A lifetime in confectionary... - Through your very own eyes.

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Postby bigmick » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:33 pm

Right this is about all the old sweets that touched your hearts when you was a kid. The point about the ridiculous decison to change the name of the Marathon, a heavywieght in it's class of mid priced nut and nougat (pronouned nugget, not fecking noo-gah :angry:) chocolate bars into a "Snickers" got me thinking about it.

We all know what "Marathon" means. It's a long race run by fit feckers with pronounced Adams apples, it's a long stint at something, it's a mammoth spell at the crease to try and save a test match on the fifth day in Bombay (or Moombye or whatever the feck they call it these days, STOP FECKING CHANGING THE NAME OF STUFF FFS!!!! :angry:). We know these things, but what the feck is a "Snickers"? Makes no fecking sense to me at all.

Anyway it got me thinking about this thread, and sweets you kind of grown up with.

THE RULES OF THE THREAD: Yes I know, sorry there has to be rules but there does. No just fecking machine gunning off a list of names, lets go one at a time on each post (two at a max if you must) and actually pay the sweets which you craved as a nipper some respect. Talk about it, explain it, and describe for the forum what they meant to you at the time.




I'm going to open it up with the fairly humble "Sherbert Fountain". I vividly remember the yellow wrapping with the bit of liquorice sticking out the top. I'm not absolutely sure who decided the combo of sherbert and liqourice would be a good idea, and in truth it never really worked, but the sweet was a roaring success.

It was fairly inexpensive and was very much considered a youngsters treat. You wouldn't be seen dead steaming into one once you got past about 10 years old, probably because you'd long since worked out that the amount of effort required to prize each grain of sherbert out of the packaging was the equivalent of trying to eat a bowl of rice with a cocktail stick, or a Pomegranet in any which way you like. I'm sure Mum's loved them because you'd give one to your kid and it would shut the little fecker up for half an hour as he tried to work out how to eat the b@stard.

Seasoned pro's soon worked out that the liquorice stick was fecking horrible anyway (Know anyone who likes Ouzo? I rest my case) so they'd biff that in the direction of the dog (even they are unsure about Liqourice though in fairness, they normally lick it and give you a "what the feck am I supposed to do with that?" look ) and go for trying to just skull back the sherbert. Catch it wrong and you ended up with white bubbles coming out of your nose, almost like a flash forward if there is such a thing. Catch it right even, and the top soon got soggy causing a log jam of the powder which couldn't be shifted. You then had to carefully open up the wrapper with the intention of just gorging yourself on the stuff. Usually in opening it, the paper would kind of spring open and fling the stuff all over the front room carpet, causing you to lay on the floor and try and lick it up before you got a gob full of dog hair and gave it up as a bad job.

Sherbert Fountains though mate, them were the days.
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Postby Woollyback » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:35 pm

texan bars - a man's gotta chew what a man's gotta chew. you got your moneys worth with a texan (unlike lfc's experience) - unless you were a tyrannosaurus rex they'd last for AGES  :buttrock
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Postby metalhead » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:37 pm

KNAFE!!!! :buttrock

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Postby NANNY RED » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:38 pm

Sherbert Lemons loved them but they always gave me a funny sensation in my ears :laugh:

An i loved mojos an blackjacks always left you with a dirty black tongue:nod
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Postby GRAHAM01 » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:38 pm

wagon wheels!! are they really smaller now??





or are my hands just bigger  :D  :D  :D
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Postby bigmick » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:44 pm

Texans were nice Wool and I remember the advert, the fella with the really deep voice :D My one issue with Texans, and it was purely from a food design point of view, was that the stuff inside was chewy and the chocolate on the outside was kind of flaky. It was a bit of a dodgy combo is some respects, because to get the chewy stuff to break you had to kind of twist it with your teeth clamped (a bit like a Crocodile trying to unbalance an unsuspecting Gazelle who he's grabbed by the waterhole). That was all well and good, but then all the chocolate would fall off. Fine if you were inside and your Mum had hoovered up over the last week or so, but if she hadn't there'd be dog hair and bits of sherbert and all sorts of nonsense in there. Sometimes you'd just give it up as a bad job in those circumstances and just "rub it in" with your foot. Course if you were outside and it had been raining, you were fecked. If it hadn't, no problem obviously. 

Good bar thouigh the Texan, and a top advert.
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Postby GRAHAM01 » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:47 pm

worst advert for choc was the dime bar one WTF


two dime bars?? armadillos :D
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Postby Kharhaz » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:48 pm

Im going to go for the horrible gum that came with the Garbage Pail Kids cards. The gum itself was hard and horrid but I had to eat it as it came with the cards ! :D

Oh and like your Marathon point, its OPAL FRUITS not starburst ! PAH !
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Postby bigmick » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:48 pm

metalhead wrote:KNAFE!!!! :buttrock

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Mate I'm not being funny, but what the feck is that ???
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Postby Woollyback » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:57 pm

bigmick wrote:
metalhead wrote:KNAFE!!!! :buttrock

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Mate I'm not being funny, but what the feck is that ???

whatever it is, i have a suspicious feeling the topping might not be the kinda thing you find down the local sweetshop  :Oo:


anyway, get on this:
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@ nannyred - mojos & blackjacks :buttrock  i used to munch a load of black jacks on me way home from school so my mum couldn't tell i'd been smoking  :laugh:
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Postby bigmick » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:58 pm

Not forgettinfg the third and slightly girly member of the penny chew triumverate, the fruit salad.
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Postby redbeergoggles » Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:29 pm

How many teeth were lost attempting to tackle a Nutty bar ,I can remember how heavy they felt in the hand ,sometimes Dad would bring a selection back from the local sweetshop , and there would be a mad rush for the Curly wurly and I would invariably fail  in my attempt ,lost in a flurry of elbows, I would eventually settle for a Nutty bar, a fine consolation prize I thought :D ,but watching my brothers devour their respective prizes ,I couldn't help thinking maybe the Frys chocolate cream would have been a less tasking choice ,it was then I learnt a valuable lesson quality over quantity . :D
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Postby SupitsJonF » Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:33 pm

Hm, so snickers used to be named marathon?  I guess thats why they named their new energy bars marathon?  But that name would apply anyways

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Postby redbeergoggles » Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:49 pm

Anyone remember Toffee Logs ,now they were proper sweets ,used to stick them under my top lip like a gum shield ,easy to hide in assembly :D
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Postby bigmick » Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:58 pm

Not toffeee logs particularly Red, but you're spot on on them nutty bar things. I think the British Dental Association sponsored the production of them feckers, kept many a nervous little Nigel in gainful employment fixing up kids teeth them things.
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