The Green Cross Code man came to my junior school to tell the kids to Stop, Look and Listen. I remember him being very tall. Favourite sweets: Porky Pigs 🐷
Don’t recall the floral tablets, but floral gums are still around if you get the right place. They were a favourite of mine along with Cherry Lips! So many for so little.
Loved it. I obviously watch too much TV when I was young!
Apparently it was common knowledge that David Prowse lived round the corner from 90s/00s family home….. But I never saw him unfortunately but I made sure I crossed the road safely when I lived there.
Favourite sweets; proper merry maids.
i like looking back, not just to my childhood, born 63, as i get older all the past has a strange fascination so keep doing what your doing, its all good !!
Loved the quiz. Really surprised myself by getting 10/10 and no I didn’t cheat. Alvin Stardust was one of my favourite singers. Favourite sweets – Cola cubes
Great fun but would be nice to which one I got wrong (although think
I can guess) whilst a young child of the 70s my more formative (teenage) years were 80s & hold most memories
That was sooooo much fun! After your last blog (and the picture of the teachers pencil sharpener😂) I had to call my brother and ask him if he remembered them (he’s just a couple of years older!) he said ‘yeah, and the plastic bit that held the sharpenings always used to fall off when I went up to the front of the class to use it’ happy, simpler times! Charlie says…..! Favourite sweets – bags of rainbow drops, space dust, sherbet fountains, dip dabs, foam bananas, shrimps, flying saucers – pretty much anything in a 10p mixy bag!😂
I loved Parma violets. A couple of years ago I bought a huge bag from you as a stocking filler for my other half. Unfortunately his teeth couldn’t take the sugar (what a lightweight) so we have used them as potpourri instead! Every so often we take the lid off the tin and …ahhhhh..(no not Bisto)…instant 1970’s. They are still going!
I also loved Spangles, but they nearly killed me on more than one occasion by getting stuck in my throat 🙂
Were they the most dangerous sweet ever?
Liked the quiz lol loved the comment by Ruth spangles loved them sweets good to share all this. My favourite sweets of the 80s are jap desserts & chewin nuts god I miss the 80s.
Loved your little quiz, not too hard, not too easy – just right! My favourite sweeties etc as a child were pear drops, a lucky bag, mint cracknel and them spearmint bars that were pink and had a waffle design on them!
I remember when we had changed from old money to decimal coins the first thing I brought (so I could get the change in the new coins) was a pink panther, I loved them. I was so pleased because I received a half pence piece in my change lol.
9 out of 10, wonder what I misselected. Probably Topic is my all time favourite though cadbury Old Jamaica is high up there and currently Wispa or Yorkie
Loved spangles and Aztec bars. When spangles returned briefly in the 80s they were horrible but when Aztec bars returned for the millenium they tasted exactly how i remembered
No I didn’t look anything up, they all just came to me without much thought, hidden in the recesses of my mind. Which one he did I get wrong? Great fun. Favourite sweets Fudg-eee and Toff-eee from swizzled.
Bazooka Joe bubble gum, including the rare banana flavour. We called them ” Narni Zookas”. Also sent off the wee insert from inside the wrappers and joined the Bazooka Joe club.. got a free little plastic camera as a joining gift😄
I think I should have put the 50’s Cos I left school at 15 in 1959.. I suppose Spangles were a sweet that I liked but we were too poor to be given sweets I don’t remember ever having any at home. Even the names I have forgotten, but then I’m an “oldie” ( living in Australia 1991) and my poor memory is not too good. YOU Michael bring back so manny memories for me though. Thank you so much.
Woohoo. 10 out of 10. And no cheating. I think I must be a swot! I think I deserve a crackerjack pencil and a Blue Peter badge! Or a lolly gobble chic bomb!!
I remember buying awful Bubble gum because they had those picture cards of a tv series free inside the packet. Before the days of swapping football cards we could swap Thunderbird cards or War cards. So save on the quality of sweets with free picture cards? No maybe not.
Ah memories!
(That was a song wasn’t it? but let’s not go there . . . . yet!)
