Grrrr! I agree with you Stu- Nestle sure have deprived us of so many of our favourite sweets and snacks! Btw, would love to see the return of the Nutty bar...
Here in the US we have Payday. I told my American wife that my dad used to take a Nutty bar to work every day and it so similar to Nutty Bars! By the way,my dad's work bag was a Wombles one (canvas) with Orinoco or Great Uncle Bulgaria printed onto it.
@@Goldi3loxrox I remember Dentine. Tasted a bit unusual. Wasn't it one of the first sugar free gums you could buy? I also remember Wrigley's PK that came in little packs and you got five pellets for 5p. Had a liquorice taste and you could also get it from vending machines
Toffo, Tooty Frooties and Polo Fruits need to make a comeback! That Double Agent advert is so funny! I don't remember them but it really made me chuckle. 😂
GREAT MEMORIES AGREE PACERS SHOU LD COME BACK MY LATE PARENTS HAD A GROCERY FROM 1973 TO 1981 AND I REMEMBER ALL THAT TOP 10 THE 2 CHOCOLATE BARS I WANT BACK ARE TOPIC AND CABANNA CAN'T BELIEVE THEY STOPPED THE TOPIC WHO ARE THESE JOBWORTHS ? ♥️🎸🎶🤟🤣🇬🇧
Funny you should mention tic tacs early on in this video. Does anyone remember the green upright display holders corner shops used to have on their shop counters which the tic tacs were kept in?
I loved Spanish Gold. Also, I remember Golden Cup and in the 60s there were little boxes off chocolate covered toffees called Toffets. We usually got them from vending machines at Seacombe Ferry Terminal (Mersey) and railway stations.
The junior school that I went to in the 1970's (Shaftesbury junior school) was next door to the Trebors factory in Katherine Road in East London. The smell drifting across our playground was lovely!
Yes! Toffos were amazing! I really miss Pacers, never understood why they disappeared. Also I remember Refreshers used to be as big as Love Hearts but later shrank. Also used to buy Bazooka bubble gum in flat slabs with football cards in the same pack which I used to collect and swap at school. I don’t remember the Ipso sweets at all only TicTacs
I remember taking marbles to school in a Gold Rush bag haha. At Christmas I’d always get one of those cardboard and string stockings full of various sweets. The Spangles would always be left uneaten, often sitting in my room until the summer when they’d melt and finally get thrown out 😄 Totally agree on the Pacers though. What a lovely flavour and texture they had and need to come back. Banana Toffos were also a favourite.
Tootie Frooties for me, but sweet tobacco and sweet cigarettes were fab! I was amazed to find the Tunes had gone. The Body Shop Christmas scent was just like a cherry tune, although I got very blank looks when I suggested that.
OMG! Spanish Gold!! Takes me back 50+years. We had a 'rag man' that came around the tenements offering sweets or toys for any rags. He had a suitcase of wonders! I remember him pushing his fairly large cart all by himself. He seemed to be the only source of Spanish Gold - we only had one shop a the time and it didn't stock it. I generally didn't get sweets so this was extra special. One of my earliest memories is going up to this fairly small man in a long 'camel hair' type coat and a trilby style hat (this was around 1968/9) and handing over what rags I had pleaded form my mum - desperately hoping it was enough to get Spanish Gold. I can still see the picture so clearly in my minds eye - the wonderous contents of his large suitcase, all the bright sparling, shiny things. To this day, I still have no idea what most of his wares were! Thanks for bringing back this wonderful memory Stu.
Parma violets, refreshers, love hearts ........ lovely. When I was growing up, we pretended every different colour gave us a special power. Invisibility, strength, flight .... How our young minds worked.
I often think of the original Toffos. My Grandad used to do a bit of lorry driving and he'd pick up big brown bags of single flavoured ones. Maybe it's more him I want back though because those things used to suck your 70s teeth fillings out and a lot of us seemed to end up with those 😥
You broke my heart when you just said fruit Polos were retired last year, and I had no idea Tooty Fruities had been retired. You made me smile when you reminded me about Lime and Chocolate double agents!!! I remember they had little activities printed inside the label. But yes. Toffos. Fruit flavoured Toffos. We need them back. I'll be honest, I never liked Pacers as I don't like Spearmint.
Wrigley's Spearmint (the traditional thin sticks) were discontinued at the end of 2022 without anyone noticing. We all miss scraping that off our shoes.
