Even More Lost Chocolate of the Past
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- Welcome one again to the nostalgic world of chocolate from the past, in particular those lost chocolate bars that are sadly no longer with us, from the recently discontinued Caramac to the long gone Bitz.
If your favourite chocolate bar doesn’t appear in this video, don’t worry, more than likely it’s included in one of the other two lost chocolate videos on Stuview TV. Here's where you can see them:
10 Lost Chocolate Bars You Wish Would Come Back
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More Lost Chocolate Bars You Wish They Would Bring Back
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When you opened a box of chocolates in the 80s they looked a lot better than they do today, and tasted better. all the chocolates today are the same.
Absolutely agree
A better selection as well they are all like truffles now
Today's chocolate seems to be mostly either nuts or caramel and no other flavours!
Often got our mam chocolates - but we ended up eating most of them ourselves as mam couldn’t eat the ones with nuts or nougat and, while she liked a cup of coffee, didn’t like coffee in chocolate, so ended up not eating the majority of them!
@@ianrYou're absolutely right & I detest both of them!!
Wonderful, I loved the days of sliding the paper sleeve off a bar, then unfolding the foil wrapper. It really built up the anticipation of chocolatey pleasure to come.
chocolate also tastes better when pressed thinly. Wildlife bars were the best.
Those were the days before Quality Street got the cheap and nasty paper wrappers to be 'environmentally friendly' but are then put in plastic tubs that could hold four times the contents, meanwhile Cadbury attempt to get five treat size bags and bars in the largest selection box possible hoping the consumer doesn't notice 😂
Quality street, the obligatory "nans" sewing tin 😊
Yes, the eco-crazies have a lot to answer for.
Should be renamed Mediocre Street.
They were better were quality street when they had the foil wrappers!
@@rodpanhardI'd rather have quality street than roses that have gone to rack and ruin!
I remember a Rupert bear, orange chocolate bar..and a pink panther, strawberry pink bar
I absolutely loved Caramac. It was my favourite. Shame it’s gone!
I loved rowntrees cabana bars.🥰
They were the best!!!!!
The Terry's 1767 box with drawers was a must for Christmas. Sadly missed.
i used to love the caramac, as well as the chocolate turkish delight, full of eastern promise.
Remember Terrys Neapolitan Chocolates - Dad use to get a couple of boxes of them every Xmas. Little individual squares of chocolate with different flavours.
I remember them, unusually my favourites were the dark chocolates
I truly loved growing up in the 1960s...so many sweets that grew up with...one being the Jamboree bag 🎉
I'd completely forgotten those until you mentioned it! Wasn't it the Jamboree bag that also had a toy in it? Usually a crap plastic car, or a balloon? (Or maybe I'm thinking of something else?)
Thats it, but then we thought it was magical ...but yes by todays standards?
I lived in the sweet shop, quite literally. It belonged to my parents. In those days we had a kids' sweet bar at the end of the gondola where all the adult stuff was kept. Cadbury was big in those days, of course, and on the kids' section we had three Cadbury Dairy Milk bars on offer - the 1d, 2d and 3d bars. The standard adult one was 6d in 1961. There were a whole host of other favourites including the Waggon Wheel (much bigger than the more recent iterations of that product) and cost 6d. The Jamboree Bag was there along with Sherbet Dabs/Fountains and Swizzles. The biggest sellers however were the chews. Fruit Salad, Black Jacks and MoJos were all 16 for a penny (the old penny!). These sat alongside the Bazooka and the Chewing Gum packs that contained collectors cards and Sweet Cigarettes. The Loose sweets that you bought for an eighth or a quarter of a pound were kept in jars close by - including Cadbury Buttons, sold loose.
Awesome. I am 55 years old now and this brought back so many memories. I remember most of these and have eaten most of them being brought up in the 70’s and 80’s. The best era and the best sweets. Thank you so much for sharing.
My pleasure! Many thanks for watching.
I had Picnic bars recently and they were absolutely delicious - as good as they have always tasted. Very moreish, I can’t just have one. I buy the four pack.
