Tesco BOGOF selection boxes (mispriced?)

Fudgecake_3

Were they Mojos?

LucyLocket

5lilpigs wrote:

Love this thread, what were the chewy white and green striped sweets called. They came in a pack like chewits? They were spearmint flavoured.

I think those were the pacers that a couple of people have asked about.

Haycorns_2

5lilpigs wrote:

Love this thread, what were the chewy white and green striped sweets called. They came in a pack like chewits? They were spearmint flavoured.

Pacers ...

AMIE399

Ok... Do I Feel Old Or What ......
I Remember The Spangles.. Do You Remember The Advert And The Song !! Rodney Plonker Was A Boy In The Advert!!! Suck A Spangle Get Happy

Galaxy Counters ..i Loved Them
What About Bar Six
Caramac
Bones/fangs/claws They Were Like Crisps
Huge Big Big Wagon Wheels
Malteesers When They Were In A Brown Bag !!!
Bazooka Joe Bubble Gum
Dracula Ice Cream Lollies.. With The Red Jelly Blood !
Lolygoblechocbombs
And Best Of All.........
Proper Cresta Drinks... Ohhhh The Yummy Strawberry One !!

You Also Used To Be Able To Get A Bar Of Cadburys Milk Tray

Going_Digital

This is all getting a bit off topic but I'm really disappointed that wagon wheels have been spoiled. My grandparents used always give them to me and I used to enjoy eating them and remembering my grandparents. But they have now changed the biscuit in them from a sweet cinnamon to a horrid bitter chocolate flavor.

I wrote to them and they claim that people wanted more chocolate, yea right !

bella4uk

violet drops....you either loved them or hated them...i loved

spuds_2

I remember Texan bars - they were pink and chewy with a chocolate flavour coating. I used to like Swisskits - kind of choc muesli bar. The advert said "Will you risk it for a Swisskit?" and had a guy doing stunts. This would be about 1974. I remember Mars bars being 4p and coming in a proper greaseproof-paper type wrapper that folded underneath. Cadburys World is a good trip out - not cheap but they give you quite a lot of choc on the way round.

brindles01

I used to love Aztec Bars and Potato Puffs. Potato puffs were little crunchy, crispy things that we used to have at breaktime in school. The bag seemed to last ages. And I definately miss original Cresta pop.

Avocenti

I am surprised no one has yet mentioned Curly Wurly!! Or those Sherbet Dips......

Uncle_Cuddles

You can still get Curly Wurlys, Sherbit Dipdabs, Parma Violets, etc. And Nestle had a limited edition Texan bar out recently (the ad was "its a long chew"). i got one, it was not as nice as I remember it - it was an artificial toffee/nougar type center coated in thick chocolate.

Anyone remember space dust - that stuff which used to pop in your mouth when you ate it?

My wife bought loads of sweets the other week for the kids at halloween. Took me back - I ate a Drumstick lollypop, one of those swizzle double licker lollypops, a refresher (the lemon chewy one with the sherbet through the middle, not the fruit things that looked like large swizzles which were also called refreshers), Rainbow drops (which were like rice krispies coated in coloured sugary bits), and my youngest had one of those sherbet dipdabs and poured the lot in his mouth at once which was really funny watching him pull his face as the sour fizzy taste hit his tastebuds (and foam out of his mouth)!

If anyone liked spearmint pacers, you can buy spearmint softmints which taste the same.

Oh, and is it just me or do all the old Rowntree (now Nestle) chocolate bars taste really sweet and sugary these days - things like kit-kats and toffee krisp which I used to love, I just can't eat now. Unless as you get older your tastebuds become more sensitive to sugar? Maybe I should take up smoking to dull my tastebuds?