Another great list. We always seemed to have packets of Toffo's in our house, loved them. Vividly remember seeing those Double Agents adverts in the cinema alongside the Pearl and Dean trailer. Also Pacers were what attendees of my comprehensive school were called on account of our white/(silver) and green ties 😂
Spangles and Opal Mints (later became Pacers) I miss them. Lost due to the "too much sugar" brigade. It's funny how obesity is worse these days than it was when we had all these gorgeous sweets !!
@openorwap5412 Absolutely, not face down in a phone. No wonder kids don't have imagination today. Playing out, actually talking to real friends and inventig games. Great times, sadly lost to the tech world now.😭
STRIPES? I bloody loved Pacers and, I agree, that's the one I'd love to see brought back out of this fine choices. I seem to recall eating them from top to bottom, biting off each strip at a time...
I didn't know fruit polos were discontinued last December 😠. Bloody Nestle! I was never a big fan of Spangles when I was a kid so I definitely don't miss those.
True. They are also buying up free water rights and selling it back to people too. Buxton being one, thousands more around the world. That said, rowntrees chocolate was better than nestles.
My dad worked for Rowntree Mackintosh from the late 1960s till the early 90s. He made KitKats and all their great biscuits. Nestle shut the place down after the take over, left folk with nothing. A company led by despicable people.
@@Theagchm Wow, that's terrible. In Australia they took over a company called Allen's confectionery & I had a good time working for them. Good pay, conditions, coat & boots supplied, cheap meals. We made jelly confectionery like snakes, pythons, strawberries, chikos, and a couple of lines for New Zealand. Sorry they weren't as nice in the UK.
There are loads of retro sweet shops up and down the country and online but I know what you mean about the corner shop. Kids today will never understand the joy of going to your local sweet shop with your pocket money for comic and a bag of penny mix!!!
@@mattgardner1969 Theres one retro shop in my town Matt. The only other one I know near me is Milton Keynes. Way back all you had to do was run out the house and down the street to the corner shop and the window would be full of sweet jars
Thanks once again Stuview, you make us 70s kids reminisce and smile.😉 I really can't remember most of these sweets? I'm pleased to say I wasn't a sweets kid (that's why I've kept all of my original teeth today, except one)! I 💖 Fruit Polos, but true they had to tendency to stick to one another and the Spangles - Fizzy Cola was refreshing. Tooty Frootees, were sickly like Skittles and Toffos stuck to your teeth, the banana flavour was the best. The rest completely evaded me! 😮
Oh what i wouldn't give for a packet of Spangles ❤❤❤. I remember eating Spanish as well. Great sweetie memories. Now, does anyone remember Mo-Jo's? Little spearmint chews, 4 for an old penny.
Brought back some memories there Stu. I'd forgotten about nearly all of them. I would never have been able to connect the "Hurry up, you'll miss ya train" advert to Ipso but I remember saying it to a lad I'd just met on the first day of high school in 1980 and we became best mates for those high school years.
Pacers! Always my number 1! I was just starting to love them when they vanished sometime in the mid-eighties. Mint Opal Fruits really (Starburst to the kids).
Surprised fruit polos only discontinued that recently- would have guessed 10 years ago plus. Also tooty frooties was my go-to sweet as a very young kid.
@lucius4556 it was perhaps left in our pockets, heated up &stuck together, some memorials amongst them,only found out the other day they discontinued topic bars.i also liked those tangy twiglets..
Somebody mentioned Fruit Pastilles - I had them this year, they are utterly delicious, and it is true, you can’t help chewing, they are so irresistible!! I love that juicy, fruity flavour.
I remember nearly all of these. But I think my taste has changed over the last 45 years as I wouldn’t be in a hurry to buy any of these again even though I loved them all as a kid. Possible exception might be Toffo! Another great video Stu.
I remember all these! Although only a vague memory of Blobs and Ipso and never tried Spanish Gold. I used to love Gold Rush bubble gum and didn't know fruit polos were discontinued last year which is a shame as I would occasionally buy them when I fancied a fruit sweet, but yes they were a pain to get apart. Tooty Frooties I used to love too and the chocolate and lime Double Agents were delicious. The top 3 are definitely my top 3 too. Loved spangles, all the flavours. Pacers and Toffos were my absolute favourites though, I couldn't decide between them if I had to choose just one to come back. I loved all the flavours but especially the banana and strawberry toffos in the mixed pack and the liquorice ones as well. Thanks so much for this taken me right back to my childhood.
