Confectionery Of Years Gone By

[TheDonbytheDee]

1 hour ago, CurlsLikeTattie said:

Hmmmm, I believe I only ever knew them as red. Now I have serious, delayed 80s fomo!

I was thinking Reekie maybe meant Cola Bottles v Cola Cubes, as I can only remember red ones too, but I could well be wrong. 

I do remember Pineapple chunks, which were basically a Cola Cube, but yellow. 

 

Edited January 30 by TheDonbytheDee

[Elgindon]

53 minutes ago, CurlsLikeTattie said:

Hmmmm, I believe I only ever knew them as red. Now I have serious, delayed 80s fomo!

I always found them a bit awkward size wise,...and you didnt want to accidentally swallow one whole..

[RicoS321]

1 minute ago, Elgindon said:

I always found them a bit awkward size wise,...and you didnt want to accidentally swallow one whole..

The biggest killer in the 70s and 80s I believe. Dangerous things.

[TheDonbytheDee]

My teeth have just fell out by just looking at that site, from the above link. 

Some affa fine things available, a hell of a price though. A pity we can't get them at 1970/80s prices.

I've had a hankering for a Golden Cup this week. Someone mentioned them at work a couple of days ago.  

50 minutes ago, BigAl said:

If you want to be like a kid in a sweet shop then get yourself onto this site 

https://www.thesweetiejar.co.uk/collections/retro-sweets/

 

[CurlsLikeTattie]

5 minutes ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

I do remember Pineapple chunks, which were basically a Cola Cube, but yellow. 

 

The only potential hazard being confusing them with urinal blocks 

[TheDonbytheDee]

6 minutes ago, Elgindon said:

I always found them a bit awkward size wise,...and you didnt want to accidentally swallow one whole..

I nearly died when I was six, after choking on a hard sweet. My Brother somehow managed to dislodge it from my throat, but I was lucky.

Didn't stop me eating them, which might actually have been a good thing. 

I was up at Ballater last year and was in the Dee Valley shop. Bought a bag of Soor Plooms, and although they were fine, I only ate the one and gave the rest to my loon. 

[RicoS321]

1 hour ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

I nearly died when I was six, after choking on a hard sweet. My Brother somehow managed to dislodge it from my throat, but I was lucky.

Didn't stop me eating them, which might actually have been a good thing. 

I was up at Ballater last year and was in the Dee Valley shop. Bought a bag of Soor Plooms, and although they were fine, I only ate the one and gave the rest to my loon. 

Have you considered that maybe you did die, and everything since has been just the construct of your soul making its way to heaven?

[CurlsLikeTattie]

37 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

Have you considered that maybe you did die, and everything since has been just the construct of your soul making its way to heaven?

Who would have thought an innocent thread on sweeties could throw up such existential conundrums

[swaddon]

This place is definitely more intellectual than AbMad.

[Elgindon]

3 hours ago, RicoS321 said:

The biggest killer in the 70s and 80s I believe. Dangerous things.

Thoughts are with those still traumatised by being grabbed by the ankles and shoogled upside down to dislodge various sweeties...

[RicoS321]

2 hours ago, Elgindon said:

Thoughts are with those still traumatised by being grabbed by the ankles and shoogled upside down to dislodge various sweeties...

Shouldn't have put them up there in the first place 

[BigAl]

2 hours ago, Elgindon said:

Thoughts are with those still traumatised by being grabbed by the ankles and shoogled upside down to dislodge various sweeties...

At my school, those grabbed by the ankles and shoogled upside down only suffered only one fate and that was getting their head stuck doon the pan 

[Reekie_Red]

17 hours ago, BigAl said:

If you want to be like a kid in a sweet shop then get yourself onto this site 

https://www.thesweetiejar.co.uk/collections/retro-sweets/

What a site! Some honourable mentions id forgotten:

- Chewitts (or John Hewitts as i thought that were called)

- chocolate limes 

- double dip 

- fireball gobstoppers

- Lemon bonbons (these were the shiiiiizz)

- white mice ... around Halloween time, the stonehaven newsagents stocked White Mice with blood 

[TheDonbytheDee]

14 hours ago, swaddon said:

This place is definitely more intellectual than AbMad.