I loved flavoured Toffos, Spangles & the sweet peanuts that had a whole salty peanut in the middle. Yum 😋 😋
I love the nostalgia of the topics covered in your emails, your new blog/comment spot…. and of course your sweets! I didn’t answer your request to name a decade associated with my childhood though. Mainly because I consider myself a child of two decades (60’s and 70’s) and wouldn’t want to sacrifice the content of one of those decades over the other. Born in 62 so the 60’s for me was Watch With Mother (Hammy Hamster/Camblewick Green), and then Lost In Space, Blue Peter/Magpie and watching Doctor Who from behind the sofa. The 70’s was Lost in Space…. in colour! Yeah!! and Squidly Diddly and Catweazel before The Big Match (LWT footy show) on a Sunday. Oh yes, and The Tomorrow People. Hey I even watched kids TV in the 80’s if I got home from work early enough lol. Anyway keep up the good work. I look forward to indulging myself with one of your liquorice selection jars in the not too distant future 🙂
Oh yes… and if you do post a quiz it would be great to be able to see the correct answers along with the total scored at the end. I got one question wrong.. but don’t know which one it was. I think it was the one with the cabbage lol. Never mind. Cheers.
Well, much to my surprise I got the lot! Even the last one but I must admit it was an inspired guess. The “little grey cells” obviously continuing to function – well almost. I’ve had a couple of episodes this morning of thinking of something I needed to remember then turning round and forgetting what it was!
Someone’s post has just reminded me. Does anyone recall the Spartan hard centre selections that only ever seemed to appear at Christmas. I do wish they were back above all else!
Enjoyed the quiz although only 7 out of 10 for me. My all time favourite sweets of yesteryear has got to be spangles. Wish they’d make a come back, although even if they did, they wouldn’t taste the same as I remember them, nothing does these days.
That was a fun quiz. Had to guess some answers.
Does anyone remember chocolate covered traffic light lollipops? can’t get them anywhere now. One sweet I miss.
Wow 9! I think I got the Green Cross man one wrong, didn’t have a clue what else he did.. lol. I think of myself as a child of the 80s mainly for music (best decade ever!!) but was actually a child in the 70s. We weren’t allowed to watch much TV though – Grange Hill, Blue Peter, Willo the Wisp, Ivor the Engine and Swap Shop on a Saturday morning are my main memories. And Juliet Bravo when I got a bit older.
Loved that quiz.wish i knew which one i got wrong though! Thanks Michael.
My much missed chocolate are Treets(M&Ms are nothing like them) and the Nutty bar in the see through brown wrapper with orange writing!!!!!.As for sweets i loved a Spearmint Pacer!!!Someone please bring them back.
I remember the Friday Afternoon program (you can’t say the name or it needs to be repeated)’s quote was:
“It’s Friday. It’s 5 to 5 and it’s time for…. “
Help! I can’t remember the name of my favourite childhood sweet! it was a spearmint chew, white with green stripes and I used to get through them by the ton whenever I could get away with it…
10/10, couple of them were guesses though:-) Who remembers giant blocks of honeycomb? I remember eating so much of it one night the thought of it still makes me slighty nauseous….i used to love the galaxy owl counters and mint poppets (maybe they are still around but have lived in the netherlands the last 25 years so not so familiar with whats out there still)
Hi John
I don’t want to turn the blogfest too much into a commercial venture… but we sell sweet tobacco! When I set up AQuarterOf.co.uk I had never heard of it but it was one of the sweets where I kept getting emails saying that I had to stock it (along with Cherry Lips (which we have too), Jap Desserts, Spangles and Pacers (all 3 long since gone unfortunately.) Sweet Tobacco is here… https://www.aquarterof.co.uk/sweet-tobacco.html (apologies for the quality of the image on that page… it looks like I was a bit tipsy when I took it… I’ll add it to my todo list to take a new one!)
All the best, Michael
Getting close to christmas reminds me of the Trebor selection box my nan used to get me. It had chews, bitter orange drops, sour cherry drops and many other lovely things.
I still have a Texan bar in the fridge! Can you still get the crisps Discos? Who remembers Griddles. Banjos used to be one of my favourite chocolate bars of the early eighties and Bar Six. Don’t forget orange flavoured Space Dust!