I'm with you on the Opal Mints/ Pacers. What utter madness to end them. What about Opal Fruits though? Equally crazy to stop making them as well in my opinion
i liked cola spangles. tooty fruities, were one of my all time favorites. toffo, i loved the liqurish and the chocolate from the mixed pack. i used to eat liquorish imps, which came in a little box
Ah yea pacers, loved them. Loved the old English spangles too, until i was sick when eating a blackcurrant one, cant eat anything blackcurrant to this day 😂
Another excellent video! I'm really enjoying your content! For me, it was Mint toffos and Tooty Fruities - I'd pretty much forgotten them, so thanks for reminding me of the days when we were all fed oodles of sugar! I now have diabetes ! I guess the good times had to come to an end sometime, sigh. I'm quietly impressed that I've still got all my teeth after all that toffee!😆
Ohh jings! I remember the ipso advert! Summer 1979! Spent a week at a caravan holiday park at Clayshant near Stranraer. Great times as it was also across the road from R.A.E West Freugh and I was in my element with all the buccaneers, F4 Phantoms and a Nimrod!
Thanks Stu, great memory lane video. Just to remind everyone, many of the sweets you showed were made by Trebor and they were made in my own town of Chesterfield. My own favourite discontinued were Thornes butter dainties - rugby ball shaped toffee outer case and chocolate inside - delish !!
I loved Polo Fruits and Tootie Fruities but Spangles were no 1 Especially the Older English Liked Pacers too Wasn't that bothered about Toffo but if that was the only option I'd eat them all lol I'd never heard of the others Another brilliant reminder of my childhood
When I was younger, and I admit even now, I was and am, fascinated by codes, ciphers and cryptography. When Double agents came out, I was over the moon and couldn't wait to decrypt the secret message on the wrapper.
Toffo’s were fab and so we gold nuggets. Fruit polo were very sticky but good. Tooty fruities yum ..😀👍loved treats but they are so different to m and m’s
Well I can say that I knew every single sweet shown, and in fact was only talking about both the Tobacco and Gold nuggets just the other day with my brother. The one sweet I've not seen mentioned in literally decades was the Tobermory Potato, sometimes referred to as Lucky Potatoes. These were large irregular shaped white toffees covered in a cinnamon dusting (t look like dirt) and containing a plastic object, usually a toy soldier which was eventually uncovered as the toffee was sucked. With hindsight it's unbelievable to imagine these would be sold today with the risk of swallowing and choking on the toy! Finally, what about Lucky Bags, also known as Jamboree Bags, these were a more expensive treat but again something I've not seen since the early 70s
I remember the chocolate and lime flavour Double Agents making me (and my brother) feel sick. Just the thought of that combination all these years later brings back that sickly feeling. The other three flavours were great though!
I used to love that coconut tobacco. Tried the new version and it definitely doesn’t taste the same and it looks like it’s dyed red. Loved lemonade spangles, I can still remember the slight fizz in my mouth. So many memories of them all, change is not always a good thing 😞
Blimey this brought back so many memories and probably the reason why I have got so many fillings 😂. So spangles, blobs and double agents after eating a load of them your mouth was in tatters like chewing on broken glass 🤣 Brilliant video thank you 😊
Great video! I’d completely forgotten about Spanish Gold and Gold Rush and I used to love them. My favourites from this top ten are definitely mint toffo and pacers. I recognised Rodney but although I knew the other kids face I couldn’t name him 🤔
Peppermint spangles,clarnico mints,opal mints,tootie minties,trebor mints, were a few of my faves,(love mints,does it show?) Only ate the green ones in opal fruits,cant stand them now.licorice and violet pips,caramac,mint imperials,and the huge trebor mints,spearmint and peppermint
Toffos, spangles and pacers!! The perfect top 3!!! Here are a few more that are on my Top 10 list: Mojo Pascal Fruit Bon Bon (Ingot shaped hard boiled fruit sweet with a chewy centre) Needlers Sensations Needlers Crumble Mints Clarnico Mints Fizzbombs Rainbow Crystals Fruit Drops (they looked a bit like a Werthers Original but were transparent and fruit flavoured)
I remember buying Fruit Polo’s in the 80’s and 90’s They were very tasty Tooty Fruities Once a packet was open I’d eat the lot, one after the other Spangles - another teeth rotter I loved❤❤ Pacers I remember in the sweet shop but didn’t like them The other brands in this video I had not heard of when I was a kid in the 70’s 😍😍🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴👍
I do enjoy these videos 😁 I've probably mentioned this before. I'm trying to find any record of these little cookies that came in smooth pellet shapes. I THINK they were called Widgets and I THINK there was a cartoon professor on them. I can't see any mention of them anywhere and only a handful of people i've asked, remembers them. Maybe I'm going mad?