I miss Cadbury Silk. I remember them from the late 80’s/early 90’s. I think there were 5 little half barrels, filled with a strawberry centre in a blue wrapper. The accountant at my first job introduced me to them, washed down with a strawberry milk.
Omg, they were gorgeous! i'm glad someone has mentioned them on here as nobody i know remembers them, also milky ways when they had light brown nougat 😋
I remember Cadbury Wildlife bars so well. I used to collect all the of the different wrappers. I loved it. ❤Thanks for the memories 😊❤️
My pleasure!
Yes. I remember having an album that you filled up with cards. The set was called dangerous animals and there were about 50 to collect. Each bar of chocolate had an outer sleeve with the card attached to the foil wrapper. I managed to complete the set and was helped by the local shopkeeper. He went through the bars and sold me the ones which I needed. I remember the lion fish being the rare one. I ended up paying a friend 10p for his card. Probably buy a quarter of sweets for that. Happy joyous memories. Not a care in the world and both parents alive and well. Just grateful for being a child of the seventies.
Old Jamaica, Swisskit, Super Moose, Amazing Raisin Bar..... Topic... ❤
Amazing raisin bar! I forgot how great they were! Do you remember 'lovely ' mouse's? Thick melted chocolate with a hard cream whip on top ? Advertised by Joanna lumley.
Would you risk it for a Swisskit, yes we were well and truly indoctrinated by TV ads 😅
Mr Men the Wombles, and so many more, great memories! 💙☀️
I loved the Black Magic chocolates.
Oh wow I’d completely forgotten Bitz bars in the 80’s. They were great as they tasted like Matchmakers.
I just said that too, they were like a bar of matchmakers lol
They still do matchmakers, orange. maybe mint?
It was up there with 'After Eights', but now, the packaging and stuff dont look as 'exclusive' as before.
Dont think I ever had a bar of 'Bitz' I would've loved the orange because I love the orange matchmakers
@@Thenogomogo-zo3un yeah I usually get orange or mint matchmakers at Christmas (and never the rest of the year for some reason!). I think there’s a salted caramel and coffee version but harder to find.
I’ve just signed the petition to keep Caramac bars!
Where can i find it?
Can’t believe they’re being discontinued. Love them. Always have. I suppose we’re supposed to make do with that with awful Cadburys Caramilk imported from Australia but it’s not the same.
@@leeriches8841 That’s exactly what I said on a different post, or gold bar biscuits…slightly better but still not the same!🙁
@@77rosato My post to you keeps getting removed so I obvs can’t mention the actual site. Just search Caramac petition & you should find it.
As my answer for where you can find it keeps getting deleted an online search for Caramac petition should lead you to it.
I only found this channel a few days ago and I'm smiling everytime a video pops up in my feed. I suppose we start to enjoy nostalgia in our 30's but we really start to find it "comforting" when we are past middle age which this is primarily aimed at
(mostly the 1970's).
Great stuff !
Glad you are enjoying the memories! Welcome to the channel.
44 here, I'm already long into that trip! And I've still got some years to go yet ... hopefully 😆
All gold were my favourite
The sweet shop will become a thing of the past if things keep going up and up👀👍
Mostly gone are ACTUAL sweet shops. There is one in my city that hasn’t changed in decades and does well because their stock is well made quality and the store is a bit of a time warp. Other than that, only sweet shops I ever see these days are those tax-evading, money-laundering American candy stores that have INVADED the UK. Was in the news in the last couple of days that a lot of the sweets they’re selling are actually illegal in our fair nation due to the ingredients. Don’t know how they’re even importing them. All I know is they need to go. I went in once purely to marvel at the extortionate prices and the staff were angry I was taking photos. They are even open on Christmas Day…like, why?!
@leeriches8841 when I was growing up it was sweets on a Friday at one of the local sweatshops!
