General Chat

They still sell Victory V's

Christina ,that wrapper used to get more sticky the further it went down the stick.Would suck so far then wrap it up until the next time .I would always twist it up at the top again lol
I don't think they can exist any more.
What about sticks of rock from your holidays??? I used to smash them with Mums rolling pin so there were chunks and it used to glue your teeth together lol

hi all. I hate, hate, hate liquorice, aniseed and any thing banana flavour! I love fizzy sweets especially the really sour ones!
Julia (in cambs)

I liked aniseed balls, brown with white layers so you kept taking them out of your mouth to see what colour you were on. Loved the chewy liquorice blackjacks and toffee whirls with the white swirl in them.

No wonder I had to have lots of fillings. lol

Thinking of the dim and distant past before the war. Does anyone rember the Golliwog toffee, a wrapped large single toffee bought for a farthing?

Jane, I had to pop in again to see if the twisty sticks have been found anywhere yet ! I remember that I just used to pull the wrapper down a bit ,& a bit further each time I wanted some more ! seemed to me that they lasted for ages !
I also liked aniseed twists, and do you remember clove balls ? colured balls smelling strongly of cloves & if you left them in your pocket (to get all stuck to the paperbag!) your coat smelled of cloves too !
Woolworths used to sell a quarter of "whipped creamy bon-bons" which I loved....& they were softer that the bon-bons you can buy today.
oooh, and do the hot roasted salted pea-nuts that Woollies sold count ???
and I was a Spangles fan as well !

Tina x

Now I really really want to taste a Victory V again.I haven't seen them for years.

never been a sweet person (as some will attest lol) only chocolate ...but used to take a qtr of fruit thins to the pics when I was a kid :))

pmsl

With great difficulty

How do you whip a Walnut lol ?

I have never heard of a Walnut Dream, do you mean a Walnut whip

lol Lesley

Keith you said sweets you like OR hate......I went for hate. This thread's too sweet as it is!

lol Pauline

Walnut Dream.?

Victory V's now we are talking

Fisherman's Friends are alright but not a patch on Victory V's and the Victory V gums,can you still get those?

What about Zubes and then you took the tin to school to put your crayons in or a tin that had held Old Holborn if you had a lot of crayons.

I'm the original Galaxy Gannet lol
but I hate Fisherman's Friends,my Latin Tutor used to give us them if we coughed in his lessons,eeeeeeeeeyuck!

There have been some mighty odd chocolate bars brought out over the years.
Aztec,Mars with no toffee.
Does anybody remember Walnut Dream.It came out in the sixties when I would eat anything that would fit in my mouth and even I didn't like it.There was a walnut and some nasty stuff in each piece.

I remember a bar that had liquid coffee in the centre too.

Lovell's Milky Lunch was my favourite and Buttercrisp which is now Dime.