I wonder if you realise how much joy you bring with these videos? thanks a million, a right trip down memory lane
That's great to hear. Thanks so much.
Polo sticing together in one big lump😂😂 remember it well
Fruit Polo was great but especially in summer you needed a chisel to separate them.😂
Drop the packet on the floor, and they broke into tiny shards, like glass. 😂
I loved Blobs and Double Agents; I remember making invisible ink with Mum's Jif lemon she was saving for pancake day 😊
Fantastic!
❤Woolworths pick and mix.
Miss that 👍
Grrrr! I agree with you Stu- Nestle sure have deprived us of so many of our favourite sweets and snacks! Btw, would love to see the return of the Nutty bar...
Oh yes, the Nutty was great!
Here in the US we have Payday. I told my American wife that my dad used to take a Nutty bar to work every day and it so similar to Nutty Bars!
By the way,my dad's work bag was a Wombles one (canvas) with Orinoco or Great Uncle Bulgaria printed onto it.
@@alanprior7650 Wow really? I'm going to see if Payday is available in the UK. Thanks Alan 👍
Bring back Nutty!
Tooty frooties were my favourite.. the closest I can find today are skittles
Toffo assorted,,,, the best !!!!! 👍🏴😉
I love Jelly Tots which you can still buy. Anyone remember Dentine chewing Gum ? Tasted like Cloves and Space Dust that popped in your mouth !
Yes! It was the only sweet my mum would allow after we'd been to the dentist! Loved the flavour!
@@Goldi3loxrox I remember Dentine. Tasted a bit unusual. Wasn't it one of the first sugar free gums you could buy? I also remember Wrigley's PK that came in little packs and you got five pellets for 5p. Had a liquorice taste and you could also get it from vending machines
Toffo, Tooty Frooties and Polo Fruits need to make a comeback!
That Double Agent advert is so funny! I don't remember them but it really made me chuckle. 😂
Oh god! Toffos were amazing.
I could even taste the strawberry and banana Toffo as I watched this of to the UAE for me !!
GREAT MEMORIES AGREE PACERS SHOU
LD COME BACK MY LATE PARENTS HAD A GROCERY FROM 1973 TO 1981 AND I REMEMBER ALL THAT TOP 10 THE 2 CHOCOLATE BARS I WANT BACK ARE TOPIC AND CABANNA CAN'T BELIEVE THEY STOPPED THE TOPIC WHO ARE THESE JOBWORTHS ? ♥️🎸🎶🤟🤣🇬🇧
Funny you should mention tic tacs early on in this video. Does anyone remember the green upright display holders corner shops used to have on their shop counters which the tic tacs were kept in?
I loved Spanish Gold. Also, I remember Golden Cup and in the 60s there were little boxes off chocolate covered toffees called Toffets. We usually got them from vending machines at Seacombe Ferry Terminal (Mersey) and railway stations.
The junior school that I went to in the 1970's (Shaftesbury junior school) was next door to the Trebors factory in Katherine Road in East London. The smell drifting across our playground was lovely!
Yes! Toffos were amazing! I really miss Pacers, never understood why they disappeared. Also I remember Refreshers used to be as big as Love Hearts but later shrank. Also used to buy Bazooka bubble gum in flat slabs with football cards in the same pack which I used to collect and swap at school. I don’t remember the Ipso sweets at all only TicTacs
I remember taking marbles to school in a Gold Rush bag haha. At Christmas I’d always get one of those cardboard and string stockings full of various sweets. The Spangles would always be left uneaten, often sitting in my room until the summer when they’d melt and finally get thrown out 😄
Totally agree on the Pacers though. What a lovely flavour and texture they had and need to come back. Banana Toffos were also a favourite.
'Spangles' always reminded me of 'Tunes' - the cough sweets. Probably their shape. Anyone else think that?
'Ohhh Malcolm'...actually that was Vicks Sinex :)
Yes
Tootie Frooties for me, but sweet tobacco and sweet cigarettes were fab! I was amazed to find the Tunes had gone. The Body Shop Christmas scent was just like a cherry tune, although I got very blank looks when I suggested that.
