? Something else maybe? @@julesb7707
Hi everyone wants the cabana bar back. I don't know what it was taken off the shelves in the first place. There must be literally hundreds of discontinued chocolate bars and sweets that should never have been taken off the shelves
I loved toffos and fruit polos, but my favourite was tootie frutis and I actually thought they’d gone a long time ago, but discovered them again when my daughter was having swimming lessons back in 2004, so like the dutiful parent got her addicted to them as well. 😂
Such a shame they discontinued Tootie Frooties.
I'd forgotten about fruit polo's! Loved them, if you could get them apart after being in your pocket
Toffos were the dogs b.......x! And yes snooty hat was a problem but they were tasty, but i never remembered pacers as born 81. Were the any good?
Absolutely glued to your nostalgia trips as i find as I get older (now early 50,s) these memory lane trips become fascinating. Must admit, pretty much liked all of the sweets you reviewed 🙂
Glad you are enjoying the memories! Many thanks for watching. It's much appreciated.
Loved pacers always remember black jacks and fruit salad loads more to think about
8-a-penny. Those were the days!
Brilliant memories. Thanks, Stu. 😊
Thanks as always for watching!
Now there's a walk down memory lane....happy days!!
I used to love getting a quarter, now that'll bring back a few memories, of Callard and Bowsers Creamline Toffees from my local sweet shop while on my way home from school.
Fan bleedin tastic. Makes me feel old as buggery. Remember All the different flavour toffos, my faves were liquorice and the mint.
I even remember Opal mints, one of my faves. Oh hell, blobs yum. 😊
I remember Glees which were a bit like tutti fruti ( another favourite) but oval/round a bit like Skittles. My all time favorite, sadly no longer with us, Mint Cracknel. Would love to taste that again
Hey Stu, I really enjoy all of your uploads. Really transports me back to a time when life was simple and uncomplicated... Keep up the great work. Always look forward to new videos - puts a smile on my face every time...
That's really great to hear. Many thanks!
WOW, I was born in 1946 and your videos really take me back.
I remember some of the sweets from this episode but a couple stick out that weren’t mentioned probably because I don’t think they lasted long.
My aunt had what we now call a corner shop in the early 1950’s and took me to a Confectionary Exhibition at a large hotel in Leeds.
She concentrated on the sweets, biscuits and cake sections, an Aladdin’s Cave to a 5 - 6 year old after years of sweets on ration, although with two aunts with shops, cough, I didn’t go without.
As a youngster I was given lots of free samples, the two I remember were Penny Arrows and Pez.
I came home with two carrier bags full of the full range of Penny Arrows and Pez tablets complete with half a dozen Pez Dispensers.
Pez were little oblong tablets of various flavours which you loaded into the dispenser, when you pressed a catch on the side a tablet was ejected, my brother and I were kept in sweets for months.
My aunt also came home with lots of confectionary items some of which she passed on to my mother.
Someone else mentioned Pez, they have a website & you can still buy them today although the only shop I’ve seen selling them was on Scarborough beach.
Great memories. My god "sweets" to a child born in the late 1930s early 1940s must've been like a long cherished dream come true !!!! All the best.
Marvellous memories. Aladdin's Cave sounds like a very apt description!
I loved tootie fruities and arrow bars, spangles and fizzy spangles
Born in 72, and Toffo, in all it's flavours was my absolute fave growing up. I really do miss some of these, but not Spangles! Lol.....
Nicolas Lyndhurts in that Spangle advert and also the kid who winks at the end is the kid who played Pogo Patterson in Grange Hill.
Classic sweets !! I lost a few teeth eating these 😂
So many great sweets, Tooty Fruties and Toffos, loved the fruit ones.
Pink panther chocolate bar, my favourite 70s classic.
I remember a fruit flavoured product called Frosties that were similar in size to Fruit Pastels, but were a hard candy with a sugar coating. The packet was about half the length too. There was also a cola flavoured variety, but I don’t recall the name
I remember Frosties, they were kinda chewy in the centre and cola flavoured from what i remember.
