Refound sweets youd forgotten about?
26 April 2009, 09:18 PM
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Refound sweets youd forgotten about?
Went to a shoot on a Raf base crewed by the USAF today. After 13 years I refound Hershey bars!!! 
Now thinking about going online shopping for more and get some Jolly Ranchers as well.
So what sweets have you refound after forgetting how good they taste?
Now thinking about going online shopping for more and get some Jolly Ranchers as well.
So what sweets have you refound after forgetting how good they taste?
26 April 2009, 09:30 PM
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I remember Texan Bars came back about 4 years ago for a while. A lot smaller than I remember.
Over Easter we went to the Cotswolds and spent a day in Bath. There was a stall selling sweets by the quarter, so we got some cough candy twists and cola cubes
Over Easter we went to the Cotswolds and spent a day in Bath. There was a stall selling sweets by the quarter, so we got some cough candy twists and cola cubes
26 April 2009, 09:36 PM
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apart from sweets, do you remember tab clear and mountain dew? Last time i had mountain dew was in an american px in afghanistan!
mint bullseyes, aniseed ***** and lucky tatties, awesome!
mint bullseyes, aniseed ***** and lucky tatties, awesome!
26 April 2009, 10:23 PM
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A couple of the guys today bought a couple of crates of Mountain dew off the organisers (got from the base PX). Might do that for Hersheys next time I'm up there.
27 April 2009, 08:47 AM
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we've got one of these retro sweet shops where i live, everyone i work with has been buying loadsa stuff from there!
my personal childhood fave was raspberry ruffles, been buying loads of them lately!
my personal childhood fave was raspberry ruffles, been buying loads of them lately!
27 April 2009, 08:51 AM
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Bought from these a while ago:- sweets online traditional sweet shop a quarter of
27 April 2009, 10:50 AM
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Found a boiled sweet in an old suit pocket the other day. Wasn't very nice.
American chocolate always used to be awful. My American friends always wanted me to take English chocolate over there, especially Cadbury's chocolate fingers.
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American chocolate always used to be awful. My American friends always wanted me to take English chocolate over there, especially Cadbury's chocolate fingers.
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27 April 2009, 10:55 AM
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You can get Mountain Dew and Hershey's etc from here:-
Buy American Food & Drink in UK - American Soda
Very good people to deal with!
27 April 2009, 11:18 AM
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Luckily we live quite close to this place Paul's Traditional Sweet Shop in West Wycombe so we can fill our fat gobs anytime
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Best rediscovered ones had to be the very odd and slightly moorish Floral Gums which for some bizzare reason taste like fairy washing up liquid
27 April 2009, 11:57 AM
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27 April 2009, 12:01 PM
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Luckily we live quite close to this place Paul's Traditional Sweet Shop in West Wycombe so we can fill our fat gobs anytime
Check out the original containers
Best rediscovered ones had to be the very odd and slightly moorish Floral Gums which for some bizzare reason taste like fairy washing up liquid
Luckily we live quite close to this place Paul's Traditional Sweet Shop in West Wycombe so we can fill our fat gobs anytime
Check out the original containers
Best rediscovered ones had to be the very odd and slightly moorish Floral Gums which for some bizzare reason taste like fairy washing up liquid
Les
27 April 2009, 12:13 PM
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It still is! I really don't like the taste of Hersheys, much prefer Cadbury's, though that does taste a little different from how I remember it. Someone once said that the different taste was due to the different process to make the chocolate, which allows it to not melt so much in higher temperatures, not convinced about that myself.
27 April 2009, 12:21 PM
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I remember hearing for years about Hersheys as a kid and wanting to try it, went to the States and one of the first things I did was buy a bar, utterly foul. American sweets all tend to be a bit industrial, very sweet with no subtlety.
I love Reeces Pieces though.
I love Reeces Pieces though.
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What were those boiled sweets called that were the same shape as Tunes and sold in the same format, but were fruity?
I'm showing my age now. I don't remember them past the very early 80s.
I'm showing my age now
. I don't remember them past the very early 80s.