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The 70’s sweets I miss are: Supermoose, and Pink Panther! Oh and Spangles!
Pink Panther bars! I loved these but hardly anyone else remembers them so thank you!
I remember them Carol, my brother even had a Pink Panther Easter egg one year.👍😁👍
I loved Pink Panther bars! They were pink and tasted of strawberry!
You’re welcome Carol, I thought I was the only one, I really miss Supermoose though!
Don’t know two out of these three.
Montpelier drops and spangles, fruit and winter flavours
The Green Cross Code man came to my junior school to tell the kids to Stop, Look and Listen. I remember him being very tall. Favourite sweets: Porky Pigs 🐷
Porky pigs NO WAY Lions sports best ever!!!!!
I’ve tried forever to find floral tablets, to no avail. They were rectangular shaped boiled sweets, does anyone remember them?
Don’t recall the floral tablets, but floral gums are still around if you get the right place. They were a favourite of mine along with Cherry Lips! So many for so little.
Maybe a little easy!
So where did I go wrong?
Ice Breaker Chocolate…Yum yum x
Loved that quiz! But it reminded me of 1) how simple life seemed in the 70s and 80s and 2) how old I am getting
I enjoyed that, thanks
Very enjoyable quiz. I miss olde English spangles, and victory v gums !
I enjoyed the quiz almost as much as I used to enjoy Mighty Imps..
I got 9…hold on, were there 10 questions? In which case what the heck did I get wrong? or why were there only 9? 😉
Born in 1966 and remember some aspects of the 70s very fondly, though not really pop music as I was brought up on classical music!
Not too bad. Im a fan of peoples real names so them i found easy
I miss Mint Cracknall! I’m not sure of the spelling though! But I do remember the green minty shards!
Favourite child hood sweets gold rush chewing gum.
I miss winter spangles
Loved it. I obviously watch too much TV when I was young!
Apparently it was common knowledge that David Prowse lived round the corner from 90s/00s family home….. But I never saw him unfortunately but I made sure I crossed the road safely when I lived there.
Favourite sweets; proper merry maids.
Spangles…bring back the cola spangles! Oh yes….and Pacers…loved them!
i like looking back, not just to my childhood, born 63, as i get older all the past has a strange fascination so keep doing what your doing, its all good !!
spangles are what I miss most!
Loved the quiz. Really surprised myself by getting 10/10 and no I didn’t cheat. Alvin Stardust was one of my favourite singers. Favourite sweets – Cola cubes
Great fun but would be nice to which one I got wrong (although think
I can guess) whilst a young child of the 70s my more formative (teenage) years were 80s & hold most memories
That was sooooo much fun! After your last blog (and the picture of the teachers pencil sharpener😂) I had to call my brother and ask him if he remembered them (he’s just a couple of years older!) he said ‘yeah, and the plastic bit that held the sharpenings always used to fall off when I went up to the front of the class to use it’ happy, simpler times! Charlie says…..! Favourite sweets – bags of rainbow drops, space dust, sherbet fountains, dip dabs, foam bananas, shrimps, flying saucers – pretty much anything in a 10p mixy bag!😂
Thank you 9 out of 10, but which one did I get wrong?
That was fun, how do we know how many we scored?
No, I did not cheat. I am astonished to get 9.
Oh yes,
‘Because I won’t be there, when you cross the road…’
1850’s
I loved Parma violets. A couple of years ago I bought a huge bag from you as a stocking filler for my other half. Unfortunately his teeth couldn’t take the sugar (what a lightweight) so we have used them as potpourri instead! Every so often we take the lid off the tin and …ahhhhh..(no not Bisto)…instant 1970’s. They are still going!
I also loved Spangles, but they nearly killed me on more than one occasion by getting stuck in my throat 🙂
Were they the most dangerous sweet ever?
10 out of 10, yes I am a swot 🙂
One of the few benefits of age – I know lots of stuff!
10/10, need to make it a bit more challenging!
Nice bit of fun. Please can somebody revive Spangles! especially the olde English ones!