@@gilgammesh1 yes that's right! I don't remember if there were other flavours apart from the fruit and cola varieties
Yes they looked like red fruit pastilles, used to buy them in the 90s, 10p a pack, tasted like red cola cubes.
Yes Trebor Frosties. You used to get them in the excellent Trebor Booty Bag
Cola frosties where lovely
The one I miss is "Spanish Gold", it was shreded coconut dyed brown to look like tobaco and loded with sugar, it even came in a pouch that looked like a tobabco pouch.
Yes remember that
That sure looks like a young Nicholas Lyndhurst at the beginning of the Spangles advert. I had an instant memory of being at school when the space dust packet appeared on screen! I remember the double agent logo but not the sweets lol. Boy did I love toffos. I'd totally forgot about the Ipso's! I had a few of those boxes in my Lego box (which was a cardboard box from a chippy, they used to have great big block of lard in them)
It is indeed Nicholas Lyndhurst.
Old English flavour Spangles, McCowans Highland Toffee and Mint Toffo were my favourites. I remember Promise bars and Tiffin bars, but they were more of a 60’s thing, still nice though 😋😋
Cadburys recently brought tiffin bars back.
You have great taste 😂
You can still buy the highland toffee.
@@julesb7707 did they? Not seen them in the shops. Bet they don’t use the same recipe
@@harpersmythe658 You can easily find them online, I’ve had the new version but I don’t remember the original so I can’t say if it tastes the same or not.
Spangles hold a special place in my heart as I remember my Father bringing them back from working in London.
Fantastic trip down memory lane Stu! I'd completely forgotten about Secret Agents, I used to have some of those badges. I've realised I'm old enough to remember Opal Mints, before Pacers! Your mention of sweet cigarettes reminded me of sweet tobacco (grated coconut in a pouch).
Glad you enjoyed the memories! You can still get the sweet tobacco from online sweet shops, just not in the pouches anymore.
Was quite partial to a Cabanna (Coconut, Caramel & Cherry, like a Bounty crossed with Mars bar).
Presently addicted to School Chalks (peppermint liquorice).
I know, I got problems, my confectioner says I'll be ok so long as Tovali stays open.
I couldn't remember the name, so thank you. I Loved them.
So glad a channel like yours exists. Cheers.
That's great to hear! Many thanks for watching.
Such GREAT memories Stu. I was a Pacer fan for sure. On the subject of Candy Cigarettes, my brothers and I used to get the chocolate and paper wrapped ones in a soft pack - you could eat the paper they were rolled in too.
One final memory which your video brought to mind was Golden Nuggets. random chunks of yellow/gold bubble gum in a cotton draw-string bag. I used to use the empty bag for my Action Man :)
Oh yes, I remember the chocolate cigarettes with the paper wrapping. As a kid I used to think they were more like thin cigars!
Ahhh yeah, I remember the golden nuggets,
Yeahhh I remember golden nuggets in the little white material bags !!😁😄I think I used em for my Britains Toy Soldiers lol 😜
I my dad worked at the Bubble Gum factory (as we called it!) in the 1970s and we had a pretty endless supply of Bazooka Joes and Gold Nuggets! I too used the little drawstring bags for my Pippa Dolls 😂
Wow. Yes I remember golden nuggets. Thanks for jogging that memory from my aging brain. I used to get the candy cigarettes too. If I remember correctly they were coloured red at the end so it looked like they were alight.
I really miss bovril flavoured crisps when we had been to the local baths bovril crisps and a cup of bovril my favourite treat bar six chocolate wafer bar fantastic shandy bass or top deck cans of pop.
My dental cavities were weeping with nostalgia!!! Thank you SO much for this blast from the past!
I remember that in a packet of clear fruit Spangles, every so often you would discover an opaque one which was a mint. The kudos of finding one of these and the competition between us kids for that 'special' spangle was like searching for a Wonka Golden Ticket.
God, what simpler pleasures we had as kids in the 70s!!
Chocolate smokers kit. Got one at Christmas most years 😂
Fantastic! Can you imagine that these days?
