80s Candy n Drinks

[Salsprocket]

Spangles - the Olde English ones. Oh yes, I'm THAT old :shock:

We're very lucky round here - there's a proper old fashioned sweetie shop at the bottom of Steep Hill in Lincoln and there's really good sweetie shops in Horncastle and Woodhall Spa. Mmm

 

[Elysarian]

A lot of the sweets I remember from the 80's are sold in a certain sweet shop I know...

The likes of blackjacks, fruit salads, Wham bars, Icy Cups... I could go on but I'll leave it there.

Was at the wholesalers a few weeks ago with the wife, they have an "american sweets" section and I spotted something there that I just had to buy:

Tastes exactly like I remember Pepsi did BITD (not sure what they did to the recipe but I'm willing to bet it's artificial sweetners!) - I still prefer Pepsi over Coke but this stuff is in another league

 

[Neil]

A lot of the sweets I remember from the 80's are sold in a certain sweet shop I know...

The likes of blackjacks, fruit salads, Wham bars, Icy Cups... I could go on but I'll leave it there.

Was at the wholesalers a few weeks ago with the wife, they have an "american sweets" section and I spotted something there that I just had to buy:

Tastes exactly like I remember Pepsi did BITD (not sure what they did to the recipe but I'm willing to bet it's artificial sweetners!) - I still prefer Pepsi over Coke but this stuff is in another league

Not sure whether it heralded from the 80s, but sometime in the 90s I experienced (it's the only word I can use...) a can of Jolt Cola - none of this namby, pamby Red Bull shenanigans, or Relentless or anything a bit bluff and bluster like that, this stuff properly put hairs on your chest - turn you into a sexual tyrannosaurus, that stuff would (props to Jesse Ventura, there...)

 

[videojetman]

i remember a chocolate bar called 5 fruits, it was a bar with different fruit flavour centres.
oh how i'd love to get hold of that again.

 

[Elysarian]

i remember a chocolate bar called 5 fruits, it was a bar with different fruit flavour centres.
oh how i'd love to get hold of that again.

Are you thinking of "Fry's 5 centres" there?

If so you're out of luck I'm afraid, there are no plans to reintroduce it, you can still get the Orange, Peppermint and Chocolate cream bars though (my wife sells these).

 

[azaro]

Spangles (esp Olde English) and Cresta pop (with the polar bear on the label - "it's frothy man")

 

[We_are_Stevo]

I used to like shaking the tin of Ovaltine and eating the crispy bits that rolled to the surface...

 

[KermitGKona88]

Nutty bars, and Ovaltine chocolate yummy

 

[snapper]

I had stumbled across a few cans of soft drink called ..."TAB"...cola....


here down under favoured milk 600ml/300 ml were also popular favorites at the time where

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chocolate
caramel
blue heaven
toffee
jaffa /choc orange
banana

 

[We_are_Stevo]

...Curlywurly