Liked the quiz lol loved the comment by Ruth spangles loved them sweets good to share all this. My favourite sweets of the 80s are jap desserts & chewin nuts god I miss the 80s.
Stephen.
Loved your little quiz, not too hard, not too easy – just right! My favourite sweeties etc as a child were pear drops, a lucky bag, mint cracknel and them spearmint bars that were pink and had a waffle design on them!
It would help if I knew how many questions I got 6 out of. And which did I get right? Even Bamboozle let you know when you got it wrong!
I was a member of the tufty club
Although i put 60s i was born 1960 but basically a 70s girl lol
I remember when we had changed from old money to decimal coins the first thing I brought (so I could get the change in the new coins) was a pink panther, I loved them. I was so pleased because I received a half pence piece in my change lol.
9 out of 10, wonder what I misselected. Probably Topic is my all time favourite though cadbury Old Jamaica is high up there and currently Wispa or Yorkie
Loved spangles and Aztec bars. When spangles returned briefly in the 80s they were horrible but when Aztec bars returned for the millenium they tasted exactly how i remembered
Love the quiz😀
I thought I’d done better!
I miss Lemfizz
Loved the quiz.. can’t wait to see how I did, relying totally on grey matter not Google!
Brilliant quiz!
Old English Spangles and Cabana bars
Toffee Apple Blobs.
Used to popish off two packs of those at lunchtime and go home with my mouth literally bleeding!
Mum helped!! 😀
Yay I got them all right, my fave sweet was milk tray bar, yummmm lime barrels 😊
Does anyone remember the Dracula ice lolly? Black ice on the outside and red jelly on the inside.
From the 70s for sure.?????
Yes I remember them. Now I have seen this post I can almost taste them.
Yes, I think I used to buy them from the Tonibell ice cream van.
I’m sure they also did a ‘Space 1999’ lolly in the same style with green ice and a red jelly inside.
But only for a short while it seemed.
Happy days, Old English Spangles.
Take me back to a younger days
No I didn’t look anything up, they all just came to me without much thought, hidden in the recesses of my mind. Which one he did I get wrong? Great fun. Favourite sweets Fudg-eee and Toff-eee from swizzled.
I miss the nutty bar. It was withdrawn without explanation and I was devastated ☹️
Bazooka Joe bubble gum, including the rare banana flavour. We called them ” Narni Zookas”. Also sent off the wee insert from inside the wrappers and joined the Bazooka Joe club.. got a free little plastic camera as a joining gift😄
Easy!
Michael, the blog,the quiz and reminiscing are a joy – thank you!
Couldn’t get my email address in
Bit left field, but my favourite sweets were Callard and Bowsers
Butterscotch, and the butterscotch one in black magic.
I miss flavoured toffo sweets and black jacks.
You can still get black jacks and fruit salads – yumm!
I loved triffic bars that were marketed using Mike Reid from the kids quiz show runaround.
I think I should have put the 50’s Cos I left school at 15 in 1959.. I suppose Spangles were a sweet that I liked but we were too poor to be given sweets I don’t remember ever having any at home. Even the names I have forgotten, but then I’m an “oldie” ( living in Australia 1991) and my poor memory is not too good. YOU Michael bring back so manny memories for me though. Thank you so much.
Ah yes, Glen’s Spangles, especially the mustard coloured ‘Old English’ flavour (if my brain is working?)
Onwards to the quiz…
Great quiz, although it did make me feel old!!
Used to love Pacers.
Really enjoyed the quiz, a nice trip down memory lane, thank you 😊
10/10 I had to guess the last one though + proper sarsaparilla tablets are getting scarce
Enjoyable…
I’m guessing I only got the last one wrong as I was born in 1970…
Pretty sure I fluked most of them 😂
Memories – Spangles, Black Jacks and Fruit Salad. RoSPA Cycling Proficiency test and certificate. 60s my period but can cope with the 70s as well.
I’m a child of 40s & 50s!🤗 I’ve already submitted my name & email in a funny little box. Now you want them again!
Great quiz – surprised that I scored 8 – pleasantly!
Woohoo. 10 out of 10. And no cheating. I think I must be a swot! I think I deserve a crackerjack pencil and a Blue Peter badge! Or a lolly gobble chic bomb!!