What a great blast from the past! Pacers were my favourite
Mine too!
I remember all of these, and I miss none of them. Old English flavoured Spangles, what were they all about?
I’d completely forgotten Tooty Fruities! I adored those.
Pacers were lovely ! This has also bought back the memories of Spanish tobacco 👍
Oh my gosh the nostalgia, loved Toffo's and Spangles and Pacers, Tootie Frooties loved those :D
Excellent trip down memory lane!❤️ Four Fruit Salad chews or Black Jacks for 1d! Loved Magic Wands and Liquorice Sandwiches, Chocolate covered Bananas, Spangles, Milk Bottles, Milk Mice!❤️😁
Brings back so many memories thank you
I used to buy a quarter of sherbet pips, rhubarb and custards , pear drops , sherbet lemons, traffic light lollys. etc, The loose sweets that were in massive jars on the sweetshop shelf ,, all clumped together, weighed out by the sweetshop lady or man . Then 3 fillings at the dentist 😂😮❤😢
My favourite was the Rowntree NUTTY bar, which was a roll of fudge coated in soft toffee and smothered in halved unsalted peanuts. There would always be some loose peanuts in the bottom of the wrapper to pour into your mouth at the end.
Fruit salads and black jacks are the best ever 😋
3 for a penny...
And Mojos... I lost my mojo in the 90s and never got it back.
Love these trips down memory lane. Question for anyone in the UK, can you still get Frosties? They were hard frosted boiled sweets with a chewy center. They were 5p and came in a small roll 🤔
I don't think they are around anymore.
Another melancholy trip down memory lane Stu. I enjoy your uploads yet always feel a little sad after as I miss those days terribly. Does anyone remember Fresh n Up? They were a square shaped chewing gum with a liquid centre.
Yeah, they were gross. You could add to the grossness by washing it down with a can of Fresca.
I liked Texan bars, and the advert "a last request gringo"..... "sure is a mighty chew". Hahaha.
Nobody seems to remember Nuts bars in the yellow wrapper about the same size as a Mars bar
I loved spangles and Tooty Frooties, pacers were also nice. Toffos were okay but a little boring although I did like the banana ones. The secret agents ones were okay but there were so many similar hard boiled sweets about that I only had them a few times. As for the sweet cigarettes I thought they tasted awful and always dried your mouth out, but it didn't stop me eating them and all because of the picture cards 😂... UFO, Doctor Who, Captain Scarlett, I loved them collectors cards. 🙂
Thank you for posting these videos, it’s wonderful to be taken back to incredibly happy times 😊
My pleasure! Glad you enjoy the memories.
Great video, as ever: I can just taste Pacers now! I remember a sweet called 'Bon-Bons'. They came in a big bag, were covered in a yellow, semi-crunchy sherbet coating, and had (I think) a chewy chocolate centre.
I thought they were toffee in the middle?
You're maybe right: I just remember it was a sugary, chewy concoction of some kind!@@borusa32
@@borusa32yes and they were covered in white powder. I think they did a lemon one with yellow powder. I used to buy them by the quarter.
They're one of my mum's favourites. The plain ones with toffee centres are white, the lemon ones, unsurprisingly, are yellow, and there are pink strawberry ones as well. You can still get them from some of the online sweet shops, i buy her some every so often. Think I preferred fizzbombs over bon-bons though, especially the blue ones, although they ripped your mouth to shreds if you had too many.
Still get them everywhere
Thank you for bringing back such wonderful memories. The fizzy spangles were amazing.
My pleasure!
What a trip down memory lane for me.
I loved all the sweets mentioned, but my best ever favourite was a sweet called spearmint chews they were pink in colour, had a hard shell and soft chewy centre.
1/4 of those once a week was a great treat.
Another great video having me remembering what I’d forgotten! I wasn’t aware polo fruits had bitten the dust and I actually bought some tooty friuties the other day in B&M!
I will always miss my tooty fruitys. I remember eating them at school and I used to share them. I used to pretend that they were indigestion tablets. Precious memories.