@leeriches8841 They can import this stuff because the safeguards are all being abandoned under the guise of "Deregulation" and "Freeing business from the shackles of bureaucracy". Very soon, we'll be able to go back to the glory days of 6 inch metal spikes used to loosely hold dolls together, toxic paint and toasters that will burn our houses down.
the dark bounty is my fave
4:21 I've Used To Love Watching The Wombles The Original Series When I Was A Kid. Thanks Mate. X❤
I used to love the mint crunch Bitz bar, every Christmas i always got a box of Terry's all gold in with my presents, the highlight of my year 😁
Mint Cracknell?
@rw8733 yes I loved mint cracknel 😍
Gosh! I hadn't even realised that Terry's All Gold had been discontinued. It used to be a staple as a Christmas present back in the day.
And on the subject of plain chocolate, I suppose there is a glimmer of hope that the plain Bounty has only been "temporarily" discontinued. I'm not holding my breath however, as even before the discontinuance it had become exceedingly difficult to find.
There's still Black Magic.
Thanks Stu, another amble down memory lane ! Here’s an extra input - my Dad always bought my Mum a box of Terry’s Spartan chocolates for Christmas because they were all hard centres , which my Mum loved. Personally, I really miss Mackintoshes Weekend Assortment, something my Dad bought us every weekend. Everything today is so ridiculously sweet, so I just don’t bother anymore ! 👍
Terrys Spartan - now there's a blast from the past!
Do these companies give any legitimate reason to discontinue these awesome treats or is it just a case of it's "old" so it must go ?
Are they actually replacing any of these with something new and hopefully just as good, if so maybe a video or 2 on new but similar items or videos on new products in the last year or 5 or 10 ? Caramac !!!! Noooooooooooo going, going, gone soon 😢😢@@stuviewtv
I have a box of parts upstairs I bought second hand and someone has labelled them up using a Spartan box . Personally I have never heard of or seen Terry's Spartans.
I well remember Spartan, although not really a fan of all the hard centres. 'Weekend' was always nice, as was 'Dairy Box', don't rate the latter now though.
@@andycap6786 dairy box is pants now
Absolutely love this channel being born in the 60’s it’s heartwarming to see all the things from my youth. I remember in the 70’s when my dad got paid he used to bring me and my brother a bar of old Jamaica and if you remember an ice breaker bar 😊
I remember icebreaker and mint blizt
Great to hear you enjoy the channel. Many thanks for watching!
I don't remember the icebreaker bar, but my dad and I both used to enjoy the Old Jamaica bars, especially when they actually used to have a bit of rum instead of switching to rum flavouring
Oh I loved Old Jamaican bars, really flavoursome, but not sure as a kid I should have been eating those lol with the rum in them! Oh well!
Oh, yes, I remember them, particularly Old Jamaica.
I was given a caramac by a lad at work and my husband ate it, 3 days later I read on line they were being discontinued, I was more than a little disgruntled
They're garbage now. They changed the recipe and are nothing like they used to be. So, it's no loss to me, unfortunately. :(
I would always buy my dear Mum both a Terrys dark chocolate orange and a box of Black Magic for Christmas.
Lovely memories. Happy days.
That’s really sad as I was a big fan of Terrys all gold chocolates and I used to get a box for my birthday, but to be honest I thought they’d been discontinued a long time ago.
Loved Dark Chocolate Bountys...sadly gone forever 😢..
One bite of caramac was nice, but any more I just found too sickly.
Edit to mention I just noticed the Grand Old Lady - Goodison Park in the caramac advert!
You are so right, I used to have them a lot as a kid but by the end of the bar it was very sickly. I think that’s why I eventually went off of them.
Spot on ,had half felt sick all day, had other half next day same lol
I absolutely LOVED Caramac!!!! The taste was a unique bar of heaven!!!! I remembered buying it for 10 pence!😁
Anyone remember Texan bars and the tv advert with the cowboy and Indian chief , I think there were about three or four different advertisements. Happy days in the 70s
I remember them quite well, and the ads with the cowboy. It seems hardly any time since I was gazing at all the chocolate and sweets in Mrs Walker's shop, my Chopper bike outside, and a 5p, or if I was really really lucky, 10p in my hand.