I remember buying awful Bubble gum because they had those picture cards of a tv series free inside the packet. Before the days of swapping football cards we could swap Thunderbird cards or War cards. So save on the quality of sweets with free picture cards? No maybe not.
10/10 for me. Wow, never scored 10/10 before at school or since. Just shows, being old does have some benefits (but not many).
Ah memories!
(That was a song wasn’t it? but let’s not go there . . . . yet!)
I loved flavoured Toffos, Spangles & the sweet peanuts that had a whole salty peanut in the middle. Yum 😋 😋
Enjoyed the quiz. It was just right for me.
Nostalgic sweets? Chewits, Pacers and Cabana bars.
I love the nostalgia of the topics covered in your emails, your new blog/comment spot…. and of course your sweets! I didn’t answer your request to name a decade associated with my childhood though. Mainly because I consider myself a child of two decades (60’s and 70’s) and wouldn’t want to sacrifice the content of one of those decades over the other. Born in 62 so the 60’s for me was Watch With Mother (Hammy Hamster/Camblewick Green), and then Lost In Space, Blue Peter/Magpie and watching Doctor Who from behind the sofa. The 70’s was Lost in Space…. in colour! Yeah!! and Squidly Diddly and Catweazel before The Big Match (LWT footy show) on a Sunday. Oh yes, and The Tomorrow People. Hey I even watched kids TV in the 80’s if I got home from work early enough lol. Anyway keep up the good work. I look forward to indulging myself with one of your liquorice selection jars in the not too distant future 🙂
Oh yes… and if you do post a quiz it would be great to be able to see the correct answers along with the total scored at the end. I got one question wrong.. but don’t know which one it was. I think it was the one with the cabbage lol. Never mind. Cheers.
Please don’t think you’re anything special, I was born in 1967, & EVERY child watched Doctor Who from behind the sofa. 🤣🤣🤣😉
We all felt safe then
Great little quiz had to guess some answers. I miss strawberry helsa bars and mcvities banana cake from the 80’s as well as fry’s 5 centres.
Rhubarb and custard
Old English Spangles – mmmmm.
and the clear ones. Acid Drops?
This best.
Great quiz love doing these. Welcome back
That was fun 😃
Aztec choccie bars, and Burton’s Potato Puffs……both now gone, but we will remember them.😔😔😔😁👍😁
Excellent quiz, thanks.
Spangles
The only question that got me was the last one 🙂
9 outta 10 not bad it was probably the last one that tripped me up.
This was fun, brings back memories.
Why did they ever stop making them, so yummy
Well, much to my surprise I got the lot! Even the last one but I must admit it was an inspired guess. The “little grey cells” obviously continuing to function – well almost. I’ve had a couple of episodes this morning of thinking of something I needed to remember then turning round and forgetting what it was!
Keep it up please – its great fun
Someone’s post has just reminded me. Does anyone recall the Spartan hard centre selections that only ever seemed to appear at Christmas. I do wish they were back above all else!
Well I really am as old as I feel. Good fun quiz.
Trebor penny chews
Enjoyed the quiz although only 7 out of 10 for me. My all time favourite sweets of yesteryear has got to be spangles. Wish they’d make a come back, although even if they did, they wouldn’t taste the same as I remember them, nothing does these days.
That was a fun quiz. Had to guess some answers.
Does anyone remember chocolate covered traffic light lollipops? can’t get them anywhere now. One sweet I miss.
Wow 9! I think I got the Green Cross man one wrong, didn’t have a clue what else he did.. lol. I think of myself as a child of the 80s mainly for music (best decade ever!!) but was actually a child in the 70s. We weren’t allowed to watch much TV though – Grange Hill, Blue Peter, Willo the Wisp, Ivor the Engine and Swap Shop on a Saturday morning are my main memories. And Juliet Bravo when I got a bit older.
Great nostalgic fun
Loved the quiz thank you
Loved the quiz think I got the Wham Bar wrong Oh Hum!
Great quiz and no I didn’t cheat..still scored 10
I’m a bit of a swot and have a good memory so no cheating or looking up in your quiz from me x
Loved that quiz.wish i knew which one i got wrong though! Thanks Michael.