Thank you for jogging some wonderful memories 🫶❤
My pleasure!
Those old adverts takes you right back! 🧡💛💛
Oh yes, pure nostalgia!
OMG! Spanish Gold!! Takes me back 50+years. We had a 'rag man' that came around the tenements offering sweets or toys for any rags. He had a suitcase of wonders! I remember him pushing his fairly large cart all by himself. He seemed to be the only source of Spanish Gold - we only had one shop a the time and it didn't stock it. I generally didn't get sweets so this was extra special.
One of my earliest memories is going up to this fairly small man in a long 'camel hair' type coat and a trilby style hat (this was around 1968/9) and handing over what rags I had pleaded form my mum - desperately hoping it was enough to get Spanish Gold. I can still see the picture so clearly in my minds eye - the wonderous contents of his large suitcase, all the bright sparling, shiny things. To this day, I still have no idea what most of his wares were! Thanks for bringing back this wonderful memory Stu.
What great memories. Many thanks!
Mojos, Black Jacks and Fruit Salad will be getting their own video - "Top Ten Penny Sweets in a 10p Mix"
Oh yes!
Potato puffs were only a penny
Parma violets, refreshers, love hearts ........ lovely. When I was growing up, we pretended every different colour gave us a special power. Invisibility, strength, flight .... How our young minds worked.
Another fantastic nostalgic trip down memory lane. Thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed the memories! Many thanks.
I often think of the original Toffos. My Grandad used to do a bit of lorry driving and he'd pick up big brown bags of single flavoured ones. Maybe it's more him I want back though because those things used to suck your 70s teeth fillings out and a lot of us seemed to end up with those 😥
Pacers most definitely 😊
Oh yes!
Toffo was moreish anyone remember space dust or sherbet fountain.
Sherbet flying saucers and White Mice.
Pacers were magnificent and my favourite of these sweets. That was a very tasty time for sweets in Great Britain.
You broke my heart when you just said fruit Polos were retired last year, and I had no idea Tooty Fruities had been retired. You made me smile when you reminded me about Lime and Chocolate double agents!!! I remember they had little activities printed inside the label. But yes. Toffos. Fruit flavoured Toffos. We need them back.
I'll be honest, I never liked Pacers as I don't like Spearmint.
Wrigley's Spearmint (the traditional thin sticks) were discontinued at the end of 2022 without anyone noticing. We all miss scraping that off our shoes.
Fizzy cola spangles !
👍the fizzy cola Spangle was the holy grail to us 70s kids, with a can of frothy Cresta to drink with it.
The early 80s best time for sweeties ever !!
I was 15 in January 1980. It was a great time to grow up.
Another great list. We always seemed to have packets of Toffo's in our house, loved them. Vividly remember seeing those Double Agents adverts in the cinema alongside the Pearl and Dean trailer. Also Pacers were what attendees of my comprehensive school were called on account of our white/(silver) and green ties 😂
All great sweets wish we still had them today kids don't know what they are missing, thank you Stu 😊😊😊😊
My pleasure as always!
I love this channel, reminds me so much of my infant and teenage years, and, of course, of the TUC shop at school.
Glad you enjoy the channel. Thanks!
Ah yes, we were big into the trade unions in our school too.
Spangles and Opal Mints (later became Pacers) I miss them. Lost due to the "too much sugar" brigade. It's funny how obesity is worse these days than it was when we had all these gorgeous sweets !!
The dreaded E- numbers and sugar were probably what kept us running about outside playing with our mates, burning off the calories 😆
@openorwap5412 Absolutely, not face down in a phone. No wonder kids don't have imagination today. Playing out, actually talking to real friends and inventig games. Great times, sadly lost to the tech world now.😭
My favourite sweets from my childhood were the original acid drops. The ones that you get today calling themselves acid drops are just not the same.
Toffo. I cannot stand real Bananas but the Banana toffos were awesome.
All of these sweets were fantastic. The memories flooding back thanks Stu.
My pleasure!
STRIPES? I bloody loved Pacers and, I agree, that's the one I'd love to see brought back out of this fine choices. I seem to recall eating them from top to bottom, biting off each strip at a time...
That was the only way to consume them, in my humble opinion 😆
The Pink Panther Bar. Strawberry flavoured "chocolate".