Loved assorted toffos and old English spangles. I remember a pineapple or fruit chew late 60s about the size of a refresher chew the old rectangular ones not the flat things I thought it was maccowans but I would only have been 4ish at the time. Loved a nutty bar but with all the peanut allergies these days doubt they will make a come back. Also from the pennies selection in the sweet shop I remember rowntree snakes similar to a fruit gum but slightly softer giving extra stretch when pulled, they were 4 for 1d or 2 for 1d for the larger ones.
Space dust is still available but is now known as popping candy. Last Isaw of it it was available in poundland stores
There are chocolate bars with it in and packets with a dipping lolly too. 😋
I used to like some hard toffee that you used to buy in quarters. It tasted similar to Werthers. I'm sure it was called Invalid toffee but when I mention it to anyone they just look at me gone out and nobody remembers it.
I remember Tray toffee, which they hit with a hammer and weighed out for you. That came in various flavours, like chocolate and fruit and nut, and walnut. Is that what you are thinking of? The plain one was a bit like Werthers. We always had to get a quarter of one of them for my dad and a quarter of mint imperials for my grandad when we went to town. Does anyone remember Beeches block chocolate (Not the Grand National Fence!) That was the same, in a tray and broken up with a hammer. Really thick, and you couldn't speak or chew for ages with a chunk of that in your gob! You had to let it dissolve down to manageable.
I used to love toffee Treats. The peanut and chocolate Treats seamed to turn into M&M’s but they didn’t ever taste the same. Toffee Treats were really chewy with a crisp candy shell, delicious 😋
My favourite too. I miss peanut banjos aswell
Same here M&M’s just taste of the colouring.
It's not really fair that M & Ms spawned such a huge phenomenon when Treets were here before them. You are right about the ones filled with caramel, they were fab.
Double Agents!!! Fantastic, I've been trying to remember the name of them for ages! Thank you
Frying Pan Lollies, Rhubarb Rock, Penny Dainties and little wrapped caramels called Hobo (Banana was my favourite). Cornish Mivi ice lollies, Chocolate Tools, MB Bars, Pink Panther Chocolate....I want to go back to the 1960's and 70's. 😀
...and I've just remembered Lucky Potatoes and tiny packets of BonBons (from the 3d tray)
I remember frying pan lollipop wooden stick with foil pie tin filled with toffee or the red sugar coating on a toffee apple..
When the kids ask 'what's for dinner?', my favourite response is 'SPANGLES!'. They haven't a clue!
I was a huge fan of Toffo especially Banana flavor, i was not a huge fan of Spangles, but Tutti Fruiti and Pacers yes please, thanks for another great trip to good old innocent and happy times.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks!
I lived in a village in the mid 80s, back then a lot of weekly comics were delivered with the Saturday newspapers and one week we were all waiting eagerly for the Beano as that week as there was a nice big free chewy bar with it, as a seven year old that was very exciting because basically I lived for sweets at that age, anyway all the kids on my street were devastated as non of us got the free chewy bar? There was a sign printed on the comic saying “Free chewy bar” with just a tear in the comic where it should have been. It later turned out the young lad who sorted the comics out at the newsagents for delivery had literally pilfered all the chews out of the comics and scoffed the lot himself! The lady at the newsagents after a brief investigation eventually let us all the kids come down to the shop and we all had a 25 pence bag of penny sweets each 😊 They were the days! I loved Wham bars by the way.
OMG!! I forgot about some of them!! Oh man do I miss them especially Pacers footie frooties and spanles 🤦 can't stan them horrible jelly sweets they have today!! This brought back memories of the taste 😔 they were really popular back then why they got rid is ridiculous nothing comes close these day! Thankyou for the trip down memory lane! 💪👏👏
Glad you enjoyed the memories. Thanks!
great video! i'm 58 and fondly remember my 70's childhood and all the sweets i enjoyed, i vividly recall some of the stuff you talk about whereas some of them like the dandies i have no memory of!
Glad you enjoyed it! Many thanks for watching.
I was born in 1980 & to this day have wondered what those striped spearmint sweets were. Pacers!!🥳