My much missed chocolate are Treets(M&Ms are nothing like them) and the Nutty bar in the see through brown wrapper with orange writing!!!!!.As for sweets i loved a Spearmint Pacer!!!Someone please bring them back.
Some of the questions were easy but others had me scratching my head awhile
Hartley Hare still scares me !
I would like to see the chewing gum that was the best thing the colour was black and it tasted like black jacks
What question did I get wrong???
Bring back spangles – nothing quite matches how great they were!!
Whatever happened to Jap Desserts?
More like this please, makes me feel a little bit clever
I remember the Friday Afternoon program (you can’t say the name or it needs to be repeated)’s quote was:
“It’s Friday. It’s 5 to 5 and it’s time for…. “
Great fun quiz , keep up the good work !
Mmmm… Super Mousse Bars!
I didn’t look any up and got 9 out of 10. Now I shall spend the rest of my days wondering which one I got wrong 😭. Was fun tho!
As a child of the 80’s 9 out of 10 is not bad, but which one did I get wrong?
I didn’t have to use google, it was too easy (sorry).
Really good quiz and promise didn’t cheat.
I only got 2 🤣🤣🤣 born late 80s
The Dracula ice lollies mentioned below sound good
I miss orange spangles
Hilarious, love to know what I didn’t get. Didn’t search anything, probably why I only scored 7! 🤪
Really disappointed as I thought I did far better than that! I was the inventor of Wham Bar and have an incredibly sweet tooth 😉
Love the quiz….. had forgotten about pink panther bars… miss spangles; i also remember a strawberry aero bar that didnt last long but i loved them
FUN
Help! I can’t remember the name of my favourite childhood sweet! it was a spearmint chew, white with green stripes and I used to get through them by the ton whenever I could get away with it…
HI KC… Pacers is the name you seek!
The sweets I miss most are Toffos.
Plain and flavoured ones.
Stretched my brain
10/10 a) I feel old 🙂 Nostalgic Quizzes aren’t what they used to be 😀
Keep the good quizzes up
10/10, couple of them were guesses though:-) Who remembers giant blocks of honeycomb? I remember eating so much of it one night the thought of it still makes me slighty nauseous….i used to love the galaxy owl counters and mint poppets (maybe they are still around but have lived in the netherlands the last 25 years so not so familiar with whats out there still)
You’ve got to love a quiz that features Texan bars, Alvin Stardust and David Prowse. Well done, sir, my cap is doffed.
Thank you very much! There’s loads more where that came from…
Do you remember sweet tobacco I used to love it!
Hi John
I don’t want to turn the blogfest too much into a commercial venture… but we sell sweet tobacco! When I set up AQuarterOf.co.uk I had never heard of it but it was one of the sweets where I kept getting emails saying that I had to stock it (along with Cherry Lips (which we have too), Jap Desserts, Spangles and Pacers (all 3 long since gone unfortunately.) Sweet Tobacco is here… https://www.aquarterof.co.uk/sweet-tobacco.html (apologies for the quality of the image on that page… it looks like I was a bit tipsy when I took it… I’ll add it to my todo list to take a new one!)
All the best, Michael
wonderfully gorgeous stuff .. the stuff of legends…
10/10 without google – but did have to make an educated guess at the last one…
Anyone remember being able to buy sweet cigarettes that you could blow smoke out off.ah and liquorice pipes
Getting close to christmas reminds me of the Trebor selection box my nan used to get me. It had chews, bitter orange drops, sour cherry drops and many other lovely things.
I still have a Texan bar in the fridge! Can you still get the crisps Discos? Who remembers Griddles. Banjos used to be one of my favourite chocolate bars of the early eighties and Bar Six. Don’t forget orange flavoured Space Dust!
Discos are readily available … love salt and vinegar!
Always love a quiz. Does anyone remember Mint Cracknels and Yoghurt Maid ice lollies?
LOVED mint cracknel
Great quiz, like others I miss the Nutty bar, there’s a similar American bar called Payday but they’re hard to find and pretty expensive if you do!
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