What was your favorite sweets when you were a nipper

[Inspector]

Does ice cream count? Dairy Queen has been around since I was little serving soft ice-cream and now much more. I loved chocolate dip cones and still do. Soft ice-cream cone dipped in heated chocolate. Perfect on a summer day. Strawberry Sundays were a close second.

Pete

 

[Thingybob]

My wife has just asked do you remember Zing biscuits her dad used to bring them home for her from works canteen

 

[mikej460]

We'd keep an ear cocked for the ice cream van (either Stop Me And Buy One or better still Mr Whippy). The default would be a jubbly or a rocket, but as a treat we would have a choc ice or a 99. Mum occasionally gave us money to get a block of raspberry ripple to take the sting out of tinned peaches for Sunday tea!

 

[Thingybob]

Wives can join in too Amazing bars, Aztec bars, Mint Cracknel , Caramac , Butter Snap , Peanut Brittle Golf Ball bubble gum .

 

[mikej460]

My wife has just asked do you remember Zing biscuits her dad used to bring them home for her from works canteen

yes I do!
1960s Jacob's Zing Chocolate Biscuits Coin Op Vending Machine Made in England takes Sixpence Coins - YouTube

 

[Thingybob]

Remember nougat wafer, ice cream and wafer from Vinnys icecream van

 

[Thingybob]

yes I do!
1960s Jacob's Zing Chocolate Biscuits Coin Op Vending Machine Made in England takes Sixpence Coins - YouTube

Thats made her day shes salivating

 

[paulrbarnard]

What were the little sweets that tasted like fibre glass resin smells?

 

[andrewm]

Used to love Fry's 5 Boys to see the chocolate faces with Desperation, Expectation, Realisation etc underneath.
Or one penny Nestle's Chocolate from ancient red slot machines on the railway platform!
And what happened to Tiffin bars?

Do you know? You are probably the first person that I have come across who remembers Fry's 5 Boys. There used to be a vending machine on our local station. I don't know if it was a West Country thing - what with Fry's being in Bristol - or whether it was available nationwide.

 

[JimB]

Back in the day just after the war we would buy a couple of ounces of something with a name like kayli. It was a sort of crystalline powder and we'd eat it using sticks of hard liquorice (sucking and dipping)
This was in Yorkshire, anyone remember it and the spelling?

 

[Ozi]

What were the little sweets that tasted like fibre glass resin smells?

Millions? Lots of colors about 4mm diameter

 

[loftyhermes]

Back in the day just after the war we would buy a couple of ounces of something with a name like kayli. It was a sort of crystalline powder and we'd eat it using sticks of hard liquorice (sucking and dipping)
This was in Yorkshire, anyone remember it and the spelling?

Barrets Sherbet dip, is that what you're thinking of? We used to call it kayli as well

 

[paulrbarnard]

Millions? Lots of colors about 4mm diameter

Yes like little ball bearings.

 

[JimB]

Barrets Sherbet dip, is that what you're thinking of? We used to call it kayli as well

It wasn't the same as sherbet dip as that seemed more powdery. Perhaps the local shopkeeper knocked up his own version.
We were so starved of sugar we would eat sweetened condensed milk until caught and I had a liking for toothpaste.
Anyone remember Dandelion and Burdock soft drink and Tizer?

 

[Cabinetman]

Back in the day just after the war we would buy a couple of ounces of something with a name like kayli. It was a sort of crystalline powder and we'd eat it using sticks of hard liquorice (sucking and dipping)
This was in Yorkshire, anyone remember it and the spelling?

I remember it very well, sent your mouth different colours – God knows what was in it. We used to pronounce it cailie as in Kay lee, we weren’t so far from Yorkshire on the Southbank of the Humber. Ian

 

[Amateur]

You can still buy Victory V lozenges but they've changed the ingredients - of course.

never been the same since they reduced the LSD content

 

[Terrytpot]

Always liked a Bounty but back in the 70's someone started churning out a choccy bar called a "Cabana" that had coconut like the Bounty but with bits of cherry and I think also raisins in it and then covered on top with a layer of caramel and then wrapped in milk chocolate...yum. Not seen those for ages but loved em.
EDIT:
just found out I'm not alone in missing them..

 

[Lefley]

Does ice cream count? Dairy Queen has been around since I was little serving soft ice-cream and now much more. I loved chocolate dip cones and still do. Soft ice-cream cone dipped in heated chocolate. Perfect on a summer day. Strawberry Sundays were a close second.

Pete

I so remember going to DQ for the chocolate kiddie cone when little. Lined across the parking lot on summer nights!

 

[mikej460]

Barrets Sherbet dip, is that what you're thinking of? We used to call it kayli as well

So did we! I remember sherbet dip but only now remember kayli. I grew up in Cheshire.

Ah but just read that it is different from sherbet which is soft whereas Kayli (still sold as Kali) is hard powdered crystal with a sharper taste.

Also we called all sweets toffees

 

[Ozi]

Yes like little ball bearings.

My kids used to like them, massif sugar rush to follow