I've finally found someone else who remembers them. I used to like them...until I grew up and went for Bourneville! Lol
@alanprior7650 Yes, they were on the sweetish side.
@@conversemackem8653I side issue (football related) good luck this season. Sunderland's strip is magic.
I buy anything pink chocolate these days in the hope of tasting pink panther bars again :(
I didn't know fruit polos were discontinued last December 😠. Bloody Nestle! I was never a big fan of Spangles when I was a kid so I definitely don't miss those.
I loved Pyramint. But is it a chocolate bar or a sweet?
Chocolate I reckon.
WOW i remember the boxes of Ipso,but not the sweets lol.Core memory unlocked.... Rainbow drops or Flumps!
At the ripe old age of 57 your channel makes me feel old, cheers Stu 😂🤣
My absolute pleasure! 😉
Nestle ruined Macintosh / Rowntrees and I not bought any of their products since the late 80's.
and they are only 12 miles from my boat mooring
True. They are also buying up free water rights and selling it back to people too. Buxton being one, thousands more around the world. That said, rowntrees chocolate was better than nestles.
I worked for Nestlè in Australia.
My dad worked for Rowntree Mackintosh from the late 1960s till the early 90s. He made KitKats and all their great biscuits. Nestle shut the place down after the take over, left folk with nothing. A company led by despicable people.
@@Theagchm Wow, that's terrible. In Australia they took over a company called Allen's confectionery & I had a good time working for them. Good pay, conditions, coat & boots supplied, cheap meals. We made jelly confectionery like snakes, pythons, strawberries, chikos, and a couple of lines for New Zealand. Sorry they weren't as nice in the UK.
losing Spangles was devastating for me as a kid.
this episode reminded me of Grandma's sweetie draw.
Another thing I miss, corner shops selling the loose sweets in jars. Buy a quarter sherbet lemons, chocolate limes, pineapple chunks, cola cubes
And licko , ( not sure if that's how it's spelled, was powdered m & m's I think ) i always got a quarter going to school lol
@@stevenwhitelaw1306we used to call it choc lick
There are loads of retro sweet shops up and down the country and online but I know what you mean about the corner shop. Kids today will never understand the joy of going to your local sweet shop with your pocket money for comic and a bag of penny mix!!!
@@mattgardner1969 Theres one retro shop in my town Matt. The only other one I know near me is Milton Keynes. Way back all you had to do was run out the house and down the street to the corner shop and the window would be full of sweet jars
@@DAVIDE-bk8by for most modern kids I'm sure the closest to our experience is the Ole 1970s Willy Wonka with the "Candy man store".
Thanks once again Stuview, you make us 70s kids reminisce and smile.😉 I really can't remember most of these sweets? I'm pleased to say I wasn't a sweets kid (that's why I've kept all of my original teeth today, except one)! I 💖 Fruit Polos, but true they had to tendency to stick to one another and the Spangles - Fizzy Cola was refreshing. Tooty Frootees, were sickly like Skittles and Toffos stuck to your teeth, the banana flavour was the best. The rest completely evaded me! 😮
Thanks as always Brian.
Oh what i wouldn't give for a packet of Spangles ❤❤❤. I remember eating Spanish as well. Great sweetie memories. Now, does anyone remember Mo-Jo's? Little spearmint chews, 4 for an old penny.
Brought back some memories there Stu. I'd forgotten about nearly all of them. I would never have been able to connect the "Hurry up, you'll miss ya train" advert to Ipso but I remember saying it to a lad I'd just met on the first day of high school in 1980 and we became best mates for those high school years.
Loved gold rush, also Spanish gold ,spangles ,the sweet I miss most icebrackers
Pacers! Always my number 1! I was just starting to love them when they vanished sometime in the mid-eighties. Mint Opal Fruits really (Starburst to the kids).
They were the best!
Spangles all day long, all flavours!!!
Totally forgot gold rush and double agent, loved tooty frooties and toffo, ahh sweet memories
Surprised fruit polos only discontinued that recently- would have guessed 10 years ago plus.
Also tooty frooties was my go-to sweet as a very young kid.
It does seem like Fruit Polos have been gone for longer.
Filling pullers toffo.
I always found those polo's sticky and always stuck together, wasn't a fan.
@lucius4556 it was perhaps left in our pockets, heated up &stuck together, some memorials amongst them,only found out the other day they discontinued topic bars.i also liked those tangy twiglets..
