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Sweetie Help needed!

For my Mum's birthday, I want to make her a retro sweet box from her childhood. I have researched the retro sweet sites, but I was wondering if anyone could help with specific sweets that they might remember from the era.
I am looking for any popular sweets from the late 50s and early 60s, I would really appreciate if anyone could help out with some names (particularly sweets that were available in Ireland at this time)

Thanks folks x
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  • What a lovely idea. Have you tried any of the old style sweetie shops. Where abouts in ireland are you? I know belfast has 2 old style shops if thats any good.
  • ERICS_MUM
    ERICS_MUM Posts: 3,579 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    Well, there were :

    the old fashioned boiled sweets - pineapple chunks, acid drops, rhubarb & custard and (my favourites) lemon sherbets.

    Chews - fuit salads, blackjacks.

    Sweet cigarettes and sweet tobacco (we were so innont in those days ).

    Gob stoppers.

    Spangles

    A Fry's chocolate bar that had 5 sections all joined together but with a different colour filling in each IYKWIM

    flying saucers

    sherbet fountains

    shrimps (pink foam things)
  • LV_Sue
    LV_Sue Posts: 273 Forumite
    edited 6 February 2011 at 5:33PM
    Aniseed balls, Tom Thumb drops (tiny boiled sweets that stuck to the paper bag, but tasted even better with a bit of paper and some fluff from your pocket:rotfl:), sherbet dipdabs, liquorish root, pear drops, Frys 5 boys chocolate bar, honeycomb chunks, coconut mushrooms, Paynes Poppets, chewy nuts, Jawbreaker bubble gum, liquorish comforts, mint imperials, bulls eyes, Pontefract cakes.

    I'm sure I'll think of more later ;)
  • DaisyMoo
    DaisyMoo Posts: 290 Forumite
    edited 6 February 2011 at 5:34PM
    Littlekitty, I'm actually in UK now, but Mum is still in Ireland.

    EricsMum & LV Sue - Frys chocolate bar!! You are a genius, I know she used to eat these. Plus this reminded me of the Walnut Whip (think beacause the wrappers are similar colours)

    Thanks guys - keep the fab ideas coming x
  • PootleFlump_3
    PootleFlump_3 Posts: 1,110 Forumite
    edited 6 February 2011 at 5:42PM
    Im sure floral gums and cherry lips were around then. (although floral gums always tasted bogging!)

    Sure you have already been on here but there is a list of 50's sweets on this link

    http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/1950s-decade-sweets-from-your-1950s-childhood-large-p-1452.html


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  • LJM
    LJM Posts: 4,535 Forumite
    that looks fantastic big fan of blackjacks here lol what are those sweets in the little black container i have a vague recollection of these
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  • Giggle
    Giggle Posts: 3,137 Forumite
    Im off sweet shopping tomorrow i have 3 candy buffets to do this year and i have never done one before but im going to love buying all the sweets for them :o)
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  • sethsgran
    sethsgran Posts: 2,855 Forumite
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    I used to buy Kop Kops, Morrison supermarkets are selling them at the moment.
    Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes
  • rufusdog52
    rufusdog52 Posts: 3,972 Forumite
    Lemon bonbons, those little packs of fizzy sweets that look a bit like refreshers but are smaller, refreshers them selves, smarties - the lids of the tubes used to have a letter on the reverse side and we used to collect them to see if we could make out names.
  • http://sweet-homealabama.co.uk/ is based in Sunderland (website coming soon)

    if you know anyone local to here, then Martin is your man. they sell alsorts (no pun intended!)
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