@@clivemason-ms8ju 'Lucky' ? You had a Chopper ffs!. I was too small at the time to ride one.
I can remember one called Ice Breaker, I loved it as a kid, thought it was proper ' grown up'. Also Remember Curlywurly, seemed a lot chewier , I had ine a few years back, it didn't stretch like I remember the 3p Curlwurly.
Thanks for re-opening a small recess in my neurons and synapses that have been lying dormant for decades!
Great video,I remember Ruperts orange chocolate bar,Nutty bar,Banjo,Texan,Bar Six,Cabana,Cadburys chocolate frog,Animal bar etc,great days.
I bet those Frys Five Centre were nice.
Oh they where
Oh, yes. They were.
They were, but then so were their stable mates from the Fry's soft centre bar range.
@@johnorchard4 I loved them!
I was in the animal bar club! I bought 4 yesterday for the first time in decades while I still can!
Me too, I had a book from that club.
Kids at school used to say it was "made of animals"
what a brillikant walk down memory lane thank you
So glad you enjoyed it. Many thanks for watching.
I remember boxed chocolates called Weekend, Contrast and one called extra special which came in a square dark blue box with a mandala type pattern on each side
I'll have to stock up on Caramac's! I only have 3 left in the cupboard
Thanks Stu, love your stuff!
That's great to hear! Many thanks.
Remember when Marathons and Mars actually tasted nice. I remember there being stories of rat poison being injected into Mars Bars. So I stuck to Fry’s peppermint creams. They don’t taste the same anymore either .
Sadly, none of today's chocolate tastes the same. Or am I just imagining it?
No, I don't know if it's because the ingredients are less or cheaper, but I'm sure the companies will say the have made the sweets " better for you" .
I had a mars bar recently and it wasnt the same as the ones I had growing up.
@@rw8733it's not as nice as it was in the old days!
I loved caramel cups!
Another golden nostalgia trip. I could watch your videos all day long, lol
That's great to hear. Thanks!
Used to like Dairy Box, however few of the original chocolate varieties which were included remain today. Great channel, keep it up.
Many thanks!
I remember my late mum buying pick n mix chocolates from bhs n Woolworths each week to fill the massive quality tin, happy days!
Happy days, good 'ol Woolworths Pic 'n mix
That Gambit bar sounds very much like Cadbury’s current Dark Milk chocolate bar.
Indeed! Apparently, Dark Milk is Gambit's closest match. 😊
That's the only Cadburys bar I don't mind eating, the others are way too sweet for my tastes!
I love that Gambit advert, I don't remember it though.
Loved the caramel barrel in Terrys all gold……….heck, I loved them all
I remember my mother buying Cadbury's Roses tins (yes, actual tins) for Christmas. These had straight rather than the tapered sides of later plastic replacements, with just one containing sufficient chocolates to last through the festive season. They also contained chocs enclosed in traditional twist', as opposed to flow wrapping. Those were the days!
Compared with the modern plastic tubs, those tins were huge, and were perfect for using as cake tins once all the chocolates were eaten
I have several of those tins, all used as jewellery boxes. Most of my plastic modern chocolate tubs are being used for dried food or tea packet storage, not really suitable to store my junk jewellery.
@@taraelizabethdensley9475That's just what my Mum did!
Brilliant video again!
Re : Gambit...Cadburys also brought out a large bar of milk/dark chocolate called Vevet Blend. 👍🙂
Many thanks!
Caramac straight out of the fridge......excellent
Ah Terry's All-Gold, always a Christmas favourite at my Grandparent's over Christmas...used to sneak quite a few while the adults were busy talking about mortgages and fan belts.
Those were the days!
Terrys Neapolitan chocolates, my mum always bought them at Christmas in the 70s
I was just thinking about those. They were lovely! My favourite was the Mocha flavour.
Yes I remember them a Christmas must have
I loved Caramac but hadn’t realised it was still around. It was gorgeous!
