| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets 16:39 - Apr 21 with 8187 views | 9MilesHigh |
Bear me with me here as I have got the worst memory ever but I'm trying to remember the name of a sweet from back in my school days.
They came in thin, but solid (if not a bit brittle) strips, maybe an inch and a half/two inches tall, from memory goldeny-yellow in colour and tightly wrapped and if they'd been in your blazer pocket all afternoon, sometimes a bugger to rip the wrapper off.
I think they were cola-based in flavour, but not exactly cola if that makes any sense at all. I've got maybe a burgundy colour wrapper in my head but this is where it's getting really fuzzy.
Done the google search but can't seem to find them, they've probably been long discontinued but I used to love them.... and want one now. Anyone? |  | | |  |
| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 16:42 - Apr 21 with 7429 views | 9MilesHigh |
In my head I thought they were also called Refreshers but it seems there's loads of sweets that's been called Refreshers and the ones I've found online aren't the same.
Our school loved them, everyone seemed to have them. | | | |
| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 16:44 - Apr 21 with 7418 views | Boundy |
Sounds like you were eating caterpillars |  |
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| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 17:08 - Apr 21 with 7388 views | londonlisa2001 |
These? | | | |
| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 17:20 - Apr 21 with 7379 views | Lohengrin |
| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 16:42 - Apr 21 by 9MilesHigh |
In my head I thought they were also called Refreshers but it seems there's loads of sweets that's been called Refreshers and the ones I've found online aren't the same.
Our school loved them, everyone seemed to have them. |
Not on about these things, are you?
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| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 18:20 - Apr 21 with 7353 views | 1983 |
Candy Longs? they came in Banana, Toffee, Cola..etc |  |
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| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 19:07 - Apr 21 with 7330 views | Lohengrin |
Not that I’ve ever had that much of a sweet tooth but the ones I remember best were the ha’penny chews from school in the ‘70s - Blackjacks and Fruit Salads. You had to have gnashers like a reef shark to make a dent in the bloody things! | |
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| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 19:13 - Apr 21 with 7326 views | trampie |
| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 19:07 - Apr 21 by Lohengrin |
Not that I’ve ever had that much of a sweet tooth but the ones I remember best were the ha’penny chews from school in the ‘70s - Blackjacks and Fruit Salads. You had to have gnashers like a reef shark to make a dent in the bloody things! |
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| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 19:16 - Apr 21 with 7320 views | jack_lord |
Im surprised we still have teeth with those yummy beasts about! |  |
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| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 19:25 - Apr 21 with 7311 views | Catullus |
| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 19:16 - Apr 21 by jack_lord |
Im surprised we still have teeth with those yummy beasts about! |
Up til I was 12 we had a sweet shop, I had a bag full of "free" sweets every day. I shouldn't have any teeth left but somehow I still have most of them! | |
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| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 23:20 - Apr 21 with 7227 views | builthjack |
Black Jacks and Fruit Salads were the dogs bolls. |  |
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| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 07:00 - Apr 22 with 7193 views | angryjack |
Mojo's | | | |
| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 10:48 - Apr 22 with 7147 views | 9MilesHigh |
Sadly they weren't the modern refreshers as we know today.
The one I am on about have clearly been discontinued for many a moon. I've searched high and low online but nothing.
I know though, that if my mother still has one of my old school blazers somewhere there'd be one melted into the inside pocket still 40 years later! | | | |
| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 11:39 - Apr 22 with 7130 views | Lohengrin |
| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 10:48 - Apr 22 by 9MilesHigh |
Sadly they weren't the modern refreshers as we know today.
The one I am on about have clearly been discontinued for many a moon. I've searched high and low online but nothing.
I know though, that if my mother still has one of my old school blazers somewhere there'd be one melted into the inside pocket still 40 years later! |
These things used to melt, it was almost a medical operation trying to remove the wrapper.
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| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 11:56 - Apr 22 with 7116 views | Catullus |
| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 10:48 - Apr 22 by 9MilesHigh |
Sadly they weren't the modern refreshers as we know today.
The one I am on about have clearly been discontinued for many a moon. I've searched high and low online but nothing.
I know though, that if my mother still has one of my old school blazers somewhere there'd be one melted into the inside pocket still 40 years later! |
So they're not the ones in the picture on my link?
You'd have to buy the whole box at !2.95 though. | |
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| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 11:58 - Apr 22 with 7114 views | 9MilesHigh |
| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 11:39 - Apr 22 by Lohengrin |
These things used to melt, it was almost a medical operation trying to remove the wrapper.
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They were nice.
You must remember the ones I'm on about, you're an old fart like me.
Inch and a half tall, rectangular but thin, maybe 15mm diameter, about the size of your ring finger.
Could chew them or suck them til they disappeared. Could last a whole lesson sucking one to the end.
It's bugging me. | | | |
| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 12:47 - Apr 22 with 7100 views | Lohengrin |
| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 11:58 - Apr 22 by 9MilesHigh |
They were nice.
You must remember the ones I'm on about, you're an old fart like me.
Inch and a half tall, rectangular but thin, maybe 15mm diameter, about the size of your ring finger.
Could chew them or suck them til they disappeared. Could last a whole lesson sucking one to the end.
It's bugging me. |
Drumsticks?
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| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 12:53 - Apr 22 with 7091 views | 9MilesHigh |
| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 11:56 - Apr 22 by Catullus |
So they're not the ones in the picture on my link?
You'd have to buy the whole box at !2.95 though. |
No, they weren't and you should be ashamed of yourself growing up in a sweet shop for not knowing ;-) | | | |
| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 12:56 - Apr 22 with 7089 views | 9MilesHigh |
| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 12:47 - Apr 22 by Lohengrin |
Drumsticks?
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God no... haha
About a quarter of the girth of a drumstick with no plastic stick, just brittley "chew", depending on temperature too brittle to chew though.
Sure they were in a burgundy wrapper. | | | |
| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 12:57 - Apr 22 with 7088 views | 9MilesHigh |
Seen 'em flying round the classroom sometimes as well, handy little weapons. | | | |
| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 12:59 - Apr 22 with 7087 views | 9MilesHigh |
| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 07:00 - Apr 22 by angryjack |
Mojo's |
Nah, not them mate, hadn't heard if those til i Googled them. The ones I'm on about were probably only made in Aberdare by the look of it ;-) | | | |
| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 13:30 - Apr 22 with 7079 views | Lohengrin |
| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 12:56 - Apr 22 by 9MilesHigh |
God no... haha
About a quarter of the girth of a drumstick with no plastic stick, just brittley "chew", depending on temperature too brittle to chew though.
Sure they were in a burgundy wrapper. |
I’m struggling now. I do have a vague recollection of a peanut and toffee combo that may possibly fit the bill?
Truth be told you’d have found me sat on the grass bank at breaktime sharing a Player’s No.6 rather than a bag of sweets.  | |
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| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 15:27 - Apr 22 with 7046 views | 9MilesHigh |
| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 13:30 - Apr 22 by Lohengrin |
I’m struggling now. I do have a vague recollection of a peanut and toffee combo that may possibly fit the bill?
Truth be told you’d have found me sat on the grass bank at breaktime sharing a Player’s No.6 rather than a bag of sweets. |
Good god no... it was more a cola flavour.
Smoking in school.... shocking!! | | | |
| Old Tuck Shop 80's sweets on 15:29 - Apr 22 with 7045 views | 9MilesHigh |
Haha no, not sherbert.
A finger size brittle stick, cola-ish flavour (but i'm even doubting myself with that now) I'll have to ask some school mates. | | | |
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