 70s and 80s Sweets This page is sure to bring back some fond childhood memories. From Curly Wurly's to Black Jack's, all of the old 70's and 80's favourites are here. Of course, some were available to buy long before the 70s and 80s (some are centuries old!), but it was during this time that I personally remember enjoying them in my childhood. Many are still available to buy right from this page, and others are just sadly missed. It was all junk food, of course, but that's why it tasted so great! All that sugar and those E numbers - wonderful! Black Jacks are one of the most well-known classic British sweets. They`re aniseed-flavoured, chewy and black with a unique taste, and they make your tongue go black! The original labels from the 1920's pictured a grinning gollywog - unbelievably, back then images of
black people were used to advertise Liquorice. This is seen as unacceptable today, of course, and by the late 80s manufacturers Trebor deleted the golly
logo. It was replaced by a
pirate with a black beard. In the early 1990s the pirate logo was replaced by a rather boring black and white swirl design - yawn! Caramac. Ahh! Do you remember the rich and golden creaminess of a Caramac bar? You owe it to yourself to buy these delicious chocolate bars now. I'll be ordering these for my sweet tooth on a regular basis!
Cadbury's Curly Wurly is still available today from good sweet shops, although with a different wrapper design. This was a chewy and long stick of chocolate with triangular holes running through it. When you bit into it, the sticky centre was, well, curly and wurly!
Candy Whistle - remember these? You could actually blow them and they sounded like a whistle! Well, sort of, anyway! Unfortunately, I cannot find anyone selling these, so you'll have to make do with the picture above for now!
Very popular in the 70's, Cresta Pop used to be advertised by a cartoon polar bear who wore shades! I'm pretty sure it also came in large bottles that we used to return to our local shop to get 10p back. Great idea, they should bring back glass bottles!
Chocolate Coins could always be found hanging on the Christmas Tree, but by Christmas Day there were never any left!
Chocolate Footballs. Well, you can't go far wrong with these if you've got young boys. I used to love these as a youngster and you always felt really lucky if you got a green one! Remember the Drumstick Lolly? They can't have been much more than a penny each when I was a lad! Raspberry and milk flavour giant Drumstick chewy lollies are made by Matlows and each lolly is an individually wrapped pink and yellow colour chewy lollipop.
Fizzy Cola Bottles. Remember that fizzy, sour cola taste you used to get from these? I think these are another sweet you either love or hate. I only have memories of the taste in my head, so I've ordered myself 500 grams to remind myself of what I've been missing for over 30 years! Flying Saucers. These had sherbert in the middle and a kind of melt-in-your-mouth outer shell. Available to buy from Amazon (above), I remember buying these regularly in the 1970s. Look's like I may be buying them right through the 2010's, aswell! Freddo (Cadbury's) Milk Chocolate Bar. I can never resist Cadbury's chocolate and kids still love these, just as we did back in the 70s!
Fried Eggs - these had scrumptious, foamy white outers with dark yellow chewy gum centres, and they look just like a fried egg! A real retro classic.
Fruit Salads had an unmistakable raspberry and pineapple flavour and a pink and yellow wrapper. Another one of my favourites from my 70s childhood!
Fry's Five Centres were phased out in the early 90's - please bring them back! You used to get different fruit flavoured fondant centres and it was always a surprise as to which one you'd bite into next! You can still get the mint ones, though.
Funny Feet Ice Cream's were once all the rage, you know! They didn't have swirly patterns or chocolate in the early days - I think they were just pink - and they used to melt quickly and make a right mess! Milk Bottles - these white milk bottle shaped chewy white sweets are also known as milk gums. They were pretty popular when I was a child, and are still selling well today repackaged as retro sweets.
Pacers
were a kind of Opal Fruits spin-off, but came in peppermint and
spearmint flavours. I really loved them, but I am told they were
discontinued sometime in the 80's. I'll have to do more research on
these. Sherbert Fountain - A great old fashioned and nostalgic sweet... colourful tube filled with glorious sherbet with a delicious liquorice dipping stick.
Smash
instant potato mix was launched in the 60s by Cadbury. It became really
popular during the 70s after an advertising campaign featuring the
Smash Martians, who would laugh at us humans wasting our time peeling
real potatoes! First shown in 1974, it became one of most well-known
ads of the decade.
Snaps! Still being made by walkers, the flavours I remember most were spicy tomato and cheese. I can't seem to find a photo of the original packets which cost 5p or less back in the 70s, so you'll have to make do with a more modern photo - they cost around 45p in some shops these days!
Space Raiders Space Raiders were launched in the late 1970s and were just 10p. Remarkably, they remained at 10p all the way until late October 2007, when the price was hiked to 15p, casuing much uproar! Each crisp was shaped like an alien head, and before the change in EC food colouring laws (miserable lot!), Roast Beef Space Raiders were bright red and pickled onion ones were green. They are now a boring light brown colour, reflecting the maize / corn ingredients.
Spangles were fizzy, fruity sweets that were manufactured by Mars during the 1950's, 60's and 70's. Spangles were discontinued in the early 80's, and briefly reintroduced in 1994, exclusively in Woolworth's outlets in the UK. Sweet Bananas are yummy sweet bananas, soft, juicy chews with a lovely mellow banana flavour Some of my friends don't remember these from the 70s, but I sure do! P-P-P-Pick up a Penguin - 70s TV Advert This is the TV advert for the Penguin chocolate bar from 1974. Watch out for the advert on the fairground ride for the Cor!! annual - remember that?
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