What ever happened to all the sweets that we could buy when we were kids. When I now buy sweets for my children the choice seems to be just smarties and buttons. What ever happened to black jacks, fruit salads, gobstoppers, jawbreakers, fizzle sticks, lipsticks,sweet cigarettes and do any of you remember the alphabet sweets. Dime bars, chomp bars, macroom bars are also gone. Has the company making all these sweets just disappeared. I don't intend in buying my kids loathes of sweets but the topic often comes up where are all the sweets gone? Just wondering........
What ever happened to sweets?
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"E numbers" are not necessarily bad from a health/safety/nutrition point of view.
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Unfortunately the delivery charge to Ireland is huge! I wonder if there are any other sites like that with a smaller charge.
You can still buy dime bars, chomp bars (i got one at the weekend, they are only 20c!!), macroom bars in dublin. I have seen blackjacks and fruit salads and sweet cigarettes (but they were called something else, maybe chocolate sticks?), down the country. If you go to old shops that have been around for years you tend to see them, the new spars and centras not so much.
Lots of those sweets still available- you just have to go into the right shop. For example theres a shop in Tralee on the Square- I don't know the name of it, but that always has loads of those kinds of sweets and many more. I'm sure many towns have a similar shop selling this stuff.
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Used to be a shop on Aungier St until only a couple of years ago - two brothers ran it i think.
does anyone remember those wham bars, stinger bars and desperate dan bars? i remember as a child they used to make my eyes water! had a wham bar recently and it was much tamer then they used to be!!? Maybe something to do with the aforementioned E numbers??
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Yeah that was called Kavanaghs
And the Roy of the Rover bars. Tangy lemon flavour like you wouldn't believe. Also brought tears to my eyes.... Would love to try one again
My local shop is well stocked up on all of them, although all a bit smaller and thinner, just bought a fizzy cola lola and ten fruitsalads myself this morning(not for me) 8c for the lolly and 2c for the sweets, is this in line with inflation?, probably the reason why they got smaller.
Ah i remember the days! I used to live near a tiny sweet shop when I was younger, the lady used to sell all the sweets mentioned here.
I remember sayin to mum/dad oh can we stop at the blue shop? (thats what we called it)
You can still but chomps and those freddo bars. And some of the older shops have fruit salads/black jacks.
So cheap aswell now its like 70/80 cent for a bar of chocolate crazy!!
I remember sayin to mum/dad oh can we stop at the blue shop? (thats what we called it)
You can still but chomps and those freddo bars. And some of the older shops have fruit salads/black jacks.
So cheap aswell now its like 70/80 cent for a bar of chocolate crazy!!
I see most of the sweets mentioned above all the time - chomp, macroon dime bars, fruit salads and black jacks - both sweets and bars.
Does anyone remember Tangy bars though - are they still available? There was other sweets around when I was younger too, I can't remember the name but they came in fold and silver foil and were available in toffee or liquorice (sorry about the spelling!). I think they cost around 10p...
Does anyone remember Tangy bars though - are they still available? There was other sweets around when I was younger too, I can't remember the name but they came in fold and silver foil and were available in toffee or liquorice (sorry about the spelling!). I think they cost around 10p...