@@andywrong3247 Yea you could be right, I was a big fan of the cherry blobs moreso, think they wrapped them individually.
Double agents also helped keep down littler as the sweet wrappers had a code on them.
But yes Spangles - as advertised by Rodney and Pogo Patterson.
Somebody mentioned Fruit Pastilles - I had them this year, they are utterly delicious, and it is true, you can’t help chewing, they are so irresistible!! I love that juicy, fruity flavour.
I remember nearly all of these. But
I think my taste has changed over the last 45 years as I wouldn’t be in a hurry to buy any of these again even though I loved them all as a kid.
Possible exception might be Toffo!
Another great video Stu.
Thanks Alan.
Mint toffos for me too. Go get 'em Floyd. Was that Nicholas Lyndhurst on the Spangles advert, Stu ?
Definitely Nicholas Lyndhurst but I can't work out the other kid.
It was indeed! The other young lad was Peter Moran who played Pogo Patterson in Grange Hill.
@@alanprior7650 Thanks, Alan.
@@stuviewtv The red-haired kid? He looks like a munchkin from the Wizard of Oz! Cute!
I remember all these! Although only a vague memory of Blobs and Ipso and never tried Spanish Gold. I used to love Gold Rush bubble gum and didn't know fruit polos were discontinued last year which is a shame as I would occasionally buy them when I fancied a fruit sweet, but yes they were a pain to get apart. Tooty Frooties I used to love too and the chocolate and lime Double Agents were delicious. The top 3 are definitely my top 3 too. Loved spangles, all the flavours. Pacers and Toffos were my absolute favourites though, I couldn't decide between them if I had to choose just one to come back. I loved all the flavours but especially the banana and strawberry toffos in the mixed pack and the liquorice ones as well. Thanks so much for this taken me right back to my childhood.
My pleasure!
I'm with you on the Opal Mints/ Pacers. What utter madness to end them. What about Opal Fruits though? Equally crazy to stop making them as well in my opinion
Opal fruits became Starburst.😮
Love these videos! 😊❤️
Of all the sweets mentioned today, Tooty Fruitys are the ones I miss the most ❤💛💚🧡💜
Glad you like the videos Stacy. Many thanks!
i liked cola spangles. tooty fruities, were one of my all time favorites. toffo, i loved the liqurish and the chocolate from the mixed pack. i used to eat liquorish imps, which came in a little box
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
I used to love Aztec bars, bit like a Mars bar
Had totally forgotten about Blobs and Gold Rush. Love these videos!
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Ah yea pacers, loved them. Loved the old English spangles too, until i was sick when eating a blackcurrant one, cant eat anything blackcurrant to this day 😂
When eating Spangles the centre used to dissolve leaving a hole. That used to cut your tongue the edges were so sharp. Happy days 😂
I still have cravings for Pacers!
Me too!
I loved the mint toffo's
Another excellent video! I'm really enjoying your content! For me, it was Mint toffos and Tooty Fruities - I'd pretty much forgotten them, so thanks for reminding me of the days when we were all fed oodles of sugar! I now have diabetes ! I guess the good times had to come to an end sometime, sigh. I'm quietly impressed that I've still got all my teeth after all that toffee!😆
Glad you are enjoying the channel. Thanks!
Ohh jings! I remember the ipso advert! Summer 1979! Spent a week at a caravan holiday park at Clayshant near Stranraer. Great times as it was also across the road from R.A.E West Freugh and I was in my element with all the buccaneers, F4 Phantoms and a Nimrod!
Thanks Stu, great memory lane video. Just to remind everyone, many of the sweets you showed were made by Trebor and they were made in my own town of Chesterfield. My own favourite discontinued were Thornes butter dainties - rugby ball shaped toffee outer case and chocolate inside - delish !!
Glad you enjoyed the video! Many thanks.
I loved Polo Fruits and Tootie Fruities but Spangles were no 1 Especially the Older English Liked Pacers too Wasn't that bothered about Toffo but if that was the only option I'd eat them all lol I'd never heard of the others Another brilliant reminder of my childhood
I think the Old English variety were my favourite Spangles too.
😂 Fruit Polos
You just ended up eating a long multi coloured tube of fruity loveliness!
I still miss Tooty Frooties 😢
Wham bars and McGowan's toffee bars. 10 and 5p each, respectively. I also loved the chocolate covered McGowan's....Mmmm!