Has to be Dairy box for me! thanks for the trip down memory lane, will have to watch the other video now to see if the pink panther bar with its pink chocolate gets a mention!
I used to like when Walkers put a blue sachet with a prize in it straight in the bag of crisps. From a free bag voucher to money. These days everyone makes you scan a qr code and give them your data. Nowhere near as magical as the prospect of cash in a pouch! The few times I got a blue sachet was so exciting!
Anyone remember Swisskit bars in the 1970s? A sort of dark chocolate covered muesli bar? I used to get them on the way home from school, at a long-gone sweet shop.
YEAH - REMEMBER THE ADS, WOULD YOU RISK IT FOR A SWISSKIT
I remember the Doctor Who chocolate bar having grown up in the 70's. Each wrapper had a story on the back. It was just Milk Chocolate like a lot of them at the time. We had animal bars given to us in school along with free milk until Mrs Thatcher took it off us. I think the Doctor Who wrappers are collectable now.
Dang, I remember Thatcher getting in and raising the VAT. All sweet prices went up immediately and 10p couldn't buy you squat anymore. Think all the kids hated her for that.
Do you remember the advert...if you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club?.. honestly, clubs now are tiny and hardly any chocolate on them . I think it goes for all bars these days.
I emailed them after recently buying some orange clubs….I sent a screen shot off an old ad that showed how thick the chocolate used to be. They can’t use their old saying as the chocolate is so thin now. I would gladly pay more to have to old clubs back!
I know what you mean, I used to love it when I got an orange club in my packed lunch at school. That chocolate was so thick!
Rowntrees Fruit Gums in a yellow box ...the gums were fruit shaped and Lindt chocokate puppies or kittens.....heavenly !
As a teenager of the seventies I feel truly blessed by the huge variety of chocolate confectionery we had back then. Also the Ice lollies and choc ices were amazing. I'm not sure how I still have any teeth left and not morbidly obese.
Missed a trick with the choice of Caramac advert to show. The classic one was always 'I've got 5 pence, what can I buy with 5 pence? A Caramac bar!!!' Needless to say it's no longer 5 pence!!
My favourite chocolates were Milk Tray,always had a box for christmas with our presents off my parents,my sister always had After Eights too.
Thank you Stu. Brings back memories.
Lucky numbers were my favourite chocs. A sweetshop near me when I was a child sold both Lucky Numbers and Quality Street.
Wow the design and print is anazing,alot better then todays boring styles
Devastated to discover topic was discontinued 2 years ago. And i wish golden cup & five centre's would make a return xx
Golden cup was awesome!
Loved this blast from the past... Thanks for the video
Glad you enjoyed it. Many thanks!
Sadly chocolate these days is only a memory, not many chocolate bars are anything like the used to be. A box of chocolates did seem a luxury, all those lovely different centers....now waxy and all seem the same.
Yes I’ve noticed this too, they all taste very similar & not the same quality they once were.
Unfortunately so many of our confectionery manufacturers have been bought out by Mondelez, and everything they make is awful.
@@snowysnowyriver agree 💯
Another Terrys one i remember is Neopolitan, i recall Bitz as my late mum was a mint sweet fiend, great memories
Chocolate bars were bigger and a lot more tasty back in those days. .
When I commented when you advertised this video, I got Animal bar mixed up with wildlife bars, I thought it was the wildlife that had animal moulds, but it was animal bar 😂
My wife is listening to me watch this and she asked “was Bitz spelled with a Z”
She remembers those but I don’t. My mum used to eat a caramac while my dad tucked into either fry’s chocolate cremes or Turkish delight 😂
Thank you for another nostalgic trip 👌🏼
Fry’s chocolate cremes, loved them. As a kid I loved the more ‘grown up chocolates’ like them and LOVED Cadburys Bournvile. One massive perk of that would be nobody asking you for a piece at school 😂
@@leeriches8841 Haha that’s true. I found them disgusting. Probably the reason my dad had them, so nobody else would want a piece 😂
I miss these chocolates
Terry's All Gold was mum's favourite back "in the day", not that she got to eat many of them as we all descended like a pick of ravenous hyenas when the box was opened!!! "Dairy Milk" was for a girlfriend, or if she was worth it maybe a box of "Black Magic". "Dairy box" never really gained much traction with any of us.
