Defunct sweets?

[Fatboy]

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Yeah it definitely sounds like rice paper. I can remember buying it at my corner shop, I can remember it been about 6 inches long and slightly less wide (the rice paper that is, not my corner shop), it was available in different colours which all tasted the same if I remember right.

Yeah I can remember Space Dust as well, I can remember been amazed by it when a lad at the junior school had some. It used to be sold in little sachets.

[memoman]

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anyone remember eating paper.
thats what it was called over here.
it was sold in corner shops mostly came in many different colours,green,red,blue etc..

eat it in bucket loads.

also anyone remember space dust.
it crackled in your mouth.

got it near every day coming home from school.

i still have a shop that does all these old sweets.

Rice paper is the nearest i can think of.I certainly remember it.i remember space dust as well.

[Richard1978]

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I hadn't even realised they had stopped making them.

[Heather74]

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Oh I loved Fuse, now I've seen that picture I miss them even more *drool*

[darren]

anyone remember eating paper.
thats what it was called over here.
it was sold in corner shops mostly came in many different colours,green,red,blue etc..

eat it in bucket loads.

also anyone remember space dust.
it crackled in your mouth.

got it near every day coming home from school.

i still have a shop that does all these old sweets.

[vanhelsing]

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Penguin,Bandit and mcVities Sports (1970's)

I've got a cat called Bandit (we should have got another one and called it, wait for It....SMOKEY!!)

Now come on, you MUST remember this from your youth based on the Topic adverts at the time:-
'What has a hazlenut in every bite?
SQUIRREL S***!'

[vanhelsing]

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They're all making a spectacular comeback and give it 2 years and I believe there will be an old fashioned sweet shop in every town of over 100,000 people. Having said that, the supermarkets are wise to the game and already stock some of the best selling sweets of days gone by. Things like herbal tablet, buttered brazils, sweet tobaccoo, toffee crumble should remain the preserve of the specialist sweet shop for a few years to come though! James

How could you have forgotten that all time TRUE british legend, SPANGLES???

[vanhelsing]

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I think they were called 'Jazzies'

They're definetly called Jazzles and're still available.

[Richard1978]

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Sorry I didn't spot that date!

I mostly remember them coming in the card wrappers, late in the year they had loops so they could be hung from an Xmas tree.

[Heather74]

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As the packet says best before Nov 92, I'm out ruling 91

[Richard1978]

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I really liked Pyamints, & one year had a Pyramint easter egg, which I was half hoping was made with mint chocolate, but it wasn't.

When did they stop making them, I'm guessing about 1991-2.

[Richard1978]

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Was the Inca bar an answer by Rowntree's to Cadbury's Aztec?

Mars or Terry's could have made a Maya bar?

[Heather74]

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Inca (apricot )

[the old postmaster]

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I think they were called 'Jazzies'

I remember selling these as Rainbow Drops or Rainbow Disks. Very popular indeed (especially with me!)

http://www.retrotuckshopsweetsdirect...=20a&%20page=4

[gingerbread]

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I remember them though don't know what they were called, will have to rack my brain. The only thing I could think of when you said 100's and 1000's were these:-

Can't remember what they were called either, in Oz they're called Freckles.

I think they were called 'Jazzies'