When I was younger, and I admit even now, I was and am, fascinated by codes, ciphers and cryptography. When Double agents came out, I was over the moon and couldn't wait to decrypt the secret message on the wrapper.
Toffo’s were fab and so we gold nuggets. Fruit polo were very sticky but good. Tooty fruities yum ..😀👍loved treats but they are so different to m and m’s
Well I can say that I knew every single sweet shown, and in fact was only talking about both the Tobacco and Gold nuggets just the other day with my brother. The one sweet I've not seen mentioned in literally decades was the Tobermory Potato, sometimes referred to as Lucky Potatoes. These were large irregular shaped white toffees covered in a cinnamon dusting (t look like dirt) and containing a plastic object, usually a toy soldier which was eventually uncovered as the toffee was sucked. With hindsight it's unbelievable to imagine these would be sold today with the risk of swallowing and choking on the toy!
Finally, what about Lucky Bags, also known as Jamboree Bags, these were a more expensive treat but again something I've not seen since the early 70s
Gold Rush. You've given me a big smack in the nostalgia gland there sir.
I remember the chocolate and lime flavour Double Agents making me (and my brother) feel sick. Just the thought of that combination all these years later brings back that sickly feeling. The other three flavours were great though!
I used to love that coconut tobacco. Tried the new version and it definitely doesn’t taste the same and it looks like it’s dyed red.
Loved lemonade spangles, I can still remember the slight fizz in my mouth. So many memories of them all, change is not always a good thing 😞
Agree with you.... Pacers! ❤
Blimey this brought back so many memories and probably the reason why I have got so many fillings 😂. So spangles, blobs and double agents after eating a load of them your mouth was in tatters like chewing on broken glass 🤣 Brilliant video thank you 😊
Many thanks!
Great video! I’d completely forgotten about Spanish Gold and Gold Rush and I used to love them. My favourites from this top ten are definitely mint toffo and pacers. I recognised Rodney but although I knew the other kids face I couldn’t name him 🤔
The other young lad is Peter Moran who played Pogo Patterson in Grange Hill.
Ah yes of course. Now I can picture him. Thank you.
Toffo’s were fab and so we gold nuggets. Fruit polo were very sticky but good. Tooty fruities yum ..😀👍
Gold Rush and Spanish Gold, I forgot all about those. Remember buying them from the newsagents on my estate in West Bromwich. And all the others !
Wish they all could come back
Loved Spangles! 💛💛💛💙
I was waiting with baited breath to see Tooty Minties on the list. Alas not.
Peppermint spangles,clarnico mints,opal mints,tootie minties,trebor mints, were a few of my faves,(love mints,does it show?) Only ate the green ones in opal fruits,cant stand them now.licorice and violet pips,caramac,mint imperials,and the huge trebor mints,spearmint and peppermint
5:38, also remember candy sticks coloured and packaged to resemble cigarettes 🙄
8:14 a very young Nicolas Lyndhurst
Toffos, spangles and pacers!! The perfect top 3!!! Here are a few more that are on my Top 10 list:
Mojo
Pascal Fruit Bon Bon (Ingot shaped hard boiled fruit sweet with a chewy centre)
Needlers Sensations
Needlers Crumble Mints
Clarnico Mints
Fizzbombs
Rainbow Crystals
Fruit Drops (they looked a bit like a Werthers Original but were transparent and fruit flavoured)
Some great choices there.
1:01 screen left. She is gorgeous. I remember this vividly from the time this was on contemporary TV.
I remember buying Fruit Polo’s in the 80’s and 90’s
They were very tasty
Tooty Fruities
Once a packet was open I’d eat the lot, one after the other
Spangles - another teeth rotter I loved❤❤
Pacers I remember in the sweet shop but didn’t like them
The other brands in this video I had not heard of when I was a kid in the 70’s
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Trevor lemon mints were a fave of mine, not seen them in years.
So many sweets i remember and so many sources of my teenage cavities and subsequent fillings 😩
I do enjoy these videos 😁 I've probably mentioned this before. I'm trying to find any record of these little cookies that came in smooth pellet shapes. I THINK they were called Widgets and I THINK there was a cartoon professor on them. I can't see any mention of them anywhere and only a handful of people i've asked, remembers them. Maybe I'm going mad?
Im with you stu pacers were my favourite also. I can even taste them watching this video lol but I also did love toffo. Thanks again 👏👏🍻
My pleasure John!