Favourite sweet

[rich p]

Slightly OT again, but do you remember buying from the ice cream van where you unwrapped a rectangular block of ice cream and put it inside two wafers. Invariably it would melt and drip or squidge out the other side as you bit into it.

There was also a sweet equivalent with a spongey, foamy, marshmallow filling. That was pretty gruesome.

 

[Sittingduck]

I'm partial to a flump or 3

 

[gbb]

With the whisper bar being brought back ,did you have a favourite sweet that they no longer make.
I was partial to that coconut stuff coated in sugar made to resemble tobacco that came in a pack with a galleon on .Was it called Spanish Galleon.
I was also a fan of the Pacer.
Mmmm happy days

Could be Sig....i remember eating it, it did have a picture of a Galleon on it IIRC. Lovely stuff.

Iced gems...could eat them all day (probably did, hence the dental bills 40 years later )

Not sweets, but i used to go mental for Potato Puffs. remarkable really, they were'nt particually flavoured...just something about the consistency of them. Long gone i gather

 

[Maz]

There was also a sweet equivalent with a spongey, foamy, marshmallow filling. That was pretty gruesome.

You're not kidding. They looked yummy enough but were really dry and bland.

 

[Wolf04]

With the whisper bar being brought back ,did you have a favourite sweet that they no longer make.
I was partial to that coconut stuff coated in sugar made to resemble tobacco that came in a pack with a galleon on .Was it called Spanish Galleon.
I was also a fan of the Pacer.
Mmmm happy days

Was it not called Sweet Tobacco?
Just Googled it
Sweet Tobacco- Spanish Gold
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/200g-Traditio...79627QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262

 

[Wolf04]

Anyone remember American chewing nuts? A small round toffee possibly chocolate covered. The trick was to pick one from the paper bag in the hope that multiple "nuts" had stuck together. My record was a fiver!

Now off to the Dentist via the diabetes clinic.

If only I was joking

 

[jassy-x]

I was partial to that coconut stuff coated in sugar made to resemble tobacco that came in a pack with a galleon on .Was it called Spanish Galleon.

Could be Sig....i remember eating it, it did have a picture of a Galleon on it IIRC. Lovely stuff.

...it was called ''Spanish Gold''...I loved it as well..

edit....just noticed Wolf04 beat me to it (didn't need google though)

...also loved a ''Nutty Bar''....can't remember who made them, but they were soft caramel toffee with nuts set in to them..(not those hard nut brittle efforts that feck up you're teeth)....

 

[Sig SilverPrinter]

Anyone remember American chewing nuts? If only

I remember them I'm sure they were chocolate coated.

I see you can get the spanish gold but not in the pack it used to come in,
it was as if you were buying half ounce of Old Holburn.

There was also a bubble gum that came in its own little pouch/bag with a drawstring top Golden Nuggets? or was that what a breakfast cereal was called.

 

[Arch]

Slightly OT again, but do you remember buying from the ice cream van where you unwrapped a rectangular block of ice cream and put it inside two wafers. Invariably it would melt and drip or squidge out the other side as you bit into it.

OT a bit as well, but when I worked at Iceland we sued to sell hundreds of packs of those rectangular wafers - they were the right size that you could cut a one litre block of vanilla into slices to fit in them. I remember the packets came in huge boxes, but of course they weighed virtually nothing. And so as not to have half boxes in the storeroom, we'd stack then as hig as we dared, but they weren't quite square or heavy enough to be secure, and everyso often they'd all fall off the shelf...

Why did Quality Street and the like ditch coffee creams? They are my favourite!