Bought some sarsaparilla tablets yesterday. Not had them for years. Proper took me back to when you'd go to the paper shop and get either a 10p mix or a if your Mam was feeling generous a 1/4 of sweets from a jar. Cola cubes where a close 2nd.

Shit I sound old. 

 

5 minutes ago, embankment said:

What were the round pink bubblys called ?

Anglo Bubble Gum

5 minutes ago, embankment said:

Anglo Bubble Gum

Are they the ones with tattoos in? 

Just now, bolton_blondie said:

Are they the ones with tattoos in? 

At some point yes.

 

Once had a bird who tipped pop rocks in her mouth then gargled me like mouthwash 

Quite underwhelming really 

5 minutes ago, Rudy said:

Once had a bird who tipped pop rocks in her mouth then gargled me like mouthwash 

Quite underwhelming really 

Bit harsh on Blondie that

2 minutes ago, jmjhb said:

Bit harsh on Blondie that

She knows her points on improvement 

Cherry lips, loved em!

1 hour ago, SatanGreavsie said:

Old School?  Really Old School, never to reappear? Well there's only one answer

You can still buy these things. Now known as candy sticks rather than sweet cigarettes and they don’t have red food colouring on one end to indicate the ‘lit’ end.

I also remember at Christmas getting a chocolate “smokers’ kit” comprising of a pipe, a couple of Cuban cigars, cigarettes, etc., in that shit cooking type chocolate.

10 minutes ago, Rudy said:

She knows her points on improvement 

There is no room for improvement pal. I'm no amateur. 

2 hours ago, Burndens Bogs said:

There used to be some sweets called Tics, they came in a tin, tiny black liquorice things - fuckin horrible they were.

Roocrofts Tics. A Bolton delicacy  🤑

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/6157083.amp/

Was at school with the daughter of the owner in the 70s/80s

Obvs she was known as Roocroft’s tits

 

8 hours ago, bolton_blondie said:

There is no room for improvement pal. I'm no amateur. 

Aye I’ve read the reviews 

48 minutes ago, Rudy said:

Aye I’ve read the reviews 

5*, 10/10, would come again (sic) 

white mice 

44 minutes ago, little whitt said:

white mice 

A businessman is caught with 24 kilos, he 's out of jail and out on bail and that's the way it goes. 

19 hours ago, Youri McAnespie said:

Jawbreakers.

Red Devils.

Texans.

That Bluebird toffee in foil trays you could actually buy little hammers for.

Highland Toffee and Wham! Bars were also apt to remove fillings and/or stretch into a two foot long strand from hand to gob.

In the case of Whams one never knew if a crunchy bit was the embedded fizzers or a bit of amalgam from your teeth.

Texan bars were great.

'Hold on there bald Eagle, whilst I get my Texan bar....'

Sweet tobacco...

Now that was definitely the sweepings up. 

19 hours ago, MancWanderer said:

Roocrofts Tics. A Bolton delicacy  🤑

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/6157083.amp/

Was at school with the daughter of the owner in the 70s/80s

Obvs she was known as Roocroft’s tits

 

Haha - Roocrofts tits, nice one.

I remember the factory down down't Mop in Halliwell, we used to scrounge freebies from there when we were kids, they made all sorts of liquorice stuff.

21 hours ago, bolton_blondie said:

Are they the ones with tattoos in? 

Thought it was Bazooka Joe with the tatts.

With the smiley faces?

Dubble Bubble - aka Germoline bubbly..?

There was one bubblegum, came in flat sheets like spiggy, that came with excellent detailed tattoos, unlike the shite smiley ones.

Think they had a pirate on the (flat) packet. Only one shop top of Calvert Road sold 'em.

Beech Nut and PK spiggy half-packs if one was brassic?

As an aside, one summer in the eighties, does anyone remember loads of white rubber circles appearing overnight on all the streets? About the size of a crumpet diameter-wise about as thick as a stick of chewing gum?

It was almost like a van had drove around tossing them out the back...

We went around collecting them for some reason.

I made my pile into a shite 'deck' of cards.

Possibly the shittest thing to make cards out of, crumpets would've been more shuffle-able.

We made our own entertainment back then, simpler times.

Edited March 4, 20215 yr by Youri McAnespie

1 hour ago, Youri McAnespie said:

Beech Nut and PK spiggy half-packs if one was brassic?

Within 30 seconds you could taste the rubber. Utter shite

And Juicy fruit.......blaaaaagghh!!!!

Always used to try and knock back the last bit of powder from a sherbert fountain. Sure it went into my lungs 99% of the time. 

Coltsfoot Rock. I bloody love it.

36 minutes ago, Underpants said:

Coltsfoot Rock. I bloody love it.

Had a piece of that the other day. Doesn't taste the same to me anymore. 

Hard-boiled sweets which, part way through, developed a crevice from one side to the other just wide enough to amputate a bit of tongue.

Peardrops were particularly viscous bastards.