Aye, fae Dogs to Dogma, in a matter on minutes.

I'm beginning to think the Dons in Donstalk, has nothing to do with AFC at all, and more to do with the intellectual capabilities of contributors, ex AbMadders excluded of course.

[Jupiter]

22 hours ago, swaddon said:

This place is definitely more intellectual than AbMad.

That's not difficult

[Bukta Bertie]

Something that annoys me is that you can still get mint flavoured Viscounts but you don't get the far superior orange ones. Madness.

[Don Julio]

I have resisted this sugary trip down memory lane, until now. 

At the risk of perverting it, here’s a cracking song about childhood sweets (or maybe candy).

As you were.

 

[Bukta Bertie]

Just been in getting a mountain of sugary crap for the grand bairns party. Where's all the good sweeties gone?

Got me thinking. Used to enjoy these, see attached photo.

Probably the closest I got to fruit in my childhood apart from the very occasional tin of fruit cocktail in milk or the obligatory banana, apple and tangies in my Christmas stocking. 

Good times.

[Mentorred]

I remember years ago (at least 20) they sold Brandy Balls in the club shop. They were so good.

[OrlandoDon]

Too good of a thread to ignore, and I can feel my teeth rotting just thinking about it. I had/have a severe sweet tooth my whole life, blame it on delivering newspapers from about 1985-90, and breakfast quite often sweets from the paper shop, as well as a quick look at penthouse, and irn bru, cream soda, or red cola.

Macaroon bars, snowballs (in a roll), loved a wispa and remember when it was introduced, the excitement! Mccowans highland toffee stuck to my teeth for what seemed hours, did like a milky bar, Turkish delight, curly wurly, and a good old fudge bar….about the size of a finger, covered in chocolate, orange rapper, was it jus called fudge? Still treat myself to a tunnocks caramel wafer occasionally, get those here, but my Scottish upbringing is the reason I have/had about 14 fillings, crowns, and couple of teeth removed.

[Mentorred]

3 hours ago, OrlandoDon said:

Too good of a thread to ignore, and I can feel my teeth rotting just thinking about it. I had/have a severe sweet tooth my whole life, blame it on delivering newspapers from about 1985-90, and breakfast quite often sweets from the paper shop, as well as a quick look at penthouse, and irn bru, cream soda, or red cola.

Macaroon bars, snowballs (in a roll), loved a wispa and remember when it was introduced, the excitement! Mccowans highland toffee stuck to my teeth for what seemed hours, did like a milky bar, Turkish delight, curly wurly, and a good old fudge bar….about the size of a finger, covered in chocolate, orange rapper, was it jus called fudge? Still treat myself to a tunnocks caramel wafer occasionally, get those here, but my Scottish upbringing is the reason I have/had about 14 fillings, crowns, and couple of teeth removed.

I remember the fudge bar 

[BigAl]

On 11/03/2026 at 01:58, Mentorred said:

I remember the fudge bar 

 

[Bukta Bertie]

Still very much on the go. You get tiny little ones in those tubs of chocolates the shops sell at Christmas time. 

I'm thinking of chews today.

Splicers. Used to like those. Very gay wrapper but I was a strapping young buck in my late teens and I couldn't care less. Let them stare.

God alone knows how many now verboten food colourants and E numbers they must have contained. 

[TheDonbytheDee]

Just heard an icer (Ice Cream Van) outside our house and bought two sliders, for the first time in over 30 years. One was for the Wife.

Fine enough, but over £6!!!

Can't be sure of the exact value, but sure the last time I bought one, it was about 20p!