"Quality Street" tins for Christmas were de rigeur, but I always felt it was a bit more "special" when a tin of "Roses" was made an appearance, back in the days before "Celebrations" "Heroes" and all the other current micro plastic "tins" had been created.
Great stuff as ever Stu, you've made me realise how many choccy bars I never even tried in my youth. Thanks for the video.
P.S Great "Caramac" TV ad, but I strangely don't recall it at the time.
Ah yes, back in the days when the Christmas chocolate selections came in proper big tins!
Back in 1982 I was pregnant with my first child. Well, didn't I go wild for Caramac!!!! I would jump in the car in the wee small hours and head to the All Night Filling Station to buy up their entire stock. So, that was my fad during my first pregnancy whereas my second pregnancy in 1983 was a little different. Thankfully, nothing sweet that time around but Vegemite on burnt toast! To each their own. I still treat myself to the odd bar of Caramac when I spot them on display. Sad to hear that they are being pulled.
Caramac used to taste amazing IMO. Nestle ruined the taste ..
@@redbeki Hello. You are right about the taste change. I seem to recall an advert for Caramac on the tv declaring their 'new, tastier recipe'. I honestly preferred the old taste, just like you. Well, it's now after 2 in the morning and all of a sudden I seriously want a Caramac and there are no shops nearby . Such is life!
@@chelamcguire tbh , I haven't had one for years and years. So disappointed when they changed them , I stopped buying them .
I love these kind of videos. I’m a 90’s kid so I didn’t get to experience a lot of these. But I still find it so interesting. Great Work. From a fellow Midlands boy.
Many thanks!
I remember as a wee boy thinking I was some sort of millionaire buying my mum Terry's All Gold for Mothers Day so I guess it was maybe a wee bit more expense..!
enjoyed that , thanks mate , from nick and tracy in wigan , lancashire
Glad you enjoyed it! Many thanks!
Well done Stu. Another great video which made me feel very nostalgic.
Black Magic was always my favourite but it's surprisingly difficult to find these days.
Many thanks!
Once again a great trip down memory lane, I was surprised to learn that Terrys All Gold has been withdrawn. Do you know why ?
Also I’m amazed you are able to source old TV adverts and images of old wrappers.
Anyway keep them coming.
❤
I think Terry's All Gold was discontinued due to falling sales, so they decided to just concentrate on the Chocolate Orange. Many thanks for watching!
@@stuviewtv well at least we still have those…for now. I swear if they ever discontinue those I shall declare war on Terrys 😂 I tried their dark chocolate version of the chocolate orange and honestly, not bad. I’m sure there’s also a white chocolate version of which I haven’t tried but will at some point.
I know that whilst not as old as the items in these videos, I own lots of the Spice Girls items from their 1997 Cadburys partnership! I have 10 unopened chocolate bars (2 different packaging of each girl,) an unopened 5 bar multipack, 2 unopened Easter eggs and a Christmas selection box. All of these items are now coming up for being 27 years old!
Another slice of retro perfection, love these Stu please keep them coming, cheers.
Oh and Dairy Box was always a winner for me 👌
Many thanks
Caramac is only just gone… I will have to find what ever is left!!!
They still had some in iceland about a week ago 🙂
@@Julie-sm7sp that's a long way to go just for a choc bar.
(Hahaha)
@@nellyfett2681 🤣🤣🤣
Caramac is absolutely bangin..such an underrared bar...love em..
Thankyou once again for putting this slice of nostalgia together for us 'oldies', well, I'm 60 yrs young!. My favourite box of choccies is definitely Terry's All Gold. The others are a bit cloying and the All Gold was nicely presented as well as having great tasting chocolates. Ah!, the good old days are truly missed.
