Stephen Fry rhapsodizes about his sugar addiction in his memoir ‘The Fry Chronicles’ and mentions a lot of these candies. How wrong I was. That would be Cadburys’ “Special Recipe”, then. Because don’t forget, by the time he starts his drilling, we’ve only had our ‘big teeth’ for two or three years. Today Butterfinger and Baby Ruth … This retro candy gives us the best of both worlds! Each sealed pack contained a slither of pink chewie and a coloured photograph of a player. As well as the football cards, I’m sure I had complete or near-complete sets of Flags of the World, The American Civil War and of course War Of The Worlds. Apr 27, 2019 - Explore Pam's board "1960/70's sweets and chocolate in our house" on Pinterest. Please just bring them all back especially the cordial and cream bars. As the cost of raw materials, … Candy bars were about 5-10 cents in the 1960s. I think you’re right and that in fact many other classic favourites were bigger in the past. Anyone remember a bar called “Milky Lunch”? It’s not me or the sweets that are to blame. Nothing said summer like the glistening chrome of a new Schwinn Stingray and a bike ride around the neighborhood. Actually, IIRC it was 2 sticks in 1 wrapper. It was a marshmallow toffee topped centre and chocolate covered, 2 short bars in each wrapper. At a few smaller shops. They had a choco like filling. Another mystery from that era: how certain types of chocolate bar (I’m thinking specifically of Bar 6 and Cadbury’s Wafer here) survived as items to purchase in theatres and cinemas for the intermission, long after they had disappeared from ‘ordinary’ retailers. The chocolate bar everyone mentions from the 60s, and earlier (and Barry duly did) is Fry’s ‘5 Boys.’ Nice though, from my memory, perfectly ordinary milk chocolate and no better than any of the Cadbury’s alternatives. No wonder we all grew up so well balanced! Susie and I are still in touch, BTW. The 4d chocolate cream bar had orange, coffee, lime, blackcurrant and raspberry fillings. I believe Wagon Wheels were bigger in the past. But one thing I wanted to bring you in this post was the ‘Galaxy Dark Room Test.’ Launching their competitor to brand leader Cadbury’s, Galaxy had this ludicrous TV advert: Sadly a thorough scout of the internet has failed to find this gem. Anyone out there remember it? $9.95 flat rate US ground shipping. Mon - Fri, © 2021 The Old Time Candy Company, All Rights Reserved, {property.name}: This one didn’t appear to be around for long, but it was the kind of chocolate bar that made … A useful fallback for dads on their wives’ birthdays , anniversaries or, again, Christmas (I don’t think the commercialisation of Valentines Day had begun then). Nine flavors were available for limited periods: Double Chocolate, Nut Lovers, Twosomes Reese's Pieces, Cookies 'N' Chocolate… It was July 20, 1969, and later that night, Neil Armstrong would be taking his first steps on the moon. And get that strap line? You knew you and your best friend were meant to be because they ate all the Starburst flavors you didn’t like. We used to buy a chocolate bar in the 60’s that had a rum flavour, it was shaped a bit like a Mars bar. Though having said that, none of my daughters or their friends have ever had a filling. The closest thing to a "Cheers" bar you could ever have been a part of. Try an Asisn shop, around Ramadan time (June) you may get lucky. This rather plush box is from the Sixties. I just bought 24 bottles from Wordwide Foods in Manchester, (Rusholme) near the Infirmiary on Wilmslow road. you are right they was bigger wagon wheels i remember my nan buying me a pink one one year about 1973 i loved it and i also loved frys fruit centres lime strawberry rasberry pinnaple orange them are the flavours i remember eating when i was about 4 1969 i dont remember coffee or blackcurrant its a pity they dont still do them i loved them my fave. 9am - 4pm EST Free for orders over $250. Photograph: Anthony Chappel-Ross. The equipment and the recipes were sold to NECCO and the building was sold to MIT. Submit it to us on that candy’s page and you might see it on your next visit. I have no memory of dirt in sweets ever being a problem at all. Secret. Hence my fear of dentists took about 40 years to die down thanks to a more enlightened approach to dentistry. I remember the ‘checkup’ and being told ‘ don’t be soft boy, open your mouth’. Anyone remember Lunch, it was in a red wrapper (much like KitKat) and silver paper, it was 3 fingers of shortbread (I think) enrobed in chocolate, I don’t recall who produced it. It’s Mr Marshall! Nichols (the makers) denied they still made it when I had one of my periodical rants at the, but they surely DO. We may have eaten sweets but our meals were healthy and we didn’t have lots of snacks in between. So did you have a load of sweets at the party? Susie and I were (almost) more excited about our being able to stock up on sweets at a local shop we called ‘The Hobbit House.’ That wasn’t its actual name, but it was a tiny, brightly colored shop with a round door. So Roger, here may have been a ‘wily inside forward’ or, more likely ‘a reliable poacher.’, “When you think about it, the marketing for bubble-gum was fantastic, because once you’d started collecting the football cards, you had to have the complete set. Also boxes of Weekend variety of fondants n candy really sweet n sugary.Cant remember who manufactured em.Oh t b young again! Was doing research on sweets of the 60’s for a party our club is holding and it was great to remember the sweets I used to love. Because over on the Dentist Forum (yes, there is one, I checked) you’ll find this discussion about the Drill and fill mentality of the 1960s.  All quite educational. Where have the boxes of weekend and white heather chocolates gone does anyone remember them also lucky numbers. Are you a fan of coconut, toffee, nougat, dark chocolate or crisped rice? But intriguing because the back of the wrapper and the chocolate itself contained bizarre Edwardian looking images of said ‘5 Boys’ going from ‘Desperation’ to eventual ‘Realisation’ over tasting the chocolate and realising that yes, it was Fry’s. So there obviously had to be this separate ‘Sweets of the 60s’ post. Candy, candy, candy! Find your nearest store today. Fry’s Five Centres was discontinued in 1992 after originally hitting shelves all the … Though it was a loss to the city, I think Daggett may have avoided an even more embarrassing fate. And I suspect that one of the most detested people in Maghull, Mr Marshall, the dentist on the corner of Sefton Lane – who’d fixed himself up with a monopoly of dental checking in our school, made a fortune from unnecessary fillings.”, ‘Surely not?’ I thought. Weekend were made by Mackintosh’s, and even I found them sickly and a bit weird- but would like to see them back! … I was still eating Wagon Wheels in my teens and later when I had big hands!! Probably taken out the poisonous additives. I still have vivid memories of one particular occasion when I was hanging out with my best friend Susie Smart at her aunt’s house. Terry’s packaging style from the 1900s. It seemed like everyone was glued to the TV as history colorfully unfolded in our living rooms. Each card would have a lazily written paragraph of football clichés about each player on the back. Sounds like a good church there if they get sermons like that! See more ideas about old sweets, retro sweets, vintage sweets. There was another extruded type thing that was chewy but had bits of fruity jelly in it, my childhood memory had filed that, in triplicate and with carbon paper, under Double D. These, my friend, were Trebor ‘Chocstix’. I once liked Galaxy chocolate very much, but now the taste has changed because it is not made with full cream milk anymore, now with skimmed milk powder, Yuk. Do you remember you always got a Bar 6 in your selection box but I never saw one sold separately in a shop. Looks like Old English Spangles were about as unpopular as blancmange! Learn how your comment data is processed. As for drilling and filling I’m sure that was going on across the world in the 50’s and 60’s. How much did a candy bar cost in 1970? I remember how my 1960s-self considered Caramac to be the height of sophistication … it was definitely an acquired taste! PS Did Dracula enjoy a Black Magic casket (food for thought!). Oooohh I can still taste all those sweets, especially the Spangles. The company survived for a few years, but closed in the early 1960s. ‘Old’ whatever – I hated them! Some nights though, when presented with your packet of sweets after tea (this really happened) you’d find you had the wrong kind of Spangles: “Apart from the fruit flavoured ones, weren’t there some that tasted like cough medicine ?”. Up until the 1920s, most snacks were simply packaged and not branded (the decade’s most popular snacks were generic things like nuts, popcorn, potato chips and penny candies), but that began to change as the ‘20s rolled around and more companies learned the power of marketing. They were such a lovely flavour and even though only five, I remember being bitterly disappointed when I discovered the change. At boading school we were allowed to choose 2 sweets per day (usually the choice was limited to barley sugar) but we could spend 2 shillings at the local shop on Saturdays and we could choose almost anything but chewie. recently when I found it on sale again, less than 5 years ago. A variation on straightforward bubble gum was Football Cards. Uno's in Porter. Within our 2 bob budget we could get buddies, mint leaves,black cats, musk sticks yes Spanglers,Lifesavers, a packet of Fags licorice straps or we could blow the whole 2 bob on one glorious chocolate bar – Cadburys, Nestle or Frys.I remember the narrow 12 inch bright red boxes of politically incorrect ‘Nigger Boy Licorice.’ There was a picture of such a boy on the lid. {property.value}, A small donation of just $1.00 or $2.00, the cost of a single bottle of water, will have an impact. A box cost 2/6 and sometimes two of us sugar craving girls would pool our money to share one. “I was also a lover of sweets, and some favourites from the sixties were bars of 5 Boys milk chocolate, Fry’s Five Centres and of course the ones you could only get out of jars at the ‘Travellers Rest’, near the school, such as cinder toffee, pear drops, sherbert liquourice, gob-stoppers, and treacle toffee.”. Fry’s Turkish Delight. 1940s: Malted Milk. Rubbish! As well as working with others to make the world a fairer and kinder place: http://asenseofplace.com. Or when your brother attacked her with his G.I Joe. Well, there you are. Duet was made by Mackintosh’s. (May have been spelt as Chocsticks, but I doubt it ). A trip down Memory Lane.Use r luv Bar 6 anyone remember mint cracknells? See more ideas about vintage sweets, childhood memories, 70s sweets. It means that most people in this specific age group need dentists now more than any other age group to repair their teeth. I was given two rather very large bars of Galaxy milk chocolate, one from my partner’s daughter and one from her grandson, and they still go down just as well. Here's just a sampling of products to hit the United States candy market from the 1800s, 1900s, '20s, '30s, '40s, '50s, and 1960s. The last stop on our retro candy list is 1970’s candy, which includes many fun and fruity, and in one case explosive, old-fashioned candy celebrities.  I think by this time they’d dispensed with the coffee flavour in favour of strawberry…but I may be wrong.”, “My nan would give me sweets and 2 comics (The Beano and The Victor) when we visited on Sundays, and I can remember having to give up sweets for Lent one year. While ‘20s innovations like Eskimo Pies, Baby Ruth Bars … This pyramid shows there was much more than just the standard Terry’s Chocolate Orange. Retro Chocolate Bars Canadian Chocolate Bars Chocolate Brands Chocolate Lovers Canadian Candy British Candy … The sweets were kept in a tin for the 40 days of Lent, and then eaten in a frenzy on Easter Sunday, with the inevitable consequences.”. ‘Surely no responsible professional would carry out medical procedures that weren’t needed?’. Also why did Bassetts change the dolly mixture around 1962? I remember the candy necklaces and the button candy that came on strips of paper in particular, and, yes, Neil Armstrong, the Hobbit House and my friend Susie are forever linked in my memory. And yes, why can’t those junk phone calls about banks and building societies be about retrospective claims on the dentists of the 1960s? So what does this mean? Our image shows a classic selection of 1970s chocolate bars and sweets that we’d all regularly wolf down as kids, in between dreaded trips to the dentist. Now, the same candy bars are around $1-2. For those of us who used to trek from Melling to Deyes Lane Secondary Modern School, there was a small sweet shop by Maghull Station … in the buildings that still resemble huts (opposite The Great Mogul pub). “Boxes of Chocolates were popular too, as you can see from the above illustration. Basically just boiled sweets but in an assortment of fruity ‘flavours’ that I suspect had never bothered a fruit tree. Please does anyone remember a chocolate bar called duet from 60s/70s seem to remember it was out the same time as aztecs but can’t remember who made them. View more posts. Or, where did all those fillings come from? Read More Related Articles. Many of this age group had the drill, drill and more drilling treatment. Like you, I don’t recall coffee or blackcurrant, when I bought them (in the 1960s and early 1970s), were the five flavours you mention in your comment, lime, strawberry, raspberry, pineapple, and orange. They had every kind of sweet imaginable, and we spent a fabulous hour or so loading up our paper bags with as much loot as we could afford. And they never went without sweets. So my abiding memory of the ‘Travellers Rest’ is loads of chewing chomping kids going through their collections of football cards, saying ‘Gorrit, gorrit…’ until they found one they didn’t have and could swop for one of their own doubles.