As soon as the monster bar appeared on the screen I honestly felt that time in my life. Amazing how that happens when you see things from your childhood
being 55 years old , i remember most of these
Aww sad old gold has disappeared 😢no wonder i could not find any!!!I did buy some caramac and animal bars about 4 weeks ago🙂
Aw brilliant, absolutely love these, well I couldn't stand caramac or the bitz with cherry in it.... urrggg 🤣
I liked Terry's All Gold and Black Magic. Cadbury's Milk Tray was good back in the 1960s when it had the lime barrel, then they got rid of it and changed the contents. Dairy Box, frankly was and still is not very nice and I'm surprised you can still get them. All of the chocolate boxes and bars taste totally different to what they did in the 1960s when I was growing up. Too much chemicals and artificial sweeteners in them now so I seldom buy any. The likes of Bounty Bars are really easy to make yourself. There are good recipes on here for a lot of sweets. I've made Bounty Bars. Got 30 big, chunky ones (really need to get some moulds). Cost less than £3 to make them. All you need is a tin of condensed milk, dessicated coconut and chocolate. Shaziya's recipes on here are really good and she takes you step by step on how to make things.
Caramac ! My absolute favourite 😋😋
I have to admit boxes of chocolate just aren't what they used to be. In times gone by they had variety, now a days it's just several different versions of truffle! But the one thing I would love to see come back are the Cadburys chocolates we used to get in the mid-seventies, early eights that we would put on the Christmas tree. They would normally be bought from the side of the tills out of clear plastic tubes and cardboard boxes in supermarkets and small sweet shops, there were two types hollow moulded ones wrapped in foil to look like Santa, An Angel, and Christmas Trees, and then there were solid flat ones in the shape of a Bell which was one of the foil wrappers as well as Santa's face. I've been searching for a photo of them but with no luck, I've only found an artist impression of one from a page in a trade catalogue.
My mum used to work at Cadbury and would bring home "misshapes" or, as it was known then, waste chocolate. Brought home in big, brown paper bags. Joy.
I loved Milk Tray, Dairy Box, Moonlight, Black Magic, All Gold and the rest. Having tried Milk Tray fairly recently after many years, I was surprised that they tasted and looked nowhere near as good as they used to.
Anyone remember 'One Two Three'? 3 finger bars individually wrapped in red white and blue connected together but perforated so you could separate them, only out for a short while around 1981ish?
So many lost favourites, I loved bitz especially the mint one & I didn't realise they discontinued Terry's all gold 😢
Spartan was a good fifth in the Chocolate box stakes - my Grandma Willoughby's favourite!
I've not bought British chocolate since I came back from Germany in the mid-90s and noticed that it tasted and felt different. That's because of they'd started using palm fat in the recipe. It just doesn't have the same qualities.
A few years ago though, I was in a B & M and there were some Cadbury's Dairy Milks on the shelf that were wrapped in gold foil and paper like they were decades ago. I picked one up and read the label. There was no palm fat in the recipe and it said Made in Poland. I bought one and unwrapped it from its gold foil and bit into it. It was like being transported back in time to my childhood. Sadly that was the last I saw of it as they haven't imported any more.
When I heard red Bounty was gone last month, I immediately went out and bought a full box. My most favourite of all modern bars.
my biggest miss is chocolate lime bears. Always had them as a kid, but they went away many, many years ago. Cannot even find any images on the net.
Chocolate and lime is one of my favourite flavour combinations.
The Caramac bar was my favourite 😪 I remember the Fry’s 5 flavours chocolate bar, the Strawberry flavoured Aero chocolate bar and the Pink Panther strawberry flavoured pink chocolate bar too 😋☺️
I bought a bag of aero neapoliton buttons chocolate,milk and strawberry from a spar the other week😀
Milk Tray and Dairy Box were the 2 bog standard ones, Black Magic and All Gold definitely a cut above. I usually got Milk Tray for my birthday 🎉